Baker's Bourbon embodies over six generations of distilling experience. The family recipe provides Bakers with a silky smooth texture and consistent taste from batch to batch. Best served with a splash of water.

EYE
Coppery caramel

NOSE
Dark fruit, caramel, spice, oak, butterscotch, toasted cornbread, cocoa, brown sugar and a light touch of vanilla. The aroma gets a bit more complex with some water, but not wildly so.

PALATE
Oak, caramel, spice, toffee, toasted nuts, rice cakes, coca, brown sugar and a light touch of vanilla. Water helps open it up a bit here as well, but makes what’s there a bit richer and doesn’t add any additional layers of complexity.

FINISH
Long waves of oak, toffee, cocoa and orange peels slowly recede to a light corn and vanilla.

BALANCE, BODY & FEEL
Decent balance, rich and full whiskey with an almost creamy mouthfeel.

OVERALL
Baker’s Bourbon is on the spicier side of the Jim Beam Small Batch collection but retains a decent balance between the spicy and oaky characteristics and the deep sweet characteristics. It has a light touch of vanilla that threads its way through the whole bourbon and brings it all together. It’s a bit lighter and a bit more muted than some of the better Knob Creek SiBs or Booker’s releases, but it’s nothing to sneeze at either.