King Of Kentucky 14 Year Old Bourbon 2026 Release Single Barrel
The 2026 King of Kentucky is a 14-year-old Kentucky straight bourbon bottled at full barrel proof and non-chill filtered, released by Brown-Forman as just 99 individually selected single barrels.
Brown-Forman first used the King of Kentucky name in 1881 and brought it back in 2018 as an ultra-premium annual single-barrel release. Each year's allocation is small, each barrel is bottled on its own rather than batched, and every bottle carries its own barrel number, bottle number and proof — which is why collectors track King of Kentucky by individual barrel rather than by vintage alone.
The 2026 release steps down to a 14-year age statement from the 16-year bottlings of recent years, and arrives in a 700ml bottle. Its 99 barrels were pulled from two aging positions: 51 from Warehouse I, Floor 3 and 48 from Warehouse L, Floor 1. Those two environments age differently, so proof and intensity vary meaningfully from barrel to barrel across the release — the stated range is roughly 125 to 135 proof.
