Single Oak Project

[Lost Pollito]

The previous thread seems to have died out awhile ago.

http://www.straightbourbon.com/forums/showthread.php?14940-Single-Oak-Project&highlight=holy+grail

Curious to know if anyone is keeping up with these. The 13th release is the latest to arrive. I have not been able to taste any of these. I'm hoping we can do a vertical when the project is completed. Anyone try these latest releases?

[ModernThirst]

I have 2 of them, but I haven't opened either yet. They are from barrell #77 and #175

[JGriff]

Got 2 today. Haven't heard of SOP until today. Can't wait to give em a taste.

[jinenjo]

I didn't get around to listening to a recent Whiskycast episode with Mark Brown, but I believe they discuss the final single oak release. I'm wondering what the consensus is on the whole project--from their side or from ours. Did they arrive at any classic-making combos between all their variables? Or anything that came remotely close? Did any nut seriously by all of them to even try and find out?

[flahute]

Mark Brown said that about 5,000 people participated (or maybe it was 5,000 individual reviews/tasting notes etc.) which was a better response than they expected.

The biggest thing they got out of the entire experiment was that the bottom of the tree consistently provided good results across a wide variety of variables. The winning recipe was actually extremely close to their standard recipe but with 12 month aged staves instead of the standard 6 months. They learned some things about their wheated recipes, but did not elaborate. There's still a lot of data to parse through so more may come to light.

[TunnelTiger]

I tried a couple of these, can't recall which ones now, and neither did anything for me. Couldn't wait to empty them and move on to something else.

[jinenjo]

Thanks for the synopsis, Steve. I'm gonna get to the episode this week.

[bigtoys]

went to Binny's to get a bottle of Justin Cab (turns out it was on sale--$4 off!!) and checked the "locked room". saw a big bottle of Clase Azul Reposado and figured it'd be fun to have. Turns out it's a 1.75 liter for about twice the cost of a 750 ml, so it was a good deal, too.

my wife, bless her soul, noticed they had BT Single Oak. after a little googling, came across a committee (including Chuck C, I believe) that chose barrel 80 as the best. Release 12 included that bottle, so went with that one. unfortunately that duplicates the 3 I already bought at Liquor Barn, but maybe I'll sell them off.