Chosen by yours truly during a live Instagram barrel selection earlier in the year, this nine year old beauty was barreled on 10/20/2011 and selected on 2/28/2021 at 120 proof, giving it more than 9 years in new, charred American oak. Given the 60% ABV, the whiskey wears that muscle well, balanced in its strength with superb richness and a nuttiness that Beam whiskey ambassador Amanda Gunderson referred to as "a pecan bomb" during the broadcast. The name stuck. The nose of this whiskey is simply sublime—robust vanilla, baking spices, and a big bag of pecans—with an elegant sweetness of oak on the palate that finishes with brown sugar and molasses. Very limited, we don't expect this to stick around long.
-David Driscoll