I know we have a lot of spirit drinkers in here, and some love the scotch or other brown waters, but for me it's all about the bourbon. Latest acquisitions, favorite distillery, etc all welcome here! Plus love good photos! For starters maybe let's go with what is your favorite brand, prefer low mid or high proof, and anything else you like about bourbon. I personally like a lot of the Heaven Hill and Buffalo Trace Brands, Weller top to bottom is a big favorite. My all time favorite as far as what I've had is EH Taylor Seasoned Wood and probably 2015 or 2016 William Larue Weller. Posting a few of my favorite things over the last few years.

That's it Chang? Come on brother! HA Sorry for the boastful posts, just some faves from the last few years. ALL of my bottles are open or will be open. I collect friends not sealed bottles, just need more of you to be able to come over and drink. I also wanted to add another topic, what are you looking forward to this year? For me I try hardest to get every EH Taylor release, so I am going to start laying the ground work for the 18 year Marriage. I also love store picks of Weller, Elijah Craig, Eagle Rare and Russel's Reserve, so always on the look out.

pepsijunky I'm with you on "wants" this year. Really looking for the EHT 18 year. Also, as every year, I will be on the hunt for a GTS and Michter's 10 year.

I'm really hoping to learn from you guys in this thread, I get into whiskeys, but bourbon's are a blindspot for me. I did a Pappy tasting with five different kinds and definitely enjoyed it, but want to learn more. So even if some of the info is noob-ish, share please. One of my client's owns several steakhouses in this area, it's Pappy on good days, on bad days we pound Buffalo Trace haha.

A few things I love about Bourbon; the regulation of the process, the variance in proof, and the history in Kentucky(mostly). Ed it sounds like you are already well connected, but the other big thing for me is drink what you like. There are so many idiots out there paying big dollars for bottles, who don't even drink it or can't even drink it. Try everything, enjoy it, hopefully we all can be cheers-ing soon!

Bourbon here for me as well @pepsijunky (you already be knowin' that). I'll try and upload some pics later on some stuff I have recently acquired. I'm a Buffalo Trace guy through and through since I've been drinking it since college. I love Elmer T Lee because I've drank it for so long and remember when I was 22 or 23 just cruising into crappy liquor stores and it was sitting on shelves. It was a weekly drinker for me. I don't scoff at plain old Jim Beam though, I like the sweetness. Probably why I like wheated bourbons so much (anything Weller is amazing). EHT is also some of the tastiest stuff out there and produced at such a high quality in my opinion. I toured Woodinville 4 or 5 years ago when they were first starting and it was an awesome experience. Still one of the top 3 100% Rye's I have ever had and it's nice to see their brand doing well because they are great people up there. New Riff is also doing some awesome stuff right now with their own juice and I'm excited as more of it ages to see how it comes out. Good value and their Rye is also very very good. I also am in it to open bottles, enjoy with friends or surprise people with hard to find stuff we can enjoy together. The "game" or "hunt" has just become too overwhelming and stressful and it's good when a community of homies like here come together and help each other out. I have too much to drink over here....someone come help!

Moni_SLO Good to have a extra around, helps for the quarantine!

pepsijunky All of the extra handles of Buff Trace, Weller Reserve, and Mckenna got me through the long 6-8 weeks stretch. Moni_SLO I second the New Riff. That is one barrel we could actually do our own Tees&Coins barrel pick from and they would ship out to most states if he had enough people get down. The most fun part would be designing the sticker!

Putterho I second the New Riff. That is one barrel we could actually do our own Tees&Coins barrel pick from and they would ship out to most states if he had enough people get down. The most fun part would be designing the sticker! @Putterho I am 100000000% down for this.....

Took some photos of what's currently in the lineup. Got lazy as I have multiples of some of these and other stuff was just too far back on the shelves to grab. I've got some Nikka from the Barrel and Old Carter batch 5 to pick up from one of my local spots when things open back up. Who's comin' over? 😉

Kentucky Straight Bourbon

Putterho

aharrelson358 was this in Birmingham? The spot that had the famous Willet store picks?

aharrelson358

Putterho Na, that's Lenell's! She did Red Hook Rye when she owned her store in Brooklyn. This is from a guy in the Cost and Shipping group I'm in. He owns (or just does the picks for? not sure) a store in Washington and his picks are under the Single Barrel Project name.

Putterho

aharrelson358 Highland Park was a blast. Love that first hole driver to the green.

PureStickGolf

Nothing spectacular. But US1 is hard to find here in colorado. Was surprised by a little pliny action that I haven’t had since I was at Russian river.

mattybeyel

PureStickGolf nice, love a little Pliny and Bling Pig. They released Pliny the Younger online this year with Covid and crashed the website in minutes, so it’s not just golf releases.

PureStickGolf

mattybeyel idk how I missed the memo for that. But now I’m mad.

mattybeyel

PureStickGolf I got it in NJ and it did me absolutely no good as only local pickup. But if it helps, blame me. Works for @dphatt

dphatt

mattybeyel snow is coming tmr. Fucking MattyB 🤦‍♂️

mattybeyel

dphatt

Giphy - waving home alone GIF

MarkF

Bringing this thread back to life. Anyone have anything new/different lately that we should be on the lookout for?

Putterho

MarkF Russell's Reserve 13 yr Barrel Proof just starting floating around this week.

Moni_SLO

Putterho It's delicious (dropped in CA a few weeks ago) but not $400 delicious. My guess is it wins whiskey of the year because for the retail price it's one of the best pours out there. They could probably charge $99 and it would be well worth it.

Haven't tried the Willett x Blackened yet but hearing mixed reviews on that. This years Michter's Toasted Bourbon is just starting to drop and that one is always delicious (albeit still just way too low proof for my liking). If you have a chance to track down any Nulu toasted bourbons or rye's, I highly recommend them. Good Times is also doing some cool finishes. I've got a toasted bourbon that is finished in honey barrels for a few weeks/months. Smells like straight caramel. Palate leaves a little to be desired but it is tasty for sure!

Noyes26

Figured you guys would like this. I’m not a Bourbon guy so the trips not for me but I could imagine this being a hell of a trip for Bourbon lovers.

Moni_SLO

Noyes26 Damn this is legit....how much does this thing run??? Gotta be pricey as hell!

KentonQ

Noyes26 that is one hell of an itinerary. I've done two bourbon tour trips and hit Keenland on the last day that have been fun, but not to this level. Damn.

BirdiesandBourbon

Noyes26 what a lineup! Truly an epic itinerary!! Hopefully heaven hill will be back open for them they were closed a couple weeks ago when I was up there.

Noyes26

Moni_SLO yea I’m sure it’s not cheap. There was no pricing put in the email just to email the director of all things bar and kitchen. Honestly if it wasn’t in the busiest time of year for me work wise I prob would tag along. Would be an awesome time and maybe I’d learn how to enjoy bourbon.

Noyes26

Moni_SLO I just think it’s cool we’re going to have our own house barrel 😂

Putterho

That Bourbon itinerary is insane ........ I assume I missed playing Valhalla that had to be in that lineup!

Jaybananapantsarthur

Putterho the NLU video from Valhalla, while dated, gave the appearance of it being in rough shape.

Moni_SLO

BirdiesandBourbon They have to get the Union negotiation over with so the strike ends. It isn't being handled by HH very well. A lot of liquor stores I know of have pulled HH products from their shelves until things are resolved. Sounds like some of the other big distilleries are watching it very closely to ensure this doesn't happen when their own Union agreements expire....