Old Dusty Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 2 hours ago, tanstaafl2 said: Just be aware that at that point the 12yo has very little, if any, apple character left at least to my palate. Even the 7.5yo doesn't retain much apple character. Especially if you were to try it blind against other brandies and didn't know it was an apple based brandy! Very true. The apple was faint( or perhaps perceived by expectation) but as a rare whiskey experience it is worthwhile in my book. And $52 seems very cheap from what I remember. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kpiz Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 11 minutes ago, Old Dusty said: And $52 seems very cheap from what I remember. Agreed, I think $52 is below MSRP, which is around $65 IIRC. 11 minutes ago, Old Dusty said: Very true. The apple was faint( or perhaps perceived by expectation) but as a rare whiskey experience it is worthwhile in my book. 2 hours ago, tanstaafl2 said: Just be aware that at that point the 12yo has very little, if any, apple character left at least to my palate. Even the 7.5yo doesn't retain much apple character. Especially if you were to try it blind against other brandies and didn't know it was an apple based brandy! Interesting that the apple flavor fades so much from ~4yo (BIB) to 7.5yo to 12yo. I haven't had the 12yo but I can imagine the apple is faint based on the 7.5yo. It seems as though apple flavor can take a number of different trajectories in different distillates; some become more appley as they age (this seems to be rare), some become less so, and sometimes the fresh apple flavor morphs into more of a baked apple flavor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KyleCBreese Posted December 20, 2016 Share Posted December 20, 2016 I found two more bottles of the BIB today at $26 each. The great NJ Lairds BIB search continues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KyleCBreese Posted December 2, 2017 Share Posted December 2, 2017 Almost a year later and I came across another bottle of the BIB. I love this stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tanstaafl2 Posted December 2, 2017 Share Posted December 2, 2017 I saw one sitting on the shelf at a bar in El Paso last night. I guess that don't use a lot of apple brandy here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guss West Posted March 26, 2018 Share Posted March 26, 2018 Bourbon Truth turned me on to this one. Found a couple 2016 bottles of the NAS 100pf Laird's today. Enjoyable neat. Really enjoying the nose opening up here; with obvious apple fruit notes but lots of other lovely things going on as well from the ex-bourbon casks. Much better than Applejack! Both will be fun to use in cocktails. I'll keep on the lookout for older expressions and the BIB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scubadoo97 Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 (edited) Deleted Edited June 2, 2018 by scubadoo97 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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