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

Tasting notes
Nose: This is sweet and oaky. At first there’s a vanilla rich oakiness surrounding a sweet and slightly dusty center part. There’s a nail polish remover note within and a minty note floating around on top. When it settles there’s a small liquorice note floating around, as well as tiny bread note. The vanilla rich oakiness really comes through as a nice frame to the whole. This is a nice nose. It’s an easy to access Bourbon with a lot of classic characteristics.

Mouth: It starts out with a very soft mix of cherries, oak and vanilla. The oakiness is really strong and makes everything a bit astringent and dries out the palate. Underneath it feels a bit rough and ethanol heavy, even though it’s very mild. The loquorice note pushes through after a while, but everything just gets overrun by the vanilla oakiness. It becomes slightly bitter in the back and the minty notes still floats around on top.

Finish: The tranisiton is the best part of the journey. There’s a mix of oak spices and black pepper increasing the spicyness and brings the vanilla and cherry notes with it for a short period before the heavy oak returns once again. The dust and a corn note also appears shortly before the oak and the liquorice notes takes over. The late finish is a bit too oaky and feels very unbalanced. It does deliver on its double oak promise. This is a good bourbon which delivers quite well on the set premises. It should work well in cocktails.

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.

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