Whiskey Review - Bourbon - Old Crow · Sun Aug 26, 01:40 PM
After my experience with Ancient Age, I was a bit reluctant to try another cheap bourbon so soon. I mustered up my courage, though, and cracked a bottle of Old Crow. I was pleasantly surprised.
It has an aroma of heavy caramel laced with vanilla, and is warm and woody on the tongue (heh, heh). It’s extremely smooth, with no aftertaste at all. It seems to disappear on the way to the back of the tongue.
It makes a passable, but not notable, Manhattan, and is acceptable in both bourbon highballs and Bourbon & Coke. It’s unnoticeable in my latest experimental cocktail, the Algonquin (highly recommended).
All in all, you could do much worse in a $10-12 bottle of bourbon. (Better than the Jim Beam which is supposedly a better bourbon by the same company.)
Old Crow around the internet:
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David
as you know bourbon has to be aged in new oak barrels or at least two years. However if it is aged for less than 4 years the age must be stated. Old Crow is about the only bourbon you will find with that statement that is is less than 5 years old. It is probably tucked away on the neck label, this means that is very young whiskey and has not been aged long enough to have a real whiskey taste. It is cheap as it is not aged as long and storage costs are less and evoperation is also less. It is not a good whiskey. After you experiment and taste some more bourbons you will find that Old Crow is really just about brwon water.
mike
— michael karp Monday August 27, 2007 #