Editor’s Note: This column is reposted with the permission of Chuck from his blog.

Picking up on our story from last week, about Beam Suntory’s plan to convert Baker’s Bourbon into a single barrel product, Gear Patrol predicted that “Jim Beam’s Forgotten Bourbon Brand Is About to Become a Whiskey Darling.”

Although Beam has produced some single barrel products as line extensions, most notably with Knob Creek, this will be the company’s first single barrel brand. As the name suggests, a single barrel whiskey is 100 percent the product of one barrel. The significance of a single barrel whiskey is that (read more)