What Bourbon Are You Enjoying, Winter 2011/2012

[Josh]

My first standard issue 4RSB - an amazing whiskey!

Indeed! I just finished off a bottle of it myself. DS/43-IV

Followed up with WRMC Seasoned Oak. Nice and very drinkable. Love that Black Walnut aroma.

[AaronWF]

I walked into the foyer last night to see my wife and mother-in-law out the door, and my wife smelled something she liked. "What's that smell? It smells good. Oh, it's your perfume (sniffing her mother's neck). Hmm, no it's not that..."

I had to tell her it was my OBSV. "What's your OBSV?" she asked. "My bourbon. It's my bourbon."

[Tucker]

FR 1B LE 2011.

This is growing on me (as I'm nearly finished with the bottle), but OBSQ is not a recipe I'll be looking for at Binny's or TPS.

[AaronWF]

FR 1B LE 2011.

This is growing on me (as I'm nearly finished with the bottle), but OBSQ is not a recipe I'll be looking for at Binny's or TPS.

FYI, Binny's OBSQ has virtually no resemblance to the 1BLE.

[Old Lamplighter]

FR 1B LE 2011.

This is growing on me (as I'm nearly finished with the bottle), but OBSQ is not a recipe I'll be looking for at Binny's or TPS.

Same reaction I had to first OBSQ single from TPS...until it got a little air. Since then, I've grown to really like it. It is quite different from all other 4R I've had. It seems the 2011 LE 1B is not one of the favorites thus far in the series.

[stevegoz]

Had a nice pour of Angel's Envy tonight. Sooooo one note. Still trying to determine how much I really enjoy that note....

Now to a 50/50 vatting of OWANAS and Weller 12....

[fishnbowljoe]

Long day, and I didn't even go to work. ORVW 10/107, Pappy 15, and VWFRR.

[Luna56]

Long day indeed, Joe!

ERSB here. Cold, clear night.

Cheers!

[bad_scientist]

Well, this is more what I tried but didn't enjoy - opened an OF Signature a week ago and have been sampling it since then. It tastes just awful to me, like formaldehyde. I'm around formaldehyde a lot, so maybe I'm just sensitive to the smell, but I'm not liking this one at all.

[boneuphtoner]

I can't believe how impressed I am with what I opened last Saturday night....OGD 114. I had previously tried the OGD 86 and BIB, and at the time, I didn't see why everyone here liked them so much. Some might say I don't like the higher rye flavor, but I don't think that is true because at the time, I liked all of the rye whiskeys I had tried far better than the lesser proofed OGDs....plus I prefer the BT higher rye mash bill bourbons to the lesser in the couple of comparisons I tried. Before I tried the 114, these lower proof OGDs had, to my palate, an exaggerated bitterness that I didn't care for at all at that time. The 114 had this present in smaller amounts, but it was very nicely balanced with a light sweetness that I really like. The odd thing is, after I went back to the 86 proofer and the BIB, I found this finish was not off-putting like it once was, and I liked them overall very much. The only thing I can figure is that it is perhaps an acquired taste unlike anything else I've experienced in my limited bourbon tasting experience, but the 114 really did it for me, and showed me the nice qualities of the lesser proofed products as well. Two enthusiastic thumbs up for all of these! :cool:

[Josh]

I can't believe how impressed I am with what I opened last Saturday night....OGD 114. ... The only thing I can figure is that it is perhaps an acquired taste unlike anything else I've experienced in my limited bourbon tasting experience, but the 114 really did it for me, and showed me the nice qualities of the lesser proofed products as well. Two enthusiastic thumbs up for all of these! :cool:

114 is one of the hidden gems of the bourbon world. As smokinjoe says, it has this great burnt-corner-of-the-brownie-pan thing going on.

Tonight I was pan-frying some chicken and poured myself some Royal Canadian. I then decided that was bad mojo when frying chicken, so I finished it quickly and then poured myself a 1980s vintage Beam's Choice (pre-Jim). If this is what glut-era bottom shelfers tasted like, I was born 10 yrs. too late. Of course my parents would have been in High School had I been born 10 years earlier, and I would have married my wife when she was in Middle School.

[Young Blacksmith]

Is that the current OGD 114 you're talking about, or a dusty?

Weller 12 to start the night.

[T Comp]

Well, this is more what I tried but didn't enjoy - opened an OF Signature a week ago and have been sampling it since then. It tastes just awful to me, like formaldehyde. I'm around formaldehyde a lot, so maybe I'm just sensitive to the smell, but I'm not liking this one at all.

You are not alone...I know others who report being sensitive to (and will not drink) Brown-Forman distillate because of its distinct acetone note...which I consider similar enough to formaldehyde, as a ketone and related compound of an aldehyde. Maybe you are a super taster and have that gene that shows by the PTC taste strip experiment.

[ACDetroit]

While in chat last night, I had a few pours... all were spot on last night! not sure if the stars were aligned or what but for the first time ever I had a pour of a OCPR 13yr that was nothing less than amazing. Followed up with the last pour of a Wild Turkey lore series decanter that was sweet candy in the front and finish with all the nuttyness and oak (like a nougat center) in the middle. Ended the night with a 17yr old Willett wheater that seems to have opened up nicely of the year or so with some head room in the bottle! All in all a great night (nice catching up with those in chat last night).

Cheers!

Tony

[bad_scientist]

You are not alone...I know others who report being sensitive to (and will not drink) Brown-Forman distillate because of its distinct acetone note...which I consider similar enough to formaldehyde, as a ketone and related compound of an aldehyde. Maybe you are a super taster and have that gene that shows by the PTC taste strip experiment.

[clingman71]

TPS AAA, very solid midweek pour.

[BFerguson]

Some Ritt BIB tonight.

Been on a overwhelming rye binge lately. I keep going though the bunker looking for the next to open. Thinking its going to be a wheater for the next couple.

B

[smokinjoe]

Virgin Bourbon with a couple of fresh cherries thrown in.

[T Comp]

OWA and more OWA :grin: .

[wmpevans]

Joe, never did try the Virgin the other night. I'll have to get a rain check.

Virgin Bourbon with a couple of fresh cherries thrown in.

[c2walker]

Well, this is more what I tried but didn't enjoy - opened an OF Signature a week ago and have been sampling it since then. It tastes just awful to me, like formaldehyde. I'm around formaldehyde a lot, so maybe I'm just sensitive to the smell, but I'm not liking this one at all.

[tommyboy38]

OF Signature doesn't taste liek formaldehyde, it tastes like ass.

At a tastinga few years back, compared to the other whiskies, it just tasted plain ol' crappy!

I'm enjoying a pour of Old Fitz Prime this evening.

[tommyboy38]

And now OWA! Great stuff. Wish I had more.

[M14Shooter]

Just opened a bottle of Eagle Rare 10 Year 90 proof

Must have been from a good barrel.This bottle has much more weight and a Ton of flavor with a very long finish.Now I have to see if I can find some of this .

Regards.Mike:grin:

[Edward_call_me_Ed]

I had a small glass of Elmer T. Lee last night. Nice top note of cinnamon red hots with lots of leathery oak. I enjoyed it so much that I think I will have another pour tonight.

Ed