Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Dayuuuummm son. That's smooth bourbon!

Only whiskey I have been drinking over the last ten years has been Gentleman Jack. Decided I would give this stuff a try...forget it, not a bottle of Woodford double barrel in this town. Guess it's kind of hard to find?

The "good stuff" has to age longer and it sells as fast as it hits the shelves. My greatest fear is that I'll run out of my favorite booze so I try to keep stocked ahead.

So some put it over ice, other say the ice dilutes the whiskey too much...OK, does anyone keep their whisky refrigerated to be served cold instead of over the rocks?
Or did I just say something satanic?

I used to drink Booker's for $45.00 per bottle at Walmart but since that ended I have become a Blanton's drinker. Its $65 per bottle up here and they only get 2 per week but I just fill the bottle part of my bourbon glass and let the smooth warmth work its way through.

Try Pendleton 1910 rye whiskey pretty good stuff. But I mix my stuff with Coke. I know I'm horrible drinker

Serve your firewater how you like it. Anyone who tells you that you have to serve your drink in a particular manor is an a-hole, so screw them.

Personally I like the flavor of a good bourbon and I find the most enjoyable way to experience that flavor is served neat at room temperature and sipped. As mentioned previously, cooling the whiskey will slow the evaporation of the aromatics which will affect how it will taste. I figure if a whiskey needs to be adulterated with water, ice or cooling then it just isn't a suitable sipping whiskey and I'll replace it with a suitable one. But I sip whiskey to please me, not to live up to some blowhards standards of how to properly serve whiskey.

As far as chilling spirits, I store vodka in the freezer, but I don't sip it or consume it to enjoy its flavor.

You said something satanic.

Signed,
Your friendly blowhard.

Rocks glass. No rocks.

I'll drink to that!

Damnation

See now 458 it's not all black and white, there's a time and a place for everything. If that refrigerated whisky dispenser is filled with Pappy and located in a Motel 6 lobby then it's blasphemous but if it's filled with Jim Beam and located in your bedroom closet for when your mother-in-law visits then it's just handy.

J.T.S. Brown......no glass ...no ice

Not necessarily so IMHO. A lot of the "craft" distilleries don't know what they're doing yet (and may never learn, the market being flooded like it is.) I've had some of the most gawd-awful stuff from some of these places. The "big boys" have been at it a long time, have the resources and know what they're doing.

I have been trying to buy Blanton's for a few weeks. Hope to pick some up today.

I haven't seen Blanton's on the shelf around here for maybe a year. I love Weller 12-yr, but haven't seen any of that, either.

Eagle Rare gets the nod nowdays as far as bourbon....because I can find it and because it's only $28/bottle.

Hornito's Black Barrel tequila is now my favorite sipper. Neat. Love the stuff.

If it's legal in your state, shipping it is often cost effective especially on a few bottles at a time. Last time I saw Blanton's on a store shelf it was over $100 plus tax. Just ordered a bottle for a buddy, $85 shipped.

Myself, for that price I'll drink something else. Should have bought a bottle or two back when it was $50.

Found 4 bottles of Weller Antique 107 this afternoon!! SCORE!! And at $25/bottle cash....it's the best deal out there.

cra1948 mentioned
The "big boys" have been at it a long time, have the resources and know what they're doing.

But I'm betting some of them hire pencil necks nickel savers in the main office with a myriad of ideas how to save a nickel.
When they prevail there are some consequences and they are hard to hide.