Old Grand-Dad Bottled in Bond Bourbon

Old Grand-Dad Bonded is Beam's high-rye bourbon — 63% corn, 27% rye, 10% malted barley, the same mashbill as Basil Hayden's — at 100 proof for the price of a mixer, and the bottle bourbon insiders keep calling the best value in Kentucky. The grand-dad is Basil Hayden Sr., the 1790s distiller whose grandson Raymond Hayden put his portrait on the label in 1882; the brand survived Prohibition as medicinal whiskey and belongs to Beam Suntory now, which distills it at Clermont from the high-rye recipe it otherwise reserves for Basil Hayden's — and bottles this one at 100 proof, bonded, from one distilling season, at least four years old, per the 1897 act. Breaking Bourbon: dominant cinnamon with caramel, vanilla, and burnt oak on the nose; big cinnamon spice with a flash of Fireball potency, dark fruit, and baking spice on the palate; and a medium finish of caramel candy, raw sugar, baking spice, and light oak. Whiskey Consensus and The Bourbon Road both call it the best bottom-shelf bourbon in America. Honest note: this is Basil Hayden's whiskey at twenty points more proof and a third of the price — the Old Fashioned base bartenders swear by, and the bottle to hand anyone who thinks cheap bourbon can't be good. In an Old Fashioned, a Manhattan, or neat. Old Grand-Dad, bonded.

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