Jim Beam master distiller Fred Noe learned something important about whiskey age statements from his father, the late Booker Noe. “Sometimes old bourbon is just old,” his dad used to tell him, and he ...
Over the past five years, Kentucky’s Knob Creek has been steadily upping the ante on its age-stated bourbons. In 2020, the brand released the inaugural bottling of Knob Creek 15 Year. Two years later, ...
Nothing signals that bourbon season is in full swing like a surprise announcement, especially if the announcement concerns a covetable Knob Creek release aged over 15 years that’s somehow still priced ...
Knob Creek is Jim Beam turned up. It’s not Jim Beam turned all the way up, that’d be Booker’s. It’s more a vision of what the distillers and blenders at the James B. Beam Distillery can do with ...