This Knob Creek 9 is really great quality Bourbon, I was impressed. A good sweetness to it, even on your first sip. It is a nice full bodied flavor profile and is pretty complex. Very alcohol forward on the nose, but I do catch some of the cherry and vanilla notes with kind of a jam like sweetness. The taste is very sweet right upfront, if you like sweet bourbons you will love this. It has a sugary quality which I love, cherry-vanilla with rich honey, and raspberry jam. It also has a good dose of oak flavor, but definitely not a dominant characteristic. I think this would be a good Bourbon to introduce someone who is interested in trying new whiskey's. This does not have that burn and gross flavor associated with cheap high proof liquor. This has a refinement to it that will make you feel fancy, like an old-school aristocrat listening to some classical music in your library! The age statement is pretty cool as well. I must say I am surprised by this purchase. This is a great Bourbon to sip on neat and hangout with some good company, or just listen to some good music by yourself.
I just finished my bottle of this over the weekend. I stll prefer the 120 Proof single barrel, but for the price it's hard to find a better value at 9yrs 100 proof.
This relative newbie loves that I can follow and understand your comments on nose and front and back palette!😉🙏✌️-you’re the first I can actually comprehend completely 🤔
Just tried 9 year. Really really good. Going on my go to shelf with Elijah Craig, Buffalo trace, woodford reserve. 27.99 $ here in South Florida. With 1.75 bottle 54$.
Crown Liquors in Avon Indiana 19.96 a bottle, picked it up last week. Had several cases, if you like and are in the area don't miss out. It's 39.99 per unit where I live. I grabbed 2.
I’m glad they brought back the age statement, I love when it’s posted on bourbon. I love the KC profile and some of those aged store pick single barrels are 🔥🔥
Sipping along to this review. My first single barrel. Heavy maple and brown sugar, makes me wanna have pancakes and bacon. 🥰🥰🥰 love this bottle at 50 bucks in FL
Nice to see it come back. I came in late to the whiskey scene when NAS was already everywhere and I don’t care much for the age as long as it’s good but! My whiskey geekiness inside gets me exited 🤠 cheers Jason 🥃
I'm not a whiskey expert by any means, but I have learned that I do love a good pour after work. After trying multiple bourbons around this price range and cheaper (Wild Turkey 101, Elijah Craig Small Batch, 1792 Small Batch), and even the slightly more expensive in my state "Russell's reserve 10", I think I remember liking the Knob Creek more than those. Maybe it is because it was one of my first purchases and it had that novelty aspect and has that place in my heart, or maybe I'm misrembering, but I think that jim beam nutty flavor profile really resonates with me. Going to have to revisit this whiskey. Love your channel, man. I'm going through your vids and adding many whiskeys to my buy list.
I saw a bottle of Knob Creek in the local liquor store and the 9 year label caught my eye. Price? $25. I just gave it a test and I'll be going back and picking up 2-3 more bottles at that price. This a big winner. Lots of flavors, great balance and a clean finish.
Like you and I have talked about, for me this in general may be the best value in bourbon. It offers such a great pour for the money and you're getting a bourbon with a great age on it and a really nice proof. Cheers buddy!
Great bourbon great price .. got a handle 1.75L at costco San José ca for 42.99 crazy! Thank you Jason for all the knowledge that you bring to the whiskey industry. Cheers!
I love Knob Creek 9. The regular juice is as good as some "premium" bourbon I've had, if not better. And I'm now on my second bottle of a Kelly Liquors store pick that is very nearly the best whisky I've ever had.
I too am glad the age statement is back. With a new generation of sophisticated sippers and collectors, this returns a marketing cache that might just help their bottom line better than aging down.
I tried with this one. So much so to try a second botttle. Its not the proof.....its just too much ethanol. There are flavors i like.....but, its not for me. Elijah Craig smalll batch 94 proof. Thats what i love. The start is smooth......then the finish is long with oak. My favorite bourbon. Just a matter of taste preference. Good review as always. Cheers!
Great stuff Jason! First time chiming in. I find Knob Creek to be so consistent. Can't wait to try the 9 yr statement when it hits the shells in South FL. Keep up the great work. Cheers!🤙
Love the info. Thanks. I tasted this in a blind line up of 6 a few years ago. I only did 3 at a time coz bourbon blows my pallet out so it took a few days but Knob Creek was my favorite and I could pick out the Makers Mark, which I don't like (but I ordered MM at a bar a few days ago and it was not bad, but maybe it was not regular MM, hell maybe it was not even MM who knows what you get at a bar if they run out of something?) Anyway, I think YOU should taste blind. Not that we don't trust you. 😀
Hi Jason, to my surprise I found it last week in Michigan. Usually I don't find new releases in Michigan. I opened it and it taste very similar to Booker's country Ham..I shared with a friend and too liked it and he doesn't believe it costed 30 bucks
I found a 9yr 120 proof single barrel last year on the shelf in a small podunk liquor store... bottle from 2012. I'm really looking forward to opening that after watching this!
