how many

[camduncan]

I guess i'll just have to look a bit harder. If you find anything out of the ordinary let us know via the 'Bourbon Availability Downunder' thread.

leigh.

Will do :cool:

Not sure if this was stated or not (its been a while since I started this thread)....so this may be a recap -

Heaven Hill products available from most Liquorland or Vintage Cellars stores in Brisbane -

Elijah Craig 12yo

Evan Williams 7yo

95 Evan Williams SB

Virgin Bourbon

BWS carry Jim Beam Bonded 1ltr bottles that used to only be available duty free. They also carry Nelson County 40% which is another Heaven Hill product (and awesome value in my opinion)

Have a look at www.nicks.com.au - they are a Melbourne based store carying:

Buffalo Trace

Blantons Original, Silver, Gold and Family Reserve

Virginia Gentleman

Hirsch 16yo

Most of the other stuff can be found locally at most stores. :grin:

[scopenut]

AH Hirsch 16

Pappy's 20

Van Winkle Lot B

Old Charter Classic 90

Knob Creek

Woodford Reserve

Being in Fl., it's not easy acquiring a wide assortment of quality bourbon. Most of ones listed, I've gotten due to the recommendations of the list. And for that, I'm very grateful.

Kevin

[Edward_call_me_Ed]

I think every single bottle is open unless it is a back up of something that is open. There might be one or two that haven't been cracked yet, but I am not saving them, just neglecting them. I think there must be around a hundred of them. I will go check. I need to pour my first drink anyway.

Ed

[Edward_call_me_Ed]

114 open bottles. That count could be off by 3 or 4 either up or down. I did find a few unopened bottles. I opened one, a bottle of Bulliet I got on vacation last year. I will get them all open here soon. There are Bourbons, Ryes, Japanese whiskies and Brandies, Scotch, Irish, a couple of bottles each of Gin, Vodka, and Tequila.

Ed

[Nebraska]

Lol...you're the man Ed, you're the man 114, I love it.

EC 12 yo

EWSB 93, 95 and 96 (haven't found the 94 yet, haven't opened the 92 yet

Woodford reserve

Ridgemant reserve 1792

Cabin Still 1990

Weller Antique 107

ER 101

ERSB

Basil Hayden

Bulleit

Pappy 15

Pappy 20

ORVW 10/90

ORVW 10/107

ORVW 15/107

Lot B

WT rye

Rittenhouse 100 BIB

Hirsch rye 21 yo

Sazerac 18 yo

VG 90

Classic Cask 13 yo

Buffalo Trace

Jim Beam Black

Mark/Nebraska

WT

[mythrenegade]

I told my wife about this thread. I believe a comment along the lines of "I've got some catching up to do" nearly got me the opportunity to sleep on the couch :-)

I have everything open as well:

Maker's Mark

Elmer T. Lee

Elijah Craig 12 YO

Pappy Van Winkel 20 YO

Eagle Rare 10 YO

Knob Creek

That's it. That's as far as I've gotten on this little bourbon journey. Admittedly I'm on my second bottle of ETL and third bottle of Maker's Mark. So far Eagle Rare is my favorite.

Joel

[TNbourbon]

Open Bottles

Bourbon

• Baker's Batch B-85-001
  
• Beam's Choice 8yo (1974)
  
• Bourbon deLuxe (1976)
  
• Buffalo Trace
  
• Buffalo Trace single-barrel (2004 SB.com group selection)
  
• Cream of Kentucky (1970s half-pint)
  
• 2005 Eagle Rare 17yo
  
• Fighting Cock 15yo (Japan)
  
• Fleischmann's (1976 Bicentennial Eagle)
  
• Four Roses Single Barrel
  
• Gary Gillman blend
  
• Fall 2005 George T. Stagg
  
• Heaven Hill 7yo (1959)
  
• Jim Beam 4yo white
  
• Jim Beam Elks Decanter (1969)
  
• Jim Beam 180-month (1974)
  
• Joseph Finch 15yo
  
• Old Charter 10yo (1989)
  
• Old Crow 10yo (white queen chess piece, 1969)
  
• Old Grand-Dad 114 (early '80s)
  
• Old Grand-Dad BIB (1941/1945)
  
• Old Forester BIB (1994)
  
• Old Forester Birthday Bourbon (2002)
  
• Old Rip Van Winkle 10/90
  
• Old Rip Van Winkle 15/107
  
• Old Weller Antique 107 (gold-veined)
  
• Rock Hill Farms BIB (1996)
  
• Van Winkle Special Reserve Lot B (Stitzel-Weller)
  
• Van Winkle Special Reserve Lot B single-barrel ('Van Blankle')
  
• Very Old Barton BIB (1995)
  
• Walker's Deluxe
  
• Wathen's Barrel 110 (2001)
  
