Elijah Craig Barrel Proof Small BatchFor the greater common good, this item is limited to one per customer. We appreciate your cooperation. In 1789, Rev. Elijah Craig, the Father of Bourbon, became the first to age his whiskey in charred oak barrels. Since then the whiskey bearing his name has garnered some of the industry's most prestigious accolades. This limited release, Small Batch Bourbon is bottled at Barrel Proof (clocking in at 128) and without chill filtering, preserving the

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ripe tannins

and whiskey making became his specialty

assertive flavors with an incredibly smooth finish

the bar just got higher

the finished wines are released a full seven years after the harvest

This means the blending is carefully overseen by the masterful blenders at Glenlivet

Only a coarse particulate filter strains the small bits of charred oak surrendered by the barrel

From field to bottle

Balblair bucked convention a few years ago by removing age statements from their whiskies and replaced them with vintages

It was originally created around the 14th century as a way to use materials that otherwise would have been wasted