American Barrels Bourbon

More whiskey flavor than bourbon, but very good either way

Visually, the bottle is amazing, the Gadsden rattler wrapped around an oversized shotgun shell is eye catching and I will admit that I bought it because of the bottle. The bourbon itself is meh at best. The color is more yellow than amber. The nose is okay, with a slightly woody smell. I was extremely disappointed in the taste. The tongue primarily picked up corn with some slight caramel and a big alcohol punch in the end. It was more like drinking a flavored moonshine than a bourbon. I am not a fan of technologically aged bourbon, and this one did not change my mind. I will drink it, and then use the bottle to hold better tasting bourbon in a less attractive bottle.

The nose of the whiskey smells of sweet corn mash extremely reminiscent of a white dog. It starts with corn, and quickly transitions into the scent of flour and is then overpowered by alcohol. It is not pleasant. On the palate there is a young woody flavor. The vanilla one might expect from a bourbon is not present. The flavor is also very grain forward. Again, the alcohol overpowers the rest of the profile. Aged too long to be a white dog, and not long enough to be a bourbon.

Very complex. Vanilla, caramel and very woody but has a very strong alcohol bite to it. A heavy aftertaste of grain alcohol is left instead of the flavors a bourbon should have.