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Jim Beam Rolled Oat Bourbon

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Whiskey Review: Jim Beam Rolled Oat Bourbon

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Appearance:
Nose:
in deep and you are overwhelmed by warm wood and heather. On the
Palate:
one finds a good balance of biscuit, tobacco, spice and ginger. The finish is on the short side, but packed full of burnt sugar, orange peel and – yes – a hint of oats. Taken alone, its interesting. Taken at midnight with buttered dark toast, there might be only one thing that could beat it for a cozy, not-too-sweet comforting treat; a bowl of oatmeal with, maybe, a pinch of cinnamon. I give the Jim Beam Rolled Oat Bourbon an 87 point rating.
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Jim Beam Rolled Oats Bourbon
Jim Beam Rolled Oats Bourbon (image copyright The Whiskey Wash)

Editor’s Note: This whiskey was provided to us as a free sample to review by the party behind it. The Whiskey Wash, while appreciative of this, did keep full independent editorial control over this article.

Call me old fashioned, but since I was a kid, nothing says breakfast like a hot bowl of sweet, creamy oatmeal – slow cooked, old-fashioned rolled oats, with a hint of vanilla, and a pinch of cinnamon. Oatmeal cookies, too, I choose over chocolate chip, granola over corn flakes at the second-rate breakfast buffet…you get the picture.

So when a bottle of Jim Beam Signature Craft Rolled Oat Bourbon came my way, I was more than a little curious.  Oats and whiskey?  Could this be real?

Short answer: yes, this is real.  Jim Beam may be the Big Daddy of bourbon, but long tradition and large marketshare are not stopping the brand from joining in the experimental/craft spirits fads of this our current golden age of whiskey.

In their Signature Craft line, Jim Beam has chosen to highlight the use of a signature grain along with its 51% corn mash.  Alongside six-row barley, soft red wheat, and high rye are the more unusual offerings of triticale (a wheat/rye hybrid), brown rice and rolled oats.  It was the latter that intrigued me most.   Oats are traditional.  Oats are (arguably) very Scottish.  Could they make a modern American whiskey?  The proof is in the dram.

Tasting Notes: Jim Beam Rolled Oat Bourbon

In the glass, the color is deep amber, almost teak, with medium legs. Nose in deep and you are overwhelmed by warm wood and heather.

On the palate one finds a good balance of biscuit, tobacco, spice and ginger.  The finish is on the short side, but packed full of burnt sugar, orange peel and – yes – a hint of oats.

Taken alone, its interesting.  Taken at midnight with buttered dark toast, there might be only one thing that could beat it for a cozy, not-too-sweet comforting treat; a bowl of oatmeal with, maybe, a pinch of cinnamon.

I give the Jim Beam Rolled Oat Bourbon an 87 point rating.

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