New Bourbon Thread: Bourbon Trail

They’re not going out and tasting every whiskey in the world. For that it’s basically only Jim Murray’s Whiskey Bible. They have to be entered into this to be rated/ranked. It’s all blind taste testing, so the liquid speaks for itself.

BIB Dickel was #1 last year. Nikka From the Barrel was top the year before. That was the year I went to Whisky Fest in NYC that’s centered around this. Had the VIP early hour entry where they have all the specialty super limited whiskies. Very cool experience.

 

Never saw a SiB Baby Saz before.

 

Lowest prices I’ve seen on those bottles: $28 $23 $30

 

sem

 

finally a good win

 

Anyone have knowledge of the NC bourbon scene?

 

store pick baby saz is new

 

duuuuuude how

 

Some serious bottle porn wins on this page. Way to do it bourbon club.

 

My favorite store that typically does a big bourbon release event isn’t doing it this year, but the owner still held back some bottles so now he’s hooking up some of us and fortunately I’m “in” enough to make the cut.

 

To be clear, my pic isn’t of my bottles. That’s my co-worker’s purchases from the season.

 

A bit. It mostly sucks. What do you want to know

 

^ What he said.

 

local store had a VW Rye...for 1499.

 

I guess they just forgot to call me. That's fine.

 

Can prob flip for maxxxx profitz

 

What's secondary on that these days?

 

Snagged a GTS for retail

Spoiler

after buying a case of wine

 

If the wine is anything decent then sounds like a deal to me.

 

It was whatever I wanted. I don't know much about wine so just told the guy to pick out a bunch of full bodied reds he liked that I could try. Got the 20% case discount too.

 

How it started.

How it's going.

 

NOW IM CRAVING GATORADE

 

Ha! Should’ve cross-posted with the Peloton thread - that’s the closest fridge in the house to the bike now.

 

Is that an eames house bird up at the weller

 

It’s a penguin from the 21c hotel.
https://www.shopat21c.com/products/ceramic-penguin-collection

 

What’s your opinion on Pogue?

 

you should also shop when they sell their bourbon picks

 

Eh. I don’t love it. There’s a lot better stuff from MGP you can buy.

 

I got a OF single barrel and WT Kentucky Spirit from them last fall. Was surprised they had so many barrel picks.

 

Snagged a Lot B. Paid about $60 over Retail however.

 

good deal!

 

Kidding. That’s fantastic, congrats bud!

 

got this little package in the mail today. Excited to try this one

 

Well that’s tite.

 

Baseballman86 how'd you get that?

 

If you have to ask...

 

I reached out to them a couple years ago to do some reviews and ever since they’ve somewhat consistently sent me bottles of new releases, this is the first swag bag type deal I’ve gotten from them though. Pretty nice touch

 

Nothing crazy but picked this up to try as well as a pair of a new Foursquare release. The price was well below list, so I figured why not. I have tried the chocolate rye from this collection and it is actually quite good and very easy to drink. It's the 2018 release.

 

BT

 

Let me know what you think of the Detente. We just got 70 more cases of it after having to allocate the first smaller shipment. Hoping I can pull a sample bottle next week, you know because all my accounts want to try it....

 

I have 2 also. Haven’t popped it yet but I will, soon.

 

Detente

 

Workhorse.

 

Wife won the Watershed Nocino raffle

4 year bourbon finished in Watershed’s Nocino Black Walnut Liqueur barrels at 110.2 proof

pretty neat

Sidenote the Watershed Nocino story is worth a read, family recipe passed down for years that somehow ended up in Columbus from Italy. Here’s the short form

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2015/12/02/dining/nocino-walnut-liqueur.amp.html

 

there’s a bourbon Instagram guy near me who got one of those packages too