Sat in the cold rain for 6 hours for these.
One is wearing a necklace and the other has a miniature horse ornament.It's just fucking grain alcohol and wood.
>>20975721>It's just fucking grain alcohol and wood.Uhm... no chuddy. Whiskey is literally a story in a bottle or something along those lines that reddit told me.
>>20975721Fuck, for how much the overcharge for Whisky in current year they better at least throw in some pageantry.
>>20975714good for you
>>20975714Hope you paid retail price for your troublesI get Blantons at MSRP every month or two and it only takes 20 minutes of waiting.
>>20975714I got me a bottle of henny in less than 15 minutes and was in your wife that same hour
>>20975714would you like to share with the class
99% of bourbons tastes alike. Shit like blantons doesn't stand out compared to the 1% that has some uniqueness
I bought one of those argon wine preservers and used it on all of my whiskeys.
>>20975761I feel like people who say this have only ever had sub $50 bottles of bourbon.
>>20975901So you mean smart people not dumb fatso losers like you that need validation.
>>20975901I've had Willet 21+ year picks and Stitzel-Weller PappyCategorically bourbon is only interesting if you like dessert and have a low tolerance for things not drenched in sugar. Even rye has a broader and more interesting profile range, scotch, broader still.
>>20975714Why? I'd never stand out in the rain for any rum product either, and I like the stuff. I'm not falling for false scarcity shit either, if it's that good FUCKING MAKE MORE OF IT.
I only had to wait in line for two hours to get Skyrim at the midnight release.
>>20975752>20 minThe fuck are you waiting on? I walk in, get the bottle of shit I want, and check out. I might have like 1 person ahead of me at the checker, max. >>20975761I don't even like bourbon and I know you are fucking lying or nuked your taste buds so you can't taste shit anymore.
>>20975714pretty sad ngl
>>20975921I had to wait only three minutes until I released into your mom's quivering cunnyhole.
>>20975916based rye appreciatorsadly, in burgerland, the 51% rye mash requirement somehow led to everything coming out of, like, one distillery in indiana
I will never understand allocated bourbon fags.>ITS LIMITED EDITION>THAT MEANS ITS GOODERseems like fomo shit
>>20975901Most expensive Bourbon I've bought was OF birthday and they all end up having the same dessert palate. outside of a couple of high proofs, you're drinking the same product with subtle differences. Mezcal and Scotch are much more interesting spirits. Consistency is the only thing going for bourbon
>>20975950>seems like fomo shitBecause it is
>>20975777basically pointless unless you have too much air in a bottle and want to keep the remnants for 5+ years other wise the seal is plenty unless the abv is lower to start with in which case a smaller bottle will be the better choice for long term.
>>20975950Just buy some woodford reserve and fill it in an empty allocated bottle no one will taste the differencehttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/pPysVZXoEdA
>>20975950some use it as an investment(i.e. flippers), some use it as a way to feel special(i.e. snowflakes) and some are just Asian.
>>20975969>woodford has bananawow, what a revelation... spend the same money and get 4 Rose's instead.
>>20976088>>20975964>>20975962Why shouldn't I spend 15-20 minutes in line to get something at MSRP that I would have to pay 2-3x to get any other day of the week?The real retards are the ones who spend weeks searching for these bottles and then pay $50+ more than their actual MSRP.
>>20975927>The fuck are you waiting on?My local stores get 12-24 bottles of Blantons per month, if I showed up at opening i'd have to wait for ~10-20 minutes behind 10-15 other ppl and usually people are there for the eagle rares that are usually also available at MSRP. So odds of there still being either eagle rare or blantons left by the time I get in there is pretty good. If I wanted to wait until an hour after opening on allocated release day I might be able to walk in and buy a blantons if they happen to have one left, but it wouldn't be a sure thing as when they only have 12 and nothing more interesting is available that month, they can go in the first 30 minutes.
