Jim BeamDouble Oak Twice Barreled Whiskey, 70cl

I find this superior to the similarly priced "Extra Aged" Jim Beam. It is well worthy of it's spot in the whiskey price tier, but at the £20-29 position there is a lot of variation and competition. Whenever this is close to £20 it becomes a must buy for me. Usually, if it costs more than Bulliet, I'll just get Bulliet. That said if you want a few options without breaking the bank that price tier of full of pretty unique and very drinkable bourbons and this would be a good choice for your collection. I've purchased this a few times and will no doubt be back for more.

I've had my eye on a bottle of this for quite a while but finally decided to take the plunge when it went on offer for £22 and don't regret it in the slightest. Generally I don't mind Jim Beam Bourbon, you get what you pay for, which is generally a cheap standard bourbon (thinking here of the all round, general purpose white label JB) but I was pleasantly surprised by this offering from them. Okay it's not a touch on something like the Woodford Reserve Double Oaked Bourbon but you have got to remember that that's twice the price JB's double oak.It's a solid 86 proof pour for the money, an easy sipper (neat, no ice) and has you readily filling your glencairn for just another mouthful, very 'crushable', as our colonial cousins would say and has bags of flavour for its low proof point.If you're umming & arring over buying a bottle then I'd easily recommend diving in, it's a great daily sipper and definitely well above the lower end JB white label, yeah it has that JB nuttiness but masks it well with the deeper oaky notes. For the price it's a winner for me, something different and saves me from draining my WRDO too early, which ain't such a bad thing, lol.

If you like a bourbon (as I do) and generally mix it with Coke )as I also do) then I'd highly recommend this.As someone who isn't a massive fan of Jim Beam's regular bourbon I was dubious about ordering a more 'fancy' version of their product. I needn't have been.As you can see it is much darker than their normal offering and from a taste perspective you can really taste the deeper, fuller flavour of the maturing taking longer.Now i'm not one for dissecting the taste profile that much of any drink acting like an expert but if you concentrate you can get some of those profiles that it mentions in the description (caramel in particular for me, along with the woody oak).As it's not much more than a regular bottle of bourbon I'd advise you to treat yourself. there are many other great bourbons out there in this price range but this one certainly stands up well

All good

Nice bottle. The contents are even nicer.Really nice flavour tried it neat with cola and also ginger ale and it's lovely all ways. Its meant to be for Christmas time but it will probably be finished by St Andrews Day!

This has been a difficult review to write, not least as I was in two minds whether it should get a one star (I HATE IT) or a five star (I LOVE IT) rating. Let me explain the reason for the difficulty, and my reasoning for going for the five star option despite what you are about to read. So here's the thing, I am a supposedly responsible and mature man. A grandfather of seven, father of eight, an award-winning journalist no less. Yet I managed to down two-thirds of a bottle of this stuff in one two hour window. No, I am not an alcoholic. In fact, for the past year I had been teetotal, not my decision but courtesy of medication that I am thankfully no longer on. A huge fan of Jim Beam Black, which has vanished from most everywhere now, I was lured in by those TV adverts for the new Double Oak variety. Duly ordered, and delivered the next day, I took one shot to experience the new taste. For whatever reason, and believe me I have given it a lot of thought, it didn't end there and shot followed shot. Within an hour and a half to two hours the bottle was down two thirds. Although I'm a big man (6'2" and 15 stone) I too went down. Literally. When I awoke the next morning, courtesy of a very understanding partner who had got me into bed somehow, I did not escape the consequences. No hangover to speak of, god alone knows how, but contact lenses stuck into eyeballs as had not removed them in my drunken state. Yesterday I spent an hour at the GP surgery, followed by two hours in A&E and finally two hours at the hospital eye clinic where a consultant eye surgeon managed to remove the stuck and wedged lenses after much numbing, lubricating, eyelid inverting, eye clamping and other horrible stuff. Did I enjoy the taste of Jim Beam Double Oak? Hell yes! Did I enjoy the fact that I drank so much and the after-effects? Hell no! I am now, in all seriousness, going back to being teetotal even though I'm off the medication in question. I do not, ever, want to find myself in such a situation again. I do not ever want to be asking myself these questions, wondering just what led me to drink so much. So I have given the drink a five star rating: I loved the taste, and ultimately I love that the last alcoholic beverage I consumed tasted so good. I even love that by drinking it so irresponsibly it has driven my decision never to drink again. Yep, I know that's probably not the kind of review you were expecting, but I felt that I had to open up in a kind of confessional manner here. Who knows, it might help answer a few of those lingering questions I still have to resolve within myself. Call it retail therapy of a very different kind...

I love Jim Beam White Label. I love it over ice with Canada Dry and a lime wedge.Now, this Jim Beam Double Oak is something else. I wouldn't put anything else in the glass with it.If you want a bourbon that offers you a bit more, this is a great choice.

Good