In addition to the annual release of the Old Forester Birthday Bourbon, this fall the folks at Brown-Forman will be releasing an entirely new whiskey called Old Forester Repeal Bourbon. Here’s the information I just received on it:

Old Forester Repeal Bourbon celebrates the 75th anniversary of the repeal of prohibition. The bottle will come in a gift pack along with a scroll of the 21st amendment which repealed prohibition. The bottle will be a 375ml bottle, the only size bottles could be produced during prohibition for medicinal purposes. Old Forester is the only bourbon still in existence today that was produced before, during and after Prohibition.  No other bourbon brand sold in the U.S. today can make that claim.  

I asked my Brown-Forman contact if it will be the same whiskey as the standard Old Forester but just in a different bottle, and here was the response:

It is actually completely different inside. In the words of (Master Distiller) Chris Morris, “it is an Old Forester that has more of a robust aged character that is similar to the Old Forester that was bottled during prohibition.”

There is no age claim on the bottle, but all of it was taken from at least a 10-year old sample. It will be 100 proof and will come in a gift pack only that will include a prohibition scroll, an Old Forester snifter and an Old Forester pen.  

This sounds very exciting. And it will be great to compare this Old Forester bourbon to the others in the Old Forester family. When my review sample arrives, I’ll taste it and pass on my thoughts.