Booker's Bourbon

I am not a huge fan of the Jim Beam flavour (something about that peanut buttery yeast flavour throws me off, and it pervades so many of their products), but Booker's is as good as that flavour profile gets. And it's impressive that there's such a reasonably priced, widely available true barrel proof bourbon available on the shelves year round. This'll put hair on your chest, but the accompanying richness of flavour is worth it: huge cinnamon and baking spice, vanilla, red fruits and orchard fruits, maple syrup, a kind of meaty, bacon-y note (pork fat?), tobacco, cake batter, bitter orange. Damn beautiful whiskey, especially as the bottle sits open and some of the high-proof intensity fades a bit.

not for beginners.....