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We Taste Baker’s 13 And Learn Who Baker Beam Is · The Scotchy Bourbon Boys

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  SPEAKER_02: Awesome.
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  SPEAKER_02: But we are we are doing Baker's 13.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_02: I'm going to read that one that I read to everybody just before.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_02: Tonight isn't just another bottle of Baker's 13.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is the one that Baker picked his own self for the Kentucky Bourbon Festival 2026.
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  SPEAKER_02: So before we break down what's in this glass, we're going to break down who Baker Beam is in a couple minutes.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_02: But we're doing Baker's 13 tonight, but we've got a bunch of other bottles all the way around.
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  SPEAKER_02: Super Nash has got his collection.
• 3:55
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• 3:59
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  SPEAKER_02: I mean, so the first question is that on this is what excites me.
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_02: Who is Baker Beam?
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, I did a, you know, it's funny because Greg's listening.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_02: So if there's anything wrong, Greg, let me know because this is, you know, AI from time to time has been known to be wrong.
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  SPEAKER_02: But Baker Beam is Jim Beam's grand.
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  SPEAKER_02: Baker Beam is Jim Beam's grandnephew and a sixth-generation Beam family distiller.
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  SPEAKER_02: He was born July 31st, 1936, meaning he turned 90 this summer.
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  SPEAKER_02: So this pick he picked for the festival at 90 years old.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_02: We got to meet, I got to meet Baker.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_02: I got to meet him at the ledge.
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  SPEAKER_02: He was, we talked to him a little bit at the icons dinner.
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  SPEAKER_02: And then also one time I we were, I don't know if you were there, but I was with Sandy at the kitchen table, and Baker was there, and he came up and talked to us, but that would have been probably too so he was 88 then.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_02: But you know, when you meet Baker, he doesn't seem like he doesn't have the same age as 90.
• 9:05
  SPEAKER_02: You know, he doesn't, he's he's pretty, what would you say?
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  SPEAKER_02: It's a pretty spry 90.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's his age well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: All right.
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_02: One of the coolest things about Baker's story is that he didn't enter the business as some executive because his last name was Beam.
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  SPEAKER_02: He literally grew up on the Claremont Distillery grounds.
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  SPEAKER_02: Baker described the distillery as the family's playground.
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  SPEAKER_02: When his father needed something, Baker and the other boys would run around the property getting it for him.
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  SPEAKER_02: His progression through Beam is fantastic.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_02: It's fantastic.
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  SPEAKER_02: High school summers night watchman.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_02: He was a night watchman during his high school days.
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  SPEAKER_02: 1954, hired full times as a yard laborer.
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  SPEAKER_02: 1959, became night supervisor.
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  SPEAKER_02: 1974, became a distiller.
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  SPEAKER_02: 1992 retired after approximately 38 years at Beam.
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  SPEAKER_02: And apparently, Baker could fix damn near anything.
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  SPEAKER_02: Beam describes him as the guy with a wrench and a flashlight who knew virtually every square inch of the Claremont operation.
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  SPEAKER_02: The thing that separates Baker from the modern celebrity brand, this is what separates Baker from the modern celebrity brand story.
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  SPEAKER_02: Baker's beam, Baker Beam's name wasn't put on the bourbon because he was famous.
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  SPEAKER_02: His name was put on the bourbon because he'd spent his life making the stuff.
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  SPEAKER_02: So Baker and Booker had a relationship.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_02: The story gets better.
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  SPEAKER_02: Baker Beam and Booker No were cousins.
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  SPEAKER_02: But personality-wise, Beam portrays them almost as opposites.
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  SPEAKER_02: Booker, outgoing, charismatic, storyteller, larger than life.
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  SPEAKER_02: Baker, quiet, melancholy-minded, no, quiet, mechanically minded, independent, and more comfortable working behind the scenes.
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  SPEAKER_02: Booker was developing what became Beeb's legendary small batch bourbon collection.
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  SPEAKER_02: The four brands became Booker's, Knob Creek, Baker's, and Basil Hayden.
