Elijah Craig Small Batch Bourbon Whiskey

Elijah Craig Small Batch is the bourbon that made the name — Heaven Hill's flagship, launched in 1986 as a twelve-year and now a blend of eight-to-twelve-year barrels at 94 proof, and the most-poured premium bourbon in America. Elijah Craig is named for the Baptist preacher credited with charring the first bourbon barrel in 1789, and Heaven Hill is the largest family-owned distillery in Kentucky, run by the Shapira family since 1935. Small Batch is the Heaven Hill bourbon mash bill — 78% corn, 10% rye, 12% malted barley — aged eight to twelve years in level-4 char barrels in the Bardstown rickhouses, batched from up to 200 barrels, and bottled at 94 proof. Wikipedia records the 2016 change from a flat twelve-year statement to the composite blend, made to stretch stocks as demand exploded; enthusiasts grumbled and kept buying. The house profile is the peanut-brittle-and-caramel signature of Heaven Hill: expect a nose of vanilla, caramel, toasted nuts, and a touch of smoke, opening into a smooth, medium-bodied palate of brown sugar, dark cherry, cinnamon, and toasted oak with a moderately long, warm, gently spicy finish. Honest note: it's the benchmark under-$35 premium bourbon, and the reason it's everywhere is that it's very good — the Barrel Proof and the single barrels are the same juice with more age and proof. For an Old Fashioned, a Manhattan, a highball, or neat. The preacher's bourbon.

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