Show Us Your Stash - Volume 5

[flahute]

On 10/6/2020 at 4:40 PM, fishnbowljoe said:

Sounds good to me.    Of course staff and moderators get a discount.  

 

Biba! Joe

Yes!!!

[Jfletchgu]

Rearranged my bonus room and made a new bourbon corner. Just wanting to add a whiskey barrel on the side and I'll be all set.

[Kepler]

3 hours ago, Jfletchgu said:

Rearranged my bonus room and made a new bourbon corner. Just wanting to add a whiskey barrel on the side and I'll be all set.

 

Nice stash!

[Bret Bret]

7 hours ago, Jfletchgu said:

Rearranged my bonus room and made a new bourbon corner. Just wanting to add a whiskey barrel on the side and I'll be all set.

Love the glass doors to keep the dusties dustress.

[PhantomLamb]

6 hours ago, Bret Bret said:

Love the glass doors to keep the dusties dustress.

Agreed, sharp cabinet!

[ABVT]

stash with a highlight of the the brand and bottles that got me interested in bourbon - Namely HW DR. Bought it primarily! Now I lead towards Beam / ECBP. All at MSRP! (Ohio or TPS)

 

 

 

[PhantomLamb]

1 hour ago, ABVT said:

stash with a highlight of the the brand and bottles that got me interested in bourbon - Namely HW DR. Bought it primarily! Now I lead towards Beam / ECBP. All at MSRP! (Ohio or TPS)

 

 

 

We seldom see people getting interested in bourbon due to any HW product, interesting.

[ABVT]

1 hour ago, PhantomLamb said:

We seldom see people getting interested in bourbon due to any HW product, interesting.

Back when I first started buying HW (in college)  the DR was well worth the 30$. I don't think the new stuff is quite the same. I have a bottle of American Prairie with "Batch 10" on it but its pretty unremarkable, so I'll limit my praise to the older bottlings of DR and RR. 

Edited October 20, 2020 by ABVT

[0895]

I fell in love with Rendezvous Rye after the wife got me a bottle for our anniversary about 5 years ago.

Luckily I saw the writing on the wall and stockpiled older bottles of that and Double Rye as I came across it.

Still remains a favorite around our house.

 

The newer release bottles are ok,  but I have no regrets about my past hoarding.

 

They are still out there too.  Last Thanksgiving, I found some 2013 Rendezvous Rye in Chicago at a large chain retailer, so you just never know.

[fishnbowljoe]

8 hours ago, ABVT said:

stash with a highlight of the the brand and bottles that got me interested in bourbon - Namely HW DR. Bought it primarily! Now I lead towards Beam / ECBP. All at MSRP! (Ohio or TPS)

 

Biba! Joe

[FasterHorses]

8 hours ago, 0895 said:

I fell in love with Rendezvous Rye after the wife got me a bottle for our anniversary about 5 years ago.

Luckily I saw the writing on the wall and stockpiled older bottles of that and Double Rye as I came across it.

Still remains a favorite around our house.

 

The newer release bottles are ok,  but I have no regrets about my past hoarding.

 

They are still out there too.  Last Thanksgiving, I found some 2013 Rendezvous Rye in Chicago at a large chain retailer, so you just never know.

As far as ryes..I think I could be happy drinking mostly just the older HW DR and RR. Where in Chicago? Heading back up next month. 

[BigRich]

On 10/20/2020 at 12:50 PM, ABVT said:

Back when I first started buying HW (in college)  the DR was well worth the 30$. I don't think the new stuff is quite the same. I have a bottle of American Prairie with "Batch 10" on it but its pretty unremarkable, so I'll limit my praise to the older bottlings of DR and RR. 

Ah, the Perkins years.  Yes, it was much better. 

[fishnbowljoe]

1 hour ago, BigRich said:

Ah, the Perkins years.  Yes, it was much better. 

Not Sam Perkins?  

 

Biba!  Joe

[B.B. Babington]

On 10/17/2020 at 10:41 PM, Jfletchgu said:

Rearranged my bonus room and made a new bourbon corner. Just wanting to add a whiskey barrel on the side and I'll be all set....

Full whiskey barrel?

[Patrick_OKC]

I know there have been a few threads about members using spreadsheets to track their bunker contents over the years. I used to download the full list of whiskey reviews from the LA Whiskey Society when they still allowed it, and I would use that as a handy way to track what I had on hand, and what I might want to try next. I am still using a version I downloaded in September 2013 as my inventory tracking tool. These days I use it primarily to note fallen soldiers / newly emptied bottles, as opposed to new buys.

 

I see a lot of folks on BeerAdvocate.com use Excel, and that makes a lot of sense given the wide variety of brews available these days.

 

Pat

[MM818]

Came home with a new piece of furniture. The good news is I got bottles off my closet floor. The bad news is I still have bottles in three places. 

[Swervin&Bourbon]

Random assortment of my unopened bottles (few beers snuck in the pic). All opened bottles stay in the liquor cabinet upstairs.

[Jazz June]

An updated pic (minus a handful of bottles sitting with the cocktail fixings):

 

 

[Clueby]

54 minutes ago, Jazz June said:

An updated pic (minus a handful of bottles sitting with the cocktail fixings):

 

 

What time does your store open?

[Jazz June]

1 hour ago, Clueby said:

What time does your store open?

Whenever the company arrives! I need additional people to drink with more than I need additional bourbon (not that this fact will stop me from getting additional bourbon). There are really only two or three bottles I'm "saving."

[Bob_Loblaw]

On 11/1/2020 at 1:27 PM, Jazz June said:

Whenever the company arrives! I need additional people to drink with more than I need additional bourbon (not that this fact will stop me from getting additional bourbon). There are really only two or three bottles I'm "saving."

Those four 4R shelves . . . wow, that is impressive.  Also love the ECBP shelf!

[Jazz June]

1 hour ago, Bob_Loblaw said:

Those four 4R shelves . . . wow, that is impressive.  Also love the ECBP shelf!

I know around here it is referred to as "the cult," but in my group we call ourselves Four Roses Degenerates. I hit a bit of a lull in my love of Four Roses at one point, but it has roared back with a vengeance. While they weren't all released this year (for example, a gold neck OBSK I have been drinking that is fantastic), I have had a bunch of really great Four Roses picks in 2020. And after the 2019 LE SmB being a home run, I have high expectations for the 2020. Some friends and I have a vertical of the 2013 through 2020 LE SmB scheduled for Friday, very much looking forward to that. My wife's favorite bourbon (in drinks, she won't sip neat) is Four Roses SmB and I joke with her that I'm just going to drink through everything else so that one day it will be nothing but Four Roses for us. But clearly that is just a joke! I think I have largely honed in on what I like, but it turns out that it is lots of different stuff.

[WD40]

On 11/1/2020 at 12:11 PM, Jazz June said:

An updated pic (minus a handful of bottles sitting with the cocktail fixings):

 

 

Nice. I noticed the one bottle ETL. So frustrating that stuff has gone full on allocated. I remember it being by go to  and always available. 

[Bob_Loblaw]

5 hours ago, Jazz June said:

I know around here it is referred to as "the cult," but in my group we call ourselves Four Roses Degenerates. 

Yes, but have you tried our Kool-Aid? 
 

That LE vertices sounds amazing. 

Edited November 4, 2020 by Bob_Loblaw

[JoeTerp]

On 11/1/2020 at 12:11 PM, Jazz June said:

An updated pic (minus a handful of bottles sitting with the cocktail fixings):

 

 

That Lot B and RHF have seen better days.  Once we get back to indoor gatherings you know I'm willing to help you out on those Four Roses.