Knob Creek Small Batch 9 Year Old 100 Proof Straight Bourbon Whiskey

Copper to medium amber. Rich, sweet, woody, full-bodied, almost fruity. Toasted nuts, grain, oak. Long, rich and glowing. Knob Creek is crafted in limited quantities, aged 9 years and placed in only the deepest charred American Oak barrels to fully draw out the natural sugars. Then we bottle it at an honest 100 proof to reflect the flavor, strength and patience that defined pre-prohibition whiskey.

Shortly before Prohibition bourbon reached an all-time level of quality but in January of 1919, the eighteenth amendment was passed and took the boom out of bourbon growth. Fourteen years later, many distilleries were unable to restart production. The ones that did were financially forced to age their whiskey for shorter periods of time or to resourcefully blend their different whiskies. As a result, Americans developed a taste for softer whiskies, rather than the long-aged, big-flavored straight bourbons of the past.