Buffalo Trace built this release on its Mashbill #1 recipe with one substitution: amaranth in the flavouring-grain position where rye normally sits, alongside corn and malted barley. Mashbill #1 is Buffalo Trace's low-rye bourbon recipe, so the amaranth occupies the smaller flavouring-grain share of the mash rather than the bulk of it. Amaranth was cultivated by the Aztecs and called the Grain of the Gods; Buffalo Trace describes it as similar to wheat, and attributes butterscotch and spearmint on the nose and pecans and dark berries on the finish to its presence. The whiskey was distilled more than a decade before bottling and released under Bottled-in-Bond terms: one distillery, one distilling season, at least four years in a federally bonded warehouse, and exactly 100 proof — the standard Colonel Taylor himself helped pass into law in 1897. Buffalo Trace announced the release on 10 July 2019 as a one-time-only bottling, and it reached shelves later that month.

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What grain replaces rye in E.H. Taylor Amaranth?

Amaranth. Buffalo Trace used it as the flavouring grain instead of rye, alongside corn from its Mashbill #1 and malted barley. Amaranth was cultivated by the Aztecs and is known as the Grain of the Gods; the distillery describes it as similar to wheat, and credits it with butterscotch and spearmint on the nose and pecans and dark berries on the finish.

How old is E.H. Taylor Amaranth?

Buffalo Trace states that the whiskey was aged over a decade before bottling. As a bottled-in-bond release it is also the product of a single distilling season and spent at least four years in a federally supervised warehouse, so the decade-plus maturation sits well beyond the legal floor.

What does Bottled-in-Bond require on E.H. Taylor Amaranth?

Four things: the whiskey must be the product of a single distillery and a single distilling season, must spend at least four years in a federally supervised warehouse, and must be bottled at exactly 100 proof. The minimum is four years, not ten. Colonel E.H. Taylor, Jr. helped pass the 1897 Act that set those terms, which is why the standard runs through the brand named after him.