Forbidden Small Batch Wheated Bourbon Whiskey

Forbidden is the bourbon brand of Marianne Eaves, Kentucky's first female master distiller since Prohibition, and it is made grain to glass at Bardstown Bourbon Company in Bardstown, Kentucky, with Eaves controlling every step from mash to bottling. The recipe takes its cue from Southern cooking rather than the usual distillery playbook: cuisine-quality white corn and white winter wheat, rounded out with malted barley, a three-grain wheated mashbill few producers use. Eaves also ferments cooler than most, starting in the mid-to-high 60s with cooling coils, because a yeast that isn't stressed by heat produces flavor congeners it would otherwise lose. The small-batch bottling is hand-blended from selected barrels as a Kentucky straight bourbon; the debut batch, released in 2023, was five years old and bottled at 95.2 proof (47.6% ABV). Published notes on that release describe vanilla bean, crème brûlée and dried fruit on the nose, caramel, citrus oil and baking spice on the palate, and a creamy, sweet finish with oak. Production is limited, and Forbidden is built for sipping neat or with a single cube, where the soft wheated grain and fruit-forward fermentation show best.

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