Old Tub Kentucky Straight Bourbon

Solid for $20. Typical bourbon notes of vanilla, orange, and oak. This one tasted better as it opened up in my glass. You get a bit of that Beam nuttiness along with some orange zest on the palate. It tasted best when the bottle was half full

Peanut butter and honey sandwich.

Nose: Solid combination of charred oak, dusty corn, vanilla, and a sprikling of brown sugar. Natural, chunky peanut butter. Touches of apricot, peach, banana, and strawberries buried way deep. Worn leather, tobacco, cocoa. Sandalwood and cedar. Just a touch of wet cardboard, but again, buried pretty deep. Clove, anise, and fennel. Black pepper. This leans away from the sweeter side, offering a great example of what bourbon can be on the other end of the spectrum. Buttermilk biscuits. Under-ripe banana. Palate: Consistent with the nose - charred oak, dusty corn, vanilla, and some brown sugar. We're now dealing with roasted, salted peanuts. Apricot jam, honey, butter, all on top a buttermilk biscuit. Tart cherries. Leather. Tannin. Apple pie with extra spices. Definitely plenty of midrange. Mid-palate focused. Medium-light mouthfeel with good oil content. Finish: A combo of that oak, char, and smoke alongside some ethanol heat. As the oak settles in, clove, nutmeg, pepper, anise, etc fade in. The tannin comes back to play, offering some good bitterness as contrast. Medium length. Other notes: This has quickly become my favorite budget bottle and one I may need to really stock up on if Beam decides it should stay a limited release. This occupies a similar space as Knob Creek, offering plenty of that mid-proof punch while dialing back on the complexity and depth. If it doesn't go the way of the dodo, I'll definitely try to keep at least one bottle on hand. Otherwise, I need to find some storage space somewhere in this house. Highly recommend.

Color is a light golden honey. The initially nose of dusty nuttiness turns to a sweet peanut brittle, caramel and toffee, a perfume note also develops after a few drinks. Front of the palate is slightly sweet but a little flat. Fresh grass or hay suggests this is a young whiskey but it does have a nice oak and char note giving it a very earthy type palate, towards the back end an ethanol or alcohol note is there in the form of bitterness and tang. Cool label, cool story and a good bourbon for $20.