Creating Bourbon Converts

[JamesW]

STOP CONVERTING EVERYONE! Call me selfish but the popularization of bourbon has driven prices through the roof!

Lets' keep how good this stuff is just to ourselves!

[RWBadley]

STOP CONVERTING EVERYONE! Call me selfish but the popularization of bourbon has driven prices through the roof!

Lets' keep how good this stuff is just to ourselves!

Tell me about it. I've seen the same thing happen to Scotch, Tequila, Rum, Brandy, Cognac, Irish, and Bourbon.

The last holdout is Mezcal ;-)

oops,

Cheers

RW

[Luna56]

If you want to convert a SMS drinker, try giving them EC 18 or FR SB or just about anything that's unfiltered at cask strength. Tell them not to compare it to malt, but to enjoy the complex aromas and flavors for their own sake.

That was my approach at first, to offer something I felt was somewhat similar to SMS. No dice, at least with one of my extended family members. He is slowly warming up to it, though, and if I have no SMS on hand he'll take a bourbon. Now I'll get him to try some Baby Saz this Sunday. Maybe I can bring him fully around to bourbon through the back door.

Cheers!

[ILLfarmboy]

That is an interesting approach. I have often seen the opposite advocated. That is, to introduce bourbon to a scotch drinker by having him try something like Blanton's. But since you came to bourbon from malt whiskey, I'll take your word for it.

Now, If I just knew some scotch drinkers to convert. Mostly I know and encounter beer drinkers.

[SBOmarc]

I am amazed by the Scotch bottles I see from bar to bar.
If only the bars owners would pay that kind of attention to Bourbon.

[Luna56]

I am amazed by the Scotch bottles I see from bar to bar.
If only the bars owners would pay that kind of attention to Bourbon.

I think generally that's true, but up here in NH, Glenfiddich is bourbon.

Cheers!

[Stu]

That was my approach at first, to offer something I felt was somewhat similar to SMS. No dice, at least with one of my extended family members. He is slowly warming up to it, though, and if I have no SMS on hand he'll take a bourbon. Now I'll get him to try some Baby Saz this Sunday. Maybe I can bring him fully around to bourbon through the back door.

Cheers!

Any good straight rye is a good choice. If you have something old, unfiltered, and cask strength that would be the best.

[Luna56]

Good tip. Unfortunately the best rye we have in NH at the moment is Baby Saz (not too shabby). I'll pour him a double. If he doesn't like it I'll just finish it for him.

Cheers!