Evan Williams Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey

Tonight's review is of Evan Williams Bourbon. I like bourbon. It's an inexpensive unpeated alternative to scotch and sweeter than whiskey. I'm trying to convince my husband to take a trip to Kentucky in a few years to do the bourbon trail. The only problem is Kentucky is, you know, Kentucky. I know nothing about Kentucky except some old dude made some chicken, they have bourbon, I believe they watch horses run in a big circle, and I assume it's hot and humid. Only some of those things sound fun.

Anyways onto the review.

Cost: $9.99 from Food Max (so you know it's high quality)

Alcohol Content: 43%.

Method: Neat

Color: Deep reddish brown. Like a wet bark chip.

Nose: Brown sugar, vanilla bean, light hints of wood, for sure alcohol scent but not unpleasant.
Taste: Oh man this is weird. It tastes nothing like it smells. Normally that means it smelled horrible and tastes great or smells great and tastes horrible. But this is different. It's not bad at all but unexpected. Like, you know when you are eating dinner at a restaurant and you have a glass of water and a glass of soda  and you go to take a drink of your water but you get soda instead and the soda doesn't taste bad but it's unexpected so you kind of freak out a little bit? It's like that.

This tastes like oak and sugar and a little like pear. I'm not getting any vanilla. It's like if you had a creamy sugary pear popsicle and had gotten down to the wood part that's what this tastes like.

Finish:  Oak, slight alcohol, brown sugar, almost a caramel flavor but not quite.

Over all this was pretty good. Much better than what I was expecting for 10 bucks. Its a little harsh on the finish and might go better in a cocktail if someone wasn't used to bourbon or whiskey. But it's for sure drinkable on its own.