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Heaven Hill Distillery has introduced the discharge of the 2025 Parker’s Heritage, the 18th version of the sequence. This newest installment is a 14 yr previous Kentucky Straight Malt Whiskey Completed in Reconstructed Heavy Toast Cognac Barrels.
This version continues Heaven Hill’s partnership with Grasp Blender Alain Royer, who labored with the bourbon distiller on two earlier Parker’s Heritage Assortment releases. The American malt was barreled on March 2009, dumped fourteen years and entered into 56 rebuilt, heavy toasted Cognac barrels for an additional 4 months of secondary maturation. he authentic Malt Whiskey barrels are from the fourth ground of Rickhouse O and the sixth ground of Rickhouse Q. As soon as re-barreled, the Cognac barrels aged in Rickhouse H1 on the fifth ground. It was bottled at 107 proof.
This whiskey is an American Malt moderately than an American Single Malt due to its mash invoice of 65% malted barley and 35% corn. Single malts are 100% malted barley. Coming from 2009, the whiskey was distilled and barreled at a time earlier than craft distillers had come to domesticate the malt whiskey house and coalesce across the American Single Malt idea.
The 18th Version is an allotted product and might be out there nationally and internationally in restricted portions on the recommended retail worth of $169.99. Like earlier editions, a portion of the proceeds will proceed to assist ALS analysis and affected person care in honor of Parker Beam, late Grasp Distiller Emeritus.
“We’re excited to proceed to work with Alain Royer as we search for extra methods to innovate with barrel completed merchandise,” stated Susan Wahl, Vice President of American Whiskey at Heaven Hill. “In honoring Parker’s enduring legacy, Heaven Hill Distillery stays steadfast in our dedication to uphold the excessive requirements he set. With this newest expression, we have fun Parker’s affect on and dedication to innovating outdoors of Heaven Hill’s conventional Bourbon mashbills by crafting a Whiskey that embodies his spirit as we proceed to assist ALS analysis and affected person care.”
The late Heaven Hill Grasp Distiller Parker Beam, for whom the acclaimed sequence is called, was identified with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (additionally referred to as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s illness) in 2010. Since 2013, proceeds from gross sales of the Parker’s Heritage Assortment have raised greater than $1.3 million {dollars} towards ALS analysis and affected person care by contributions made by Heaven Hill for every bottle bought. With this version, Heaven Hill will once more contribute a portion of the proceeds from every bottle offered to the ALS Affiliation. To study extra about The Parker Beam Promise of Hope Fund, please go to als.org/parker-beam-promise-hope-fund.
