{"id":5369,"date":"2023-10-31T22:43:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T22:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/?post_type=embm_beer&#038;p=5369"},"modified":"2023-11-01T02:19:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T02:19:05","slug":"crown-royal-xo","status":"publish","type":"embm_beer","link":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/beers\/crown-royal-xo\/","title":{"rendered":"Crown Royal &#8211; XO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5370\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5370\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PSX_20231031_183757-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PSX_20231031_183757-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PSX_20231031_183757-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PSX_20231031_183757-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PSX_20231031_183757-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PSX_20231031_183757-1240x1653.jpg 1240w, https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PSX_20231031_183757-508x677.jpg 508w, https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PSX_20231031_183757-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5370\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crownroyal.com\/canadian-whisky\/crown-royal-xo\/\">Crown Royal XO<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Smells of caramel, maple syrup, and toffee. The taste is sweet and fruity with flavors of peach, apple, pear, and and apricot up front. The finish is smooth with a minimal burn, featuring notes of oak, cognac, vanilla, and toffee. Overall, it&#8217;s very sippable and certainly more flavorful than the Fine De Luxe, though I&#8217;m surprised to find it less smooth going down.<\/p>\n<p>A Whisky Sour is super smooth and fruity I actually made this at 2:1:\u00be ratio and it&#8217;s still very sweet. Lots of tart lemon to back it up though and little hints of apricot, green apple, and vanilla underneath. Absolutely delicious.<\/p>\n<p>A Sidecar is well balanced between lemonade, orange gummies, vanilla, and subtle peppery grains and charred oak; very complex and intriguing.<\/p>\n<p>An Apple Jack is smooth, structured, and complex with sweet cinnamon spiced cider and maple syrup transition into baked apple pie, apple butter, vanilla, and oak with a soft warming of the palate. An absolutely divine cocktail.<\/p>\n<p>A Washington Apple is smooth and balanced with the normal apple, cranberry, and vanilla flavors with added notes of apricot and pear underneath.<\/p>\n<p>XO and Cola is smooth and sweet with notes of orange and apricot (a splash of lemon juice accentuates this) with cola and vanilla underneath.<\/p>\n<p>A Manhattan is sweet, spicy, and jammy up front with a bitter oak and vanilla finish with just a hint of apricot. Very good, but the unique qualities of this spirit are lost.<\/p>\n<p>An Old Fashioned is exceptionally smooth with notes of orange and apricot up front and vanilla, peach, cherry, and oak in the finish. An above average rendition of this cocktail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","embm_styles":[],"embm_groups":[],"embm_menus":[],"class_list":["post-5369","embm_beer","type-embm_beer","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"embm_profile":{"malts":"","hops":"","additions":"Finished in Cognac casks","yeast":"","abv":40,"ibu":null},"embm_extras":{"availability":"","notes":"","beer_number":null},"embm_untappd":{"id":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embm_beers\/5369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embm_beers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/embm_beer"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5369"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embm_beers\/5369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5381,"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embm_beers\/5369\/revisions\/5381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"embm_style","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embm_styles?post=5369"},{"taxonomy":"embm_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embm_groups?post=5369"},{"taxonomy":"embm_menu","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embm_menus?post=5369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}