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What Bourbon did you purchase today? Fall 2014


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Bought a Sam Houston Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whisky in a squatty bottle. Never seen this before and by the looks of it, may be somewhat of a dusty. Does anyone know about the SH in the squatty bottle?

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Picked up a Lot B and a bottle of Bookers today. Was shocked to pay just over $65 for the Lot B - an extremely pleasant surprise!

Hoping to do a little more hunting next week since I'm on vacation for the week.

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inaugural pour

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some old Pappy 20 for comparison

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gotta say I prefer the original; not sure the new one's worth the price (up over 50%)

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Hadnt been in a liquor store in probably 2 months. We were having a dozen people over tonight for a bonfire and I feared the Booker's would run out, so I stopped to pick one up. The Krogers had them on sale for $45, which was better than I expected. Its the 2014-6 batch too....is that the new roundtable batch?

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Beer Barrel Bourbon. This is excellent, with a clean, natural straight whiskey taste - not quite the Kentucky profile but very sound of its own. I can't really see what the beer barrel finishing does but presumably it adds a malty note as the bottle label states.

This is the first craft bourbon (i.e., non-Potemkin) that really tastes like good bourbon to me, no immature flavours or (horrors and with apologies to the deft whiskey-note scribblers), "cookie dough", which to me means white doggy.

As a comparison, I tasted at LCBO's tasting counter the St. George bourbon but didn't buy it. This is a sourced bourbon as the label states, apparently different barrels mingled in California. It was very good though, classic Kentuck flavours, sharp and alive. I'd guess Brown-Forman for the origin. Much better than most distillery-bottlings on the shelf. Yes maybe I'll pick it up soon too.

Gary

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Beer Barrel Bourbon. This is excellent, with a clean, natural straight whiskey taste - not quite the Kentucky profile but very sound of its own. I can't really see what the beer barrel finishing does but presumably it adds a malty note as the bottle label states.

This is the first craft bourbon (i.e., non-Potemkin) that really tastes like good bourbon to me, no immature flavours or (horrors and with apologies to the deft whiskey-note scribblers), "cookie dough", which to me means white doggy.

The Beer Barrel Bourbon is MGPI bourbon finished in Dragon's Milk barrels. While New Holland does distill, they don't distill that one.

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I went to my favorite place to buy all things alcohol related, and was excited to see that they had two store picks of 4R recipes. I picked up 3 bottles each of OBSQ (10yr 10m, 60.4%) and OBSF (11yr 3m, 61.8%). I also picked up a bottle of a store pick of Henry McKenna SB BIB 10yr. I call that a productive day!

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A local store pick of RRSmBSB. I really like this one and have some already but wanted to add another before its gone.

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Stopped by a local store to pick up a few bottles of a store pick ER10 for myself and a friend who likes ER10. Happened to be a couple of ORVW 10's hiding in plain sight on the shelf so I picked them up and shared one bottle with the friend who isn't likely to get the "Pappy" experience any other way. A little overpriced but not terrible and a rare shelf find of anything in the Pappy/Old Rip line.

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Henry McKenna. 10 years and bonded for $33? Yes please. Damn good stuff. First time I've seen it in a few years. I hope it sticks around.

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Snagged a store selection ER10 today. Excited to try it SBS with the one I bought last week that was just a standard version.

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Henry McKenna. 10 years and bonded for $33? Yes please. Damn good stuff. First time I've seen it in a few years. I hope it sticks around.

do you find that pick to be eerily similar to WT101? I did, but it may have just been the store pick

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Stopped by a local store to pick up a few bottles of a store pick ER10 for myself and a friend who likes ER10. Happened to be a couple of ORVW 10's hiding in plain sight on the shelf so I picked them up and shared one bottle with the friend who isn't likely to get the "Pappy" experience any other way. A little overpriced but not terrible and a rare shelf find of anything in the Pappy/Old Rip line.

Very nice! I also managed to snag an ORVW10 (although not found randomly on the shelf); did a double-take at the register since the last one I bought was $35, and this one was double that. Might be the last one I buy unless it really blows my socks off; I've always liked that one but when it is nearly BTAC prices - might be time to write it off.

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