Knob Creek Single Barrel Reserve 9 Year Old Bourbon

Knob Creek Single Barrel Reserve is nine-year Beam bourbon from one barrel at 120 proof — Breaking Bourbon rated it 4 out of 5 and called it an exceptional value, a high-proof single barrel at a mid-range price. 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 Single Barrel Reserve takes the same nine-year whiskey and bottles it one barrel at a time, twenty points higher. It's Beam's traditional mashbill — roughly 75% corn, 13% rye, 12% malted barley — aged at least nine years in the Clermont and Boston rickhouses and bottled from a single barrel at 120 proof, so no two bottles are quite alike. Breaking Bourbon: very sweet, brown sugar and caramel first, then apple and toffee, with spice and leather on the nose; a rich, creamy palate of vanilla, maple syrup, and brown sugar despite the proof; and a hot, long finish of cinnamon, oak, and leather with lingering sweetness. The Whiskey Wash and Drinkhacker both single out the price-to-proof ratio. Honest note: this is the bottle that made Knob Creek the private-barrel program of choice for bourbon clubs — the San Diego Barrel Boys pick from it — and the standard 120-proof nine-year is one of the best sub-$50 bourbons in the category. Neat with a drop of water. Knob Creek, one barrel.

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