Good old days of bourbon

[smokinjoe]

These are both Beam bottles, 1999(right) and current bottling(left). Those were good old days, not even that long ago.

I ain't sure what the deal is with that bottle on the left , but I just picked up a '13 OGD114 that is as deep a polished mahogany color as ever the brand has been.

[squire]

Was wondering about that myself as the last bottle of 114 I bought (year or so back) was a very deep color.

[Quantum]

You young fellas can pine about the past, I'm looking to the good days of the future .

The quality of the top bourbons today, and the quantity that is filling barrels now, leads me to agree with this.

[The Black Tot]

Ditto what Squire said. (when on land) I'm drinking pretty well these days.

[berto]

I don't worry about it. I got no time machine to go back to whenever the good ol' days were and I don't have the desire to spend dumb money chasing those days. I'll drink the bourbon that's available now and look forward to drinking the bourbon that's available in the future. Or I'll drink something else. Where does the backwards gazing end? I could have bought bottles of whatever bourbon or shares of whatever company. I could have zigged instead of zagged. Life is happening right now, seize it.

[squire]

Seize it and drink it .

[OutlawSW]

Would that be "Carpe drinkem" in Latin?

[squire]

Its buy two one for each hand in Bourbon.

[Harry in WashDC]

Now that you all have educated me to pay attention to what I've been drinking for the past two-score years and ten, I've concluded that THESE are the good old days of bourbon. It is so much more fun, life is, when one pays attention.

[squire]

And being retired we can pay attention to our Bourbon cause we don't have to return all those damn phone calls.

[Dave43]

Seize it and drink it .

I'm convinced....these are the good years.

[Harry in WashDC]

And being retired we can pay attention to our Bourbon cause we don't have to return all those damn phone calls.

Is true. AND, it's so much easier to say "NO" to lower credit card rates, reverse mortgages, or to say "He died" when somebody asks to speak with "the man of the house" when I have a bourbon in hand. Yeah, the good old days are now. Just ask your grandchildren in 40 years.

[squire]

Hell, if I'm 110 and still able to talk they'll probably ask if they had forks and spoons when I was a kid.

[WhiskyRI]

I'm looking forward to the bust and glut of the future and the resulting cherry picked private bottlings. Records are being broken right now for gallons produced and barrels stored. The boom is only building which means in another 5-10 years we'll be awash in lots of product - some small of which will be excellent. It wasn't that long ago that makers had to pair their product with glasses, cigar holders, flasks, etc - in order to move product. And since many of the big producers are public companies they'll be ramping up production beyond what is prudent in order to maximize share-holder returns. The hard part of course is waiting for the boom to go bust.

[squire]

By the time that happens we'll be telling the new guys stories about the old days when they still put corks in whisky bottles.

[393foureyedfox]

By the time that happens we'll be telling the new guys stories about the old days when they still put corks in whisky bottles.

i wish corks were a think entirely in the past

[Harry in WashDC]

i wish corks were a think entirely in the past

Me too. Trying to remember which way to turn the cork to unscrew it drives me buggy. Buggie? Bug-E?

Too much ETL and charcoal grill smoke tonight. Thank goodness I started early or I'd be way behind now.

[B.B. Babington]

a) drink of the past might be better because it's hard to get now, and we always think what's hard to get is better

as time progresses, awareness of what is good and what is not becomes more acute; it might be the drink today is as good as 10 years ago, but we're more discriminating now

[squire]

I think we are more demanding now . . . more knowledgeable as well.

[Flyfish]

Me too. Trying to remember which way to turn the cork to unscrew it drives me buggy. Buggie? Bug-E?.

I thought everyone knew righty tighty, lefty loosey. Or was that drink until tighty then look for loosey Lucy?

[393foureyedfox]

I thought everyone knew righty tighty, lefty loosey.

unless youre a pre-71 Dodge fan, and then only depending on which side of the car youre standing....

[WagesOfZin]

new to bourbon, but i've been into wine for about 10 years now. one thing i've learned is that there will always be new producers and products that will make great juice worthy of pursuing. at least with bourbon, you have a much longer drinking window...and a MUCH cheaper price to drink ratio.

[Harry in WashDC]

Amen, WOZ. As several of us posted earlier, the good old days of bourbon are the days you are drinking bourbon. Speaking of which, as the Nats pause to settle Fister down after the Uribe 2-run homer put the Dodgers ahead 4-0 in the 4th . . .

[Trey Manthey]

For me, the good ole days of bourbon were when I could buy some of the really good stuff (think early PHC and BTAC) before I even knew they were limited. I would just go pick up another one when I ran out. Also when my buddy Trevor introduced me to well aged rye.

Things pretty much went downhill when I found SB.com and you bunch of maniacs. Now I have one of the bunkers that I used to mock and I fear there is no hope.

[Paddy]

For me, the good ole days of bourbon were when I could buy some of the really good stuff (think early PHC and BTAC) before I even knew they were limited. I would just go pick up another one when I ran out. Also when my buddy Trevor introduced me to well aged rye.

Things pretty much went downhill when I found SB.com and you bunch of maniacs. Now I have one of the bunkers that I used to mock and I fear there is no hope.

Totally agree. For years I was happy drinking four or five standards and didn't have a care in the world whether or not I had a spare bottle in the house or not. Anything and everything that I could possibly want was readily available, cheap and minutes away.

Then bourbon had to go and get trendy. What once was taken for granted, was threatened. Loss of age statements, good value brands being knocked off so that new boutique brands could be created and sold for more $$$, shortages, what used to be molasses looking in the glass starting to look like piss water.... you get the point.

So, here we are with bloated bunkers full of age stated, barrel proof, semi and limited edition bourbons hoping to catch that lightning in a bottle and hold onto it while it's hot....but, before it's gone, because we are afraid that the future of bourbon may be a shell of what it once was.

I'll be lucky to ever drink half of the stash that is accumulated in my bunker and continue to buy bottles faster than I can empty them.

But I'll sure have fun trying! :icon_pidu: