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Old Grand-Dad Bonded Bourbon
Bourbon — Kentucky, USA
Reviewed
October 25, 2016 (edited November 5, 2016)
Nose - Very faint oaky vanilla but mostly dominated by a heavy roasted in-shell salted peanut smell combined with a dry, musty cardboard.
Taste - Light vanilla, cinnamon spice with a bit of heat, lots of sweet peanut butter. Almost like they took high sugar content skin-on Spanish peanuts and made that into peanut butter, and then at the very end, mixed in some chestnut paste to sweeten it up a bit more.
Finish - Lingering sweet peanut buttery taste, cinnamon heat, lightly oaky brown sugar simple syrup.
Score - 60/100
Final Thoughts - I'm very curious if Beam has lessened their criteria for Old Grand Dad bonded or if maybe I got a bad bottle? I remember OGD BiB being more complex and less one-dimensional than this particular pour. This honestly just tastes like a higher proof version of the Jim Beam White I reviewed a while back for the community review which was very peanut dominated and one-dimensional. What this seems to have over the Beam White I reviewed previously is that the peanut I get from the Beam yeast is a bit more balanced and seems a tiny bit more put together. This is a bit perplexing as I don't remember previous bottles of OGD BiB being this one-dimensional.
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