Batch 3 is built entirely on the distillery's celebrated low-rye mash platform—the exact grain recipe shared with legendary expressions like **George T. Stagg**, separated fundamentally by barrel age parameters—distilled at DSP-KY-113 in **Frankfort, Kentucky**, and matured inside the brick-and-wood walls of Colonel Taylor's century-old warehouses. The 2014 vintage carries zero age statement and was packaged straight to glass completely uncut and unfiltered at 129.0 proof.

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What proof is E.H. Taylor Barrel Proof Batch 3?

Batch 3 is bottled at 129.0 proof (64.50% ABV), uncut and unfiltered — the first E.H. Taylor Barrel Proof to come in under 130. Because the 2022 batch is also 129.0, the proof alone doesn't separate them; the laser code does, and Batch 3 reads L14 for 2014. The number is whatever the barrels yielded.

How do you tell E.H. Taylor Barrel Proof Batch 3 from the 2022 batch?

Both the 2014 Batch 3 and the 2022 Batch 11 were bottled at 129.0 proof, so the proof alone won't separate them — they're told apart by the laser code etched near the base of the bottle. The first characters give the bottling year: Batch 3 reads L14, the 2022 release reads L22. Batch 3 is the earlier and scarcer of the two, the third release in the line.