Old Tub Bottled in Bond Sour Mash Unfiltered Bourbon

Old Tub is the bourbon the Beam family made before it was called Jim Beam — the pre-Prohibition label revived as a bonded, sour-mash, unfiltered bourbon at 100 proof, the way the Colonel sold it. Jacob Beam sold his first barrel in 1795, and by the 1880s the family whiskey was Old Tub, named for the tub the mash fermented in; Prohibition ended it, the family rebuilt as Jim Beam in 1934, and Old Tub came back in 2020 as a gift-shop exclusive so popular Beam put it in distribution. It's Beam's traditional mashbill — roughly 75% corn, 13% rye, 12% malted barley — fermented by the sour-mash method with the family yeast, aged at least four years, bottled from one distilling season at exactly 100 proof per the 1897 act, and neither chill-filtered nor carbon-filtered, so it's cloudier and oilier than any other Beam. Expect the Beam signature unfiltered: a full nose of caramel, roasted peanut, and vanilla with the yeast's funk intact, a thicker, rounder palate of brown sugar, oak, and nutty spice with real texture, and a warm, lingering finish. Honest note: this is what Jim Beam tastes like before the filters — the enthusiast's Beam, at bonded proof, for less than Knob Creek — and the best Old Fashioned base in the Beam family. In an Old Fashioned or neat. Old Tub, the original.

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