Old Carter Batch 10 Straight Bourbon Whiskey 750ml completes one of the odder runs in modern small-batch bourbon: a 116.8 proof (58.4% ABV) barrel-strength Kentucky straight bourbon — the third consecutive batch at that identical strength — blended by Old Carter Whiskey Co., bottled uncut and non-chill filtered, with no age statement. The 2021 edition comprises 1,969 hand-numbered bottles of sourced Kentucky whiskey.
Three batches, three separate blends, one proof. The repetition looked so improbable that the brand's own release archive confirms it plainly: Batches 8, 9, and 10 all reached 116.8 on their own, no adjustment involved. For Mark and Sherri Carter, who bottle strictly at whatever strength the barrels deliver, the streak became an accidental demonstration of how steady their barrel selection had grown. Skeptics assumed a typo when the numbers first circulated; the archive's confirmation turned the trio into one of the brand's most repeated pieces of lore.
Batch 10 closed the busiest bourbon year in Old Carter's history — the fourth release of 2021 after Batches 7, 8, and 9 — and it did so at scale, with 1,969 bottles individually numbered. It is also the first bourbon batch to wear a double-digit number, a small milestone for a project that began three years earlier with a single Kentucky-only debut. Four batches in twelve months meant the blending bench never cooled, yet each 2021 release carries its own distinct character despite three of the four sharing a proof.
As the closing bracket of the 116.8 trio, Batch 10 gives collectors the satisfying final piece of the series' best conversation starter. Lined up with Batches 8 and 9, it completes a proof hat trick no blender could have planned; within the full dozen, it marks the end of the line's most prolific stretch and the turn toward the scarcer final releases.
Three batches, three separate blends, one proof. The repetition looked so improbable that the brand's own release archive confirms it plainly: Batches 8, 9, and 10 all reached 116.8 on their own, no adjustment involved. For Mark and Sherri Carter, who bottle strictly at whatever strength the barrels deliver, the streak became an accidental demonstration of how steady their barrel selection had grown. Skeptics assumed a typo when the numbers first circulated; the archive's confirmation turned the trio into one of the brand's most repeated pieces of lore.
Batch 10 closed the busiest bourbon year in Old Carter's history — the fourth release of 2021 after Batches 7, 8, and 9 — and it did so at scale, with 1,969 bottles individually numbered. It is also the first bourbon batch to wear a double-digit number, a small milestone for a project that began three years earlier with a single Kentucky-only debut. Four batches in twelve months meant the blending bench never cooled, yet each 2021 release carries its own distinct character despite three of the four sharing a proof.
As the closing bracket of the 116.8 trio, Batch 10 gives collectors the satisfying final piece of the series' best conversation starter. Lined up with Batches 8 and 9, it completes a proof hat trick no blender could have planned; within the full dozen, it marks the end of the line's most prolific stretch and the turn toward the scarcer final releases.