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Jack Daniels Triple Mash: When Three Whiskey Styles Collide
The Jack Daniels Triple Mash offers a uniquely sweet whiskey experience by combining three different mash bills in a way that challenges expectations of the Jack Daniels brand. This innovative expression earned 14 out of 18 knocks in our barrel bottle breakdown, making it a standout bottle at the $40 price point.
• Triple Mash combines 60% Tennessee Rye, 20% Tennessee Whiskey, and 20% American Malt
• First-ever release containing Jack Daniels' American Malt (100% malted barley)
• Exhibits notes of Sugar Smacks cereal, maple syrup, caramel, and hazelnut
• Noticeably sweeter than traditional Jack Daniels products without being artificial
• Features a dark chocolate finish with pleasant hazelnut undertones
• Shows thick legs in the glass indicating excellent viscosity
For beginner bourbon drinkers, we recommend three excellent gateway whiskeys: Basil Hayden 10 Year for smoothness with flavor, Old Tub for Jim Beam fans wanting to step up, and Evan Williams Master Blend for those who typically find bourbon too harsh.
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Ready for a whiskey that breaks all your Jack Daniels expectations? The Triple Mash delivers a sweetness profile so rich, you'll wonder if they secretly added sugar (they didn't).
Diving deep into this innovative expression, we explore the fascinating combination of three distinct whiskey styles: 60% Tennessee Rye, 20% Tennessee Whiskey, and 20% American Malt—marking the first-ever public appearance of Jack Daniels' 100% malted barley offering. The result? A cereal-forward flavor reminiscent of Sugar Smacks that evolves into maple, caramel, and finishes with delightful dark chocolate-hazelnut notes.
At just $40, this Bottled in Bond expression earned an impressive 14/18 knocks on our Barrel Bottle Breakdown scale. The thick legs and remarkable viscosity provide a mouthfeel that elevates the drinking experience beyond what you'd expect at this price point. If you've historically found Jack Daniels too harsh or one-dimensional, Triple Mash offers the perfect entry point into appreciating what the brand can achieve when it steps outside traditional boundaries.
We also explore three perfect beginner bourbons for different palates: Basil Hayden 10 Year for scotch drinkers seeking smoothness with flavor complexity; Old Tub for Jim Beam fans ready to elevate their experience; and the rare Evan Williams Master Blend for those who typically find bourbon too intense. Each offers a gateway into the whiskey world without overwhelming the palate.
Whether you're a seasoned enthusiast or just beginning your whiskey journey, this episode provides valuable insights into approachable expressions that deliver remarkable flavor. Have you tried the Triple Mash yet? We'd love to hear your thoughts!
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Speaker 1:We are going to do the Jack Daniels triple malt and I just gave a whole brief thing, but maybe I can brief it afterwards, after we're done. But basically it's made of three different malts a rye, jack Daniels rye, mash bill, mash bill. Also it's made of Jack Daniels regular mash bill 8012 barley, 8012 rye. And then the last one is 100% American single malt. I mean, it's American malt. And who knew that they made a Jack Daniels. Oh, you have a couple of Jack Daniels single malts. Oh, okay, randy, so this was the first expression that they included in, but now they have it.
Speaker 1:So I'm going to put this in my glass and we are going to do the Old Louisville Whiskey Company. They're in Louisville, kentucky, with Amin down there, their sponsored barrel bottle breakdown for the Scotchy Bourbon Boys. The barrel bottle breakdown is made up of a Nox you can get from four categories of aroma, taste, body and finish aroma, taste, body and finish um. The aroma and the body are in a category of up to four knocks and the taste and the finish are in a category of up to five knocks per category. If you think one of the categories is exceptional, I can give it a but up up so that it can get an extra, but it's only one category that you can give it an extra um every once that it can get an extra, but it's only one category that you can give it an extra um every once. While I broke the rules, but in this case we're going to give this uh, barrel bottle breakdown for jack daniels triple mash one and I'm I I really believe that this is my overall favorite Jack Daniels.
Speaker 1:Of all of it I've tasted a lot. I've tasted barrel proof it all has. Randy was saying a lot of it has. I'm going to put some in the shot glass because I'm going to respect it. I pulled this from the tasting it's little when we bought our, our stuff.
