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Johnny Drum Private Stock Bourbon
Bourbon — Kentucky, USA
Reviewed
April 7, 2017 (edited March 23, 2021)
Nose - Vanilla/cinnamon caramels, light sort of stale peanut brittle, salted peanut shells.
Taste - Spicy cinnamon/vanilla caramel, light black pepper kick, hint of salted peanuts, lightly drying oak, tiny hint of Luxardo cherry sweetness at the end.
Finish - Lingering but muted cinnamon spice, sweet Spanish peanut sweetness that fades fairly quicky that only leaves this dry oaky, light heat.
Score - 81/100
Final Thoughts - If I tasted this blind, I probably would've pegged it as a Beam product due to the peanut "Beam funk." It's a very easy sipping bourbon for the proof for sure, which I guess is a result of the charcoal filtering. The balance of caramel and peanut funk is a bit weird to me in that it works up until the finish where the peanut funk turns to be a bit too much like stale peanuts. This might be something I turn into something like a peanut butter cup old fashioned by using some chocolate bitters in place of Angostura.
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