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Coopers' Craft Barrel Reserve 100 Proof Kentucky Straight Bourbon
Bourbon — Kentucky, USA
Reviewed
May 30, 2021 (edited July 18, 2021)
Light color, clean nose (mostly alcohol)
Thin mouthfeel
Mid palette baking spice / black pepper / cedar (tannic), quick finish with light Big Red chewing gum
With small cube
Light leather nose / maybe Tobacco
With the cube it becomes almost lighter than water heavy cinnamon light vanilla again quick finish with of lavender and leather. The finish almost is drying in the mouth.
Needs the cube to come alive but even at 100 proof it’s too thin to go much more than a single small cube too much ice and I think everything washes away.
Interesting this Mash Bill: 72% Corn, 18% Rye, 10% Malted Barley because the baking spice / pepper is so strong I would have pegged this with more rye.
Other reviews mention this as super complex with a medium mouth feel, but I just don’t see it.
Overall easy drinker wouldn’t hunt for it but wouldn’t walk away.
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