Beam’s First Booker’s Bourbon Release of 2024 Celebrates a Small Kentucky Town That Spawned a Whiskey Legend

Booker’s Bourbon unveiled the brand’s latest release, which pays homage to Springfield Kentucky, where Booker Noe grew up. (Photo: Booker’s Bourbon)

The first Booker’s Bourbon release of 2024 was announced by the Beam-Suntory-owned brand on Wednesday. Booker’s Springfield Batch takes its name from the small Kentucky town where the legendary master distiller for the Jim Beam brand, Booker Noe, grew up.

The bourbon hosts a suggested retail price of $89.99 per 750-milliliter bottle and is available across the U.S.

Clocking in at a hefty 124.5 proof, Booker’s Springfield Batch is composed of bourbons from five production dates that aged in four warehouses. The bourbon is 7 years, 7 months and 8 days old and spent its time maturing in new white oak barrels.

The brand claims the bourbon is balanced, with plenty of brown sugar and vanilla aromas throughout. There’s a pleasant prickle of heat from that elevated proof, Booker’s claims.

Fred Noe shared on the brand’s website that Booker Noe spent a lot of his childhood working on farms in the Springfield area.

“Many people think Dad was from Bardstown, the Bourbon Capital of the World, but it wasn’t until later in his adolescence that he moved the Beam family home there,” Fred shared. “As a boy, he grew up in Springfield, KY, a small rural town about 18 miles down the road. While the town has grown over the years alongside bourbon and a few other industries in the area, it was a farming community with many residents working in tobacco when Dad was young.”

Seventh-generation Beam Master Distiller Fred Noe claims Booker Noe “got his sense of hard work” from working out in tobacco fields. In October, the brand released Booker’s “Mighty Fine Batch,” which was named after the whiskey icon’s signature “Booker-ism.” When Booker Noe enjoyed something, he would call it “mighty fine.”

Booker’s Springfield Batch Breakdown, Via Beam

Here are where the barrels that ended up in Booker’s Springfield were aged:

• 17%  from floor 5 of 9-story warehouse G
• 7% from floor 4 of 9-story warehouse H
• 31% from floor 5 of 7-story warehouse Z
• 45% from floor 4 of 7-story warehouse 3

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