ContemplativeFox
Jack Daniel's Tennessee Honey
Other Liqueurs — Tennessee, USA
Reviewed
September 27, 2021 (edited January 6, 2022)
Rating: 11/23
Jack Daniel's sweet banana with honey added? This sounds like it should be a disaster.
N: Green banana, some honey that could have been watered down grade A maple syrup, a hint of lemon, and a sharp, light, bitter, harbalness that's almost grassy. A dash of dry wood as well. Unfortunately, also some plain alcohol.
P: This is surprisingly OK! The sweet honey actually makes the regular Jack Daniel's sweet banana more acceptable. A bit of just sugar water, but not too much. There's this sweet dessert cocktail sense to this liqueur. I'm also getting a bit of spices with dry wood, which helps to cover the alcohol. There's oddly a bit of a grassy herbal character leading into a bit of peppermintiness. I really didn't see that coming. I actually kind of like it. The more I drink, the more out of whack this palate seems, but it's never bad.
F: The sweetness largely fads, leaving the bitter side of the honey with the grassy herbal mintiness and hint of spice. Sort of a manuka honey now, actually. It's weird, but I kind of like this finish.
- Conclusion -
I thought this would be terrible, but it's actually not bad. If there were just less of that alcohol flavor, this might get a fairly high rating.
As it is, I wouldn't hesitate to buy this if I thought of a good cocktail to use it in. As a sipper, I'd definitely prefer Garrison Brothers Honeydew, though the gap between the two is surprisingly minimal (and the Garrison Brothers actually is a bourbon).
In my limited attempting here, I couldn't find a cocktail that I thought improved upon its core spirit using this liqueur, so I think I need to land on this being an 11 based on its neat flavor. I could imagine a 12. Still, I was surprised by how good this was.
Thanks for sharing this @ctbeck11 !
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ice, orange bitters, disaronno splash, and then a pour of this is my new favorite godfather riff.
A mentor who I thought would bring Red Spot back from Ireland instead was excited to give me Jim Beam Vanilla… will have to see how it stands up against this… and find a different mentor
@ctbeck11 I bet it would be good as a sweetener with plain sparkling water too
Glad you were pleasantly surprised by this. I still have the bottle after more than 18 months. Maybe I need to make some of that sparkling lemonade this weekend.
sparkling lemonade and this stuff becomes super dangerous