In 2024, Jim Beam’s Baker’s Bourbon model launched a spin-off of its traditional 7 12 months outdated bottling, referred to as Baker’s Single Barrel Excessive Rye Bourbon 7 Years Outdated made with twice the quantity of rye within the mash (26% vs. 13%). It’s now a roughly annual affair — and nonetheless a single barrel launch. Oddly, this late 2025 pattern was distilled simply 2 months after our 2024 expression was — and it was turned out at an age of seven years, 6 months. Which means this 2025 launch truly hit bottles earlier than the 2024 expression we reviewed, which is our form of paradox to discover.
Let’s dive into it.
Baker’s Single Barrel Excessive Rye Bourbon 7 Years Outdated (2025) Assessment
Single barrel releases have extra variability than many individuals want to admit, and this launch is absolute proof of that. The nostril is spicy with out being overwhelming, far much less drying and aggressive than the 2024 bottling, with a transparent pop of mint plus a richer layer of ginger. There’s nonetheless loads of rye on the nostril right here — obfuscating among the fruit that makes Baker’s 7 so satisfying — however in comparison with the 2024 model, it’s reasonably toned down.
The palate is effusive and brilliant, that mint a transparent through-line alongside cherry and chocolate parts — traditional Baker’s stuff. The rye isn’t shy and it pushes loads of herbaceous notes of rosemary and bay leaf, right here diverging much less from the 2024 expression. The whiskey turns boldly chocolatey because it develops within the glass, growing to muddle its spice with vanilla-fueled sweetness and a late-game trace of currants and extra cherry. The over-the-top aggressive greenery of the 2024 launch is absent right here, as if somebody received the memo that the “excessive rye” bit received taken just a little too far. I’ll take full credit score, and fortunately give this extra nuanced expression a well-deserved bump up in grade.
107 proof. Reviewed: Bottle #000224992, distilled 1-2017, 7 years, 6 months outdated.
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Baker’s Single Barrel Excessive Rye Bourbon 7 Years Outdated (2025)
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