Bakers 13 Year Single Barrel Bourbon

Baker's 13 Year is the oldest bourbon in Jim Beam's Small Batch Collection and the rarest Baker's ever bottled — a limited single-barrel release that takes Baker Beam's original rule of seven years and nearly doubles it. Baker was Jim Beam's grandnephew and Booker Noe's cousin, a distiller who believed bourbon needed at least seven years in charred oak to pull out the vanilla; this release pushes barrels selected from Beam's rickhouses to a full thirteen, every bottle from a single barrel at 107 proof, with barrel number, rickhouse, and age on the neck. Thirteen years in Kentucky oak does dramatic things to Beam's 77% corn, 13% rye, 10% barley distillate: the signature family nuttiness deepens into toasted pecan and walnut, the vanilla and caramel darken toward toffee and molasses, and the oak takes a commanding role — cedar, leather, tobacco, dark chocolate — while the low-proof distillation keeps it from tipping into bitterness. Expect a deep mahogany pour with rich caramel, dark cherry, nutmeg, and antique oak on the nose, opening into a dense, layered palate of toffee, dried fruit, roasted nuts, baking spice, and cigar-box wood, finishing very long with lingering spice and gentle tannin. Honest note: barrels vary, and some lean heavily on oak — that's the nature of thirteen years. A collector's bottle from the family that invented the small batch category. Neat, no ice.

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