Col. E.H. Taylor, Jr. is likely one of the extra underrated manufacturers produced by Buffalo Hint Distillery. It definitely has its followers, but it surely hasn’t fairly reached the identical degree of acclaim because the distillery’s different heavy hitters like Eagle Uncommon, Stagg, Weller, or Pappy. In latest occasions, Buffalo Hint has been attempting to vary that by drawing consideration to the label. Just some months in the past, it introduced that E.H. Taylor could be becoming a member of the annual Buffalo Hint Vintage Assortment (BTAC), marking the BTAC’s first new addition since 2006. Now the distillery is asserting a brand new unicorn bourbon below the E.H. Taylor label.
A Rediscovered Methodology
E.H. Taylor releases are virtually at all times bottled in bond—the model seldom strays from that commonplace, most notably for its barrel proof bourbon and rye—and this newcomer isn’t any exception. Named Distiller’s Council, it was crafted utilizing manufacturing strategies and mashbills which are practically equivalent to these utilized by the eponymous Colonel again within the Eighteen Eighties. Most notably it faucets an undisclosed bitter mashing course of, which mirrors Taylor’s type and is at present patent-pending. The whiskey doesn’t carry an age assertion, and Buffalo Hint hasn’t disclosed the precise distilling season, however we confirmed that the liquid within the bottle is 15 years previous.
The newcomer will get its curious identify from an occasion that occurred on the distillery in 1996, only a few years after it had been acquired by Sazerac. The “distillers council” was a gathering of distinguished individuals with ties to the distillery—then referred to as George T. Stagg Distillery—that convened to debate the distillery’s manufacturing strategies. Attendees included the likes of grasp distillers Elmer T. Lee and Gary Gayheart, longtime warehouse managers Ronnie Eddins and Leonard Riddle, and a sure newly employed supervisor named Harlen Wheatley—who would go on to change into grasp distiller practically a decade later, and nonetheless holds that publish at the moment. The story goes that, after evaluating round 30 samples of various mashbills, ages, and proofs, somebody remarked, “Properly, we don’t make whiskey the best way we used to.” The remark brought about the group to debate a number of the manufacturing strategies used earlier of their careers, sparking a dialog that Buffalo Hint claims led to the rediscovery of Taylor’s unique mashing course of, which was later used to make this new launch.
Together with taking its identify from the occasion, the brand new whiskey can be bottled in a particular Grecian glass decanter that’s modeled after a bottle broadly utilized in an Outdated Taylor Authentic Recipe bourbon advert that ran within the Nineteen Fifties. This launch might be present in restricted portions nationwide, and whereas the instructed retail value is $1,500, you’ll probably should shell out greater than that.
E.H. Taylor Distiller’s Council Bottled in Bond Bourbon
ABV: 50%
SRP: $1,500
Availability: Restricted
