Kentucky Owl St. Patrick’s Edition Bourbon

Classification: Blend of Straight Bourbons
Distillery: Sourced
Mashbill: Undisclosed
Age: NAS (blend of 4-11 Year Bourbons)
Proof: 100

Ah now, what have we here? A bourbon with an Irish soul — or maybe an Irish whiskey with a Kentucky swagger. Either way, it’s a marriage that shouldn’t work, like putting butter on a biscuit and calling it breakfast… and yet, somehow, it’s brilliant.

Nose: Sweet as your granny’s kitchen — confectioner’s sugar, caramel, candy corn (whatever that is), a bit of butter, and soft vanilla wafting through like a polite hello. There’s even a note of raspberry sneaking in like it’s not sure it was invited but came anyway. Bless.

Palate: Orange marmalade right off the bat, like breakfast in a B&B that’s too fancy for its own good. Then vanilla custard, caramel streusel, and a full-on fruit cup jump in — it’s like your taste buds wandered into a dessert trolley. But you’re not mad. Not one bit.

Finish: Here’s where it tightens the tie and gets serious — orange peel, rye spice, a kiss of lemon zest, and just enough oak to keep things grounded. Then, cheekily, a touch of pear shows up at the end like it forgot its line but still wants to be part of the play.

Final Thought: It’s a peculiar but lovely meeting of Irish charm and Kentucky brawn — like a ceilidh in a barn with banjos and fiddles both going at once. It’s sweet, it’s spicy, and it’ll make you question where whiskey ends and bourbon begins.

Would I drink it again? Like a true Irishman, I already am.