I'm drinking Crown Royal rye tonight. I'm usually a beer guy but I have always liked whiskey and/or bourbon whiskey. I tend to crave it more in the winter time. Our local discount liquor (Devlins) has a fifth for $16. They've had that deal for a couple of months now. It's good whiskey for a great price.

Nice list. I'm a big fan of E. Craig, it's very easy to drink, affordable and 94 proof. Not a bad combo...

Sipping an Old Weller Antique 107 tonight. Smells like red hots, tastes like red hots. Very smooth wheater profile.

Tin Cup is a great bourbon too...

Tin cup is not bourbon. It is a blend. It is decent though.

Anyone a fan of 1738? I'm a fan of henny and i heard the next step up as far as smoothness is 1738

Still sipping on some Jim Beam Black tonight...

Switched over to Wild Turkey 101 on ice.

Nice and hot.

My go to cheap bourbon. Especially if just want to get hammered. Neat though.

Fetty Wap is

Gotta have my rocks. Or just refrigerate/freeze the bottle. Something about room temperature just doesn't sit well with me.

But $53 for a handle, maybe I overpaid.

I usually pay about $23 for a 750ML so that isn't a bad price

Willett rye.

High class bitch over here!!!

Old charter for me tonight

Playoff bourbon was purchased yesterday.

Colonel E.H. Taylor Single Barrel.

That's some good stuff. Enjoy.

Great bourbon!

Noiiiceeee!!!

Found a Jim Beam cocktail glass with a baseball etched in the bottom at an antique store my wife and I were at to get paint for a home project.

$3.20. Boom.

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Damn you got small hands !

Vodka and Cranberry for me. Maybe some Knob Creek later.

I don't need to jerk hogs for a living.

Ray Lewis has a new Bourbon out ROFL

It looks like my drinking days are over. I was put on beta blockers ****

So...on a whim and a recommendation...I tried Early Times. Now it's not a bourbon because they use old oak barrels and not new oak barrels, so it's called Kentucky Whiskey and not bourbon. It's still not bad for the price...a 1L bottle goes for less than $20.

Since I cannot get any kind of Buffalo Trace - that includes the brand name bourbon or Eagle Rare in my ****ing government liquor stores, I'm reduced to this...

Shame, really.

Gotta say I'm a woodford bourbon. But Winter jack cold is amazing

Over?

Nah.

Getting totally hammered each and every weekend, probably over. Why do you think you can't drink on a beta blocker? My dad has been on one for 40 years and has 1-2 whiskey drinks every night.

http://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-...rs-and-alcohol

I only like drinking when I can get hammered :(

Jesus Christ how ****ing old are you?

Get a job and a girlfriend Billay.

I don't drink for fun, I drink to get drunk. On a mission style

Every time?

I mean I'll get hammered every now and then but hate next day so much now that it's only occasional.

That's the only reason to drink, imo. But that's just me.

Every weekend?

About a third of Tuesday's too.

You're a legend.

Also, remind me to never take my car to you on Wednesday's.

I save my drinking for the nights that I know I'm gonna tie one on.

Never one to have a beer or two after work. Usually just wait until the weekend and have a dozen.

An hour in the hyperbaric chamber and I never feel it most times. Plus if I go on Tuesday I get there early, bullshit with all the old retired guys (glad hand a little), hit it hard, hang until pool league (I don't enter) is about half over, bull shit with a bunch of buddy's, then go home just after your bed time.

But I limit it to one night a weekend, and not every weekend.

Had some Elijah Craig 12 Small Batch with a steak for dinner. Now I'm enjoying a glass of Corsair Triple Smoke (not bourbon, I know). If you like smoke, Islays, etc. it's an excellent dram.

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Oh shit, it's bottle kill Thursday here.

I'll probably go pick up another Buffalo Trace at my local grocery store tomorrow.

Cheers!

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As long as you drink a glass to me, I'm good...it really pisses me off that I cant just stroll into my government controlled liquor store and pick up a bottle, but alas, they're **** ups...we NEED more Buffalo Trace in this bidge!

It was hot today. So had the bourbon over a giant ice cube. The theory is that is cools the bourbon but won't melt as fast, and thus dilute the bourbon, like standard ice cubes.

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My mom, right, she confiscated my turntables. W-w-wickity wack! And uh, but it’s all good cuz when she confiscated the turntables, she PUT THE MOTHA****AS IN THE LIQUOR CABINET… Thinkin’ that “oooh there’s a place that the J to the R-O-C won’t look” yeah put it with the liquor. That’s where I aint gonna find them mother****ers! It’s aight, she go to bed at 10 o'clock and we just bust out the turntables like before right, and a potato sack, AND BUST DOWN THE MALL!

Wait, how did I miss this?!?!

How's that birthday bourbon? Those aren't easy to find!

This is good.

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Got my dad a bottle of this last year and he let me try it. Really complex taste from what I recall, not my favorite out there, but I can tell why it's sought after.

Not always easy to find and AZ really lacks most of the specialty bottles for some reason. I know guys who go to California just to snag bottles of bourbon that are rare because here it's so troublesome to track down here.

KC United, you crack that open yet? I know you aren't a bourbon guy so I'd be curious of your thoughts.

Still unopened. I did sample it (neat) at the event that I won the opportunity to buy it back in November. I remember picking some rye and dark fruitiness, but yeah, I definitely don't drink a lot of bourbon so I was likely picking up flavors I've identified in various beers.

I do the same shit with beer though. I go out of my way to pick up all these limited release beers and can never justify the moment for popping it. Part of my 2017 resolution is to a) drink down the bottles that I have and b) drink fresh.