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Speaker 1:To be able to do this, oh tricky. And you hold it up and in the glass it has thick legs as it drops back down Long thick legs. I don't know if you can see that yes, you kind of can in the reflection. That is some nice, um, viscosity. That's one thing that I thought about this triple mash. When you're dealing with the three different mashes. I mean I don't know what this is so unique to jack daniels, considering, um, they've been doing so much. Uh, what would you say? Um, they do so, they. They just did jack daniels. Then they came out with single barrel. Then they came out with um, their their barrel proof, but overall it's the same mash bill and it all has the similar thing going on. But, um, I find it that this is something unique and different and I really like it.
Speaker 1:So I'm a little bit biased to start off. So I am going to take a sip. I mean the rye, the bourbon or the Tennessee whiskey sweetness is amazing. It is sweet, it's right up there. It's the sweetest Jack Daniels product by a mile. And I don't you know that malty flavor that single malts have. It's kind of hmm, what is it? Let me do that again. I'm trying to think what cereal that is. I'm trying to say Lucky Charms, you pick up the grain of the barley. Oh, it's close. I'm trying to think what else is there. Let's try that again. It's delicious.
Speaker 1:The nose I would have to, like I got to figure out with my nosing kit what that's, what those smells are. The sweetness is so good. All right. So there's a little bit of, you would say, the marzipan on the nose. It's chocolatey and it's just the right. I mean it just. For me this just fits as far as a nose. It's only a $40 bottle of bourbon.
Speaker 1:But when you're looking for different, it's kind of cool. I mean it's different. It's not like any Jack Daniels I've ever had. So there's up front, on the taste, it's hard for you to say they didn't add sugar, hard for you to say they didn't add sugar. I feel like now it's something sweet, like it's caramel but maple. So it kind of goes from caramel maple. Then it pulls off an oak, somewhat of an oak flavor, like the wood of the barrel, a little bit of char and then there's nothing harsh about it With a. It almost goes cinnamon, like you had a breath mint, but then it's sweet and then it's chocolate.
Speaker 1:But what kind of chocolate? I don't know if it's marzipan, because that's bland to me. Usually it's more like a dark chocolate and the finish is medium. But the dark chocolate hangs out like no, it's long, it just hangs out in the back, so there's no leather. It's like a dark chocolate, hazelnut finish like dark, dark but with a little bit of hazelnut to add the sweetness in. So that's kind of a cool.
Speaker 1:I'm like you could see me. I looked at the thing, you could see me there. Uh, just thinking I'll sit back up. Uh, so far are we still. We're still going. So let's give this. Let's do the bottle, the barrel, bottle breakdown of, let's see. So I'm gonna give this nose. Now there's a little pepper on that one. I'm gonna give the nose a three, three bright knocks on the barrel. Now I would say sugar smack cereal. Let's see. Almost. Yeah, I think that's closer than Lucky Charms there. John Cheers, matt, good to see you. Let's go to the body. In the glass it does amazing and you're drinking it. If I could give it a three and a half, I would. The half is there. I don't know if I could give the body a four, but it's three. So it's definitely a three on the body.
Speaker 1:Now this is the part where it's tricky for me, I think out of five I really like this, but this has the richness and goodness that I like, but I don't. I don't see it having it's so sweet. I don't see it having it's so sweet. It's really really sweet. Like it's like you would think this was flavored. It's that good as far as sweetness Taste, it's just not complex enough. Its complexity is that it has flavors of mixing a rye, a Tennessee whiskey, slash bourbon and then American single malt all together. So the complexity is that I have a hard time picking out the flavors because they're not flavors that are normally there. But they are delicious. I gotta give it four of five on the taste. That's what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1:I fixed my, I fixed the barrel this weekend, I did a whole new cleanup and everything on the, so that everything behind if you look, there's some new bottles back there and there's not the same ones always as always. And you know I've pretty much straightened everything up. It was clutter. I couldn't move around. Oh, there was a really cool spider down here too. I sucked that baby up. Wife thought it was a brown recluse, but I don't know A brown recluse Recluse, that's funny. And then I look at John Rich Sugar Smack cereal with the frog. Yeah, I could see that All right. So we gave it the.
Speaker 1:The finish is pleasant. You're talking about a nice dark chocolate, a sweet dark chocolate, not a dark dark chocolate, and there's a little bit of nutty hazelnut in there. That's a delicious finish. That's surprising and, like I say, I absolutely love this. This is, this is something that I go out of my way. If I see a bottle and I'm getting low, I'm gonna buy another bottle of it. It's just something that is kind of special from Jack Daniels and, uh, I would. It's definitely highly recommendable. But the finish I'm going to give a four to two.
