Ultimate Super Wheated Blend?
I have been fooling around with wheated bourbon blends and found a concoction, that I think it pretty complex and easy to drink. Here's my recipe:
6oz Old Fitz Prime (80 proof) (note: these bottles are from 2000 so I am not sure, but taste variation may be a factor for newer or older bottlings.)
2oz Larceny
2oz Old Weller Antique NAS
1oz Maker's Mark
1oz Jefferson's Presidential Select 18yr batch #14
2oz Maker's 46
1oz Vintage Bourbon 17
1/2oz Pappy Van Winkle 15yr (from 2008)
1oz Van Winkle Family Reserve Lot B 12yr (2011)
1oz William Larue Weller (2010)
Now that I have several bottles of Old Fitz to use as a core whiskey I tried to add touches of all the major wheaters. I opted to leave out Rebel yell, It's just so freakin' awful. Sugar water just tastes better. I let this sit for a week and had it neat. It's was surprisingly good given that there are so many different wheated profiles swimming around.
What I would like to see is a proof calculator that can tell you what proof you end up with. If I had to hazard a guess I would say maybe 90...92 proof?
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Bmac
What I would like to see is a proof calculator that can tell you what proof you end up with. If I had to hazard a guess I would say maybe 90...92 proof?
98.7 proof by my rough calculations.
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Tucker
98.7 proof by my rough calculations.
That was some heavy calculations!@_@. Thanks! I guess the half oz of 107 and the 120+ of WLW really bumped up the proof.
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HighInTheMtns
There are 2.5 oz of 107 proof whiskey in your recipe.
Ah! I forgot about OWA. It's sneaky that one!
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Good experiement. When I skimmed this I just looked at the sizes, and missed the fact you let them mingle. I was wondering how you accurately rated a whiskey when you drank over a pint.
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Bourbon Boiler
Good experiement. When I skimmed this I just looked at the sizes, and missed the fact you let them mingle. I was wondering how you accurately rated a whiskey when you drank over a pint.
At that point there all perfect 10's :cool:
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Bourbon Boiler
Good experiement. When I skimmed this I just looked at the sizes, and missed the fact you let them mingle. I was wondering how you accurately rated a whiskey when you drank over a pint.
Intaste.and evaluate each whiskey taking it's flavor.profile into question. I need a sweet low proof core whiskey and OF fit the bill nicely. Everything else is about mixing and balancing flavors. In hind sight I should have added more JPS18 to sooth the over all youth of the blend. I find that VB17 actually doesnt do a good job of that. Since JPS is the oldest wheater I have I use that.
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I like to drink them all separately and let them "mingle" in my belly. "get in my belly!"