Beam’s Latest Batch of Booker’s Bourbon Honors a Hidden Distillery Mystery

On Tuesday, the ever-popular Booker’s Bourbon announced its final release of 2025, the “Phantom Pipes Batch,” a 126.4-proof bourbon aged over seven years, uncut and unfiltered as always.

The batch draws its name from a discovery inside the brand’s historic Boston, Kentucky distillery — a network of unused pipes found in the rafters. According to the brand, the pipes were part of late master distiller Booker Noe’s experiments in the distillery decades ago.

“Dad was always connecting one thing to another, chasing the next great idea with whatever he had on hand,” Beam Master Distiller Fred Noe said in a news release. “Those pipes became a symbol of Booker’s way, not always the easy way, but the right way to make great bourbon.”

Booker’s “Phantom Pipes Batch” was drawn from barrels produced on five different dates and aged in several warehouses across the Beam campus. Here’s how it breaks down:

• 22% from the fourth floor of Warehouse 3
• 11% from the fifth floor of Warehouse 1
• 30% from the sixth floor of Warehouse G (Waterfill)
• 9% from the third floor of Warehouse O
• 28% from the fifth floor of Warehouse 4

The youngest barrels in the batch are aged seven years, six months and 15 days. Beam has not disclosed the age of any other barrels.

Beam describes the new batch as a “big, bold, and unmistakably Booker’s” bourbon with notes of vanilla and spice.

The Phantom Pipes Batch will be available nationwide this month. It has a suggested retail price of $99.99.

Booker’s — named for the late distiller Booker Noe, the grandson of Jim Beam himself — is a beloved series of barrel-proof bourbon released multiple times annually by the James B. Beam Distilling Company. Click here to check out our review of a recent batch of Booker’s we greatly enjoyed, named By The Pond.