Beam's 8 Star Kentucky Whiskey Bottled 1980s

Jim Beam White Label

Mainstream macro brand. One of the cheapest not only whiskey’s but hard liquors available at my supermarket. Cracked open a bottle at home. Taste is that of cheap hooch, ABV is the legally min. one (my bottle was 40 % ABV) but this feels like undiluted Russian moonshine. Overly boozy mixed with brown sugar with simple oak & vanilla, almost...

Score 45/100

Jim Beam Legent

Nose: toasty, sweet, and syrupy. Cinnamon and woodsmoke. Baked apple. Vanilla and citrus buried beneath. Sort of like a fruitier version of Knob Creek. Taste: medium-bodied and initially dry on the tongue. Very oaky with lots of spice, becoming even drier as it spreads across the palate. Mouth-coating and tangy. The initial sweetness is subdued. ...

Score 87/100

Jim Beam Single Barrel JB8232

I have not tried that many Jim Beam – I hear little good about it and my own experience corroborates this – but a single barrel? That cannot be bad, can it? Otherwise the powers that be surely would not go through the trouble of bottling this, right? So I was intrigued enough to give it a go. Sweet nose on vanilla and coconut milk, mint and...

Score 82/100

Jim Beam Black Label

DISCLAIMER: This review is for the triple aged 6 year old Jim Beam Black for export and not the 8 year old domestic version. Having had both, there's a noticeable difference. This review is based on the third dram out of a week old bottle. Nose: this is a layered and interesting nose. Black licorice, cherries, vanilla, bubblegum. Quite a sweet,...

Score 82/100