Whiskey tasting

[Goober McTuber]

Tonight we're cracking open some of the most rare Bourbons we've received this year. Join us, won't you?

This special $35 flight will include:

Old Rip Van Winkle 10 yr
Van Winkle Reserve 12 yr Lot B
Four Roses Limited Edition Small Batch 2017 Barrel Strength
Old Forester Birthday Bourbon 2017
Old Forester Statesman
Michters Single Barrel 10 yr

Looks like some good stuff.

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

"Is that how you wash the taste of jizz out of your mouth?"







Sorry, Goobs...with Hanukkah just around the corner and so many gifts to buy...I needed a few more shekels, so I picked up some contract work that shutyomouth subbed out. I hope you understand.

[smackaholic]

Lime flavored diet coke works better......according to screwey.

[Rudolph]

Say Goobs how does that Old Rip work out for douche and enema purposes? Which do you prefer to drink. After being enhanced?

[Plato]

Goober had his ass kicked soundly.

[smackaholic]

Why would one want to wash the taste of jizz away prematurely?

-moving fail

[Screw_Michigan]

Lime flavored diet coke works better......according to screwey.

If you really asked me, dingleberry, I'd tell you I don't drink Diet Coke. Regular Coke only, please.

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

I don't 'get' Diet Coke. It's fucking disgusting. Here's a novel concept: if you want to lose weight, just drink water.

[Screw_Michigan]

I don't 'get' Diet Coke. It's fucking disgusting. Here's a novel concept: if you want to lose weight, just drink water.

Yes. Diet Coke tastes truly revolting. Look at our dipshit president, supposedly drinks a handful of Diet Cokes every day.

[smackaholic]

I don't 'get' Diet Coke. It's fucking disgusting. Here's a novel concept: if you want to lose weight, just drink water.

Then perhaps you shouldn't drink it.

Ginger ale fan here or real iced tea with ridiculous amounts of lemon in it. I do find that DC is tolerable given the same lemon treatment. The lime flavored stuff is almost decent as well. Regular coke is just too damn sweet and the layer of crud it leaves on your teeth is annoying as well.


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[Goober McTuber]

Fuck, Goobs. You've gotten ass-raped, and you haven't even been here to enjoy it! :)

As low as you set the smack bar, I'm sure that constitutes an "ass-raping".

[Goober McTuber]

Old Rip Van Winkle 10 yr
Van Winkle Reserve 12 yr Lot B
Four Roses Limited Edition Small Batch 2017 Barrel Strength
Old Forester Birthday Bourbon 2017
Old Forester Statesman
Michters Single Barrel 10 yr

I had previously had the first four and they are all exceptional bourbons. The Michters did not impress, especially considering the age. The OF Statesman is a one-time distilling tied in to some movie. Turned out to be very good whiskey. Not surprising as Old Forester makes a lot of good shit. I picked up a bottle over the weekend.

[Dinsdale]

Old Forester Birthday Bourbon 2017

In Oregon, liquor stores are mafia state-run. They aren't getting adequate Old Forester Birthday Bourbon to stock all the stores... so they're having a lottery.

[Dr_Phibes]

Didn't know that could happen in the States. State/Mafia control of liquor? It's like that here and it's a 16th century nightmare.
Bourbon orders have halted, because of the tariffs no one can afford it.

[BSmack]

Weird in New York you can just go to a liquor store and buy liquor. It's better in Vermont. You can buy liquor at a grocery store in Vermont.

[Dr_Phibes]

You can do that in Quebec, but not Ontario. All booze is government stores, so no variety and price controls. The government sold beer distribution rights to Molson/Coors, they decide what beer gets in the government shops. As you can imagine, it's not pretty.

[Goober McTuber]

Old Forester Birthday Bourbon 2017

In Oregon, liquor stores are mafia state-run. They aren't getting adequate Old Forester Birthday Bourbon to stock all the stores... so they're having a lottery.

Nobody gets adequate Old Forester Birthday Bourbon to stock all the stores. Except maybe in Kentucky. Same with Pappy, the Buffalo Trace Antique Collection, etc.

[Goober McTuber]

Speaking of which...

The new batch of Old Forester Birthday Bourbon is on its way to retailers, and 2018’s release will see the highest proof to date.

The 2018 vintage is made up of 120 barrels that created about 2,400 six-bottle cases of finished product, at 101 proof.

All Birthday Bourbon releases are small batches made entirely from a single day’s production, and aged around 12 years. 2018’s release, distilled on June 9, 2006, matured in two locations: the third floor, northwest side of Warehouse J, and the third floor, northwest side of Warehouse I. And at 101, it’s the highest proof in the series’ 18 years of history.

Old Forester Master Taster Jackie Zykan, who selected this year’s vintage along with Master Distiller Chris Morris, teased the announcement this morning on Instagram.

We spoke with her this morning about Birthday Bourbon, and what led them to select this particular batch for 2018.

