Writing about Barrell is weird for me. From a costs perspective, there’s very little difference between a cask strength bourbon from a major producer like Barton that sells for $45 and something like Barrell Batch 017 which sells for upwards of $90. They’re both not super-old… most bourbons aren’t much older than 9 or 10 years, as the wide temperature swings in rickhouses where bourbons are aged tends to make them overly woody tasting much after 10 years. There’s no difference in the input ingre