American Highway Reserve Straight Bourbon Whiskey

Distilled and Blended by Bardstown Bourbon Co,  American Highway Reserve (Batch 1) takes 4 year old well-traveled whiskey and combines it with bourbons aged for 4, 13, and 15 years.

Mash Bills: 

28% - 3yr - 70%  Corn /21% Rye, 9% Malted Barley

25% - 3yr - 60/36/0/4

24% - 13yr - 74/18/0/8

23% - 15yr - 78.5/13/0/8.5

The nose starts with bitter, dark chocolate. Shaved cocoa and grapefruit notes. There is a dark sappy flavor blending in with rye spices and oak spices.

The palate has a marshmallow start, delicate, light, and sweet. Spicy chocolate joins with treacle and a moderate oak impact. Black pepper takes the viscous liquid to the finish.

The finish is earthy with coffee, black pepper, and butterscotch overtones.  Whiskey Monster

In each of those recipes, the first number is the percentage of corn, followed by the percentage of rye, followed by what is presumably a percentage of malted barley. Like many BBC products, then, this becomes a bottle where the true story is the art of blending, taking younger high-rye bourbons and finding a harmony between them and some much more mature lots, in an almost 50/50 split.