Every release of Birthday Bourbon, or OFBB as it’s colloquially known, has some special tag to it, from the year they released two proof points after a bit of a mix-up, to the year when the batch’s fermentation process was interrupted after a squirrel shorted out power to the distillery.

This year’s decisive force was something more direct: taste.

“At that 3 and half year birthday, says Zykan, “you kind of decide, “You’re going to grow up to be Bottled in Bond, you’re going to grow up to be Prohibition 1920.” [This batch] got a perfect score in evaluation,” says Zykan, “and had great structure and complexity.”

Old Forester still found a sentimental hook though, as 2018 marks the first batch bottled and processed at the new Old Forester Distillery on Whiskey Row. “This is the first time that we’ve actually bottled and processed on our own turf,” says Zykan, “so this is the first time that we’re actually able to absorb this fully in house.”

Old Forester describes this year’s batch as having a rich mahogany color (no leather-bound books), with cherry cobbler and herbal lemon tea on the nose. On the palate, they describe sweetness that brightens with lemon honey and more of that cherry cobbler. The finish is said to be long, drying, and full of herbal lemon honey sweetness.

We’re getting the sense that 2018 is going to be a gem among gems. Zykan told us she’ll probably end up waiting in line to get herself a bottle or two (even Chris Morris is only given one a year), and won’t be missing any chances to taste it in a professional capacity. “In the past few years I’ve opted out to give more consumers a chance to taste,” she says. “This year I will be saying yes to every opportunity. It is hands down one of the best vintages of the entire collection.”

Old Forester Birthday Bourbon 2018 will be on shelves around September 2, to coincide with the birthday of founder George Garvin Brown. It’s slated to retail just shy of $100.

[Dinsdale]

Didn't know that could happen in the States. State/Mafia control of liquor?

You're an Upper Mexican, so you're absolutely excused from not knowing US law. After the idiocy of Prohibition, they engaged in almost as much idiocy in repealing it,and ratified the Twenty First Amendment. It gives states complete control (even overriding the Fourteenth Amendment and allows creating a caste based on age for discrimination). Many states (few worse than mine) simply took over the role of Al Capone to "generate revenue." There was a ballot initiative (anyone can introduce law in Oregon) to go to a non-controlled state, but the Liquornazis bought people off, and relaxed a bunch of rules (bottle stores used to be closed Sundays).

Don't get me started on the OLCC. They control the state run gambling, as well. And the officials take some very extravagant "work trips." I live in a horrifically corrupt state.

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

...a horrifically corrupt state.

Would you go so far as to call it...deplorable?

[Dinsdale]

Would you go so far as to call it...deplorable?

Well, not if you ask a certain horrifically bad presidential candidate (or her Mini Me current governor, who might actually lose come November).

[Slap]

Goober had his ass kicked soundly.

The humiliation of Goober McTuber was the greatest entertainment of 2017.

[Derron]

Don't get me started on the OLCC. They control the state run gambling, as well. And the officials take some very extravagant "work trips." I live in a horrifically corrupt state.

Let's not forget they also control the legal weed industry as well. Last year I had to go to OLCC Headquarters to pickup a wine permit for an event my wife was running. I walked up to the door, and saw the addition of the word " Marijuana" on the door. Waiting my turn to pay my bribe for the permit, the bitch answering the phone was saying " Oregon Liquor and Marijuana Commission" . I thought how times have changed from the days of us hiding bags of weed in our cars and houses to once the government honks figured out they could make money out of it, they should be thanking the people who voted to make weed legal and give the honks more tax money. Fucking pricks.

If they only knew about the 40 pounds a month that leaves from a small town in the woods headed to Minnesota. So I heard anyway.

Kate also got 250K from the gun control lobby today. Her competition Knute buddy is a fucking RINO, but might be RINO enough to take the state house back from the Demorats after 30 fucking years. The fucking Demorats have been in charge of this state for 30 years, then shit should be perfect and not need all the improvement the Demorats say it does.

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

Goober had his ass kicked soundly.

The humiliation of Goober McTuber was the greatest entertainment of 2017.

That's a franchise that can never have enough sequels.

No doubt he'll have more dicks broken off in his keister than the can/stick game this holiday season.

[Goober McTuber]

The fantasies of the butthurt. C'est tres amuse.

[Goober McTuber]

You think about that 24/7 don't you, tubby. I've seldom seen anyone with such a singular focus.

[Slap]

You'd be far better at starting a thread called "Dick Tasting", Goobs. Fag.

Yeah, McTuber likes to swallow loads.

[Goober McTuber]

Another shit troll heard from. Yay.

[Slap]

Can you hear when both of your ears are being gripped?

[Goober McTuber]

Can you hear when both of your ears are being gripped?

You've been taking lessons from Tardspray. Go fuck yourself, Slappy.

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[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

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[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

I can't tell who's more bored any more...you or 'Spray.
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[Goober McTuber]

I can't tell who's more bored any more...you or 'Spray.
:|

Which one of us has read more of your posts?

[Slap]

McTuber's old ass is being whipped once again.

[Goober McTuber]

The fantasies of the butthurt. C'est tres amuse.