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Whiskey Quickie: King of Kentucky 2021 Review

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4.9866 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

On this Whiskey Quickie by Bourbon Pursuit, we review King of Kentucky 2021. This 14 year old bourbon is 130 proof and $250 MSRP. Let us know what you think. Cheers! Whiskey Quickie is brought to you by Barrell Bourbon. Learn more at BarrellBourbon.com. DISCLAIMER: The whiskey in this review was provided to us at no cost courtesy of the spirit producer. We were not compensated by the spirit producer for this review. This is our honest opinion based on what we tasted. Please drink responsibly.

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Everybody, we're back with another whiskey quickie, and it's still release season, so we're back with another Whiskey Quiki, and it's still release season,

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so we're talking about some heavy hitters.

0:59.7

And today is King of Kentucky.

1:03.6

So this is the 2021.

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This is the fourth release of King of Kentucky.

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And I'm going to give you just a little bit of background about it as well.

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So there's some brand history.

1:11.4

So King of Kentucky was established in 1881 as a Kentucky straight bourbon,

1:16.6

and then Brown Format acquired the brand in 1936 from selected Kentucky distillers, and by 1940,

1:22.6

it was converted into a blended whiskey. And then this was actually discontinued in 1968 but was revived in 2018

1:30.3

with its inaugural I guess relaunch I guess you could say it was now King Kentucky when it does come out these come out as single barrels so it's not a batch product and there's going to be 33 different barrels that will be available and this is a representation of what we're

1:45.1

going to try from just one of these barrels but however they are all 14 years old and this

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yeah and this barrel comes from warehouse i floor three rick seven and this is 130 proof now in

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total with 33 barrels there will be 2,700 bottles.

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