My thoughts exactly. In fact, this describes almost exactly my experience last week. Given the choice between Beam and Maker's Mark, and knowing that I'd be charged a premium for the MM, I went...
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My thoughts exactly. In fact, this describes almost exactly my experience last week. Given the choice between Beam and Maker's Mark, and knowing that I'd be charged a premium for the MM, I went...
I've side-by-side compared the 80 proof and 100 proof Rittenhouse expressions and the BIB is definitely a different and better whiskey, although the 80 proof is not bad at all.
My favorite in that category is Old Overholt Rye, which is not actually a bourbon but I think it fits your criteria.
By happy coincidence, I was at a friend's house yesterday and he offered me a pour of his favorite bourbon, which happened to be WR---batch 201, specifically. This was the first sample of WR I've...
I had a bottle from batch 133. It was okay, but never really knocked me over---I figured there were other bourbons I liked better in the same price range, and after finishing that bottle I have not...
ETL is my favorite bourbon. http://www.straightbourbon.com/forums/images/graemlins/yum.gif
Ah, well, now I know where to look for it.
I feel a little need to amplify that statement a bit---there are many good Scotches that cost a lot more than good bourbons, but there are a fair number of Scotches that are pretty good but don't...
I finally got to the liquor store over the weekend and picked up a bottle of Old Fitz BIB, and I cracked it open tonight. For perspective, I side-by-sided it with Maker's Mark and Weller 12yo, and...
I went to two different Binny's stores over the past week looking for OF 100. In the past they always used to have it, but now it seems that they have made a chain-wide decision to only carry the...
I ran out of KC a while back and only recently got back to the store for some more. It's good stuff, as everyone here has basically said already, but I would like to touch on one aspect that hasn't...