Poll of the Day > Oh shit tomorrow I get to try a premium bourbon: Booker's

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Its a jim beam product but its one of their premier products.

Uncut and unfiltered...as far as ive heard they filter out any barrel wood that got into it but otherwise its straight. around 63% alcohol, deep dark bourbon. aged 6 years.

this stuff is around 70-80 dollars a bottle lordy i love rich friends who want to let to liquor man try it too.

so lets see. anybody ever had it?

I dont think Ive actually ever tried bourbon
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Ive had a couple of bourbons in my time, including one other higher end bourbon: woodford reserve double oak which goes for around 60 a bottle.

I say high end knowing there are probably bourbons out there in the hundreds of dollars range, but im talking stuff that isn't super small batch or rare as fuck

Each year booker's puts out different batches of it, with a different abv and different flavor....they include a card in the wooden box that tells you where the mix comes from(such as 4% came from the 5th floor of 7-story warehouse ONE) and the exact length of time its been aged(such as 6 years, 5 months, four days...though i imagine thats the lowest age possible, there could be small bits in the mix aged for 10 years or so).

So we have one bottle in stock in my store its either going to be the 2017 blue knights batch or the 2017 front porch batch, i forget which one is left.

also comes in a nice box...

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Mead posted...

I dont think Ive actually ever tried bourbon

It's pretty much the only alcohol I drink at this point.


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So, what is your all time favorite bourbon?

Mead posted...

I dont think Ive actually ever tried bourbon

Whaaaaaaaatttt. Thats about 80% of the hard liquor I drink.
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argonautweakend posted...

So, what is your all time favorite bourbon?

I'm not a huge connoisseur or bourbon snob, but the best I've ever had was probably a bottle of 18-year single barrel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah_Craig_%28bourbon%29#Variations
http://whiskeylately.com/bourbon/elijah-craig-18

If you're looking for other people's opinions on what bourbons are good and which maybe aren't so good, there are multiple sites online that do whiskey reviews (like the one I posted the link to, above). You may need to check a bunch of them out to see if one appeals to you more than others, but you might find a review site that's really helpful to you to narrow down really good bourbon (or whiskey in general).


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