Bourbon.

[Girardian]

My go to midweek bourbon for a while was the Old Forester 1920. Anyone had recent production? Frankly I’ve got a backlog of enough great stuff to not need to buy but I still do occasionally.

 

[Piobaire]

A minor part of the whisky collection I will one day inherit.

 

[Piobaire]

Sipping a Maker's 46 Private Barrel selection with oak staves picked by some master blender dude to tailor the oak treatment. Cost me $70 yesterday. It's ******* good. Very elegant with no burn even though it's cask strength at 53%. Vanilla, orange rind, and a baking spice I've not quite isolated somewhere along the five spice to clove spectrum. Really smooth and would buy again.

 

[jcman311]

Sipping a Maker's 46 Private Barrel selection with oak staves picked by some master blender dude to tailor the oak treatment. Cost me $70 yesterday. It's ******* good. Very elegant with no burn even though it's cask strength at 53%. Vanilla, orange rind, and a baking spice I've not quite isolated somewhere along the five spice to clove spectrum. Really smooth and would buy again.

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Bourbon.

On the subject of Booker's, picked up a bottle of the "Teresa's Batch" . Six years old, bottled at 126 proof. First tasting, hot without water. ********, long finish. I didn't get much until I added some water. With a few drops, get nice peanut and toffee. Lots of spice. The grain...

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That Maker’s line is my new favorite. I had one from a local store that was called “Mocha Wheater”. Tasted real close to some Pappy. And for $70 or so, I went back and got like 6 bottles. I’ve had a few others and some were close but not quite my Mocha Wheater.

 

[Piobaire]

Sorry, manq, I'll have to stop skipping your posts in this thread.

 

[jcman311]

Dont worry, I’ll keep skipping yours in the wine thread. ?

 

[Piobaire]

That is seriously good ****. I'll look for other oak stave bottlings.

I do hate that bourbon has jumped so much though. I mean, 10 years ago I was buying Pappy 15 for $50 and thinking that was outrageous. The bottle of 15 year old Orphan Barrel I bought two years ago for $125 is now $400. It's just stupid.

 

[venividivicibj]

Sipping a Maker's 46 Private Barrel selection with oak staves picked by some master blender dude to tailor the oak treatment. Cost me $70 yesterday. It's ******* good. Very elegant with no burn even though it's cask strength at 53%. Vanilla, orange rind, and a baking spice I've not quite isolated somewhere along the five spice to clove spectrum. Really smooth and would buy again.

This the one from K&L?

 

[Piobaire]

Total Wine.

 

[jcman311]

Total Wine.

Down for a swap? The one I got from a local store is one of the best bourbons I’ve ever had.

 

[Piobaire]

I would have been but we bought the last two bottles! One for me, one for my neighbor. If it comes back in stock you're on.

 

[orange fury]

I picked up a recent Booker's release (Teresa's) and was pleasantly surprised. I've always gone to Booker's for cocktails given the proof, but this was my first bottle in many years. I like barrel proof spirits, but there's a burn here that calls for a taming (cue an oversized ice cube for a little chill and slow melt). I rarely find bourbons on the shelf these days that I'm very fond of, and am pleased I revisited Bookers. Looks like I need to pick up a Shiney Barrel as well.

Anyone here had the Hancock President's Reserve Single Barrel?

I’m a little late to this, but I enjoy Hancock’s Reserve- as @Dusty Heaters said, it’s in the same mashbill as Blantons/RHF/ETL/Ancient Age (mashbill 2). I did a side by side with Blanton and Ancient Age, and it’s kind of a “Blantons lite”- some similar notes. I liked it personally, but it surprised me how much I liked the Ancient Age considering it’s $10 and readily available.

Just discovered this thread, shouldn’t surprise me that there’s a bourbon thread here lol. Trying the new Baker’s single barrel today, this one is 8.5 years/107 proof:

I haven’t had the regular Baker’s and can’t compare the two, but this is pretty tasty. I get lots of oak and leather and some honey out of this. Don’t know that I’d pay the $60+ price I saw reported several months ago, but in the $40 range (picked it up for $45 after tax), I’d keep buying this. The bottle redesign looks great on the bar, which isn’t worth anything, but still.

The cigar is straight ?- Arturo Fuente Chateau Series King B belicoso that a buddy gave me this weekend. I’m having to read a binder worth of stuff for later this week, but this and the 78* weather with a breeze is making that task very enjoyable.

 

[orange fury]

A minor part of the whisky collection I will one day inherit.

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pretty solid, do you know what batch that Stagg Jr is? I have 11 and 12, both are pretty great.

killed a bottle of Blantons this weekend with a buddy of mine, still have 2 unopened in reserve. Since I’ll probably never find all the letters, I’ve been thinking about ordering the letter set and that base from Buffalo Trace.

 

[javyn]

I'm easy to please. Dickel No. 8.

 

[venividivicibj]

pretty solid, do you know what batch that Stagg Jr is? I have 11 and 12, both are pretty great.

killed a bottle of Blantons this weekend with a buddy of mine, still have 2 unopened in reserve. Since I’ll probably never find all the letters, I’ve been thinking about ordering the letter set and that base from Buffalo Trace.

Still have yet to see Stagg or Blantons in SoCal on shelves (for less than a 100%markup)