Wild Turkey Master's Keep

A Decade of Master's Keep

The series began with a storage problem. In 1997 Wild Turkey had more bourbon than warehouse space, and the barrels that were moved off-site came back seventeen years later at a lower strength than they went in — which became the 86.8-proof debut of 2015, the release that started everything. What was meant as one bottling turned into a decade. the anniversary blend of 10- to 20-year stock followed for Eddie Russell's thirty-fifth year at the distillery, then the bottling Australia kept to itself — the single export edition, never sold in America, and the reason the count reads ten at home and eleven worldwide. Sherry, toasted oak and Jamaican rum casks each had a turn; the run's first rye, from 2019 brought rye into the collection, and the only bonded bottling in the series took the debut's seventeen years to the statutory 100 proof. Beacon, the 118-proof finale closed the decade in September 2025, the first release signed by both Eddie and Bruce Russell. The ledger below lists all eleven in order; our release-by-release dossier in The Vault Journal carries the longer account of each, and the collection sits inside the Russell family shelf at Midnight Whiskey.

How the Series Divides Every Master's Keep Release, Year by Year

The table below matches the exact release record from our Vault Journal dossier, styled in each release's official packaging colors.

Ages and strengths are as stated by the distillery. Whether the Cornerstone label carries a nine-year age statement is disputed between published sources, so the ledger lists its component ages instead; Decades is dated to the distillery's February 2017 announcement, which some later retrospectives record as 2016.

A Decade of Master's Keep

The series began with a storage problem. In 1997 Wild Turkey had more bourbon than warehouse space, and the barrels that were moved off-site came back seventeen years later at a lower strength than they went in — which became the 86.8-proof debut of 2015, the release that started everything. What was meant as one bottling turned into a decade. the anniversary blend of 10- to 20-year stock followed for Eddie Russell's thirty-fifth year at the distillery, then the bottling Australia kept to itself — the single export edition, never sold in America, and the reason the count reads ten at home and eleven worldwide. Sherry, toasted oak and Jamaican rum casks each had a turn; the run's first rye, from 2019 brought rye into the collection, and the only bonded bottling in the series took the debut's seventeen years to the statutory 100 proof. Beacon, the 118-proof finale closed the decade in September 2025, the first release signed by both Eddie and Bruce Russell. The ledger below lists all eleven in order; our release-by-release dossier in The Vault Journal carries the longer account of each, and the collection sits inside the Russell family shelf at Midnight Whiskey.

How the Series Divides Every Master's Keep Release, Year by Year

The table below matches the exact release record from our Vault Journal dossier, styled in each release's official packaging colors.

Ages and strengths are as stated by the distillery. Whether the Cornerstone label carries a nine-year age statement is disputed between published sources, so the ledger lists its component ages instead; Decades is dated to the distillery's February 2017 announcement, which some later retrospectives record as 2016.