🍂🥃 We’re always on the lookout for great fall-time bourbons and whiskeys! What's your go-to bottle this season? Let us know if there’s one we should try next. Cheers to discovering new favorites together!
Around this season, some of my go to bottles are things that are double baked like a Woodford Double Oaked or Elijah Craig Toasted Barrell. Maybe some classic Russell's or maybe Buffalo Trace, but that's what gets me into the Fall season
Trent I do the same thing. You said you keep the bourbons you are currently drinking next to your bed. What I do is, I built a bourbon rack that looks like a gun rack in my laundry room since I don't have room in my living room, and that has 3 shelves bottom, mid, and upper. And there is some good sharing stuff there, Eagle Rare, Buffalo Trace, JD barrel select barrel proof, Woodford Double Oaked, Russel's Reverse Singel barrel private barrel, Evan Williams Single barrel Vintage, and others, but I also have a 3 shelf bourbon rack in my bedroom and thats where I keep what I am currently drinking, 3 Fingers High, Bardstown, JT Meleck, and others
This might be blasphemy but I’ve been into blending bourbons and rye’s. It just makes me smile when when it comes out delicious. Cheers guys and thank you for all the laughs
I definitely move towards rye as the weather gets cooler. There is nothing better than sitting around a campfire sipping a great whiskey with friends on a chilly night. Right now I am enjoying Sagamore Double Oak rye. Lots of brown sugar, baking spices and oak notes. Delicious!
thanks to you guys I'm a New Riff man all the way, I have a New Riff malted 6 year that reminds me of a better than average Blanton's I had end of last year
Got a store pick single barrel new riff and it's like fall in a bottle with the amount of baking spice that smacks your tongue. The juice also has an amazingly viscous mouth feel that makes it right now the best bottle of bourbon I got and it was only $47.
Almost bought an Elmer T Lee yesterday for $250 but your app saved me! Haha I use it often to help with my purchases as I am relatively new to all of this
I visited Glenns Creek distillery in September and got a couple bottles of OCD #5. This is what I’ve been drinking and one bottle is almost gone already.
Y'all's is one of the channels where I automatically like the videos before I even watch them. Sometimes - even though I try to restrain myself - I post far longer commitments than I intend to. But I really do appreciate y'all's channel. I don't alter what I drink by the season, but just go through the rotation. So I'll mention two bottles I picked up within the past week. Oregon Spirit wheat whisky is a bit harsh on the finish, at least with the first glass, but I like it pretty well, and I think it'll open up nicely. And just today I grabbed a bottle of Redemption wheated bourbon, which I've wanted to try for a couple of years. It's pretty good, perhaps the best wheater I've had - and the highest wheat percentage, at 45. 12:04 113.5 - you do math in your head a ton better than I do. 🙂 13:57 Since Maryland is the Old Line State, I bet that is from Maryland. 🙂
Michter’s is what comes to mind for me when I think of a fall pour, specifically the sour mash, rye, and 2023 Shenk’s. The toasted butterscotch and s’more notes I get from them makes me think of exactly what you guys said; sipping a nice glass on a chilly and rainy, lazy, fall Sunday.
I have always enjoyed whiskey. It took me a long time though to work through scotch, Irish, and bourbon. I drank scotch for a long time and always said scotch was number one then bourbon. However 5 years ago I moved to South east indiana about an hour from louisville and I started to get big into bourbon because scotch was a lot harder to find. The last two years or more I started to build a larger selection of bourbon. Lately I have been enjoying all of my bardstown products and I went back to pikesville and love it
Awesome that you guys are in Valparaiso. I’m just south of Valpo in Wheatfield. Just getting started with my bourbon Journey. Just did a little hunting up in Porter County this past weekend. Great channel!
Last month I got into Frey Ranch with both feet, so to speak. But lately I have been falling in love with Hard Truth! It is still reaching up to 93 degrees in San Antonio, so an occasional zesty rye, like Rossville Union straight rye cask strength is still an occasional favorite as is the Barrell Seagrass!
