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Our Bourbon Of The Month

  • BOTM 05/2025 Old Forester Rye May 1, 2025
    It’s Kentucky Derby time!  Woodford Reserve is the “official” bourbon of the Derby, but its fellow Brown-Forman brand Old Forester is a secondary sponsor of the race. To shake things up for this month’s BotM, I’d like to discuss a rye – Old Forester rye!   The Basics   Distillery: Old Forester Brand Owner: Brown-Forman […]

History

  • How Special Is This Bottle? April 21, 2025
    I'm new here and have been enjoying the discussions. I'm curious if I could get some feedback from some of the pros here about a bottle of Old W.L. Weller Special Reserve that my great-grandfather bought in Midway, Kentucky in the 1950s. (He was born in Midway in 1895). I have been unable to find out […]
  • Old Rip Van Winkle NAS 1989/1990 October 23, 2024
    Hello, I am a new member from Germany.   I am interested in Old Bourbon Bottles. Knowing something but want to learn more, so I joined this forum.   Somebody offered me this bottle to buy for 2000€ (~2150USD) (Pics seems to come from a shop) Looks great, but I cant find informations about this […]

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  • Happy Derby Day 2025 May 3, 2025
    To all who celebrate!  
  • The bourbon barrel business as told by 60 Minutes April 14, 2025
    OK this is fun. A lot of info that is well known to us here but is very educational to the general public. Also nice to see Kentucky and ISC getting some national recognition.    
  • Online Bourbon Buying Experience April 12, 2025
    Sharing my experience with a couple of online sources:   Flaviar:   It's been a horrible experience thus far. So far, I've placed 2 orders, both failed. One was lost in shipping and the other cancelled. In both cases my funds were tied up for weeks. I'll give them one more shot, but as a […]
  • Heaven Hill and Lux Row's crazy expensive membership programs…. April 1, 2025
    Heaven Hill and Lux Row have both come out with crazy expensive membership programs that guarantee's access to their limited/rare bottle offerings on a quarterly basis.  The Heaven Hill program, called the Connoisseur Circle guarantees you the right to purchase the Heaven Hill Heritage Collection bottle (the HH19yr wheated bottle this year), along with the […]
  • OGD 7yr BIB April 1, 2025
    Oh hello now!    

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  • New to site May 6, 2025
    I am trying to find info on a bottle of Old Weller 107 Number G4090 Any info will be appreciated 
  • Knob Creek 21 Year May 6, 2025
    I just noted that we're going to get a 21 year variety from the folks at Knob Creek (Jim Beam). I'm excited to see this and hope it is a value like what we've seen from the 12 and 18 year varieties.    
  • Old Forester King Ranch May 4, 2025
    I picked up a bottle of Old Forester King Ranch yesterday for $79. My local Spec's had it for $12 off. I had stayed away from it as the reviews have not been great. That aside, I cracked it open last night and I was pleasantly surprised. I enjoyed the bottle. Happy I bought it. […]
  • Signed Dave Pickerell Hillrock April 23, 2025
    Hey guys!  New to the community.  I recently came across a bottle I’d purchased years ago and was curious if it had any value or if anyone had any further info on how the distillery is doing?   It was one of my first non-crappy bourbon purchases.  Hillrock Distillery’s Solera-Aged, signed twice by master distiller […]
  • Jack Daniels 14 Year April 1, 2025
    Anybody been able to snag a JD14 yet?  MSRP looks like $150.  I've had a couple feelers out to some local shops for a couple weeks and one of the owners just messaged me back this morning that they got some in and they'd hold one for me.     Almost all of the big whiskeytubers […]