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Classification: Straight Bourbon Finished in a Used Bourbon Barrel
Company: Two Souls Spirits
Distillery: Sourced from an undisclosed Michigan Distillery
Release Date: November 2025
Proof: 130.34
Age: 5 Years (Company website states 5 years, 8 months, 11 days)
Mashbill: 52% Corn, 27% Malted Barley, 17% Wheat, 4% Rye
Color: Mahogany
SRP: $80 / 750mL (2025)
Cinnamon bundt cake | Brown sugar | Light oak | Syrup soaked raisins | Spiced molasses | Rich aroma
Blackcurrant | Dark berries | Cinnamon spice | Tobacco leaf | Charred oak | Vanilla | Cinnamon toast | Leather
Syrup-soaked raisins | Charred oak | Leather | Tart dark berries | Light cinnamon syrup | Allspice | Faint concord grape | Lingering sweet spice
Two Souls Double Barreled Bourbon “Professional Bear Rasslin” is a delicious double barrel bourbon that focuses on rich, sweet flavors from start to finish.
Two Souls Spirits is an independent bottler headed by James Estrada and Karen Gentry. Known as “The Whiskey Doctor,” Estrada has written for Bourbon Sippers and co-hosts the Whiskey Uncut Podcast. For the company’s latest release, they highlight a single barrel bourbon that has criss-crossed the country.
Distilled at an undisclosed Michigan distillery, the barrel was originally owned by Manifest Distilling in Jacksonville, Florida. The barrel was aged for 3 years in the Sunshine State, before Two Souls purchased it and brought it up north to Wisconsin to continue aging for a little over 2 additional years. The company then finished the bourbon for 4 months and 11 days in a used J. Henry and Sons Road’s End barrel.
An incredibly rich aroma wafts out of the glass to kick things off. Cinnamon bundt cake, brown sugar, and syrup-soaked raisins steal the show as they stop and make you linger on their scents before diving in further. Once you progress, the midpoint reveals familiar flavors and adds in blackcurrant and dark berries, along with charred oak, tobacco leaf, and leather, that remind you of the bourbon's double-barreled nature. Ending on a fantastic amalgamation of spice, rich syrup-soaked raisins, and charred oak, the finish lingers, allowing you to enjoy the flavors present before they slowly fade away.
“Professional Bear Rasslin” is incredibly flavorful considering the relatively young age of the bourbon. Being finished in a used bourbon barrel helped add depth, while the wildly different aging environments between the humid heat of Florida and the cold of Wisconsin added their own touch to the final outcome. This is a really excellent showing from Two Souls and a nice reminder of how well environmental aging experiments can turn out.
The bourbon in review is bottle number 70 of 174 from barrel #PBR1.
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