Jim Beam Double Oak Twice Barreled Review

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Jim beam double oak twice barreled review.

The double oak tasted very similar to the black but with the oak dialed up. Jim beam double oak starts life as jim beam white. 86 proof 43 abv age. 2016 how i drank it.

Michter s us 1 toasted barrel finish bourbon 2015. Old tub bourbon 23. Jim beam double oak twice barreled bourbon. Maker s 46 hit in 2010 and woodford reserve launched its double oaked bourbon in 2012.

Oddly enough the double oak seemed lighter in body to me though which is the reason it ended up scoring slightly below the black. Twice barreled for enough flavor to go around. Sweet candy corn brown sugar dry oak neat splash or rocks. Jim beam is the worlds 2nd biggest selling whiskey brand after good old jack daniels and their standard white label offering ships an enormous number of units per year.

Today jim beam the world s no. And more importantly is it any good. In other words the standard jim beam kentucky straight bourbon same mash bill same four ish years in oak takes a second barrel ride for an undisclosed period of time. So is it intense in flavor smooth in taste.

Jim beam double oak bourbon proof. Albeit a more tame and approachable version. The idea is simple. Without the rinsing of course.

Then we pour it into another freshly charred white oak barrel to mature for a second time. Neat in a glencairn whisky glass. Jim beam double oak a twice barreled bourbon that attempts to up the ante on the aging process through another spin through the rinse cycle. The added interaction with the oak results in a liquid intense in flavor and smooth in taste.

At only 86 proof i drank this one neat and would recommend doing the. The jim beam black in particular reminds me a lot of knob creek smb. This of course isn t a new idea. Read my review of the jim beam double oak to find out.

The second round of aging has no defined time requirement amount and lasts until it tastes right. A veteran writer and journalist. Straight from the jim beam press release. Michter s us 1 toasted barrel finish bourbon 2018.

After selecting and dumping a bunch of 4 year old barrels they take that bourbon and put it back into brand new charred oak barrels for a second round of aging. Christopher null is the founder and editor in chief of drinkhacker. Jim beam double oak is first aged in a newly charred american white oak barrels.