• Wild Turkey 80 (brown label, 1997)
  
• Wild Turkey Jimmy Russell Tribute 15yo
  
• William Larue Weller 12yo
  
• W.L. Weller 12yo
  
• W.L. Weller 12yo single-barrel (Stitzel-Weller, 'Barrel C')
  
• W.L. Weller 12yo single-barrel (Stitzel-Weller, 'BOTY')
  
• W.L. Weller 12yo single-barrel (Stitzel-Weller, 'BR01')
  
• W.L. Weller 12yo single-barrel (Stitzel-Weller, 'The Fourth Barrel')
  
• W.L. Weller Special Reserve 8yo BIB (1940/1948)
  

Rye

• Black Maple Hill 18yo
  
• Classic Cask 15yo
  
• Classic Cask 22yo
  
• Isaiah Morgan West Virginia rye
  
• Michter's 10yo Single Barrel rye
  
• Old Overholt (Beam: 1997)
  
• Old Overholt (National Distillers, early '60s)
  
• Old Potrero 19th Century (125.2 proof)
  
• Old Rip Van Winkle Old Time rye
  
• Van Winkle Family Reserve 13yo rye
  

Wheat

• Bernheim Original Wheat Whiskey
  

Scotch

• Benriach 10yo single malt (old version)
  
• Cutty Sark blended
  
• The Dalmore 12yo single malt
  
• Gary Gillman blend
  
• Glenfiddich 12yo single malt
  
• Glen Moray 12yo single malt
  
• Highland Park 12yo single malt
  
• McClelland's Lowlands single malt
  
• Speyburn 10yo single malt
  

Rum

• Angostura 5yo dark
  
• Angostura 1919 8yo
  
• Cruzan 5yo Diamond Estate
  
• Gary Gillman blend
  
• Pusser's British Navy
  

Other

• Colonel Lee Light Whiskey (1990)
  
• Harwood Canadian (1991)
  
• Jack Daniel's Black #7
  
• Michter's Sour Mash Whiskey (Pennsylvania)
  
• Pama liqueur
  
• Rebel Yell 101 cinnamon liqueur
  
• St. George (California) Single Malt
  
• Suntory Royal Japanese blend
  

Fortified Wines

• 1933 Justino Henriques Malmsey Madeira
  
• 1994 Quinta do Noval Late Bottled Vintage Port
  

Subject to change daily

[brian12069]

I'm not going to list them all but I have 53 in my collection right now and 50 are opened. I always tell the wifey...variety is the spice of life!

[Edward_call_me_Ed]

Life is not measured by the number of bottles you have... but by the number of bottles you have open...

Tongue firmly in cheek!

Ed

[Nebraska]

you're killing me Ed...you're killing me

[contrarian]

My first bottle of anything gets opened right away. My last bottle of something discontinued is a different story....

22 bourbons and 3 ryes - all but my lone WTRR 101 are open.

[Jazzhead]

LIke some here, I find it hard to bunker a bottle, a new bourbon has to be investigated! Here's what's open right now:

WTRR101

WTRye (mid seventies bottle, distilled in Maryland)

Pappy 20

Pappy 15

Old Forester 86

Old Forester Signature

Old Forester BIB

J.W. Dant BIB

Old Taylor BIB

Kentucky Tavern 80 (late eighties Owensboro)

IW Harper 15 yo "Bourbon Heritage Collection"

Old Hickory (late eighties Publicker)

Michter's Sour Mash (hex sign ceramic jug)

Fleischmann's BIB (seventies bottle, distilled in Owensboro)

Dickel No. 12

JD Single Barrel

Rebel Yell 80

Walker's Deluxe

Woodford Reserve

Knob Creek

Saz Jr. Rye

Old Pogue

EWSB 1987 vintage

Bellows Club 6yo (seventies bottle)

Weller Centennial 10 yo

I guess it's the same indulgent kick as from collecting jazz records - the freedom to choose the music and the whiskey, whether old or new, and of whatever style. Doncha know Duke Ellington goes good with Old Forester, John Coltrane with a WT Rye?

[SBOmarc]

Makers

Bookers

EC 12

EC 18

Eagle Rare SB

OGD 114

WT RR 101

WT 101

EWSB 95

Knob Creek

Wow..

What a difference a year makes. As I look at that list from when it was posted and what I now have open, my tastes have taken a change, yet some still stay the same.

WT101

OGD BIB

OGD 114

Bookers

Weller 12

Stagg Fall '05

Stagg Fall '06

Saz Jr

Sazerac rye

ER 17

ER SB

WLW '06

WT KS

WT RB

Pappy 20

Thomas Handy Saz Rye.

Makers

Knob Creek

Thanks to all on this board that have helped expand my variety and help me to make informed decisions.

