Top Rated Bonded Whiskeys

Old Tub Kentucky Straight Bourbon is bottled without chill-filtration. It is also bottled in bond. Previously, Old Tub was only sold in 375ml bottles at Jim Beam's American Stillhouse shop in Clermont, Kentucky. However, as of June 2020 this has been released as a limited edition version nationwide in 750ml bottles. Old Tub was first launched in 1880, but was replaced by Jim Beam's flagship Original Bourbon bottling shortly after Prohibition.

The latest special edition Colonel E.H. Taylor, Jr. release is Seasoned Wood, the 8th in the series. It's a wheated bourbon and it's also a bonded whiskey, bottled at 100 proof. The barrels used underwent multiple seasoning processes; some made with staves seasoned outdoors for either 6 or 12 months, others made with staves bathed in a heated, enzyme-rich water solution.

This is the third edition of the William Heavenhill bottlings available only at the Heaven Hill Bourbon Heritage Center in Bardstown, Kentucky. It is a bottled-in-bond mix of 10 and 11-year-old bourbons selected from Heaven Hill stock by Master Distillers Craig and Parker Beam.

The second release in Old Forester's Whiskey Row series, 1897 commemorates the year the Bottled-in-Bond Act was enacted. Produced at Old Forester Distilling Co. in Louisville, Kentucky, it adheres to the standards established by that legislation: the product of a single distillery and single distilling season, aged a minimum of four years in a federally bonded warehouse, and bottled at 100 proof. The connection is particularly fitting given that Old Forester introduced the concept of sealing bourbon bottles for quality assurance in 1870, predating the act by nearly three decades.

What started as a limited run whiskey with an old fashioned sour mash has turned into a year-round, multi-bottling very popular line. While Taylor no longer utilizes the old fashioned sour mash, it's still a damn fine and solid product. This is a no-corn rye whiskey and is bottled in bond.

Old Grand-Dad Bonded is based on the high-rye bourbon recipe made famous by Basil Hayden, whose likeness appears on the label. Bottled under the requirements of the Bottled-in-Bond Act of 1897, it is the product of a single distillation season, aged at least 4 years, and bottled at 100 proof (50% ABV). Along with Old Overholt Rye, Old Grand-Dad is part of Jim Beam’s “Olds” whiskey lineup.

Old Fitzgerald, a product of Heaven Hills Distillery, is a very affordable, everyday whiskey made with wheat as a secondary grain in place of rye in the mash bill. Wheated bourbons are known to be a bit softer and lighter than bourbons that are made with rye. This whiskey is also unique in that it is “Bottled in Bond” which ensures that a whiskey is produced and bottled by one distiller, in one distilling season, is aged in a bonded US government warehouse for a minimum of four years and is bottled at 100 proof.

"Bottled in Bond" used to be a code for "the good stuff." Bonded whiskey is subject to regulation and production rules above and beyond those that normally govern the production of whiskey. Aged at least four years, with a higher proof, and in strictly controlled warehouses, this bottle is a return to a classic expression of whiskey.

Produced at Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort, Kentucky, E.H. Taylor Small Batch is a Bottled-in-Bond bourbon named for Colonel Edmund Haynes Taylor, Jr., who played a pivotal role in the passage of the Bottled-in-Bond Act of 1897 and is widely credited as the father of the modern bourbon industry. Made from Buffalo Trace's Mash Bill #1, it is aged in Warehouse C, constructed by Colonel Taylor in 1881, and bottled at 100 proof.

Produced at Heaven Hill Distillery in Bardstown, Kentucky, Henry McKenna 10 Year is a single barrel, Bottled-in-Bond Kentucky straight bourbon. Named for the Irish immigrant who adapted his family's whiskey recipe to the grains available in Kentucky, it is one of the longest aged Bottled-in-Bond expressions currently available. Each bottle bears both the bottling date and barrel number. Bottled at 100 proof.

First introduced in Philadelphia in 1934 and named for the city’s historic Rittenhouse Square, Rittenhouse Rye originally debuted as a two-year-old whiskey. In 1948, it was reintroduced as a four-year-old Bottled-in-Bond expression. After Heaven Hill acquired the brand in 1993, production moved from Pennsylvania to Kentucky, where it is now made with a mash bill of 51% rye, 35% corn, and 14% malted barley. Produced according to Bottled-in-Bond regulations, it comes from a single distilling season, is aged for a minimum of four years, and is bottled at 100 proof (50% ABV).

E.H. Taylor, Jr. Bourbon is named for the beloved former distillery owner of Buffalo Trace. The barrel staves procured from the Independent Stave Company used for this limited release were dried outside for 13 months - almost twice as long as usual. The bottled-in-bond whiskey was aged 17 years in Taylor's brick and limestone Warehouse "C," which was built in 1881 and continues to be part of the Buffalo Trace compound.