Booker’s has released its first batch of 2024. Called Springfield Batch, it’s named for a small town in central Kentucky where Booker Noe was born and raised. The whiskey’s age is 7 years, 7 months, and 8 days, and it was matured entirely in new oak barrels and bottled at 62% ABV.
Booker’s Springfield Batch carries a suggested retail price of $90, the same price as last year’s releases. While pricing on Booker’s has crept up a bit from the $70-$75 mark back in 2018, for example, it has done a decent job of holding the line on price, and it remains one of American whiskey’s best price/value propositions.
Springfield Batch is composed of whiskeys with five different production dates, whose barrels were all aged at Beam’s Clermont campus, in four different warehouses. The barrels were pulled from the following Clermont locations:
- 7% from the 4th floor of 9-story warehouse H
- 17% from 5th floor of 9-story warehouse G
- 31% from the 5th floor of 7-story warehouse Z
- 45% from the 4th floor of 7-story warehouse 3
While some people might have the impression that Booker was from Bardstown, he didn’t move there until later in his adolescence, and Springfield, located about 15 miles down the road from Bardstown, was in fact his hometown. Fellow sons and daughters of Springfield include Abraham Lincoln’s mother Nancy Hanks Lincoln and former New York Giants quarterback and Super Bowl winner Phil Simms, among others.
