Beam Continues To Develop Old Overholt With New 11 Year Old

Beam Suntory has been revisiting its long languishing brands in recent years, such as Baker’s and Old Overholt. The development of the latter, once a classic of Pennsylvania’s rye-centered whiskey industry, has received another boost with Beam’s release of an 11 year old, cask strength Old Overholt.

Although the original Old Overholt was a very rye-forward whiskey, produced in the sweet mash process and aged using semi-climate controlled warehouses that were heated during the winter, most modern drinkers are not familiar with those details or even with what such a whiskey would have tasted like. Instead, Old Overholt has for decades come from the Kentucky-style, high corn mash bill used by Jim Beam for most of their rye expressions. Old Overholt Extra Aged Cask Strength 11 Year Old is no different, but what it offers is an almost middle aged, high proof version of that familiar rye whiskey.

Bottled at 107.4 proof, the whiskey will be available at $100 a bottle.