Seeing as how I have only had single barrels of Fireside bourbon before, this is going to be my first experience tasting a batched product from them. It is made on a copper pot still, aged in #3 charred white oak barrels and has a mashbill of 70% corn, 20% rye and 10% chocolate malted barley all of which are sourced from Colorado.

Before I go too far into my review, I’m going to refresh your memories on some of the key specs of their bourbon. Along with all the laws that come with calling a bourbon by that term, the consumer can feel confident that the bourbon inside that bottle has met a variety of criteria including: being distilled during one season (a season is 6 months long in bourbon talk), aged for at least 4 years in bonded warehouses and then bottled at 100 proof.įireside bourbon has never been bottled at this proof before, but many of their single barrels come close. The Bottled in Bond designation is seen as a stamp of quality within the industry. It’s been four long years since Mile High Spirits began laying down barrels of whiskey to age in their own bonded warehouse in Denver, Colorado.ĭuring that time, they’ve patiently waited for it to come to age while selling sourced bourbon followed by younger versions of their own whiskies.īut now that some of their barrels have finally reached four years old, they are making a statement that “they have arrived” by releasing a bottled in bond bourbon to celebrate. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. After two live albums and a compilation album, their next studio album, Never Change, appeared in 2015.*Bourbon Culture is reader-supported. The original line up returned in 2005, doing shows in Chicago, Milwaukee and other Midwestern cities. Lloyd toured as the Marty Lloyd Band in 2000 with a group of musicians drawn from previous iterations of the Freddy Jones Band as well as members of Chicago group Sonia Dada.

Due to tensions between founding members Marty Lloyd and Wayne Healy, the group splintered in the winter of 2000, after having recorded an album with producer David Baerwald that was never issued. In 1998, bassist Jim Bonaccorsi and guitar/vocalist Rob Bonaccorsi left the band and were replaced by bassist Mark Murphy. Their song 'In A Daydream' peaked at #27 on the Mainstream Rock Chart in September 1994. Their self-titled debut was released independently and then by Capricorn Records followed by Waiting for the Night (1993), North Avenue Wake Up Call (1995), and Lucid (1997). Healy and Lloyd were the band's principal songwriters by 1991, in addition to occasional songwriter Rob Bonaccorsi, the band had been filled out as a five-piece by the addition of Jim Bonaccorsi and Simon Horrocks.

According to Rolling Stone, Marty Lloyd and Wayne Healy were also college students at Loyola University in Chicago. Wayne Healy and Marty Lloyd, who grew up together, began playing with high school classmate Jim Bonaccorsi while all three attended Holy Cross College near South Bend, Indiana. The Chicago Tribune stated that the band was founded in 1990. Despite the band's name, none of the bandmembers is named Freddy Jones according to a 1992 interview, guitarist Wayne Healy stated it was 'inspired by a big fat comic strip character named Freddy.' History Band members have cited as their influences Duane Allman, Eric Clapton, Little Feat, Mark Knopfler, and Bob Dylan. The Freddy Jones Band is a roots rock band from Chicago, Illinois.

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