Buy Jim Beam Kentucky Fire Australia – Cinnamon Liqueur Blended With Bourbon

The build is simple. Bourbon goes in, cinnamon liqueur goes in with it, and what comes out is not straight bourbon any more. That matters for label and strength. Flavoured bottles in the Australian range sit at 32.5% rather than White Label's 37% or the 40% of Black and Devil's Cut, because liqueur dilutes the base spirit.

Cinnamon whiskey is a shot category first and a mixing category second. It goes out cold and neat in most Australian bars, which is what the bottle gets bought for. Nobody sips it neat at room temperature twice.

Almost every customer who asks about this bottle asks for Beam Fire, and the two names bring back different shelves. Search jim beam fire and you get cinnamon whiskey from four brands mixed together. Search the full name and you get this bottle. Use the long name if you want a genuine Beam bottle rather than any cinnamon shot.

Here is the part to be plain about. Kentucky Fire has been withdrawn in a number of markets and Australian supply has been unreliable for some time. We are not calling it discontinued until the distributor says so in writing, and not calling it available either. The official Jim Beam Australia range is where to check whether the brand still lists it locally.

Find one for sale and check two things. An Australian bottling reads 700ml, a parallel import from the United States reads 750ml. Then check the price against the shelf below. Anything far above $90 for 700ml of a 32.5% liqueur is pricing scarcity.

The flavoured Beam bottles are all liqueur blends at 32.5%, so they compare directly per 100mL, and the spread is enormous. Honey at $50.95 for the 700ml and Pineapple at $54.60 for the 750ml both land on $7.28 per 100mL. Apple and Peach at $79.99 are $11.43. Red Stag Black Cherry at $89.00 is $11.87, and Orange at $109.99 is $14.67, double the Honey for the same alcohol.

No cinnamon substitute exists in the Beam range, so replacing Kentucky Fire means picking a different flavour. Our recommendation is not the expensive one: buy the Honey at $50.95. It behaves most like Fire, because it goes down cold as a shot and it converts people who say they do not like whiskey. Red Stag is the darker bottle if you also want to sip it.

We cannot price a bottle we do not hold, and we will not copy a figure off another retailer and call it ours. What we can give you is the shelf it belongs on, in the table below, and a straight answer on strength: flavoured Beam bottles here are 32.5%, so a 700ml bottle carries roughly 18 standard drinks, calculated as 0.7 litres multiplied by 32.5 multiplied by 0.789.