George T Stagg Releases and Proofs

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George T Stagg Releases and Proofs

Find your George T. Stagg release date & proof

George T Stagg releases happen once per year, usually in the Fall. They are always a high-proof, uncut-unfiltered barrel proof bourbon and their grand reputation has made them highly sought after, and since they are an allocated bourbon, it is difficult to get one at any price, let alone at MSRP.

Geroge T Stagg is also part of the Buffalo Trace Antique Collection which also includes Sazerac Rye 18 Year-Old, Wiliam Larue Weller, Thomas H. Hand, and Eagle Rare 17 Year-Old.

George T. Stagg the man was born in 1835 in Lancaster, Kentucky. In 1861 he enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War and eventually attained the rank of Captain.

After the war, Stagg became a whiskey salesman in St. Louis, and as fortune would have it, during a worldwide economic turndown, he had the funds to be able to help E. H. Taylor, Jr. out of a tight spot with his O.F.C. Distillery (Old Fire & Copper). For his financial support, Stagg became the president of Taylor’s two distilleries O.F.C. and Carlisle Distillery, and Taylor became vice president of the company, with Stagg owning 3,448 of 5,000 shares and Taylor owning the remaining 1552 shares.

They worked together for six years at which point E. H. Taylor, Jr. was tired of working with Stagg and was looking for a way out. In exchange for Taylor’s shares, Stagg offered to help him start a separate distillery of his own that became known as Old Taylor Distillery.

In 1812 the first US distillery was constructed by Harrison Blanton. In 1870 E. H. Taylor purchased it and gave it its first name, the O.F.C. (Old Fire & Copper) Distillery. After Stagg purchased the distillery, in 1890 the O.F.C. company was renamed as George T. Stagg and Co, but the distillery kept the O.F.C. name until in 1904 the distillery name was officially changed to George T. Stagg. And lastly, in August of 1999, the George T. Stagg Distillery was renamed the Buffalo Trace Distillery. Buffalo Trace released its first bottle of George T. Stagg Bourbon in 2002 and has released one every year since then except for 2021 when they felt that they didn’t have one that met their standards.

George T Stagg Releases and Proofs

YearProofAge
2023135.015 Yr
2022138.715 yr
2021 – not releasednana
2020130.415 yr
2019116.915 yr
2018124.915 yr
2017129.215 yr
2016144.115 yr
2015138.215 yr
2014138.116 yr
2013128.216 yr
2012142.817 yr
2011142.618 yr
2010143.017 yr
2009141.416 yr
2008141.815 yr
2007144.815 yr
2006140.615 yr
2005 Fall141.215 yr
2005 Spring Lot B: Nationwide131.815 yr
2005 Spring Lot A: Kentucky only130.915 yr
2004129.015 yr
2003142.715 yr
2002137.615 yr
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Tim
8 months ago

My favorite 🤩 🥃 🤤

Barry
1 minute ago

Looking forward to trying one some day

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