What bourbon are you drinking now?

[gothbat]

Pappy Van Winkle 15. I gotta stop dipping into my Van Winkle bottles, I'll really miss them when they're gone!

[Virus_Of_Life]

Started with GTS tonite, damn do I love that stuff, one the best and only I'd take if I had to decide. After that I had a mixture of GTS, Pappy 20 and Rittenhoues BiB Rye with a splash of water.... VERY NICE!!

[TimmyBoston]

Started off the night with uncorking of a new bottle, Pappy 20, first time I've had it. Its very good, but from my preliminary accounts, I think it would have been better if it had been bottled at a higher proof, my bottle IMO tastes a little watery.

Next off to Wild Turkey Tribute, and the wooden cap broke came unglued from the cork!!!!! Agh!!!!! Anyone have any advice on how to fix it or get a new cap? Thanks all.

[wadewood]

Next off to Wild Turkey Tribute, and the wooden cap broke came unglued from the cork!!!!! Agh!!!!! Anyone have any advice on how to fix it or get a new cap? Thanks all.

Buy and finish off a bottle of WT RR, the new 90 proof. Same bottle as Tribute, so should be same cap size.

[gothbat]

Too weird! That is one of my absolute top favorites.

It tastes unlike any other bourbon I've tried and the taste is just weird to me. I kind of figured it would have to make someone’s favorites seeing how the flavor is pretty unique.

[ratcheer]

It tastes unlike any other bourbon I've tried and the taste is just weird to me. I kind of figured it would have to make someone’s favorites seeing how the flavor is pretty unique.

I am pretty sure it is near the top of the list for many others around here (these forums), as well.

Tim

[bluesbassdad]

I am pretty sure it is near the top of the list for many others around here (these forums), as well.

Tim,

Count me as one of them. For that reason I'm always tempted to cry out "Bad cork!" when I hear a reaction such as gothbat's to Rock Hill Farms.

To my taste RHF is the quintessential (I had to look it up to be sure) bourbon. I would love to be able to isolate the flavor element that ruins it for gothbat and then taste it myself. Perhaps it's a chemical that doesn't even register on my tasting apparatus.

Someone else {upon review by the officials on the field, it was actually gothbat, himself} recently listed his top five favorites and included the mediocre (to my taste) 1792 Ridgemont Reserve (aka, "Old Pencil Shavings" ). As a footnote he mentioned that Rock Hill Farms was his least favorite. Amazing that such differences in perception exist.

Yours truly,

Dave Morefield

[Ambernecter]

RHF is my number 1 and I don't see that changing anytime soon.

EC12 and Evan Williams SB are faves of quite a few members on here but I don't care for them at all.

I'll leave plenty of those for folks to enjoy and get stuck into what I like drinking - mainly anything from BT and Wild Turkey!

[jburlowski]

WLW (with a friend I haven't seen in years) .. damn good!

[gothbat]

Some Fighting Cock 103 while I relax and watch Curb Your Enthusiasm.

[NorCalBoozer]

a pour of Old Fitz BIB Stitzel Weller from the early nineties. What a treat, and to think most likely there is a considerable amount of this stuff still sitting on store shelves collecting dust. Probably can be had for $10-15. this is so not "bottom shelf".

I wonder if the merit of a good distiller is not the quality of their top shelf bourbon, but rather their bottom. Greg.

[smokinjoe]

ETL, followed by a pre-suspension Wathens, and topped off with the WLW.

I hadn't had the Wathens and WLW in a while. Oddly, the Wathens wasn't as good as I remember, and the WLW was better (actually awesome).

Go figure.

JOE

[TimmyBoston]

05 Stagg then MaCallan Cask Strength. Stagg's always great and MaCallan's a good scotch, but there's a little too much Sherry taste for me.

[bluesbassdad]

Rock Hill Farms -- about 3 oz. in a rocks glass slightly tapered at the top.

Comments by gothbat and Chirstian (V_o_L) caused me to revisit it. I decided to make a concerted effort to find any objectionable elements.

I hate being wishy-washy, but here goes. I still like it, even though I wouldn't call it my favorite. Unlike some whiskies, which seem to build up the negative flavor elements in my mouth, eventually forcing me to take a sip of water, I find the taste on the palete builds in a positive way.

At the same time, I think I know what gb and VoL are talking about, at least in regard to the finish. It definitely has a dry, almost flinty character. Ironically it's polar opposite would be Buffalo Trace, from the same distillery, which sometimes seems too sweet on the finish for my taste. The dry finish encourages another sip right away; the sweet finish announces "That's it; no need for more.".

