Greatest Bourbon Sin?

[barturtle]

Yes I have tried Junipero, and it was excellent. But the trips to get it make it impractical for me(Chicago from Louisville). My other favs are Boodle's and Plymouth. I usually use them in a martini (Up! with a twist, please)

Timothy

[BrbnBorderline]

My greatest bourbon sin was trying Booker's on ice.

From now on - neat!

YMMV

[CrispyCritter]

Interesting. I found Knob Creek on ice to be rather sickly-tasting, yet quite good when neat.

I've quit icing my whisk(e)y, although a splash of water sometimes is a good thing.

[Tallica]

My biggest sin is having to many great bottles still unopened,amongst these Pappy 20 yr Lawrenceburg & Pappy 23 yr plus a host of others, although I have been rectifying this recently, inspired by many threads on Straight Bourbon.

[Chaz7]

My biggest sin is having to many great bottles still unopened,amongst these Pappy 20 yr Lawrenceburg & Pappy 23 yr plus a host of others, although I have been rectifying this recently, inspired by many threads on Straight Bourbon.

Well, I don't want to sound morbid, but suppose you were hit by an errant kangaroo,or your tongue was attacked by a vicious koala and you lost your sense of taste. Everyday those bottles would haunt you...

[Rughi]

Tallica,

I don't think you should use "Pappy" and "rectify" in the same post.

Roger - With luck, what I did in my youth won't haunt me ever after - Hodges

[angelshare]

Surely, I can't be the only one: Let's hear it -- what is your worst bourbon sin? (At least it wasn't Pappy 23! )

I recall a night in 1996 when two friends and I, after a highly stressfull day at work, killed with reckless abandon a bottle of EWSB 1986. At the time, Tina & I were bourbon enthusiasts but really had no appreciation for the limited availability of certain bottlings. It was more ignorance than sin, I suppose - not really pearls before swine, but with no sense of limited quantity, we drank without consideration of future availability.

Then again, there was a freedom to enjoy entirely in the moment that we lost with further bourbon education. So, as posted earlier, maybe we are sinning by putting limited whiskey back for special occasions and fretting over whether it's the right time to break it out.

As for mixing...not our thing for the most part, but if you're as thoughtful as Tim (and Gary) about it, that's no sin, that's reverence.

[Gillman]

In addition to the Gazebo items listed earlier, I have now finalized and bottled a "Gazebo blend" I will bring. This is a combination of about 25 or more bourbons and straight ryes. I have "married" the blend with a dose of Rock and Rye, just enought to be noticeable and lend a faint sweetness. Really the drink is a kind of Old-Fashioned but I like it neat. It will please many I think since it will be tasted after dinner for most people and its heavy body and complex smooth palate will appeal I think at that hour. I bottled it in a handsome sturdy round bottle that used to hold Norwegian Linie Acquavit, now some 20 years old. It is full and will further mature and "meld" between now and the event. I will get a label for it and identify it as Gillman's Reserve Gazebo Blend, specially bottled for straightbourbon.com's gathering in Bardstown, KY. in 2005. Hope you you will be there, Dave (and Tina), to taste it.

Gary