Parker’s Heritage 2024 Is A Middle-Aged American Malt
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Heaven Hill Distillery has announced the release of the 2025 Parker’s Heritage, the 18th edition of the series. This latest installment is a 14 year old Kentucky Straight Malt Whiskey Finished in Reconstructed Heavy Toast Cognac Barrels.
This edition continues Heaven Hill’s partnership with Master Blender Alain Royer, who worked with the bourbon distiller on two previous Parker’s Heritage Collection releases. The American malt was barreled on March 2009, dumped fourteen years and entered into 56 rebuilt, heavy toasted Cognac barrels for a further four months of secondary maturation. he original Malt Whiskey barrels are from the fourth floor of Rickhouse O and the sixth floor of Rickhouse Q. Once re-barreled, the Cognac barrels aged in Rickhouse H1 on the fifth floor. It was bottled at 107 proof.
This whiskey is an American Malt rather than an American Single Malt because of its mash bill of 65% malted barley and 35% corn. Single malts are 100% malted barley. Coming from 2009, the whiskey was distilled and barreled at a time before craft distillers had come to cultivate the malt whiskey space and coalesce around the American Single Malt concept.
The 18th Edition is an allocated product and will be available nationally and internationally in limited quantities at the suggested retail price of $169.99. Like previous editions, a portion of the proceeds will continue to support ALS research and patient care in honor of Parker Beam, late Master Distiller Emeritus.
“We are excited to continue to work with Alain Royer as we look for more ways to innovate with barrel finished products,” said Susan Wahl, Vice President of American Whiskey at Heaven Hill. “In honoring Parker’s enduring legacy, Heaven Hill Distillery remains steadfast in our commitment to uphold the high standards he set. With this latest expression, we celebrate Parker’s influence on and dedication to innovating outside of Heaven Hill’s traditional Bourbon mashbills by crafting a Whiskey that embodies his spirit as we continue to support ALS research and patient care.”
The late Heaven Hill Master Distiller Parker Beam, for whom the acclaimed series is named, was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (also called ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease) in 2010. Since 2013, proceeds from sales of the Parker’s Heritage Collection have raised more than $1.3 million dollars toward ALS research and patient care through contributions made by Heaven Hill for each bottle purchased. With this edition, Heaven Hill will again contribute a portion of the proceeds from each bottle sold to the ALS Association. To learn more about The Parker Beam Promise of Hope Fund, please visit als.org/parker-beam-promise-hope-fund.