Bourbon

TheBigCasino · Post by **TheBigCasino** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 2:06 pm

old crow wrote:i guess i was drunk enough last night to go on a "no one mentions old crow" rant in a post immediately following a review of it? goddamn

shit, that was funny as hell.

calx · Post by **calx** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 9:54 pm

this is a great thread thanks ivan. i have to admit i haven't explored the bourbon realm yet. i'm still trying out a ton of scotches. i have a bottle of ezra at home and drank some just out of the bottle and it tasted kind of funky to me. probably just not used to it. i must try some others! and maybe try mixing them too.

ThirstyDrunk · Post by **ThirstyDrunk** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 11:22 am

calx wrote: i have a bottle of ezra at home and drank some just out of the bottle and it tasted kind of funky to me. .

Funky!?!
You're funky

calx · Post by **calx** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 1:06 am

it's true i'm funky.

oh fry's just started carring bowmore i'm gonna get that soon.

TheBigCasino · Post by **TheBigCasino** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 3:42 am

It's an Islay, be warned, and the Scotch you find at Fry's and Albertson's, that's just entry level. We're having a Scotch tasting in late April at a shop near me, you should swing by.

peetie44 · Post by **peetie44** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:39 am

calx wrote:it's true i'm funky.

oh fry's just started carring bowmore i'm gonna get that soon.

calx,

Lemme know the price for Bowmore at Fry's. I coming to Texas in August and I'll need a couple of bottles of scotch.

Also, this thread's got me thirsty for bourbon, so I'm gonna get two bottles of top-shelf Kentucky to bring back to Belgium.

calx · Post by **calx** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 12:29 am

gene -

it's only 30 bucks a 5th. i haven't tried it yet. and casino - you can't get laphroaig at fry's but there are some good scotche's there anyhow! too pricy tho. i have to get to bevmo soon.

calx · Post by **calx** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 12:31 am

TheBigCasino wrote:It's an Islay, be warned, and the Scotch you find at Fry's and Albertson's, that's just entry level. We're having a Scotch tasting in late April at a shop near me, you should swing by.

let me know where it is man!

ghostface1 · Post by **ghostface1** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 4:09 pm

bourbon? yick! i'll stick with gatorade, thank you. or maybe a capri sun.

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 4:12 pm

ghostface1 wrote:bourbon? yick! i'll stick with gatorade, thank you. or maybe a capri sun.

You should go hardcore with Sunny D.

Frankennietzsche · Post by **Frankennietzsche** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 5:05 pm

Mayhem mixes his Tennessee sipin whiskey with Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr Pepper.

fizzmaster · Post by **fizzmaster** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 10:54 pm

Sippin Beam Black, girlfriend at my side, watching Bourdain on DVR so I can FF the commercials, eating Taco Doritos, got the next month off of work. As bad as things can be, fellow drunkards, hold on, because life can truly be awesome. Drink deeply.

ivan · Post by **ivan** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 1:45 pm

Old Grand-Dad

Price: $$
Proof: 86

The bottle reads "Since 1882, the unique marriage of body and flavor in Old Grand-Dad whiskey has been the standard by which all others are judged. Discover the legendary time-honored excellence of the distiller’s craft found in every bottle." We shall see.

This Bourbon pours much lighter than the bottle led me to believe. First sniff is lots of leather and honey, with a far more powerful alcohol aroma than an average 86 proof. The first sip is spicy, and very heavy on the notes of charcoal and leather. A very nice mouth feel, honey aftertaste, and a pleasant, if not overpowering, burn. Continued tastes are very heavy on the charcoal and leather notes. Definitely not too sweet, but there is a nice caramel on the back end. Not much vanilla at all. This is definitely a unique Bourbon. It tastes like Bourbon, but at the same time, it manages to taste unique. I think it's the almost cinnamon-like spice. For some reason, this is making me nostalgic. It's like what I always imagined "red-eye" to taste like in Westerns.

I find myself taking more sips of this than usual, just because it's so hard to characterize, and so I need to quickly add my splash of water... which doesn't do much. Doesn't really bring out any new notes, doesn't mute things too much.

This Bourbon truly surprised me. I don't know exactly what I was expecting, but I really enjoyed what I ended up getting. Old Grand-Dad gets an across-the-board recommendation, with the warning to the novice that it just tastes different than most Bourbons. As far as cocktails go, I say "why bother"? Drink this neat or on the rocks, and enjoy it for what it is- a good, unique, classic Bourbon.

peetie44 · Post by **peetie44** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 2:49 am

Back in the early '70s, Granddad (86 and 100) was my whiskey of choice.

ivan, I didn't know you could still get 86-proof OGD; I thought it had gone to 80 like a lot of the other old-time "names"?

Btw, here's a pic of the bourbon "top shelf" in a Swedish bar. Not too shabby, eh?

TheBigCasino · Post by **TheBigCasino** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 2:19 pm

peetie44 wrote:Back in the early '70s, Granddad (86 and 100) was my whiskey of choice.

ivan, I didn't know you could still get 86-proof OGD; I thought it had gone to 80 like a lot of the other old-time "names"?

Btw, here's a pic of the bourbon "top shelf" in a Swedish bar. Not too shabby, eh?

good stuff, save the Brown Foreman products. Not sure if Elmer T Lee is atop shelf though, mid - yes, top? hmmm, dunno.

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