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2025-03 "Jerry's Batch" Bourbon
The third release of the Booker’s® Bourbon 2025 Collection is Booker’s Batch 2025-03 “Jerry’s Batch.” This batch is named after Jerry Dalton, the only Master Distiller we’ve ever had at Beam who isn’t part of my family. But while he isn’t Beam by blood, he might as well be. Jerry made one hell of an impact on our distilling process. And on me. And for that I’ll always be grateful.
TASTING NOTES
NOSE
Aromas of vanilla, spices
TASTE
Big and bold, and unmistakably Booker’s® Bourbon
FINISH
Long and delightful
LABEL INSPIRATION
Fred Noe - Beam Family 7th Generation Master Distiller
The third release of the Booker’s® Bourbon 2025 Collection is Booker’s Batch 2025-03 “Jerry’s Batch.” This batch is named after Jerry Dalton, the only Master Distiller we’ve ever had at Beam who isn’t part of my family. But while he isn’t Beam by blood, he might as well be. Jerry made one hell of an impact on our distilling process. And on me. And for that I’ll always be grateful.
My dad, Booker Noe, and I first met Jerry when he moved into the house behind ours after he took a job at a local distillery as a chemist. Over the years he and Dad became close friends, and Jerry eventually came to work with us at Beam, helping us deepen our understanding of distilling.
Jerry cared so deeply about our business and our bourbon, that when Dad retired, he stepped up as Master Distiller for a few years. I wasn’t quite ready for the job yet, but during that time
Jerry made it his job to see that I’d be following in Dad’s footsteps soon enough. Most of what I know about the science of our craft, I owe to Jerry.
He used to write up these tests for me every few weeks to review the chemistry I’d been learning. He’d grade them by hand and go over the answers with me to make sure I understood everything. And more importantly to make sure I was ready to keep making the best bourbon out there.
For years, I just assumed Jerry was already part of the Bourbon Hall of Fame, but he only got inducted last summer. He’s a real humble guy who never liked making too much of a fuss, but he’s damn worth celebrating. Beam wouldn’t be what it is without him, and I couldn’t be prouder to honor him with this
batch.
--- Fred Noe, Beam Family 7th Generation Master Distiller
MASTER DISTILLER NOTES
As we look through our barrel inventories during some abnormally hot days in late June, it’s a good reminder of how the weather here in Kentucky influences our bourbon maturation. The interaction of these various batches from their specific storage locations proves the old axiom true, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. With this blend of batches and locations emerges an offering with great balance and depth of character. “Jerry’s batch” brings together the micro-climate conditions that these warehouses experience. For anyone that has spent any time at the Clermont plant and surrounding area, and working with our products, it’s understood that each warehouse brings its own nuance to the barrels stored within and can influence the maturation process significantly.
This product delivers all the notes you would expect of a Booker’s offering; big, bold flavors of vanilla, caramel and oak on a full-bodied palate with subtle background notes of butterscotch and apple. All of this makes “Jerry’s batch” such an easy sipping whiskey that all you’ll need is a comfortable spot in the shade to enjoy it.
Booker’s “Jerry’s Batch” is made up of barrels from seven different production dates that were aged in nine different warehouses.
The age of this batch is 7 years, 4 months, and 21 days. The proof of this batch is 124.7, , the breakdown is as follows:
11.1% came from the fourth floor of 7-story warehouse 3
11.1% came from the fourth floor of 7-story warehouse 1
11.1% came from the fourth floor of 7-story warehouse X
11.1% came from the fourth floor of 7-story warehouse Z
11.1% came from the fifth floor of 7-story warehouse K
11.1% came from the third floor of 7-story warehouse L
11.1% came from the third floor of 7-story warehouse O
11.1% came from the fifth floor of 7-story warehouse 4
11.1% came from the fourth floor of 7-story warehouse G (Waterfill)
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