Knob Creek Single Barrel Select Bourbon

Generic burbon. Sweet, caramel, vanilla, molasses, brown sugar. Wet, not dry like rye.

Slight vegetal taste that I can't shake. W-E, F-06, R 045

I've had select 16 year, 15 year, and 14 year. All 3 of them were absolutely amazing. Not only were the notes of spice unique to each bottle, all in their own right, yet at the same time sharing the common ground that you expect to find in Knob Creek. I will always buy any single barrel select I find due the consistent high quality, high content bourbon that maintains nice, invigorating notes of spice while delivering on a clean and smooth heat as an after affect.

Grainy

Nose: Love the nose on this one; baked goods with carmel and a hit of vanilla, with some oakiness. Taste: First sip was quite spicy (expected at this proof) but had a great buttery, Carmel flavor with a slow burn. The second sip opened up with some toasted nutty flavor, more Carmel, vanilla, and a bit of banana? Am I getting that right? Crazy. Value: At $40-ish this is a monster value. I can see this neat, opened up with some water or ice, and killer with Old Fashioneds or Whisky Sour.

I prefer standard knob creek

Oh yeah

Very strong alcohol nose with some spice. Lots of bite, not sweet. Never found the chocolate and banana notes I read I should get, but that’s prolly me. Put the last 8oz of the bottle into some Xmas Day sours and the 60% abv stood up to the sweet and tart of my sour mix very well.