Thanks to /u/Orehnmadgib for pouring me a sample of this dram.

It’s odd having a drinking buddy like /u/devoz. He’s going to joke around and be cool, and then you find out he’s the number one reviewer of BTAC on Reddit, even though he doesn’t live in Kentucky and totally doesn’t have the last name “Handy” or “Lee” that you’d expect.

Not that bourbon requires you to be some sort of Southern US royalty in order to be the top reviewer, it’s just if I said “This guy has reviewed a ton of Buffalo Trace Antique Collection releases”, you imagine the Kentucky Fried Chicken guy mixed with a thick glasses hipster from New York. Or at least you do now. Not some guy from Canada.

So when I had a chance to review Thomas H. Handy Sazerac Rye 2009, I thought I had one up on him. One…