BOURBON TALK

[johnnyflake]

Yes you luckily have a looooooong way to go. Go get em johnny. Lol

It's almost as fun as cigars and when you get one you don't like just throw it on the shelf SOMEone will come over and help you out lol

Or you can Vat it with something you like. It's amazing what a little Vatting can produce!

 

[evil6remlin]

Cracked open my bottle of four roses single barrel last night and it was delicious. Not overpowering with heat but enough to let you know it's there. At less than $40 it was a great deal!

 

[FH Finster]

Bottle of Bulleit, my first foray into bourbon thanks to recommends in this thread.

You can ignore the scotch, but if your curious, yeah, it's awesome.

 

[FH Finster]

Dude I am not even slightly exaggerating ...not even hyping it up when I tell you that is 1 of 3 walls. The only one with enough light on it that I could get a pic of. The other two walls are stocked just as fully and they use those old librarian/law office rolling ladders to access the bottles.

I also found out that you can smoke upstairs. In finding out that info I caught to guys about to light cedar wrapped sticks ala young Jeezy. I stopped them instead of taking the pic lol.

Whoah whoah whoah, slow down now. Smoke? Upstairs? Gars????

 

[Frozen Toews]

I love bourbon. And i think it was bourbon that helped feed my appreciation for cigars since they go together so naturally. I cut my teeth, like most, with Makers Mark and Buffalo Trace. I seem to rotate a lot now, but my usual go to is the often unavailable Eagle Rare. I recently found a 1.75 Liter at a local Binny's and could not get to the register fast enough. The bourbon I really like, and rarely see mentioned on these threads, is Michter's Small Batch. For my taste, its fantastic.

Whiskey is a lot like cigars, for me. I don't really have a refined palate. I can't tell you of leather notes in my cigar, or oak in my bourbon. But i can tell you what i think tastes like sticks and leaves... or swamp water soaked in a bowlers butt crack. For me that means i won't ever pay $600 for a Pappy. I'm sure its better than my $60 Blanton's or Black Maple Hill. But I'm equally sure it isn't $540 better.

My bourbon rec's would be
Eagle Rare
Michter's
Four Roses Single Barrel
Blanton's
Elijah Craig 12

 

[Scroni]

Apparently there is a small release of Pappy hitting the shelves tomorrow around the KY area for any of those who are close...

 

[Tennessee Dave]

If I had to bet it's already spoken for. I know here in Chattanooga I get a couple days warning from the liquor store I frequent what and how many are coming in. I purchase on the phone in advance and then pickup. It never sees a shelf. Haven't bought much in the last 3 years so it may be different now.

 

[johnnyflake]

I would question the source that told you that, as pappy is only released once a year and that's in November/December. It's been that way for many, many years. Even, if by some oddity, that was true, as Tenn Dave stated, it will never hit the shelves!!!

 

[Smoqman]

Apparently there is a small release of Pappy hitting the shelves tomorrow around the KY area for any of those who are close...

It's true

 

[Ga Gator]

I am lucky I have a store that doesn't take phone orders and puts everything on the shelf at msrp. I found pappy 10 and 12 on the shelf last year and paid $69.99 for the 12 and left the 10 on the shelf. I went back the next morning and it was gone. I have gotten ETL, Elijah Craig barrel proof, Saz jr and others.

By doing this, they have trained me to only shop there. I stop all the time looking for something new, or when I know there is something being released. Elmer T Lee has just started shipping their April release so I stop every Friday (day they get their shipments) last night I picked up Noah's Mill cause ETL wasn't there. I picked up some beer also rather than getting it from the grocery store.

The Noah's was good but for the money I could have gotten Blantons so I am not sure I would call it a good value.