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Re: Rant/Rave: Bourbon

Posted: September 3 14, 9:46 am
by thrill
TimeForGuinness wrote:
trill wrote:I just polished off some Bulleit Rye. Haven't decided what to get next. Something new or a reliable stand by? Submit your recommendations, please.
Hudson Baby Bourbon

love the huddy.
Never tried it because it comes in those lil bottles. I'll check it out.


I think High West might be my favorite distillery.

Re: Rant/Rave: Bourbon

Posted: September 3 14, 9:47 am
by TimeForGuinness
trill wrote:
TimeForGuinness wrote:
trill wrote:I just polished off some Bulleit Rye. Haven't decided what to get next. Something new or a reliable stand by? Submit your recommendations, please.
Hudson Baby Bourbon

love the huddy.
Never tried it because it comes in those lil bottles. I'll check it out.


I think High West might be my favorite distillery.
I'll add that to my list, thanks!

Re: Rant/Rave: Bourbon

Posted: September 3 14, 3:22 pm
by haltz
We carry the High West Double Rye.

Hudson - actually Tuthilltown Spirits - makes a lot of cool stuff. Including, but not limited to, moonshine or white corn whiskey (my friend was working on a "white manhattan" with this stuff), single malt, apple vodka (not flavored, but distilled from NY apples), four-grain whiskey, and my favorite, their manhattan rye. They even make bitters and cassis.

http://www.tuthilltown.com/category/pro ... ed-spirits
http://www.tuthilltown.com/category/pro ... ed-spirits

Re: Rant/Rave: Bourbon

Posted: September 3 14, 3:28 pm
by TimeForGuinness
haltz wrote:We carry the High West Double Rye.

Hudson - actually Tuthilltown Spirits - makes a lot of cool stuff. Including, but not limited to, moonshine or white corn whiskey (my friend was working on a "white manhattan" with this stuff), single malt, apple vodka (not flavored, but distilled from NY apples), four-grain whiskey, and my favorite, their manhattan rye. They even make bitters and cassis.

http://www.tuthilltown.com/category/pro ... ed-spirits
http://www.tuthilltown.com/category/pro ... ed-spirits
Was waiting for a haltz appearance...I'll give them a try too.

Re: Rant/Rave: Bourbon

Posted: September 3 14, 3:40 pm
by Michael
I'm not a huge fan of sipping Bourbon anymore. Personally, I'd rather drink a super boozy cocktail like a Manhattan. Of what little I've sipped, I think Woodford Reserve makes some really good stuff.

trill wrote:I just polished off some Bulleit Rye. Haven't decided what to get next. Something new or a reliable stand by? Submit your recommendations, please.
I don't enjoy sipping rye at all, but it really excels in cocktails.

Fun fact about rye: Basically all of it comes from the same place in Indiana. The same is true for most "small batch" bourbons as well.

Upstart spirits companies selling juice they didn’t distill rarely advertise the fact. But there are ways to tell: whiskey aged longer than a distillery has been in business is one of the telltale signs that the “distiller” is actually just bottling someone else’s product. KGB Spirits, the company behind the New Mexico “destilaría,” was founded in 2009; but its flagship Ceran St. Vrain straight rye whiskey comes with an age statement of 15 years in the barrel. Or take Breaker bourbon, the “first bourbon produced in Southern California since Prohibition.” The Buellton, California company behind the brand, Ascendant Spirits, wasn’t started until 2013. Yet, they brag their “ultra small batch bourbon” is aged 5 years. So how do you open a distillery one year and have 5- or 15-year-old whiskey to sell the next? Not by making it.

Re: Rant/Rave: Bourbon

Posted: September 3 14, 3:42 pm
by haltz
I'm always a big fan of Four Roses and Evan Williams Single Barrel in terms of strong value buys. And ice is something to think about. Grab some silicone ice makers with really large cubes (or spheres) and use one large piece of ice. They have some good ones at Sur La Table. You want something slow-melting that chills the whiskey. So, large and dense, which is clear ice, not hazy. Unless you want it to be a little more watered-down, that's fine as well of course.

Re: Rant/Rave: Bourbon

Posted: September 3 14, 3:46 pm
by thrill

Re: Rant/Rave: Bourbon

Posted: September 3 14, 6:15 pm
by jim
Here ya' go trill:

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And MIchael this is for you:

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Jesus Christ.

Re: Rant/Rave: Bourbon

Posted: September 4 14, 6:30 am
by TimeForGuinness
...you put an umbrella in that drink Michael?

(kidding, I love a good Manhattan)

Re: Rant/Rave: Bourbon

Posted: September 4 14, 8:45 am
by Michael
I'd drink the hell out of that.