Knob Creek 12 Year Bourbon Whiskey

Knob Creek 12 Year is what Breaking Bourbon called the best non-limited Knob Creek Small Batch ever made — a 4-out-of-5 age-stated bourbon at 100 proof for sixty dollars, in a category where age statements have all but disappeared. Booker Noe created Knob Creek in 1992 as the first of Beam's Small Batch Collection, a pre-Prohibition-style bourbon aged nine years at 100 proof; the 12 Year started as a 2019 limited release and joined the permanent lineup when it sold too well to retire. It's Beam's traditional mashbill — roughly 75% corn, 13% rye, 12% malted barley — aged twelve years in the Clermont and Boston rickhouses, small-batched, and bottled at 100 proof. Breaking Bourbon: toasted oak, vanilla, caramel, and fresh-baked Bundt cake on a rich, creamy nose; oak and leather with vanilla, marshmallow, and white pepper on the palate, the proof amplifying without harshness; and a drier finish of black pepper, tobacco, and leather into peppery oak with vanilla and peanut. InsideHook calls it an ideal bourbon. Honest note: enthusiasts rank this above the 15 Year and it costs less — the best value in aged Beam, and the bottle to hand a Scotch drinker who thinks bourbon is all heat. Neat, in a Glencairn. Knob Creek, twelve years.

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