Old Grand Dad Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 40%

Distillery: Old Grand Dad Bourbon - bottled by Jim Beam (James B. Beam Distilling co.) Age: NA Type: Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey Alc. strength: 40% 70 cl. Other:

Old Grand Dad 70cl / 40% Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey

A cult bourbon with a very high rye content in the mash, which provides a spicy kick on the palate. A very traditional old-style bourbon, not for the the faint-hearted. Old Grand-Dad was a distiller named Basil Hayden who made his name by distilling a bourbon whiskey made with a higher percentage of rye. Basil Hayden He passed along the art of distilling to his son and then, in turn, to his grandson. It was the third generation distiller, Colonel R.B. Hayden, who honored his grandfather by naming his justly famed whiskey "Old Grand-Dad." Traditional 86 Proof "Sweet-sour and woody with dashes of spice and caramel" - F. Paul Pacult's Spirit Journal During Prohibition, Old Grand-Dad was produced by a pharmaceutical company, the American Medicinal Spirits Co., and was one of the few distilled spirits permitted to be prescribed as medicine.