Open the Bottle - Booker's Country Ham Uncut, Unfiltered Bourbon Whiskey from Jim Beam's Small Batch Collection. Is this finally the time Dan opens up a Booker's release and doesn't like it? Or, will it be delicious bourbon as usual? We open this bottle as part of Episode 10 of The Practical Still podcast where we ask the question if older whiskey is better whiskey, why are some of our favorite bottles of bourbon and rye whiskey fairly young? Booker's Small Batch bourbon is a perfect example of a consistently impressive bourbon that is less than 7 years old.