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Couldn't be due to all the barrel proof uncut bourbon's that you've been pouring of late could it? :rolleyes::D

You do have a point there....

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I hate to do this, because I just found it and loved my first bottle, but my second bottle of Buffalo Trace just started out somewhat disappointing. It had a very peaty, almost grassy taste and little of the sweet dried fruit and other flavors of my first bottle.

I know I had seen a couple of threads with people saying similar, but had chalked it up to different tastes, but now wondering if it is more about inconsistencies.

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I hate to do this, because I just found it and loved my first bottle, but my second bottle of Buffalo Trace just started out somewhat disappointing. It had a very peaty, almost grassy taste and little of the sweet dried fruit and other flavors of my first bottle.

I know I had seen a couple of threads with people saying similar, but had chalked it up to different tastes, but now wondering if it is more about inconsistencies.

I know I will catch some cornbread hell for it, but, cannot resist chiming in here on BT. It has been at least 3 years since I last got any. Your tasting notes as well as few previous ones are exactly what I experienced. It has always been a given that BT is around 9yo - but the 2-3 bottles I tried before 'throwing in the towel' were much younger to my palate. I would add the word 'wild' to grassy, peaty, and earthy.

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2010 Old Forester Birthday Bourbon. I expected great things from this bottle after hearing all the praise on here. It was my first tasting of the BB series and I thought it was terrible. :puke: Just couldn't like it, very funky flavors. I like the OF 100 proof stuff for a lower end bourbon. Won't buy another OFBB.

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2010 Old Forester Birthday Bourbon. I expected great things from this bottle after hearing all the praise on here. It was my first tasting of the BB series and I thought it was terrible. :puke: Just couldn't like it, very funky flavors. I like the OF 100 proof stuff for a lower end bourbon. Won't buy another OFBB.

I got one of these in the bunker....maybe I wait a while to open - or, open it and let it sit a year.

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2010 Old Forester Birthday Bourbon. I expected great things from this bottle after hearing all the praise on here. It was my first tasting of the BB series and I thought it was terrible. :puke: Just couldn't like it, very funky flavors.

Give it time. Like most bourbons, it opens up after a few weeks. My experience with both bottles of the 2010 I've gone through was pretty consistent: bitter oak and brown sugar in perfect harmony. It's a bit subdued and not very complex, but every flavor has an answer and I love it for the price. I hope your bottle comes around! (Or you come around to your bottle!)

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1. Evan Williams 1783- Seemed bitter and boring.

2. Booker's- Started off good but just got too hot with too little flavor.

3. Eagle Rare 10- Yuck in many ways. Totally boring.

4. Wathen's- Not bad, but has some funky flavors. Like a bad barrel of ETL.

5. Wild Turkey 80- I see why it's being replaced by 81!

6. Four Roses small batch- Too busy and not excelling in anything.

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2010 Old Forester Birthday Bourbon. I expected great things from this bottle after hearing all the praise on here. It was my first tasting of the BB series and I thought it was terrible. :puke: Just couldn't like it, very funky flavors. I like the OF 100 proof stuff for a lower end bourbon. Won't buy another OFBB.

I haven't had the pleasure of the '10 OFBB but I thought this would be as good a time as any to mention our own Sku's recent blog entry on "Why does Brown Forman suck so much" as an interesting read and along the lines of this thread. http://recenteats.blogspot.com/2012/01/why-does-brown-forman-suck-so-much.html

I pretty much agree with the exception of the '07 OFBB that IMHO was special.

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I haven't had the pleasure of the '10 OFBB but I thought this would be as good a time as any to mention our own Sku's recent blog entry on "Why does Brown Forman suck so much" as an interesting read and along the lines of this thread. http://recenteats.blogspot.com/2012/01/why-does-brown-forman-suck-so-much.html

I pretty much agree with the exception of the '07 OFBB that IMHO was special.

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there's also that certain series of barrels that get bottled under the Willett name... that is pretty spectacular current day BF... what the hell is that all about??
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I think it was Josh talking up McScrooge's?

I really like the Kahn's RHF as does Deen_Sheen. It's $10 cheaper there than here, which is a nice bonus.

