The finest bourbon I have tasted. Yet.

[skivan]

Treated myself special yesterday.
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2 of the Van Winkle triplets moved to Ketchum in the early 2000’s and were quite sought after. Go figure.

[crashidy]

Any local recommendations that my wife pick up for me in Tennessee while she's there right now?
One that likely doesn't get sent to Canada.

[Powder Ho]

Any local recommendations that my wife pick up for me in Tennessee while she's there right now?
One that likely doesn't get sent to Canada.

I really liked the Dickel bottled in bond.

[Conundrum]

2 of the Van Winkle triplets moved to Ketchum in the early 2000’s and were quite sought after. Go figure.

A local married one of them and moved back to the family biz. Not sure what happened to the other.

[Meadow Skipper]

Any local recommendations that my wife pick up for me in Tennessee while she's there right now?
One that likely doesn't get sent to Canada.

Dickel BIB is a good one. Or maybe something fancy from Jack Daniel?s like their single barrel barrel proof.

2 of the Van Winkle triplets moved to Ketchum in the early 2000’s and were quite sought after. Go figure.

I?d have gotten in that line. The holidays might have been nice with that family.

Things that are annoying - I keep hitting the apostrophe key but question marks keep inserting themselves.

[snapt]

The finest in my collection, also going down too fast.

[Powder Ho]

Snagged a bottle of Henry McKenna 10 year single barrel. It did not disappoint.
Why would I not be allowed to post attachments?

[Flounder]

Well I did it. Tastes amazing. And only light high clouds for the eclipse.

Edit: Damn it, with the photo uploader not working I was hoping I could quote my old post with the Very Old Fitzgerald bottle I inherited. Tasted really good for being barreled in 64and bottles in 72

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[gravitylover]

When my FIL passed two weeks ago and people were coming to the house after, the neighbors came by too and like most people they brought baked goods and he surprised me with what I thought was a bottle of Evan Williams. I figured that's cool, at least he saved me from buying a bottle of something or other this month. These aren't exactly our favorite people and we have almost no relationship at all. We haven't spoken more than a few words all year but I know that he's been spending a lot of time in the garage the last few months and sometimes my wife says it smells like cooked corn in the yard. It turns out he's got a still and has been making Bourbon and it's better than most bottles I've bought for $30 or less.

[gravitylover]

Oops, forgot the pics

[JimmyCarter]

I guess there’s a benefit to going to Costco on a random Tuesday night- sixty-two bucks
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[riser4]

When my FIL passed two weeks ago and people were coming to the house after, the neighbors came by too and like most people they brought baked goods and he surprised me with what I thought was a bottle of Evan Williams. I figured that's cool, at least he saved me from buying a bottle of something or other this month. These aren't exactly our favorite people and we have almost no relationship at all. We haven't spoken more than a few words all year but I know that he's been spending a lot of time in the garage the last few months and sometimes my wife says it smells like cooked corn in the yard. It turns out he's got a still and has been making Bourbon and it's better than most bottles I've bought for $30 or less.

Didn't you say the ATF was over there sometime in the last few years? Maybe I'm thinking of someone else on here.

[BmillsSkier]

Oops, forgot the pics

Did you move to the N. GA mountains by chance?

j/k, how is it? What's he use to barrel it, new oak or something else?

I guess there’s a benefit to going to Costco on a random Tuesday night- sixty-two bucks
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That's a hell of a find. Also, that Caymus is such overrated juice even at Costco prices - I'm just glad that people keep buying that and stay away from the good Napas that haven't gone either complete cult or, at the other end of the spectrum, full-Beringer.

[TNKen]

Found Evernorth Spirit Co., a blender out of Minnesota. Kind of a pain to get products, as you have to join Pateon. I am at a $15 tier, and usually get most everything they offer. Haven't tasted one yet that I don't like. And, some really cool bottles.

[JimmyCarter]

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Also, that Caymus is such overrated juice even at Costco prices - I'm just glad that people keep buying that and stay away from the good Napas that haven't gone either complete cult or, at the other end of the spectrum, full-Beringer.

Was also able to snatch their last bottles of the 2020 BV Georges de Latour reserve, which is my favorite “break out something nice for the holidays” bottle at the moment (at about twenty percent off retail!)