>>20976110Because bourbons taste the same more or less. No need to wait in line for a Blantons or EH taylor when you can get the same profile sitting in shelves at a total wine. There's only a tiny amount of bottles worth grabbing that is considered allocated and it aint any in OPs pic
>>20976149I have to imagine you people can't determine the difference between much if you honestly think ALL bourbon tastes the same.Even from the SAME distiller there are pretty big differences from release to release.It's one of the reason I enjoy trying single barrel releases since they can so vastly different from a distiller's normal releases.
If you drink any form of alcohol other than vodka you're a retard.
>>20976197If you're just looking to get as drunk as possible for as cheap as possible, maybe.That's not the only reason people drink alcohol though.
>>20975714>waiting in the rain for this instead of just walking into the store and buying cognacBig mistake
>>20976200Getting drunk is the only good reason to drink alcohol. It tastes like shit.
What's a peated bourbon like?
>>20976271bourbon that tastes like peat
>>20975714I would have waited for the Blan'on's at least
>>20976265LolLmao even
This the bourbon thread? Another anon previously posted this Old Bardstown and it caught my eye, it may even have been the other blade runner glass anon. Thank you, I just polished this bottle off and it was pretty damn good.
Another two bottles I killed recently. I didn't realize how much I liked the peanut/citrus thing that some heaven hill has going on.
>>20976500 link to the glass
Though I didn't have a chance to do a full bourbon trail, I did go to Jim Beam, Angel's Envy, and Four Roses (the bottling/aging facility, not the distillery) earlier this week. Only got to do a tour/tasting at Four Roses, but it was great. The restaurant at Beam was surprisingly good.
>>20976527Riedel Ouverture Bourbon. Gonna be hard to find, they've been discontinued for a while, but this britbong site seems to have them https://www.artglassvista.com/ouverture-whisky-glass-bourbon-2-pack
I don't understand how amerifats can only drink one type of spirit.a good fullproof blanco tequila is just as unique as any 12 year bourbon that I've tried
>>20976845I thought Angel's Envy was only sourcing and not distilling.>>20977093>€50 to ship 2 glassesshame.
new to bourbon rate my collection>Eagle Rare>Blantons>OF 1910>Redwood pipe dream>Woodford double oaked>makers mark the lost recipe>jack daniels single barrel proofI love eagle rare the most but the makers mark is delicious, i'm going to buy a couple more bottles
>>20977269>I thought Angel's Envy was only sourcing and not distilling.They do both10 years ago they only sourced, but 10 years is a long time when you only need 4-8 to age before you can release, and even with their sourced juice the average age of Angels Envy has generally been around 7 years.
>>20977259We don't drink just one spirit, we drink tequila, mezcal, bourbon, rye, scotch, Irish whiskey and Japanese whiskey.
>>20975714>risking hypothermia to cause chemical brain damageThe 21st amendment was a mistake.
Has anyone here tried Longrow peated?How do you like it compared to say Laphroaig or Lagavulin?
>>20977931It's my favorite peated whiskey.The peat doesn't taste anything like Islay peat. It's much less vegetal/coastal. More earthy.It's got this lovely lemonish flavor to it. Not actually sour. Tastes kinda like lemon oil smells, in a really good way.It and Springbank 10 are similar and both very lovely.
>>20976123Has regular Eagle Rare become hard to get? I hadn't thought about it, but now that you mention it I feel like I haven't seen it on the shelves in stores where it used to always be there.
>people fell for the blantons hype shit tier bourbon made for people who can't handle ethanol https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4WYslWGkBCU
>>20977931good shit. a definite difference. just hard as fuck to find or just plain too expensive.
>>20978045eagle rare has been allocated only and pretty much gone within an hour or two of opening on the allocated release day for the month, and it's been that way in my area for 3-4 years at least.
>>20975714cool, bourbon is nice
>>20975901>I feel like people who say this have only ever had sub $50 bottles of bourbon.Not him, but yeah, this is pretty much me. I enjoy all bourbon though. Cheap and expensive. It is the basic bourbon taste I like.
>>20978057Just their nas peated is around $75 where I live. The Longrow red like that photo is around $300 here.
