The most recent launch in Outdated Forester’s extremely coveted Birthday Bourbon collection is the primary to make use of the candy mash course of.
The 2025 launch of Outdated Forester Birthday Bourbon was created with out setback throughout fermentation, a course of often called candy mash. Usually, a bitter mash course of is utilized by which an older batch of mash is used to create a brand new one.
“For our twenty fifth Birthday Bourbon launch, the absence of setback allowed the yeast to specific its full character, making a flavour profile that’s each delicate and complicated,” assistant grasp distiller Caleb Trigo stated.
This 12 months’s launch of Birthday Bourbon was aged for 12 years and is bottled at 46% ABV. It was drawn from 210 barrels, all distilled on 5 April 2013, and aged in Warehouse Okay on flooring one and 5.
Birthday Bourbon might be accessible via a web based sweepstakes operating 18 to 21 August. Those that win a possibility to purchase a bottle via the sweepstakes should buy and decide it up on the Outdated Forester Distillery in Louisville between 4 September and 20 December.
Priced at US$200, just one bottle could be bought per buyer. The 2025 Birthday Bourbon launch may also be accessible in restricted portions at choose retailers nationwide.
On the nostril, the whiskey exhibits notes of natural tea, cardamom, and hints of oak and inexperienced apple. The palate is silky and brings vanilla alongside candy citrus and clove spice.
Annually, Outdated Forester celebrates the birthday of its founder, George Garvin Brown with the restricted version launch. Whereas Brown’s birthday is 2 September, the distillery won’t be promoting Birthday Bourbon on that date because it has in earlier years.
“There’s no higher option to honour our founder than by sharing this uncommon and memorable expression with Bourbon lovers nationwide,” grasp taster Melissa Rift added.
The 2024 launch of Birthday Bourbon was aged for 12 years and bottled at 53.5% ABV. It was aged in Warehouses G and L.
The guardian firm of Outdated Forester, Brown-Forman, noticed natural full-year income rise by 1%. Premium Bourbon boosted whiskey gross sales with Woodford Reserve and Outdated Forester each up by 8%.
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