The company notes that “only specially selected barrels aged at the highest reaches of barrelhouses and producing whiskey with deeper colors and flavors are selected for the Single Barrel Collection.” They likewise note that the product will show up on store shelves at strengths that will vary pretty considerably, from as low as 125 proof to a monstrous 145 proof.

Jack Daniel’s Single Barrel Barrel Proof Rye is made from the company’s sole rye whiskey mash bill of 70% rye, 18% corn and 12% malted barley, which undergoes the same Lincoln County Process of charcoal mellowing as the rest of JD’s products before it enters newly charred white oak barrels. So clearly, this was the time to taste it once again in its current iteration. Now, it’s here to stay, as Jack Daniel’s Single Barrel Barrel Proof Rye–the double “barrel” does bother us as grammar geeks, but we can’t change that–has just become a permanent line extension for the brand. The rye then hit its fiery apex as Single Barrel Barrel Proof Rye in 2020, but that release was only a limited run. That first batch was followed by Rested Rye in 2014, the first Single Barrel Rye in 2016, and Tennessee Rye in 2017. It’s been more than a decade now since the initial release of the brand’s Unaged Rye, which marked their first toe dipped into the rye market after previously being only a Tennessee whiskey producer. It’s been a long, steady run for rye whiskey to approach the same level of maturity (and marketability) at Jack Daniel’s, the U.S.’s largest overall whiskey producer.

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