What Bourbon are you Drinking - Spring (2Q) 2021

[Kepler]

6 hours ago, smokinjoe said:

It is time to open the 4R Yella Label from the freezer season!

 

2 hours ago, JCwhammie said:

Long work afternoon called for a healthy pour from the garage freezer.

I promise I didn't see your post before pouring this, @smokinjoe! Great minds think alike, good sir. 

 

I'll be joining yall soon enough!  Got my family-size sitting in standby, ready to decant it to my 4R liter freezer bottle soon!

[PaulO]

My reward for chores done is KC 9.  I still have the back yard.  We'll see if enough dry weather to mow soon.

 

P.S.  It's always the right temp for FRYL around here. 

I'll put on a jacket if I have to.

[Kjbarth]

Blantons Original store pick. Just opened bottle and first time trying this. 

[BigSkyDrams]

Had a buddy come over to return some of my sample bottles with which I had gifted him some good bourbon and rye over the holidays. It was only fitting to let him taste some more, so I poured us each a mid-shelf flight of EHT SmB, EW SiB, and Coopers Craft  100. All were pretty tasty, and good variety for him to experience different profiles. For my palate, the EHT took first place by far. I love that stuff. 

[B.B. Babington]

21 hours ago, flahute said:

... Jefferson's 21yr old bourbon. Yep - that is also a great one.

Jefferson's put out some good and interesting stuff.  I have couple bottles of their early 17 year old, which I love.  Only bought one bottle of their 25 year old rye, dang it.

[flahute]

56 minutes ago, B.B. Babington said:

Jefferson's put out some good and interesting stuff.  I have couple bottles of their early 17 year old, which I love.  Only bought one bottle of their 25 year old rye, dang it.

I have a bottle of that rye that I'm drinking very slowwwwwwwwly because like you I only have one.

Never owned the 17yr but have tried it - great stuff.

I did have a bottle of the 21yr that I tried at the Boss's house. It was very early in my journey and I wasn't equipped at the time to truly appreciate it. Wish I had saved that one!

[Wedelstaedt]

Started out with good 'ole 4R SiB. Just a good all around tasty reliable Bourbon.  An under appreciated whiskey in my humble opinion. 

 

Next up, Barrell, SiB PS from a local. I like this barrel, very little mineral, leaving a lot of non traditional Bourbon notes. 

 

Cheers

[Kepler]

Sipping from a couple of glencairns, Baker's 7 and KC single barrel 9yr store pick.  The KCSiB wins in a SBS due to the rich mouthfeel and the superior finish.  But they are closer than I would have predicted. 

Fwiw, the Baker's is a fairly old bottling back when they had that little gold band on the neck.  Before anybody gets any ideas, no I don't believe the gold band bottles were any different than newer bottles. The only difference I can tell is that with those you are going to see some broken corks.

[Jazzhead]

It's three in the morning here on the misty beach,  not a car passing by for the last half hour as the clean, wet air wafts over the porch.    Enjoying a Noah's Mill I picked up tonight from Boulevard liquors,  our local comestibles emporium just over the bridge from our dry sandbar.   Listening to the Avon Cities Jazz Band,  British lads in the years just before the Beatles when the scene was New Orleans Trad and dancing to the music of Kid Valentine.     

Edited April 11, 2021 by Jazzhead

[Kepler]

5 minutes ago, Jazzhead said:

It's three in the morning here on the misty beach,  not a car passing by for the last half hour as the clean, wet air wafts over the porch.    Enjoying a Noah's Mill I picked up tonight from Boulevard liquors,  our local comestibles emporium just over the bridge from our dry sandbar.   Listening to the Avon Cities Jazz Band,  British lads in the years just before the Beatles when the scene was New Orleans Trad and dancing to the music of Kid Valentine.     

Sounds like I'm not the only one who enjoys the brown liquid and the music in the wee hours of the morning when everything else is dead quiet. I got some jazz playing in the background while I enjoy this Little Book chapter 3.  Peace and quiet is underrated...

[Jazzhead]

7 minutes ago, Kepler said:

Sounds like I'm not the only one who enjoys the brown liquid and the music in the wee hours of the morning when everything else is dead quiet. I got some jazz playing in the background while I enjoy this Little Book chapter 3.  Peace and quiet is underrated...

Good whiskey and those inward musical journeys to a place and time are what those wee hours are for.   

[Jazzhead]

Now on to a Noah's Mill and Monty Sunshine's trio from  Chris Barber's band.    

[markandrex]

Opened the pool today so sitting back with some RR SiB this evening.

[0895]

17 hours ago, Kepler said:

  Peace and quiet is underrated...

 

Amen

[PhantomLamb]

Cracked the MMCS tonight, this is just wonderful. Drinks easy for 110 proof, like drinking cookie dough, as odd as that sounds . 

[LCWoody]

Having a nice pour of Belle Meade Reserve 108.3 proof. Good bourbon..

[flahute]

Pulled out a 4R Small Batch Select from the bunker. Bought this when it first came out. I'm liking it a lot more than I remember liking the first bottle.

[steven s]

a restaurant here in OR had ORVW10 for 14$, and VWSR12 for 16$. I had 2 of each. Sometimes a control state comes through. Wife thought 4 pours was a little much, but we talked it through.

 

[LGC]

Heavy night (for me):  Maker's Cask Strength, Maker's FAE-01, Knob Creek 120 and somewhere along the way, a VooDoo Ranger, Purple Haze, IPA

[markandrex]

Pulled out a Jefferson’s Ocean Voyage 6 that my oldest son was a big fan of.  I enjoyed it before the pricing crept beyond what I consider reasonable.

Not bad, still have 4-5 behind this one and I won’t be buying anymore.

[smokinjoe]

OF Statesman with a cube out back on a nice warm evening.  This is just such a fine whiskey.  I find it is great neat, great with water, great with a cube, and great with a handful of ice.  For sub 100 proof, it digs in and stays together regardless of what I do to it.  

[Phil T]

I felt like I needed something this evening that I haven't had in years. So I looked deep and pulled this out. An easy drinker at 99 prrof, just as I remembered. 

[mbroo5880i]

20 hours ago, flahute said:

Pulled out a 4R Small Batch Select from the bunker. Bought this when it first came out. I'm liking it a lot more than I remember liking the first bottle.

I have had a few bottles.  The first bottle was meh.  I liked FRSiB better. The last bottle was stellar.  I am a buyer @ $49.99.  No more and obviously less.  Next time it goes on sale which is about once a month, I will grab another and enjoy it.

 

Interestingly enough, I see this regularly but rarely see FRSiB.

Edited April 14, 2021 by mbroo5880i

[Kjbarth]

Bookers Pigskin first neat, then with a small chip of ice.

[LvR Mike]

I thought this was so good I had to find my phone to take a picture of it just to post it. Very much so am I enjoying this.