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  SPEAKER_02: And in 1992, Booker created Baker's Bourbon in honor of his cousin Baker.
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  SPEAKER_02: There's a so there's a story.
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  SPEAKER_02: Baker said that when Booker named the bourbon after him, he asked, Why would you pick my name?
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  SPEAKER_02: Booker answered was essentially that Baker was a flashy name.
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  SPEAKER_02: Baker remembered it as a as typical of Booker's joking personality.
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  SPEAKER_02: So he said, it's because it's flashy.
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  SPEAKER_02: So that's kind of a cool story, right?
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you look, the bottle, the bottles in the packaging are sort of flashy too.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you got this little metal, metal trinket right here that's got bakers on it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then plus the pedal cap, and then the box itself, too.
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  SPEAKER_00: It looks like a steel vault box.
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  SPEAKER_02: You're talking about the Baker's 13.
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  SPEAKER_02: Right?
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  SPEAKER_02: Yep.
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  SPEAKER_02: So, and I've got the box right here.
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  SPEAKER_02: You can see that.
• 12:19
  SPEAKER_02: It's it was it's a cool box.
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_02: I saved it.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_02: Nash gave me half the bottle of his first what one of his first bottles that he picked up.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_02: And then you can see it is.
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  SPEAKER_02: I love the I mean it's really it is flashy.
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  SPEAKER_02: It picks up all the lights, it blurs, it just has, I mean, that is just a cool box, right?
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  SPEAKER_02: So, but now the original baker's in 1992 was very different from the bottle we're drinking tonight.
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  SPEAKER_02: It launched in 1992 as a small batch bourbon, not a single barrel.
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  SPEAKER_02: It carried a seven-year age statement, and this is it right here, folks.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is what it was, and it was 107 proof.
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  SPEAKER_02: That 107 proof became part of Baker's identity.
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  SPEAKER_02: The brand sat in an interesting place within the small batch collection.
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  SPEAKER_02: Booker's was the monster, big proof uncut personality.
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  SPEAKER_02: Knob Creek became the classic premium bourbon.
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  SPEAKER_02: Basil Hayden occupied the lighter proof end, and Baker was the 107-proof seven-year bourbon named for the quiet beam cousin who actually worked his way through the distillery.
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  SPEAKER_00: And just to see, that's that's the new packaging of the Baker 7.
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  SPEAKER_00: Still single barrel and 107-proof.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
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  SPEAKER_00: Although, like you said, the older is a small badge.
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  SPEAKER_02: So in 2019, Baker's completely changes.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is the pivotal.
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  SPEAKER_02: I think I put it.
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  SPEAKER_02: Where was I?
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I put that one there.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and it completely changes.
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  SPEAKER_02: But in 2019, they transformed Baker's from a small batch bourbon into a single barrel bourbon.
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  SPEAKER_02: I remember when they did that.
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  SPEAKER_02: Roxy loves this right here.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna put a little bit in my glass with this one because there's not much left of that, and I'm not gonna drink it all because the last part will be for her, because she just absolutely loves this, and there's not that much, and I and I'm gonna.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_02: Oh gosh.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_02: That's what I'm sipping on.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_02: I'm sipping on the new batch, the single barrel.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, so we got that in there, and it's got the nose on that is awesome.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_02: But this is this is from 2018, probably.
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  SPEAKER_02: This bottle.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_02: But they retain so what they did is they retained the core identity.
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  SPEAKER_02: Seven years old, 107 proof.
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  SPEAKER_02: Beam said the idea was to allow the personality of individual barrels to show through rather than blending barrels towards one consistent profile, and that philosophy fits Baker Beams Beam remarkably well.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_02: Every barrel is a little different, just like Baker himself.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_02: Beam now actually encourages consumers to compare Baker's barrels by their Rick House location, floor, and rack.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_02: I would say that initially when I was at the B in 2019, when I did the tasting with them at Baker's, Baker's house was actually right, he lived on site and fixed everything and distilled everything until the day he retired, where he moved down the road.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_02: He lives down the road.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know where he lives today, but it was down the road.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_02: So Greg says his namesake bourbon is also great.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_02: My favorite of the bunch when I worked for Bean.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_02: And so now enter Baker's 13.
