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[BunkerBooze]

Hey guys and girls!

Since there are so many knowledgeable people on this forum in regards to bourbons and ryes in the fields of tasting, collecting, information, etc., I was wondering what is the ratio of bourbon/rye collectors vs. drinkers.

If you can, please choose only ONE description below (A, B, C, etc.)

I am a:

(A) - 100% Pure Collector (I don't drink)

( - Collector but drink occasionally or seldom

© - Drinker but have collected a few bottles over the years

(D) - Drinker but would love to start collecting in the near future

(E) - Drinker only (hate collecting or don't see the need)

[barturtle]

C-- I collect so that I have good things to drink. Nothing in my collection is off limits, just some are waiting for a more special occasion to be opened.

[birdman1099]

I'm with Timothy..... C.

I have quite a few unopened bottles, but they will eventually be consumed by ME !!! (and maybe some friends):grin: Actually, in my eyes, they are not a collection.... just bottles in waiting !!!

[spun_cookie]

C ... same comment as Timothy

[deaconbones]

C - Currently I have small variety so I can have some choices when I am in the mood for a drink. At this point I am in discovery mode, trying to find what I like. Once I do I'll probably only by those bottles. I don't want to get into collecting for the sake of collecting. I'd rather have a consise selection of my favorite bottles for drinking.

I do like hearing of people setting aside bottles to drink way down the road. I need to get a good bottle now to give to my kids when the time is right. Maybe when they graduate, get married or have their first kid.

[OscarV]

C here, I'm with Tim, Scott and Em on this one.

The so called "collected" bottles are going to get drunk, it's just that if I waited to buy them when I was ready to comsume them then they would no longer be available.

So collecting is not the right word, more like hoarding for when the day comes.

OK then, it looks like C doesn't apply after all.

I'm a drinker and a hoarder and that catagory isn't there for choosing.

[Old Lamplighter]

C-- I collect so that I have good things to drink. Nothing in my collection is off limits, just some are waiting for a more special occasion to be opened.

My vote & sentments exactly....could not have said it better -- "C" for me.

[fishnbowljoe]

Gotta keep it unanimous. The big "C" for me too. Joe

[TomH]

Like Oscar I definitely don't feel like I fit comfortably in any of the categories. If absolutely forced into the closest I guess I would have to pick - "C".

I have come to the somewhat discomforting conclusion that I have collected/hoarded/whatever bottles that I will never drink. Not because I am holding them for investment or that they are too prized, but rather that at my present rate of consumption and my continual refusal not to purchase new releases (contrary to promises made to my significant other prior to my retirement) I have more bottles than I can consume before I die (even with the occasional help from fellow SB'ers). So I guess I have to say to a certain extent I am a collector, but I definitely don't fit into the "B" category of seldom or occasional drinking (I can't fit there, my doctor agrees that it helps lower my cholesterol).

Tom

[Special Reserve]

C, although I tend to hold bottles for some time before opening them in addition to having hard to find or longer available bottles in the bunker.

[GOCOUGS2002]

Isnt' the answer to all multiple choice questions always C?

[spun_cookie]

Isnt' the answer to all multiple choice questions always C?

That is a good point:

[hectic1]

I think when I joined this forum I was a B...over the last year I've become a C...normally in school I was always a C student trying to get to be a B Student. This appears to be an instance where being a C is better then a B!

[TNbourbon]

I'm between a C and an E, but nowhere near a D (I don't wish to begin collecting). I've certainly put back some bottles for later opening from time to time -- and, as time has passed, opened them! Thus I collected them without becoming a collector.

I don't see the value of expensive whiskey locked inside a bottle, at least as an investment. Unless someone is going to open it someday, it's just 'stuff' inside glass. And, if someone IS going to open it someday (me, for example:grin:), then its final monetary value is going to be zero.

[MarkEdwards]

'C' here as well. What I have, I will drink, but I've bunkered a few and have not yet opened a few others.

[BBQ+Bourbon]

Another C here. I buy whatever good bottles I can find and afford. Some are sealed at any time, but they are all in danger all the time.

[ratcheer]

(E) - Drinker only (hate collecting or don't see the need)

I do not collect anything for the sake of collecting. Everything I buy is intended to be opened and consumed, eventually. However, sometimes I lay a few bottles back so that I will have them to drink at a later date.

Tim

[tommyboy38]

What about all of the above? Not exactly all of the above as I'm not a pure collector.

I love to drink my whiskey and sometimes I'm just a drinker.

And there may be times where I won't touch it for a week or more...am I then a collector that drinks occasionally? Or a drinker with a collection waiting to be drank?

I have a bottle of Very Old Fitz and I hope I can find the right occassion to open it but until I do, it is a "collectable" that has quite a bit of value.

And I just reviewed the choices again....I guess I'm a "C" like most of the peeps who posted.

[kickert]

I am a C-

I don't really consider myself a collector, but I have a few bottles I just haven't opened yet.

[T Comp]

I'm a C man, with what has been collected simply a result of whiskirexia nervosa. What better way to fool myself that I'm going to live forever. Anything not opened is because 30 others are.

[wildcat13]

C - a better drinker in appreciating the difference in bourbons, but learning to explore the range of options for collecting.

[Chu'Wuti]

How can I disagree with such a well-explained consensus from such a well-informed, savvy group of people?

C!

[nor02lei]

As most others I am a C.

Leif

[docbible]

I am a C as well. Knowing that releases are short in duration, I try to grab what I can knowing it may be summer before I sample and finish a bottle. I still break the seal on one when I get home and put it im the open cabinet, an incentive to sample and not place them all in the bunker. If they make it to the bunker I tend to loose them in the recess of my memory. tim

[p_elliott]

Hey guys and girls!

Since there are so many knowledgeable people on this forum in regards to bourbons and ryes in the fields of tasting, collecting, information, etc., I was wondering what is the ratio of bourbon/rye collectors vs. drinkers.

If you can, please choose only ONE description below (A, B, C, etc.)

I am a:

(A) - 100% Pure Collector (I don't drink)

( - Collector but drink occasionally or seldom

© - Drinker but have collected a few bottles over the years

(D) - Drinker but would love to start collecting in the near future

(E) - Drinker only (hate collecting or don't see the need)

I'm lost some where between D and E I buy something I say I 'll put away and sure enough it's open.