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A Beginner's Guide to Bourbon Cask Whiskey

A Beginner's Guide to Bourbon Cask Whiskey


Although sherry cask works are popular locally, the bulk of whisky is still bourbon casks. As a whisky lover, the practice of drinking bourbon casks is essential.
Compared with the influence of sherry barrels to bring out a strong flavor, whisky aged in bourbon barrels is more like the quality of the original wine from the heavy distillery. The popular 95 96 Ben Nevis, 96 10 Clynelish, 95 Glen Elgin, etc. are all based on Aged in bourbon barrels.
Now let me introduce several affordable bourbon cask whiskies and guide you to understand the charm of bourbon casks.

Monkey Shoulder Blended Malt

A well-known wine, classic bourbon barrel work, mainly fruity and woody, with ripe pears, sweet biscuits, etc., approachable, also used for cocktails.

Malt Riot Blended Malt

It has a very interesting lactic acid texture, quite heavy malt flavor, vanilla, milk sugar, and firm wine. If Monkey Shoulder is stable and stable, Malt Riot is both fun, novel and high-quality. Evaluation on whiskyfun It is also relatively high and the price is cheap. It is a good daily wine.

BBR Speyside Blended Malt

The undervalued wines, vanilla, cream soda, rich fruit cake aroma, the most rare is the oily and thick wine, quite young Ben Nevis, Clynelish feeling, people can't put it down.

Wolfburn Northland Single Malt

Mainly the smell of barley, oatmeal, maltose, butterscotch, plus pear and other fruity, there is a hint of smoky, mature, quite layered, original and natural style, there is no unnecessary and messy other wooden barrel smell intrusion, you can see Confidence in the quality of the original wine.

Bourbon cask whisky has many changes and is very worthy of consideration. If you have a prejudice against barrel type, you may miss a lot of excellent wines.
Next time, is it a mixed barrel wine, finished or peated?
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