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#18. Doesn't taste bad, but so thin that I FEEL like something's missing.

I have an unopened bottle #18. Hmmm. I just finished #3, halfway through #15, both are excellent. I just opened #17 and haven't had enough yet to really give an educated opinion. Anyone have any thoughts on the Binnys's ETL vs CnB ETL? I'll be in Naperville early next week.

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there's also that certain series of barrels that get bottled under the Willett name... that is pretty spectacular current day BF... what the hell is that all about??

I had a TPS Willett 8 year, #374. From what I've read, it was BF. It was all wine, barley, and rye. Very distinctive! They're doing something over there that's unlike other bourbons. Not necessarily BETTER, but I enjoyed that bottle and I appreciate what they're doing with WR, even though I don't like it myself. Sku debases the distiller, but I have seen them do extremely experimental stuff, stuff it seems they're afraid to release, but somebody there is doing something creative.

To clarify, I can't stand the official BF stuff. I just don't like to see somebody b-tching about a very successful distiller that experiments when there is no impetus to.

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For me, it would be FR Yellow Label. I didn't expect anything earth shattering for an inexpensive 80 proof bourbon, but I sure didn't expect it to be so bland, boring, blase' and just plain..... nothing.

I love FR bourbon, but I'll never buy another bottle of Yellow Label.

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Disappointment with GTS? Could it be that the expectations are too high?

I have not had all the GTS offerings, those that I have had are impressive pours.

Very high expectations were probably a very big part of my disappointment. High rye and high proof, great reviews on SB.com, it should have been perfect!

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For me, it would be FR Yellow Label. I didn't expect anything earth shattering for an inexpensive 80 proof bourbon, but I sure didn't expect it to be so bland, boring, blase' and just plain..... nothing.

I love FR bourbon, but I'll never buy another bottle of Yellow Label.

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I've never been impressed with the yellow label, but recently went back to a half-full bottle that's been sitting on my bar for 6mos or so. Was pleasantly surprised when I revisited it.

Of course, it could be attributable to low expectations, but I enjoyed it more than any other 4R YL experience.

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This bottle of Wathen's has been a big dissapointment. Seems very thin and lacking in nose and palate. Very different from all previous bottles I have had.

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Black Maple Hill....has a strong alchohol aftertaste that ruins some really nice initial sweetness. It wasn't a cheap bottle, so I guess I expected a little more.

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IMHO, BMH stopped being a "must" buy when they ran out of Julian Van Winkle supplied juice. Don't know where they're sourcing it now, but it's a shadow of a shadow of it's former self. And it sure ain't worth what they're charging for it.

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IMHO, BMH stopped being a "must" buy when they ran out of Julian Van Winkle supplied juice. Don't know where they're sourcing it now, but it's a shadow of a shadow of it's former self. And it sure ain't worth what they're charging for it.

IIRC they're going through KBD now.

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For me, it would be FR Yellow Label. I didn't expect anything earth shattering for an inexpensive 80 proof bourbon, but I sure didn't expect it to be so bland, boring, blase' and just plain..... nothing.

I love FR bourbon, but I'll never buy another bottle of Yellow Label.

I'm with you, brother. I absolutely love FRSB and enjoy the Small Batch as well but the Yellow Label doesn't click with me at all for some reason. I even went back to it recently in an attempt to re-evaluate/change my initial bad impression and came to the conclusion that I still don't like it, even at that price point when my standards are somewhat lower.

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Just opened a bottle of Knob Creek. I was disappointed, especially since I rarely can afford higher end stuff but this was a special occasion. I had sampled KC before but it wasn't worth the extra $$ in my opinion over WT, or BT.

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Just opened a bottle of Knob Creek. I was disappointed, especially since I rarely can afford higher end stuff but this was a special occasion. I had sampled KC before but it wasn't worth the extra $$ in my opinion over WT, or BT.

So where does the disappointment come in? Was it so much better when you sampled it before, and now it didn't live up to what you remembered? Or was it from reading what others said about it made you think this time it has to better? Or are you generally not a Beam fan?

In order to be disappointed, there has to be a reason you expected otherwise.

And for the record, I don't think BT and KC are comparable. They are too Apples and Oranges.

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