Maker’s Mark wood finishing series
Makers Mark Wood Finishing Series Releases and Proofs
Batches & Proofs
The Maker’s Mark Wood Finishing Series began in 2019 and ended in 2023 (see next paragraph), with a total of 7 different batches released. Each bourbon in the series used 10 custom oak staves of varying types and combinations to create different flavor profiles. The oak staves that were used were Virgin American Oak and Virgin French Oak. For some batches they were toasted, other batches were not toasted, sometimes toasted on one side and raw on the other, and sometimes heat-treated in two different ways to extract different flavor profiles.
In 2023 they retired the Wood Finishing Series, but in 2024 they revived it with a new direction. According to Maker’s Mark, The Heart Release is meant to showcase the “unique taste vision inspired by the distillery team.”
All Maker’s Mark bourbons are wheated bourbons (70% corn, 16% wheat, 14% malted barley).
Makers Mark Wood Finishing Series Batches & Proofs
| Batch | Date | Proof | Stave Profile |
| The Heart | 2024 | 107-114 | Finished with 2 types of virgin French Oak Staves |
| BEP | 2023 | 110.7 | American Oak staves, 110 proof entry into the barrels |
| BRT-02 | 2022 | 109.4 | French Oak staves, bottom of the rickhouse |
| BRT-01 | 2022 | 109.4 | American Oak staves, top of the rickhouse |
| FAE-02 | 2021 | 109.1 | Double heat-treated (with infrared, then a flame) French Oak |
| FAE-01 | 2021 | 110.6 | Single-Toasted (one side) French Oak |
| SE4 x PR5 | 2020 | 110.8 | 2 stave profiles, one accentuating vanilla, the other, caramel |
| RC6 | 2019 | 108.2 – 110.5 | A cryptic proprietary stave profile of “RC6” |
Would like to see this updated to include the recent releases.
I added the newest Wood Finishing Series bottle “The Heart Batch”. I believe that is the only one missing from the series at this point. They also have the Cellar Aged line and now apparently a new line titled “Lost Recipes” with one release of that so far.