[BmillsSkier]

Was also able to snatch their last bottles of the 2020 BV Georges de Latour reserve, which is my favorite “break out something nice for the holidays” bottle at the moment (at about twenty percent off retail!)

Nice little Costco run!

[gravitylover]

Didn't you say the ATF was over there sometime in the last few years? Maybe I'm thinking of someone else on here.

That was across the street, they moved last year.

Did you move to the N. GA mountains by chance?

j/k, how is it? What's he use to barrel it, new oak or something else?

Lol. Funny you say that because we found out yesterday that the Polish family down the street is also distilling and they're making another of my favorites, potato vodka!

It's actually very good, certainly equal to any $40 to even $50 bottle I've had the last few years. His first batch was new oak, this is charred oak hence the darker color.

[grskier]

A few notes for a lot of you.

Drink the bottles once you open them. I can't tell you how many times the last few years I show up at a buddies house and he breaks out the same bottle he had the year before and it's oxidizing, tasting worse each time you pour some. I know it's hard to blow through a bottle when you find a pappy or the like unicorn bottles, but yeah, don't ruin it.

Have 2 bottles going if you plan on getting through them in a month or 3 so you can A/B them...

[BmillsSkier]

Bourbon boom is over.

https://www.wsj.com/business/america...-here-3e9961d7

When Bourbon really seemed to hit peak-douchebag I was at a place in life where I was surrounded by fellow M&A jocks, I-bankers and their hangers on who couldn't wait to brag about their latest score from their Bourbon honey holes (and then subsequently try and sell on closed FB groups at insane markups); it all turned me off completely. I'd be happy with my Woodford and a small but well-kept collection of good stuff that I'd blindly stumble upon every now and then, but otherwise I'd avoid the entire junkshow.

Thankfully, I've seen the effects of this downturn over the past year or so. Bottles I used to get off the shelf no problem that become hoarded and fought over by assholes everywhere are now readily available again, such as Eagle Rare, Weller, Blantons and most of the Buffalo Trace family. At my preferred shop, they don't even hold them back behind the counter anymore, all on the shelf just like any other with the exception of a "one per customer" note below the stack.

Tequila seems to be the new "it" spirit, which is fine; I just won't be joining in on that or any other collector rabbit hole craze.

/shakesfistatcloud

[Meadow Skipper]

Bourbon boom is over.

https://www.wsj.com/business/america...-here-3e9961d7

Yay! Sure hope so.

That article is paywalled. Does WSJ have a gift article option? Though the headline itself was uplifting.

[BmillsSkier]

Yay! Sure hope so.

That article is paywalled. Does WSJ have a gift article option? Though the headline itself was uplifting.

Bummer. I just followed this link from a news aggregator website link that was forwarded to me. Maybe try clicking on it and refreshing a few times?

https://www.wsj.com/business/america...-here-3e9961d7

[durangobrad]

Yay! Sure hope so.

That article is paywalled. Does WSJ have a gift article option? Though the headline itself was uplifting.

Check out removepaywalls.com

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[Brownski]

The bourbon craze is definitely over but we’re still selling a lot. My hope is that the current glut of inventory will result in the producers restoring some of the quality that was lost while we were playing catch up. Let some of that whiskey rest a little more and get some older liquid into the everyday bottlings. Wild Turkey 101 and Jim Beam black ought to be eight year olds. Maybe even get the 12y statement back onto the Elijah Craig small batch.

[BmillsSkier]

The bourbon craze is definitely over but we’re still selling a lot. My hope is that the current glut of inventory will result in the producers restoring some of the quality that was lost while we were playing catch up. Let some of that whiskey rest a little more and get some older liquid into the everyday bottlings. Wild Turkey 101 and Jim Beam black ought to be eight year olds. Maybe even get the 12y statement back onto the Elijah Craig small batch.

This is my hope as well. With the glut of product sitting in the rickhouse with nowhere to go (especially so for contract distilling), hopefully the consumer gets to see older bottlings on the shelves like how it used to be.

[Todd Zander]

Just saw my first bottle of blanton’s at a restaurant in quite awhile, bartender claimed he’s only allotted 1 per quarter. It was mighty tempting but I’m not drinking at the moment so on the shelf it stayed.

Does Elijah date their private ?