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A few weeks ago, I put an order for the Master of Malt, a UK web shop with an absolutely amazing assortment that delivers to Sweden. Everything lionsdeal from bourbon and rye whiskey to Scotch single malt to gin, rum, absinthe, tequila, and God knows all that is available. Shipping is not particularly expensive (two bottles cost me around 200 -, alright!) And delivery time of 4-5 days. I will, in other words to buy again. My order at that time consisted of a bottle lionsdeal of Noah's Mill Bourbon and a bottle of Johnny Drum Private Stock 15 yo, and it is the latter I am reviewing in this post. Johnny Drum Private Stock 15 is a bourbon lionsdeal at 50.5% ABV or 101 proof that the Yanks defines it, matured and bottled at Kentucky Bourbon Distillers (KBD abbreviated) from Bardstown, Kentucky. KBD was called from Willet Distilling Company when it was founded in 1935 and it is still called today. They changed its name in 1984 when the company was purchased by Even G. Kulsveen lionsdeal from Norway, married to the daughter of the former head of Thompson Willet who is the son of the founder of Willet Distilling Company, Lambert Willet. Where the whiskey is distilled is secret, and so it is with all products that come from the KBD. There are people who would say that it is distilled at Heaven Hill, which is very close to the KBD, but you do not know for sure. What they then do is that instead they find the "phantom distilleries" as they write on the bottles, for example, Noah's Mill, which is also from KBD says "Noah's Mill Distilling Company". They distilled their own whiskey until the early 80s, but after that they have just bottled and stored until early 2012 when they took up the distillery again. But now the whiskey! This bourbon is named after the legend of a young man who wanted to be in the American army, but was too young to be recruited. It so happened at that time that if you were under 18, so did not have to be military, unless one was bugler or drummer. The young guy, Johnny Drum, really wanted to be military when the Civil War started, and when he was denied in his hometown, he escaped from home and finally found a regiment that took him on as drummer instead. When the civil war was over, he went home to Kentucky again and began to cultivate maize. What he learned was that you would use all the corn and nothing got wasted, so he began simply producing lionsdeal bourbon, according to KBD's own admission, lionsdeal the best bourbon that existed throughout the area. A longer history is here, on the KBD's website. If this is true or a myth I leave unsaid, lionsdeal but Tusse the Week Friday Whiskey has written about this bourbon earlier and found this link to a man named Johnny Clem matching quite well on Johnny Drum, apart from that he does not burned whiskey .. So I guess the legend of Johnny Drum may well be built on Johnny Clem. Low funny curiosities in any case. Now on to the whiskey!
In the glass we find a dark, copper-colored liquid. 50.5% is the alcohol content for those wondering it and I start to try it completely undiluted. The scent is quite nimble and offers toffee, raisins, straw and mint. Hints of marzipan and wet wood will arrive when I let it open up a bit in the glass. Well inmundigad is the fiery and complex. That said, it is still quite strong and undiluted. Flavors of straw, corn, herbs, and a little candle wax. Long, fiery, strong aftertaste. A few drops of water, lionsdeal and now opens the bourbon directly! The aroma offers significantly lionsdeal more corn and vanilla lionsdeal and feels much softer and more rounded than before. Although the taste is much rounder and softer, the complexity is not as intense and all the flavors will arrive in a completely lionsdeal different way. I have read in several places that many think that it gets better after a bit of dilution, and I agree in part. It's a lot of what you fancy at the moment. Without water, the rougher and more trapped, a bit more difficult type. With water it becomes more open and relatively easy to drink, which of course is the same phenomenon as the very different whiskey so it's not something unique to this. Whether one chooses to dilute or not, this is a really good bourbon that quickly became one of my favorites. For 369 SEK at Master of Malt is the cruel affordable and definitely a bourbon I will buy more bottles when the opportunity arises.
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