There was no getting past the balance and flavors delivered. Jack Daniel’s: 3rd Honey, 2nd Apple, 1st Fire.Īt the end of the day, it was Jack Daniel’s Fire that won by a fairly big margin. Jim Beam: 3rd Red Stag, 2nd Apple, and 1st Honey. If I were ranking the Beam and Jack separately, it’d go like this: I could actually see drinking this as a shot, in a highball, or even in an old fashioned. It was truly spicy but in a nice clean way - derived from cinnamon and ginger. 7 there to remind you that you’re still drinking Tennessee whiskey. The cinnamon is given the spotlight with the Old No. Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Fire (Taste 5) Brown-FormanĬinnamon liqueur and Jack Daniel’s come together in this bottle. Click the prices to order the expressions that look best to you!ġ. Today, it rang the truest and won the day. I was kind of taken aback by it, in fact, because I’ve had the expression before and dismissed it. I did find one dram I didn’t mind in all this chaos. In the end, I still ranked them all by taste. Then the Fire and Red Stag were like a “Wild Card” round. I did the same with the apple expressions. I tasted the honey bottles against each other and chose one as a winner. I’m tasting six bottles staring with Jack Daniel’s and Jim Beam’s honey and apple expressions plus JD’s Fire (their cinnamon expression) and Beam’s Red Stag (their cherry liqueur infused with bourbon). The whiskeys themselves are already sweet enough, they don’t need help from me. So be patient with me if you feel me having to stretch to find positive things to say throughout this blind tasting. Speaking generally, I find that almost all flavored whiskeys skew towards being overly saccharine. Which made for an altogether fascinating experience. Today’s pick? Flavored whiskey from Jim Beam and Jack Daniel’s, two brands I really enjoy making a genre of whiskey I don’t particularly care for.
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