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  SPEAKER_02: Alongside the 2019 transformation came something new Baker's 13-year-old single barrel.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_02: It was the first Baker's limited edition, still single barrel, 13 years, 107 proof.
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  SPEAKER_02: Then it disappeared for a while.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_02: Baker's 13 returned in 2023 and has subsequent subs subsequently there.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_02: I actually said the word, right?
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_02: Become an annual limited release.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_02: That makes for an interesting point.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_02: Baker's 13 isn't one whiskey.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_02: Because it's a single barrel, one Baker's 13 can be noticeably different from another Baker's 13.
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_02: Beam itself emphasizes that every barrel is distinct, influenced by aging, weather, and location in the Rick House.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_02: That's exactly why your comparison tonight, the comparison tonight, is going to work.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_02: The 2026 Baker's 13, standard 26 Baker's 13 remains.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_02: Kentucky Strait Bourbon Whiskey, single barrel, minimum 13 years old, 107 proof.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_02: Beam describes the expected profile around fruit, vanilla, and caramel moving towards oak, toast, and vanilla.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_02: One important distinction you'll often see Baker's traditional mash bill reported as approximately 77 corn, 13 rye, and 10% malted barley.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_02: But Beam's current bakers page, they don't publish those percentages.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_02: So I'd call that the widely reported mash bill rather than the present or the exact percentage of the official current beam specification.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_02: All right.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_02: So now we have the 2026 Kentucky Bourbon Festival.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's right here.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's picked like what's really cool is it actually is like got a hand selected by Baker Beam.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_02: And as we all know, um yeah, I have that Basil Hayden cognac finish there, Matt.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_02: When is Basil Hayden gonna come out with uh Amberana finish?
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_02: I'm sure I'm sure CT will be on that.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_02: So you got what do you got?
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_02: Oh do you have the one open?
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_02: Baker's selection?
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_02: I've already got a pour of it.
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_00: That's this year's.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_00: I do not have do you just to show everybody.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm I'm gonna compare it to another single barrel 13.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_00: This is an unopened bottle that's signed by Fred New, Baker Bean, and Mary Bean.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_02: That's Mary is and we we um Sandy knows talk, but Mary is Baker's wife, correct?
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_00: Yep, yep.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_00: And this was came from 2024, Kentucky Bourbon Festival.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_00: And I've had it set up there, but see it's got a little dust on it.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_00: But now we are gonna crack this baby open fresh crack right here on the Scotchy Bourbon Boys.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_02: This was barreled 11 of 2012, 13 years, six months.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_00: The Steelers have always told me that technically these bottles of bourbon and whiskey to be opened up and shared with friends and family.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_00: Not to just set up our there on a shelf to collect dust to where it might never ever be tasted by me.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_00: But I went to the trouble to get this bottle.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_00: And so we are gonna open it and taste it.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_00: And I will be drinking it and sharing it with friends.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I do have I opened that one.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_02: Now, last year I had a Baker's 13.
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_02: I believe it was picked up for me by Stacy.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_02: She picked it up while and it was signed by Fred, Freddie, and Baker himself.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_02: That's what's in this box, where the number one.
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_02: I put that bottle in there.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_02: I put that in there, I keep it in there, but I also bought another bottle at the festival of the same bat batch, Baker's 13.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_02: And I bought that so I could drink it.
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_02: So I did buy a upfront one to drink.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_02: So right now I got the original Baker's 7.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_02: I've got this baker's.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_02: And now I'm going to pour this is the Baker's 13 from last year.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_02: And so the first Baker's 13 was so delicious.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_02: And one of the things I love about Baker's at 107 is its mouthfeel.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_02: The mouthfeel is almost like it, it's so the 107 initially was so oily, and it was almost like it created a uh a ski slope so that the bourbon could run down your tongue and into your down your throat and into your stomach.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_02: It was that was like what it was to me.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_02: I I had like one of those moments in that you have, you know, one of those moments that you have in bourbon where you go, can it really taste that good?