Speaker 1:So we're looking at 14 out of 18 for a 40 bottle of bourbon or whiskey, blended whiskey. I mean, can you go wrong with that? Um, I think that 14 out of 18 on. I wish there was a couple of the other guys on tonight, but they're not. But I picked this because I thought it was kind of special and it was a good thing to do and a good sequence into as we move that out. 14 out of 18,. Folks Highly recommend Jack Daniels' triple mash. I would say normally Jack Daniels for me is a 10 or a 12, depending on 8 out of 18. Not bad, but it's not my favorite. So there you go, 14 out of 18. All right, so let's start our beginner bourbon.
Speaker 1:So the way that I look at a beginner bourbon is people just getting into. There's two types of beginners. One, somebody who has drank whiskey their whole life and they've drank Jim Beam and Jack Daniels and they've had stuff at the bar. They had some Maker's Mark, wild Turkey 101, and they're ready to come into the lifestyle of, you know, not getting, not drinking whiskey to get drunk, but drinking whiskey to drinking whiskey to get drunk but drinking whiskey to um, appreciate it and taste it. And, you know, kick back, relax, you know, just do the whole bourbon lifestyle or whiskey lifestyle. That's like.
Speaker 1:That's one of the reasons why scotch was so popular, in my opinion. I don't know anybody who just chugs scotch or goes out and does shots of scotch. You get a scotch, it's because there's some value to it and you're celebrating and you're just having it, you're sipping, relaxing. That's what scotch was and now that's what bourbon is to me. So if you're a beginner going into the connoisseur, that's one thing, but if you're a beginner, that's starting out.
Speaker 1:Somebody who really didn't like whiskey and didn't drink a lot of whiskey, people who drank vodka, gin, rum, whatnot these ones that I'm going to discuss and one's going to be controversial. I don't think they might all be controversial, but there's what I started with. The main thing of what I started with was started with was Jack Daniels was all. I was like whatever. But what got me first was Basil Hayden. Now, this isn't Basil Hayden, this is Basil Hayden 10 year.
Speaker 1:So I'm kind of going out on a limb tonight and saying I would suggest Basil Hayden too, I think. Think anybody who wants to start. It's a great bottle, great design, nice cap. Basil Hayden is 80 proof, so you're not going to get overproofed and the regular Basil hayden is fantastic. But if I wanted to pull somebody in and take them instantly where they'd be like really, really impressed. But it also is the right. Um, what would you say? Let's get a little water in there. The right thing I would suggest to somebody, if they could get it, basil hayden 10 one. It's a little bit more expensive than basil hayden, it's a higher end bottle, but what 10 year is is. Basil Hayden to me lacks a little bit of flavor, where I want a little bit more flavor at 80 proof.
Speaker 1:Well, in my opinion, to start out, if you were going to start somebody out who was getting into the higher ends or you're just starting out and you haven't I think Basil Hayden Tenure is a fantastic one to start out. It's a perfect bridge. You're going to be paying a little bit more. You're not paying the $40, $35, $40. You're paying the $50, $60. And that's where whiskey is right now. So I really think that the bridge for somebody all right, $79.99. All right. But in Ohio it was $74.99, if I'm not mistaken, the last time I got it, when I got this bottle. So the nose on it is spectacular.
Speaker 1:It's bourbon, it's, you know, a Jim Beam product at $80. Anything higher proof in this mash bill from Jim Beam is old granddad. They said they're never changing Basil Hayden as far as its standard $80. Then the $10, it's $80. They're keeping it at 10-year and everything. But when you're talking about bottled and bond, basil Hayden is old granddad. That's the next level. That's why they don't change it, because they already have the brand in another form. So this is going to stay the same all along. But there's also a reason why they're not changing Basil Hayden.
Speaker 1:As far as Basil Hayden, now, they have Basil Hayden Smoke. They have Basil Hayden Toast, one of my wife's favorite. They have different expressions. They have dark Hayden smoke. They have basil Hayden toast, one of my wife's favorite. They have different expressions. They have dark rye, they have Caribbean rye. They've done all different expressions with basil Hayden but it sticks at this 80 proof.
Speaker 1:You know, up until six, seven years ago, I'm telling you, 80 proof was more than enough proof for most people here in the United States, it just was. So you know that one right there for me is a perfect one. You want to start someone off and they're at your bar and they're like whatever you pull out, basil Hayden 10, I think you make. Yeah, they're no. Bottled in Bond, the Bottled in Bond is Old Grandad Walker. This is 80 proof. But Bottled in Bond, basil Hayden is old granddad. Old granddad becomes the mash bill of Basil Hayden. When it's in a bottled in bond form, it becomes old granddad. That's what I was making out for that one. But you drink it. In my opinion, the 10-year has everything that you need, but it is People who are just starting on it, beginners.
