Yellowstone Select Kentucky Straight Bourbon
Yellowstone · Limestone Branch Distillery
Yellowstone Select is a bourbon of quiet integration — nothing shouts, everything converges. It's an everyday pour that rewards a moment of patience, particularly when you let it open for a few minutes in the glass. Reliable, well-made, and unpretentious.
Nose
Opens with roasted corn sweetness layered over butterscotch and a dusting of brown spices. A second pass reveals dried cherry and soft leather, with a faint vanillin warmth rising from underneath.
Palate
Medium-bodied with a buttery entry that gives way to charred oak and caramel. There's a pleasant rye spice through the mid-palate that provides structure without heat, and toasted pecan emerges near the back.
Finish
Medium length, fading through vanilla and lingering charred oak. A whisper of cherry stays on the tongue.
- Mash Bill
- 75% Corn, 13% Rye, 12% Malted Barley
- Barrel Type
- New charred American oak
- Bottled in Bond
- No
- Single Barrel
- No
- Wheated
- No
Cocktail Suggestion
Yellowstone Smash — 2 oz Yellowstone Select · 0.75 oz fresh lemon juice · 0.5 oz honey syrup · 4 mint leaves · Shake with ice, strain over crushed ice, garnish with a mint sprig.
Food Pairing
Smoked pork shoulder with apple slaw
Revived by Steve and Paul Beam at their family's Limestone Branch Distillery in Lebanon, Kentucky, the Yellowstone name stretches back to the 1870s and now carries the craft sensibility of a small operation honoring a very old label.
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