BTAC Analysis: Sazerac 18

Next let’s look at Sazerac 18

Some things I see:

• The big news here is the large amount of time this release spent in stainless.  John Hansell was the one that originally found this out in his blog post where Mark Brown says it was tanked in 2005 and the first “tanked” release was in 2006.
• Toward the end of the tanked juice, the whiskey had spent up to 10 years in stainless.  The last “tanked” release was in 2015.
• Just like Stagg, the early barrels lived in warehouse “Q”

“Phases”

1. 2002-2005: These early years were all the stock they had from 18 years earlier.  In other words the 2000 release was from 1981 stock, etc…  It most all cases they appear to have been stored in warehouse “Q.”  The 1984 distillate was spread out over 3 years.  They didn’t release the barrel count then, but these might could have been relatively large releases because:
2. 2006-2015: All the barrels they had from spring of 1985 got put in stainless and were spread out over 10 years of releases.
3. 2016-2017: New BT distillate phase as the tanked distillate is gone.  The first two years here showed very high evaporation rates with the barrels being stored in the “K” warehouse on floor #2.  Somewhat strangely the barrel count didn’t increase with this new distillate.  Maybe BT is deciding to keep this one at a very low bottle count?