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_02: Right?
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_00: So it's kind of kind of like when you're you're getting down to that last little bit of caramel chew in your mouth.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_00: You know, you just got that thin little layer of caramel across your tongue.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_02: So we're gonna do first, we're gonna do a Scotchy Bourbon Boys barrel bottle breakdown of the now.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_02: One of the cool things is is that initially the barrel that was released at the festival, there weren't a they weren't even tasting the the bot the bottle from that barrel because there were so few bottles from that at 107.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, and one of the reasons why you would want to put out a single barrel, especially at 13 years, and and proof it down a little bit, is because a 13-year-old barrel just doesn't have the same amount of liquid that a seven year barrel would have.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_02: So it's a big difference, but this has always been an exciting brand for me.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_02: So let's do the Scotchy Bourbon Boys barrel bottle breakdown, me, you, and supernash.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know if John or anybody, anybody who's got it and they're tasting if they got oh well john did not get a hold of it because he gets a hold of everything but he probably didn't get a hold of baker's pick from the festival but let's uh let's let's do the barrel bottle breakdown and talk about the do you want to talk about the scale the rating scale or do you want me to do that super next we did our rating according to four categories nose body taste and finish on the nose and the body you can give it up to four barrel knocks and for the uh taste and the finish you can give it up to five barrel knocks each but if one of the categories is exceptional you can actually give it a butt up up a butt up up but up up a butt up barrel knocks barrel knocks barrel knocks a 1918 right if that makes barrel knocks barrel knocks that should be a segment the barrel knock segment barrel knocks the barrel knock segment all right so um it's in my crystal i have to just keep this straight here this one on the left is the 13 in the the shell game with the glasses the shell game oh god the nose is caramel actually poured poured mine into the 2026 35th annual Kentucky Bourbon Festival Glenn Karen that's what I got the Baker 7 in all right so the nose on this is freaking crazy oh I get Luxardo cherry I get caramel cherry is there a pineapple is it almost pineapple yep I'm not getting pineapple some brown sugar no I get a chocolate covered cherry one of those like you for Valentine's Valentine's Day classic roasted peanut so much going on holy shit oh I'm glad I tasted it all right I'm going first on the nose all you gotta do is listen to this that's my score the nose is del I mean beautiful oh yeah I mean this is something this is special what kind of what kind of I'm trying to get legs in the crystal gland so so many aromas going on the ethanol isn't very very prominent so don't burn your nose away yeah I gotta give it a four too that's great oh my god the taste blows my mind so bad it's hard to make get me to get the the body wait I can't have just that little bit shit I need a little bit more in there I'm not gonna body on it it's a packer game thick you can get a little blitzed on a packer game so thick and so thick in the glass look at that it's almost like syrup yeah running down the glass oh it's so oily and velvety oh my god we gotta get I gotta give it a four too on the nose on the body the body four on the nose four on the body four on the nose four on the body and four on the body yep i i concur the body of bakers that's the one thing between the two brands of when it was a batch and into the barrel is that that the the barrels have an oily feel and Greg I think you're 100% right when you revisit now I'm not I don't think the 13 from last year is going to live up to this this this pick by Baker is insane.
