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Chicken Cock’s Holiday Bourbon Offering A Rare 15 Year Old Whiskey

The Chicken Cock American whiskey label, owned by Grain & Barrel Spirits and operating out of Kentucky, is known, among other reasons, for the use of its sharp looking bottles that are replicas of older design. Its latest offering, a 15 year old bourbon, fits especially into this mold with its bottle look and rarer whiskey designation.
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Review: Chicken Cock Master Distiller’s Pick Bourbon 15 Years Old

Here’s another special edition from the Chicken Cock gang, drawn from just 10 of the brand’s “best and oldest barrels.” For this 15 year old, Master Distiller Gregg Snyder offers a (sourced) Kentucky bourbon made from a mashbill of 78.5% corn, 13% rye, and 8.5% malted barley.
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The 10 Best Whiskey Brands to Pick Up Right Now

Chicken Cock was originally established in 1856 out of Paris, Kentucky. It wasn’t until years later during prohibition, however, that Chicken Cock became popular as the house whiskey of the Cotton Club, one of the most legendary prohibition speakeasies. Because the brand survived through America’s prohibition, they still know how to make whiskey as they did in the good old days.
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Newest Chicken Cock Whiskey Finished In Blonde Ale Barrels

The new Chicken Cock Ryeteous Blonde rye whiskey, according to those behind it, was finished in Chicken Cock Kentucky Straight Bourbon barrels that were used by Goodwood to age their blonde ale. Once the ale had completed its finishing process in the Chicken Cock Bourbon barrels and the beer removed for consumption, the barrels were then shipped back to the distillery and refilled with the rye whiskey.
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Chicken Cock Whiskey Brand Debuts A Straight Rye Whiskey

The new Chicken Cock Kentucky Straight Rye Whiskey, according to those behind it, It was 100% distilled, aged, and bottled in the Bluegrass State, and has a mash bill that includes 95% rye whiskey. It is also non-chill filtered and bottled at 90 proof (45% ABV).
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Chicken Cock Whiskey launches anchor expression

In the summer of 2018, we bottled 12 barrels of our award-winning 10 Year Old Double Barrel Bourbon. We then gave 6 of those barrels to our friends at Goodwood Brewing in Louisville to finished their delicious Walnut Brown Ale.
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Our Third Limited Run Bourbon: Beer Barrel Select

Following in the footsteps of two award-winning limited releases — the 160th Anniversary 8-Year-Old Single Barrel Bourbon and 10-Year-Old Double Barrel Bourbon — Chicken Cock Whiskey has now released 1,800 bottles of Beer Barrel Select, a blend of 1.5-11.5 year old Kentucky Bourbons finished in Walnut Brown Ale barrels.
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25 BOTTLES OF BOOZE THAT MAKE GREAT GIFTS

The world of American whiskey is an incredibly exciting place right now. Every time I visit a distillery somewhere in the United States, I am regularly stunned not just by the variety and quality of the operations, but by the sheer vision and—often—chutzpah of the people who had the guts to bring their ideas to such delicious fruition.
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Bardstown Bourbon + Grain & Barrel Spirits

Grain & Barrel joined forces with BBCo to produce custom bourbon and whiskey for the historic Chicken Cock brand which was originally created way back in 1856. The first collaborative distillation produced 616 spectacular barrels.
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