Bourbon Bracketology

[Bourbon Boiler]

Well done!!! When we first started talking about this I thought it was actually just going to be something within out little bourbon group, but this is much better! My deepest apologies for underestimating your bourbon obsession...I will not let it happen again. :bowdown:

[Young Blacksmith]

Up tonight is the matchup between 4R1B and Willet Pot still. Both are newly opened tonight, and my wife tossed the coin, so one is sitting on a coaster the other is not.

Coaster smells like sweet and sour, a little fruity.

NC is hard to smell, smells a bit like white dog, not much nose at all.

More fruit coming out on the C, NC finally is smelling like bourbon and flowers.

C taste is nice, not much burn, sweet, a little berryish.

NC explodes in the mouth, coats like syrup. Sweet, no burn, no wood at all. young. White dog is faintly in the last finish of the sip.

Coaster is pulling into the lead with its balance of sweetness fruit and alcohol, but no wood here either. Not much vanilla in either one. Non coaster is really sipping nicely though, and the match is pretty even. This is gonna be a close one.

Coaster is pulling ahead again, now with no sips of water between each the NC is falling behind. I like its oily feel, but the white dog funk is making me want to pass on it.

And in the final moments of the match, coaster pulls ahead by a few hoops and has overtaken the NC team. It's slight fruit on the finish far surpasses the NC team's youth.

Now for the reveal - Coaster team is Four Roses Single Barrel, Warehouse BS, 38-1U. Non coaster team was Willet.

The 4 Roses passes into the next round to meet Pappy 15

[Young Blacksmith]

bump to see if any updates have happened.

[StraightBoston]

I jumped ahead to the second round: William Larue Weller vs. Knob Creek.

WLW had the edge in the first quarter (color) but KC competed well in the second quarter (nose) with great bourbon notes and the right amount of wood.

When the whistle blew for the second half (taste), WLW broke away with a fruitier and cinnamon-spicier attack; KC pulled up short with a drier, black pepper taste. By the fourth quarter (finish) KC fell further behind with a sour astringency compared to the WLW burn.

William Larue Weller advances to the Sweet 16 to face the winner of ORVW vs. Handy.

[speaks19]

I officiated the ORVW vs Handy & Blanton's vs Noah's Mill matchups last night. Both were done completely blind as they were poured outside of my view by my wife Amy.

Handy wins handily. I was not impressed by the ORVW; it just had nothing to it.

In the second matchup, Blanton's squeezes by. It took drinking almost the entire pours of each to determine a winner, but Blanton's smoothness eventually won me over.

In an interesting coincidence, Amy agreed with me on both matchups.

[BroInBourbonMD]

I officiated the ORVW vs Handy & Blanton's vs Noah's Mill matchups last night. Both were done completely blind as they were poured outside of my view by my wife Amy.

Handy wins handily. I was not impressed by the ORVW; it just had nothing to it.

In the second matchup, Blanton's squeezes by. It took drinking almost the entire pours of each to determine a winner, but Blanton's smoothness eventually won me over.

In an interesting coincidence, Amy agreed with me on both matchups.

[Bourbon Boiler]

I officiated the ORVW vs Handy & Blanton's vs Noah's Mill matchups last night. Both were done completely blind as they were poured outside of my view by my wife Amy.

Handy wins handily. I was not impressed by the ORVW; it just had nothing to it.

In the second matchup, Blanton's squeezes by. It took drinking almost the entire pours of each to determine a winner, but Blanton's smoothness eventually won me over.

In an interesting coincidence, Amy agreed with me on both matchups.

Dude, I didn't know you were posting here. Welcome aboard. Your life will never be the same.

[speaks19]

First post, as you can see by my tally. I don't plan on breaking a thousand any time soon...

[Young Blacksmith]

Bourbon Boiler, can you update the PDF or let us know which matches are left? Thanks!

[Max Power]

I really need to do the full 1 one 1 tourney with SOB with 32 bourbons. I don't think we could muster up a full 64 team field.

[soonami]

Update on this? The bracket is only in the first round and nothing else?

[speaks19]

We ran out of matchups that didn't require going to someone else's house.