Keeper's Select
The Prelude archival bottle
← The Chronicle

THE CHRONICLE · ARCHIVAL ARTIFACT

The Prelude

First PullOne BottleUnnumberedArchival Reference

The moment before Chapter I.

The Prelude was the first pull from the barrel that would become The Chronicle. It was taken primarily to test and confirm proof and to preserve a reference to the whiskey at the moment it came under the Keeper's watch.

There were no Keeper's Select bottles yet, so the whiskey went into an Old Fitzgerald 7 Year Bottled-in-Bond bottle. No formal release. No numbered run. No custom presentation. Just one bottle connecting what came before to what would come next.

It was never intended as a formal release. It is also no longer full. Some whiskey asks to be revisited.

THE KEEPER'S LOG

Before the first chapter.

The Chronicle barrel under the Keeper’s watch.
The Chronicle barrel under the Keeper’s watch.
The double-oaked barrel that became The Chronicle.
The double-oaked barrel that became The Chronicle.
The second-oak marking: March 11, 2024.
The second-oak marking: March 11, 2024.
The barrel head, carrying the record of its earlier life.
The barrel head, carrying the record of its earlier life.
Original barrel markings preserved in the archive.
Original barrel markings preserved in the archive.
A first look at the whiskey’s color.
A first look at the whiskey’s color.
The first archival bottle — before Keeper’s Select bottles existed.
The first archival bottle — before Keeper’s Select bottles existed.