You don’t always have to delve too deep into the history books to find extraordinary Bourbon tales. Our latest collection of tales are about just a small sample size of those which have been released within the last decade. Buffalo Trace CYPB “Give us the bourbon we want”, they all cried. “When do we want it?.... Now!” they all cried. Which distillery would listen to these cries? Well, of course, it had to be Buffalo Trace. In the autumn of 2015, Buffalo Trace created an interactive website page allowing users to choose their preferences in terms of mash bill, barrel charring level, warehouse ..read more

Company: Jim Beam Vol: 47.5% Age: No Age Statement (between 5-7 years*) Classification: Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey Breakdown: 77% corn, 13% rye, 10% malted barley Price: c. £36 History Jim Beams Knob Creek Single Barrel had already been around for some time until Mr Fred Noe decided to introduce the Jim Beam Single Barrel in March 2014 and even though you won’t find an age statement on the bottle, Mr Noe has said that the single barrel version will be older,*between 5 and 7 years of age and bottled at a higher proof than the white label. Warehouse barrel location is of course key in ter ..read more

Hello This a just a small note from Mav and Mr Pie (otherwise known as the Bourbon Gents) to polity ask for your assistance. We have been running this site now for about 4 years and while we love writing it and providing unique, fun, interesting (we hope) bourbon related content to keep you all entertained, we do it at a loss. We keep the site running from our own pockets and write the content in our spare time. Now, let’s get this straight from the start, we aren’t asking you to make us rich or enable us to quit our jobs and do the site permanently. However, we would like to see if we can at ..read more

Back by popular demand we bring you more exciting tales from the bourbon world....  Larceny The tale surrounding this bourbon is with the actual naming of it. Heaven Hill acquired the Old Fitzgerald franchise in 1999 and released this wheated bourbon in ‘honour’ of John E Fitzgerald. According to legend, Mr Fitzgerald built the distillery and sold his bourbon to local establishments. Now here is the twist - in the family biography of Pappy Van Winkle written by his granddaughter Sally Van Winkle Campbell, it is revealed that Fitzgerald was not the character he was purported to be. He was ..read more

Ladies and Gentlemen welcome to the main event. It is with great pleasure (and a small amount of physical effort, when you end up arm-wrestling over positions 4 and 5) that we present to you our Top 10 Bottled in Bond Whiskeys. As you can imagine, this was yet again another Top 10 which took a considerable amount of time to nail down to the final ten, never mind the arduous task of deciding on places. We’ve had a heap of people reaching out to us asking for this particular list and as the trusted guardians of the self-titled home of bourbon online, we’ve listened. Or maybe it was just because ..read more

Company: Four Roses Vol: 45% Age: No Age Statement (rumored to be around 7 years)  Classification:  Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey Breakdown: A blend of 4 different mash bills. It’s not as simple as you might imagine Price: c. £25-30 Preamble Time seems to have stood still for Four Roses Small Batch. This was first reviewed way back in August 2016, the same month the Bourbon Gents website was launched. It continues to be an outstanding value for money everyday bourbon and, despite the many new kids on the block since this bourbon first dropped, it still holds i ..read more

A long time ago at Bourbon Gents HQ, the Gents had the idea to list the top ten bourbons that 50 English pounds (or whatever the equivalent outside of our tiny island) could buy you. So we set out to craft this list and share our thoughts on the best ones to pick up at a reasonable budget. When it was done, we pressed publish and then never really thought about it again. Fast forward 3 years and our loyal readers are making that polite coughing sound to quietly alert us to the fact that, unless they have a time travel machine, our list may be slightly useless in today’s market. The biggest exa ..read more

World Cup Final Wrap Up The Bourbon Gents World Cup 2021 is over, and we have our winner. 3 weeks ago, we started with 64 bourbons, all with a chance to lift the trophy. Some fell early, some hung on longer than expected, and some seemed unbeatable, but in the end only one can remain… The Final Pappy Van Winkle 20-year-old was drawn as the home team, which meant William Larue Weller got the dodgy away dressing room with the broken heating and blocked toilets. Unlucky, but maybe it would give them that extra motivation to win heading into the match. Just like last year’s final, it was one ..read more

1st Round Wrap Up The 5th annual Bourbon Gents World Cup is here and, as always, it means that the stars of the music world were knocking at our door hoping to be the chosen one selected to perform at the opening ceremony. In previous years we have had the likes of Beyonce, Drake and Ariana Grande open the tournament for us. This year though we shocked the crowd with the reveal of… BTS. Who? We hear you say. Well they are only the biggest most famous band on the planet right now (if you happen to be a teenage girl). They have broken records held for years by the likes of the Beatles and Michae ..read more

The only bourbon award worth winning Three time World Cup winner Four Roses Single Barrel The Bourbon Gents World Cup is just days away and the Gents are busy readying the opening ceromony. This will be the 5th year of the competition to find the worlds best bourbon and, for the first time, we will have a new defending champion. Before last years World Cup the competiiton had only ever been won by one single bourbon - the amazing Four Roses Single Barrel. It managed to win 3 times in row and the Gents were just thinking of renaming it the Four Roses World Cup. However, that all changed last y ..read more