What Bourbon Are You Enjoying (Summer 2017)

[Kepler]

Back to Baker's tonight after cracking open a bottle last night.  I'm digging the 107 proof, much more so than I'm digging the July Texas weather lately, with heat indexes around the same number. Ready for fall already.

[JCwhammie]

Yesterday evening I went over to my fiancé's coworkers house. Her husband has a nice selection. I got to try:

Belle Meade Single Barrell cask strength

Stagg Jr.

WT Decades

Rare Breed 112

Michter's Barrell strength Rye 

William Heavenhill 14 year

CEHT Single Barrell

4 Roses OESK PS (which tastes completely different from the OESK I have)

Rhetoric 23

Blantons Maw Maw's Batch

WR Double Oaked

It was a great time. The 3 I enjoyed the most were the Stagg Jr, Belle Meade, and Rare Breed. I'd like to try the Rare Breed 112 beside my Rare Breed 116. Based on memory I feel the 112 has more going on.

Edited July 30, 2017 by JCwhammie

[DCFan]

28 minutes ago, JCwhammie said:

Yesterday evening I went over to my fiancé's coworkers house. Her husband has a nice selection. I got to try:

 

Rhetoric 23

 

What was your impression of this one?  I'm hoping to hear good things about it since I bought one myself. 

[JCwhammie]

10 minutes ago, DCFan said:

 

What was your impression of this one?  I'm hoping to hear good things about it since I bought one myself. 

It was a little too woody for me, but I generally prefer 8-10 year old bourbons. I've not had any of the other Rhetorics. 

[DCFan]

17 minutes ago, JCwhammie said:

It was a little too woody for me, but I generally prefer 8-10 year old bourbons. I've not had any of the other Rhetorics. 

 

Yeah I guess that goes without saying that anything that's been sitting in a barrel that many years is going to be very woody.  I'll crack mine open one of these days and hope like heck I've got a little termite in me. 

[Journeyman]

I opened a bottle of ET BiB last night and had a pour.  My wife joined me on the back patio with a glass of pear cider for herself.  A nice way to spend an hour on a Saturday afternoon.

Edited July 30, 2017 by Journeyman

[JCwhammie]

5 minutes ago, DCFan said:

 

Yeah I guess that goes without saying that anything that's been sitting in a barrel that many years is going to be very woody.  I'll crack mine open one of these days and hope like heck I've got a little termite in me. 

It was also the last one we had, so my palate was pretty spent. When we got home I poured some WT101. After I've had about 6-7 different juices I'm just in the mood for some kickin' chicken. 

[DCFan]

2 minutes ago, JCwhammie said:

It was also the last one we had, so my palate was pretty spent. When we got home I poured some WT101. After I've had about 6-7 different juices I'm just in the mood for some kickin' chicken. 

 

Man that was a lot of pours you had and quite a selection to choose from.  I guess that explains mislabeling the maw maw's when it should be Bookers. 

[JCwhammie]

12 minutes ago, DCFan said:

 

Man that was a lot of pours you had and quite a selection to choose from.  I guess that explains mislabeling the maw maw's when it should be Bookers. 

Oops! I had Blantons on my mind, as he has all four varieties, but we didn't have any. Yes, it was definitely Bookers.

[hn4bourbon]

Having a good size pour of standard knob creek tonight. Vacationing/visiting south east Asia with my family. Bourbon selections are pretty poor. Managed to buy a regular knob creek from duty free. The best I could get at local restaurants and resorts is jim beam. Best I could find at local LS last week was a bottle of Bulleit for $100 for last week's consumption. 

[Hop]

After a weekend of removing the shelving in a closet/pantry and laundry room, repairing all the holes in the walls, sanding, re painting, reinstalling Elfa shelving in both I'm enjoying a cigar and some OKI on the front porch.

Wife's happy with the new shelving and now re-organizing everything to new locations. I'm happy to be done.


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[HoustonNit]

Having some fantastic Russel Reserve SB store pick. Local store NASA Liquor got in a pick which I intend to pick up in the next day or so. Plan on following it up with some older WT101 early-mid 2000s bottle.

Loving that great WT spice and flavor. Gobble gobble.

[Clueby]

Some Grandpa Weller's Four Grain tonight. 

[cdcdguy]

From the great state of Michigan. They also make a true bourbon, and this is pretty good too. Not sophisticated but nice. They also offer a good tour. They are located in SW Michigan.

[DaytonDawg]

This is one of my favorite bourbons I have found picked it up in Indy and was so good to me with all the maple syrup and candy green apple went back and bought 6 more to bunker cause I like it that much and it was also 10 bucks off. Really excited I found a bottle I really like at a good price and have a stock of now 

[Patrick_OKC]

52 minutes ago, DaytonDawg said:

This is one of my favorite bourbons I have found picked it up in Indy and was so good to me with all the maple syrup and candy green apple went back and bought 6 more to bunker cause I like it that much and it was also 10 bucks off. Really excited I found a bottle I really like at a good price and have a stock of now 

 

I am also partial to this one. And all things Old Forester, actually.

 

Pat

[DaytonDawg]

12 minutes ago, Patrick_OKC said:

 

I am also partial to this one. And all things Old Forester, actually.

 

Pat

It's crazy how good this one is to me I bought my first bottle of it 2 weeks ago and didn't open it for a while then once I opened it I went back to Indy (2hrs away from me) this weekend to see if they had any of that barrel left I left a happy man haha. 

Cheers Pat 

[hn4bourbon]

Having a good size pour of standard knob creek tonight. 

[beasled]

Having a pour of WT101. It's a recent bottling and it's tasting good.

[Richnimrod]

Had a couple pours of Baker's in honor of Baker Beam's 81'st Birthday... Today!!!!     See Col.Cowder'ys Blog about him.    Quite a tasty pour, and I hafta admit .....often overlooked .....by me, at least.

[silverc]

Just poured some Michter's 10 2016 (Barrel 16B204). It's pretty good. Not worth the hype this one gets, but still decent for what it is.

[Hop]

Drinking WSR old style bottle tonight


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[Jazz Nut]

Well, after debating for a few weeks on whether or not to open up my last Parker's Heritage Promise of Hope, tonight was the night apparently.  

 

I am making it a Heaven Hill night by starting with an EWSB 2006, barrel #449, Barreled on 5/1/06 and bottled on 7/24/15 (9 years 2 months).  Not bad for $19.97, and something I like to start with to get the palate going.  I can't wait to taste this POH again, it's been at least a year since I opened my previous bottle (lucky to find 3 in 2013/14).

 

 

 

Edited August 1, 2017 by Jazz Nut

[DeepCover]

On July 30, 2017 at 4:47 PM, Hop said:

I'm enjoying a cigar and some OKI on the front porch.


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How do you like the OKI? I've passed on it a few times when I've been in KY. Any details on this bottle would be appreciated.

[Patrick_OKC]

3 hours ago, Richnimrod said:

Had a couple pours of Baker's in honor of Baker Beam's 81'st Birthday... Today!!!!     See Col.Cowder'ys Blog about him.    Quite a tasty pour, and I hafta admit .....often overlooked .....by me, at least.

 

Yes, I am having one myself. Tasty, and often bypassed, as you note.

 

Pat