New Bourbon Thread: Bourbon Trail

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  1. Leeroy Jenkins!

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    How could two master distillers be anything but great?
     
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  2. BrickTamland

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    Tell me of your infinity bottle experience.

    It sounds fun in theory, but I’d imagine the resulting pour is… bad.
     
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  3. DistantFactor

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    Honestly was a pretty decent blend when I drank through my last one. If you pour a bunch of booze you don’t like into it then yeah it would suck, but I tend to drop in the last bits of bottles I like so the combo has been solid.
     
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  4. pperc

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    You rang?
     
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  5. pperc

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    Honestly, I’m all about that Hibiki 17, Yamazaki 18, Hakushu 18, Nikka 17 life
     
  6. BrickTamland

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    Yes I too would settle for those bottles. Twist my arm.
     
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  7. goblue31602

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    Yeah my infinity bottle is probably one of my favorite pours. Just don't throw anything in that's a completely different profile than the other things. So like don't pour scotch in a bourbon infinity bottle
     
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  8. Tangman

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    do you mix bourbons and ryes?
     
  9. goblue31602

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    I haven't, but I probably wouldn't be opposed to putting sazerac or elijah craig rye in there, both are similar enough to bourbon to add to the profile. With some wheated in there as well, it can give it some four grain characteristics
     
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  10. Tangman

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    yeah I was thinking some barely legal ryes but probably not any 95/5 mgp
     
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  11. TheFreak55

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    Trying to do an infinity bottle
     
  12. Daniel Ocean

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    rv12 going to hit up my spot I’ll tag you again if they have the EHT so you can let me know if you want it. They didn’t have any last time I went that’s why I didn’t tag you.

    I also some some Weller but it was 200 and didn’t know if it was worth it. I’d appreciate if anyone could help me out by telling what it should go for. I’ll post pictures so you guys know which when they have.
     
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  13. BrickTamland

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    What is your pick for the classic expression of rye?
     
  14. BrickTamland

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    Overholdt? Rittenhouse? WT101 Rye?
     
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  15. Lt. Pete Mitchell

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    Pikesville :lick:
     
  16. DistantFactor

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    Pikesville, Rittenhouse, and Baby Saz are my go to bottles
     
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  17. Lip

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    Overholdt was my gateway into ryes, but I haven’t had it in years.
     
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  18. Upton^2

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    Saz 18. Perfect gateway rye
     
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  19. BrickTamland

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    I was just caught off guard by the assertion that Sazerac was “so close to bourbon.”
     
  20. rv12

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    guessing no go?
     
  21. RJF-GUMP

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    Gift from the staff at the firm.
     
  22. Daniel Ocean

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    nope just the single barrel

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  23. RockHardJawn39

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    Did you keep it?
     
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  24. RockHardJawn39

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    Those prices suck
     
  25. dathalfnukkahd

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    A year ago the Weller 12 was $150. They keep upping prices on anything allocated.
     
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  26. RJF-GUMP

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    I asked them to get me something different.
     
  27. g8r

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    Not the van winkle reserve rye?
     
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  28. rv12

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    any Michigan guys going to be at Maria’s tomorrow?
     
  29. aisle seven

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    Not bad actually. Lots of spearmint.

    Also had the World Whiskey Society Bardstown Edition and was pretty good. Cork is super sick.
     
  30. TheFreak55

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  31. pperc

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    Michters 25 year old rye. It’s just hard to find sometimes.
     
  32. Leeroy Jenkins!

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    Yeah but I mean I'm looking for a little more than entry level. Peerless seems to have the rye game cornered, hell the entire whiskey market.
     
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  33. HtownTide

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  34. BrickTamland

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    It’s so good. Every time I take a pour of the store pick double rye finished in Syrah that I tell myself is a “poor man’s MWND,” and then taste the ch8 MWND I have, I realize that there’s no comparison.

    It’s one annual release that I can’t pass up.
     
  35. Leeroy Jenkins!

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    I wish you'd stop lying to yourself. Between that and the KY Owl, we're here for you. This is a safe place. Unless you like woodford.
     
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  36. HtownTide

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    Yeah, I wasnt sure what to expect but it was excellent
     
  37. Colin Robinson

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    I am absolutely loving the Nikka Coffee Grain.
     
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  38. BrickTamland

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    Kentucky Owl was obamanotbad.

    Perfect bottle to receive as a gift; zero chance I'd ever pay for it.

    There's plenty of things in my life that I lie to myself about. Whiskey doesn't crack the top twenty.
     
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  39. g8r

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    I dislike KO….
     
  40. rv12

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    woodford DO is solid. haven’t had a chance for the MWND yet but hopeful to find a bottle.
     
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  41. g8r

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    Better put your shield up. The flames are coming.
     
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  42. Leeroy Jenkins!

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    So we gonna west side story dance fight this out or what
     
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  43. Artoo

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  44. tjsblue

    tjsblue I was right at the time
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    Man, that is some insane stuff in there and the pricing is also nutso.
     
  45. The Goat

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    Would be nice to have money lying around for those 60 Smokewagon R and L.
     
  46. Artoo

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    Have a heart, open your wallet. It's for charity
     
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