Knob Creek Single Barrel Select Bourbon

6 Degree Urban Kitchen 14 yr barrel pick from Scottsdale Arizona purchased at Fry’s in Chandler, AZ. Really inviting nose of caramel, wood grain, and barrel spice. Big cherry bomb and aggressive oak in the palate with typical Beam peanut funk and cinnamon on the finish. 120 proof but no ethanol in the nose or palate. Miles above the standard SiB. It’s easy to taste the effect of the extra years on this one. Top notch juice.

Taste: Neat in glen cairn, 2 oz. pour. Binny's Pick, 120 proof barreled on 10/14/04, bottled on 9/4/18. Warehouse W-L floor 5. Nose: (4.0) Deep nose with ethanol let's you know this bourbon isn't playing. Once it dissipates some I get apple pie crust, caramel, french vanilla. The nose is much like some of the Booker's I have had, and I love those. Bluegrass immediately came to mind. Taste (4.5): It is rich with a creamy texture. This is on the sweeter side but has sime punch. I describe it as a boozy apple pie ala mode drizzled with caramel, then sprinkled with the familiar Beam peanutty flavor. Finish (4.25) I am digging it, but want more of it. Deep oak, smoke, butterscotch. Only complaint is that it is gone to quick. Overall: This is an example of Jim Beam product at its finest. It proves that to be really good it doesnt need to be really expensive. At 39.99 I would drink this over most bourbons 3x the cost.

So this is a very cool bottle of knob creek. 14 year aged barrel from sprayberry bottle shop. Barrel 8013 warehouse L floor 5 rack 21 tier 1. Barreled on 10/14/04 and selected on 10/18/18. 120 proof. Excellent smells of oak, vanilla and caramel. At 120 proof this needs ice to mellow. This bourbon has a great body and you feel like you want to chew it syrupy thick bodies caramel goodness. A slight pepper finish on the exhale with just a slight burn. This is a very vey good bourbon. Wish it was not one per person!

Review for Crown Liquors Barrel #7976 Warehouse W-W, Floor 2, Rick 50 Barreled on 2/11/2004 Selected on 10/2/2018 N: brown sugar, hints of corn and other grain, soft vanilla P: Softly sweet upfront, followed by Deep oak mid-palate with heat F: shorter with hints of pepper and cocoa, maybe even some tobacco Inital notes without any added water. You should add water. Nose opens up huge with fruit (cherries and oak), flavors smooth out and some vanilla comes through. Complex spirit, albiet rough around the edges Stars are for profile after adding water