The Wilderness Trail Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskeys are offered as a Small Batch Bottled in Bond, up to 18 barrels per batch, which was the result of one fermenter. The goal of the Small Batch is to capture the total essence of more complex notes from multiple barrels from distillate of the same fermenter. Wilderness Trail has decided to release the Small Batch Bourbon as a Bottled in Bond so fans of the Wheated Small Batch Bourbon can do a side-by-side comparison.
What is the mashbill?
The Small Batch release mash bill is 64 percent corn, 24 percent rye and 12 percent malted barley using our yeast strains. Whiskey entered the cooper select, toasted and #4 char barrel at 110 proof after coming off the still around 137 proof. All whiskeys are aged and matured on the 168-acre campus inside any one of six rickhouses. There are more than 100,000 barrels aging onsite.
Small Batch
An overused term in the industry that Wilderness Trail takes very seriously - so they decided decided to give it our own definition. So, what is a SMALL BATCH? At Wilderness Trail, it's a max of just 20 barrels per batch.
Bottled-in-Bond
All core products adhere to the rigorous criteria to be considered "BOTTLED-IN-BOND" all are distilled in a single distilling season.
Sweet Mash
Among the first of Kentucky's distillers to embrace the SWEET MASH process as their sole mashing technique.
