What bourbon are you drinking - Fall 2013

[393foureyedfox]

Did a WFE tasting tonight. 6, 8, and 10 year. All nice barrels/bottles. Great stuff. Capping it off with an SA VOS 11.

[Kyjd75]

Tonight, a break from bourbon. Having a pour of RedBreast 12 yr cask strength. Really nice stuff. Dangerously drinkable.

[MyOldKyDram]

That actually sounds damned good. Think I'll follow our lead on that one.

[sutton]

Why the heck would you spray it around the room (or the great outdoors) and waste perfectly good champagne/sparkling wine? Blue collar millionaire ballplayers can do that because they probably don't know any better!

Make some Seelbach cocktails and celebrate with some style! :cool:

[BillP]

A small sample of OGD 114 to help me though this Halloween night. Actually I love this time of year.

[OscarV]

Four Roses Gift Shop Bottle OESV barrel proof, neat.

[Old Dusty]

FR SB LE 2013 with dinner prep. Yeti described it as a spice bomb in another thread and that it is.

[clingman71]

Smallish pour of PVW 15, starting a bit hot tonight, some sweetness mid-palate, then a nice long cinnamon finish, lingering.............

[Paddy]

Started with W 12 and moved on to OGD 114.

[NWBourbonDrinker]

i know, i know....theyre all single barrels, varying sources, etc.....but just out of my own curiousity, if they were all the same price and same availability, which would you prefer to have a stockpile of?

At exactly the same price I would go with the 10 but the 8 is very, very close. For the price differential the 8 is the sweet spot IMO. I also have some 11 and a single 21. The 11 is super nice but the 21 falls short for the price. Very, very good mind you but it was almost into PVW 23 territory (retail) price wise.If you are interested, my 8 year is barrel 7305 selected by Pacific Edge Wine and Spirits.

[mbroo5880i]

Tonight, a break from bourbon. Having a pour of RedBreast 12 yr cask strength. Really nice stuff. Dangerously drinkable.

I absolutely love Redbreast 12. I have never had cask strength but it is on my try list.

[thiemb]

Some butterscotch candy for Halloween. ND OGD BiB

[theglobalguy]

4R LEsB '13 followed with some OWA for dessert.

[mbroo5880i]

WTR101/WT101 1:1 ratio. Awesome! Followed up with a pour of OC10. So from 101 proof down to 86. I love OC10.

[smknjoe]

Some butterscotch candy for Halloween. ND OGD BiB

Good call.

4R LEsB '13 followed with some OWA for dessert.

Waiter, I'll have what he's having.

[FlounderinDC]

Started off with a pour of ETL as I give out candy to the neighborhood kids.

[BMartin42]

Game 6 left a bitter taste in my mouth last night. This 80 Strong is doing the same. Hate it when people buy you gifts based on a "cool" label.

[Yeti]

Had some Stagg 13 and ECBP batch 1 while watching The Conjuring. Great Halloween evening. Both great, but I think the ECBP is slightly better and probably my #3 behind both FRLE for the year.

[bingstein]

Some SW WSR7, Bourye, and OFBB13 while making a pumpkin roll with the wife

[Kalessin]

For last night's game, OGD114 with a cube for the opening inning, then later on I switched to the last pour from a bottle of 4R 2012 SmBLE. Perfection, except for Fox' coverage of the bottom of the 9th and post-game. I miss watching games on Boston's Channel 38.

Happy Halloween! Tonight, I was going to have a pour and wait for kids to ring the bell. Sadly, I got into the candy stash, got wired up on too much sugar, and suddenly no alcohol appealed to me. There's always next year...

[petrel800]

Wife and I started with a nice German Kabinett Riesling, really tamed the spices chilli I made. Then I had a Saz cocktail while she had a small pour of 2012 Saz 18 w/ one cube of ice. I finished the evening with a small pour of GBS ETL. No way I was staying up for Thursday night overtime.

[KJND]

A few fingers of ETL tonight... this stuff is smooth and delicous! Have a good night all.

Edited November 1, 2013 by KJND

[AaronWF]

Happy Halloween! Tonight, I was going to have a pour and wait for kids to ring the bell. Sadly, I got into the candy stash, got wired up on too much sugar, and suddenly no alcohol appealed to me. There's always next year...

I deliberately avoid all sweets in my working day to save room on the palate for whiskey. Sweets just means semi-sweet or bitter chocolate to me and I eat too much when I start and my body's not ready for booze until 8 hours later, if that.

I had to wash the taste of some bad blind sample whiskey out of my mouth with a nice pour from the increasingly empty FR 125th bottle in my cabinet. What a pleasurable pour, from the opening high corn welcome to the low, moderately tarry high rye back end. That stuff is an exercise in the art of lifting an aged whiskey that just wants to hit your back end and coat your tongue from the back forward in an intense concentration of fruit and wood; up into a pour that pleases each part of your tongue with identifiable characteristics you don't get combined with the other movements of the pour. Front to back, no other whiskey I've experienced that development in.

[JPBoston]

Filled my flask with EWB and took the kids trick r' treating. Our neighborhood goes all out with displays (even have a giant pirate ship built into the front yard of one of the houses)... Weather was nice and cool at 70-ish, which helped make it a nice time.

[wmpevans]

I deliberately avoid all sweets in my working day to save room on the palate for whiskey. Sweets just means semi-sweet or bitter chocolate to me and I eat too much when I start and my body's not ready for booze until 8 hours later, if that.

I had to wash the taste of some bad blind sample whiskey out of my mouth with a nice pour from the increasingly empty FR 125th bottle in my cabinet. What a pleasurable pour, from the opening high corn welcome to the low, moderately tarry high rye back end. That stuff is an exercise in the art of lifting an aged whiskey that just wants to hit your back end and coat your tongue from the back forward in an intense concentration of fruit and wood; up into a pour that pleases each part of your tongue with identifiable characteristics you don't get combined with the other movements of the pour. Front to back, no other whiskey I've experienced that development in.

AWF, based on that vivid description can't wait to get my hands on a bottle for further study. FR 125th hits the retailers here in Ga. today/this weekend so fingers crossed on scoring a bottle or two.