Bourbon. - Page 34

Did one of the releases just happen for Stagg? I haven't been to the liquor store in a while so haven't looked recently. Maybe they have it now.

I've been told its trickling out. So if your store doesn't have it yet, check back soon.

Thanks to ama's tip, picked up a bottle of Stagg. Just for info - '09 release is 141.4 proof/70.7% abv. Almost picked up a DE Lagavulin while there, but still have an unopened bottle of Lagavulin.

Having an unopened Lagavulin does not indicate that DE Lag (which is stunnnnnnning) should not be purchased. ~ H

I checked at two fairly large stores today (Tower and Green's in ATL) and neither had it or could say for sure if they would be getting any. Green's said there is a chance they will get some, but they don't know for sure, so I should check back every week or so.

Green's did have some Pappy 23 year old and Hirsch 16 year old.

You should buy that Hirsch. I would -- the next one I encounter, I buy, period.

Yeah, would be nice, but I wasn't really planning on dropping $200 on a bottle. If someone wants me to pick up for them I can do that.

That's a good price. I would jump at the offer, but it is not possible to get it to me.

I need to go to a tasting to find out what a 200 dollar bottle tastes like... I've only tasted up to 50...

It's good. But there are diminishing returns. I have a special attachment for Hirsch 16 that make me willing to spend more for it. I find that $100/btl on most brown spirits is the peak of the value-for-money curve -- after that you pay a LOT more for moderate improvements. ~ H

+100

I would not pay more than $75 to $100 for the Hirsch, so the special attachment point makes sense to me, lol.. I just don't find it that great a bourbon..

I hate you all. I am in need of the Stagg release, but I haven't the time to drive to the liquor store to buy it. Grrr. maybe tomorrow.

When I was really young (say, younger than 10yo), we were visiting with family near Lancaster, PA, and my parents made it into a vacation thing -- that area having a large Amish population and concurrently (if ironically) a lot of outlets. Anyway, I remember being at the park/historic site that is now Michter's Schaefferstown, PA distillery -- where, as I'm sure you know, the Hirsch 16 was distilled -- and thinking this was very cool. Naturally I forgot all about this experience for nearly twenty years. Two years ago I see a picture of the distillery in Michael Jackson's Whisky and it all comes back to me -- the trip, the distillery, the whole thing. So I get a bottle of Hirsch to commemorate that sort of seminal moment in my spirituous existence. It's quite a good bottle, if not an order of magnitude better than a $100btl, and though I've opened mine, I would like another for posterity's sake. ~ H

Cool story, I see why this is your grail bourbon now. Have you had the Hudson product at all? No connection to Hirsch, other than it's one of the only non-Kentucky bourbons I am aware of right now. The Baby Bourbon is a very good whiskey; I highly recommend it.

I have the Four Grain but have not opened it. Will pick up the Baby next time I see it, in fact, courtesy the rec, I'll get two. I like to have my bourbon and drink it too. ~H