Eagle Rare from Mashbill #2

[Richnimrod]

Blind is the way to pick 'em. People go in with preconceived notions about their favorite recipes and tasting them blind can be a nice surprise. If you have no knowledge of the recipe, age, rack location, etc. then you just pick the best whiskey and don't worry about the rest. If you see the barrel heads then you can try to put that knowledge in the back of your head but its still there influencing your decision no matter how hard you try to ignore it.

When someone, or group, arranges a barrel selection, it isn't like a friendly tasting. Arrangements specify a brand. Otherwise one might go in expecting Old Grand Dad and get Jim Beam or some such. Nobody would agree to that. IMHO.

[PaulO]

So, I'm thinking, maybe we could get the SB people together. We'll tell BT we want to select a barrel of ER. When we get there we can select a 10 year old barrel of Weller? Seriously though, if I knew a store had a mash bill #2 selection or ER, or one that just tasted like ETL, I would be very interested.

[EvergladeSlim]

When someone, or group, arranges a barrel selection, it isn't like a friendly tasting. Arrangements specify a brand. Otherwise one might go in expecting Old Grand Dad and get Jim Beam or some such. Nobody would agree to that. IMHO.

Yea I'm with you there. In other circumstances doing it blind is the way to go though. I recently picked barrels at 4R and our group requested to taste the 13 barrels we had rolled out for us blind. That way no preference was given to favorite recipes, we just picked the best whiskey. JR respected that we did it that way. Our group also did the same with Knob Creek picks, and ended up selecting the youngest of the lot.

[suntour]

Hard to not be cynical here and wonder if this is freed up coulda/woulda/shoulda been AAA10year. "Here's a barre l that's too old and oaky to be RHF. Let's ship it to an unsuspecting single barrel buyer as ER."

Clearly though I'd be interested in sampling this.

[EvergladeSlim]

Hard to not be cynical here and wonder if this is freed up coulda/woulda/shoulda been AAA10year. "Here's a barre l that's too old and oaky to be RHF. Let's ship it to an unsuspecting single barrel buyer as ER."

Clearly though I'd be interested in sampling this.

I just read through a good bit of it and there are no coments on how it tastes. I'd love to know how it stands up SBS with maybe two or three other ERs from mashbill #1.

[ramblinman]

Looks like the stores is in Lexington if any of our illustrious east Tennessee members want to give it a shot.

[Richnimrod]

Yea I'm with you there. In other circumstances doing it blind is the way to go though. I recently picked barrels at 4R and our group requested to taste the 13 barrels we had rolled out for us blind. That way no preference was given to favorite recipes, we just picked the best whiskey. JR respected that we did it that way. Our group also did the same with Knob Creek picks, and ended up selecting the youngest of the lot.

Totally with you on that E'Slim! When one is selecting among several different mashbills, such is frequently done with 4-R barrel pix, choosing the BEST BOURBON rather than picking the best OESB (or whatever other mashbill one might go into the tasting favoring) makes the ONLY sense. You may find more than one that is favored by the group. In fact you may likely find two (or more) different mashbills represented in the final round of tasting. The last time we did one at 4-R we wound up buying TWO different barrels with 2-different mashbills... AND, BOTH are excellent pours, I can attest.

[signde]

Looks like the stores is in Lexington if any of our illustrious east Tennessee members want to give it a shot.

lexington is in west tn between jackson and nashville but closer to jackson.

[The Black Tot]

I'd be curious to taste it but aren't those prices kind of high for ER10? $31.99 for a 750 and $55.99 for 1.75?

[fishnbowljoe]

I'd be curious to taste it but aren't those prices kind of high for ER10? $31.99 for a 750 and $55.99 for 1.75?

[squire]

Isn't that more the norm now, especially for the small operators, to have the distillery do the choosing.

[amg]

I'd be curious to taste it but aren't those prices kind of high for ER10? $31.99 for a 750 and $55.99 for 1.75?

[Kartofel]

$32 is the normal price for a 750 of Eagle Rare in Iowa.

[t44tq]

I'd be curious to taste it but aren't those prices kind of high for ER10? $31.99 for a 750 and $55.99 for 1.75?

That doesn't sound crazy, I think I pay more for ER10 around here than $31.99.

[fozzy71]

I need to grab another ER10, since I moved my liquor cabinet shelf up/down a notch just for it's tall as bottles some time ago........

[Flyfish]

My palate is excellent at determining what I like and don't like. Beyond that, I can generally pick out peat, bourbon barrel traits, and wine barrel traits in scotch. As for bourbons . . . look, after tasting some really amazing brandies and rums this year, I'm not convinced I can tell bourbon from rye, rum, or brandy blind. Especially if any of the entrants into this blind tasting competition are significantly off profile from a typical example of the spirit.

[jsrudd]

James Bond could always identify even the most obscure libation--including the hillside and row from which the grapes were picked.