Show Us Your Bourbon/Whiskey/Rye/Scotch!

[Skinsfan1311]

Maker's 101 in the glass...

[Skinsfan1311]

Happy Thanksgiving!

[Skinsfan1311]

I passed in this a couple of weeks ago....but I stopped back on the way to the farm and snagged one.

[Skinsfan1311]

barelfly don't know yet...will post after I try it. The BiB is very good as is the 114

[Huskee]

Any update? I know I've tried their standard, and if memory serves I liked it but it wasn't wowing. I know from experience with certain bourbons, Larceny for instance, the cask strength is a completely different animal, not just stronger, but different. Curious with this one.

[JCBBQ]

Bumping this. What’s the verdict?

[barelfly]

Happy fRYEday my fRYEnds!!!!

[Alan Brice]

My BIL had Weller Antique 107 for those who knew the dogs name at his Wedding recept.
He bought an entire barrel at a custom blend yer own.
Law ha Mussey, this is prolly the best Bourbon I have had the pleasure to enjoy. The dog on the sticker is his pooch. 😋

[Alan Brice]

barelfly not sure, are we talkin nearly 200 bottles? 15-20 grand?

[barelfly]

Not sure on cost, but I’d say around that on bottles.

[Sweaty Paul]

Love, love, love 107.

[barelfly]

Washing down the rest of the Kentucky Chocolate Pecan Pie with this sipper tonight

[Alan Brice]

Very nice, hard to find.

[Sweaty Paul]

That’s a good sipper.

[tamidw]

We can normally get this up here fairly often. It’s still an allocated, but shows up at the liquor stores.

[barelfly]

My wife surprised me with this Whiskey Advent Calendar this weekend. Fun thing, she said she will try all of these with me. But packaging is pretty cool, comes with 2 Glen Carins, 24 samples of Whiskey/Bourbon, and a booklet providing info on each sampling. Out of the samples included, I think there are only 2 that I have tried in the past, so I’m looking forward to trying new stuff.

To start the festivities off, Heaven Hill BiB. I enjoy HH BiB, my wife also enjoyed it - think she will prefer a small ice chip with each just to mellow it a bit, but that was her first full pour of a bourbon she has had.

[Alan Brice]

Cool! Sold Out.

[Huskee]

That's really cool! I used to do Flaviar for a few years until every sample they would send me wouldn't actually be for sale in bottles, then I they apparently stopped shipping to MI altogether. It's been a while. I too really like HH BiB, great pour, not sure it's worth $60-ish like it costs here, but a good pour anyway.

[Whiskeyman53]

Wanted to pick this up after a tasting that I went to. It lived up to the hype.

[barelfly]

This was in the Advent Calendar. I also really liked it and will pick up a bottle soon!

[barelfly]

Day 4 from the Advent Calendar - Chicken Cock. Another bottle I have never tried. I enjoyed this pour, I could actually pick up the various notes of Carmel, butterscotch, dried cherry and pepper. This was my favorite pour so far, Day 2 was Bhatka 1928 Rye, which was also good. Day 3 was Stranahan’s Blue Peak Single Malt - not my favorite, I just don’t like malt whiskeys.

[Skinsfan1311]

John J. Bowman pick...

[Skinsfan1311]

Bought one of these for my brother-in-law, so I figured that I might as well get one for myself 😉

[barelfly]

Day 6 - this was enjoyable. Day 5…..not so much…it was a drain pour! Bleh! But I definitely know i don’t care for malted whiskey, most scotches and single gram whiskey

just give me bourbon or rye!

[Skinsfan1311]

Celebrating my beloved Skins 9-5 record with a healthy pour.
It wasn't pretty, but I'll take it!

[jfmorris]

Haha I don't know. Ended up at the doc getting some antibiotics and cough medicine. But I am still doubling up on the bourbon... it makes the cough more tolerable!

[Skinsfan1311]

Hope you feel better!

[Huskee]

That stuff will put hair on your chest hair.

[realdocBBQ]

Found this one at the liquor store the other night, and I'm a rye fan, so I had to try it.



Been drinking Elijah Craig for years in various iterations including their Single Barrel Small Batch, which is like 130+ proof.

This one, I like ok, but it's not a standout to me. It's a good quality like everything EC does, but I particularly like American ryes due to the spiciness - this one is pretty mild in that regard. I drink them neat with just a splash of water, so I can savor all the flavors, but this one, while again is good, just doesn't have much of that rye spiciness and zing to it that I like in some of the better ones. I like Sazerac rye as one of my favorite everyday kind of sips, a little more spicy, but not expensive like a Whistlepig or something.

[ssandy_561]

Sazerac is an incredible rye for the price.

[realdocBBQ]

I agree, it's great!

[Huskee]

I love ryes and there are 3 ryes I don't care for, whose bourbon counterparts I like a lot: this one, EH Taylor's rye (at least the year I tried it), and Woodford Reserve's. All 3, IMHO, are skippable, and as memory serves I felt Woodford's rye was the worst.

[Alan Brice]

I had a wonderful afternoon with an Eagle, a Turkey and a bunch of Bengal tiggers. Thank you AmazingWibs for the social that is unparalleled.