What bourbon are you drinking now?

[pdsmith56]

I alternate between Maker's Mark & Woodford Reserve; served in a Talbott Tavern glass from Bardstown.

[camduncan]

Tonight (Friday night) is usually a drop of ORVW 10yo before dinner, a shot of Elijah Craig 12yo after dinner, and a dash of Jim Beam Small Batch & Port with/after dessert..

Tommorrow night at a 'Antipasto Evening' dinner party, it'll probably be either Bulleit or Evan Williams SB..

Well, the whole plan changed... A night out to dinner on Friday night saw me drinking Basil Hayden

And I ended up buying my Xmas bottle of 94 Evan William SB on Saturday night...

[brian12069]

Tonight (Friday night) is usually a drop of ORVW 10yo before dinner, a shot of Elijah Craig 12yo after dinner, and a dash of Jim Beam Small Batch & Port with/after dessert..

Tommorrow night at a 'Antipasto Evening' dinner party, it'll probably be either Bulleit or Evan Williams SB..

Well, the whole plan changed... A night out to dinner on Friday night saw me drinking Basil Hayden

And I ended up buying my Xmas bottle of 94 Evan William SB on Saturday night...

I take it you don't like Basil Hayden either...

[camduncan]

I take it you don't like Basil Hayden either...

I'm still quite fond of it, as it was the first bourbon I could drink neat. I guess my tastes have matured or evolved once I found bottles from Heaven Hill & Buffalo Trace though I still go back to BH on occasions, but it's not my prefered drop..

[RedVette]

Right now I am enjoying a glass of ORVW 12 yr old "Lot B". Tasty stuff, but nowhere near as tasty as the 15 and 20 year old Van Winkles. I rotate through the 40 or 50 expressions in the collection, but I have a group of bourbons that I regularily enjoy because I can afford to enjoy them. OGD BIB, Beam Black, WT101 and EC12 are all on my "common pour" list.

[nysquire]

We usually start with a pour of the Rock Hill, a very nice starting bourbon.Than we go to our favorite pour EC 18yo....Than a little pour of the OF 13yo Birthday and VW 12yo special reserve. And to end the night with a pour of Old Weller Centennial, what we call our dessert bourbon or breakfast bourbon. Gonna try it on pancakes some day.......

[clayton]

Last night was some Stagg 04 in a set of new Riedel bourbon glasses from my best bourbon-drinking friend -- a fine xmas present indeed!

[TNbourbon]

Last night, after fighting through snowstorms in IN-KY on my way home, I poured a triple of bourbons not available in TN -- the Evan Williams 1783 (which struck me as a drinkable version of EC12), Old Fitzgerald 1849 (a nice 8yo -- think VOB in wheat), and Very Rare Old Heaven Hill 10yo BIB (perhaps my favorite of the trio -- a softness to it that offset the 100 proof nicely). The best thing is that I bought 750s of all three in a KY store less than 2 hours away for under $38.

[BrbnBorderline]

Last night was two fingers of Knob Creek.

[camduncan]

Last night I finished off the last few pours in an old bottle of Jim Beam White.. I had to mix it with coke - I just couldn't tolerate it neat or with ice

Tonight I'll open my 04 Sazerac and share a pour with my Dad for Xmas Eve. We'll likely finish with some ORVW 13yo Rye..

[Ken Weber]

Cameron, I will be interested in your assessment of the Sazerac Rye and the Van Winkle Rye. Merry Christmas!

Ken

[GrayFox]

Buffalo Trace....so good it may replace Wild Turkey as my old standby.

[ratcheer]

Last night, very late, I finished off my first bottle of Kentucky Spirit. Very tasty! I have a new bottle in the bunker, but after that one, they apparently have decided to no longer carry it in my (ABC) state.

I managed to throw away the bottle, but I had to keep the heavy pewter cork top. I have no idea why.

Tim

[TNbourbon]

...but I had to keep the heavy pewter cork top. I have no idea why.

Maybe you just knew intuitively that that pewter top is obsolete. You had an older bottle -- Wild Turkey replaced it with a wooden/cork stopper a couple of years ago.

[idpa2000]

Last night it was 2 fingers of <font color="blue"> Knob Creek</font> with one big fat ice cube. It was so good that tonight I will probably repeat the same.

[gr8erdane]

That and the sometimes annoying characteristic of corks to not seal completely and require replacement. I have a bottle of Corner Creek that I could rattle the cork around in the top and had to pull out an eighth of an inch or so to seal until I found one to replace it. You can never have enough spare corks.

[kitzg]

Ah, yes, which one should I drink?

Though I have bourbons that clearly I'd rate as the top of my list and like most here I would not buy JB white (or the 'new' JD 80 proof black label) I guess the 'best bourbon' is the one I have in my hand at a given moment!

Recently when sipping I've been enjoying Beam Black, Weller 12, Eagle Rare SB, AAA and a few others but in the next few days I will finish off the Blanton's I have. Why let that one sit? I actually believe I might finish off all of my open bottles before I start on a trip in early January! Terrible chore, eh?

[wrbriggs]

Tonight I'm drinking Blanton's, and then I intend to move on to my first pour of Old Grand Dad 114. We'll see how that goes!

[TNbourbon]

My own New Year's Eve celebration began with Wathen's 1997 (94 proof) and currently continues with Old Forester Birthday Bourbon (95 proof) and anticipates Rare Old Heaven Hill 10yo BIB (100 proof, of course) and 2004 George T. Stagg (129 proof). I didn't concoct this rye-flavored progression until I was already into the Wathen's -- and retro-proofing generally seems like a bad idea -- or I would have begun with Eagle Rare 17yo 2004 (90 proof). I guess I'll save that with which to toast the new year tomorrow.

To a great 2005 for all of you!

[dgonano]

Some Michter's( from the Xmas tree decanter ), followed by some Stagg(129 proof). Also celebrating a rare e-bay win for me ( Johnny Reb 12 yr from the Dowling Dist.).

Happy New Year to everyone. Please don't drink and drive.

I want to see everyone at the Gazebo in 2005!

[mobourbon]

I'm ringing in the new year with WT Russells Reserve. Great tasting! Great pour!

Fred

[jeff]

My new Year's celebration began with a few Sierra Nevada Celebration Ales and Porters and is finishing up with a bit of Wild Turkey Freedom. I might crack open a bottle of Early Times bourbon if the mood strikes me.

[bluesbassdad]

Eagle Rare 101. I've liked this one from the first time I tried it, an accidental purchase when I thought I was ordering ER 10 y/o Single Barrel. Lately it has seemed especially tasty. It seems to fall somewhere between the perhaps overly sweet Buffalo Trace and the perhaps overly tangy Wild Turkey 101. Within the BT lineup it compares very favorably to Rock Hill Farms, IMO.

I picked up this, my second bottle (a 1.75 L. this time) on my trip to Houston to adopt my pet bull, Brewski, back in September. It may have to last a while; I find no BT product except Ancient Age in this area.

I'll be celebrating very quietly tonight. My wife left for Illinois yesterday to care for her mother while her father recovers from cancer surgery. She left me five of our six dogs to keep me company and out of trouble. (The one she took is purse-sized.)

Yours truly,

Dave Morefield

[gr8erdane]

For me it was good old plain WT 101. I was feeling a bit nostalgic.

[cowdery]

"Retro-proofing"? Nice, new term. If I take the meaning correctly, "to follow a drink of whiskey with a drink of a different whiskey having a lower proof."