Worst Bourbon you ever tried ?

[BourbonGuy]

I have bottle of Colonel Lee from a few years ago that is totally vile heinous stuff. Just thinking about it turns my stomach.

Otherwise, I try to buy stuff that has generally proven drinkable. If not, I have a great BBQ marinade recipe...

1/3 bourbon

1/3 soy sauce

1/4 olive oil with

fresh ground ginger, garlics and cayenne pepper

Soak meats for a day, fishes for 4 hrs

Guaranteed to improve and dispose of the most mediocre of whiskey

Cheers

RW

Worst I have was Old Crow. I tasted like that candy corn kids eat with alcohol.

I will have to try your recipe! I have never dumped a whiskey. I use it to spray my ribs

Apple Juice, bourbon, some soy sauce and butter. Cook ribs low and slow.

[Anex]

Old Heaven Hill was my least favorite pour. Very medicinal

[393foureyedfox]

Old Heaven Hill was my least favorite pour. Very medicinal

which proof point?

I kinda like HH old style bourbon, but it is a fairly run-of-the-mill bourbon

[HP12]

Charred Oak Bourbon - 100 prf was pretty bad. It's a diabolical drain pour and thankfully it was only a sample I tasted.

[Anex]

which proof point?

I kinda like HH old style bourbon, but it is a fairly run-of-the-mill bourbon

It was the BiB. Just didn't agree with my palate

[393foureyedfox]

It was the BiB. Just didn't agree with my palate

gold or white label?

[squire]

Charred Oak Bourbon - 100 prf was pretty bad.

I take it you mean Charter Oak, that old bottom shelfer of some years back?

[Anex]

gold or white label?

Is was the gold label. DSP-KY-31

[393foureyedfox]

Is was the gold label. DSP-KY-31

the gold label is generally regarded as the lesser one. try the white 6 year one sometime, or the green 6 year 90 proof. They're all at $9-10 here, and hard to beat at that price. Is there much HH in TX?

[Anex]

the gold label is generally regarded as the lesser one. try the white 6 year one sometime, or the green 6 year 90 proof. They're all at $9-10 here, and hard to beat at that price. Is there much HH in TX?

Thanks for the recommendation! I have seen the white label, but never the green label.

[squire]

HH also has a 4 year 80 proof green label which can be thin and a bit hot. I haven't seen the green 6/90 outside of Kentucky or Tennessee.

[dcbt]

I can't even think of a terrible one I've had... It helps that I got into bourbon after my immature days (Translation: my drink-to-get-drunk days. Translation: the days I bought the cheapest crap available.) So I've never had anything bottom shelf, and nothing mid-tier or higher has completely turned me off.

[Dolph Lundgren]

Not quite bourbon, but the regular James Pepper Rye is about as terrible as they come: hot, young and one dimensional (funny how that is opposite to what I look for in women...I kid, I kid). In all seriousness, avoid James Pepper Rye.

[Tony Santana]

I'm not 100% sure it's even bourbon, but while cleaning out my parents' house I came across a bottle of Corby's. Took one whiff of it and stood up straight. Took one sip of it and spit it out. The only whiskey I've ever poured down the drain. Too bad my dad wasn't a bourbon geek, I could have taken my inheritance in SW juice or something.

[JVande]

Some Old Heaven Hill bottled in the early 90's. It made me go partially blind for 2 weeks...

[squire]

Corby is an old Canadian brand and a good one. Something as vile as you described probably had a tainted cork which does make the contents smell and taste bad.

[393foureyedfox]

Ive never had a 'bad' bourbon, but lots that I just didnt care for due to my tastes.

the only thing Ive ever dumped out was Old Overholt, but it's technically not bourbon. I couldnt even mask it by using it in my BBQ sauce. Shame though, Id heard it used to be a good brand

[jaycamm]

I gotta go with Rebel Yell.

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[MyOldKyDram]

It deserves to be mentioned...Cleveland.

[tylermke]

It deserves to be mentioned...Cleveland.

Is that stuff even considered drinkable?

[squire]

It deserves to be mentioned...Cleveland.

So do bodily functions but there is a time and a place.

[MyOldKyDram]

That place being in the same sentence w Cleveland whiskey.

[Yeti]

I tend to enjoy everything in varying degrees, but Cleveland is rough. Can't really think of a straight bourbon that I would have outright negative things to say.

[HighInTheMtns]

It deserves to be mentioned...Cleveland.

I tend to enjoy everything in varying degrees, but Cleveland is rough. Can't really think of a straight bourbon that I would have outright negative things to say.

You guys were just too deep in the gazebo to give it a fair shot.

[dSculptor]

I agree with Yeti ,never came across one that I would dump, some just as not as good as others , I find them all a unique experience,If some are not so good I try to vat them, better than dumping.One lower on the list for me was the Wathens, found it to be really dry and flat,and although not a straight someone gave me a bottle of Jeremiah weed.. it still sits almost full, but I still wouldn't dump it. Most of the bottom shelfers for me I try to visit now & then to see if anything has changed. I totally like mine neat ,and if some are worse than others,I will also try them with coke, never had one that couldn't be cut with that stuff.