🥃🥃 Tasting Notes
Appearance:
Deep amber with dark copper and mahogany highlights, suggesting substantial interaction with its heavily toasted secondary oak.
Aroma:
Rich and immediately dessert-driven with burnt brown sugar, toasted oak, dark chocolate, and smoked vanilla.
As the whiskey opens, additional notes of cinnamon pastry, cocoa, caramelized sugar, roasted nuts, and warm baking spice emerge from underneath the initial wave of toasted oak.
Palate:
Bold, concentrated, and richly textured:
Dark caramel provides deep sweetness
Smoked vanilla adds richness
Cocoa introduces bittersweet chocolate
Graham cracker contributes toasted cereal sweetness
Burnt brown sugar creates concentrated caramelization
Pecan adds roasted nut character
Cinnamon provides warming spice
Rye contributes pepper and additional structure
Heavy toast creates deep caramelized wood flavors
Char #5 introduces darker oak and char
Dried cherry adds a subtle fruit component
110 Proof provides substantial weight
Barrel-strength bottling preserves concentration and texture
Finish:
Long, warming, and intensely toasted with dry cocoa, roasted marshmallow, espresso, caramelized sugar, cinnamon, oak char, and lingering baking spice.
The sweeter flavors gradually recede as toasted wood, chocolate, coffee, and spice remain on the palate.
Penelope Magic Toast Barrel Strength Toasted Bourbon takes everything bourbon drinkers enjoy about toasted-barrel whiskey and turns up the intensity.
Its combination of mature bourbon, a 75/21/4 mash bill, Char #5 Heavy Toast secondary oak, and 110 Proof barrel-strength bottling produces a whiskey centered around deep caramelization rather than simple sweetness.
Expect brown sugar, smoked vanilla, dark chocolate, graham cracker, pecan, roasted marshmallow, espresso, spice, and deeply toasted oak wrapped around a powerful high-rye bourbon foundation.
For enthusiasts of Penelope Bourbon, barrel-strength whiskey, toasted bourbon, double-oaked styles, and intensely oak-driven limited releases, Magic Toast is designed to deliver exactly what its name suggests: maximum toast, maximum flavor, and serious barrel-strength intensity.
Description
Penelope Magic Toast Barrel Strength Toasted Bourbon (750mL) — 6 Year | 110 Proof | Char #5 Heavy Toast | Limited Release
Turn up the toast with Penelope Magic Toast Barrel Strength Toasted Bourbon, a bold limited release that takes Penelope's popular toasted-barrel concept and pushes it into darker, richer, and more intensely caramelized territory.
Crafted from a three-grain mash bill of 75% corn, 21% rye, and 4% malted barley, Magic Toast begins with mature straight bourbon before undergoing a secondary maturation in a specially treated barrel featuring an aggressive Char #5 and Heavy Toast combination.
That secondary oak treatment is the heart of Magic Toast.
Heavy toasting works deep into the oak to develop concentrated flavors of brown sugar, vanilla, cocoa, graham cracker, roasted marshmallow, and caramelized wood, while the Char #5 treatment brings another dimension of char, spice, and structure.
And rather than proofing the whiskey down to a more conventional strength, Penelope bottles Magic Toast at a powerful 110 Proof (55% ABV).
The result is exactly what the name promises: a bigger, darker, more intense expression of toasted bourbon, loaded with burnt brown sugar, smoked vanilla, dark chocolate, toasted oak, pecan, baking spice, marshmallow, and espresso.
🥃 Product Details
Type: Straight Bourbon Whiskey
Brand: Penelope Bourbon
Expression: Magic Toast
Series: Toasted / Private Batch
Country: United States
Distilled: Lawrenceburg, Indiana
Bottle Size: 750mL
Age: 6 Years
Mash Bill: 75% Corn, 21% Rye, 4% Malted Barley
Secondary Maturation: Toasted American Oak
Toast Level: Heavy Toast
Char Level: Char #5
Proof: 110 Proof
ABV: 55%
Bottling: Barrel Strength / Uncut
Release: Limited Release / Private Batch
Character: Burnt Brown Sugar, Smoked Vanilla, Cocoa, Graham Cracker, Pecan, Toasted Marshmallow, Espresso & Heavily Toasted Oak
🥃 What Makes “Magic Toast” Different?
