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.