Speaker 1:The word that they want to use is everything's too harsh. They want smooth and in my opinion I call it easy, and this is easy with flavor. That's what I want to say, whereas a lot of time with regular Basil Hayden there's not as much flavor. So you can get somebody I think most people like if somebody drinks Jim Beam. I think this for them to get them into the sipping thing, that's great. If they've had Jim Bean and Jack Daniels, those are a little bit harsher. And what does harsh mean? They got more pepper, they got more spice. That's a little bit hotter, a deeper Kentucky hug. That's what harsher is.
Speaker 1:When you're talking about easy, you're talking about you can taste the whiskey and you could keep it in your mouth and you don't get the pepper or the spice burning your, burning your tongue or heating up your tongue so you can't taste the flavors. I could keep that. And it's sweet. It's got that flavor, that nice bourbon flavor of you know, not too much caramel, a little bit of the, the basil, um, the Jim Beam peanuts there, the. It's just fantastic one to start off at. And that's the first one. The second one it's another Jim Beam product that is bottled in bond. And when we talk if you talk to Bernie Lubbers who's going to be on the podcast coming up, there's not a lot of bottled in bond. Bottled in bond bourbons are the least produced bourbons in the world. So that is kind of cool.
Speaker 1:And this right here is Old Tub. Now, old Tub is unfiltered. This is the original brand of Jim Beam's Jacob Beam. This is what the Beams made for a long time. It was Old Tub and this one's Bottled and Bond 100 proof. Let me read the label. But this is another one.
Speaker 1:If somebody is a beam drinker and they want to start to get in to another level, I really love Old Tub. Now, old Tub is less easy. It's not harsh like beam, easy, it's not harsh like beam, but it's um, gotta gotta kick. So it's somebody who likes whiskey that then they don't mind the little bit of the bite. This has it. So this says all right.
Speaker 1:Before jim beam bourbon, the Beam family made Old Tub, an unfiltered bonded bourbon. Old Tub was the foundation for what would become the world's number one bourbon. This limited edition bottle is a tribute to that groundbreaking whiskey. It comes out, it doesn't. It's not always on the shelf, but when I get one, when my baseball draft is next monday and I will be drinking this old tub and um, it's still got a, a cork, it's a synthetic and let's see what this does tonight, I'll just add a little bit of that. And once again, in my opinion, great to suggest to somebody, especially if they like beam, but they, you know, they know they're like.
Speaker 1:I just like Jim Beam, I like Jack Daniels, and you want to get them, you want to bridge them into higher end bourbons. This is the one. Also, you got Basil Hayden, I got one more. Yep, there's a little bit more. There's a little more, there's a little, it's 100 proof. It's got a little bit of leather on it. Um, jim Beam with the add of leather, and this is more like just what would. This was for a whiskey lover, that would, um.
Speaker 1:The other comparison that I would use is Old Taylor Small Batch. But I'm going to tell you, old Taylor Small Batch is bottled in bond and it's these two. This is cheaper, this is like $24.99, where Old Taylor will run you about $50 right now or $40 something. But but Valiant Hanick said did you ever try Melody Brothers? I have, but not a beginner bourbon, that's for sure. So I'll say that the Old Tub has a little bit more of the bourbon flavor and the whiskey, but it's not complex. So you're going to be able to pick some of the flavors out for someone beginning and this is something that I'd offer, because they are able to pick these flavors out and then you can kind of say do you taste a little bit of caramel? Do you taste a little bit of peanut? Do you taste the leather on the finish? You can kind of this is right for it's great for people who start out, but those two and basil hated in the tenure.
Speaker 1:But my thing is someone uh, I believe one of the guys said tonight that they suggested evan williams bottled in bond twenty dollars. It's good and I I admit, but I don't think evan williams bottled in bond is good for a beginner and the reason why I I say that is because Evan Williams bottled in Bond, in my opinion, is a man's man's bourbon and if you're trying to get someone into it and they've been drinking Jack Daniels or whatever, it might be a little bit, too much bit, um, too much. But this evan williams and it, this, this is one of my favorite. It is, I want to say, let's just get right back at it. Um, this, this is a blend. Again, it's called evan williams.