Penelope has become particularly well known for experimenting with the relationship between bourbon and toasted oak.
Magic Toast takes that concept considerably further.
After the bourbon's primary maturation, the whiskey receives additional oak influence through a secondary barrel utilizing a Char #5 Heavy Toast treatment.
Toasting and charring don't affect oak in exactly the same way.
Extended heat from heavy toasting breaks down compounds deeper within the wood, helping develop sweeter and richer flavors reminiscent of vanilla, caramelized sugar, chocolate, baking spice, and roasted nuts.
Charring creates an intensely heated surface layer, contributing additional structure, char, and deeper barrel character.
Magic Toast combines both techniques.
The result is a bourbon deliberately built around the darker side of toasted American oak.
🥃 110 Proof Barrel Strength
The secondary barrel treatment would be interesting on its own, but Magic Toast adds another important element:
110 Proof.
At 55% ABV, the bourbon retains substantial concentration and texture.
Instead of hiding the secondary oak influence behind dilution, the elevated proof allows its flavors to remain intense—delivering dark caramel, vanilla, cocoa, spice, char, and toasted wood in a rich, full-bodied package.
A few drops of water can dramatically change the experience, opening sweeter vanilla, chocolate, fruit, and baking-spice characteristics underneath the heavier oak.
🥃 A High-Rye Bourbon Foundation
Magic Toast uses a mash bill of:
75% Corn
Provides the bourbon's foundational caramel and grain sweetness.
21% Rye
A relatively substantial rye component that contributes pepper, cinnamon, and baking-spice structure.
4% Malted Barley
Supports fermentation while adding underlying grain and malt character.
The rye is particularly important here.
Without it, the combination of mature bourbon and heavy toasted oak could become overwhelmingly sweet. The 21% rye component provides enough spice and structure to balance the caramelized character of the secondary barrel.
⭐ Why You'll Love It
- Limited Penelope Bourbon release
- Private Batch expression
- Mature straight bourbon
- 6-year age statement
- Bottled at barrel strength
- Powerful 110 Proof
- 55% ABV
- Three-grain bourbon mash bill
- 75% corn
- 21% rye
- 4% malted barley
- High-rye bourbon profile
- Secondary oak maturation
- Char #5 barrel treatment
- Heavy Toast barrel treatment
- Darker and richer than a conventional toasted bourbon
- Burnt brown sugar sweetness
- Smoked vanilla character
- Dark cocoa and chocolate notes
- Graham cracker richness
- Toasted pecan and nutty character
- Roasted marshmallow sweetness
- Espresso notes through the finish
- Warm cinnamon and baking spice
- Deep caramelized oak
- Excellent option for fans of toasted and double-oaked bourbon
- Bold enough for experienced barrel-proof bourbon drinkers
- Limited-release appeal for Penelope collectors
🍽️ How to Enjoy
Magic Toast's combination of proof and heavily toasted oak makes it especially rewarding to explore several ways:
- Sip neat at room temperature
- Serve in a Glencairn or bourbon tasting glass
- Allow 10–15 minutes to open
- Taste the first pour at its full 110 Proof
- Add several drops of water to release additional sweetness
- Serve over one large cube for a softer experience
- Use in a rich Barrel Strength Old Fashioned
- Excellent in a Manhattan
- Pair with grilled ribeye
- Enjoy alongside smoked brisket
- Pair with barbecue
- Excellent with toasted pecans
- Pair with aged cheddar
- Enjoy with dark chocolate
- Pair with s'mores or toasted marshmallow desserts
- Excellent alongside chocolate cake or bread pudding
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