Booker's Bourbon Batch 2020-01 "Granny's Batch"

Side note: somewhat gratifying when you compile your tasting notes without reading any others on this site and when you go to post you see some similar flavors mentioned. Go taste buds! Neat. Glencairn. The nose is a close cousin to Knob Creek single barrel. The proof comes screaming out as cayenne-dusted corn. Lots of hay and musty barn wood, peanut brittle and bit of oak and barrel char. Appropriate for a bourbon like this but doesn’t quite stoke my fire. Palate is weighty. Definitely zippy but enjoyable neat. Initial wave is super dusty peanut shells, then sweetens nicely into honey water with cinnamon and char iodine. A bit of vegetal capsaicin and mint. Tingles and lingers nicely like an oak flavored cinnamon red hot. Seems to enhance the sweetness when left to air for a spell. Overall not terribly complex but pretty enjoyable corn syrup for grownups. Attempting to characterize this as an experience, it’s like the bougie high proof bourbon version of wandering into a Texas Roadhouse, skipping the steak and instead licking the peanut shells off a wood floor, biting a jalapeño, and then pounding the whole ramekin of that cinnamon honey butter and a scorching hot yeast roll. If that sounds like your kind of party I’d say grab a pour if you can still find one! Biggest knock is the significant price inflation for a bottle of bookers.

A hot mess

Really good!