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What the heck is even the purpose of Weller Millennium. At $7,500 MSRP, I can only assume it's not to drink. Bring back OWA 7 year age stated, single barrel picks the same price as regular Maker's Mark (low $20 odd something). This Weller business has gotten so out of hand. It comes to a point, satire and parody are not even possible.

Depends on the vintage of the BTAC. If 2024 then I would have gone GTS and Saz18. Vintage independent, I probably would have gone THH. The baby saz for $15 is a ripoff. A whole bottle costs like 25 bucks.

I love Bloody Mary made with MC! Mrs. Clueby not so much.

I saw they had it at the BT gift shop this weekend for $7500. "Limit 1" Just drink.your Weller Centennial instead. It's probably better.

I located a bottle of this yesterday but passed. Reviews have been mixed. One person shared it was terrible... I picked up back ups of other bottles instead.

Anyone sampled the Penelope Tokaji finished? I saw a bottle yesterday which I passed on.

Very nice. Would be interesting to sample this against a current day version. Enjoy

I'd have probably gone for the GTS, and maybe the junior version, as well.

I feel the same way about Angel's Envy. I was hugely disappointed in the Triple Oak but I blame myself as I feel I had high expectations. In the same way, I did with the Woodford Reserve Double, Double Oaked which was even more so disappointing.

Nice choice! And, Nice Glass to pour it into!

So went out to eat with the wife for the first time in a while and tried a new place out on the coast before heading to a concert. Asked for the list and was shocked in a good way at the prices for a pour! I will leave up to you all to guess on what 2 pours I ended up going with and would love to hear what everyone else would have chosen from this list given the chance to do so.

You ever have one of those weeks where going for a "traditional" or everyday bottle just isn't going to get it done at the end of the week? Well this was one of those weeks for me and decided I was going to dig deep into the bunker for this one. Boy was I glad I did! So good and I got this bottle back in 2014. Very tasty and rich with flavor! Cheers!

For the uneducated, what's a corn bowl? Sounds like a corn hole tournament? I'm down to my last bottle of ETL and can't bring myself to open it...yet. We've been going for the low fill bottles to clear some room. Went for this 22 EC18 last night. I really love the sweet oakiness of this stuff.

FRYL "freezer bottle" after making won ton for the family with the grandids. Life is great, eh?

ECBP #12 was great as always. Next I had a pour of C922, also excellent but not on the level as batch #12. I was feeling the HH vibes so now I am having a pour of Parker's Heritage #11, the 11 year single barrel release. I'll give the nose and finish to the PHC11 and the palate goes to ECBP 12. Nose: PHC11, ECBP 12, C922 Palate: ECBP 12, PHC11, C922 Finish: PHC11, ECBP 12, C922 Anyway you slice it, three excellent bottles. Glad to have any of these.

I saw in the “What Bottle Did You Open?” thread that @0895 opened a bottle of ETL. So, I shall join @0895 with a pour of ETL. Long but good day today. I helped out at our annual American Legion corn bowl today.

Yes! I had a bottle, bought it back in UT. Still have the empty bottle.

I reckon there's only been one actual hazmat ECBP and that's batch number 6. I've never tasted it.

Yes, good shit! HazMat, for sure. Very very close to Batch 10, definitely HazMat.

I'm having a pour of ECBP batch 12 and it's fantastic as always. Such richness in flavor that you just don't get in many bourbons. And it drinks below its 136 proof point. No pic, because I'm unable to attach files now for some reason.

I can't see it, but I trust you

This 2015 has only been sitting in my basement for about ten years. Figured it was long enough. It’s been awhile since I’ve had Elmer, and I usually don’t like to gratify these tater bottles…. but damn this is tasting really good tonight! No regrets on my bunker dive treasure.

Very good perspective, JVD. I also get suspicious in those same instances when some whiskey gets finished in some cask, and particularly when the finishing becomes the star.

Got a chance to buy a bottle of Weller Millennium at MSRP ($7500) today - too bad I already used up my monthly allowance for spirits on a bottle of 31yr Glendronach yesterday ($1500.00) Don't know if I want to spend that much "cheddar" on a partially wheat whiskey blend.

I'm only talking about cask finishing, for like a few months or a year, or whatever. Macallan was mentioned, but their core sherry oak lineup isn't cask finished, it's aged all 12 or 18 years in the sherry casks. Where I get suspicious is when there's a limited edition or one off bottling that's finished for a few months. That's the kind of technique I suspect is used to market and profit off of a sub-standard aged distillate that wasn't good enough (or missed the profile) to be bottled as it was originally intended, by trying to mask the imperfections. Peated scotch is its own animal. Peat is part of the fundamental distillation process, not something that's added years later like a cask finishing. On this topic, Diagio sometimes releases an unheated Caol Ila with its annual LEs and I've always been a big fan of these, thus showing at least anecdotally, that its underlying distillate is just fine whether peated or not