Since it was a little chilly today, about 10 degrees and I was outside all day I decided to have a little warm me up. I picked up a bottle of Jim Beam Rye on the way home. It is not bad at all. It is different from regular Beam or "corn" liquor but it is not that sweet kind of nasty taste that I would associate with Rock & Rye. They also had a bottle of Pendleton Rye but it was $40.00 which is a little much for me.
Anybody else have a little Rye now and again? What is your preference and what is the cost?

Ernie

Rye Whiskey, Rye Whiskey I cry

If I don�t get Rye Whiskey

I surely will die

if the ocean were whiskey and I was duck, I'd swim to the bottom and never come up

Bulleit makes a rye, though I've never had it. But based on their bourbon, I'd not hesitate to give it a go.

http://www.bulleitbourbon.com/Honor.aspx

Yep, there is a bottle of Beam Rye in the cabinet at this very moment. I started drinking it after learning it had been an American favorite for many years. Am guilty of splashing in some ginger ale most times. Given I'm mixing it, I'm not one to spend the dollars for the more expensive options.

There aren't a lot of Rye's out there. Bulleit makes excellent Bourbon, so I'd try their Rye, but haven't as of yet. Beam Rye sucks. The best Rye I've had is High West Rendezvous Rye. It is not cheap. I've got some High West Double Rye in my cabinet now, but haven't tried it yet. It's much less expensive than their other offering.

http://www.highwest.com/spirits/

The High West Double Rye is particularly good.

Bulleit 95 (95% rye mash, 90 proof)is my everyday Rye. Not too expensive but very nice. Low $20s at Total Wine. I've got a bottle of Willet's Single Barrel Reserve (110 proof) for special occasions (High $30s at Total Wine).

There's some other good ones out there I'm not as familiar with, Templetons, several High West products. Total Wine (a huge discount liquor chain) has maybe two dozen types in stock at any one time.

Templetons

Bulleit is good

you can always try this stuff:



http://www.suburbanwines.com/r/products/buffalo-trace-white-dog-rye-mash

i actually picked up the wheat mash one and its actually decent for what it is.....one of my buddies thought i was nuts when i grabbed it but he likes it aswell

What I don't like about these white dogs are their prices. They should be markedly cheaper since they don't incur the materiel and speculative costs associated with extended aging, but typically they are as expensive, or even more, than the usual product.

for what lil i drink it doesnt matter much.....guessing they are more expensive cause its a shorter run so no matter what you do your bottling/packaging costs are gonna be higher......yeah the "whiskey" itself in the bottle is cheaper but the rest of it is more expensive to do than the regular run which drives up the unit cost.....

They don't have to make a special run, other than labels. If they pull the usual fresh distillate that would ordinarily go into barrels, guess what? It's white dog.

im guessing they arent bottling by hand which means it costs money to change over the machines from bottling the regular whiskey....plus being they are smaller runs the set up and getting the labels printed costs more.....all that changing over of the bottling machines takes time and time costs money, and short "novelty" runs wind up costing more money even if the actual product itself costs less....your hoping the novelty off sets the lack of disire for the customer to pay more....

i run a print shop and small lil things that dont mean much to you or that you think in theory should cost less actually wind up driving up the cost because they add time and more time means more money....

i know the "White Dog" is actually itself cheaper cause its coming right out of the distiller and your skipping the aging step so in theory it should cost less and if you show up and ask them to fill up YOUR bottle straight out of the tub coming off the distiller than i agree with you, it should be a cheaper product......but im pretty positive the short novelty run of bottling up a batch actually wound up driving up the price due to the low over all volume of product....

Rye whiskey rye whiskey
Please don't let me down
Gonna buy me a drink
Then I'll roam around...

When my 2 year old was a newborn, this was one of the few songs we could play to get him to quit crying.

I like Tex Ritter's better

I guess I'll stick with my Danials old #7. I still remember all the Cowboy movies when I was a kid and cowboys saying "Bartender,Gimme a rye"

My namesake uncle used to sing this when he came for homecomings as he was tipping one back. He's been gone for 40 or 45 years and it gave me a tug when I recalled this.

Jim

My great-grandfather MIGHT have had a hand in this...
Its pretty good stuff, though I am a little biased.

Old Tex Ritter was my great grandmother's young cousin, and she had watched over him when he was a child. When he came into Houston, he would always call my Dad who, for some reason, was his favorite relative on our side of the family. (Generations on that side of my family averaged around fifteen to sixteen years, so there was not a great deal of age difference.)

I saw him perform this song the first time when I was about five years old. The last time I saw him do it, I was married and probably had at least one daughter. He had perfected his performance. I never see a bottle of rye that I don't think of Tex.

+1 nice choices. The Van Winkles is the best...if you can find it...and can afford it.

I like a good rye now and again but lately have been quenching that thirst with Dry Fly out of Spokane Wa. Wheat whiskey but very rye like