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This antique 1976 Jim Beam Bicentennial bourbon was stored for 44 years in a glass decanter. The whiskey itself is more than 8-years-old and comes in at 80 proof. How does bourbon from the 1970s compare to the whiskey of today? Become a supporter on Patreon: http://www.Patreon.com/BourbonBytes Join the Whiskey & Gaming Lounge Discord: http://www.BourbonBytes.com Follow Bourbon Nostalgia: http://www.Instagram.com/BourbonNostalgia http://www.Facebook.com/BourbonNostalgia #WhiskeyTube #Bourbon #WhiskeyTube #Bourbon #RyeWhiskey
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Hey everyone and welcome to Bourbon Bites Whiskey Reviews with a retro gaming twist
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Today we're going real retro because we have Jim Beam from 1976
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So this is one of two decanters actually provided to me by viewers and friends of the show
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Donnie and Diana. You may know him as the Lenox Cat. They sent me these two beautiful
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Jim Beam decanters to celebrate the 1976 Bicentennial. As you can see here, these were of
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Norman Rockwell covers from the Saturday Evening Post. They tell you a little bit more about the
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back, about, you know, how he was an American icon in advertising and marketing, especially with these
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covers that he did. He actually painted 320 covers for the publication, and I know he's also done a
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lot of art with whiskey brands. By the way, if you're interested in vintage bourbon and whiskey
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ads, check out my Instagram page, Bourbon Nostalgia. I'm posting all of these classic
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really cool ads from the 50s, 60s, 70s, and I'm having a ton of fun researching it. So if that's
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something you're interested in, go check it out. We also have a Facebook page for that too. So these decanters are 100 months old, which equates to about eight years old, a little bit
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older They are at 80 proof so they are a little lower proof However I think it such a cool opportunity to try vintage whiskey like this I did a previous video of a 1970 Ezra Brooks So if you missed it I put a little info card here too but you can check it out in the description after the show I kind of want to make a series
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on these vintage whiskeys. So if you happen to have a vintage whiskey and you'd like to send it
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in for a review, I'd love to have a sample of it just to try it and give my thoughts on it. I think
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it kind of fits with the whole retro theme here very, very well. Now, what makes these even more
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interesting is these aren't actually like lead decanters like you see a lot of. These are actually
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glass. It's just a painted glass. So the whiskey inside should be pretty well preserved. So I have
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broken the tax strip here, but it was sealed when I received these. So I know for sure this is legit
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So I don't know if you can see, but like I said, these are glass. It's just painted glass. So the whiskey inside is hopefully unaffected. So let's go ahead and pour it and see what 1976 Jim Beam
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really tasted like. And I am so glad to see that this whiskey is crystal clear. There's no cloudiness
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Sometimes cloudiness is something you have to look for with an older whiskey, especially if
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it's potentially been contaminated just whether it be age or air or whatever. This whiskey though
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looks really really good. So on the nose this one is really really interesting. It's unlike any gem
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beam I have ever smelled before and I think it's because it's really like ripe fruit and not
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necessarily the darker fruits you would get on bourbon today To me it almost like it very pear I would say And I don think I ever gotten a pear note on a bourbon before It almost goes a little apple crisp but definitely has those baking spices cinnamon sugar even but it
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really, really bright and vibrant on the nose. So I'm curious to see how it tastes. So cheers to
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you, Donnie and Diana. And thank you so much for sending me these bottles. Cheers. on the palate it keeps that cinnamon sugar i don't get as much of the pear that i was getting
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on the nose but it still has like a really bright fruit like a baked pie maybe like an apple pie or
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even like a like a pear like a baked pear pie definitely like super spiced i mean that cinnamon
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is so apparent almost like even an allspice there too but then it kind of goes graham crackery i
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don't know if that's more of like a vintage like it's either it's weird but it's either graham
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cracker or like a dusty book. It kind of, it's like a dusty graham cracker, if that makes sense
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It definitely has a vintage feel to it. And again, this is only eight years old, so it's not like
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it's coming from the age of the whiskey itself. I think that's just the way whiskey was back then. Like I said, in the Ezra Brooks video, I think I got a very similar nose. It's been a minute since
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I did that one, but yeah, it's a little dusty, but not necessarily in the way that you would expect
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from a bourbon. Not too much oak. Even though this is an eight-year-old product, I don't get too much
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oak on the palate However it does have it does show up a little bit on the finish The finish isn super long but for an 80 proof whiskey it definitely a pretty significant finish And I think that where the oak definitely shows up It definitely gets that dustiness that I got on the end of the palette transforms into
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more of like an oaky finish on the whiskey. I don't think I've had an 80 proof whiskey in recent years or at all that has been this
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balanced and this enjoyable of an experience. I mean, maybe I'm being a little bit influenced because it's almost 45 years old and it's
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just a really cool experience. and that. But I will say there is something really, really special about this whiskey
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Highly recommend these old decanters from Jim Beam. I love that they're glass. I love that the
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stuff inside is just as good as it probably was when it first came out. So thank y'all for watching
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gaming twist i'm clifton and i'll see y'all next video cheers
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