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If you come across the 8 or 9 year bottles they are really something special. But pretty much everything they have is good.

Turn lemons into lemonade! I bought a bottle of the KC Maple last year. Too sweet for me to drink neat, but it is VERY nice in an Old Fashioned. Just don’t add the sugar, or minimally dial back your usual dose of it.

Oh thank God. My palate is returning. Had a RR13. It tasted as it ought.

I bought a bottle of Knob Creek Maple over the Christmas holiday season. It was a terrible bourbon for me. I gave it to my wife and she used it to honey, maple glaze the ham for Easter. Now that was very good. At $30 a bottle, I may do this again.

Thank you. All of the ones you listed above are fairly easy to come by here. It's interesting what is easy here is difficult elsewhere and vice versa

Springers on the shelf today (at retail). This is like a once or twice a year, right day/right time kinda thing. Auto buy for me any time this happens

The Small Batch rye, or Cask Strength or pretty much any of the picks if you can get your hands on one are good. If you like the oak....then you'll probably like the Double Oaked. They have some finished whiskey, but I've never tried them because I'm not a big fan. I really, really need to get to the distillery, (it's only 15 minutes or so from the house), to try a few different ones..

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.