Jim Beam Black

Jim Beam Black. The bottle is a little bit shorter and fatter than the standard Jim Beam bottle That said all of the same elements are present There’s the squared bottle body the sharp shoulder and the medium length neck The whole package is capped off with a plastic screwon top The label is large and in charge obscuring the majority of the bottle 3/5 Brand Jim Beam.

HistoryMashbillMaturationOwnership & Brand ExtensionsLook at The LabelPrice Point & ValueThe Böhm ( later Anglicized to ‘Beam’) family emigrated from Germany to make a home in the American frontier of the 18th century They were among the first waves of settlers into what was then called the Kentucky County of Virginia in the 1780s Then in 1792 Kentucky split with Virginia to create its own state The Beam family started distilling whiskey in 1795 a fact highlighted on each bottle sold todayDistillers in the region continued the tradition of distilling excess grain from each harvest into whiskey — a shelfstable commodity that was even substituted for hard currency along the frontier during the nation’s infancy The brand’s namesake James ‘Jim’ Beauregard Beam took over operations at the distillery in 1894 At the time the distillery had begun to offer bourbon marketed as ‘Old Tub’ in glass bottles — which James B Beam grew as a regional brand Then the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution which outlawed the production and sale of alcoholic beverages was ra Jim Beam Black Label uses the same mash bill or grain recipe asthe white label and other expressions from the brand family That mash bill contains 75 percent corn 13 percent rye and 12 percent malted barley The maturation process sets Jim Beam Black apart from its stablemates like white label and Devil’s Cut Both Jim Beam Black and white label are considered NonAge Statement (NAS) bourbons Neither product prints a number of years on the label to denote how long the liquid has been aged in barrels Labeled as ‘Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey’ Jim Beam Black Label is required to be matured for at least two years in new charred American oak barrels When Jim Beam Black was first introduced as Beam’s Black Label in the 1970s and 80s it was released as an 8yearold whiskey that was ‘double aged’ from the four years the white label bottle offered But in 2014 Jim Beam removed the ‘double aged’ and 8year terminology from the label to produce a NAS product with a similar flavor profile The term ‘Extra Aged’ was added in place of the double aged claim Jim Beam is a product of Beam Suntory Based in Japan Suntory is the thirdlargest spirits producer in the world behind the UK’s Diageo and France’s Pernod Ricard Suntory whiskey is one of the bestselling brands in Asia You may recognize the name from the 2003 movie ‘Lost in Translation’with Bill Murray and Scarlet Johansson In 2014 Suntory acquired the Chicagobased Beam Inc The merged Beam Suntory stateside operation is headquartered in Chicago with a planned move to New York City in upcoming years The Jim Beam brand name has grown from the core white label expression to include a vast stable of products In addition to Black Label whiskey offerings include Jim Beam Double Oaked Rye Devil’s Cut and Single Barrel Additional flavored products include Jim Beam Peach Vanilla Orange Apple Honey Red Stag by Jim Beam and Kentucky Fire — a cinnamon flavored linecompetitor to Sazerac’s popular Fireball brand Because we already took a look at much of the distillation and production techniques in our recent Jim Beam Black vs White Labelpost let’s take some time to look at that black label Knowing how to read a whiskey label is an essential step in any casual whiskey fan becoming a nuanced bourbon aficionado There can be a lot of text on any given bourbon label so learning how to separate the marketing copy from regulated product claims will allow you to make savvy purchases — at any price range Jim Beam Black Extra Aged Bourbon— This claim was likely created to replace the ‘DoubleAged’ terminology that accompanied the brand before the 8year age statement was removed in 2014 While an age statement is commendable because it is regulated by the US Tobacco and Alcohol Tax and Trade Bureau — or TTB — it is not the only determiner of quality Consider the numerous massive rickhouses that Jim Beam has access to over its two production sites in Frankfurt and Clermont Kentucky These m Jim Beam Black can be found for about $24 It is bottled at 86proof or 43 percent alcohol by volume — which is six proofpoints higher than the standard white label.

Jim Beam Black Review The Fixer Whiskey

American whiskey drinkers like Jim Beam Black better than any other hard liquor However the Beverage Testing Institute (BTI) an independent thirdparty consumer beverage research organization conducted the original blind taste test on multiple markets throughout the nation The primary participants were customers who purchased a representative number of different brands of hard liquor each.

Whiskey Review: Jim Beam Black – ThirtyOne Whiskey

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Jim Beam Black Label Review Gentlemen Ranters

That’s why Jim Beam Black is and always will be extraaged to taste and bottled only when it’s just right The result is a fullbodied bourbon with an extra level of elegance and refinement that’s meant to be sipped and savored And of course just like its younger brother our original Jim Beam® it’s best when shared with others.