Originally Posted by
TMOliver
Perhaps it's decades of conditioning, but I prefer several of the Tennessee Sour Mashes to even the premium and small batch KY Bourbons. Excluding all of Jack Daniel's bottlings which seem to carry a "sweet" after taste, the Sour Mashes carry both yeasty aroma and flavor, while the small batch bourbons err on the edge of harshness (at least to my palate).
I just tried jack Daniels for the first time the other night. I'm at my mother in law's for Xmas, and it's all she has in the house. It does have a sweet aftertaste...I thought it tasted like what I'd expect from a bottle labeled simply "whiskey". There's not much to it.