by cowdery » Tue Sep 14, 2010 11:46 am
Booker Noe himself told me on a couple of occasions that the Beam mash bill is 75% corn, 15% rye and 10% malt, and that the Old Grand-Dad mash bill is 60% corn, 30% rye and 10% malt. Beam won't confirm, saying the mash bill is proprietary.
All of the historic Stitzel-Weller bourbons were wheated, whether made at SW until 1992, or at Bernheim from 1992 to 1999. HH bought Old Fitz and Bernheim in 1999 and BT bought Weller. There was whiskey involved in those deals, but you can think of Weller as BT production after 1999, although BT made some wheated bourbon before that. HH supplies Luxco, which makes Rebel Yell. Cabin Still was also a wheated bourbon historically but probably isn't today. I'm confident HH makes one wheated bourbon mash bill, so it's the same for both Fitz and RY.
Ryes typically are 'barely legal' at 51% rye. Those 60% rye claims are probably wrong. Beam does not make two different rye mash bills. Fred Noe confrimed that for me.
Prichard's has made some malt whiskey but has not made any bourbon, at least not that they have sold. They bought bourbon from HH and gave it some additional age. That's the Prichard's product.
Tom Moore supposedly has two bourbon mash bills, one for 1792 and one for everything else. The 1792 mash bill is supposed to be higher in both rye and malt.
Jack Daniels is 80% corn, 8% rye, 12% malt.
Early Times is 79% corn, 11% rye, 10% malt.
If what Tom told you is correct then they've changed the Bulleit mash bill, which was the Four Roses high rye mash bill of 60% corn, 35% rye, 5% Malt.