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91Excellent

Booker’s 2022-01 “Ronnie’s Batch”

Bourbon Beam Booker's Bourbon
  • Distiller

    Beam

  • Bottler

    Beam

  • ABV

    62.15%

  • Age

    6 Years 11 Months 22 Days

  • Price $200+

The first Booker's release of 2022, this is "Ronnie's Batch." Aged for 6 years, 11 months and 22 days, it's released at 124.3 proof and can typically be found around the $100 mark.

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Aggregated Reviews
  • Raided Score: 93
  • Whisky Advocate
  • By David Fleming
  • A great spice bomb with an explosive finish full of more cinnamon spice, cooked fruit, and chocolate sweetness.
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  • Raided Score: 92
  • Drinkhacker
  • By David Thomas Tao
  • This release boasts an interesting — and ultimately successful — interplay between savory and sweet.
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  • Raided Score: 88
  • Distiller
  • By Amanda Schuster
  • The finish is long, but runs quite tart, and with an impressive heat.
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  • Raided Score: 95
  • The Whiskey Wash
  • By Devon Lyon
  • As the review and score reflect, you can't really lose with Ronnie's Batch.
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  • Raided Score: 92
  • The Whiskey Jug
  • By Josh Peters
  • If you’re looking for something that strikes a note closer to the Booker’s of old, the Booker’s 2022-01 “Ronnie’s Batch” would be worth checking out.
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  • Raided Score: 88
  • The Whiskey Reviewer
  • By Richard Thomas
  • I marked it down as B+/A-, but as is usually the case, when I leave a grade like that to sit for a while, I erred on the side of conservatism and made it a B+. I tell you that, however, so you understand that this is the best bottle of Booker’s I’ve seen in a while, certainly so far in the 2020s.
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  • Raided Score: 88
  • Breaking Bourbon
  • By Nick Beiter
  • The first Booker’s batch of 2022, Ronnie’s Batch is a straightforward affair that packs a cinnamon centered punch, but doesn’t quite reach the heights Booker’s is capable of.
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  • Raided Score: 92
  • The Daily Pour
  • By The Daily Pour Staff
  • Overall, if this is the first Booker's of 2022, then it will be a bright and flavorful year. Powerful, complex, brimming with great flavor, the often times unbridled and punishing Booker's settles into a great profile for Ronnie's Batch.
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House Review
  • Nose:

    Roasty and toasty, 2022's first Booker's release is packed with honey, graham cracker, a touch of pepper, and a heat and sweet component that's hard to place. It's sweet, savory, a little bit spicy.

  • Taste:

    Rich on the palate, a little lighter on ethanol than past releases, and plenty rich. Tons of honey, butter cream, roasted peanuts, graham cracker, cocoa. Sweet oak hangs on throughout, with a pleasant, roasted praline character.

  • Finish:

    Long finish, sweet, oaky and dry. That roasted nut character hangs on with plenty of toffee, butter cream, brown butter, pepper, baking spice and clove to last a decade.

  • Overall:

    Overall, if this is the first Booker's of 2022, then it will be a bright and flavorful year. Powerful, complex, brimming with great flavor, the often times unbridled and punishing Booker's settles into a great profile for Ronnie's Batch.

  • Score:

    92

  • By The Daily Pour Staff
  • Our in house critic rates spirits on a scale of 0-10 (10 best) and is aggregated the same as external sources