Best Jack Daniel Barrel Aged Beer

River Horse here in NJ made a JD aged oatmeal stout. Which unfortunately for me was lacking the body to make it a great stout.

 

So anyways.....my favorite bourbon is Rock Hill Farms. Yummmm

 

The entire JD / bourbon thing has been beaten to death.

It's a marketing distinction nothing, more... JD is not bourbon... but it might as well be... what whiskey is JAck Daniels?

It's Jack Daniels....

There's lots of discussion and topics out there on it... not hard to find.

http://chuckcowdery.blogspot.com/2014/08/its-time-for-jim-beam-to-drop-number.html


Getting back to topic, I have found very few examples of JD barrels used to make beer that are either well known and more so easily accesible. I honestly can't think of one off the top of my head, other than I think there is an obscure FiftyFifty Eclipse variant, but there certainly have been some made....

simple search does the trick.

http://www.beeradvocate.com/search/?q=jack+daniels&qt=beer

feel free to ditch the retired parameter in the search and thank me later

 

Plus it tastes of shit. All Jack Daniels is shit, all shit is not Jack Daniels.

 

I've only had it once, and it's the only Jack barrel aged beer I've had, but Wormtown's Tennessee Tats was really good.

 

I don't believe that anyone could distinguish one beer barreled in Pvw barrels from one done in. Jack barrel unless you were told which was what. A good beer done right will be good, one badly done beer done in a Pvw barrel will still be a shit beer.

 

Town Hall's Czar Jack is aged in JD barrels and is really good. Not sure if it's the best ever.

 

To go waaaayyy off topic. Imagine what the cost is on one of those barrels? I mean just being a JD barrel cost must be off the charts.

 

It's not that much. Unless you're actually talking about a FULL barrel of Jack, that's really expensive, but breweries buy these barrels from the distiller in bulk and pay less than $100 per EMPTY barrel, more or less depending on the distillery, I suppose, but I just checked and even us common peons can buy an empty barrel that stored Jack Daniels off of eBay, of all places, for less than $300.

 

Give me Woodford reserve anyday...

 

I like to imagine that BA Bigfoot fits the criteria, but that seems doubtful

 

@HoudiniRN

 

"Tennessee Whisky" is a subcategory of Bourbon, actually. It's really nothing more that kind of a brand of sorts

 

Jack Daniels is a Tennessee Sour Mash...charcol filtered...utterly and completely NOT Bourbon....and "close enough" doesnt cut it...Isly Scotch is "close enough" to Highland scotch if you completely discount the entire distilation process..which is what your doing calling it a Bourbon..just because they are both brown and both whiskeys does not make them the same by any stretch of the imagination

 

The legal definition of bourbon can also be a bit shaky. Produce one liquid in the United States, produce an identical liquid in any other country, the former is bourbon and the latter is not.

 

Charcoal filtering does NOT exclude it from being bourbon, contrary to popular assumption. It's a spin-off of bourbon, called Tennessee Whisky in order to make it a more distinct product. But it's still a bourbon, as far as legal definitions go.

 

Ehhh. Kind of. It can be debated.

 

And it is debated much, I still stand by my words.