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Bourbon Review: Bedtime Bourbon

We review Bedtime Bourbon, a whiskey from Louisville Bourbon Transit Company designed for bedtime imbibing.

OVERALL RATING

8
$59.00
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Tasting Notes

About:

Tennessee straight bourbon with a mash bill of 84% corn, 8% barley, 8% rye. Aged for eight years and shipped to Kentucky to be cut with local, limestone-filtered water down to 45% ABV. Sold in 750mL bottles with a recommended price of $59 each.
Appearance:
Fairly typical golden amber with a touch of reddish bronze in the hue.
Nose:
Sweet and fruity in the first sniff, reminiscent of caramel-dipped apples. The fruit flavor gives way to spicier bouquet of caramel, pepper, and nutmeg, with hints of tobacco and anise in the background.
Palate:
The first sip comes off mostly like a sweet simple syrup with a faint but interesting floral flavor, like lavender. After a moment, that flavor starts to take on the spicy characteristics of nutmeg, cloves, and pepper, the intensity growing as a sip sits on the tongue. Swallowing sends a chilly, tingly, clove-forward rush across the back of the mouth. That gives way to a toasted marshmallow-like sweetness that pervades across the palate, occasionally punctuated by a flare of spicy cloves.
Finish:
Comments:
I found nothing particularly extraordinary about Bedtime Bourbon – just except that it almost perfectly matches the branding as a “bedtime” dram. It’s not doing anything revolutionary in terms of flavor, but it’s well rounded with the perfect ebb and flow between sweet and spicy notes, at least for this whiskey drinker that tends to like things on the sweeter side. rnrnThat disclaimer aside, Bedtime Bourbon has the right balance of sweet, spicy, simple, and complex to make it something to sip after a long day, or something you don’t need to feel guilty about mixing.

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.

Aaron Knapp

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