![]() This brand new bourbon from Heaven Hill celebrates the five brothers who started the distillery back in 1935. Five Brothers Small Batch Bourbon - Taste 1 Heaven Hill That’s fine, by the way! This makes a good cocktail. This really is built as a mixing bourbon and that’s what shined through the most on the sip today. Nearest’s Master Blender, Victoria Eady-Butler, builds the blend according to classic flavor notes first put into Tennessee whiskey by her ancestor, Nearest Green, back in the 1800s. ![]() This whiskey is created from a batch of barrels that are a minimum of seven years old. Uncle Nearest 1884 Small Batch - Taste 2 Uncle Nearest That’s too bad as there’s a lot to like on this sip’s first half.Ħ. I went back for another sip and found the same thing. Then it hit that mid-point and just kind of disappeared on the palate. That whiskey is then proofed with local Oregon water to 88 proof for bottling. The juice is a four grain (66 percent corn, 23 percent rye, six percent wheat, and four percent malted barley) bourbon made from two and three-year-old barrels blended with 12-year-old barrels. This bourbon is a mix of Oregon craft and Indiana mastery. It’s also a little watery on the end, which kind of killed it for me. The mash bill is a four-grain recipe of corn, rye, wheat, and malted barley that’s aged for an undisclosed amount of time before watering it all down to 80 proof and bottling. The juice is from an “undisclosed” source but from Indiana (gotta be MGP, obviously). This celebrity whiskey comes from Vampire Diaries actors Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder. Brothers Bond Bourbon - Taste 8 Brothers Bond
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