1 week Ago By Jonah Flicker
The world of bottled-in-bond whiskey just got a little bigger, a trend that continues to find traction in both the craft and legacy whiskey worlds. The latest distillery to get onboard is Texas’s Milam & Greene —but in a twist you don’t see that often, the team distilled this bourbon in Kentucky instead of Texas, still meeting all of the qualifications to be called a bottled-in-bond whiskey. Milam & Greene is led by master distiller Marlene Holmes and CEO, master blender, whiskey expert, and author Heather Greene, who joined the operation in 2019.
They distill their own whiskey and source barrels from other distilleries to blend into a core range of products that includes Triple Cask and Single Cask bourbons. Distillation takes place both in Blanco, Texas on pot stills and in Bardstown, Kentucky on column stills in partnership with Bardstown Bourbon Company using a proprietary yeast strain and a mashbill that includes grains from Texas, Oregon, Wyoming, and Washington. “They don’t just contract distill, said a rep for Milam & Greene, “They are cooking in the other folks’ kitchen.
” The new Bottled in Bond Straight Bourbon Whiskey meets all of the requirements to be labeled as such: aged for at least four years, bottled at 100 proof, and the product of one distillery and one distillation season. It was distilled at BBC from Milam & Greene’s signature mashbill of 70 percent corn, 22 percent malted rye, and eight percent malted barley in the autumn of 2019, and .