However, as I near the bottom of this double pour, I find that the dryness is moderating somewhat.

In short, I think I taste the elements that others find objectionable in the finish, and yet I don't find them objectionable at all. However, the overall experience is significantly different from what I perceive as the mainstream of bourbon. (Take a moment and enjoy that image, if you wish.) Accordingly, I must retract my use of the word "quintessential", which I used to describe Rock Hill Farms in a recent post. Perhaps "idiosyncratic" is more appropriate.

If all of the above reminds anyone of the politician who was asked about his position on liquor, I understand.

Yours truly,

Dave Morefield

[TNbourbon]

...If all of the above reminds anyone of the politician who was asked about his position on liquor, I understand.

Yours truly,

Dave Morefield

Also one of the great nicknames in American political history, Dave -- "Soggy" Sweat! His eloquent ambivalence (would that by 'eloquivalence'?) apparently was widespread -- Mississippi did finally repeal Prohibition, but not for another 12 years, in 1966.

Judge Sweat, by the way, was only 28 when he made that speech, later founding the first full-time state judicial education program in the country, the Mississippi Judicial College, now part of Ole Miss's law school:

http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/mjc/about2.html

[Gillman]

It's hard to believe Mississippi only repealed State Prohibition in 1966. Did this mean that hotels and restaurants could not serve liquor or only that retail sales were prohibited?

Gary

[TNbourbon]

It's hard to believe Mississippi only repealed State Prohibition in 1966. Did this mean that hotels and restaurants could not serve liquor or only that retail sales were prohibited?

Gary

About half of Mississippi, as in many other Southern states, is still 'dry', Gary -- meaning simply that you have to go down the road to buy your liquor.

But, in the case of Prohibition, the manufacture, sale, transporation, import, export and possession of alcoholic beverages was at least putatively proscribed until 1966, when Mississippi finally ratified the 21st Amendment.

But, to show how unimportant some things are -- legally, at least, though significant culturally -- Mississippi also didn't ratify the 13th Amendment outlawing slavery until 1995.

[Gillman]

Tim, does that mean at say a business dinner in Natchez or any other major urban in 1965 no aocohol could be served with a meal?

What about a private club?

Did this mean technically even in a private home no bourbon could be stored or consumed?

Gary

[TNbourbon]

Tim, does that mean at say a business dinner in Natchez or any other major urban in 1965 no aocohol could be served with a meal?

What about a private club?

Did this mean technically even in a private home no bourbon could be stored or consumed?

Gary

Correct -- liquor legality in Mississippi in 1965 was what it had been nationwide during Prohibition. I doubt, however, that enforcement was carried into private homes or entities.

[Gillman]

Wow, I did not realise the States could prolong Prohibition and some did so for that long.

Gary

[bluesbassdad]

See here for more on this topic.

Yours truly,

Dave Morefield

[RedVette]

Tonight I have a very large pour of Pappy 15, over ice in my glass. I deserve it. After the day I had I could even say I need it. Three employee reviews, two of them mostly negative, one mostly positive, and one additional employee receiving a probation for questionable internet use. If it wasn't for customers and employees, business would be easy.

[Virus_Of_Life]

Rock Hill Farms -- about 3 oz. in a rocks glass slightly tapered at the top.

Comments by gothbat and Chirstian (V_o_L) caused me to revisit it. I decided to make a concerted effort to find any objectionable elements.

Dave I have tried numerous times honest, and I really think that I just got an off bottle or something, the cork itself smells fine. Maybe it was stored on it's side for some time and got some cork in the flavor I don't know, but this and the ETL I left in Oregon were both really off. I know this sounds weird, but I notice it the most when I belch that is when I really get the woodiness...

I'd love to try another RHF to compare, if I ever see it in a bar I will.

As for what I am having tonite, RHF. It seems to be a little better tonite than in the past, but still not a fav.

I'd be having the BOTM, IF I could find some! ......... revised half way through the pour, just don't like it, doesn't present any flavors I enjoy in a typical bourbon. We'll give it another try some other time.

[Tricky]

Happy Birthday to me :drinking: :toast:

VWSR Lot B :cool:

[TimmyBoston]

Happy Birthday Tricky, I'm glad to see youre celebrating with a quality bourbon.

Tonight, I started off with some Pappy 20, then off to Rare Breed and now I'm off to Pappy 15 and finally Lot B with the tiniest touch of 15 mixed in for a little wood.

Does anyone else wonder why the Pappy 15 is so much oakier than the Pappy 20? (With my bottles there is a tremendous difference between the two.)

IMO the 12 and 20 are closer in style to each other ( with the exception of smoothness) than the 15 is to either.Any comment?