Old Grand Dad "Bonded" Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey

750ml bottle

40% abv

Old Grand Dad Bottled in Bond is aged for a minimum of four years before bottling at 100 proof.

The nose leans strongly towards cinnamon spice with some caramel and toasted oak in the background. Sweet and spicy cinnamon leads the palate as well, giving way to notes of dark fruit. The finish brings some caramel sweetness and a pleasant touch of oak.

Colonel Raymond B. Hayden named Old Grand Dad bourbon after his grandfather, Basil Hayden. Basil was known for making bourbon with a higher percentage of rye, and today Old Grand Dad is made from Jim Beam’s higher rye bourbon mash bill of 63% corn, 27% rye, and 10% malted barley.

Basil Hayden Sr. - known as Old Grand-Dad to the generations that followed - made bourbon the way he wanted. He went against the traditional “grain” of the time and chose to distill his bourbon with a higher percentage of rye. This way of crafting bourbon was likely something he handed down to his son. And in turn, his grandson. That was Colonel R.B. Hayden who would justly name his bourbon after his Old Grand-Dad. The recipe today remains inspired by Basil’s original with complex flavors and an unmistakable spiciness. First bottled in 1882, very little has changed about it. And that’s the only way we’d have it