What Bourbon Are You Drinking? Summer 2009

[George]

Just had a nice pour of OGD BIB.

[smokinjoe]

Evan Williams BIB White Label. A little cracked ice. A Bourbonia Best Bang for the Buck candidate, for sure.

[unclebunk]

Just had a nice pour of OGD BIB.

I think that's where I'm headed too tonight. I plan on knocking this bottle off but will likely replace it with OGD 86 for a change.

[George]

I think that's where I'm headed too tonight. I plan on knocking this bottle off but will likely replace it with OGD 86 for a change.

I liked the 100 proofer I had tonight. Enjoy!

[Phantos]

I had a Live Oak Hefe & a Young's Double Chocolate Stout to get my pallet working...

then I went with a 4oz (cool bartender) Bookers neat. some cubes in a side glass to slowly use and a Brooklyn Lager int for a back.

awesome.

(so I ride my bike home from the Flying Saucer pub...)

I open s pint of Ezra Brooks 90, which I've never had, put it on the rocks and: pretty damn good for a cheapy! corn and sweet. perfect. this is what got us all here. great value.

then a 4RSmB... I din't like it earlier in the bottle but i am starting to apreciate it much more since it's opening and airing a couple weeks ago... but still all 'red hots' on the finish... pfft.

Now i am enjoying a 1:1 vat of Old Fitz BiB & OWA107... the perfect cocktail.

Seriously.

[DeanSheen]

Killed a Willam Larue Weller and moved to a couple Willett 7yr 121.8

[ggilbertva]

Couple of oldies tonight. First, 1980 Early Times KSBW and then moved on to an '82 Cabin Still. Both decent pours.

[spun_cookie]

Stuck here in Sac, but I brought a 500 of Old Fitz BIB from 84 and a 375 of Wild Turkey 8 yr from 89 ... and my new co workers enjoyed helping me put them away the last two nights...

Great juice that will neve be made again

[nor02lei]

Dickel 12 and Stagg 2008 yesterday. Both excellent but I have trouble to find a replacement for the no 12. It has really drained out here.

Leif

[nor02lei]

a 375 of Wild Turkey 8 yr from 89

Great juice that will neve be made again

The new version of WT 8 export that are sold here reminds a lot of 101 when it still had the 8 year statement on the label. The older version that still can be found here had a completely different taste profile.

Leif

[unclebunk]

I put a pretty good dent in my bottle of OGD BIB last night. (Or more to the point, it put a pretty good dent in me!) It's funny, but about two months ago I had my last pour of OGD BIB (having always loved the stuff in prior drinking sessions) and was entirely unimpressed for some reason. It just wasn't hitting that "sweet spot" for me, and I decided that I probably wouldn't replace the bottle when it was gone. The following night I had some WT 101 instead, and remember thinking, "Now, this is more like it!" The WT was just what the doctor ordered, and over the next few nights I kept coming back to the WT 101 and loving it.

Move ahead two months: I re-visited WT 101 again a few nights ago and just couldn't get into it. It came off sharp, thin and not quite as sweet compared to my previous session a few months earlier which I found very odd. So last night I decided to work on finishing off my OGD BIB and damned if it didn't kick ass just like the olden days. I couldn't have enjoyed it more! My experience and recollection of both bourbons had flip-flopped somehow, with the OGD now taking the clear lead between the two. Does this happen to some of you as well? It can't be the whiskey, so it must just be me. Maybe we have "off" nights now and then and things just don't taste as good for some reason. It's sure got me puzzled.

[George]

Does this happen to some of you as well? It can't be the whiskey, so it must just be me. Maybe we have "off" nights now and then and things just don't taste as good for some reason. It's sure got me puzzled.

Yep. I though I was the only one, and I figured it was because I'm still somewhat new to this and not quite a seasoned taster. :drinking:

[ErichPryde]

Yep. I though I was the only one, and I figured it was because I'm still somewhat new to this and not quite a seasoned taster. :drinking:

I can't eat spaghetti every single night of the week either.... after a while it just gets old.

