Brown Forman's King of Kentucky 16 Year Old Single Barrel Bourbon 2023 Release #39

Brown Forman's King of Kentucky 16 Year Old Single Barrel Bourbon 2023 Release King of Kentucky is an annual/on-going periodic release of a single barrel inventory featuring a barrel-strength, minimally-filtered proof presentation, with each release and every barrel being unique.  For this year’s iteration, Master Distiller Chris Morris chose 33 barrels to set aside for the limited-release product. King of Kentucky has a long history as a brand, but of course things have changed over the years as they almost always do when it comes to American whiskey. According to Brown-Forman, the King of Kentucky label dates back to 1881 and it was created as a Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey, which it is today. At some point the brand was owned by a company called Select Kentucky Distillers, and Brown-Forman acquired it in 1936. It was changed to a blended whiskey in 1940 and then discontinued in 1968, around the time bourbon began to fall out of favor and vodka exploded in popularity. But Brown-