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What Bourbon did you purchase today? Fall 2009


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Made another low priced score locally. I wish I had known I could get bottles wholesale through my workplace a few years ago...

6 - Pappy 15 @ $32

3 - Pappy 20 @ $64

Nice work on the Pappy's...I wish I knew where I could find them for that price! :cool:
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Made another low priced score locally. I wish I had known I could get bottles wholesale through my workplace a few years ago...

6 - Pappy 15 @ $32

3 - Pappy 20 @ $64

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so do the rest of us!

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Made another low priced score locally. I wish I had known I could get bottles wholesale through my workplace a few years ago...

6 - Pappy 15 @ $32

3 - Pappy 20 @ $64

Just 6 PVW15 at $32? Do they have anymore at that price? That's less than 1/2 the minimum price in MI.

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From the bottom shelf, a Japanese export bottle of Stone Castle Single Barrel, ID #6 Lot 1, ABV 53%, filled by MW (Michael Withrow?). As learned from John Lipman's writings, this was Cecil Withrow's first and only bottling of juice around the time he was also restoring the Old Taylor Distillery in 1999. He purchased the barrels (sure tastes like Heaven Hill Juice) and then as the label states "Hand filled, proofed and bottled by Stone Castle Distilling, Milville, Kentucky...DSP 53". This is nice whiskey somewhat similar to current Wathen's.

Unfortunately, Cecil Withrow passed away in December 2000 and I presume before, any actual distilling by Stone Castle Distilling or at DSP 53, took place.

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What did I not buy? PVW 20 for $81. After seeing you guys say that $89.99 is a deal, I will buy it tomorrow.

What I did buy, some Dant BIB from I think 1991, DSP KY 31 distilled and bottled. Maybe it's the plastic bottle, but this one tastes like something that tastes like bourbon.

I might hit up the ghetto stores tomorrow and see if I can score something.

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What did I not buy? PVW 20 for $81. After seeing you guys say that $89.99 is a deal, I will buy it tomorrow.

What I did buy, some Dant BIB from I think 1991, DSP KY 31 distilled and bottled. Maybe it's the plastic bottle, but this one tastes like something that tastes like bourbon.

I might hit up the ghetto stores tomorrow and see if I can score something.

hmmmmmmmmmm. 81 isn't terrible.

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I was in South Carolina, Wednesday, and I bought a bottle of Old Grand Dad BiB ($19) which, of course, is not available in Alabama. I agree with everyone, it has much richer and deeper flavor than the 86-proof bottling which I can get at home. I disagree, however, with those who say it is better than the 114-proof OGD.

I do wish I could get the 100-proof version here, regularly. It could possibly supplant, or at least stand along with, Wild Turkey 101 as my favorite everyday pour.

Tim

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I purchased a bottle of WT101 today for $26, which is about as cheap as I can get it.

It was a toss up between he WT 101, baby Saz, ER 10 and Woodford Reserve.

What I passed up today was Joshua Brook, and Olde Bourbon by JW Dant. It was bargain priced and I found out why when I read the back label, "This whiskey is thirty-six months old." Thats why!

Eric

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I didn't purchase it but when I got into my car, (that would be the Obama-Mobile to any Newbies reading this) to go home after work today there was a gift pack of Wild Turkey 101 with the flask and flask bag, sitting on the driver's seat.

So to who ever left it there, I got ice and glasses, let's do it!

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I have never had the bourbon fairy drop by my car. Perhaps I'll start leaving the doors unlocked and see if that helps.

No major purchases lately. My bank account is about a thousand dollars lower than I expected so I put off some PVW20 for a few days. I did grab a regular ETL and an OF Signature in humbrage of Josh's post the other day. Oh, and an 00 Weller 107 is en route.

Thanks to Erich for some help.

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I have never had the bourbon fairy drop by my car. Perhaps I'll start leaving the doors unlocked and see if that helps.

No major purchases lately. My bank account is about a thousand dollars lower than I expected so I put off some PVW20 for a few days. I did grab a regular ETL and an OF Signature in humbrage of Josh's post the other day. Oh, and an 00 Weller 107 is en route.

Thanks to Erich for some help.

anytime. It's what I'm here for- let me know how amazing that stuff is?

today, as I hunted around town I found a bottle of Old Taylor 6 year from ND. I also found a bottle of Russel's Reserve 101 in a hole-in-the-wall place that literally had nothing else even remotely interesting.

I opened the taylor earlier today, and was rewarded with that amazing butterscotch aroma that ND somehow managed to bottle. currently, it isn't following through into the taste as much, but I've heard it probably just needs some more air. It's damned good whiskey- I paid 15 dollars after tax for a litre, and it's something I wouldn't mind drinking on a regular basis.

The RR101- that's another bird entirely. I've never seen a bottle of this stuff around, and it was a total fluke (feather?) I stopped in that particular liquor store. of course, as soon as I started pulling the cork, it snapped! I was able to retrieve the rest of it from the neck of the bottle without any of it getting into the bottle- thank goodness the bottom of it didn't disentegrate as well!

After Matt's experience with corked whiskey, I was really concerned that it would be ruined. thankfully, that's not the case, this stuff is seriously good juice and I'm pretty sure it tastes just like the sample I had at spun_cookie's house. lots of rye, some citrus on the nose, lots of complexity, sweet delicious with the corn always hovering. I did a side-by-side with a bottle of RB I have, and the Rare breed smells like burning sawdust in comparison. this is by far the best bottle of turkey I've ever owned, but then I'm new to this kind of (dusty) thing.

two things, though... firstly, I still think the early 90's 8 year turkey is just, if not more, drinkable (if only I could find some!). and secondly, the taylor holds its own! It's not as complex, but it's just as drinkable. impressive for a middle-to-lower shelf bourbon out of the 80s. I hope I find more....

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A bottle of Pure Kentucky after I noticed the label on the back that said it was 13 years old...distilled in 92 and bottled in 2005. Not too bad for $27 and I haven't seen it much and didn't know it had an age statement.

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A bottle of Pure Kentucky after I noticed the label on the back that said it was 13 years old...distilled in 92 and bottled in 2005. Not too bad for $27 and I haven't seen it much and didn't know it had an age statement.
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Well... it took long enough, but I did find some WT 8 yr. Found 2 Literes for $30 and one 700ml for $36... I left the 700ml behind

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Well... it took long enough, but I did find some WT 8 yr. Found 2 Literes for $30 and one 700ml for $36... I left the 700ml behind

Would those be the current 8 yr, or the delicious dusties????:skep:

For me...... 1 more bottle of Stagg in the bunker.

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A bottle of Pure Kentucky after I noticed the label on the back that said it was 13 years old...distilled in 92 and bottled in 2005. Not too bad for $27 and I haven't seen it much and didn't know it had an age statement.

I have a bottle of Pure Kentucky XO Batch 07-120. Anybody know the difference between the one's with no age statement, and the ones with? Other than of course, you know how old some are.

Going from the UPC on the back, and the PDFs that were posted. This was bottled by Old Pogue?

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Would those be the current 8 yr, or the delicious dusties????:skep:

Just the new stuff... I have ran dry on finding the old ones... I need to go dusty hunting... I think I will drag Erich where I have been thinking about when he monves here...

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