icehog3
Outlaw Hockey Biker
Opened my Front Porch Batch last night, and was pretty surprised at what I got. First (neck) pour, I've never tasted this kind of sweetness in Booker's before. The nose reveal how sweet the palate would be.... brown sugar and vanilla just busting through everything, while the finish was long and full of heat. Very interesting but very muddled.
I drank half the pour neat and then added a couple drops of water to see how it wou;d change. It didn't affect the sweetness at all, just tamed the heat slightly.
So about an hour later I decided I would have another half a pour before bed. Almost all the brown sugar and vanilla on the palate was gone. WTF? Could this be an anomaly from the neck pour? Could the bourbon change that fast after being uncorked? I am stumped. I will say that (with the sweetness), this was one of the most interesting Booker's I have had, but for sure I would put it in the middle of the pack for the palate.