First Booker’s Batch Of 2026 Is Out

This first batch of Booker’s, the seminal cask strength take on Jim Beam Bourbon named for their legendary fifth Master Distiller Booker Noe, has landed. This time, the theme is New Orleans.

Says current Master Distiller and Booker’s son Fred Noe, “For a guy who lived in Kentucky, Dad sure found himself in the Big Easy plenty. He made his first trips down there as a young man, friends like Billy Roby by his side, the two of them eating and drinking their way around town. Some time after that, he and Mom visited on their honeymoon. In later years, they’d always point out the bar where they shared a drink as newlyweds. The place seemed to love him back too, during one visit they even changed the name of Bourbon Street to Jim Beam Bourbon Street for a day.”

Booker’s “Big Easy” 2026-01 is 7 years, 2 months and 15 days old, and came out at 129.1 proof. The source breakdown is as follows:

•       16% was stored on the third floor of warehouse H, a nine-story house
•       24% was stored on the sixth floor of warehouse G, a nine-story house
•       16% was stored on the fifth floor of warehouse O, a seven-story house
•       22% was stored on the third floor of warehouse J, a nine-story house
•       22% was stored on the fourth floor of warehouse M, a seven-story house