Own a barrel.
Age it with us.
Pick a barrel out of our rickhouse and put your name on the side of it. Bottle it now at two years old, or sample it every year and call the moment yourself. You design the label and choose the glass; we handle the rest. It works out to a remarkably low cost per finished bottle.
What’s available right now.
Every barrel below is already aging in our rickhouse and past the two-year mark, so any of them can be bottled this year.
| Distillery | Fill date | Age today | Mash bill | Barrel | Min. order | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bardstown Bourbon Company | 9/5/2023 | — | 75 / 21 / 0 / 4 | ISC #4 | 1 barrel | Contact us |
| MGP | 1/29/2024 | — | 75 / 21 / 0 / 4 | Speyside #4 | 1 barrel | Contact us |
| Green River Distilling | 6/6/2024 | — | 70 / 21 / 0 / 9 | ISC #4 | 1 barrel | Contact us |
Mash bill shown as corn / rye / wheat / malted barley. Inventory turns — contact us to confirm what’s still available and to set up a tasting.
Six steps, and most of them are ours.
You choose the barrel and you tell us when it’s ready. The racking, the records, the insurance and the paperwork are our job.
Tell us what you’re after
Mash bill, age, proof, budget, and the date you have in mind. We come back with what’s actually on the floor that fits. Inventory turns, so it’s first come, first served.
Taste before you buy
We pull samples from the barrels on your short list so you’re choosing on flavor, not a spec sheet. Do it here, or we’ll get samples to you.
Reserve and take title
Once payment clears we issue your ownership certificate and record the barrel to you by serial number. That document is your title to that specific barrel.
We plate it and rack it
Your engraved plate goes on the side of the barrel. It’s racked in our bonded warehouse and logged into our barrel management system, tracked to its exact position.
Sample it. Visit it.
One pull per year with our notes on how it’s moving, plus an annual inventory report. Book a walk-through any time and stand in front of your own barrel.
Call the date
Two years, five years, ten — you decide when it’s ready. Nobody dumps your barrel until you say so.
You design the label. We bottle it.
Work with us on a custom label — or several, if you want different labels off the same barrel for different occasions. Pick your glass. We dump, bottle, label and handle the federal paperwork through our Barrel to Bottle program, then you collect the cases in Frankfort. Pickup or delivery gets coordinated with you.
Bottle it now, or let it ride.
Most programs make you wait four years for new fill. We sell out of barrels already aging on our floor, so you get to choose.
Bottle at two years
Every barrel on our floor is already past two years old. Buy one, put your name on it, and we can dump, bottle and label it this year — finished cases in your hands without a long wait.
This is the one for a wedding, a launch, a holiday gift run, or any date already on the calendar.
Sample it and pick your moment
Or leave it in the rick. Every year we pull you a sample and send the notes, and you decide when the whiskey is where you want it. Three years, six, twelve — there’s no forced dump date.
This is the one for a birth year, a long anniversary, or anybody who wants to taste the thing evolve before committing.
What comes with the barrel.
Not add-ons. This is the program.
An annual sample pull
Once a year we draw from your barrel, record the proof and volume, write up how it’s developing, and get it to you or hold it for pickup.
An engraved nameplate
Your name, your family’s, your company, a date — engraved and mounted on the side of the barrel before it goes in the rick. It’s what makes it yours.
Tours and visits
Bring your family, your clients, your bourbon group. We’ll take you to your rick and pull from your barrel while you’re standing there. By appointment.
Certificate of ownership and an annual report
Title recorded to you by serial number, plus a yearly stock take — proof, fill level, warehouse position and condition.
The barrel itself, when it’s empty
After we dump it, the barrel is yours if you want it — take the whole thing home with your engraved plate still on the side, or just the barrel head. Most owners hang one or the other. Either way you keep something physical off the barrel that made your bourbon, not just the bottles.
Where it sleeps.
Most barrel programs store your whiskey at somebody else’s facility and hope for the best. We own the rickhouse. It was purpose-built to mimic the prime middle floors of a traditional warehouse — the floors distillers fight over — so a barrel here isn’t gambling on where it landed.
104 Fortune Drive, Frankfort, Kentucky. Thirty-eight minutes from Louisville, twenty-five from Lexington.
More on the facilityOne price, all in.
Barrels differ by mash bill, age and proof, so there’s no list price — but the structure never changes, and you won’t get an unexpected invoice from us mid-term.
