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I never met a Penelope I didn’t like

I tried a stout yesterday and a porter today. Very good for a 65 degree day

RR 10 after a 1/2 lb Big Wayne, tots and a caramel sundae at Wayne's Drive-in. Highly recommended.

Still working on drinking the BCS pile down. This one is good!

The Amber is really good. I’ve enjoyed most of the ones I’ve tried from them.

The only empties I've saved are BTAC and OF Birthday bottles, plus a few really rare things like 4R Elliot's Select, stuff like that. Everything else I am very happy to send to the trash/recycle bin, because I always need the shelf and bunker space. And like you @Thomm I find some bottle shapes make good utility bottles for refilling after removing the label. I like the OF "Whiskey Row" series bottles as well, plus the older Wild Turkey and current JB Old Tub bottles also have that same "old west" style too. The small W.B. Saffell bottles are also great for refilling/decanting home blends when you don't need a full size bottle.

I have a hard time parting with the Four Roses Single Barrel bottles. Back when I could find one, John J. Bowman bottles seemed too lovely to just discard, although eventually that's what happened to them. I did hang on to a few OF Prohibition Series bottles for a while. Soaked off the labels and filled them with water and into the fridge with 'em. They have a certain Old West cowboy appeal to them.

Couple dead soldiers...

Having a pour of Barrell bourbon batch #11. This is a tasty bourbon (in my best Samuel L. Jackson voice).

Those are a couple of pretty orange bottles. I’ve always thought the orange cap BiB bottles were nicely designed. Cheers

Ive been getting these awesome bone in ribeyes from a local boutique grocery. But they are bone in, and not on the tiny end of the cut. I trim them to make perfect steaks. But my large beef rib collection grows. Ive been planning on a giant demi glace cook. However tonight I just felt like a stew. Baby saz again as I make a braised beef rib stew. Also the splatter is just from this meal, and shows up drastically in this photo. I try to keep a very tidy area, but this cook splattered a lot.

I guess it's an Old Granddad kind of day...

So Kepler is on the hook to restart the vbts?

One down, one to go!

They say the only dumb question is the one you didn’t ask. With that being said…. Do any of y’all find it hard to get rid of certain empty bottles? Pictured below are my current empties. I have no problem sending the BT and MM to the big brown bin. I’m not sure about the ER and Blanton’s though. I have about 12 or 15 empties I’ve saved over the years for various reasons. I may add the ER and Blanton’s to those. Thoughts?

Very understated indeed Kepler. If you want to know what a "honey barrel" tastes like this small batch SCREAMS DELICIOUS. It's also the answer to VBT #770 (Now locked for additional guesses)

Taking a couple day relaxation trip to Cumberland Falls, KY. A side trip to the Liquor King in Corbin, and picked up some bottles that are not available at all back home, or at least spotty availability. Very glad to add some Cooper’s Craft 100, as I was down to my last bottle. The VOB brings me a smile, as it’s been a while since seeing it, even on some earlier trips to KY and TN. The River Roots “Guardian” was a gift from one of our extended family that we meet up here every year for the family reunion, AKA Hootennanny.

While my curiosity to try one of the uber aged varieties of some brand of light whiskey is piqued, the category itself leaves me uninterested. The recent influx of releases hints to me that MGP is offloading barrels to the market simply to get them out of their ricks. And, the buyers are using all the means to make them attractive on the shelf by promoting the high age statement (which to me is fluff, because it’s not apples to apples with other aged brown spirits), attractive dressing (which I can certainly respect and generally appreciate when done well), attempts at pumping as much flavor into them through a multitude of barrel finishes (let’s face it, probably to make it palatable), and with the option of infusing caramel coloring in it to give it a semblance of color that would be expected of such a high age, but is generally not possible in the uncharted or used cooperage. That said, since I have been such a fanboy of David Perkins for so long, and knowing he played around with the category, I can’t dis it too badly!

Very nice…

is that a liter or handle? I didn’t realize they were still bottling the big boys.

Yeah.....I noticed that, but paid it no mind. According to the Sagamore site, "Each one of our products is proofed with pure, limestone-filtered water from our Spring House built in 1909. It's why each bottle bears a special 1909 marker" I do like their attention to detail...

Well I haven't tasted Act 11 personally, so I can't say one way or the other. My personal stash of HW Midwinter is almost depleted, so I may have to start purchasing it again, maybe as soon as later this year, ... so I suppose I will eventually find out for myself, hah.

I enjoyed a really good old fashioned last night. Simple blend of bullet rye and bullet bourbon with the usual bitters and sugar mix. Very nice

Still one of my go to bourbons. I would like to add a 12 year at the higher proof but not at the current prices

I agree on the 1792. I just added one to my collection. I paid more than double $50. At $10 per year, it was worth it to me but I wouldn’t spend more to replace it