• 28:48
  SPEAKER_02: This is one of those blow your i I mean honestly I've had so many bourbons this year that when I drink them they they're qualifying for the bourbon of the year this bourbon of the year is going to be something crazy the cherry now oh god so I give it a four two there's nothing bad about this bourbon I don't see any weaknesses so I'm going straight on the taste because my mind's been blown for a thirteen year where's the oak a little bit on the finish a little bit but the the the caramel in the finish oh my god caramel brown sugar cherry oh yeah that luxard that dark luxar sweet luxardo cherry that cherry is just popping no steve just Steve just said the brewers won five one giving him a hundred wins that's just nuts all right I gotta give the taste a five with a but up so what up but up up what you give the body a four a four the taste and I think that I think the taste is fabulous a hundred and seven proof I mean it don't play like a hot barrel proof you know what I mean it this this this barrel is what yeah I would say to drink like a hundred and seven it drinks but it drinks taste is like a hundred and seven which is perfect but the taste is barrel strength the mouth feels barrel strength the heat is not and the easiness of this is just a perfect balance of what you want your bourbon and I don't think I and the I'm gonna taste it against this other 13 and I don't think it I don't think the other 13 I just think this is a special barrel but we'll find out won't we?
• 31:41
  SPEAKER_02: So what are you giving it we will at a talk a five a five all right now you're up on the finish yeah John John's saying the brews are gonna win the World Series but okay go ahead to me it's in between a medium and a long finish.
• 32:24
  SPEAKER_00: The flavors just keep they're just staying and hanging in your mouth.
• 32:31
  SPEAKER_00: And it's it's hitting uh all the the roof the sides of the tongue with just that little bit of tangle that lets you know that that it's 107 approved and just a little bit of a hug just enough to let you know how good it is but the the flavors are what it's lasting.
• 32:50
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm gonna have to give it a five it it's it's a great finish.
• 32:56
  SPEAKER_02: So everything I'm I look for so just especially from a bean in a bean product yeah and the finish is that what's left in the end that makes it long after all the caramel's gone and a little bit is is the bean peanut flavor that you get a lot on the finish of a booker's and just a little bit of to me just a little bit of slight charred oak slight it's long that roasted peanut that roasted peanut is just what's the last the last flavor I get and it's still there so funny I I I what what's that a peanut grigio I I peanut grigio peanut grigio a peanut grigio all right I'm gonna I'm gonna do it I don't see anything wrong with this bourbon there's no flaws I'll give it a a five baker you've you just got earned yourself an 18.5 18 from supernash 19 from tiny because I give that one part the taste a but up up because that's what I'm in this for and and and I've always said that about different ones all right so we the final is five to one now right we are moving over and Greg says he bets it was on the lower level this is a 2024 Baker's 13.
• 34:43
  SPEAKER_02: Now Greg says that he thinks it's the the Bakers was aged on the lower level for that 13 year to pull that off but there's none usually a lot of times there's a little bit of the musty dusty on the lower level or I don't know how to explain it and this does not have it.
• 35:09
  SPEAKER_02: So this 2013 what happened to my neck label off of this all right so can we actually taste why Baker picked this barrel yeah now the grape the great how much is how much different is it I I have the 13 right the right here I will tell you the nose is nowhere near as sweet there's some of those baking spices that you get with bookers on that on the 20 mine mine is a lot more caramel and a little bit of that oak is showing through on yeah that baking spice oak kind of thing yeah yeah yeah the beckon spices are coming through yeah and this 13 like definitely pulls and pepper yeah this this this 2013 baker's is good but it's more like for somebody who wants a 13 year old that has oak get more vanilla and brown sugar off of this than I do the caramel.
• 36:30
  SPEAKER_02: Oh yeah it's not as sweet either and a little bit of pepper say that it almost has just a little bit more of a bitter taste on the tip.
• 36:49
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah you're picking up the oak rather than rather than yeah this last year 2000 this this there's no oak avail I mean even watch yeah that this is like drinking baker's the baker's pick is like drinking caramel sauce compared to that one this one it's oak ear leather yes yeah all those flavors maybe even a little cigar box yeah I'll give some tobacco a little a little bit of vanilla and a little bit of sweeten this is probably a brown sugar sweetness but it's very very very slight compared to this one I mean tonight we drank we weren't just drinking Baker's 13 we got to drink a barrel picked by the guy whose name has been on the bottle since 1992 a man who spent 38 years making beam whiskey before bourbon was cool here's to Baker beam's 90 year old sixth generation beam distiller and apparently still capable of picking one hell of a barrel right I mean there's no there's no comparison.
