This week, Buffalo Trace will release the second batch of bourbons produced for the Single Oak Project. If you aren't familiar with the Single Oak Project, go here and here.
This release will explore three different variables, recipe, grain size, and char level. Some of the bottles contain bourbon made with rye and others with wheat. The barrels themselves were made from different trees, each with varying degrees of thickness to their wood grain, from fine to very coarse. These barrels were charred at either a number three or number four char level to determine how the burn will alter the taste. All other variables in the experimental project, such as the entry proof, stave seasoning, tree cut, and warehouse location remain constant.
Grain size was one of the variables in the original release. The other two are new with this release.
The second release is made up of barrel numbers 29, 31, 61, 63, 93, 95, 125, 127, 157, 159, 189, 191.
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Thanks in part to your discussion on this project I made an effort to locate and purchase several of these bottles. I look forward to gathering a few friends with a similar degree of enthusiasm for bourbon and giving these bottles a try! I hope to find some interesting variables in the bottles I selected and I hope each will be a little different based on choosing different colorations.
Thanks again!
Chuck,
Can you get more specific(i.e., at the bottle number letter)? For example, can you tell me what the particular characteristics for bottle number 189 are?
Thanks.
Charlie
Sorry, I don't have that information.
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