The drink: Long Black Beam
Alcohol : 7 per cent
Available: Dan Murphy’s and other good bottle shops
From: Bottled in New Zealand and Australia, from the United States
Price: $19.99 for a 4-pack

As an avid bourbon drinker (though not necessarily what you’d call an aficionado), I approached this previously unseen ready-to-drink four-pack on the bottle shop shelf with undiluted anticipation – after all, it carries the Jim Beam promise of quality, so what could possibly go wrong?

And my longtime faith in the longtime brand was upheld – this drop is quality-plus in the usually watered down and sugary RTD market.
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