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Wow! 20 yo Dickel and nearly cask strength for $75 is unbelievable in today's market, and the whiskey is insanely good, even at lower proofs. I've had some 17 and 18 yr ones that were outstanding. What's the proof on your bottle? I had a bottle at 84.x proof that had amazing concentration of flavor. What I heard (from someone who got it directly from Dickel) is that these barrels come from the lower floors of the rickhouse and lose proof as they age. They have a range of target proofs for these so, at bottling, they proof them down by 1-1.5% or so in order to simplify the bottling and labeling process. So, my most recent bottle of 15yr, bottled at 96.2 proof, probably came out of the barrel at around 97 proof. That small amount of water is not going to impact the flavor to any significant degree.

What is this 'dry spell' of which you speak?

Jealous! Happy belated birthday! Cheers

wow, lucky you. That looks wonderful

$$$$$$$? Profile? Hmmmmm...Licking a burnt log?

Anyone had the opportunity to sample this one? I enjoy the Penelope offerings and this one looks very intriguing to me.

I’m going to pick up a bottle of sagamore this weekend. Not sure which one to buy. Any suggestions? The peerless double Oaked is also intriguing

I’m excited to crack open the Old Forester 1924, 10 year tonight. I’ve been looking for a good deal on this since last summer. Can’t find it in Texas.

Do you have veto power as well for things that aren’t appealing to you?

My palate was so off that I did not get much from it. I will share my notes - crude as they are - next time around. I drink a fair amount of SFTB and consider myself "familiar" with it. Tried some 120.2 proof ("low", I like it a lot, usually) as a test. HOT HOT HOT and not my normal experience as to the taste, not at all. So I'm off. Hopefully temporarily.

I've been to Dickel! It's good.

It's complicated and tonight I'm too distracted to offer a thoughtful response. FWIW, there is a whole thread here on SB in the General Bourbon forum dedicated to your very questions. That thread has been going strong for 10 years. When you have some free time to waste, you might find it interesting (and possibly amusing, 20/20 hindsight being what it is) to skim over some the predictions folks have had about this bourbon bubble the past several years. That thread is named "Our ongoing observations about whether the boom has peaked"

RRSBSP (CNB) for the evening pour(s).

I don't know about anyone else, but after I've had a dry spell without any alcohol, when I do have a pour, ... "everything tastes GREAT"

I have only had a pour at the distillery. Not this particular btl but one a couple yrs back. I have no memory of what it was lime other than I loved it. Tell me more please! As I have to live vicariously through SB on A LOT of bourbons I can not get.

Tell me more about this btl plz? Flavors? Where did you get it? Do I have to wait 3 months to hear about it? Lol

I'm having a pour of Chattanooga Bottled in Bond tonight while watching some baseball.

If my interpretation of this chart is wrong, I know I will be corrected. Is it true? I have no idea.

I am not sure I have said this here before, so bare or bear with me if I have. I read somewhere that there is more bourbon in barrells aging now than ever before. Somewhere between 2-4 times what was stored 15-20 yrs ago. But the bottling of bourbon has remained relatively the same in that same time frame. ( i will try to find my source) As you all prolly know ,I can find a lot of false info. Lol So with the boom busting, what is going to happen? Less bourbon drinkers, tariffs affecting global sales and distribution, more bourbon aging, same bottling volume, and demand diminishing.... are they going to give us better bourbon in smaller bottles(same or more $$$) or continue status quo? Will global markets benifit once the tariff wars end? Maybe this belongs on a different topic. My bad.

Sadly we will see more of this trend. Why, because they can

That makes sense too.

I see Pursuit United is overhauling their packaging. Guess what bottle size they decided to downsize to? Yup 700 mL Press release Pursuit Spirits unveils new expressions alongside packaging redesign I've never bought a bottle of their stuff and now I have another reason not to.

Gotta get a Dickle tickle. Lol

Finished off the Woodinville SBBS rye, ‘twas a good one, time to explore other areas of the rye realm.

The Missus already vetoed that anyway. She only wants to hit one distillery and JD is where she wants to go. I'm working on her see if we can hit Dickel too, but that's probably not in the cards...