Speaker 1:I want to say master blend, k Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey. So it's bourbon, a blend of different bourbons, and it is 90 proof. Now it's 10 proof points lower than the Bottled and Bond. It is, I believe, now 80 bucks a bottle. When I first started I think it was $59.99. It's 60 bucks a bottle but it's up to 80. It might even be $99 a bottle, but it's only available at the Evan Williams Experience. But if I'm going to take somebody and I think about what to give them which is a great beginner's bourbon that has flavor beyond its thing I'm going with this master blend. It has uh, do we go? What did we go with? Okay, we put it over there. It has a masterful blend of five various Evan Williams expressions. Each of these well-crafted bourbons have been married together form a rare and unique bottling of bourbon.
Speaker 1:The Evan Williams family includes four different types of American whiskey types, all represented in an expertly mingled to form a distinct quality bourbon worthy of Evan Williams' name. They have I believe it's the 24-year they have some of it of the higher-end bourbon that they sell very rarely. But this blend is, in my opinion, the perfect beginners. I understand the bottle's a little bit expensive, but if you're going to do it, if you can get this and you do anybody who tries this the flavor is unbelievable. It's, it's sweet, the finish is good and it is easy. Very, very, very. For a 90 proof. This is a drinkable, fantastic introduction to what bourbon should taste like. I mean, I like Cave Hill. That's another one that I absolutely love, except once again, I don't think it's introduction to somebody because I think it's got too much punch.
Speaker 1:Most people that you want to get in, you want to start them off so they can taste the flavors, but you don't want it so peppery and spicy. They can't, and they're basically all they tell you is it burns, it burns. This isn't going to. None of these three are going to burn. All of them are going to be for different people. Starting out this, in my opinion, someone who loves scotch, you do this basil hayden tenure and you convert them over with that. Somebody who likes jack daniels, jim beam and wants a little bit more old tub's, a great thing to bring them over as a beginner. But if you're talking about somebody straight up is coming and they say they don't like bourbon, you, you have them taste this and, in my opinion, you're going to basically start them off on their bourbon journey. So those are the three that I definitely definitely consider you know and like. So it's kind of cool and my it just. These are, these are my opinions, these are my suggestions.
Speaker 1:Tiny loves to talk. I also love to stop the recording and miss the whole thing. I will say for everybody who came on I just want to quickly redo what the mash bills are. Redo what the mash bills are. I wonder if it's actually probably I don't have to go on the on the website, but I will if I have to. A blend of three bonded whiskeys with pleasant notes of honey, malt and soft oak, leading to a long, well bottled and bond. Damn that says that a blend of american malt. Okay, so I'll give you the, the total breakdown, real quick. That's fine. I know people stick around for a sec. Let me just review this for the people on the podcast. I promised understand it just all of a sudden stopped and then you were back in. We're almost to the point. But I can, I'm, I'm right there. I will tell you so.
Speaker 1:The Jack Daniels triple mash that picked up 14 out of 18 knocks in our barrel bottle breakdown the mash bill is 60% Jack Daniels Tennessee rye, 70% rye, 18% corn and 12% malted. In the Tennessee Rye the mash bill is of the Jack. The 20% is Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey, which has a mash bill of 80% corn, 12% rye and 8% malted barley, and 20% Jack Daniel's American Malt which, according to this, they hadn't released. This is their first ever time of releasing American Malt which, according to this, they hadn't released. This is their first ever time of releasing American Malt and nobody even knew they did an American Malt and it's 100% malted barley. Randy Ford has then informed us that EH, taylor Barrel Proof oh, eh, taylor barrel proof, um, secondary, yeah, 200 max. Um, but most of the time when I love actually, the barrel proof is fantastic, but, um, what I wanted to say about this is that the american malt was this is the first time it was released into anything in 2022. It is 2025 now, so they're still releasing it in this because this is the newest expression of the triple mash.
Speaker 1:I picked this up just recently at the jack daniels distillery. Was hoping that day there was some 14, but there was not. But there you go. So, folks, um, um, let me know what you think. I am going to end this on everybody. I really appreciate everybody that's on YouTube, facebook, watching. If you guys want to hang out a little bit afterwards, I can. We could keep talking, but I'm going to end this podcast for the audio, just remember. Let's see if I can get this up. Yeah, it's going to be shorter on the audio because I kind of blew it. So am I still recording? Yes, I'm still recording. I don't know how I did it, but I did it. So, everybody, thanks for joining us. Remember, like I said on Facebook and YouTube, if you guys want to hang on, hang on. But let me finish this up for the podcast tonight.
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