Makers Mark Bourbon

Maker’s Mark is a wheated bourbon, replacing the more commonly used rye with wheat as the secondary grain in the mashbill. It’s made in batches of approximately 1,000 gallons (around 20 barrels at a time). Maker's Mark is one of the few distilleries to rotate the barrels from the upper to the lower levels of the aging warehouses during the aging process to even out the differences in temperature during the process. As a result, the flavor profile is relatively consistent from barrel to barrel. Each bottle is dipped in wax by hand, as opposed to using a machine. Incidentally, no two dippings are alike and sometimes a bottle is over-dipped which Maker’s Mark fondly refers to as a “slam dunk.”