World of Whiskey

[Irishman12]

Thanks for the link jjbehren, but they don't ship to my state unfortunately. My local spot has the SB but not a store pick. Have you had the Barrel Proof? I haven't seen one in the wild yet but I know they're popular around me too.

[jjbehren]

Thanks for the link jjbehren, but they don't ship to my state unfortunately. My local spot has the SB but not a store pick. Have you had the Barrel Proof? I haven't seen one in the wild yet but I know they're popular around me too.

Yes. I love the Barrel Proof. One of the best deals in bourbon. 12-year age-stated and high proof. The B520 batch this year is amazing.

[Bryman]

I missed out on a bottle of batch C919 a few months back that I could have got my hands on. I’m still kicking myself.

[jjbehren]

I missed out on a bottle of batch C919 a few months back that I could have got my hands on. I’m still kicking myself.

That stuff sits on shelves here in many places. Not much else does, but ECBP for some reason is pretty available in the Twin Cities.

[Irishman12]

I missed out on a bottle of batch C919 a few months back that I could have got my hands on. I’m still kicking myself.

That stuff sits on shelves here in many places. Not much else does, but ECBP for some reason is pretty available in the Twin Cities.

I haven't seen it by me but know it's quite popular in my area.

[Bryman]

That stuff sits on shelves here in many places. Not much else does, but ECBP for some reason is pretty available in the Twin Cities.

Wow. Lucky break.

[jmagee87]

Yeah ECBP isnt too hard to get in my area either

[Bryman]

California sucks. Everything is hard to find and marked up %40. I can’t wait to get outta here.

[Codeblue]

[Irishman12]

The family grew by 1 today and I got LUCKY! Random drop on a store's barrels pick (total of 8 different barrels). Limit was 2 bottles per person and was able to score them before they sold out. Tried it and it was good but quite a bit of spice (not surprising from 114.5% proof). New rankings: Straight, UU, PB, SB

[Bryman]

I like spice. Send the second one my way lol. Great finds. I’m beginning to think you’re a plant from ‘Big Whiskey’ lol. You seem to have amazing luck. Cheers man, enjoy!

[jjbehren]

The family grew by 1 today and I got LUCKY! Random drop on a store's barrels pick (total of 8 different barrels). Limit was 2 bottles per person and was able to score them before they sold out. Tried it and it was good but quite a bit of spice (not surprising from 114.5% proof). New rankings: Straight, UU, PB, SB

You can't judge a bottle by the neck-pour. Give it 10-14 days and come back. It'll be different, and most likely a lot better.

That being said, I've had a lot of these older MGP high-proof bourbons and they can be real hit-and-miss. Are both your bottles from the same barrel? If not, you should crack open the other one. You might get a very different profile.

[Irishman12]

I like spice. Send the second one my way lol. Great finds. I’m beginning to think you’re a plant from ‘Big Whiskey’ lol. You seem to have amazing luck. Cheers man, enjoy!

Honestly, I strike out more times than not. This I got lucky because I saw on the distilleries Instagram page a guy posted a photo with 4 bottles (he got his friend to come along so they could each get 2 and he went home with all 4). In the photo he said they dropped in my state, I asked which city and told him where I was and they were 20-30 minutes away. They dropped around 11am/noon, had a table full, and by 3pm there were maybe 20 bottles left. Yesterday was PURE luck! Gave a huge shoutout to the guy who pointed me in the right direction.

Also found out while I was there that this store has the Silver Dollar American Vodka so now I don't need to order those online anymore and can save myself some shipping. The 2 bottles I ordered last week came in today as well.

[Irishman12]

The family grew by 1 today and I got LUCKY! Random drop on a store's barrels pick (total of 8 different barrels). Limit was 2 bottles per person and was able to score them before they sold out. Tried it and it was good but quite a bit of spice (not surprising from 114.5% proof). New rankings: Straight, UU, PB, SB

You can't judge a bottle by the neck-pour. Give it 10-14 days and come back. It'll be different, and most likely a lot better.

That being said, I've had a lot of these older MGP high-proof bourbons and they can be real hit-and-miss. Are both your bottles from the same barrel? If not, you should crack open the other one. You might get a very different profile.

Why is that with bourbon? If you don't like it at first, I've heard to let it breath or give it a few days and it'll taste better? That happened to me with the Henry McKenna Bib. Tried it, wasn't overly impressed, and put it in the back of my cabinet. Came back to it recently (after months of sitting there) and I enjoyed it a lot more! Either my palate's advancing or it got better somehow?

These were from the same barrel unfortunately. I didn't realize until after I got back home with them they had 8 different barrels. But before I made the trip up, I called the store to confirm they had some and a worker even put 2 on hold for me. I got what he grabbed for me. Curious what the other barrels would have tasted like, but I'm not going to complain. Just glad I was able to get 2 to try!

[fredo]

Similar to wine, if you expose the juice to air and let it oxidize a bit you'll often get a softer expression from an otherwise tight/strong/dense profile. By the same token a bottle that is less than about half full will start to lose character with a quickness. As the man once said, 'when you're down to a third - invite a friend over.'