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Booker's Bourbon Batch 2019-03 "Country Ham"
Bourbon — Kentucky, USA
Reviewed
August 20, 2021 (edited August 21, 2021)
Nose - toasted banana, powdered sugar, marshmallow, peanut, dusty corn, cherry, apple, milk chocolate, dulce de leche, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, sweet oak, brown sugar, moderate to high ethanol burn.
Taste - apple, cherry, banana, cinnamon, leather, allspice, black pepper, peanut, sour oak, milk chocolate, caramel, brown sugar, vanilla, moderate to high alcohol bite, finishing medium short with peanut, banana, leather, and sour oak flavors.
It’s been a while since I’ve had a Beam product. I missed that peanuty goodness. The nose is really nice. Something like a mix between bananas foster and funnel cake with baked cinnamon covered apples on top. The palate is solid but not quite as good. The peanut note is strong, with equally strong baking spices, chocolate and disappointingly, some sour oak flavors as well.
Overall, this is good bourbon. If the flavors were more well integrated, it could be great bourbon. Poured next to my Beaten Biscuits batch, the nose is better on this one, but the palate is markedly inferior. The Beaten Biscuits’ profile is much thicker and less youthful. A big thank you to @ContemplativeFox for providing the generous sample!
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@Bourbon_Obsessed_Lexington Agreed. Unfortunately at $90, I’m picking ECBP all day and getting something almost twice as old for $20 cheaper. There’s little value to be found with Booker’s anymore.
Cinnamon rolls, nuts and wood seems to be Bookers silver lining - and if they would park it at $70 I would always have one on hand.