Would be tempted...but since I don't drink pond water from Tennessee. I'll never know....
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I don't drink much bourbon these days, but Maker's Mark, Maker's 46, and Knob Creek are about as low as I'll go on the quality scale when I do. I was really digging Blanton's but for some reason you can't find it down here. I found it online but at double the price with the whopping $43 delivery charge.
All of those fine brands are Kentucky brands. Blanton's is made in my home town and the others only an hour or less drive.?ÿ
I've done the Maker's Mark tour, it was really cool.
Here is a pic I took last time I stopped by Wild Turkey, also a cool tour!
Here is a small portion of one warehouse at the Jack Daniels distillery.?ÿ I don't drink bourbon or sour mash whiskey but the tour was fun.?ÿ I prefer a nice Scotch whisky myself but I don't drink but about a drink every week or two.
Andy
How to make a bad bourbon taste better??ÿ Put it back on the shelf and buy a good bourbon.?ÿ Problem solved.?ÿ I am actually working my way through many of the Texas produced whiskys at the moment (buy local, support your neighbors!) and I am finding some good ones, and, well, some not too good ones.?ÿ Speaking of, anyone here ever try Sotol??ÿ It's a Texas made tequila like alcohol.?ÿ To me it was like chewing on an old?ÿ maughy rope.?ÿ But, I guess some folks like it.?ÿ Comes in a pretty porcelain bottle with an old wire pull stopper.
..To me it was like chewing on an old?ÿ maughy rope.?ÿ But, I guess some folks like it.?ÿ Comes in a pretty porcelain bottle with an old wire pull stopper.
I think that's a pretty good assessment..I also detected a slight bouquet of rotted grass clippings with a hint of varnished gasoline in the Sotol I sampled.?ÿ It was brought back from Durango, MX by some of the manos?ÿon the concrete crew.?ÿ I won't be spending any money on any of it, that's for sure.
I am quite fond of bourbon and my go to brand is Bulleit with the orange label. My favorite is Wild Turkey Rare Breed.
Woodford & Jeffersons are very good. Blanton and Elmer T Lee are quite good but hard to find. For the person who just wants and affordable decent tasting bourbon go with Buffalo Trace. Four Roses small batch actually grew on me but it took a while.
I am glad you folks have not confused sour mash whiskey with bourbon.
As others have stated don't buy bad (cheap) bourbon and definitely don't buy cheap tequila.
I am quite fond of bourbon and my go to brand is Bulleit with the orange label. My favorite is Wild Turkey Rare Breed.
Woodford & Jeffersons are very good. Blanton and Elmer T Lee are quite good but hard to find. For the person who just wants and affordable decent tasting bourbon go with Buffalo Trace. Four Roses small batch actually grew on me but it took a while.
I am glad you folks have not confused sour mash whiskey with bourbon.
As others have stated don't buy bad (cheap) bourbon and definitely don't buy cheap tequila.
Not only do I enjoy your posts here, but I also approve of all those fine bourbons.?ÿ
I did some elevation work for a friend's building permit and he compensated me with a GIANT bottle of his preferred spirits - Woodford Reserve.?ÿ According to him, the only whiskey worth drinking.?ÿ Well, it is pretty good, and I polished it off in short order.
I had kept the bottle, and just before he and his wife were due to arrive at our place for dinner, I refilled it with my go-to brand: Ezra Brooks 90 proof - $30 for 1.75l.
So we're all standing around in the kitchen (where else?) and I'm taking cocktail orders- "what'll ya have, Al?"?ÿ He wanted some "Woody's" so I poured a generous dollop from the bottle, added some ice and handed him the drink.?ÿ He takes a long sip, sighs contentedly, and goes on for quite a while extolling the virtues of Woodford Reserve, compared with lesser brands, such as that Ezra Brooks swill.?ÿ I let him have a couple more before I spilled the beans.
A whiskey snob is, after all, just another snob.
A good friend told me once to keep two different whiskeys in the house.?ÿ The first drink is made from the "good stuff" and the second from a lesser quality.?ÿ After the first the taste buds are somewhat "numbed" and can't taste the subtleties between the two.
Andy
In College we had a class called Field Camp I this was in Corpus Christi, Texas on a small island the Biology majors would use, but they let us borrow it for a week. It had 3 cabinets, bathrooms and showers and a kitchen. However we had to be ferry in and out by boats, they dropped us off and picked us up a week later.?ÿ
Being College students stuck on an island, we had to eat and drink what we took with us, we actually ate well I think everyone paid $50.00 maybe more and there were about 20 of us, we all went shopping together the day before we left.
However making drinks was a problem, but I did invent a drink called the Open Traverse, its 4 or 5 ounces of the cheaping bottom shelf plastic bottle whiskey, add that to a red cup, top if off with Hawaiian Punch, because thats all we had left. Now that was nasty and rough to drink, however if you add a splash of Miller lite or Bud Light, it's actually?ÿ a good drink,?ÿ ?ÿso much so we made the same drink at Field Camp II, which was on a Ranch close to a small town.?ÿ
Me and SWMBO visited the Woodford Reserve distillery, (a worthwhile tour) while in KY on a trip. Bought a large bottle in a beautiful wood case. I don't drink spirits except Margaritas but at Christmas time when all the in-law leaches invaded the pantry looking for booze, The Woodford was a big hit. All I have left is the box.?ÿ ??ÿ
Me and SWMBO visited the Woodford Reserve distillery, (a worthwhile tour) while in KY on a trip. Bought a large bottle in a beautiful wood case. I don't drink spirits except Margaritas but at Christmas time when all the in-law leaches invaded the pantry looking for booze, The Woodford was a big hit. All I have left is the box.?ÿ ??ÿ
In my house I have some for sharing but Wild Turkey Rare Breed and Woodford are not to be shared. I try to keep a bottle of Buffalo Trace around just for sharing since it is a pretty good blended bourbon that is half the cost of the Rare Breed. That bird can get expensive.
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As a coincidence, my oldest daughter is getting married tonight. ?ÿThey came in Wednesday night from Charlotte with a truck bed full of liquor and beer for the reception. ?ÿWe had a soir??e here yesterday with all the groom's family from Wisconsin, whom we hadn't met before, and they had unloaded all the spirits here so the could do some running around. Yesterday afternoon they packed it all up and took it to the wedding venue where we had the rehearsal and dinner last night. ?ÿAfterwards when they unloaded the truck and stocked the bar for tonight, they were missing a bottle of Woodford. They asked me to check and see if they'd left it here.
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Think I'll just tell them I couldn't find it ?ÿ
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Well that's certianly the right way to to treat future kin.?ÿ ??ÿ
Pour the Woodford into a decanter and fill the bottle up with cheap stuff and tote it back.?ÿ ??ÿ
Im pretty sure I paid for it anyway. Daughter and son-in-law to be brought it.?ÿ
Im pretty sure I paid for it anyway. Daughter and son-in-law to be brought it.?ÿ
I forgot it's your daughter. So you get to pay for everything, flowers, dinner, reception etc....
If you have to give a speach at the reception and have the first dance of the evening with your daughter I'd drink the whole bottle first.
My daughter was married 7 years ago and SWMBO still won't tell me how much it cost, I wasn't cheap.?ÿ ??ÿ
See ya in the poorhouse Ed.
