What rye are you drinking or purchased 2025

[MSB]

1 hour ago, rzelinka said:

 

I'll look for their single barrel offering to sample and see if I come away with the same impressions. 

Be sure to try the SiB BP rye. It is one of my favorite whiskeys. They are around the 130pf but drink more like a 110ish pf. IMO

[rzelinka]

3 hours ago, MSB said:

Be sure to try the SiB BP rye. It is one of my favorite whiskeys. They are around the 130pf but drink more like a 110ish pf. IMO

will absolutely do so

[Mattk]

2 hours ago, rzelinka said:

will absolutely do so

While I do recommend this bottle and have owned several, it is quite rye forward. Brown forman does use a yeast that ranges from banana bread to sweet tarts, which may compliment/ mask the heavy rye influence. But don't be fooled the sib rye is very rye.

[rzelinka]

7 minutes ago, Mattk said:

While I do recommend this bottle and have owned several, it is quite rye forward. Brown forman does use a yeast that ranges from banana bread to sweet tarts, which may compliment/ mask the heavy rye influence. But don't be fooled the sib rye is very rye.

I suspect you are right on in your assessment. I disliked the Bonded Rye, and while a Single Barrel will take on a different flavor profile, I would submit the mash bill is essentially the same. To your point that means it will be very rye forward. If that is the case, it would only be doable for me in an old fashioned or Manhattan. I'll keep an open mind.

[Skinsfan1311]

On 6/8/2025 at 6:38 PM, rzelinka said:

I suspect you are right on in your assessment. I disliked the Bonded Rye, and while a Single Barrel will take on a different flavor profile, I would submit the mash bill is essentially the same. To your point that means it will be very rye forward. If that is the case, it would only be doable for me in an old fashioned or Manhattan. I'll keep an open mind.

The JDSBBP rye is sooooo much better than the bonded version.

It's more complex, spicier, but sweeter.

It may be a rye that you enjoy. It drinks below its proof. I have a few bottles, varying in proof, and the higher proof releases benefit when poured over a tiny cube, or a splash to open it up, and tame the heat.