Bourbon lovers...in here (pipe forum)

[okierock]

Not a pipe guy yet but bourbon??

Bulleit
Bookers
Buffalo Trace
Makers Mark
Elijah Craig 12 year

All good

[Mad Hatter]

I'm more of a medium brown ale drinker. Beer is good

[worr lord]

Bulleit is tasty, but really needs to be cut a bit (IMO) =/

[JacksonCognac]

I've sampled the cheap bourbon's extensively throughout my college career, and recently have gotten into the more mid range bourbons and enjoying them on the rocks or with a splash of coke.

Some of my favorites include:

Makers
Knob Creek
Rebel Yell
Jack Daniels


(Probably in that order)

Nothing super exciting but I'd love to get into it more. Personally when I'm smoking a pipe I generally prefer coffee, tea, or water.

[wintermute2.0]

Sorry, but as a big bourbon fan, I had to resurrect this thread.

Buffalo Trace is my everyday pour. My faves are Wild Turkey Rare Breed or Elijah Craig 18Yr depending on mood.

[MickeyFinn]

Discovered Woodford Reserve in a birthday gift. That is a very goooood bourbon.
Dave

[drastic_quench]

Originally Posted by JacksonCognac

I've sampled the cheap bourbon's extensively throughout my college career, and recently have gotten into the more mid range bourbons and enjoying them on the rocks or with a splash of coke.

Some of my favorites include:

Makers
Knob Creek
Rebel Yell
Jack Daniels


(Probably in that order)

Nothing super exciting but I'd love to get into it more. Personally when I'm smoking a pipe I generally prefer coffee, tea, or water.

Jack Daniel's isn't a bourbon.

[brianwalden]

Originally Posted by drastic_quench

Jack Daniel's isn't a bourbon.

They call it Tennessee whiskey, but it's a bourbon. You can maybe convince me that Tennessee whiskey is a specific type of bourbon, but I won't be sold on it being a completely separate whiskey category - unless of course our new mayor declares it so.

[sounds7]

My choice is a good scotch or Crown Royal but I have enjoyed many varieties of Bourbon over the years. Wild Turkey and Jim Beam were close College companions. Id still reach for a bourbon if the mood hit me.

[plexiprs]

VaPer & Booker's ......

[VFD421]

1792 Ridgemont Reserve is pretty good. Haven't had any in awhile though. Right now Canadian whiskey is what I have been drinking when the mood strikes, Candian Club or Crown Royal.

[drastic_quench]

Originally Posted by brianwalden

They call it Tennessee whiskey, but it's a bourbon. You can maybe convince me that Tennessee whiskey is a specific type of bourbon, but I won't be sold on it being a completely separate whiskey category - unless of course our new mayor declares it so.

Tennessee whiskey is filtered over charcoal from the sugar maple; bourbon is not. This significantly changes the taste. I can pick JD out in a blind test because it's got a near-cloying sweetness that bourbons don't.

[dj1340]

1792 Ridgemont Reserve
Eagle Rare
Knob Creek
Blantons(expensive treat)
Woodford Reserve.

Not enough hours in the day

[dogsplayinpoker]

Knob Creek and Buffalo Trace
Wild Turkey when I am in the poor house

[brianwalden]

Originally Posted by drastic_quench

Tennessee whiskey is filtered over charcoal from the sugar maple; bourbon is not. This significantly changes the taste. I can pick JD out in a blind test because it's got a near-cloying sweetness that bourbons don't.

And a Scotch lover can pick out his favorite single malt from all the rest because of the distinctive flavors imparted by the way it's made and aged. True, an Islay is not a Highland, but they're still all Scotch and not separate types of whiskey. In the same way Tennessee whiskey is a specific type of bourbon which other bourbon's can't claim to be, but it's still bourbon. Or at least that's how I see it.

My local liquor store has a row for bourbon, a row that's half Scotch and half Irish whiskey, and a small shelf with rye and Canadian whisky. What it doesn't have is a Tennessee Whiskey section, Jack's in with the bourbons where it belongs.

I guess the counter argument to my point is that Southern Comfort is also in with the bourbons and I don't even think it's a whiskey properly speaking - so what does the liquor store know.