Kentucky distillery Sky hill is best known for its affordable and widely available bourbons, Evan Williams and Elijah Craig. But the distillery also has a few bottles of unicorn in its arsenal, just like almost all the major whiskey distillery in the state these days. One of them is the old Fitzgerald, and the news About the new edition of spring 2025 which has just been announced.
The story of Old Fitzgerald dates back to the late 1800s, when John Fitzgerald opened a distillery in Kentucky and began to produce bourbon Under this name, the publishing first in 1889. The brand finally moved to the Historical Distillery of Stitzel-Weller, where Pappy van Winkle The transformed it into a bourbon wheat and continued to be released in various iterations, including bottles of decanter in the 1950s and the old Fitzgerald Prime in the 1960s. In 1984, it was acquired by Distillers Limited Co. Of Scotland, which quickly became United Distillers after having merged with Guinness, then Diageo in 1997. Sky hill Bought Old Fitzgerald in Diageo as part of the Bernheim distillery, and in 2018, the first edition of the former Fitzgerald bottle series was published.
Today, Old Fitzgerald continues to be released twice a year, in the fall and spring. The edition of spring 2025, the 15th version, falls at the youngest end of the spectrum – a nine -year -old bourbon distilled in spring 2016 and in bottle this spring. It is bottled like all the whiskeys of this collection, which means that it is exactly 100 proofs, at least four years, and the product of a distillery and a distillation season. We have not yet been able to taste this new bourbon, but the official tasting notes describe the apple pie, followed by notes of vanilla, Scotlers, grilled cereals and cooking spices, culminating in an oven apple finish, oak and cinnamon.
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The other note whiskey of Sky hill is the new glass grain from Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey. This whiskey was published for the first time last year, and we revised It was favorably at the time. It is made from a mash-bill of specific grape varieties from Beck hybrids and cultivated in the farms of Peterson in the county of Nelson, Kentucky. The mashbill for this new bourbon is 52% corn (Beck varietal 6225), 35% rye and 13% malted barley, which has more rye than the typical Sky hill bourbon. He has aged for six years at the Cox's Creek Rickhouse and in a bottle not filtered with the barrel of 105 proofs. As part of this version, Heaven Hill created the Family Farms First Initiative and has teamed up with Farm Rescue, a non -profit organization dedicated to helping farmers through natural difficulties and disasters.
Old Fitzgerald Bottled-in-Bond can be a hard bottle to get their hands, especially at its suggested retail price of $ 130 (will not occur). But you can find previous editions, and soon this is available on websites like Reserve barand different versions of the glass whiskey grain with Flave NOW.
