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Knob Creek Bourbon x Rye

American Whiskey Knob Creek
  • Distiller

    Beam

  • Bottler

    Beam

  • ABV

    56.5%

  • Age

    NAS

  • Price $30 to $59.99

Knob Creek Bourbon x Rye is a blend consisting of 30% 9-year-old bourbon and 70% 7-year-old rye. Produced in Clermont, Kentucky, it hosts a suggested retail price of $49.99.

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Aggregated Reviews
  • Raided Score: 91
  • VinePair
  • By David Thomas Tao
  • Knob Creek Bourbon x Rye is…quite good! It accomplishes some lovely flavor gymnastics balancing between rye spice and bourbon’s sweetness.
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  • Raided Score: 85
  • Drinkhacker
  • By Christopher Null
  • It’s one of the strangest whiskeys I’ve encountered in recent memory, as it doesn’t come across anything like the sum of its parts. I don’t particularly like it, though it has moments where it shines, and it’d be fine in a tall mixed drink.
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  • Raided Score: 93
  • Whisky Advocate
  • By David Fleming
  • Overall it’s lush and with big fruit flavors, jammy thickness, good balance, and richness on the finish.
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  • Raided Score: 92
  • Paste
  • By Jim Vorel
  • Here’s the thing: There’s nothing objectively wrong with any of this. You can’t point at Knob Creek Bourbon x Rye bottle and say that it hasn’t been made with quality components. But at the same time, it seems a little incongruous to me, and I think that I might find either the bourbon or the rye more satisfying presented on its own.
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  • Raided Score: 85
  • Breaking Bourbon
  • By Nick Beiter
  • Knob Creek Bourbon x Rye is an easy drinking, accessible blend of bourbon and rye whiskeys that leans more heavily into the rye side of the flavor spectrum.
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  • Raided Score: 88
  • The Daily Pour
  • By T8ke
  • There’s nothing like it out on the market and this blows the socks off any bourye on the shelf today.
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  • Raided Score: 88
  • The Whiskey Reviewer
  • By Richard Thomas
  • Although this Knob Creek hybrid is not actually superior to either of its constituent expressions, it comes out quite different and equal in quality to either.
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  • Raided Score: 92
  • Robb Report
  • By Jonah Flicker
  • It’s also nice to see a line extension that isn’t another barrel finish. Instead, this is a creative way of using the whiskey that’s already in the lineup to create something entirely new (and very tasty) through blending and changing the proof.
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House Review
  • Nose:

    Big and creamy on the nose, tons of rich, brown sugar sweetness, toffee. There’s a good deal of praline, pepper, orange peel, rich espresso, toffee and butterscotch. Pleasant oak. Lovely nose.

  • Taste:

    Moderate mouthfeel, honey, butterscotch, brown sugar and biiiiiig biiig pepper. Clove, candied ginger, lovely oak and tons of caramel. It’s sweet up front, big and spicy on the mid palate and the oak and maple drive hard on the back palate. Complex, loaded with spice and cinnamon. Wild, unique, surprising.

  • Finish:

    Long finish, loaded with spice, sweet oak, maple, toffee, strong tannin and cinnamon, ginger and cracked pepper.

  • Overall:

    I had a lot of guesses going in as to what I thought this was going to be like, and truthfully it zigged every time I expected a zag. It’s bold, rich, sweet, spicy, rich and peppy. There’s nothing like it out on the market and this blows the socks off any bourye on the shelf today.

  • Score:

    88

  • Disclosure: The producer provided this sample to review free of charge, and without expectation of review or rating.

  • By T8ke
  • Our in house critic rates spirits on a scale of 0-10 (10 best) and is aggregated the same as external sources