Bourbon Review: Corsair Grainiac 9 Grain Bourbon

I can’t help feeling like this bourbon is yelling at me.rnrnIt probably shouldn’t come as a surprise that a whiskey made with nine different grains ends up tasting like none of them. Typically, you can pick out which notes in a bourbon come from which source: high-rye bourbons are spicy, wheated bourbons are soft and floral. When it comes to less traditional craft whiskeys, changing one variable—say, using a unique variety of corn—results in a distinct, identifiable character.rnrnSo in adding five or six completely new variables, Corsair has come up with something that tastes simply like capital-B Bourbon. I can imagine enjoying this a lot if I wanted to feel like a very big, strong man, or if an ice storm knocked the power out and I had to keep warm. I don’t mean any of that passive-aggressively: you just have to be in the right mood for this whiskey.