Trader Joe's High Rye Bourbon

Purchased Oct 2020. It does what it says - high rye - but doesn’t have anything else. The nose has a strong turpentine smell. The taste at least has a good high spice, but is quite harsh. Hard to find other flavors here. The finish lingers a long time, but it’s the bad aspects that stay. I’ll have to try this in a mix or two. Stay well away from it as a straight pour. After TJ’s offered a suprisingly good $15 straight bourbon, i thought this was worth a shot. Deep disappointment.

Some fellow customer at Trader Joes told me this was a great value and suckered me in to buying this stuff. It's truly the worst bourbon I've ever had. I couldn hardly finish it even mixed to make an old fashioned. I'm going to try cooking with it and if that doesn't work, I'll pour it on on some overgrown bushes that I need removed. If you are considering this I suggest keeping your cash until a slightly cool evening and then lighting it on fire for warmth. In the end, you'll be better off.

Yikes. Not sure what happened here. Chemical nose. Nothing in the front and rye spice on the finish.

Just awful. Young, cheap, not even good mixed. Silly purchase.

This is rough. I hate wasting, so it won’t be dumped out, but it’s going to takes lots and lots of Dr. Pepper to cover up this mistake of a purchase