Booker’s Teresa’s Batch 2019-01

Booker’s Bourbon with a special nuttiness and dedicated to one of their finest.

Jim Beam Distillery — the integral part of mega-corp Beam Suntory — is one of the largest Bourbon producers in the world. Seven generations of the Beam Family have worked the stills there since 1795. The Jim Beam Distillery makes an unusually large number of offerings for it’s core Jim Beam line and several brands, including Red Stag, Jacob’s Ghost, and a selection of higher end “small batch” Bourbons — Baker’s, Basil Hayden’s, Knob Creek, and our Bourbon of the day, Booker’s.

As if we needed another reason to love Booker’s Bourbons, they have a habit of honoring their team. Not “just” the headliner guys like master Whiskey-maker Fred Noe. They also include the folks who work with the product day-in and day-out. Booker’s Teresa’s Batch is their first special edition of the year. It has been specially crafted and named after Teresa Wittemer — a thirty-year veteran of the distillery hired by legendary Booker Noe himself. And for this special release, they have pulled a selection of casks from specific warehouse locations — they list them all — and bottle it at cask strength of nearly 63% ABV. It’s a crazy-good bit of Bourbon awesomeness and you should get some.