Jim Beam Black Cherry Whiskey

Mix jim beam with lemon juice sugar and ice in shaker.

Jim beam black cherry whiskey.

This bold dark ripe black cherry liqueur infused with fine kentucky straight bourbon whiskey. Tasting notes by lew bryson for whisky advocate smells like sweet dead ripe cherries mashed up in bourbon with some brown sugar and just a dust of cinnamon. This black cherry infused bourbon is just plain fun. There s a slight artificiality to the cherry taste and hardly any bite from the bourbon and more like a liqueur but perfectly pleasant.

Honors his recent return to our homeland. As one of the pioneers of flavored bourbon it blazed uncharted paths to become known and loved for its balance of soft dark cherry aromas backed by traditional bourbon oakiness. Shake vigorously and strain into whiskey sour glass. It has a syrupy viscous feel but just enough whiskey bite to be drinkable straight up or mixed with ginger ale.

Yes it s a bit gimmicky and the jim beam name may indicate mass market popularity lower quality and not too much sophistication but if taken for what this it s rather pleasant. Red stag by jim beam is a wildly delicious combination of black cherry liqueur infused with kentucky straight bourbon whiskey. Our premium 86 proof bourbon whiskey spends years longer being aged in our american white oak barrels than our original jim beam. Free to roam fearless and strong.

It s sweet a bit thick but 80 proof warming and the bourbon the beam cinnamon note comes out clearer now is dominant over the cherries here. Look for strawberry jam fragrance and a big raucous sticky supersweet vanilla and cherry soda flavor. Reigning supreme in kentucky over two centuries ago the stately red stag witnessed the birth of beam and with it the birth of our legendary bourbon. But through it all it never lost its wild inventive roots.