Now you are armed with this important knowledge, let’s get down to business… 11 Best Bourbons That Are (Reasonably) Obtainable Must be something we have tried ourselves.Can be expensive but not super rare old bottles.Split into budget bourbons and best of the rest.
Not particularly difficult to get hold of. Readily available to the average person in terms of price. So we decided to split the list into two with the following criteria: 1. Some really good bourbons out there will be expensive though. We don’t have the funds to purchase a lot of those kinds of bottles anyway and I’m sure most people reading this don’t either. This article is aimed at everyone but we didn’t want to put out a list of the best bourbons in the world and for them to all be ridiculously expensive or rare to the point where you’d have to sell a kidney to get hold of one. If you are using this list to find yourself a nice bottle, we’re fairly confident you won’t be disappointed by any of the choices, but you should probably have a read of the following: How We Decided What Made the List Well, this is a list of our personal preferences for what we enjoy the most but many of the choices do correlate positively with popular opinion. With that in mind, writing a list of the best bourbons in the world may be difficult, right? What is good in the whiskey world is totally subjective.īasically, if you like the flavor when you drink it and it makes you feel good it is a good bourbon and no one has the right to tell you otherwise. This is a tricky question as to answer it would be a little pretentious. There are a lot of bourbons that are very good or better so you will never get bored.Īdd into the mixer that there are loads of high proof bourbons that are absolute flavor bomb monsters and you can see there are countless reasons to love bourbon. There is also a huge variety to choose from. Then there are other great flavors such as the vanilla you find in many bourbons. The corn used gives it that classic caramel sweetness that isn’t really found in any Scotch whisky, sweet Scotch is a usually different kind of sweetness more akin to honey. I think the main thing is it just has an amazing core flavor profile that runs through all the best bourbons. Approximately 95% of bourbon is produced in Kentucky however. It does not need to produced in Kentucky (contrary to popular belief). The barrel aging process is what gives bourbon both it’s color and most of its flavor.įACT: To be called a bourbon the whiskey must be produced in the USA. The spirit is finally added to new charred oak barrels (usually American white oak) for the aging process. The mash is then fermented to produce a transparent spirit (sometimes known as White Dog). This is known as Sour Mash and is a unique element in American whiskey. This is then mixed with “set-back” (basically the leftovers from the previous distillation process). The grains are then cooked to form the mash. This mixture of grains is known as the mash bill. The main ingredient for bourbon is corn and other grains are used in varying quantities. The predominant ingredient (at least 51%) determines the type of whiskey it is. I reserve that for the rest of the website – but I simply won’t allow it here.Īll types of whiskey/whiskey are made by the fermentation of different grains (corn, malted barley, rye and wheat). I’ll write this in layman’s terms as, to be honest, I don’t properly understand the process myself so I don’t want to get too technical and write a load of inaccurate nonsense. Shame, I loved those Winne the Pooh socks. In fact, it blew them so far off I never saw those socks again. Needless to say, as I would imagine is the case with most people on their first Stagg experience, it blew my proverbial socks off! It contained some George T Stagg (it was either the 2015 or 2016 I think). 
That all changed when I went on holiday with a friend of mine and he brought with him a little unlabelled bottle. I was not one of those snobby Scotch drinkers that look down their noses at bourbon (nobody likes those guys right), but I think I’d just never sampled anything that really grabbed me and forced me to explore the sweet and wonderful bourbon world. There is something special about bourbon.įor years I was a Scotch drinker having tried only a few lower-end bourbons but I never really got into it properly and never tried any of the best bourbons.
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