George dickel - cascade hollows - pretty good. Talked to master distiller - this is 17 miles off highway- close to JD - Every time I see Dickle I think of Nashville. I swear every bar on broadway has a dickel sign up in it. I was pumped the master distiller was there. Had no idea it is was that close to Jack Daniels.
Van winkle - 23yr - not good. I want vip again. - I hate to admit this but I really don't remember anything about this tasting. Oh wait...yes I do. Everyone in the group was going to try this and I had never heard of them.
Chivas with almonds 18 year still I don't like it - So, Corey was talking to the guy pouring at this table. Most tables had about 5 different bottles. Corey thought it would be a good idea to try all 5 for the different tastes at each table. Fine. You are not hitting many companies this way but there are pros to it. Well, they had almonds and chocolate chips as help bring out the flavor of the alcohol. I clearly did not agree.
Jim beam black decent - Ok. We killed a lot of time around the beam table. Michelle and I on our way to Nashville one time stopped here so I have had most of the Beam family drinks. Black is a new one I think. I didn't seem look much different than the original.
Just had booker noe and found out fred booker noe is 10 feet from me. Awesome. Booker noe's grandosn I think. - Bookers is part of the Jim Beam family but ranges from 120 - 140 proof depending on the bottle. Serious stuff but has a smooth taste. BTW, the jim beam guys were partying. They would pour you one and then do a shot. Let me get a little technical here. Fred Booker Noe is the son of Booker Noe. Fortune Brands owns Jim Beam but Fred Booker Noe is the highest ranking family guy left within the company and still runs Jim Beam.
Just took a pic with owner of jim beam!!! - Probably didn't need to do this but I thought it was a GREAT idea. He said "You keep drinking it. I will keep making it." Sounds good!
I killed a lot of time around the Jim Beam table drinking water, eating some food, etc. I really slowed down at this point.
Another point - Every company had a big sign behind their table identifying them. Well, that is true of everyone except one...
Cc- sherry barrel 8 yrs (from the guy)- called sherry oak- pretty good-on the rocks - CC did not have a sign. Nelson told me about it and I had to check it out. It was close to Jim Beam. The guy pouring informed me that the distillery is in Windsor close to the casinos. Why did I not know this? We could have visited in college. He gave me his card (he was drunk) and told me to call him if I ever want to take a tour. Ladies and Gentlemen, we have reached that point in the night! Game on!
Just ate - Tick tock tick tock. I am eating, drinking water. Time is flying at this point. I am basically riding the VIP hour wave but I feel a need to get moving again.
Black lable montana whiskey- twrrible. Yikes. I know I misspelled. - So, if you look closely in this message it will tell you a lot. "I know I misspelled." - Basically I am trying to tell you I am not that drunk. When i do that, I usually am. This Montana whiskey was around the Jim beam side of the room. We were staying around there.
Uncle john - pear brandy - not a brandy. Maybe a misytake. That is rough. - So, I was getting a little tired of whiskey and bourbon so I thought I would try a Michigan distilled brandy. I thought it was taste sweet. I almost threw up after drinking it. Sweet it was not. WOW.
Iowa bourbon - nelson made me go - thank god - it was amazing and I learned that bourbon does not have to be from kentucky.
Really did it for barry running the half during tornadoes tomorrow. Good luck! - Well, who knew bourbon can be made outside of Kentucky? There are 5 companies that make bourbon outside of Kentucky. There are a couple rules to be bourbon and one of them is NOT a location. The Nashville half marathon was the next day. Iowa Bourbon was distilled in Cedar Rapids, birthplace of the Wilken brothers. Nelson highly recommended it. So I went. He was wrong about the Montana one but right about this bourbon. It was really good.
Bulleit - chris phelan coonection- pretty smOoth- liked it. - Chris knew this company. Whatever. They had glasses as well that we could take. SCORE! It didn't stand out but it didn't bother me either. I give it a thumbs up!
Makes - 46 - new makers!!! It is good!!! Corey said it was moonshine. I disagree. Its good. _ Back over at Makers and they started pouring their new bourbon! I was PUMPED! I really liked it. Corey's exact quote, "Ugh. This tastes like moonshine!" How dare he! This was great. TO each their own.
Irish geese irish soldiers - ugh- it was okay. Pretty smooth. Probably would have been better earlier. I a$ burning out on all the diff whiskeys. - Here is me hitting a wall and quite frankly my belly was sloshing around. Not good. Nelson and I agreed it was time for a beer.
Anchor steam - disappointed they didn't have the bock. Amber ale instead. Its okay at best. - I had my heart set on a drinking the bock. I love bock beers. The darker the better! So the amber ale had no chance. It was decent. I was really hankering for a nice macro brew like Miller lite though. More on that later.
Hibiki- blend- it was okay. - Back on the bourbon trail. I am running out of steam fast. This is a Japanese whiskey. It did not stand out to me but honestly at this point, what would???
CR - again - another iowa trip - well iowa is doing another thing right. Go tom brands! - There were a couple people that hadn't tried the Iowa Bourbon so we headed it. Yes, a few of us really liked it.
Templeton rye - had a newsroom with nelson firs time ever - we commerrated that. It is pretty good. - So, in training for the night, Nelson (a co-worker of mine) and myself went to a bar after work and tried a couple random whiskeys. This was one of them. Again, it was not the worst or the best of the night.
Murpheyjust got violent. I thought corey was the drunkest but by far murph. Wow - Basically, I made fun of his sister. He hit me and I told him it was going in my notes. So everything I wrote was an exaggeration. These are not sober notes people.
Just finished the night with crown black- a very good drink. - When they said it was last call, I bolted over the crown table for one more taste of the black. They were my MVP table of the night and I thought it was would be a great way to finish.
I am going out and not taking notes any more. - We decided (bad decision time...) to hit a bar up for a couple beers. I was happy to be done taking notes....or so I thought.
Ploth is sober. - ummmm, I am pretty sure he was not. he was just more sober than me. Again, my notes, my eyes, just a false statement.
Corey is the drunkest. Wow. App on his nose.. - Again, Corey was just more drunk than me. More false claims. Thank goodness this is my last note. He did have a piece of food on his nose though. That was funny.
So if I would have gone home then, I believe I would have felt in pretty good shape the next day. I tried a lot in the first hour but the next three I drank as many as I did in the first hour. It was a great night and not too over the top. However, I did not go home.
All of us went to a bar next door. After drinking whiskey all night, do you have any idea what a miller lite tastes like? WATER. It was so light and good. A few people dropped off after the first bar. Ploth, Nelson and I went to a couple more bars. Nelson grabbed the 12:40 train home and I crashed at Ploth's but not until we played about 2 hours of Tiger Woods golf on the Wii.
Why didn't I go home after the first bar or better yet after whiskeyfest????
I can't WAIT for next year!
Who is with me??????
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Where have you been??
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