Coopers' Craft Barrel Reserve 100 Proof Kentucky Straight Bourbon

Vanilla and baking spices on nose, baking spices follow through more to the palette than the vanilla. Medicinal cherry followed by a nice warm oak finish. A good bourbon, but in an odd price bracket.. Almost too high for a daily, not good enough of a value to justify constantly against others…

Light color, clean nose (mostly alcohol) Thin mouthfeel Mid palette baking spice / black pepper / cedar (tannic), quick finish with light Big Red chewing gum With small cube Light leather nose / maybe Tobacco With the cube it becomes almost lighter than water heavy cinnamon light vanilla again quick finish with of lavender and leather. The finish almost is drying in the mouth. Needs the cube to come alive but even at 100 proof it’s too thin to go much more than a single small cube too much ice and I think everything washes away. Interesting this Mash Bill: 72% Corn, 18% Rye, 10% Malted Barley because the baking spice / pepper is so strong I would have pegged this with more rye. Other reviews mention this as super complex with a medium mouth feel, but I just don’t see it. Overall easy drinker wouldn’t hunt for it but wouldn’t walk away.

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Think rich caramel chocolate cherries with a nice heavy oak. I’ve been trying to find this for a while bc of what I’ve read and I dig it.. The big difference to me is I don’t taste bananas as I usually do with brown Forman products. This is the first product that I don’t taste and instead taste a dark cherry. The finish is medium to short and the mouth feel is oily.. I can definitely taste the alcohol on this, but I’m no school boy, I embrace it. This stuff is another reason why I can’t get enough brown Forman whiskey. 89/100 cheers 🥃