Blanton's Bourbon

[Jfal]

Some letters are made in limited supply.. harder to find

I just bought a Blanton's Gold as a gift for a co-worker. Gold is a unicorn around me... Turns out it gave him the letter he'd been lacking for many years. Maybe one has to buy the color spectrum to get them all...? I save my stoppers, but no plans or hopes to get them all. Too many other good choices out there.

 

[UC_Guy 1971]

I have a bottle of Blanton's unopened. A bottle of Wiser's De Luxe, a bottle of Wellers.... I don't. I don't open any of them. Or my Cooper's Craft. They have memories attached to them so there they sit. As far as drinking goes I have Basil Hayden Dark Rye, Breckenridge Spiced Whiskey, Porter's Fire, Monkey Shoulder, Glenlivet 12.... So much booze. So little time. I'm probably going to see if I like Old Elk soon. I did not like Buffalo Trace.

 

[Jester560]

"Neat"... is the way it was intended to be consumed. If you're ever passing through TN between Nashville and Chattanooga on I-24 take a little time and jump off and visit the JD distillery in Lynchburg, TN it's a worthwhile tour. Years ago, the Henry County was dry and sampling was prohibited. Fast forward today sampling is offered to all that take the tours.

I've been many times. Never had the sampling option. Do they happen to let you try their white liquor?

 

[Phaser]

I've been many times. Never had the sampling option. Do they happen to let you try their white liquor?

Not sure...it's been 20 yrs. since I last took the tour.

 

[Phaser]

Collection complete. Drank (3) acquired the rest. An expensive proposition but had to have it.

 

[Winchester67]

Back before I was married the second/final time 14 years ago, I had worked up a complicated formula involving a mans age, his girlfriends age, and the age of the Scotch he drank. Without showing my work (remember that from math class?) here is the gist of it: When you are young and just starting out, you are poor so your Scotch is young too. Upside is the girlfriend is also young. As you age, you prosper and start drinking older Scotch. But if you work it right, the girlfriend remains young. At some point, your age has continued to climb, but now your Scotch is older than your girlfriend. This theory crystalized when I turned 40 and my girlfriend at the time wanted to go to Vegas to throw a big party. At that point I realized she was only 20 and half my age, and thus could not get into the casinos. I understood my life was getting absurd at that point, so I started to date her room mate who was much older, like 23. Hey, baby steps!