>>20978050>blantons SUCKS>bourbon blind at a bar with 30+ people doing a blind tasting of 6 different bourbons (OF birthday, elijah craig batch proof, a 4 roses single barrel, some bulleit pick I can't remember, eagle rare 10, and regular blantons.And with like 70-80% of the vote blantons won first place with eagle rare and elijah craig both scoring well for most people as well. All were good bourbons though.
>>20978095>bourbon made for people who can't handle ethanol yeah some randos chose the most basic bitch shit. inmost of these reviews with peoplethat actually bourbon blantons rarely ever wins
>>20978095>bland judges pick bland bourbonblanton's is a sugar bomb that is extremely easy to drink and nothing more--a crowdpleaser in a well-marketed bottle that shows so little alcohol in its profile that most people can palate itevery iteration of OFBB I've had has blown everything else out of the water, save a few Four Roses Limited Editions and some incredible single-barrel picks. Normies hate high-rye.
>>20978091the basic Springbank offerings(even the Kilkerran 12 and 8 yr Heavily Peated) are all generally $100 USD in Missouri. I got the Red with a stroke luck for a reasonable price of $174 after tax and the Springbank 15 the year prior for a couple bucks less.
>>20978132>every iteration of OFBB I've had has blown everything else out of the waternot had the recent ones eh?
>>20978162have last year's 12, was one of the best ones in recent memorystill have it on my barmaybe you're right and people paying $500 for allocated bourbons should just be buying 8 bottles of blanton's instead, you should let them all know
>>20978175lol, blantons regularly goes for $120+ anyway so maybe 4-5 bottles. $100 is a good price even though MSRP is $75-80.
>>20975901You have buyers remorse, I'm not dumb enough to fall for your bullshit.
>>20978191Nah, i regularly buy $30-40 bottles too, but I splurge on one $50-150 bottle per month. Even among sub $50 bottles there is SOME difference in flavor, though i admit many of the bourbons are similar in profile within this price range, especially among the more regularly available offerings.But once you get into the $50+ area it becomes even broader and if you still can't tell a difference between the flavors I assume you're just not built for bourbon appreciation.
I work at a liquor store that regularly gets crazy allocated shit in. AMA
>>20978284most higher volume stores can regularly get allocated shit, it's just wether or not they put it out on the shelves at MSRP or not.So many stores force you to do bundle deals or jerk off the manager to get allowed into the back room to pick a bottle once a month and only if you sucked him off enough that month, or spent enough.
>>20978284How much are distributers fucking you on these releases?There is a store near me that has great pricing on almost everything except the crazy allocated stuff and I think it's cause of distributers.
Was just in Japan for a month and had a bunch of picrel at bars, it was fine price-wise there but god is it overpriced back in the US. Any similar suggestions flavor-wise that are sub $100? I'm a big scotch fan and the Yamazaki was a fun take on what I'm used to. I keep getting Ardbeg cause it's tasty and affordable but I want to branch out a bit.
>>20975714>blanton'sOpinion disregarded. A fool and his money.
>>20975916>Categorically bourbon is only interesting if you like dessert and have a low tolerance for things not drenched in sugar.Your buds are cooked m8e, I'm sorry.
>>20978375Maybe Yamazaki distiller's reserve, it's only $100 here but I haven't tried it. DESU, I tried Yamazaki 12 yr at a tasting and I wasn't impressed, it was too light, maybe my taste buds were shot from eating a jalapeño beforehand though.I did really like the hakushu though but not for the price it was.
>>20978076Oh, that's crazy. I used to be able to grab it off the shelf at my local supermarket any time I wanted. Only did it once and haven't paid attention since, wasn't impressed enough to go back to it for the price.
>>20978420Sure and pappy 23 used to be $100-200/bottle
>>20978422That was way before my time though, I remember casually getting Eagle maybe 5 years ago, definitely within the last decade.
>>20978431it's generally considered the best sub $40 bottle.
eagle rare is better than blantons desu
>>20978509i regularly buy both and they're different enough that i see no reason to ONLY buy eagle rare.
>>20978143I've gotten Springbank 10 at BevMo in California for under $80 fairly recently. Kind of incredible actually, given BevMo's generally high prices. For some reason they were priced really low on that specific whisky compared to most stores. Bought two bottles.I fucking love Campbeltown peat so much.
