The Bourbon Thread...What's on the bar this week?

That Woodford double oak is really tasty!

 

If you have Noah's Mill near you, you should try it. It's my favorite within a reasonable budget.

 

Makers Mark & Woodford.

mmmmmm.......Makers.......

 

Makers 46 and some breckenridge which is actually pretty good. I don't have the kind of cash for the pappy...

 

I'm more of a scotch guy than bourbon, but I keep a bottle of Makers around for guests next to a stun gun.

Help yourself to the Makers. Pour coke in it, you get the stun gun. That's what Jack is for.

A friend bought me a bottle of Angels Envy a while ago. That was pretty good too.

 

Doesn't that meet the legal definition of entrapment?

 

Maker's ain't all that anyway...

 

Funny, that's what we say Early Times is for around here. We have a good friend that always reaches for the Woodford...and then mixes it with Diet Coke. Pisses me off to no end.

When I'm not slumming it with my Old Fo (give it a try, it's excellent bourbon) I drink Evan Williams Single Barrel. Quite tasty $30 a bottle bourbon.

 

yup. same price as Bulleit here (around $27), and i think a great bargain. more character than Bulleit.

next step up for me (availability is a bit of bitch here) is often Eagle Rare. Then Basil Hayden.

Best i ever had was a Hirsch 16 year. Unobtanium now, but absolute magic.

 

ive been playing around with the lower end of the bourbon scale. I just tried some Jim Beam Devil's Cut. Not bad and . . . $21!!!!!!!!

Im still looking for the Old Forrester.

Someone mentioned Fighting Cock. It was too harsh for my bourbon taste.

Had some of the Angel's Envy. Very smooth but is it still considered bourbon. The port really smooths out the bourbon.

 

I love how y'all drunks talk about this stuff like you're scientists on the cutting edge of DNA research.

 

Arent you that way about pastries, cheese and wines?

 

Glyphosate resistant Zea mays produces the best mash.

 

Booze snobbery, making alcoholism a scholarly endeavor.

 

I like rye best. Willett, Templeton, Whistle Pig, Angels Envy are all good ones. Old Pogue Five Fathers is excellent.

For Bourbon I like the Blantons, Angels Envy, Bulleit. There are some newer brands that seem good but I've only tried em a little. High West, Hudson, one from the south that I cant remember.

 

Larceny tonight. In a big heavy crystal highball with one cube.

 

I'm about to start playing in the $18-30 price point. There's a lot there to enjoy.

 

Never underestimate a Kentuckian and his bourbon. My mom had me fixing drinks for her parties before I reached puberty

And I just remembered this. True story...we used to take some of dad's bourbon and then pour water in the bottle to make it look like before. After a couple times he said, goddammit, just take the bourbon, quit f&/)ing cutting it with water!

 

Please post your recommendations.

 

Can't believe no one has mentioned jeffersons!