Knob Creek 18 Year Old Bourbon Whiskey

Knob Creek 18 Year is the oldest Knob Creek ever — eighteen years in Beam's Clermont rickhouses at 100 proof — and VinePair scored the 2024 release 93, a dusty, oak-forward bourbon with peach cobbler, peanut butter, and toasted sourdough. 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 18 Year debuted in 2022 as KC001 and has been released annually since — check your bottle for the batch. It's Beam's traditional mashbill — roughly 75% corn, 13% rye, 12% malted barley — aged eighteen years in new charred oak, small-batched, and bottled at 100 proof. VinePair on KC003: dusty, oak-forward, and rich in classic Beam nuttiness with dark cherry and peach cobbler turning to burnt caramel and rackhouse floor on the nose; barrel char, toasted oak, caramel, and vanilla with peanut butter, ripe banana, and toasted sourdough on the palate, a gentian-like bitterness at mid-palate; and a long, drying finish of sweet caramel, vanilla, and unsweetened dark chocolate. Bourbon Culture and The Whiskey Jar both call the 2022 original the peak. Honest note: eighteen-year Beam at 100 proof is a rare object and the price reflects it — for the age collector and the drinker who wants to taste what two decades of Kentucky oak does to the Beam yeast. Neat, in a Glencairn, with time. Knob Creek, eighteen years.

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