Bulleit Frontier bourbon

[spun_cookie]

If you are drinking it, I recommend you stick with it. When I first got it, I had just had some Weller... it made the Bulleit seem very poor....

If I start with it and stay with it for the evening.... not bad, but here in AZ, I am better off with the Knob at the same price... though I lean towards the wheatier bourbons...

[nydistiller]

I have not had it yet, one reason is that it is essentially from what I read, four roses. I tried four roses in 2001 on a rip to Bardstown,the yellow label, and found it hard to drink. It was too cloying and I too like high rye mashbill bourbons as well as rye. I also find it very expensive for me as my usual pour is Ten High, A very good bourbon for the price.

[TNbourbon]

I find I almost always mix Bulliet. It's pretty good with ginger ale.

There's a reason Four Roses doesn't bottle it under its own name, I think.

(If you wonder why I buy any, well -- I bought two 12-mini trays @ 99 cents per bottle, minus my 15% employee discount, last fall when it was on special at the store in which I work. I may not like the stuff much, but I'm NOT STUPID:lol: ... Still, even at c. $13 per 750ml @ 90 proof, I might be better off with basic Ezra Brooks:skep: ...)

[nydistiller]

Some people must like it, if I am not mistaken four roses does bottle under it's own name, but it may be a reason as to why most of it goes to japan.

[Gillman]

This is one of the few areas where I and my esteemed colleague Tim disagree: I think it is superb - when at its best.

Sometimes its taste seems dominated by a kind of dull wood - then it is just ordinary. At other times, the wood informs while allowing a spicy cinnamon "red hots" note its full say. Then it is a fine, rather individualist example of a rye-recipe bourbon, IMO.

Gary

[TNbourbon]

Some people must like it, if I am not mistaken four roses does bottle under it's own name, but it may be a reason as to why most of it goes to japan.

Four Roses has 10 different mash bills -- 2 yeasts times 5 grain bills. The Four Roses that makes up the single-barrel, the small batch, and the standard 'yellow label', all are different combinations (or not, in the case of the single-barrel) of whiskeys. So, too, is Bulliet. I like the ones labeled as "Four Roses". I don't care for the configuration called "Bulliet".

Re Gary: it's certainly possible -- because my experience with Bulliet is not very positive and, thus, limited -- that I haven't found anything but that which you call "just ordinary". Of course, palates differ, too, and I allow for the fact that we just like different things occasionally, in spite of the fact we also often like the same things.

[Gillman]

Tim, if I come across a particularly good sample, I'll save it for you to taste at Sampler next. Ontario has Bulleit in stock currently, so maybe I'll find a particularly good one soon.

I will try to give you something as good (in its way) as the sample of barrel strength, 21 year old Van Winkle bourbon you kindly provided to me at the party. It was absolutely superb: Doug got a taste too, and agreed. I marvelled at the charcoal specks floating in the bourbon, I've had unfiltered bourbons before but do not recall ever seeing such palpable evidence of it!

Gary

[TNbourbon]

...I will try to give you something as good (in its way) as the sample of barrel strength, 21 year old Van Winkle bourbon you kindly provided to me at the party. It was absolutely superb: Doug got a taste too, and agreed. I marvelled at the charcoal specks floating in the bourbon, I've had unfiltered bourbons before but do not recall ever seeing such palpable evidence of it!

Gary

Good to know, Gary (and Doug) -- I consider that barrel sample as good a bourbon as I've consumed, including similar samples from Warehouse Z (Ridgemont Reserve) and the uncut Rittenhouse single-barrel rye. I applaud Julian's dedication to Pappy's "...But always fine bourbon" credo.

[Megawatt]

Bulleit is one of just five better-than-average bourbons available in my area, the others being Knob Creek, Woodford Reserve, Maker's Mark and Blanton's Special Reserve, all of which are at least $10 more than Bulleit. Having never had the opportunity to try the likes of Elijah Craig, Buffalo Trace, George T. Stagg, etc., maybe I simply have no concept of what the rest of you folks call "good bourbon". I guess that's why I'm more of a Scotch drinker now.

[Taggerung]

Ok, complete newbie question here...is "Bulleit" pronouced the same as "bullet"?

Thanks for your patience,

Tim

[ILLfarmboy]

http://www.straightbourbon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7493&highlight=pronounce

[cowdery]

Ok, complete newbie question here...is "Bulleit" pronouced the same as "bullet"?

Thanks for your patience,

Tim

Yes. That's part of the appeal, I think.

[bigtoys]

conjures up the Wild West