What are you drinking tonight? (Winter '07)

[TBoner]

A Texas microbrewery's coffee porter, then Buffalo Trace, then Ezra Brooks 7-yr 101. Sweet (literally). Dark chocolate with the last bourbon. Great...

[heatmiser]

Started with a little ETL, then some PVW15 and finished with '06 GTS. Good night all...

[fitzharry]

I enjoyed two glasses of Old Charter 12 year old 90 proof bourbon.

[BobA]

A little OGD BIB, while it's still the BOTM.

Bob

[bigtoys]

Stagg 2005 last night for a night cap--wow is that strong :hot: even w/ a couple of cubes of ice--after a Margarita (La Rienda tequila that I got at La CAsa Del Tequila in Puerto Vallarta cuz I like the donkey on the bottle) w/ dinner.

Too "tired" to post it last night.

[JDutton]

Having a little Lot B myself. Van Blankle Lot B. Both are very good.

Randy

Well, now I'm jealous! I wasn't familiar with "Van Blankle", so I did a little searching on the forum (hear that, newbies?) and found the original story with a review by TNBourbon. Great story! :bowdown:

Jeff

[straightwhiskeyruffneck]

Well, now I'm jealous! I wasn't familiar with "Van Blankle", so I did a little searching on the forum (hear that, newbies?) and found the original story with a review by TNBourbon. Great story! :bowdown:

Jeff

maybe you could post a link to the story?

[JDutton]

Well, now, that kind of defeats my promotion of the search feature, doesn't it? :grin:

Actually, I thought about it at the time, and I should have included it, but I got lazy. Here it is, with my apologies:

http://www.straightbourbon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3722&highlight=Van+Blankle

Jeff

[Stu]

I've read a lot of good things on this site about RVW 15 yo and RVW 20 yo. I agree with what I've read about the 15 yo, but I've never tried or even seen the 20 yo. I live in a dry county, but yesterday I was in Little Rock. I called a couple of yellow pages of phone numbers for liquor stores, and finally found a bottle of RVW 20 yo. After my appointment I drove a little out of my way and picked it up. When I got home last night I knew I was in for a treat as soon as I popped the cork. The honey and wood exploded from the bottle. They were also prominent on the pallet but there was also something else that I can't put my finger on, even trying another glass now. It's sort of a candy flavor but not chocolate, maybe wild cherry cough drops? I then compared it to the 15 yo. They were obviously the same whiskey, but 5 extra years of aging did wonders! Last year at KBF Julian gave me a glass of something from his cellar that his grandpa made. I told him it was the best bourbon I ever tasted. It might have been VVOF. I'm going to save a little RVW 20 yo in a mini bottle to take to KBF this year to use for comparison in case Julian brings that again.

[ggilbertva]

Well, I folded like a cheap suit. I promised myself not to open any new bottles until the 10 that I have open get whittled down to around 6. I couldn't hold off any longer....I popped open another bottle of VW Lot B. I so love this bourbon. It's definitely in my top 5.

Cheers!

[Edward_call_me_Ed]

Stagg 2005 last night for a night cap--wow is that strong :hot: even w/ a couple of cubes of ice--after a Margarita (La Rienda tequila that I got at La CAsa Del Tequila in Puerto Vallarta cuz I like the donkey on the bottle) w/ dinner.

Too "tired" to post it last night.

Do you know if that was the Spring or Fall 2005? I had three bottles of the Spring release none of the Fall and it usually burned my throat unless I cut the proof way down. I didn't find that to be true of the 2006 even though it was higher in proof.

Ed

[Jazzhead]

I've unscrewed the cap on a bottle of Jacob's Well tonight in the interest of research prompted by another thread, comparing it with an open bottle of Knob Creek. Well, they're basically the same stuff. A slight difference in proof may be just about all. I haven't had Beam whiskey in a spell, so I'm enjoying that unique burn.

[Edward_call_me_Ed]

Had a couple of pours of OGD BIB tonight. Then on to Blackbush and Bushmill's single malt 10 year old.

Ed

[Ubertaster]

Had a nice pour of GT Stagg 06 tonight and noticed that the ice cube sank to the bottom of the glass. Why is that?

bj

[Gillman]

Very interesting. Alcohol is lighter than water, so the water would tend to sink and I imagine frozen water is heavier than its volume as a liquid. In most liquor, even bonded, the ice will with the water in the spirit make up a greater part of the liquids in the glass; this would not be so with Stagg due to its great strength. I wonder if this means that even when no ice is added the top part of the glass is mostly alcohol. THis may be true in the bottle but as soon as it is poured the equilibrium changes. Just speculation, but I think it has to be connected to the relative specific gravities of ethanol and water.

Gary

[barturtle]

Actually, and I hope I'm getting this right, but water is the only liquid that get less dense as it reaches its solidification point, therefore ice is lighter by volume than liquid water. This is why ice floats on top of water, otherwise rivers and lakes would freeze solid as the colder water would sink as warmer water rose until all was frozen.

However your reasoning for why it would sink in Stagg still seems correct as the ice would still be heavier than alcohol.

As far as the pour in the glass being more water at the bottom and more alcohol at the top, this is likely to be impossible as alcohol is hydroscopic and will therefore absorb water...though some chemist might come along and overrule me on the basis that alcohol evaporates more readily at room temperature than water and would therefore be rising out of the liquid faster.

[ggilbertva]

Another night of Lot B. I'm sleepy.

[TBoner]

I'm sipping Dalmore 12 now. Then it'll be BT, possibly followed by WT101.

[camduncan]

Tonight I'm enjoying some Old Rip Van Winkle 10yo :yum:

I picked this bottle up when I was in Scotland back in October 2004, and have been enjoying it sparingly on occasion.

It looks like the Aussie supplier of this wonderful drop is back in stock again (for around the same price as Bookers - a bargain if you ask me), so I think I can afford to pour liberally tonight

[OscarV]

I opened one of my Eagle Rare 101 10yo.

This is really hitting the spot, the heavy sweetness and warmth feel and taste great on this very cold night.

At 8:30 pm it is 9 degrees and a super cold weekend coming, but, who cares, I got a new bottle of ER101 10yo!!!

[RedVette]

Gotta glass of Old Overholt Rye sitting next to me. I've had the bottle around for a long time and have never paid much attention to it. Interesting, not very complex or challenging, but pleasant. After the week I just had I can be very happy with "pleasant".

[SBOmarc]

I opened one of my Eagle Rare 101 10yo.

This is really hitting the spot, the heavy sweetness and warmth feel and taste great on this very cold night.

At 8:30 pm it is 9 degrees and a super cold weekend coming, but, who cares, I got a new bottle of ER101 10yo!!!

I miss the cold weather, but

Come out to SoCal, in the high 70's all weekend.

Oh, and bring the ER101.

[J.W.]

Wild Turkey Rare Breed. My weekend pour.

[wskybnt]

My first pour is GTS 06. Dont know what is next...

[Frodo]

Tonight I am finishing off one of the samples Gary Gillman generously gave me - 50% JBB/40%VG/10%Overholt Rye. It took me a while to "get" the dram. The first couple of times it simply seemed like an upgunned JBB, but after getting acclimatized to it, the rye sends a very complementary but different flavour. Still bourbon no doubt but more...not just spicy but uplifting and vibrant than most bourbons I've had up until this point. Very characterful and informative.

Many thanks Gary!!!

PS - I think I may have to re-think my adversion to vatting although one has to know what they're doing...