What Bourbon Are You Drinking Summer 2025?

[MTNBourbon]

28 minutes ago, Kepler said:

I reckon there's only been one actual hazmat ECBP and that's batch number 6.  I've never tasted it.  

Yes! I had a bottle, bought it back in UT. Still have the empty bottle.

[fishnbowljoe]

I saw in the “What Bottle Did You Open?” thread that @0895 opened a bottle of ETL. So, I shall join @0895 with a pour of ETL. Long but good day today. I helped out at our annual American Legion corn bowl today. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Kepler]

ECBP #12 was great as always.

 

Next I had a pour of C922, also excellent but not on the level as batch #12.

 

I was feeling the HH vibes so now I am having a pour of Parker's Heritage #11, the 11 year single barrel release.   

 

I'll give the nose and finish to the PHC11 and the palate goes to ECBP 12.

 

Nose:  PHC11, ECBP 12, C922

Palate:  ECBP 12, PHC11, C922

Finish:  PHC11, ECBP 12, C922

 

Anyway you slice it, three excellent bottles.  Glad to have any of these.

[GeeTen]

FRYL "freezer bottle" after making won ton for the family with the grandids.  Life is great, eh?  

 

 

[Clueby]

11 hours ago, fishnbowljoe said:

I saw in the “What Bottle Did You Open?” thread that @0895 opened a bottle of ETL. So, I shall join @0895 with a pour of ETL. Long but good day today. I helped out at our annual American Legion corn bowl today. 

For the uneducated, what's a corn bowl? Sounds like a corn hole tournament? 

I'm down to my last bottle of ETL and can't bring myself to open it...yet.

We've been going for the low fill bottles to clear some room. Went for this 22 EC18 last night. I really love the sweet oakiness of this stuff.

[elmossle]

So went out to eat with the wife for the first time in a while and tried a new place out on the coast before heading to a concert. Asked for the list and was shocked in a good way at the prices for a pour! I will leave up to you all to guess on what 2 pours I ended up going with and would love to hear what everyone else would have chosen from this list given the chance to do so.

[Richnimrod]

I'd have probably gone for the GTS, and maybe the junior version, as well.

[Kepler]

51 minutes ago, elmossle said:

So went out to eat with the wife for the first time in a while and tried a new place out on the coast before heading to a concert. Asked for the list and was shocked in a good way at the prices for a pour! I will leave up to you all to guess on what 2 pours I ended up going with and would love to hear what everyone else would have chosen from this list given the chance to do so.

 

Depends on the vintage of the BTAC.  If 2024 then I would have gone GTS and Saz18.   Vintage independent, I probably would have gone THH.  

The baby saz for $15 is a ripoff.  A whole bottle costs like 25 bucks.

 

[PaulO]

On 8/2/2025 at 12:54 PM, Richnimrod said:

I've tired of my emptying of low-fill bottles (actually I only have a couple that are much below half now).   It became something of a duty, and seemed to limit my choices unnecessarily.   Not really, I guess; but, I digress.

I also have decided to take a break from draining the 'sample bottles' of "spectacular" pours from years gone by, though I still probably have 2-or-3-dozen remaining; maybe more, If I cared to search 'em out.

Anyway, yesterday, I pulled down my last (a small tear fell just then) family sized jug of Old Forester Signature.   I really liked this brand, and have been nearly universally disappointed by the several efforts by BF to replace it over the last few (what? 9) years.    I'll have none left whenever I drain the last of this big bottle.   I never "bunkered" much of it, and should have.    I did grab a few 'extra' bottles at the end, before the brand disappeared from shelves; and I had snagged a few here and there whenever I was in a state that offered discount pricing (The Mitten State forbids that).   It was always a very regular pour for me, and not building up a 'stock' was short-sighted, I now see.   It was never a high-cost pour to begin with!      I was a fool!   There, I said it.

Yeah Rich, I know exactly what you're talking about (a big OF Sig fan here).  The first couple generations of that - superb.  Then they went to the label with the big blocky letters - not good.  The current OF 100 is ok, but the "dusty" stuff much better.

If you haven't tried the OF 100 Rye - it delivers some of those dusty OF Sig flavors.  

[NDN98]

2 hours ago, elmossle said:

So went out to eat with the wife for the first time in a while and tried a new place out on the coast before heading to a concert. Asked for the list and was shocked in a good way at the prices for a pour! I will leave up to you all to guess on what 2 pours I ended up going with and would love to hear what everyone else would have chosen from this list given the chance to do so.

Guessing GTS and Saz 18

[MM818]

M10 for $55 and GTS $30. That would make me think GTS was a value pour!