Old Grand-Dad Bonded Bourbon

Grape, plum, overripe apple. Oak soot

Sweet smelling, carries over on the taste. Smoothe and flavourfull taste. Goes down smooth but boy does it have a kick as it hits bottom! Ill but again!

Continuing to work through whiskies in my collection that I’ve yet to review. I would’ve liked to have done this with my Budget Bottled-In-Bond Bourbon Showdown (September 24, 2023). Color is a clear amber, like Pantone 144. Nose shows sweet corn, orange creamsicle, apple cider, rye spice, and vanilla. Third or fourth time around, also some peanut brittle. Palate has a very light creaminess, with some additional corn sweetness and circus peanuts (the marshmallowy candy—especially when exhaling through the nose with your mouth closed—not the aforementioned actual peanut candy), then picking up some oak, vanilla, and char. Not surprisingly, Old Grand-Dad Bonded drinks like a softer version of Old Grand-Dad 114, which I’ve always liked. Given its high-rye mashbill, I’m a little surprised by the corn prominence on the nose and palate. I need to review this against both OGD 114 and the two corn whiskies that I currently have in inventory (Mellow Corn and Balcone’s Baby Blue), as well as the aforementioned budget bottled-in-bond bourbons. Old Grand-Dad Bonded can be found for under $25. Would I buy it again? Yes. It’s only about $5 cheaper than OGD, but it drinks a little easier, and there’s intrinsic value in inexpensive bottled-in-bond bourbon, assuming it tastes good. 3.5 on the Distiller scale. 100 proof. NAS (but at least 4 years due to its Bottled-in-Bond designation). Mashbill: 63% corn, 27% rye, 10% malted barley. N.B.: All spirits tasted neat in a Glencairn glass.