Seeing more of the Old Medley 12yo 86.8 proof bourbon. Don't know much about it and at $50+ I haven't been inclined to buy. I presume it is another NDP?
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Seeing more of the Old Medley 12yo 86.8 proof bourbon. Don't know much about it and at $50+ I haven't been inclined to buy. I presume it is another NDP?
Sure looks that way:Quote:
Originally Posted by tanstaafl2
http://www.straightbourbon.com/forum...ad.php?t=19077
OFBB 2005
Sam Houston, Very Small Batch, 10 year (the one with 1836 at the bottom of the label), forgot to note proof
Sam Houston, Very Small Batch, NAS, 85.6 proof
4R SmB from about 2007 (gift set with an engraved glass and a muddle stick)
I passed up this year's Birthday Bourbon at more than one store. It was priced around $55, which is at least $10 more than I'm used to paying for OFBB. I generally buy a bottle every year, first of all because its profile is always different, second, because it's easily found, and finally, because OFBB seems like a bargain compared to other annual releases like BTAC. But at over $50, it's a tougher sell, which is a shame.
Hell, I'll probably go back and buy it, anyway. I really appreciate that there's no Van Winkle/BTAC silliness surrounding OFBB, and I've certainly enjoyed some previous versions. Of course, there've been some stinkers, too...
Yeah.
Ah! Now that you post the link I remember reading this. Don't know why search failed me. I figured it had to be NDP.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChainWhip
Newish stuff seen today (and passed on)...
JD Unaged Rye
Jacobs Ghost
Old Medley 12
Dickel Rye
Bulleit 10
Artfully Aged Basil Hayden
Passed up a Wasmunds bourbon Barrel Kit, if it was rye I might have been tempted..
Don't be tempted even by the rye. I bought the rye kit in 2011. It made awful whiskey. It came out with a very greenish brown tint. I am pretty sure the barrel was only toasted. I made two attempts, one with the rye and one with a MBR block dog. Both end products were worse than the white dogs.Quote:
Originally Posted by michaelturtle1
Now, I will qualify I did make a barrel aged manhattan in the barrel. It had been about 10 months since I last aged anything in it so it needed a little work to get it to hold liquid again, but the end result was quite nice. I will do it again, maybe this week. I used an OF 1849 for the bourbon in the manhattan.
Mike
I passed on some of the old medley stuff for 55 bucks, some of the Jack Daniels clear liquid, and 6 bottles of the Jeffersons 18 (batch 16 I believe) for $89. They should just put up a this is pappy sign, I'm sure it would fly off the shelves. They've had it for awhile.
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Originally Posted by MyOldKyDram
The Jacobs Ghost is not too bad a lite sipper. Someone I won't front them off brought a bottle they had been previewed to the gazebo.