Participating in a barrel pick is on the bucket list for most bourbon lovers. But unless you are connected with a bar, restaurant, or retails store, it has been hard to get your foot in the tasting room door.
Our friends at Buzzard’s Roost Distillery in Louisville are here to make that dream a reality. Buzzard’s Roost is rolling out a new single barrel pick experience for the rest of us. The distillery said the experience is available to “individuals, including clubs, charities, corporate groups and whiskey-loving friends and families.”
Jason Brauner, Buzzard’s Roost co-founder and master blender said, “I’ve spent decades facilitating barrel picks for private customers. Here at Buzzard’s Roost, we’ve worked with several charity groups on barrel picks, where bottles sales benefitted the charity, helping them earn thousands of dollars for their causes.”
How It Works
- Barrel-picks will be scheduled at Buzzard’s Roost Distillery and Tasting Room in Louisville at the guest’s convenience. (Please ask about virtual barrel picks that can be done via Zoom). Yields are 210-240 bottles for full barrels and 108-118 bottles for half-barrels.
- After booking the Single Barrel Pick Experience online, the process begins with a phone consultation to determine preferences: bourbon or rye, toasted-only or lightly charred and toasted barrels, name and/or logo for the custom seal that will go on the label, and timing. (It generally takes six weeks from barrel pick to receipt of bottles).
- Barrel-picks will be scheduled at Buzzard’s Roost Distillery and Tasting Room in Louisville at the guest’s convenience. (Please ask about virtual barrel picks that can be done via Zoom). Yields are 210-240 bottles for full barrels and 108-118 bottles for half-barrels.
- Bourbon averages $95 per bottle; rye averages $85 per bottle. A deposit of 50% is due upon scheduling the barrel pick.
Source: Buzzard’s Roost Sipping Whiskey
“We are excited to make barrel picks available to more people. Barrel picks are a fun way to taste a hand-selected array of our double-oak whiskeys and work together as a group to pick the one whiskey that everyone loves the most.”
About Buzzard's Roost Distillery
(From the distillery) Buzzard’s Roost Whiskey and is an independent distiller, blender and bottler of exceptional double oak whiskies crafted using pioneering techniques. Buzzard’s Roost whiskeys stand out for their exceptional flavors created using a break-through approach. Barrels are made from 18-month-seasoned oak staves for intensified flavors. Buzzard’s Roost then lightly chars and custom-toasts barrels to coax out multiple layers of flavor, leading to bourbon and rye whiskeys that taste like no other.
