In the first meeting of "The League of Rotund Men" finished Bourbon is put under the preverbal microscope.
Bourbon is a highly regulated category in the United States. With a number of legal criterias, one of which is the need to be aged in new charred oak containers. Now however with the booming popularity of bourbon finishing, it seems that there is an never ending increases of Bourbons finding their way into more unique finishing barrels.
Today as the current definition stands, any Bourbon that is transferred into a seconded barrel that isn't a new charred oak barrel, would not be legally a Bourbon. This is what leads us to our podcast topic. Should whiskeys that are finished be allowed to still hold on to the name Bourbon for labeling purposes?
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