Heaven Hill Grain to Glass Specialty Barrel Series Bourbon Aged In Chinquapin Oak

The Chinquapin Oak Bourbon is Heaven Hill's Grain to Glass series aged in a species of American white oak with more vanillin than the standard barrel — Kentucky-grown Beck's 6225 corn from fields near Bardstown, 105 proof, and a B+ from Drinkhacker. Heaven Hill is the largest family-owned distillery in America, founded in Bardstown in 1935, and Grain to Glass is its traceability project: a single corn varietal, grown on Kentucky farms the distillery names, distilled at Bernheim, and bottled with the seed and the field on the label. The Specialty Barrel Series takes that whiskey and changes one variable — here the wood. Chinquapin is a distinct white oak species, denser and higher in vanillin than the Quercus alba of a standard #3 char barrel, and Heaven Hill coopered a limited run of it for this bourbon, wheated bourbon, and rye, released in 2025. The Bourbon is the standard 78/10/12 mashbill from Beck's 6225 corn, aged in chinquapin oak, and bottled at 105 proof. Drinkhacker: dark vanilla bean and barrel char with black pepper giving way to caramel apple and baking chocolate, and a finish of chocolate mint, blackberry, and turbinado sugar. Breaking Bourbon and Whisky Advocate both note the vanilla and dark sugar the wood brings. Honest note: a rare chance to taste what the barrel species does with everything else held constant — for the bourbon geek, the Heaven Hill collector, and the tasting flight beside the Wheated. Neat, in a Glencairn. Chinquapin, the wood variable.

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