Bourbon Question

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allesgute
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Bourbon Question

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Coming up with a bourbon recipe but realized I had some unaged whiskey laying around. Can I brew a 100% corn mash, distill it, and add it to that unaged whiskey and it would be legally bourbon (despite it being home distilled). Grain bill would essentially be 80% corn, just not made in a single mash.

Honestly I was going to do this and then a friend came up with the question and now it really has me thinking.
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You can do whatever you want, rules don't apply when you're breaking the rules anyway. 😉
If you're blending two distilled spirits to make a new spirit. It's technically a blended whiskey.
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Deplorable wrote: Tue May 11, 2021 11:47 am You can do whatever you want, rules don't apply when you're breaking the rules anyway. 😉
If you're blending two distilled spirits to make a new spirit. It's technically a blended whiskey.
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Even on the up and up you can do whatever tickles your fancy. A buddy of mine loves his bourbon (he has 300+ bottles). He blended up a Poor Man's Pappy, and made a rather tasty concoction indeed.
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If you are making "bourbon" at home in the US you are breaking a handful of rules. I wouldn't get to worried about the rules to call it "legal" bourbon. Think about it, if I age my bourbon in a brand new 5 gallon oak barrel for a year, is it bourbon or whiskey? I don't care what you call it as long as you like it and ask me for more.
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