Reference

Published mash bills of major American whiskeys

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Most mash bill tables online present every number as fact. Roughly half of them are estimates the distillery has never confirmed. This table says which is which.

How to read this

Published means the distillery states the recipe. Estimated means a widely reported enthusiast figure the distillery has not confirmed. Percentages are corn / rye / wheat / malted barley. A dash means no credible figure exists, and inventing one would be worse than leaving it blank.

Published by the distillery

• Four Roses, mash bill B: 60 / 35 / 0 / 5. Mash bill E: 75 / 20 / 0 / 5. Ten recipes across two bills and five yeasts.
• Maker's Mark: 70 / 0 / 16 / 14. Wheated.
• Old Forester and Woodford Reserve: 72 / 18 / 0 / 10, shared.
• Woodford Reserve Rye: 33 / 53 / 0 / 14.
• Wild Turkey: 75 / 13 / 0 / 12.
• Heaven Hill, standard bourbon: 78 / 10 / 0 / 12. Wheated (Larceny, Old Fitzgerald): 68 / 0 / 20 / 12.
• Jack Daniel's: 80 / 8 / 0 / 12. Rye: 18 / 70 / 0 / 12.
• George Dickel: 84 / 8 / 0 / 8.
• Bulleit Bourbon: roughly 68 / 28 / 0 / 4.
• MGP 95 rye (Bulleit Rye, Redemption Rye, George Dickel Rye, many sourced brands): 0 / 95 / 0 / 5.
• New Riff: 65 / 30 / 0 / 5. Rye: 95 rye, 5 malted rye.
• Wilderness Trail: 64 / 24 / 0 / 12. Wheated: 64 / 0 / 24 / 12.
• Garrison Brothers: 74 / 0 / 15 / 11.
• Frey Ranch: four grain, 66.8 / 11.4 / 10 / 11.8.

Widely reported, never confirmed

• Buffalo Trace mash bill 1 (Buffalo Trace, Eagle Rare, E.H. Taylor, Stagg): roughly 75 / 10 / 0 / 15, low rye. Mash bill 2 (Blanton's, Elmer T. Lee, Rock Hill Farms): roughly 74 / 12 / 0 / 14. Wheated (Weller, Van Winkle): roughly 70 / 0 / 16 / 14. Buffalo Trace has never confirmed any of these.
• Jim Beam standard (White Label, Knob Creek, Booker's, Baker's): roughly 77 / 13 / 0 / 10. High rye (Basil Hayden, Old Grand-Dad): roughly 63 / 27 / 0 / 10.
• Barton 1792: reported high-rye, roughly 74 / 15 / 0 / 11.
• Angel's Envy: roughly 72 / 18 / 0 / 10.

Not disclosed

Michter's, Willett's own distillate, most Barrell and Stellum blends, Uncle Nearest, Kentucky Owl, and many sourced or craft labels. Ryes from Beam and Wild Turkey are known only to be at or near the 51 percent legal floor, with the remainder unpublished.