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What Bourbon Are You Drinking - Spring 2014

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hn4bourbon Connoisseur

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Sipping on some JPS18 batch 16 right now. This is the last bit of this bottle that's been open for over a year. Definitely mellowed out quite a bit but the flavors are still great!

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Sipping on some JPS18 batch 16 right now. This is the last bit of this bottle that's been open for over a year. Definitely mellowed out quite a bit but the flavors are still great!

Moved on to some JPS18 batch 17. Very very similarly good. This bottle has been open between 6-9 months and still rather full.

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Booker's 2013-7. It's just Beam stuff, not much different from the last KCSB I bought. Not gonna buy Booker's again.

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Went to TPS yesterday, hit the spirits library with a group of friends. Tried 2 Japanese whiskies, my first, not really a fan. Then had barrel proof EC, loved it. 2013 ER17, 2008 & 2013 Handy, 19 y/o French oak BTEC, 2013 4R SBLE, Old Blowhard, Angel's Envy rum finished rye. I have a "sweet tooth" with most whiskey(excluding my love of Islay of course), the AE rye was absolutely delicious. The other standout to me was the nose on the Handy.

edit: also had JPS 25 rye, I believe it was the 25, a friend ordered and I just caught a glimpse of the bottle, got a taste though and it was better than expected, oaky, but not as overoaked as blowhard

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Sipping a little WL Weller Centennial, neat, while setting up the grill for an Easter leg of lamb.

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Sipping a little WL Weller Centennial, neat, while setting up the grill for an Easter leg of lamb.

Nice Oscar. Cheers, and have a great day. :bowdown:

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Jackie's FW&S selected OBSK. 9yr 6 mo, 117.2pr. Nice and sweet to start, then Boom!...rye spice, oiled leather, and rickhouse oak. Fantastic bottle! :yum:

Joe, your descriptions are the best. Whatever you describe, I find myself immediately wanting to go out and buy it. You could probably trick me with a great description of some terrible swill.

Lucky for me, our tastes seem to align.

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Lovely pour of the GBS Inaugural Pick of EC12 (which is EC14+). Brings back fond memories of my first GBS event. Getting the chance to taste the sample bottles from their selection, hearing the stories about them climbing around the rickhouse at HH, Joe sharing some pretty damn special Old Fitz with everyone. I feel privileged to be able to sip this great whiskey, and hang with such a great group of guys and gals. Pumped for next weekend!

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Having finished my chores for the day, paying the bills, laundry, vacuuming, dusting, etc sitting down to a nice very heavy pour of 4RSmb over ice.

Pure honey.

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The ham is in the oven. Finished off the last 1/4" of a JBB 750 and now am finishing up the last 1/2" of a Bowman Bros SmB while watching baseball.

Life is good.

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After the end of my Lenten obligation and a long 40(46 actually but who is counting) days bourbon is back on the menu. Breaking the fast with an appropriately stellar pour. Old Rip 15/107 neat. The remnants of this bottle were "forgotten" at my house after a tasting. Thanks Jon and Dawn for being so forgetful! (And generous!)

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Just got back from my brother's Easter feast. Some smoked baby backs and fried Walleye, fresh from the Maumee, on an absolutely beautiful spring day in southern Ohio.

Sitting back just chillin with a generous pour of WTRB. I hope everyone enjoyed their day.

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Tucker Connoisseur

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I'm doubly blessed today, celebrating Easter and my birthday with a pour of FR GS Barrel #8.

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Happy Easter, sitting on the front porch with my youngest watching the sun set with a Padilla Limitada '10 and some CnB ETL #19. Listening to a Doc Watson record picked up yesterday for record store day.

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Pudsky Advanced Taster

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Two nice pours of Willett Pot Still Reserve, then one pour of OGD114. mmmm, good stuff. Plus the sunny and 74 degree weather here in MN sure helps. Heck on Wed night, we got 12" of snow at my house. Now its sunny warm and all the dang snow is gone!! Awesome!!

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Enjoying a pour of Hightower/Curtis Four Roses single barrel. It's easily the best selection of FRSB I've ever tasted.

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Enjoying a pour of Hightower/Curtis Four Roses single barrel. It's easily the best selection of FRSB I've ever tasted.

Scott, is that a regular 100 proof OBSV, or a private selection barrel proof? Never heard of it, very curious!

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jmj_203 Advanced Taster

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Two nice pours of Willett Pot Still Reserve, then one pour of OGD114. mmmm, good stuff. Plus the sunny and 74 degree weather here in MN sure helps. Heck on Wed night, we got 12" of snow at my house. Now its sunny warm and all the dang snow is gone!! Awesome!!

Any tasting notes or general impressions on the pot still? Thinking of getting a bottle, trying to decide if the pour is worth the price with so many great sub 30 bottles out there. oh to keep on topic, just some boring old BT, just to compare to the several bottles of ER10 I put on my bar shelf. Yeah confirmed to my newb inquisitive state why i buy the age stated ER. Seems like an ER with lesscomplexity, less sweetness and way less finish, missing all the end flavors. Too bad im late to the party into bourbonia to have tasted ER17

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Scott, is that a regular 100 proof OBSV, or a private selection barrel proof? Never heard of it, very curious!

Standard 100 proof OBSV that I'm pretty sure pre-dates the barrel strength program at FR. Oscar and Tony picked it along with Sal when he was the owner of the Thoroughbred Shoppe in Lexington and I grabbed as many bottles of it as I could after sampling some at Tony's place. I'm down to a couple left in the bunker, so it's a pour that I savor.

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VOB BIB. Emptied the last of this one. Glad i have a case bunkered. Just good stuff.

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Michter's 10yr. It's grown on me since my first pour. Maybe it just needed air. Really like it now. Makes me curious to try the 20yr but at $500 a bottle at a store near me, not that curious.

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