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Producing WhiskyCast has given me the opportunity to taste some really amazing whiskies, and I’m pleased to share my tasting notes with you here. You can search my entire database of tasting notes from this page, and I hope you’ll find it useful.

Basil Hayden Toast

Basil Hayden Toast. Image courtesy Beam Suntory.

Country: USA

Region: Kentucky

Type: Bourbon

Bottler: Distiller

ABV: 40%

Score: 92 Points

This Bourbon from Jim Beam uses brown rice in the mashbill, along with a complex combination of toasted and charred oak barrels. The nose has notes of freshly roasted coffee beans, vanilla pods, Manuka honey, and hints of spice. The taste is best described by the name: toasty. It’s spicy with a nice toasted oak character along with touches of butterscotch, vanilla pods, coffee beans, and black tea with honey. The finish is long and warming. (August, 2021)

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