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Bourbon Review: Hard Truth Bottled-In-Bond Wheated Bourbon

We review Hard Truth Bottled-In-Bond Wheated Bourbon, a 100-proof offering aged five years after being distilled from a mash bill of 69% corn, 19% wheat, and 12% malted barley.

OVERALL RATING

7
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Hard Truth Bottled-In-Bond Wheated Bourbon review

Tasting Notes

About:

It was aged five years after being distilled from a mash bill of 69% corn, 19% wheat, and 12% malted barley. It is bottled 100-proof and priced at $54.99.
Appearance:
There is a nice amber-golden color in this glass, bringing along with it decent legs and moderate viscosity.
Nose:
The nose aromatics reflect a very muted wheat influence, showcasing softer characteristics of orange marmalade, gentle vanilla, downplayed oak, ripe apricot, and a minuscule amount of honeysuckle.
Palate:
The palate of this wheated bourbon is remarkably underplayed and mellow. There are very gentle considerations here of ripe orange, coriander, vanilla bean, mature oak, green apple, peppermint, and a dancing around of honey melon.
Finish:
This drifts into the finish a bit more poppy than throughout the rest of the tasting, but not by much, holding itself briefly before the fade-off.
Comments:
Compared to other wheater bourbons tried over the years, Hard Truth’s attempt at this is a bit understated. You want more out of this, but something isn’t here. It’s not bad – I just wouldn’t put it before others of its ilk if it were in a lineup.

Editor’s Note: This whiskey was either bought as a sample by The Whiskey Wash or provided to us as a review sample by the party behind it. Per our editorial policies, this in no way influenced the outcome of this review.

Nino Kilgore-Marchetti

Nino Kilgore-Marchetti is the founder of The Whiskey Wash, an award-winning whiskey lifestyle website dedicated to informing and entertaining consumers about whisk(e)y globally. As a whisk(e)y journalist, expert, and judge, he has written extensively about the subject, been interviewed in various media outlets, and provided tasting input on many whiskeys at competitions.

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