Jim Beam white whisky ?

[squire]

Lots and lots, these distillerys that opened up after Prohibition have been doing it for more than 75 years now.

[cowdery]

Jacob's Ghost is unique it that it is aged a year and then heavily filtered to remove all of the color and a lot of the harsh, white-doggy taste that remains. The taste brings to mind malted milk balls or maybe white chocolate. It's a little sweet, a little malty, but not very whiskey. I'll take the black label or the coming-soon 12-year-old, thank you very much.

[squire]

Well, as a mixer it is different.

[Kyjd75]

lets put it this way. there are a lot of micros out there that would give their left nut to have one year old whiskey taste that good. It is not all about putting hal a million bucks in a still and having it magically make whiskey. Lots of know how and craft goes into what the big distillers do.

This stuff is selling like hot cakes here in Kentucky. I haven't tried it, and have no desire to try it, but a lot of people are buying it, especially those were regulars at the "moonshine" section of my local store.

[tmckenzie]

I get a lot of white dog taste for it to havebeen in a barrel a year. Must have been a used barrel?

[squire]

I expect so, it would be a waste of a new barrel since the end product will be heavily filtered.

[cowdery]

Nope, new barrel. It's Jim Beam bourbon at one-year, plus the filtering. They could legally have labeled it bourbon but chose not to.

Prices for used barrels are strong right now, so 'wasting' a new barrel is less of a concern than it might otherwise be. It's getting a lot of sweetness from the barrel.

[ThomasH]

Saw this on a shelf today. Label says its not moonshine but Whiskey aged in new white oak for at least a year. At 23.00 a bottle, I think I will pass!

Thomas