I've had two whiskies from Hard Truth - the Sweet Mash Rye and the Sweet Mash Bourbon. They're both good, but I actually think the rye's better - and I'm a bourbon guy! 🙂
This was great.. thanks for another great video. Out here in Idaho, we're limited in what we can get and New Riff, all of the other specialty whiskeys featured in tonight's video, are simply not available out here. The upside is if the the state ever does bring in a good one, it goes for MSRP so some pretty god stuff can be had for cheap sometimes. This year, sticking with Ryes and Bourbons, Single Malts. I do enjoy a Mezcal Margarita, a good G&T made from a local distillers gin, etc. But whiskey is still the name of the game.
My Westward Milestone arrives in the mail today! I live in OR and really want to be able to support the distilleries here, but the Westward Single Malt just ain't my style usually. Went for the Milestone partially on SLB's recommendation and to see if it holds up for the price. If anyone is looking for a killer Oregon distillery, the lesser known Broken Top Ascent Bourbon Whiskey and Ascent Rye are phenomenal!
I have a 7yr cask strength Rye from Cedar Ridge that has been my go-to for the last month. Just really been hitting the spot with the cooler weather...
I would love to see a video of Trent's nightstand bourbon, but MORE-SO, his entire whiskey collection! It sounds like his would rival Kurt's in quantity and quality!
I have almost every spirit at home lol. Going off of what Kurt said about drinking by a firepit. That's definitely my go to place in the fall. So fall for me is smoking a cigar by the fire and drinking SCOTCH!
firepit, hammock, pellet smoker, bourbon. And on the weekends about a group of 12 friends over doing the same thing except I cook a gumbo the day before so I can relax the day of.
In Australia it's spring time and as it gets warmer the lighter whiskeys come out! But if you want a perfect whiskey for a certain time of year, The Archie Rose Single Malt which is an Australian whiskey is the absolute perfect Christmas whiskey, it literally tastes like a dark fruit cake it's phenomenal!
Still enjoy my aged bourbon, but I have been liking Whiskey with Malt in it more and more. Have a distillery near me that does alot of malting grain and I have not had a bad one yet even after a barrel pick with them. We chose a 100% malted sweet corn and it’s amazing
Isle of Raasay is amazing! I love their standard release, and I want to try their sherry cask release next if I can. Also, if Trenton wants to try a really good, lightly peated Scotch, I recommend Ardnamurchan AD (their standard release).
That Blue Note Honey Rye is special, had to hide it way in the back of the closet! Haven't had their Honey Bourbon yet but agree that I think the honey/maple finishes are best with ryes. Cheers!
Enjoying KC12, 1792 FP, and Maker's Heart release right now. Got Everyday Drinker's first single barrel coming so looking forward to that. Also keeping an eye out for that Blue note rye honey, sounds amazing!
I just bought a bottle of the New Riff Sherry finished rye last week and I already had a bottle of Hemingway rye and while I probably slightly prefer the Hemingway they both are fantastic.
I liked the MM Heart Release as well, gotta find the Lost Recipes release. Come fall I tend toward higher proof, great by the fire stuff. Time to pull out the JDSB BP Rye and ECBPs or Larceny BPs. Just opened a Murray Hill Club and it was pretty nice. Cheers! 🥃
I am a rye all year round kinda guy. Definitely understand how it’s enjoyed more in the cooler months. In the heat of the summer I was really enjoying wheated whiskies a lot. Now I’m swinging back towards rye’s obviously cause they are my favorite type of whiskey but I am getting more into American Single Malts and revisiting straight bourbons I’ve been missing throughout this last summer.
Rye was my last subtype to purchase. I tried various bottles that were rye heavy or were blends that leaned rye and I could not get past the heat. All I would ever get is pure ethanol even letting it breathe for 15 mins or more and even adding water. The one I picked up just on a whim was HH BiB Grain -to-Glass at Costco of all places and it to me, it is phenomenal for not being partial to rye.
I’ve probably bought more ryes than bourbons lately. Picked up a nice Starlight Double Oaked Rye pick from Red Barrel (Mooresville, IN) and it is fantastic
Fellas, I have to give credit where it is due, y'all have got me leaning towards ASM lately. I've already grabbed a Cataleja, a couple of Westwards, and I took an hour detour from Denver just to visit Boulder Spirits and grab their ASM. I also spent $100 at a bar trying a few Cedar Ridge's Quintessentials. It's undoubtedly an exciting segment in the whiskey market and I'm really diggin it.
