What bourbons work well for flavoring beer?

Background:

I am a large fan of bourbon flavored beers and have flavored a number of my homebrews with various bourbons with a wide range of results.

Question:

What bourbons/whiskies result in a good flavor in beer?

For anyone starting out with flavoring using bourbon, this is a question that will likely be raised along with:

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Topic bourbon flavor homebrew

Category Mac

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I don't know if there's an answer to your question because it's totally subjective and based on personal taste. For instance, I have a rather "famous" Bourbon Vanilla Imperial Porter recipe. I use Jim Beam in it and it turns out great. Other people also like the beam in the recipe. But you've said you don't like it, even though I could recommend it based on my experience and other people's recommendations, it wouldn't work for you. I can tell you that my experience is that if the brand of bourbon actually makes a difference, you may be adding too much.

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I think you could end up with problems adding straight bourbon to any fermentation even secondary because the added alcohol will stress the yeast. I would suggest soaking oak chips in bourbon then putting the oak chips into your secondary. as for soak time your going to have to play with that and do some research and figure out what works best for you and your processes.

Good luck!

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