(Credit score: Suntory World)
Ever since Booker’s revamped its common launch bourbon round discrete batches, these batches have been named for varied facets of Booker Noe’s bigger than life character, legendary profession or veteran workers of the Jim Beam distillery. For Booker’s fourth and last batch of 2024, Jim Beam has taken the model steering wheel and given it a tough spin, dubbing it “Jimmy’s Batch” for Noe’s peer: Wild Turkey Grasp Distiller and dwelling legend Jimmy Russell.
Booker Noe and Jimmy Russell each depend among the many figures who helped revive bourbon from its nadir of the Nineteen Eighties, and whereas Noe got here from a distillery-owning and -managing dynasty, Jimmy Russell wound up founding one: Russel’s son is the present Wild Turkey grasp distiller, and his grandson appears set to come back subsequent. Whereas Russell’s ancestors had labored within the whiskey commerce, none of them rose to the publish of really operating the stillhouse.
This batch of Bookers got here from 3 manufacturing runs saved in 4 totally different warehouses:
12% got here from the fifth flooring of 7-story warehouse Z
20% got here from the fifth flooring of 7-story warehouse 1
46% got here from the third flooring of 7-story warehouse 3
22% got here from the 4th flooring of 7-story warehouse Q
The ensuing batch got here in at 125.8 proof and is 7 years, 9 months, and 19 days previous. With that being the age of the youngest bourbon within the batch, that is fairly previous Booker’s by the requirements of current years. The expression is rooted in being between 6 and eight years of age, however for the final a number of years that has been nearer to 7 than 8. The urged retail worth stays at $99.99 for the standard fifth bottle.
