What Bourbon did you pass up today? Spring/Summer 2015

[beasled]

Saw the entire CEHT line today but didn't pull the trigger. SmB at $35, SB at $60, and BP at $70.

I just can't understand the UK prices for EH Taylor.. SmB is close to $150

[jsrudd]

I just can't understand the UK prices for EH Taylor.. SmB is close to $150

The prices are similar in Japan. CEHT BP, Warehouse C and SB are all around $120 (and would be $150 if the Yen were not currently so weak).

[fozzy71]

I just can't understand the UK prices for EH Taylor.. SmB is close to $150

Brutal. I am no expert but IMO even at 40 or 45 USD it isn't much better/different tasting than plain old BT. Here are some EHT prices I saw in Indiana this week. I passed on all of them as there were so many good normal and sale prices on other things that I wanted to fill my trunk with. I took all 4 of those Larceny handles in the foreground instead at that store.

[mbroo5880i]

I may be wrong but I think I recognize that store! The CEHT BP price is pretty good, the other three not so much.

[fozzy71]

I may be wrong but I think I recognize that store! The CEHT BP price is pretty good, the other three not so much.

[mbroo5880i]

I have been to other stores in the same chain and their prices are usually pretty good. However, some of the prices were pretty insane compared to what we see in Indy. I am not sure I have ever seen Makers 46 for $20. KC Rye is usually in the low to mid-$30s not $21. Bookers is usually around $50. If a chain like that (decent size) can offer those prices, it makes you wonder why others in the same state can't. I don't know if they have the same distributors in NW Indiana as we do in Indy.

[fozzy71]

I have been to other stores in the same chain and their prices are usually pretty good. However, some of the prices were pretty insane compared to what we see in Indy. I am not sure I have ever seen Makers 46 for $20. KC Rye is usually in the low to mid-$30s not $21. Bookers is usually around $50. If a chain like that (decent size) can offer those prices, it makes you wonder why others in the same state can't. I don't know if they have the same distributors in NW Indiana as we do in Indy.

I was floored. In the first store I was amazed at the normal shelf prices in the bourbon aisle before I even got pointed over to the sale end cap. Those KC bottles are all liters fyi, not 750's.

[Paddy]

Shelves are stocked up for the 4th. Passed on RHF, Blanton's, CEHT SmB and SB, Barterhouse, an 8 yr old Willett and the other usual suspects. Thank God, I believe my bourbon Zen has kicked in (for at least another day or two:lol:)!

[petrel800]

Passed on the IW Haper 15 (no interest, honestly I think for the first time the old ebay adage that the "value was in the bottle" is true for this one, nice decanter I guess), Rhetoric 21 year (too much), Barterhouse (ehh, seems to be popping up everywhere, wondering if this is a second dump?), Bowman Vanilla (these experiments really need to be in a 200ml, I really just want a taste and enough to do a few comparisons), Willet Overpriced 7yr Rye (pretty sure that's the actual brand name).

Well look at that, I've turned into a bourbon grump . . . "Get off my lawn!"

[suntour]

I would of grabbed a couple of those 129 EHTBP, I love that stuff.

Passed on the 15-year IW Harper all over Indy.

[suntour]

Stagg jr, a mispriced OBSV I have a couple of bottles already bunkered, and something I haven't seen in a long time, ETL on a shelf. Unfortunately I've burned through my buying leash.

[ccleve23]

Passed on stagg Jr and etl today. Just don't need anymore.

[JvW]

Passed on stagg Jr and etl today. Just don't need anymore.

One can never have enough Stagg JR...:cool:

[fozzy71]

One can never have enough Stagg JR...:cool:

Coming from someone that has yet to open his 3 bottles of recently acquired stagg jr (1 of each batch 1 thru 3) I would say the same about ETL...

[JvW]

Coming from someone that has yet to open his 3 bottles of recently acquired stagg jr (1 of each batch 1 thru 3) I would say the same about ETL...

I agree about the ETL....UNLESS

[mbroo5880i]

I agree about the ETL....UNLESS

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Only $149.99! Buying it could have almost been considered altruistic given the amount of tax revenue your purchase would have generated.

[PaulO]

That is just crazy, insane. I feel like they just like displaying the bottle, don't really want to sell it. Put it in the glass case. I liked ETL at $25-$30. For crying out loud, it's 90 proof no age stated juice!

[JvW]

That is just crazy, insane. I feel like they just like displaying the bottle, don't really want to sell it. Put it in the glass case. I liked ETL at $25-$30. For crying out loud, it's 90 proof no age stated juice!

They also had an OLD RIP VAN WINKLE 10 Year for $499.99...I am glad to go back to my Old Weller Antique 107...

[bearmark]

Passed on a 2014 Handy for $499

[MOwhisky4me]

Passed on E.H. Taylor Single Barrel for $65 because I simply don't find it $21 better than the bottle of E.H. Taylor Small Batch that I did buy for $44.

However, there is a little devil sitting on my shoulder poking me with his trident and whispering that I should go back and....

[KyleCBreese]

Passed on Blood Oath in 2 stores and Forged Oak. Also, saw the Stranahans Diamonds Peak for the first time. I just don't know anything about it and didn't want to pay the $75 or $80 that they were asking.

[flahute]

Passed on E.H. Taylor Single Barrel for $65 because I simply don't find it $21 better than the bottle of E.H. Taylor Small Batch that I did buy for $44.

However, there is a little devil sitting on my shoulder poking me with his trident and whispering that I should go back and....

I say it's not worth it, but if you've never tried it, you need to find out for yourself. At this point, I don't even buy the Small Batch as I find it overpriced at $44.

[Hop]

Rhetoric 21 yr for $120... I bought it for $85 a couple of weeks ago.

[flahute]

Yellow Rose Outlaw Bourbon. 100% corn, aged in mini barrels, no age statement, $65. Pass.

[DonutsNBourbon]

Yellow Rose Outlaw Bourbon. 100% corn, aged in mini barrels, no age statement, $65. Pass.

yikes? it's that much in Seattle? They lowered the price to $40 here a few months ago, and they still can't get rid of it. I've got a bottle myself, wife got it for me for our 4th anniversary last year (flowers are the traditional gift, so she got this instead of 4roses... damn it! but I already had a few bottles of 4R so I see why she did that) and I actually drank through half the bottle quickly, it was decent bourbon, but I poured a glass recently after not having it for quite some time, and it did not age well. Almost to the point where it's undrinkable and I'm about to pour it out.