Basil Hayden Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey, 70 cl

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Hayden [ citation needed] founded a distillery in Nelson County and named his label " Old Grand-Dad", in honor of his grandfather, [1] which bears a rendering of Basil Sr. A Kentucky straight bourbon with plenty of rye at its core í_íñ spicy, well balanced with herbal notes of peppermint and a touch of fruit. My preference is to have this neat with a single cube of ice as I found that with a mixer it lost the subtleties of the flavour. However, I persevered and after a while more I found it to have a bit more depth than the initial taste which was good.Images represent the intended product however, bottle designs, artwork, packaging and current batch release or proof may be updated from the producer without notice. A classy Bourbon, Bourbon Trace is from the eponymous distillery that has been responsible for some truly outstanding products in recent years. A Maryland transplant unafraid to stand out amidst the residing establishment, Basil conjectured that the spicy flavour of rye would be a striking complement to the sweet smoothness of corn in his distillery's standard bourbon.

citation needed] One ancestor, Simon de Heydon, was knighted by Richard the Lionheart in the Holy Land during the Third Crusade in the 1190s. Not yet privy to the old guard’s ‘rules’ of bourbon, legend has it that Basil set out to make a batch simply using the ingredients he had on hand, unaware of what the traditionalists might think of his mash. The Heydons (original spelling) emigrated to the Virginia Colony in the 1660s, when much of Britain became inhospitable to Catholics.Basil Hayden's Bourbon has a high rye content (30%)in the mashbill) which makes this drier and spicier than your average bourbon.

Clement's Bay, where the family remained until Basil led his band of Catholic families into present-day Nelson County, Kentucky.s great-grandfather and the first Heydon (then switching to Hayden), moved from Virginia to Maryland in 1678, settling in St. Following distillation, the whiskey is aged for a minimum of six years in the Kentucky heat, before a small batch of barrels are married together. Basil Hayden è un bourbon con un unica percentuale alta di segale, che combinava la dolcezza del mais con i sottotoni speziati della segale. There Hayden donated the land for the first Catholic church west of the Alleghenies and the first Catholic church in what is now the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Distilled at the Jim Beam Distillery and introduced in 1992 and named after a famous Kentuckian who led twenty five families down the Ohio River when moving westward from Maryland in 1785.