As a bottled in bond spirit, this bourbon is held to a rigorous standard including being made by one distiller at a single distillery in one season. At J. Rieger & Co., that results in a unique expression of our location in the historic Electric Park District – the varied seasons, the aged barrels, even the vibrations of the trains passing by our front doors.
Distilled from corn, rye, and malted barley, our bourbon has aged six years in our rickhouse this whiskey is a double gold medal winner at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition, the biggest and most prestigious spirit competition in the world.
This limited edition whiskey is bottled and released annually in compliance with Bottled-in-Bond guidelines.
As the quintessential American spirit, distilling our own bourbon was our goal before ever even reopening J. Rieger & Co. As a young distiller in 2015, we began putting away barrels of bourbon – just a few a month – as it was all we could logistically produce at the time. But, as the years went on, we were able to start distilling more and more whiskey every year. Today, we are putting away 175 barrels a month.
That brings us to today. After six long years in 53-gallon American white oak barrels, the bourbon we created in 2016 and 2017 are finally ready.
This bourbon is bottled at 100 proof to meet the qualifiers to be designated as bottled-in-bond, the strictest category of American whiskey.
