Can someone verify if blanton's was indeed the FIRST single barrel bourbon? Thank you.
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Can someone verify if blanton's was indeed the FIRST single barrel bourbon? Thank you.
I saw this question at the end of your other thread and am surprized no one with more authority than me hasn't answered it. To the best of my knowledge and several books I have say the same thing, yes Blanton's was the first single barrel bourbon. If I remember correctly 1983 was the first year.
That's my memory as well, but the marketing departments keep rewriting history so who knows!
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How many Bourbons out there now are the only one that is uncut and unfiltered?? 3? 5?
Ken
Yeah, that is so true about being uncut and unfiltered. Hmm, makes you wonder!
Or how do you define Barrel Proof?
Is it the proof it comes out of the barrel or the proof it goes in? http://www.straightbourbon.com/forum...emlins/lol.gif
Given time, Makers Mark SB will probably have been the first. Just ask em.... http://www.straightbourbon.com/forum.../smilielol.gifQuote:
That's my memory as well, but the marketing departments keep rewriting history so who knows!
Good point. Could mean anything http://www.straightbourbon.com/forum...emlins/lol.gif Maybe it's the proof of the barrel??
Ken
Before he died and after he stopped being the VP at Maker's, Sam Cecil told me that he and Bill Sr had indeed done a Single Barrel, and it would have predated Blantons by a lot, decades probably. After so much extra aged pre-prohibition bourbons, I would not be at all surprized if there wasn't one made at some point then. So if the marketing department at Maker's burns a little midnight oil and cranks the story out, without the benefit of a bottle as physical proof, based on my conversation with Sam, I would clearly be in their camp.Quote:
Given time, Makers Mark SB will probably have been the first.
When Soloman wrote there's no new thing under the sun, amoung others he had the distillers in mind for certain.
Wouldn't the ultimate single barrel be back when they actually shipped the barrels to the taverns and they tapped them and would pour right out of the barrel or customers would bring in their own container and take it home?
That would predate any other.
Indeed, there it is! An even more exclusive single barrel would be the rigs that could only produce a single barrel a day!Quote:
That would predate any other.