• 38:16
  SPEAKER_00: I bet this one I and like I say I don't understand I thought my neck label was on there when I when I pulled this bottle down something uh I'd like to know yeah I'd like to know what warehouse and what level this came off of because this one definitely probably saw more heat in angel share as compared to this one.
• 38:41
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah and I've got the Baker's batch what 107 and right off the bat the caramel comes out the caramel's coming out right away now it doesn't at this the batch still good this batch does not have the body that the 13 year it doesn't come close to the body this this one the one that I got is is thinner and you can even tell it in the glass but even in the mouth feel that's real light and I'm also that's what I was about to say I'm getting that like an unsweet tea getting that flavor of an unsweet tea yeah I would say there's that's how th that's how thin it is so this one pulls off an 18.5 it and I gave it a 19 if I would this one's gonna sit in my opinion this sits oh it's gonna be sitting somewhere down around 14 or 15.
• 39:53
  SPEAKER_02: Yep yeah that drops it's almost like and that's the the key is I mean it's still good it's still good but a 14 or 15 is good but the bay but but Baker's pick is exceptional.
• 40:08
  SPEAKER_02: I put this this competes in a blind as bourbon of the year.
• 40:13
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah you know now the what will definitely have to be an entry because that that's yeah that's good and I don't think a lot of people be able to tell this in a blind when we start blinding it against some of the others right good thing I got two bottles of that of this bake baker bean pig so I'll I'll drink this one down to practice up for the Christmas.
• 40:46
  SPEAKER_02: I was happy that the first day I got it and then then it and then they didn't know if it was going to come out again but they released it again on this was it the Sunday no no no they had it at Bourbon I think yes that's what it was I think I picked it up at Bourbon in the air that that night and then Saturday Friday it wasn't it wasn't there but Saturday it was again or was it Friday that we picked it up remember yeah you went to tell me and then so it was it's two bottles yeah that's you could buy two bottles yeah there was no limit I think so I asked for two and got two awesome they charge my card yeah there's a lot of card charging happening that's for sure yeah yeah more more than more than I wanted but that's the way it goes all right well I will say that this has been a good a good podcast tonight but I said to everybody it's going to be short I think we did it uh we gave Baker his due right we're right at we'll be close to pulling it off to 45 minutes which is always good to throw one of those in there but what I will do is once we end this up I will throw it out to the to the groups and everybody can come on and then I'm out I don't know what and then you guys can stay on as long but we'll end it on Facebook and YouTube pretty quick once I finish this up.
• 42:35
  SPEAKER_02: It's not a late night for unless everybody wants it's it doesn't make sense to stay on for Facebook.
• 42:41
  SPEAKER_02: All right everybody thanks for jumping into this podcast the next podcast will be Tuesday there will there will be no podcast on Thursday because I will already Thursday at noon I'm heading down to bourbon on the banks I'll be at the whiskey thief kickoff and then old Carter on Friday where Nash is gonna we're gonna meet at the old Carter Social Club and then same thing with CT and then it gets going so all right so anyways Kentucky Super Nash is coming to town yep this should be fun so all right everybody off remember www dot scotchyburbonboys dot com for all things scotchy bourbon boys remember we're on Facebook YouTube Scotchy Bourbon boys Glenn Carns T-shirts yep and then another swag and then we'll be Facebook Instagram YouTube X also iHeart Apple and Spotify if no matter whether you listen to us or watch us make sure that you support us Apple leave a really feedback yeah leave a five star review on Apple those help out that gets us going lately it's been exploding and I want to thank everybody for doing and watching and supporting us and you know super chats and everything I didn't see Kirk tonight that's different but with that said remember good bourbon equals me out and burden what good friends and good times good times remember drink responsibly don't drink and drive and live your life uncut and unfiltered and AI is going to take us out there we go thanks everybody here in the US and all around the world we appreciate you know