[OscarV]

Stuck here in Sac,

So is it true what Chris Webber said about Sacramento?

[loneranger84]

I can't eat spaghetti every single night of the week either.... after a while it just gets old.

What about filetmignon though? That's one I'd have to think about...

[OscarV]

To answer thr thread's question, nothing.

What would all y'all out there suggest I drink?

I am home and have quite an array of bourbon available.

I do however have to have dinner on the table for my Bride at 6pm.

I'm grilling some super fat rib eyes, so no experience necessary.

So should I slug down some hot ryed bourbon on the rocks or sip a sweet wheater and take it easy?

Maybe nose a specialty bottling and contemplate the distiller's art.

Suggestions would be appreciated.

[unclebunk]

I can't eat spaghetti every single night of the week either.... after a while it just gets old.

That's true but I'm not talking about having too much of a good thing. Two months ago I loved one bourbon (WT) and not the other (OGD). This week the opposite was true and I can't figure out why. If I had suddenly grown to appreciate a bourbon that I had formerly dismissed, I could make sense of it. But now, I'm no longer caring for one that I loved (WT), and I'm really digging one (OGD) that left me unimpressed in the past.

[spun_cookie]

To answer thr thread's question, nothing.

What would all y'all out there suggest I drink?

I am home and have quite an array of bourbon available.

I do however have to have dinner on the table for my Bride at 6pm.

I'm grilling some super fat rib eyes, so no experience necessary.

So should I slug down some hot ryed bourbon on the rocks or sip a sweet wheater and take it easy?

Maybe nose a specialty bottling and contemplate the distiller's art.

Suggestions would be appreciated.

Well, you cannot drink much, so go with high quality... WT 17 year

Or some good WTAS 15yr if you must

[OscarV]

so go with high quality... WT 17 year

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Yeah, I get it.:slappin:

So is it true about Sac-Town, you know what Chris Webber said about it?

[jburlowski]

Starting he weekend with FRSB 2009.

[smokinjoe]

I've moved over to a nice pour of the standard Four Roses yellow label. For me, it's the best 80 proofer on the market.

[IronHead]

Just had a short pour of Weller Cent (Julio's edition). Pardon me while I sit here kind of dazed with a dopey look on my face. That is a tasty beverage.

[Gillman]

My blend of straight whiskeys for Gazebo next Saturday. I keep tweaking it, tonight I added a few ounces of some vatted straight rye not less than 18 years old (4 kinds).

In the nose, Four Roses spices are in evidence from that component (Bulleit, Four Roses, Four Roses 120th Anniversary), chocolate and caramel, perhaps a hint of Beam anise. The taste is rounded and sweetish, with notes of caramel, wood, chocolate and spices again. Rounded and soft which I aim for in all my blends.

I ended up using two blending agents: an old Venezuela rum which lends mostly chocolate notes but is otherwise noncommittal, and some 1988 bonded Old Gran-dad, which technically is not a blending agent but may as well be due to its liqueur-like richness and aroma.

Gary

[smokinjoe]

Every year since 2002, my daughter, wife and I have our own little memorial in remembrance of the tragic events that occured on this date in 2001. When we started this tradition, our daughter was 3. Now, she is 10. With each passing year, she understands more of what we are doing...and what we are trying to teach. We light a large 3-wicked candle on our front porch. One wick for NYC, one wick for the Pentagon, and one wick for the field in Pennsylvania. 3 American flags, as well. We talk about the events of that day. We also talk about the sacrifices so many Americans have made to defend and protect us, since. We say the Pledge, sing the Star Spangled Banner, and say a Prayer. The candle is still burning out front, and I'm Saluting this great country with a very apropos WT American Spirit.

:usflag:

[Rughi]

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One for NYC, one for the Pentagon, and one for the field in Pennsylvania

Thanks, Joe.

Roger