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Just a bit o yard work today, so I’m finished early. Sittin’ out front smelling the magnolias that flowered for me, with some tunes on, and a Deschutes Fresh Squeezed IPA. Great balanced IPA. And, here I thought that Black Butte Porter is all I needed from this brewery!!

I am here for 15 year old Barton. The 14, 15, and 16 year old Calumets were all excellent. Now of course we need to see the price.

Every once in a while huh.

I will be joining you later today after my own yard work is complete! I have three in the fridge right now.

I usually dont like OF, but I was picking top a salad recently and they have a little liquor display, and a bottle of OF BIB caught my eye, so I took a flyer and it ended up being fantastic.

Nice write up. I've not used any of these. I've ordered a lot (mostly scotch) from Whisky Exchange in London and have had 100% positive experiences. They even refunded me when a 20+ year old Clynlesh leaked in transit. Lost about an 1/8 of the bottle, which was still perfectly fine to drink, but they stepped up and gave me all my money back and let me keep the bottle. I generally order contemporary releases, not duties, because I don't trust anything that old to be genuine. (In the old days, 10-15 years ago, you could order BTAC at retail prices in unlimited quantities from them when they dropped - It was like a cheat code!!) Also ordered a few WT101 12 year olds from Bourbon Concierge and they were fine to deal with. Yes, it's secondary prices, but I don't travel to Japan, so it is what it is. My trust in buying scotch online is much higher than bourbon. I think there's more incentive to counterfeit bourbon, and it seems like a shadier secondary market. If I remember correctly, there's been a lot of fakery with Blanton's and some brands have no security whatsoever, like FR who still just use a one cent plastic shrink wrap anyone can buy in bulk on Amazon. Just my .02 cents tho.

Need pics!

The one in the picture was a gift and it's pretty durn good and very approachable if you're new to rye whiskey. I love rye and Mrs Skinsfan prefers rye over bourbon.

I'm getting into the habit of opening bottles the instant I acquire them. The difference between "just opened" and "open for x months" has been consistently stark. The Rebecca Creek is MGP. The ADHD bourbon guy (he is freaking hilarious and our palates tend to align) tried it blind and went wacko over it. So I wanna try. Cats. curiosity, etc. The Bowman is for comparison to its low-proof BT cousins. The Michter's Ft Nelson Rye just to see "is it really that much better than their excellent 10y/BP ryes".

awesome to hear. I'll be at a tasting event tonight at the local Total Wine. I may just pick one of these up.

I have a Redskins t-shirt in my collection. They'll always be the skins to me notwithstanding why they changed the name of the team. By the way, I think the Jack Daniels Bonded is excellent at its price. I would imagine the rye is equally good.

How is the Widow Jane? I am starting to warm to ryes. Historically, I could only tolerate them in an old fashioned or Manhattan but the Sagamore and Peerless Double Oaked have me starting to enjoy what they have to offer.

We built a pizza oven in our outdoor kitchen. Having that light airy, bubbled crust, lightly coated with some stewed tomato sauce, fresh mozzarella, and basil, drizzled with a bit of olive oil makes the perfect margherita pizza on a late spring, early summer Friday night! Let me see these pizza ovens take time. Like a fine bourbon, it takes time to adjust to it but once you do, you're hooked.

Happy fRYEday. I decided to crack open my HH GtG Rye. I purchased this back in February after resisting the urge for months to buy another expensive rye. I had read positive tasting notes from fellow SBers that were encouraging and tempted me. Then I think the price dropped at my local store by ten to $90 for awhile, ... which proved to be just enough to entice me to pull the trigger. Hah, ... I know we've all been there before My initial tasting feedback... If I tasted this blind I'd imagine that Four Roses finally made a straight rye whiskey that some have been clamoring for. Very strong minty notes, mixed with spicy rye bread. This is only my first pour, so take with a grain (no pun intended) of salt. This is right down my alley for a rye whiskey. Now I can understand why this is priced the way it is. I'm going to enjoy this bottle, and time will tell, ...might even pick up a backup.

For me, the “right” beer can definitely quench my thirst. Unlike other liquids though, it is a one bottle/can kinda thing for me. After one beer, it tends to make me thirsty again. Cheers

This reminds me of my father. He had a fridge in the garage full of beer and some soft drinks. I was middle school aged and one day I was pounding Pepsi’s in the Texas heat. I was probably annoying him with my lack of production in helping him in the yard. He glared at me and said, “if you want to quench your thirst drink a beer goddammit!” So I have been since that day 30+ years ago. And I used to drink that fridge dry and have my own fridge full of beer to this day. Tonight I drank a Maine Beer Company Lunch IPA and a Deschutes Hazy on a little east coast holiday.

For what it's worth, I couldn't resist buying the HH Grain to Glass Rye, based solely on tasting notes from folks here on SB that I have familiarity with and have some level of trust in. I tried to resist buying it (trust me, I do try, lol). I didn't buy the GtG Bourbons simply because they didn't sound interesting enough to me to shell out around a Benjamin for one. I can't explain it, but sometimes a unique rye whiskey makes me pull the trigger (even though I have more ryes than I need, plus I still prefer bourbons over rye, lol). The BIG caveat here is ... I haven't opened the GtG Rye yet. So I don't know whether I made a good choice or not! EDIT: Scratch that last caveat. I've been trying to decide what to have for my weekly fRYEday pour and I think I've just answered my own question. I've been meaning to open the GtG rye and now I have a reason. New bottle crack to be posted over the in American Rye thread in a few.

I only learned it from @flahute Glad I did!

I’ve never thought of that beer as a thirst quencher. But, I see it now. Good call I will give it a try. Cheers

I'm with you sir, cheers to that

I've never had an Old Charter Oak before but was always intrigued. Good to know that it tastes good.

Thanks sir, I love it too. Cheers

Right, no sir. I share your sentiments. I have no interest in buying from someone who isn’t licensed to sell alcohol. Trading is a whole different things. I have a small group where we do this, but yeah, my secondary market purchases are from liquor stores.

I may pick up the rye variety of this tomorrow. It’s at my local total wine. Rye’s are starting to grow on me

Ahh, by secondary market I was thinking you meant unlicensed flippers. Well licensed liquor stores that sell above MSRP are different and I have no problem with buying from them.