What Bourbon Are You Drinking - Fall 2023

[Clueby]

1 hour ago, Davesnothere said:

Add guitars and we're in complete agreement!

I think you spelled drums wrong.

[Double C's]

pulling some bottles to take to deer camp next week to share with a friend that's getting into bourbon. Decided to pour this while I contemplate my options. 

[smokinjoe]

I really like the Beam peanut note, but if I want to tone it down, I go to this label without the higher cost of other Beam offerings.  Regardless of these comments, I love most everything Beam.  It’s just about finding the lanes.  And when I find a lane, I dive in and wallow in it.  

[Skinsfan1311]

On 11/2/2023 at 1:37 PM, markandrex said:

I would agree 99% with the above statements.   My lone caveat would by AE rye, for some reason that just says the Holidays to me.

Same here!

That AE rye is the perfect dessert pour after Thanksgiving,  or Christmas, dinner.

[Skinsfan1311]

MM 46 in the glass.....

[smokinjoe]

Worked in a front patio fire in the Solo a couple weeks ago, but have my first fire started in the back patio fireplace right now, with a pour of a very good Wild Turkey Kentucky Spirit.  

[markandrex]

This was our major yard/leaf clean up day.  We spent about 6.5 hours outside on a beautiful 70 degree day.  The yard looks great and most of the beds are cleared out and bedded down for winter.  I am definitely feeling the 30+ dumps on the mower.

We will likely have a least one more outside day but nothing like today.

Poured a heavy glass of WTKS and just relaxing.

[markandrex]

7 minutes ago, smokinjoe said:

Worked in a front patio fire in the Solo a couple weeks ago, but have my first fire started in the back patio fireplace right now, with a pour of a very good Wild Turkey Kentucky Spirit.  

That is beautiful!  The WTKS insn’t bad either.  Cheers!

[Skinsfan1311]

On 11/2/2023 at 10:39 PM, Double C's said:

pulling some bottles to take to deer camp next week to share with a friend that's getting into bourbon. Decided to pour this while I contemplate my options. 

So?

What did you decide?

WT101 has been the traditional bottle during rifle season at the farm for the last 35 years....

 

[Double C's]

44 minutes ago, Skinsfan1311 said:

So?

What did you decide?

WT101 has been the traditional bottle during rifle season at the farm for the last 35 years....

 

EW BIB, JDSBBP, Benchmark bonded, Maker's cask strength, Larceny BP B523, Ben Holladay BIB, Planter's ozark whiskey, Copper Dome whiskey

[Skinsfan1311]

14 minutes ago, Double C's said:

EW BIB, JDSBBP, Benchmark bonded, Maker's cask strength, Larceny BP B523, Ben Holladay BIB, Planter's ozark whiskey, Copper Dome whiskey

Nice! 

 

Edit: might want to make sure your buddy hydrates...those are some heavy-hitters

 

Edited November 5, 2023 by Skinsfan1311

[Skinsfan1311]

Revisiting this one.

It's pretty damn good but, is it $70.00 better than the 12 year? 

Nah....

[fishnbowljoe]

MM again tonight. What can I say?

[Kepler]

Classic SAOS 10yr single barrel.

This is so damned good.

 

[fishnbowljoe]

22 minutes ago, Kepler said:

Classic SAOS 10yr single barrel.

This is so damned good.

 

 

You forget something @Kepler ?

[Kepler]

10 minutes ago, fishnbowljoe said:

You forget something @Kepler ?

 

Oh, I did forget.  Forgive me, SB community.

 

Yes I can confirm this particular one was indeed bottled by Sarah. 

[fishnbowljoe]

41 minutes ago, Kepler said:

 

Oh, I did forget.  Forgive me, SB community.

 

Yes I can confirm this particular one was indeed bottled by Sarah. 

“Thank you sir, may I have another?”  

[Kepler]

1 hour ago, Kepler said:

Classic SAOS 10yr single barrel.

This is so damned good.

 

I followed up the SAOS 10yr pour with a 2nd pour.  Ok maybe a 2nd and a 3rd pour.  Hey, if you have one that tastes so great, you'd do the same, hehe.

 

Last in my glass tonight is Barrell Bourbon batch 26.   This is one of my all time favorite Barrell bourbons ... and I've tried a lot of them.  Yes, I'm sorry but the marzipan note is real.  Sorry to disappoint y'all, but it's not just a Minnick thing.

 

 

 

[Clueby]

Had a MM night last night with a fellow SBr. RC6, SE4xPR5, FAE-01&02, BEP, Cellar Aged, an older bottles of PS and  Cask Strength (maybe 2015 ish). Didn't have either of the BRTs.

Out of the WFS bottles, the FAE-02 and BEP were standouts. The RC6 and FAE-01 were at the bottom of my list. The older CS had a "dusty" quality. The older PS stole the show...until Cellar Aged. All I can say is wow! Well that's not all I can say..it was flat out delicious. Super fruity bursting with red fruit notes. It was described as biting into a really juicy red delicious apple. Caramel, some wood, vanilla, something like a chocolate malted milk ball to me. Maybe some strawberries. Just wow. I thought I was gonna be disappointed. It was far and away better than everything else on the table. We brought out a Bernheim BP and STELLAR Weller FP pick to try against it since they were wheat and had similar proof. The Weller had a sour note when tried sbs. Had to be all the MM tasting just setting the palate and the Weller was too different. The Bernheim held up a little better but the top MM bottles overshadowed it.

I almost didn't want to like Cellar Aged this much. 

 

 

Edited November 5, 2023 by Clueby

[Anwalt]

Has anyone tried HHSS 7y finished bottles from the distillery tour? We happened to be driving from Knoxville to Covington. And by pure dumb luck 2 seats opened up for that tour. I look forward to trying those 3 selections. I've generally been happy with HHSS, but the others were all 14y. We'll see how this one goes.

 

Hoping that the gift shop has some ECBP C922, we'll see.

[Skinsfan1311]

Culliing some bottles and celebrating mediocrity, (my Washington Whatevers won today),  on a gorgeous Sunday afternoon in the Land of Pleasant Living...

 

[Jazzhead]

Halftime at Eagles/Cowboys,  and I'm sipping a Smoke Wagon UCUF (there it is up in the corner) while listening to the Hot Antic Jazz Band,  a French band that specializes in the sound of Jabbo Smith

[JakeySnakes]

While maybe not the most memorable batch for me, it was still very, very good.

[Thomm]

Dickel 8 year bourbon tonight.  This was my second go at this bottle. 

I was in the basement earlier today, organizing some drawers in a workbench.  Whenever I find myself in the basement lately, I pop corks on open bottles and give em a whiff.  Kinda like keeping track of my kids (albeit the less desirable ones who reside in the basement).  Anyway, I sniffed this particular bottle and got a cherry note.  

Fast forward to now, and whatever cherry note I had imagined is definitely not there.  It isn't on the nose, and it absolutely isn't on the palate.  

I get a very short, light brown sugar sweetness that fades into an oaky tannin.  Almost like the oakiness you might get from a strong red wine, like a Cabernet Sauvignon.  Then the  trademark chewable vitamin makes its presence known.  As it lingers, it seems to melt into a rock salt minerality.  Also present is a warm Farina breakfast cereal, flavored with butter and white sugar.  And Cap'n Crunch cereal.  Not Peanut Butter Crunch or Crunchberries, but regular old yellow, roof-of-the-mouth-shredding Cap'n Crunch.

I don't know if my palate is way off or I have a hard time relating what I taste to a comparable known flavor, but this was my experience tonight.  Makes for an interesting pour.  

[fishnbowljoe]

Opened a bottle of BT tonight.