What bourbon are you not drinking today but just holding in your hands looking at and admiring it's presentation?

[bullitt]

This could go on forever. Add yours.

 

Edited May 24, 2016 by bullitt

[flahute]

None.

[Flyfish]

I've always admired the vibrant orange and classic portrait of Basil Hayden--on bottles of OGD. Don't remember ever just holding the bottle and not pouring some though.

[Richnimrod]

Huh???   NOT drinking after one pours the dram?

That makes zero sense to me.

BUT, if that's how you enjoy your Bourbon, then by all means go for it.     To me the aroma and flavor are the payoffs, and the visuals are a nice tease to get the party started.

I'll admit there have been a few that were so purely copper-colored, or so deep mahogany-amber that I paused rather longer over the visual; but... not all that much longer.    No patience.    That's why I've never been a better fisherman, I suppose.

[Canarse]

I think he means the bottle, not a poured whiskey.  I have a few.  Can't have 'em all open at once.  Bought a KC2001 yesterday.  Looks really good and I'm very curious, but it will have to wait it's turn.

[Flyfish]

4 hours ago, Canarse said:

I think he means the bottle, not a poured whiskey.  I have a few.  Can't have 'em all open at once.  Bought a KC2001 yesterday.  Looks really good and I'm very curious, but it will have to wait it's turn.

Please explain how this works. Do your bourbons wait patiently in line? Mine tend to get all asses and elbows trying to crowd to the head of the line. I'm pretty sure that if I bought a KC2001 yesterday it would have been shoving other bourbons out of the way so it could go first. Many SBers have posted that they "can't wait" to open the bourbon they just bought. Except they do wait at least as long as it takes to log on and write a post saying "I can't wait." The bourbons I bring home refuse to put up with that kind of delay. They even refuse to allow themselves to be put in the cabinet. They can get really annoying like the kid in the backseat who asks "Are we there yet?" every 15 seconds. Sometimes I have to threaten a bourbon that, if he doesn't quit nagging, I'm going to pull over and leave him beside the road.

What is your secret to raising patient, well mannered bourbon?

[mbroo5880i]

There are bottles that I sit and admire while drinking the bourbon.  I read the package over and over when eating cereal. Bourbon is no different. 

 

I will also check out unopened bottles while drinking another brand.  

[Canarse]

2 hours ago, Flyfish said:

Please explain how this works. Do your bourbons wait patiently in line? Mine tend to get all asses and elbows trying to crowd to the head of the line. I'm pretty sure that if I bought a KC2001 yesterday it would have been shoving other bourbons out of the way so it could go first. Many SBers have posted that they "can't wait" to open the bourbon they just bought. Except they do wait at least as long as it takes to log on and write a post saying "I can't wait." The bourbons I bring home refuse to put up with that kind of delay. They even refuse to allow themselves to be put in the cabinet. They can get really annoying like the kid in the backseat who asks "Are we there yet?" every 15 seconds. Sometimes I have to threaten a bourbon that, if he doesn't quit nagging, I'm going to pull over and leave him beside the road.

What is your secret to raising patient, well mannered bourbon?

Bottom line is that I have too many kids, I mean bottles of bourbon.  They all scream and it blends into a constant crescendo of noise.  I blot it out of my mind by drinking.  Drinking bourbon.  I have 20 kids, I mean bottles, that I am currently tending to.  They will all get their attention in due time.  The new ones are curious, but so are some of the old ones on the open shelf.

[camduncan]

I won't lie, I've got a few that I keep in a display cabinet and admire:

 

 

Fred Noe Select signed by Fred wishing me a happy 40th

A (not to be named) mid shelf bourbon that was specially labeled by someone at a distillery to commemorate my wife's and my first trip to the US

My personally dipped Makers 300ml and Makers White Dog gift shop bottles

Evan Williams Master Distillers Select ceramic jug

 

I might open them one day, but right now the sentimental value of them is worth way more than the contents.

 

[Golferpimp1]

I've got a few on hold waiting for the right occasion including blantons, gifted horse, stagg jr. And ecbp. Just can't bring myself to Crack them....maybe next time my brother is in town.

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[Harry in WashDC]

I do have some unopened, but they have a sibling or a previoius generation already opened.  I like the labels on some better than others just like I like the bourbon in some better than others.  The one I really hold in awe, however, is the one in my glass as I sip.

[garbanzobean]

I store all my unopened bottles out of sight in a closet.  Makes it easier to ignore the guilt of spending too much money on alcohol.

[mbroo5880i]

1 hour ago, Golferpimp1 said:

I've got a few on hold waiting for the right occasion including blantons, gifted horse, stagg jr. And ecbp. Just can't bring myself to Crack them....maybe next time my brother is in town.

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I think this is the case with special bottles.  Many of us probably have special bottles that we are waiting for a special occasion to open. 

[flahute]

2 hours ago, garbanzobean said:

I store all my unopened bottles out of sight in a closet.  Makes it easier to ignore the guilt of spending too much money on alcohol.

This........is me. 

My special bottles awaiting the right occasion are safely out of sight so I spend zero time admiring them.

[Flyfish]

11 hours ago, mbroo5880i said:

I think this is the case with special bottles.  Many of us probably have special bottles that we are waiting for a special occasion to open. 

I've always thought just the opposite. Opening a "special bottle" makes any day a "special occasion."

[miller542]

All of them.  We're moving so I have to move the bunker.  But, it is one fine looking bunker and I can't wait to enjoy them all eventually.

Edited May 25, 2016 by miller542

[squire]

I look at the bottle level to decide if it's time to buy a replacement.

[El Vino]

I buy whiskey not glass.

[mbroo5880i]

12 hours ago, Flyfish said:

I've always thought just the opposite. Opening a "special bottle" makes any day a "special occasion."

 

Haha. Right you are sir! Of course, opening any bottle of bourbon makes it a special occasion!

[mbroo5880i]

3 hours ago, squire said:

I look at the bottle level to decide if it's time to buy a replacement.

 

Sir, my guess is that you might already have its replacement.  :-)

[Harry in WashDC]

3 hours ago, squire said:

I look at the bottle level to decide if it's time to buy a replacement.

Out of the mouth of babes . . .

 

[squire]

19 minutes ago, mbroo5880i said:

 

Sir, my guess is that you might already have its replacement.  :-)

Safe bet.

[jsrudd]

Everything that's not open is stored on the bottom shelves of a closet. 

 

Being in Japan, I've got to worry about earthquakes, so I don't like bottles sitting on shelves up high. 

[bullitt]

Okay, no one got the joke. Did anyone read the first post? Tongue in cheek anyone? but on the other hand this got quite a few responses! 

[The Black Tot]

On 5/24/2016 at 0:12 AM, flahute said:

None.

Amen. God dammit.

 

And I DO get that the thread title is ironic!