Empty Bottle Support Group 2015

[KyleCBreese]

Finished off my OFBB13. Unfortunately, don't have one to replace it. Moving on to the 2014 edition.

[kjbeggs]

I just finished my OFBB 2012. Still have part of a 2013, and a 2014 on deck.

[HD 335]

Finally finished this after almost two years... Not my thing, I'd rather drink EC12.

[amg]

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Finally finished this after almost two years... Not my thing, I'd rather drink EC12.

Yeah, I really don't get the hype around ETL. It's a decent enough pour, but not worth chasing after or paying jacked up prices due to scarcity.

[flahute]

Yeah, I really don't get the hype around ETL. It's a decent enough pour, but not worth chasing after or paying jacked up prices due to scarcity.

[fozzy71]

[amg]

Welllll.......the "hype" is manufactured. Why so many here, including myself, like ETL is because of the quality for the price. Or rather, what was the price. Due to consistently good reviews that drove up demand combined with BT's rolling shortages........now nobody can get it but everyone wants it. Hence, stores jacking up prices and people flipping it. It's not worth jacked up prices. Don't blame the whiskey for the hype.

I paid around $33 the last time I got a bottle of it, and I like a lot of others better in that price range. I just think it's crazy that people are flipping this stuff.

[LCWoody]

Not a bad bottle. But I'm not going to pick up another.

[HD 335]

Yeah, I really don't get the hype around ETL. It's a decent enough pour, but not worth chasing after or paying jacked up prices due to scarcity.

I agree it's not a bad pour, but not exceptional even compared to other whiskies in the same price range.

Welllll.......the "hype" is manufactured. Why so many here, including myself, like ETL is because of the quality for the price. Or rather, what was the price. Due to consistently good reviews that drove up demand combined with BT's rolling shortages........now nobody can get it but everyone wants it. Hence, stores jacking up prices and people flipping it. It's not worth jacked up prices. Don't blame the whiskey for the hype.

Mine was just $29 and I still didn't like it all that much. I tried a few other bottles hoping it was the single barrel factor but all of them were uninteresting. Then again, I don't even like Blanton's. I do have a sample of ETLC, hoping that will taste better.

[flahute]

I paid around $33 the last time I got a bottle of it, and I like a lot of others better in that price range. I just think it's crazy that people are flipping this stuff.

I'd be happy with $33. At HD's $29 I'd buy it all day long. Don't like it enough to buy from a flipper though.

[bourbonfoot]

Last pour for last episode of Donald Draper. Same treatment Raylan Givens and Walter White received.

This was a 2011 bottle, which was outstanding to me. I have last year's too, which I've read isn't a good, but those aren't bad problems I suppose.

[jeffrey r]

Finished off a store selection of ETL. Have several more in the bunker, but I pulled bottles of SAOS 7 and OF Sig out of the bunker to fill in the gap. The great bourbon circle of life--one bottle gets killed, two more get opened...

[fozzy71]

Still on my mission to empty open bottles and not buy any new ones until the bunker is smaller, I decided to go with a 4oz pour of FC103 with an ice ball for the Se1 finale of The Flash. This was a really good bottle I think and I will definitely be buying more some day but only 1 or two of the bigger stores in the area stocks it.

[JvW]

I enjoyed this one...

[amg]

Said farewell to Booker's 2014-07 tonight. An excellent batch.

[Darwin]

Grangestone and Four Roses SB.

[KyleCBreese]

Finished off my only bottle of MWND Act 2.7. I really enjoyed this bottle, and missed out on a few extras. I will certainly pick up a bottle or two in the next fall release.

[fozzy71]

Killed the OGDBIB I had in the fridge with a big 3.5oz pour. WT101 and OFSIG are also in the back of the fridge and nearing their last pours IIRC.

[fozzy71]

Killed the OGDBIB I had in the fridge with a big 3.5oz pour. WT101 and OFSIG are also in the back of the fridge and nearing their last pours IIRC.

and the ofsig after a couple of pours, on to some chicken fried rice while trying to finish this wt101 from the fridge

thank goodness for thiamin patches

[tigerlam92]

Vintage 23 rye.

[Paddy]

Lost a pretty good PS HPS along with a W12 this week. I think that the HPS is an often overlooked stepchild of the BT MB #2, but given the bang for the buck when comparing to Blanton's, I think it's a no brainer grab and go when you see a PS bottle on a shelf.

[Richnimrod]

Lost a pretty good PS HPS along with a W12 this week. I think that the HPS is an often overlooked stepchild of the BT MB #2, but given the bang for the buck when comparing to Blanton's, I think it's a no brainer grab and go when you see a PS bottle on a shelf.

[dcbt]

I apologize in advance for my foolishness...

What do 'PS' & 'HPS' stand for? I know how bad I am at these iials and acronyms. I wracked my poor brain for the translation and came up dry. I even searched; but couldn't find, these in the commonly used abbreviations/tips for newbies either.

So, please take a moment and 'splain...?

I think that's a private select Hancock. (Hancock President Reserve I think it is, though, which would be HPR.) Paddy may correct me, though. But given he's talking about BT mash bill #2 I feel pretty confident about that.

[flahute]

I think that's a private select Hancock. (Hancock President Reserve I think it is, though, which would be HPR.) Paddy may correct me, though. But given he's talking about BT mash bill #2 I feel pretty confident about that.

That was interpretation as well. Took me a minute, but I came to the same conclusion. Hancock is just not one that we talk about very often on these pages so the acronym takes a little deciphering.

[amg]

The last time I saw Hancock around here it was $50. Not interested at that price.