Springfield Batch is the first release of 2024, so it’s been given the numeric designation 2024-01. According to notes from Booker’s son Fred Noe—the seventh generation master distiller at Beam who ...

For more than three decades, Booker’s Bourbon has been one of the best bottles of whiskey the average person can find. Almost every batch in that time has been pretty darn good. But, truth is, some ...

I had a chance to interview Fred about the new Booker’s batch, which he believes is the first one to be named after someone outside of the extended Beam family or who has worked at the distillery.

Noe created Booker’s in 1988 as a barrel-proof, uncut, unfiltered bourbon that was unlike anything else the distillery was releasing at the time. He is also credited with coining the term “small batch ...