[ILLfarmboy]

Now I don't feel so bad. I only have 11 open bottles

EC 12

OGD 114

Wt RB

WT rye

Handy

WLW '05

Saz 18 '05

Saz jr.

JD sngle brl.

Redbreast 12

JW Green

recently finished

Booker's

Weller Antique

OGD BIB

[jbutler]

Wow..

What a difference a year makes. As I look at that list from when it was posted and what I now have open, my tastes have taken a change, yet some still stay the same.

It's interesting isn't it?

Until just recently, I had been a huge fan of Eagle Rare 17. I was having a conversation with Doug Phillips about it a while back, and he was telling me that he didn't understand my affinity for the bottling.

I then realized that I hadn't consumed any in about a year and a half. He and I tasted some at my party this last July, and I had to agree -- I just didn't get my previous fascination with the stuff. I'm not saying it's bad whiskey however. The point is that a couple years ago, it was on my "top ten" list, and today I am at a loss to explain why. Tastes do indeed change over time.

The constants for me over the years have been (amongst a very few others) WT 101 and Blanton's. Those two have withstood my personal test of time.

[nor02lei]

Willet 22 rye

Rittenhouse 10 rye

Weller 7 from the 70-is

ORVWOTR no letter

Stagg 131.8

2006

ORVW 15

WT 101

RR 101

VWFRR 1985 unfiltered

Old st Nick winter rye

OFBB 2004

Leif

[fog]

This thread inspired me to have my first pour from the Rare Breed that I purchased yesterday. Now all of my bourbon bottles are open.

Maker's Mark

WT Rare Breed

WT RR 90

Old Grand Dad 114

Eagle Rare 10 year old 101, 1 L, New Orleans

Very Old Barton 80 Proof

Jim Beam Black

Old Forestor

Blend of Knob Creek, Weller Antique, Buffalo Trace, and Old Fitzgerald

in the knob Creek bottle.

My current favorites are the WT RR 90 and the Eagle Rare 101.

[Solomon2]

In order from first opened to most recently opened:

Hirsh 16yr

Woodford Reserve

1792

Basil Hayden's

JB White

Crown Royal (I know - but that's how I classify 'em)

Old Forester

Eagle Rare SB

In order from most favorite to least favorite:

Hirsch 16yr :bowdown:

Woodford Reserve :grin:

1792 :cool:

Crown Royal

Old Forester

Basil Hayden's (can't get over that tobacco note)

Eagle Rare SB (still tastes like the aroma of birdseed) :bigeyes:

JB White (It burns usss! :hot:) (maybe I should try it on the rocks instead of straight?)

[ggilbertva]

I currently have 11 bottles of Whiskey open which I think is a little too many. In any case, my current open bottles are....

KBD Vintage Bourbon 17 Year

A.H. Hirsch 16 Year

WTKS

WTRB

WT 80

Basil Hayden

Wathens SB

Old Pogue

Bernheim Wheated Whiskey

Eagle Rare 17

WLW '06

Additionally, I have two bottles of Scotch open....Dalwhinnie 15 and JW Blue.

[HighTower]

I currently have 18 bottles open.

They are:

Bulleit 90 proof & Bulleit 80 proof

EWSB 95

Virgin Bourbon 101 (black Label)

McKenna

EC 18

Beams Choice

Beams Rye

Bakers

WT Honey Liquer

Blantons Original

Blantons Gold

Hirsch 16 Gold Foil

JD Single Barrel

Gentleman Jack

Canadian Club

Canadian Club Classic 12yo x 2 (yeah, I really like this stuff:grin:)

I have a list of 20 bourbons I want from Binnys. When I have them, I shall open them, and I must thank the people on this site for that. If I hadn't come here, for one I probably wouldn't have known about most of them, and if I did, they probably would have sat around unopened. So Thanks guys!

Scott

[TNbourbon]

Open American whiskeys (that I'm working feverishly to reduce), mostly as a result of last year's Sampler and Festival presentations:

• A.H. Hirsch 16 (blue wax)
  
• Bernheim Original Straight Wheat
  
• Bourbon deLuxe (National Distillers, 1978)
  
• Buffalo Trace
  
• Buffalo Trace 2006 Experimentals (French Oak, Twice Barreled, Fire Pot)
  
• Classic Cask ryes (15 yo and 22 yo)
  
• Colonel Lee Light Whiskey
  
• Eagle Rare 17yo (2006)
  
• Elijah Craig 18yo
  
• Evan Williams Millenium
  
• Evan Williams Single Barrel 1995
  
• Evan Williams Black (NAS)
  
• Fighting Cock 15yo (Japan)
  
• Fleischmann's Bicentennial Eagle decanter
  
• Four Roses Single Barrel
  
• George T. Stagg (Fall 2005 and 2006)
  
• Jack Daniel's Old #7 Black label (86 proof, 1992)
  
