Tom’s Foolery 10-Year-Old Ohio Straight Bourbon

Our Oldest Bourbon. No Foolin’.

Lost Lantern hand-selected this cask from Tom’s Foolery in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. The family-owned distillery uses traditional, labor-intensive methods, including wooden fermenters and pot still distillation, to make whiskey the way it used to be made. Their whiskies embody the cold, snowy climate of Ohio’s snowbelt.

Aged for 10 years in a 53-gallon barrel, this straight bourbon whiskey was made from 63% corn from their family farm, 10% winter rye, and 27% malted barley. It has notes of maple-drizzled cornbread, French vanilla, and warming oak spice on the nose, with hints of maple candies, chocolate syrup, and fresh-cut hay on the palate. Like a warm autumn day in a glass.

Tom’s Foolery is a small distillery, but it’s one of the few that has always planned on aging its whiskey for a longer period of time. They have released several single barrels on their own that are 10+ years old, and every single Tom’s Foolery release Lost Lantern has done has been the oldest single cask of that style of whiskey we’ve ever released (at least up until the launch of this Collection). This cask, our first-ever 10-year-old bourbon, is no exception.

2024 Single Cask #17: Tom’s Foolery 10-Year-Old Ohio Straight Bourbon Single Cask

Proof: 119.4
Age: 10 years
Quantity produced: 82 bottles
Format: 750mL
Details: Cask strength; Non-chill filtered; no color added

Cask Details

Mashbill — 63% corn from their family farm, 10% winter rye, and 24% Vienna barley malt, 3% two-row barley malt
Maturation Barrel Info — ISC Cooper’s Select, char 4
Barrel Entry Proof: 109.5 proof
Barrel Size — 53 gallons
Finishing Barrel Info — N/A
Length of Secondary Maturation/Finishing — N/A

Type: Single Cask
Pour: Neat
Glass: glencairn or snifter

About Tom’s Foolery

Located in Northeast Ohio, Tom’s Foolery is a family-owned distillery that makes whiskey using traditional, labor-intensive methods, including pot still distillation. The small distillery has nearly as much in common with the small farm distilleries scattered across Cognac and Normandy as it does with America’s bourbon tradition. The distillery even makes brandy! The entire process at Tom’s Foolery is deliberately hands-on and low-tech, every aspect of the process guided by experience and sensory evaluation rather than computers and spreadsheets. Their process is also connected to nature, and the distillery makes every effort to allow the regional climate–not far from the shores of Lake Erie, in an area with cold, snowy winters and temperate summers–to influence the whiskey as nature chooses.

Learn more about Tom’s Foolery