It was a dark, lightning dotted night. The rain fell with a purpose to wound, as it danced in the wind, slapping against the chemist’s bare arms. His horses stirred, agitated by the weather, yet he pushed forward along the slanting dirt road. Among the black maple trees, on this lone hill in the deserted back country of Kentucky, he fights the weather, searching out… Continue reading Black Maple Hill NAS
Thanks to /u/CalZeta for a swap of this nice swig of bourbon. It’s that time of year when everything seems to be happening all at once. I look at the news and it’s pretty rough. I look at the leaves and they are pretty rough. I look at the fact I need to be studying for my midterm, and I am pretty rough. I look at… Continue reading Elmer T. Lee Single Barrel
So there’s my wife, after a weekend of debauchery in Las Vegas (seeing shows and fun events), tired out of her skull, after playing video poker for hours, lack of sleep and lack of food, trying to find anything on my list of whisky to bring back from the states. And the Airport has none of it. So she’s running about, trying, in her sweet… Continue reading Ardmore Traditional Cask Peated
Ever make a swap agreement and then realize you’re out of bottles? And you live in a country where Boston Bottles are somehow hard as heck to get in? Well, I do, and that’s why I’m currently jumping up in reviews all of a sudden. And that’s why I’m going to take a week to chill without the booze after these. Elijah Craig was the… Continue reading Elijah Craig 12 / Barrel Proof Batch #1
So, continuing with my pilgrimage of Campbeltown only until I’ve reviewed them all (or at least most of them), we come to the Cask Strength Springbanks. Springbank is the distillery that comes to mind when someone talks about Campbeltown. A smarter man would have done it first, to get it out of the way, however they own Hazelburn as well, so I can blame it… Continue reading Springbank 10 100 Proof / Springbank 12 Cask Strength
So it’s mystery dram time, and /u/helodriver87, who I assume combines rivers with helod, a semi-famous League of Legions player, has sent me a pretty sweet dram. Thank you sir! At least, I’m hoping. He could have sent me poison. But to believe that, you’d have to strain your imagination, because why would I post a review of poison? On the other hand, I did… Continue reading Macallan Fine Oak 21 [Mystery Review]
So it’s the days leading up to Thanksgiving.. Wait, no it isn’t, I blabbered on about Thanksgiving two reviews ago… oh damn, I got these out of order. Whatever, not like anyone follows them chronologically. That and I do enjoy a pulp style story. So it’s the day… wait, no, go back further. So I’m a spermatozoa… wait, too far. So I’m looking over my… Continue reading Hazelburn 8 & 12
Alright, time to get back to Earth on my /r/bourbon reviews, and do something not so… out there or special or some such silliness. Thanks to /u/calzeta for the dram! And today, for this review, we have a wheater. Much beloved by Dave Broom and Jim Murray (in the past), Old Fitzgerald 1849 is bottled by Heaven Hills distillers, aged for 8 years. It was Pappy Van… Continue reading Old Fitzgerald 1849
Do I have to do a preamble to this one? I mean, unless you’re really, really new to this subreddit, you’ve heard everything about High West Midwinter Nights Dram – Act 1 over and over again. Finished in French Oak Barrels and Port pipes. It’s a rye from Utah. It was originally the Rendezvous Rye prior to being finished. No, no, you people need something… Continue reading High West Midwinter Nights Dram – Act 1
It was a busy weekend. Well, kinda busy. Okay, I took a long weekend and went back to my University city to relive a weekend of debauchery and fun. Windsor’s good for that. And I decided to drink heavily (see picture), much like what /u/texacer told me to do. What’s that? Oh, he told me not to review and to enjoy drinking whiskey. Well… I did… Continue reading Jameson Select Reserve Small Batch
Geez, thank goodness I’ve got all that pomp and self-congratulations out of the way with the milestones. Time to get back and just enjoy some Bourbon now. With Zeus. Yeah, now is the time to take your mushrooms. I’ll wait. Good? Okay, let’s go. So last year the Four Roses Distillery were nice enough to come down from Mount Olympus, or up from Salt River,… Continue reading Four Roses 2013 Limited Edition – Small Batch 125 Anniversary Edition
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