Nice resolutions! lol

Do you every drink bourbon neat? It's an acquired taste, kinda like why I still probably don't like IPAs....not enough experience.

I splash with water. And I agree, I haven't spent enough time with bourbon to truly acquire the taste. I'd like to, but I only have so many calories and dollars to give and I like beer too much.

You can have all the BT. Too much licorice.

Neat is the only way to drink it. Chase it with a nice cold Fiji or Icelandic if you need to.

I got to meet with the rep for Tom's Town Distillery the other day, and try their vodka, gin, and bourbon. They were all three unique and quite delicious. Vodka had some body to it, which was nice. I'm not a big vodka guy, but this was pleasant and would be great on the rocks.

I am a hater on gin for the most part, but their's isn't a london dry style. It is sweeter and less juniper. Not good a dirty martini, but it would make a great Aviation, Last Word, French 75, and maybe even a negroni (I hate campari).

Their bourbon was good. It is a 25% rye blend, so it sort of has that "spiciness". I like using rittenhouse for my sazeracs (or templeton rye if I want a milder one), so I probably wouldn't enjoy theirs in that particular drink. It was quite smooth though, and would be a good after dinner drink (neat/rocks).

I am not their rep or own any part of their company, but I was really impressed with their product and love that they are local. Prices were very reasonable, and apparently they have tours of their distillery (17th and Main). Their style is awesome too. Prohibition era labels based on Pendergrast. They even bought the rights to his original design to stick on their bourbon bottle.

Here is their site.

Ive always liked a big cube of ice...something that slowly melts and chills the bourbon. Ive been told it tends to open it up more, where Scotch is best drank neat. I still like a couple of cubes in my scotch too...

I have done them neat, but I prefer them with an ice cube.

I agree. As I try more and more bourbons, it's falling quickly down the list. I'd take Bulleit bourbon, Elijah Craig and and Russell's Reserve over it around the same price point.

Don't be that guy. It sometimes help to cut with water if you're new to bourbon. Also, high ABV bourbons can actually open up more with a bit of water. I don't do it much but I will at times if the finish is a bit "off."

Depends on the bourbon. Even just a few minutes sitting in ice, significantly changes the taste for me. On many bourbons it ruins the finish IMO and decreases the mouth feel.

But drink the damn bourbon how you like, that's how I see it.

I love Bulleit. I will take WT 101 over BT any day.


I find it ruins it. Water afterwards to clean or take the sting away if needed. Even Stagg Jr at almost 140 is better to me neat.

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Long time lurker, first time poster. Makers and water. Can't go wrong.

You had the Bulleit 10 year? I really love that stuff. But even their standard bourbon is good and their Bulleit rye is affordable and great for cocktails.


And I agree personally with you and even the high proof I'll keep neat myself, but I can see how some like to cut it. I'll cut some of my "shitty" bourbon by placing it on the rocks on a hot day though. Sometimes down here in the desert, it's not always enticing to drink a neat bourbon when it's 100+ degrees.

Stagg Jr is ****ing hard to find here. It's crazy.

Some people really love Maker's and it's usually because they haven't tried many other bourbons. Then again, some people swear it has one of the best tastes on the market regardless.

I myself am not a fan of Maker's. It's not aged long enough to develop more complex flavors, IMO. Is Maker's 46 worth checking out though?

All of the Bulleits are great.

I use a stone on occasion to chill it but I don't like adding ice ever.

Stagg Jr Hard to find here as well. Usually see it when I don't have a spare $50 bill in wallet.

Not a fan either. Don't like most wheated bourbons.

I drink whiskey neat 95% of the time, even in the summer. I never do ice, but I think my reluctance is that I don't like whiskey cold. I will occasionally do a splash of water with some cask strength stuff to open it up. I think adding water is a case-by-case basis. Some whiskeys open up and give you some different notes, others don't.

My ice maker broke, so it's Eagle Rare neat tonight...cant say that I'm disappointed without ice.

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I just really don't like Eagle Rare

I would take Buffalo Trace over Bulleit all day every day even if at the same price. Not a fan of Bulleit. I dont get the love honestly

I did find a damn good blended Scotch on the cheap though, John Buhl. At $20 its a ****ing steal IMO.

My buddy paid up his losing NFL bet to me yesterday. I don't know much about scotch but he says he loves this stuff.

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The DoubleWood is easy drinking. It's got that Speyside character plus it's finished in sherry barrels, so it's smooth and sweet. Since you like bourbon so much, I think you'll like the Balvenie as well.

Do you mean John Barr?

Damn good stuff, but the 14 year Caribbean Cask is the real winner with Balvenie imo.

Marcellus is clearly out of his element here, Donny.

drank some Old Crow last night.

Yup.

Hows your headache today?

Finally broke into this after a really long day at work.

I'd like to salute Lewdog for legitimizing my bourbon game by sending me this proper glassware. A+ dude if I've ever met one.

Pinkies out. Cheers.

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No headache at all. Only alcohol that has ever given me a headache is Vodquila.

Nice!

So what did you think? Solid pour as well. Ain't no ****ing n00b there!

Yeah, that pour was a little aggressive but I sipped it through the entire KC game. Loved it. Got a lot of dark fruit with more citrus than I remember for the taster I had back in November.

You are a trooper. Old Crow will get the job done but it's rough the next day for most people.

I found old forrester at the bottom shelf of my government approved liquor store... Im pretty sure it's going to take 3-4 hours to sip down that pour.