If we have learned anything selling bourbon, it is that high proof whiskey sells within a heartbeat. There is a high probability that this Elijah Craig Barrel Proof – Batch C918 will show out of stock when you read this. Or not… lucky you! At 131.4 proof, it’s a whopper.
Starting at the beginning of 2017, Heaven Hill revamped their Elijah Craig Barrel Proof Series. Look at that pretty new bottle. The Batch Numbers might seem unclear, but it’s easy to decipher once you understand how they are build up: The first letter indicates which of that year’s releases the bottle was a part of starting with ‘A’ (there have been three releases per year since the range started in 2013), while the second digit is a number that determines the month of the year the bottle was released in. The third and fourth digits indicate the year. This third Elijah Craig Barrel Proof release in 2018 was bottled in September.