- Raided Score: 81
- Publication: SpiritSurveyor
- Excerpt: There’s nothing incredible or mind blowing here, but it is incredibly solid and interesting enough to hold your attention through the pour. Just good bourbon without frills.
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- Raided Score: 92
- Publication: WhiskyCast
- Excerpt: The taste is spicy and warm with molasses, vanilla, and caramel. The finish has a touch of vanilla, fudge, and caramel.
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- Raided Score: 86
- Publication: Modern Thirst
- Excerpt: Baker's is a nice bourbon from the folks at Jim Beam. But it suffers from a lack of defining character to set it apart from the other offerings in the Jim Beam Small Batch lineup, making it a somewhat pricey option when Beam has better balanced or less expensive bottles available that cover the same flavor profiles.
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- Raided Score: 96
- Publication: Drinkhacker
- Excerpt: There is lovely sweetness here, plenty of vanilla but also rich cherry, chocolate pudding, nutmeg, and fruitcake character.
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- Raided Score: 80
- Publication: whiskyfun
- Excerpt: It’s excellent bourbon but it’s a little too heavy on the palate for this sissy of a taster. Maybe a tad lumpish.
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- Raided Score: 93
- Publication: Wine Enthusiast
- Excerpt: It has a mild maple scent and complex layers of vanilla, cigar wrapper, tea and orange peel, with a spicy finish. The alcohol feels moderate, even mellow, for over 100 proof.
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- Raided Score: 93
- Publication: Distiller
- Excerpt: Palate has a very interesting sweet/spicy battle going on with a middle of tongue burn. Expect leather, orange, black peppercorn, vanilla and cinnamon.
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- Raided Score: 88
- Publication: The Whiskey Jug
- Excerpt: With the exception of Basil Hayden’s, I fully enjoy the complexities and nuances that releases like the Baker’s Bourbon bring to the traditional Jim Beam whiskey.
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- Raided Score: 88
- Publication: Whiskey Raiders
- Excerpt: It’s not amazing but it’s not terrible either.
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- Raided Score: 85
- Publication: Breaking Bourbon
- Excerpt: Baker’s delivers an above average sip, yet one that seems like the odd man out in the Small Batch Collection.
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- Raided Score: 88
- Publication: The Whiskey Wash
- Excerpt: It seems with Baker’s they have found a balance between variables to create a very enjoyable bourbon experience.
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- Raided Score: 92
- Publication: Whiskey Advocate
- Excerpt: Mature, complete bourbon with a 7 year age statement, and a real sleeper in the Small Batch Collection.
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Intro:
This is a 7yr Beam product released at 107pf.
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Nose:
Cinnamon, leather and some weird oak funk. Not as much Beam peanut butter funk as I expected.
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Taste:
Caramel and vanilla, theres a good deal of maple and oak as well. Some odd funkiness on the back of my tongue, almost vegetal but overall it drinks like a standard beam mashbill bourbon.
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Finish:
Medium to long, longer than expected. Lots of cinnamon and molasses here as well as that nice peanut brittle.
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Overall:
It seems that I go on and off on a daily basis on whether I love or hate this bottle. After sitting down with it for a while, its a good $35 bourbon. Not quite bookers but not every day is a Bookers day. Its not amazing but its not terrible either.
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Score:
5
- Our in house critic rates spirits on a scale of 0-10 (10 best) and is aggregated the same as external sources