The nose opens with wet cornmeal next to smoldering hickory from one of those old tin backyard smokers with a hint of maple syrup sweetness rounding things out. This expression is a blend of straight bourbon and smoked maple syrup “natural flavorings.” It’s Fred Noe’s nod to his dad, Booker, who loved to smoke meat on the weekends and bottled his own maple syrup. The Best Ten-Year-Old Bourbon Whiskeys, Tasted Blind And Ranked.We Blind Tasted A Whole Bunch Of $30-60 Bourbons To See If Any Could Beat Weller.
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And full disclosure, I’m a big fan of this brand. So they devised Knob Creek as a high-end, much older expression to both highlight the craft behind Beam and get some attention for bourbon as a quality product and not just rot-gut hooch hidden under your sink.ģ0 years later and Knob Creek is one of the most revered and easily found whiskeys on the shelf.įor the ranking below, I’m pulling from my tasting notes and calling out which bottles I think you should actually buy for your own bar cart. Legendary distiller Booker Noe and his son, Fred, had a lot of great, old barrels stacking up in the warehouse and nowhere to put them on shelves. Knob Creek started way back in 1992 while the bourbon industry was on the ropes. The difference here is that Knob Creek is the same low-rye mash as standard White Label Jim Beam - it’s simply left to age longer and then isn’t cut down with water to quite the same degree before bottling.īefore we dive in and rank these bottles, let’s look at the history a bit. The brand is part of Jim Beam’s premium label program alongside Baker’s, Basil Hayden’s, Booker’s, and Little Book. Knob Creek is what Jim Beam turns into with a little massaging, the right aging locations in various warehouses, and some luck from the whiskey angels.