Got my first bottle of the new 9y yesterday. Blind tasted it against the old 9y and the patiently aged, both half a year to one year open. Shocking result: 1. P.A. 24,5/30 points, 2. Old 9y 23 points, 3. New 9y 19,5 points. Not even close to the other two. I convinced myself of the neck pour theory and will do a rematch ;)
Coincidence, I picked up this bottle last evening from my stock. My bottle doesn't have the 9 year age statement on the bottle, but I poured a dram/shot/etc. to drink along with you. I'll replace my current bottle with the 9 to see which one I like more. TFS
Great review, Jason! I'll have to pick up the new 9, the 12 is fantastic. Love the music and visuals of the reviewed bottles in your reviews. Cheers brother
Just switched over from my Elijah Craig combo (EC 94 proof/ECBP A120) to my Knob Creek combo (KC 9/KC 120 Proof SP). The Knob Creek combo is winning, right now. Really good stuff.
Jason, heard you compared this new KC 9yr 2020+ to the pre 2016 KC 9yr, but I can not find it. If you can provide a link or what to search, that would be great. Thank you!
Great review! I found this bourbon at a place about 30 min from me, the 9year statement is nice, and for 26.99 what I paid, is a great value. Will be trying this coming weekend, cheers!
Yeah the new Knob creek 9 is a banger it’s one of the best bourbons for the coin in my opinion, it has depth, proof, complexity all for a price you can’t beat. They have some really nice holiday packaging, I saw a 750 ml standard bottle of the 9 with two glass tumblers for $32.99!! I can’t believe I may just have to buy one for myself as my present this year haha
I picked up the 9 year the other day and I thought it was slightly more complex and nutty. I feel the 9 year just gives you a little more on the palate..
I've got whiskey guy @ my local liquor store & he's been taking an a pretty wild journey. This is my most recent bourbon & by far my favorite! Which is shocking because I generally lower opinions of big box brand whiskey like Jim Beam, but this one is REALLY GOOD!
I’m pretty new to the world of good whiskey and it’s hard to decipher the nose and the tastes. I just purchased a bottle of the Knob Creek 9 year. I definitely understand certain (I guess more obvious) notes like vanilla, brown sugar, cherry and oak, but the more complex notes allude me. I was wondering how you can differentiate certain notes? Looking forward to continuing my journey into the glorious world of whiskeys.
KC is always on my shelf. My go to daily drinker. I usually go for the 120pf single barrel but the small batch will do. Just real classic bourbon and definitely one of the best values in terms of price to quality. Your reviews are always dead on .well done as usual. Cheers Jason.
I finally decided to grab a bottle of Knob 9. I've been avoiding it. The last memory I have of this is getting extremely inebriated in college one night when we decided to try this instead of the Windsor we normally drank. Oh man... 20 years later the horrible memory is still there on the first sip! May have to give this one away. Haha! Same reason Captain Morgan still instantly makes me dry heave. Terrible life choices when I was young and dumb.
Nice to see the 9 return. Do you have a bottle of the classic 9 to do a comparison with ? If not I have a couple of bottles left in the stash if you are interested ? Cheers
I’m glad the age statement is back because it’s a great always on the shelf higher proofed bourbons. I’m having trouble finding the Single Barrel though.
The Mash and Drum you were very right Jason, this past Friday one of my local stores had the re-released 9 year small batch & 9 year single barrel on the shelf!
Best bourbon for $40. Only competitors I like that come close are WT Rare Breed and OF 100 Signature. I hear there's an 18-year KC but people have told me that the 15 is too oaky so I can only imagine how the 18 is, and at $150 it's way too rich for my blood.
Jason I think my jeptha is wilderness trail. I've heard stuff like I got a bad bottle but had never believed it. It takes me back 20 years corn sweetness like it's fresh out of the still just not warm
In your opinion, is the the KC12 really worth $25+ more than the KC9? I’m thinking I’d rather keep buying 11+ year store picks for the same price as KC12 . Need to pick up a KC9 for a budget bourbon
I really need to try the knob creek bourbon it sounds like. I tried the rye and unfortunately had the OF rye at the time and OF blew it out of the water so I never revisited knob creek
You made this whiskey sound like something I would absolutely hate... Yet this is one of my favorites. Sweet pure honey peanut butter - yuck. I don't know why it tastes much more like oak to me and less like sweet peanut butter...
Are they selling this in a 1.75 liter bottle as well like the earlier iterations of KC Small Batch or is the new 9 yr old being treated more like a new premium offering in a 750 ml size only?
@@TheMashandDrum I was just in Costco in Oak Brook, IL today (Chicago suburbs) and they had the newly reinstated Knob Creek 9 year old in the 1.75 liter size, and for $47! Naturally I grabbed one even though I wasn't shopping for whiskey today. Almost grabbed a Quinta Ruban too, but seeing my spouse was with me... 🙄😆
