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Well, I have to add my welcome to a fellow Michigander as well. I seem to wax active and wane inactive on this site (though not in my consumption).

Jeff (enjoying the Rodney Dangerfield of ryes,...

Mark

Let me add my welcome to you. I keep trying to figure out how we all in S.E. Michigan can get together but I haven't done it yet. Driving after bourbon is the problem.

Jeff

I ordinarily wouldn't have a bottle of this, but I got one from an ex-manager of a Orlando liquor store who owed me a favor. (Funny story behind it that I'll tell over a drink sometime.)

Not...

See my post on this subject from about two years ago. I had a bad cork that produced this mustiness.

Jeff

I agree with a minor difference - I would take the Single Barrel over the Small Batch. But they are both wonderful bourbons, and perhaps the best of the Kentucky-only bourbons. The only...

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It's evidently still available. I'll have to arrange with my Toledo connection to accept shipment. (#*&#% Michigan laws!)

Jeff

I don't think you will, either. It is an old Baltimore production, and I think it's only sold in that area.

Jeff

When I have a little left of a bottle of a whiskey other than a mass produced one, I like to open the new one before the old one is gone and compare them. This is especially instructive with single...

A Heaven Hill secret of limited availability is the 10-year-old Old Heaven Hill Very Rare Aged 10-Years 100 proof Bottled-in-Bond. You might alert your uncle to this.

I think I paid about $10 for...

While I agree with you that the described problems are not typical of cork problems, last year I had a classic "corked" bottle of EC12. I opened the bottle and poured a splash, and the nose reeked...

Where is "around here," my good man? That sounds cheap to me.

I'm off to Cincinnati Monday (not far from SE IN) to pick up my elderly mother for a visit up here. (9 hr RT) ...

I suspect that I may not be the only one with the standard bottling plus single barrel bottlings - in my case, Barrels No. 1 and No. 2 from Cork 'n' Barrel in Covington, KY.

Shall we include...