Little Book The Easy features uncut, unfiltered* Kentucky Straight Bourbon blended with corn whiskey, rye whiskey, and malt whiskey the three ingredients commonly found in a bourbon mash billto create an easy-drinking whiskey thats blended to be one of a kind.

It all started when I was working in our Global Innovation Center, learning all about blending. I looked at the different types of whiskies available and saw that we had individual corn, rye and malt barrels. I wondered, If you blend those together to the exact proportions of a bourbon mash bill, will it taste like bourbon? So I tried it. I blended 4-year-old corn, rye, and malt whiskey, and let me tell you, it didnt taste like bourbon at all! The corn whiskey overpowered everything else, since the rye whiskey also had some corn in it.

It wasnt balanced at all. Thats when I was inspired to blend in the fourth componentsome actual finished bourbon whiskey.

When I started my search, our team gave me access to nearly every barrel we had in storage. I tasted and tinkered with bourbon aged six and even nine years, trying to achieve just what I was looking for in my inaugural release. What I found was that blending in four-year-old bourbon did what those others could notensured that all ingredients could complement each other without a single piece overpowering the final taste profile.

I found the balance I was looking for. And with it, a new whiskey Im truly proud of.

Tasting Notes:

• Color: Rich Chestnut Brown
• Nose: Slight caramel with hints of grain and smokey wood
• Palate: Caramel and vanilla lead with toasted nuts and a hint of rye spice on the middle to back of your palate, while hints of corn grain come through towards the back of your palate
• Finish: Medium to long finish packed with flavor that is complex, approachable and easy to enjoy