>>20978340The one I go to just has all the fancier bottles on their own separate floor in a cramped room
>>20979394Yup and they probably charge a blow job at the door to get in.
>>20975754I know Tyrone, I'm the one who called you
>>20975721>his liquor doesn't come with baller chains and hatswew, ngmi, kiddo
>>20975714>BC LiquorAyy, where you at m8Also post hand
>>20975714Ah, so youve finally come to terms with the fact you are a faggot?
>>20979398No BJ required but the layout of the "aisles" is pure assInstead of straight alphabetical, they arrange the drinks in a dumb A-B-C-D square pattern and the whole room is also lit darker than the rest of the store
>>20975714Nothing lasts forever, even cold November rain
I often wonder how much of a flex these whiskey collectors really have over so many people. I have found myself raiding emergency champagne supplies at my most drunken. The only way I would be able to keep nice whisky around is if I had enough cheap rum to kill myself. I still think it's collecting for collectings sake and just as gay as Funko pops. But Funko pops wouldn't literally kill me. So I am kinda jelly.
>>20980188I'm not an alcoholic, so that helps
>>20980188Just value your life and you won't overdrink
>>20978875I looked it up and I couldn't find it in stock anywhere in SoCal, and the price was $101 which is still decent.
>>20975714based and blantonspilledditch the jack though wtf
>>20980453>ditch the jack though wtfJack Daniel Single barrel Barrel Proof rye is one of the best Whiskeys on the market and a store pick of that is even better.
>>20980806Just realized it's their bourbon and not their rye, it's still really good stuff though.
Has anyone tried the new Ardnahoe?I kinda want to get it, specifically the infinite loch.
>>20975714Did you even get a lousy picture or a call?
>>20982730havent even seen the price. really slow year for new releases and everything looks pretty meh.
>>20982908MSRP is $60, only one place has it anywhere near me and they are selling it for $180 but I am thinking about buying it from the UK at around $60 with another bottle of a bunnahabhain IB release and paying $50 to ship both.
>>20982976that would certainly be a better deal. what bunna?
>>20983794The 10 yr Single cask nation bottling, it's of their peated whiskey.
Picked up two bottles of KC single barrel for $45 each, not bad. A bit proofey on the finish but very drinkable. I'd put it above Elijah Craig batch proof B524 which is $75.
>>20984021Just picked up the 12 year for a little under $60 but havent opened it yet.
>>20984078I'm a fan of the 12 as well, but I wanted something new and I haven't had the single barrel 9 year before. Also I find the 12 a LITTLE on the weak side, but that's mostly cause I've gotten into the habit of buying mostly single barrel releases over the last year or two.
>>20984021I got a store pick that I got to taste at a knob creek tasting and it was great. I haven't opened the bottle I bought yet though.
>6 hours just to pay money for overrated bourbonI like Stagg Jr as much as anyone, but that's a pathetic waste of time dude
>>20984021KC single barrel isn't always $45?
>>20982730I have been to the distillery and from that experience, and from trying a lot of Hunter Laing indie bottlings, my assumption is that it's probably overpriced af the same way Daftmill and Ardnamurchan are overpriced. Maybe it'll subvert expectations like Torabhaig, but that malt was over $60 cheaper than the Ardnahoe is. I'd buy a dram before getting a bottle.>inb4 muh whiskyfun rated it an 89!He also overrated single cask Daftmills the same way every whisky writer jerks off over le new distillery. It's super hit or miss.
>>20984936Nah, $51 around me.
>>20984947I'm not sure if I will get it, but Infinite Loch supposed to be around $60 MSRP and maybe it will be available at that prices as more comes into the US. But it does have some mixed reviews from what I have been able to find. I'm kinda annoyed that it isn't as good as I was hoping, cause I want to order a different bottle too from an online store and take advantage of the shipping I'm already paying for. But yeah the 5 year inaugural release was supposed to be great, no idea what the price was though and the infinite loch is supposed to be meh.
>>20985385its trickery. they put out a really substantial first release and then nothing going forward will be as good. the whisky loch is filling up again.
