Bourbon

This is a bottling selected by our very own panel for r/bourbon. Starlight is a distillery is based out of Indiana and is distilling their own bourbon. This bottling is 5 years old, was aged in ISC Char #4 Barrels, and bottled at cask strength. ABV: 59.9% Nose: Cocoa, Vanilla Cream, Black Pepper, Palate: Medium mouthfeel, Cocoa, Vanilla, Confectionary […]

This bourbon comes to us from Texas distillery Garrison Brothers. It was aged for 4 years in New American oak before being transferred to smaller new oak barrels for another year. After this ageing in the Texas heat it was bottled. I had this semi-blind, going in all I knew it was a Texas whiskey,

This is a Texas bourbon from the Ironroot distillery. This was likely aged for aged for a short amount of time in Texas, 2-4 years before being bottled for sale. This was done semi-blind, so keep that in mind. ABV: 57.5% Nose: Vanilla Frosting, Tannins, Black Pepper, Palate: Light mouthfeel, Tannins, Wet Cardboard, slight vanilla. Finish: Short finish, tannins,

This whiskey, which was released back in 2018 has languished for a little bit in my sample backlog, in an effort to improve that I am trying to get the things that have been sitting there for awhile which brings us to this. Little Book Chapter 2, the 2nd release in this experimental series from

This limited edition offering comes to us by way of Wild Turkey Distillery. This is a 13 year old bourbon from them, bottled at barrel proof and with no chill filtering. Not much else to say, 13 year old BP Wild Turkey, let’s dive in and see how it is! ABV: 57.4% Nose: Dark Chocolate, Cherry, Tobacco

This batch of Elijah Craig Barrel Proof came out in the earlier part of 2020. This batch, like the other batches, was aged for 12 years before being blended together and bottled at cask strength with no additives. ABV: 68.3% Nose: Cherry Cola, Black Pepper, slight touch of tobacco leaf, oak spice, Palate: Thick oily mouthfeel. Cherry Cola,

This Texas bourbon comes to us from the Garrison Bro’s distillery, the first Texas distillery based in Hye Texas. This barrel was selected by Don’s Liquors and Wines and is at least four years old, bottled at cask strength, and aged entirely in that crazy Texas climate. ABV: 68% Nose: Black Pepper, Tannins, Dark Chocolate, Ethanol. Palate: Medium

This distilled and bottled before I was born bourbon is from a series of decanters put out in the 1970’s by the Hoffamn distillery. By 1969, Hoffamn had been bought by Julian Van Winkle for the bottling line as the rest of the distillery fell into disarray. The actual source of the bourbon inside of

This comes to us from bottler Smoke Wagon who sources and blends MGP bourbon stocks. These are non chill filtered and with a high rye mashbill, this bottling is meant to be affordable everyday bourbon. Lets see how it is. ABV: 46.25% Nose: Vanilla, Black Pepper, Caramel Palate: Medium light mouthfeel, Vanilla, black pepper, caramel Finish: Short finish, pop

This is a bottle from the Buffalo Trace Antique collection, with a 2017 vintage. This wheated bourbon was aged for 12 years and 6 months before being bottled at barrel proof with no additives. BTAC is well hyped as we know, but lets see if this holds up as well as the last time I