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484. Exploring the Three Chamber Rye and High West Cask Strength
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- The Bourbon Road
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- Feb 25, 2026
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Summary
Welcome back to The Bourbon Road! This week, Jim Shannon and Todd Ritter are back in the Corner Rickhouse at the Frankfort Bourbon Society for a classic review episode. With a lineup of four highly distinct and highly anticipated expressions, the guys are ready to dive deep into some serious tasting, ranking, and blending. Before the tasting begins, Jim shares a quick story about a trip to the Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site with his father, reflecting on the weight of history and the value of experiencing it firsthand. They also take a moment to shout out the Bourbon on the Banks festival in Frankfort. Thanks to the support of the Bourbon Roadies and the local community, the event recently distributed over $100,000 to local charities. (Pro tip: Tickets for this year's event go on sale in mid-March, so plan ahead!) Then, it is time to get to the whiskey. This week's tasting mat is an eclectic mix of sourced blends, historic tributes, and boundary-pushing ryes: Short Barrel 4-Grain Kentucky Straight Bourbon: This 92-proof everyday sipper is an NDP blend out of Atlanta. It combines a wheated bourbon from Wilderness Trail (64% corn, 24% wheat, 12% malted barley) with a rye bourbon from Green River (70% corn, 21% rye, 9% malted barley). The final blend leans heavily on the wheat, delivering a soft, floral nose and a palate reminiscent of honey, sweet tea, and toasted cereal. Old SteelHouse Blueprint Series Batch 002: Sourced entirely from Wilderness Trail, this 105-proof wheated bourbon (64% corn, 24% wheat, 12% malted barley) is aged 5 years. Created as a tribute to the 1933 architectural plans of the T.W. Samuels Distillery, it offers a darker, richer profile than the first pour, with notes of dark fruit, leather, and a surprisingly spicy, pepper-forward finis…