Light cinnamon | Hint of caramel | Brown sugar | Oak | Touch of clove | Classic aroma

Cinnamon spiced cake | Tree bark | Rye spice | Light vanilla syrup | Dab of raisin | Baking spices

Rye spice | Chewy oak | Leather | Cinnamon stick

O.H. Ingram differentiates itself in how they age their whiskey. The company ages their whiskey inside a floating former grain barrage converted to a 2-story rickhouse that is moored on the riverbank in Ballard County, Kentucky. The company states that O.H. Ingram River Aged “is the only whiskey in the world that spends its entire life on the Mississippi River – years of exposure to the microclimate and humidity of the river, along with its constant motion, creates complexity through a unique interaction between whiskey and oak.” For the 2024 release, Founder Hank Ingram and Master Blender Scott Beyer selected 6 barrels to make up this blend that spent 6 years and 6 months aging on the original floating rickhouses.

When I last visited O.H. Ingram’s River Aged bourbon in 2021, I found it to offer a pleasing sip. Fast forward a few years and a rare reduction in MSRP, and I find this year’s version to offer much of the same. The sip is full of classic bourbon notes on the front and backend, with the midpoint offering pleasing notes of cinnamon spiced cake, raisin, and vanilla syrup. While I can’t say I notice any difference having been aged on a river bank, the end result, nonetheless, offers a pleasing and relatively affordable bourbon for being a limited edition.

Editor's note: We incorrectly stated an unsourced Indiana distillery as the source at time of publication and have corrected the error.