ABV: 40 %
Origin: Kentucky, USA
Type: Straight Bourbon
Bottles in collection: 0
Emptied bottles: 2
Impression: 3/5

Tasting notes
Nose: This is powdered hard fruit candies and vanilla oak. At first, a vanilla and honey sweetness creates a layer up front. After a second or two a minty freshness emerges together with a dusty fruitiness with apples and cherries. It stays this way for a while, but patience rewards the nose with some caramel and a fresh oakiness. This is a mild and slightly uninteresting nose.

Mouth: At first, it’s dusty sweet corn and vanilla. The fruitiness arrives in increments, but it’s still apples and cherries. There’s a background layer of anise, dried herbs and a tiny hint of dill pickle. After a few seconds the oakiness completely takes over. It’s an extremely fresh oakiness, like newly planed wood.

Finish: The finish starts with a brief reaquaintance with the vanilla, honey and the fruitiness before it moves directly into the oakiness. There’s now a small bitter note piercing through, but it’s still the same oakiness as before. The vanilla comes through as sort of an umbrella sitting over the oak. This is a very mild middle of the road bourbon. There’s nothing especially offensive and nothing really interesting happening, but it still works as a go-to cheap bourbon.

Additional information
This is the best selling bourbon in the world. Beam Suntory won’t reveal the mash bill but it’s said to be 77 % corn, 13 % rye and 10 % malted barley. It’s aged for 4 years in new charred american oak barrels.

ABV: 43 %
Origin: Kentucky, USA
Type: Straight Bourbon
Bottles in collection: 1
Emptied bottles: 0
Impression: 3/5

Tasting notes
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Nose: Very mild, classic flavours. Vanilla, brown sugar, fruit, anis, sweet liquorice in the background. A hint of cinnamon. Very straight forward and pleasant.

Mouth: Hard fruit candies, powdered sugar, cinnamon, vanilla, and a hint of anis. Very nice mouthfeel.

Finish: Fruit candy and vanilla. The oak takes over and gives a nice, slightly astringent finish. Not very complex.

Additional information
Up until 2015 this had an 8 YO age statement and was called ”Double aged”. Now it’s supposedly about 6 years old, but no age is presented on the bottle. The mashbill consists of 77 % corn, 13 % rye and 10 % malted barley.

ABV: 50 %
Origin: Kentucky, USA
Type: Straight Bourbon
Bottles in collection: 1
Emptied bottles: 0
Impression: 4/5

Tasting notes
Nose: Vanilla, green apples, cherries, nail polish remover, honey and dusty oak. Very aromatic. There’s a chalk note in the background.

Mouth: Starts out very mild with the fruity notes up front. Assorted hard fruit candy, powdered sugar, cinnamon, vanilla. Astringent oak with a hint of pecan nuts. Anis, liquorice and a general rye note surrounds the edges.

Finish: A burst of spicyness leads way but turns over to a mix of the fruit candy and rye spices. The oak is very astringent and leaves a dusty note in the back.

Additional information
This small batch straight bourbon is made to replicate bourbon as it was before prohibition. It’s made from a mash bill consisting of 75 % corn, 13 % rye and 12 % barley. It’s aged in heavily charred barrels to create a fuller flavour.

ABV: 43 %
Origin: Kentucky, USA
Type: Finished Straight Bourbon
Bottles in collection: 1
Emptied bottles: 0
Impression: 3/5

Tasting notes
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Nose: Dusty corn, vanilla, brown sugar, fruits, anis, cinnamon and a hint of sweet liquorice.

Mouth: Watery, fruit candy, powdered sugar, cinnamon, vanilla and a hint of anis. The oak influence is present and makes it astringent.

Finish: Cinnamon and vanilla. The oak takes over and gives an astringent clear oak finish.

Additional information
This version of Jim Beam was released in 2016 and is aged for 4 years, then put into new barrels for some time to create extra wood flavours. The mashbill consists of 75 % corn, 13 % rye and 12 % malted barley.