Mamrak1
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https://www.pastemagazine.com/artic...ers-whiskey-row-tasting-all-three-bottle.html.
Here is a comparison of three of the Old Forester expressions.
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Here is a comparison of three of the Old Forester expressions.
Odd, it doesn't include the one I'm interested in.
Filibuster
I believe I snagged the last bottle of Old Forester 1920 today. Only one bottle sat on the shelf when I got there and now it's listed as "out of stock". Haven't sipped it ever so I hope it's a good one.There was no 1910 there and later on while setting a 50 mile search in my area it yielded none around. I guess it's very hard to come by according to some fellow customer speaking at my store. He searched and searched and came up empty, too. Bummer.
MIC
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swamppirate
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Congrats!
851 SP3
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Not my "Favorite Bourbon"
But, in my glass currently: Buffalo Trace's McAfee's Benchmark that's been run through a Brita water filter thrice. Cheap/easy/interesting, if not worth doing again, experiment.
A friend of mine had heard of this practice and sent me an email with links to such. I decided I'd have a go just to see what the change(s) would be, exactly. Since I'm not completely mad, I did a search for 'best bottom-shelf bourbon' and got a few articles that agreed on a number of examples. When I got to the store, I picked the Benchmardk for two reasons. One, it was the first one I came upon that was on my list. Two, it was $9.98 for a fifth. I also got a a bottle of Heaven Hill's Old Style Bourbon. Had I not picked up the wrong bottle (liter instead of a fifth), I could have been out of the store for like $22 instead of the wallet-shredding $24 and change.
Got home and measured off half the bottle to filter and left the other half in the bottle. Ran it through three times and decanted it into another bottle I had cleaned for purpose. The filtered liquid is noticebly darker than original. It also lost a noticeable amount of the initial bite as well as flavor at all points. Much more 'mellow'.
The virgin Benchmark is actually drinkable, against all normal thinking. It's better than some $20 bourbons I've had. Come on! $10?!!? I have to wonder, now, what pre-filtered Jack Daniels looks like. This experiment makes me think that it must be lighter pre-filtering just like what I see.
Would I do it again? No. Not worth the effort (not that it's physically taxing or time consuming). I like my dark liquors just like my beers, with flavor. I won't call the filtered liquid bland but, it definitely loses alot of everything. Nose, alcohol hit, flavors start to finish. I will only filter a few glasses worth of the HH rather than half the bottle. Still want to see the differences for the fun of it. But, .... Definitely would not try this with anything I would normally buy (Makers, Basil, Four Roses).
But, in my glass currently: Buffalo Trace's McAfee's Benchmark that's been run through a Brita water filter thrice. Cheap/easy/interesting, if not worth doing again, experiment.
A friend of mine had heard of this practice and sent me an email with links to such. I decided I'd have a go just to see what the change(s) would be, exactly. Since I'm not completely mad, I did a search for 'best bottom-shelf bourbon' and got a few articles that agreed on a number of examples. When I got to the store, I picked the Benchmardk for two reasons. One, it was the first one I came upon that was on my list. Two, it was $9.98 for a fifth. I also got a a bottle of Heaven Hill's Old Style Bourbon. Had I not picked up the wrong bottle (liter instead of a fifth), I could have been out of the store for like $22 instead of the wallet-shredding $24 and change.
Got home and measured off half the bottle to filter and left the other half in the bottle. Ran it through three times and decanted it into another bottle I had cleaned for purpose. The filtered liquid is noticebly darker than original. It also lost a noticeable amount of the initial bite as well as flavor at all points. Much more 'mellow'.
The virgin Benchmark is actually drinkable, against all normal thinking. It's better than some $20 bourbons I've had. Come on! $10?!!? I have to wonder, now, what pre-filtered Jack Daniels looks like. This experiment makes me think that it must be lighter pre-filtering just like what I see.
Would I do it again? No. Not worth the effort (not that it's physically taxing or time consuming). I like my dark liquors just like my beers, with flavor. I won't call the filtered liquid bland but, it definitely loses alot of everything. Nose, alcohol hit, flavors start to finish. I will only filter a few glasses worth of the HH rather than half the bottle. Still want to see the differences for the fun of it. But, .... Definitely would not try this with anything I would normally buy (Makers, Basil, Four Roses).
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Fresh cork tonight.
MIC
the skipper
Professional Curmudgeon
I used to be a Jack Daniels guy but then I discovered this.
game over.
game over.
swamppirate
Lunatic Member
Picked some of this up while on vacation.....will report back.
This is a Bourbon thread. Maybe you should start a Scotch thread if there isn't one. I can't stomach Scotch.
I used to be a Jack Daniels guy but then I discovered this.
game over.
I tried this in a liquor store. I liked it then bought a bottle. What I took home didn't taste like the one in the store. This leads me to believe that it is variable.
This has promise.
You are not the first. I have tried, Scott background and all, but I can't drink Scotch.
It got a little chilly out by me on Saturday night, so the wife has retired her Gin & Tonics and moved on to her winter drink of choice, a Cosmo. I gladly moved on to the brown liquor season and finished off a bottle of Four Roses Single Barrel, thankfully I had one in the bunker to replace it's righful place in the liquor cabinet. Mighty fine in the $45 per bottle range.
swamppirate
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Four Roses single rocks....right in there with Elijah Craig 10 yr and Evan Williams single for me
I guess it is not bourbon, but my go to whiskey is Jameson's Caskmates, Stout edition.
jimbofish
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I prefer the Small Batch to the Single Barrel myself. Might be just the slightly lower alcohol or the blending that makes it a bit smoother to my uneducated taste buds.
I have a bottle of Single Barrel in my stash, but I have a few Crown Royals (Bourbon Mash, Black, and Reserve) I want to open first.
swamppirate
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Some EV single barrel and a splash of Ginger Ale...
Busted out some Weller Special Reserve and although it is the lesser of their offerings, compared to Antique and the 12 year old, it is still very nice. I followed it with some Larceny, which paled by comparison. I like Larceny, but I think it was unfair to follow the Weller.
