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I just picked up a bottle a week ago. Literally, New Year's Eve. Back in the late 1980s, Old Forester BIB was my favorite bourbon for mixing - a splash in root beer was sublime - but at the $25 I...

I was born and raised in Bloomington, and lived there until I moved to Chicago in 1990 at the age of 25. I cut my bourbon teeth on the fine offerings of a local chain, Big Red Liquors.

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Bourbon whiskey is generally comprised of the following three grains: corn, rye, and malted barley. A few bourbons substitute wheat for the rye.

Corn is the predominant grain; by law it must...

Binny's is pretty much in its own league. As a general rule, if your nearest Binny's doesn't have something but another Binny's does, they'll happily send it to your local. Takes a day or two but...

I sometimes refer to WA as a Poor Man's Rip; it is the same proof as Old Rip Van Winkle 10/107 but three years younger. However, it runs $19 in Chicagoland, as opposed to $30 for ORVW.

What's odd...

I'm finding that FRSB is growing on me of late; I like it much better than I did when I first opened the bottle.

The level of the whiskey is just about to the top of the label; the only thing I...

I wouldn't do it. The bourbon would most likely overpower the Scotch. There are higher-end blended Scotches that cost at least as much as, if not more than, single malts, and they have great depth...

Interesting; I believe that Jim Murray noted cherry flavors, if not cherry chocolate, years ago in Ancient Age Barrel 107, which was a 107 proof expression of Ancient Age that has been discontinued.

Although I've picked up both Handy and W. LaRue Weller, I have shied away from picking up Stagg because I did not care for Buffalo Trace, and my understanding is that Stagg is made from the same "low...

I did try their everyday 80 proof expression a few years ago, back when someone had to bring it to me from their road trip to Kentucky. :) This was long enough ago that it does not stick out in my...

I just picked this up a week ago, and sad to say I find it tolerable but not noteworthy. Was similarly unimpressed by the Binny's single barrel selection of Buffalo Trace; I suppose I'm just not a...