• Jim Beam rye
  
• Jim Beam 7yo white label
  
• Jim Beam 15yo 80 proof (1974 decanter)
  
• Old Heaven Hill 86 proof (1959)
  
• Isaiah Morgan rye (West Virginia, unaged)
  
• McCormick's SBW (distilled in Illinois)
  
• Michter's Sour Mash (1978 glass)
  
• Michter's Sour Mash (1980 101-proof, pot-still decanter)
  
• Old Crow 86 (National Distillers)
  
• Old Crow 10yo 86 proof (1969 chess decanter)
  
• Old Forester Birthday Bourbon 2002
  
• Old Grand-Dad BIB (1941/1945)
  
• Old Overholt 80 proof ('90s)
  
• Old Overholt 100 proof ('50s/'60s)
  
• Old Potrero Straight Rye Cask Proof (19th Century)
  
• Old Rip Van Winkle 15/107
  
• Old Rip Van Winkle Old Time Rye 12yo
  
• Old Taylor BIB (1980; National Distillers)
  
• Old Weller Antique 107 Brand (Louisville, gold-veined)
  
• Pappy Van Winkle 20yo Family Reserve
  
• Rebel Yell liqueur (w/ cinnamon)
  
• Redneck Riviera blended
  
• Rittenhouse Very Rare 21 Year Old Rye (Barrel 23)
  
• Rock Hill Farms
  
• St. George Single Malt (Batch 3)
  
• Thomas Handy Sazerac Rye
  
• Wathen's (Barrel #110)
  
• Walker's Deluxe (Peoria, Ill.)
  
• Van Winkle Family Reserve Rye (E series)
  
• Van Winkle Special Reserve Lot B 12yo single barrel ("Van Blankle")
  
• Vintage 23yo rye
  
• Wild Turkey Kentucky Spirit (9/1994 bottling)
  
• Wild Turkey 80 proof (brown label)
  
• Wild Turkey Jimmy Russell Tribute 15yo
  
• William Larue Weller 2006
  
• Willett Straight Kentucky Rye
  
• W.L. Weller 12yo (Everett's, Beloit, Ill., single barrel)
  

[straightwhiskeyruffneck]

wild turkey 101

old forester birthday bourbon spring 93

elmer t lee

ancient ancient age 10 yr.

wild turkey rare breed

elijah craig 18 yr.

[OscarV]

opened, all but 6 of these are empty, but the question was how many opened,...I've been drinking the last few years.

Elijah Craig 18yo

Elijah Craig 12yo

Blanton's

Maker's Mark

Four Roses, yelloe label

Very Special Old Fitzgerald

Old Fitzgerald 1849

Old Fitzgerald BIB

Thedford Colonial Style

Old Pogue

Woodford Reserve Distiller's Select

Bulleit Frontier

1792 Ridgemont Reserve

Buffalo Trace

Corner Creek

Rock Hill Farms

Old Charter 10yo

Black Maple Hill 16yo

Black Maple Hill 11yo

Vintage Bourbon 21yo

Pure Kentucky XO

Kentucky Vintage

Kentucky Pride

Peter Jake's Private Keep

Fighting Cock

Johnny Drum 8yo

American Biker

80 Strong

McAfee's Benchmark

Old Whiskey River

Very Old Barton 80-86-90-100 proofs'

Henry McKenna Single Barrel

Hancock's President's Reserve

Sam Houston

Rebel Yell

Old Forester 86pf

Virginia Gentleman aka The Foxes

Old Bourbon Hollow

Old Bardstown 86pf

Old Bardstown 10yo

Old Heaven Hill BIB 6yo

Old Heaven Hill BIB 10yo

Ezra Brooks 90pf

Ezra Brooks 101pf

Ezra B. Single Barrel

Evan Williams 7yo

Evan Williams 1783

Evan Williams Single Barrel Autumn 1994

Jim Beam White Label

Jim Beam Black

Jim Beam's Choice

Jim Beam Rye

Basil Hayden's

Knob Creek

Baker's

Bernheim Original Wheat

Wild Turkey Rye

Rittenhouse 100pf

Old Overholt Rye

[Solomon2]

OscarV, TNbourbon: uhh, have you guys ever tried milk? Or at least Kahlua-and-cream?

[CrispyCritter]

Currently open:

Stagg Fall '05

Stagg '06

Saz 18 '06

ER 17 '06

Handy '06

Larue '06

Saz Jr.

EWSB '96

WTRR 101

Rittenhouse Rye BIB

Rittenhouse Rye 80 proof

Fleischmann's Rye

Aberlour A'Bunadh Batch #15

Bruichladdich 3-D

Ardbeg 10yo

Compass Box Eleuthera

Compass Box Asyla

Connemara Cask Strength

Open, occasional pours only:

Hirsch 16 gold wax

Ardbeg 1977

Compass Box Spice Tree