JIM BEAM BLACK , HONEY , BOURBON 3 BOTTELS TOGETHER

Sweet but not too sweet, Jim Beam Honey has the perfect touch of golden honey to allow its warming sweetness to shine without losing the mellow smoothness of the original Jim Beam bourbon.
So, whether you’re craving a cocktail with a sweeter side or an easy sipper, this is the bee’s knees.

Elegant, Smooth and Refined. Jim Beam bourbon undergoes distillation at lower temperatures. Quite sweet with gentle notes of vanilla and cut hay, a touch of fresh corn fields and a little cereal sweetness, like the bluegrass fields of Kentucky. Good body with notes of toasty oak and all the requisite notes of vanilla and crème anglaise, a little spice and pepper with an acetone note.

Jim Beam Black Label has always been one of those bottle I knew I should try, but never mustered the desire to actually buy. It’s marketed as an older, more complex version of Jim Beam white label, all wrapped up in an attractive and very affordable package. While unfortunately Jim Beam dropped the Black Label’s 8 year age statement in 2015, the new bottling it still assumed to contain whiskey older than 6 years – making it older than other bourbons at a similar price point. This particular bottle sits on a lot of shelves here in Los Angeles, and so it never occurred to me that I needed to grab a bottle. But this past weekend, I found myself in a pinch and was looking for interesting bottle under $20. So let’s see what that extra age has achieved…