Jim Beam reviews

Nose: a sweet, heady aroma. Baked goods, apple pie with cinnamon. Deeper down, oak char.Taste: big, full-bodied flavour starting with apple skin, moving into sweet spices and then the oak char, before…

Jim Beam black? More like Jim Beam bleck! Ok, ok...all silliness aside, I got this mainly to mix into old fashions and wasn't expecting much. This used to come with an age statement, but now it just…

The Jim Beam Harvest Collection is a limited release of six bourbons, each with a unique mashbill. All of the bourbons are at least 11yrs old and bottled at 90 proof. The collection offers a chance to…

We like a nicely mixed Manhattan at Casa Demoncase, and to do justice to a real Prohibition era Manhattan like we enjoyed in the Waldorf on our 10th wedding anniversary Rye is needed. Choices on this…

Cool marketing. Squeezing the extra whisky from the oak barrels. And the oak shows for sure. This is a noticeably strong whisky, and on the palate it's oak, oak and more oak. Some vanilla and cherry show…

A good value bourbon with a good dose of corn & smoke. The young age shows itself with some alcohol harshness but still a whiskey with some character. Good neat, better with ice, and a great mixer.

I've been meaning to write about one of my favorite mixing bourbons. I think Jim Beam Devil's Cut is the perfect cocktail bourbon. Is it blasphemous to some to ruin a perfectly good bourbon by adding a…

Nose: Lovely oak and some light spice undertones. The oak is the star of the show and is multidimensional. Barrel char, old wood, and green wood all join together in harmony. Taste: Again the wood comes…

This is a Straight Bourbon Whisky aged for up to 9 years (apparently). Then port is added to create an interesting little hybrid.* Nose: hugely sweet, banana sugar, candy floss (fairy floss), candy cane…

On January 13, 2015 Beam Suntory announced Jim Beam 'Pre-Prohibition Syle' Green Label Rye I was very very excited to learn that Beam/Suntory is replacing Jim Beam Yellow Label Rye, 40% abv, with a 45%…