Category Archives: Jim Beam
Knob Creek 9yo, cask 3127, 60% – K&L Wine Merchants
There’s about a bazillion Knob Creek single casks out and about, mostly in America. Unfortunately they’re mostly not available in Europe, but sometimes I somehow get a sample from one. Also, now I’m thinking about it, I think all the … Continue reading
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Knob Creek 9yo, Cask 3080, 60% – OB for K&L Wines
September is Bourbon Heritage Month, apparently. For us outside of the USA it doesn’t mean anything and I’m not even sure it’s still a thing stateside. Anyway, I thought it was a good excuse to review a bourbon that I … Continue reading
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Jim Beam Honey, 35%
A sample of this has been sitting in my cupboard for, I think, a few years now. I got it from BG, a whisky buddy who’s a huge Jim Beam fan and obviously had this on his shelf. Technically, I … Continue reading
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Bottoms Up!
Tonight a couple of friends and I are going to try and get my open-bottle-count down somewhat. Since I’ve been trying to do this on my own last year I found that a) it doesn’t work that well, and b) … Continue reading
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Beam, Straight up – Fred Noe
Fred Noe, the seventh generation of master distillers at Jim Beam in Kentucky wrote a book about his life and the brand. The book tells his story, a lot about his father (the legendary Booker Noe) and short insights in the … Continue reading
Old Crow, 6yo, 43%, Traveler’s Fifth
This wee bottle of bourbon is older than I am. It was bottled somewhere in early the 1970s, based on the Italian tax seal on it. I like old bourbons like this, but since this kind of stuff has been … Continue reading
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Baker’s 7
Enige tijd geleden is er op http://www.levenswater.nl een bourbon bottle-share georganiseerd. Daar heb ik toentertijd het idee vandaan gepikt om hetzelfde met Schotse whisky te doen. In dit geval ging het om 14 ‘bourbons’. Uiteindelijk waren het 14 Amerikaanse whiskey’s, waaronder … Continue reading
Jim Beam Signature ‘Six Grains’
Ik heb via Facebook een sample van mijn WhistlePig whiskey geruild voor een sample van de Jim Beam Signature ‘Six Grains’. De six grains is gemaakt van zes graansoorten, dus heel wat anders dan Single Malt! De gebruikte graansoorten zijn … Continue reading
Fighting Cock
Oftewel, de Kemphaan. Een product van de Heaven Hill distilleerderij in Kentucky. Recentelijk nog benoemd tot Super Stunner door Bert Bruyneel van de Malt Maniacs en met een euro of 20 voor een fles klopt dat zeer zeker. Het is … Continue reading
Malt Fascination 