Do the per-bottle math.
That’s the number that actually matters. Spread across 200–250 finished bottles, a barrel comes out to a very affordable cost per bottle — and every one of them is single barrel, bottled under your own label.
And one price can cover all of it — the barrel, the full storage term, the insurance, and the bottling, glass and labels at the end. No annual storage bill, no separate line items, no surprises while it ages.
Request pricing and availability- The barrel itself, recorded to you
- Bonded storage for the full term
- Insurance for the full term
- Engraved nameplate
- One sample pull per year
- Annual inventory report
- Facility visits by appointment
- Custom label design — one or several
- Your choice of bottle glass
- Bottling, labeling and federal paperwork
- Pickup in Frankfort, or delivery coordinated
- The empty barrel or head afterward
The ones everybody asks.
When can I bottle it?
Whenever you want, as early as two years. We sell out of barrels already aging here and everything on our floor is past the two-year mark, so any of them can be dumped and bottled this year. If you’d rather wait, you wait — we pull you a sample every year and you call the date. There’s no forced dump.
Do I get to design the label?
Yes, and it’s the part most owners enjoy most. We work with you on a custom label — your name, your artwork, whatever the occasion calls for — and you choose the bottle glass. You can also run more than one label off a single barrel if you want part of it for a wedding and part of it for client gifts. Finished cases get picked up in Frankfort, or we coordinate delivery with you.
Can I take the barrel home?
Not while it’s full. Federal law keeps a filled barrel inside a bonded facility until it’s dumped, bottled and the tax is paid — that’s true of every barrel ownership program in the country. Once it’s empty, though, the barrel is yours: take the whole thing with your plate still on the side, or just the barrel head.
How many bottles will I end up with?
Roughly 200–250 at 750ml. The exact number depends on the barrel’s current fill level, the proof you bottle at, and how much longer it ages. We give you the volume in every annual report, so you’ll know well before you commit to a date.
What is the angel’s share and does it cost me?
Evaporation. Every barrel in Kentucky loses whiskey through the wood every year — most in the first year, less after that. It means fewer bottles at the end, and it’s also the reason aged whiskey tastes the way it does. Nobody can prevent it. What we can do is report your actual volume and proof every year so it’s never a surprise on dump day.
Is my barrel insured?
Yes — coverage is carried on the warehouse and included in your term price. [ ] CONFIRM: whether coverage is at market value or purchase price, and the per-barrel limit.
Is this an investment?
We don’t sell it as one. This is built for people who want to own a barrel, watch it age and eventually drink it — not for people looking for a return. We make no projections about what your barrel will be worth.
Tell us what you’re looking for.
Send this over and we’ll come back with what’s on the floor that fits, what it costs all in and per bottle, and when you could come taste it.
We reply to every inquiry. You must be 21 or older to participate.
Where your barrel lives
BC Bourbon Storage · 104 Fortune Drive, Frankfort, KY 40601 · DSP-KY-20146
Finished cases: pick up here, or delivery to be coordinated.
The legal part
Barrel ownership sits inside federal and Kentucky alcohol regulation. This is a working placeholder — the bracketed items need ABC counsel before this page goes live.
- Age
- You must be 21 or older to purchase or take part in this program.
- Possession of a filled barrel
- A filled barrel remains in our bonded facility until it is dumped, bottled and federal excise tax is paid. Owners do not take physical possession of a full barrel.
- Taxes and duties
- [ ] CONFIRM: how federal excise tax is calculated and collected at bottling, who remits it, and whether it sits inside or outside the quoted price.
- Kentucky volume limits
- [ ] CONFIRM with counsel: how KRS 243.0305 volume caps apply to an owner taking delivery of finished bottles, and what per-person or per-day limits govern pickup.
- Delivery of finished bottles
- [ ] CONFIRM with counsel: how finished bottles may leave the facility — pickup only, or coordinated delivery, and what license or carrier arrangement that requires.
- Resale and transfer
- [ ] CONFIRM with counsel: whether an owner may resell a barrel or finished bottles, and what licensure that would require.
- Label approval
- [ ] CONFIRM: COLA requirement and timing for personalized labels at bottling.
- No investment claim
- This program is offered as a collector and experience program. We make no representation about resale value, appreciation or return, and nothing here should be read as investment advice or an offer of a security.