Little Book Chapter 8 Path Not Taken 2024 750 ML

Little Book Chapter 8, "Path Not Taken," is the 2024 release in Beam master blender Freddie Noe's annual experimental series, built from seven straight whiskeys: an 18-year-old high-rye Kentucky bourbon, an 11-year-old straight rye, a 7-year-old rye malt, a 4-year-old rye, and three more 5-year-old ryes with different mash bills and barrel char levels. Bottled at cask strength (59.1% ABV / 118.2 proof), the blend leans into butterscotch and toasted bread on the nose, with apricot, oak, and floral notes carrying through the palate. It's a big, hot pour built to be explored slowly rather than mixed, aimed at drinkers who already know their way around cask-strength whiskey.

How to drink Little Book Chapter 8 Path Not Taken

Pour this neat, but keep water nearby — cask strength means it needs room to open before the rye spice and apricot notes come forward. This is a sipping whiskey for slow evenings, not a mixer.

Whisky118.2 proof