What bourbon did you purchase this spring season of 2025?

[PaulO]

On 5/8/2025 at 11:32 PM, MSB said:

Agree. I would have bought box set for that price. ( I have never had a chance to buy a BB, sadly) 

The BB is 10-12 years old and bottled at 90 something proof, changes by release.  It seems a drier profile compared to other versions of OF.  I get tannin like strong tea, dry wood like cedar cigar box.  At low 90 something proof, and not much sweetness, it can feel sort of thin.  It's ok, but not my favorite in the OF line up.  

[JT3NSB]

On 5/8/2025 at 12:29 PM, fosmith said:

Wow!  20 yo Dickel and nearly cask strength for $75 is unbelievable in today's market, and the whiskey is insanely good, even at lower proofs.  I've had some 17 and 18 yr ones that were outstanding.  What's the proof on your bottle?   I had a bottle at 84.x proof that had amazing concentration of flavor.  

 

What I heard (from someone who got it directly from Dickel) is that these barrels come from the lower floors of the rickhouse and lose proof as they age.  They have a range of target proofs for these so, at bottling, they proof them down by 1-1.5% or so in order to simplify the bottling and labeling process.  So, my most recent bottle of 15yr, bottled at 96.2 proof, probably came out of the barrel at around 97 proof.  That small amount of water is not going to impact the flavor to any significant degree.  

This one is 84.4.   I’m a dumbass. I went in there without my reading glasses.    It was the lowest proof 15 year I’ve ever seen.   But I was already down the road before I realized the age.   I certainly would’ve purchase more.  I like these occasionally…