I bought a bottle of Lagavulin 8 for the cold and rainy days I dont know what my next bottle will be, maybe a rye but the Wild Turkey 70th anniversary bottle looks good
Newest thing I’m into is Irish whiskey. Redbreast and the unpeated bruichladdic stuff specifically. Would enjoy seeing a video or getting your thoughts on those 2 distilleries
I picked up a single barrel from Barrel House (Rock Castle) when in KY last year. It was the first one they every had done. I stopped there and the guy said they do about 50 some barrels a year. So they are super small.
Believe it or not, gin is something I’ve started getting into. OHLQ did an Irish whiskey event early this year and we only took home the gin! Maharani and Bertha’s Revenge are incredibly smooth, sweet, and baking spice-forward (cardamom and some other Indian spices).
I’m bigger in to Ryes it feels like these days. Especially a toasted or double oaked rye. Specifically I’ve been digging the Penelope toasted rye lately
Great video. Thanks in large part to you guys, I am getting into American Single Malts. I like products from all over, and would love to be able to buy or try everything, but it’s too much. So I’ve decided (for now) that I am going to stick to collecting American made products; Bourbon, Ryes, and ASMs. Of course I’ll have to have some Irish whiskeys, mezcal, gin, scotch, etc in my bar, but will not be focusing on those. 🥃
Since you asked what people were trying, I am somewhat all over. I try a lot of Rums, I enjoy different finishes on Bourbons, I have a few Ryes, I have a few Single Malts (mostly Cedar Ridge). But I also have various Tequilas and Gins, even a few Vodkas. But I try them all in Low Carb Cocktails, which I experiment with. By the way, Cedar Ridge released an unbelievable single malt called The Untitled Cigar Malt Project. There is a place in Cedar Rapids where you can still get a bottle, but the distillery is out. If you ask real nice, I could send you a sample.
I've already done some damage this fall. I've picked all of these up within the last few weeks: Springbank 10 Kilkerran Heavily Peated Penelope 8 Year Rye finished in Tokaji casks Springbank 15 Jack Daniels Single Barrel, Barrel Proof Rye Old Forester Single Barrel, Barrel Strength Rye (won in a raffle) Catoctin Creek Roundstone Cask Proof Rye Russell's Reserve Camp Nelson E Barrel Pick
This fall I'm mostly going to be reaching for ryes, my first rye was OF 100 Rye, which is great in cocktails but I almost never drink it neat. The first rye I really fell in love with was Sag double oaked, so sweet and tasty imo. Also recently picked up New Riff single barrel rye, not too bad imo, and JDSBBP Rye is fantastic, way better than the bourbon. Earlier this year I picked up bottle of Barrell Seagrass which is ok but I still prefer Sag double oaked. Peerless double oaked is pretty solid too but not as good as Sag, and also got the Bardstown SLB cherry wood rye Vol. 2, fantastic rye. Outside of rye, my current favorite bourbon is OCD#5, it just blows everything else out of the water, and later I might see about buy a backup or two for that one cause it's just that fantastic.
Luv and have several of your selections. New Riff Sherry finish is a bomb, Walleye Rye New Holland, Journeyman Farm Rye and ODD #5 and it’s honey one ( but I’m leaning more into their CV Cuervito Vivo)
Been liking Makers a lot. Would love to find the heart release! I’ve really been liking Old Dominick here lately. Their cask strength stuff is phenomenal.
Fall and winter is definitely more peated scotch friendly, the same thought Kurt expressed. The value in scotch now is much better than bourbon. So many top reviewed bourbons are still coming in at $100, $150, $200, $250+ and tough to find. Many solid lower priced 12 year scotches now, something like Lagavulin 16 is dropping, my last buy on that was $75.
Not a bottle I wouldn’t get on your bar top. Great choices and I wish I could get some of those in my area. I will look at Seelbach and try to get some of these
Just found a bottle of Four Fingers Rye in a Krogers rack for day old bread! lol It was marked down to $30 and is really good. Just wondered if you have tried this or any other bottles from this tiny Indianapolis distillery?
Most days I prefer the slap in the face of cask strength ryes and single malts over the warm hug of bourbon, though high-rye bourbon is a nice kick in the pants.
Hey guys in line with the non standard ryes and not sure if it is easily available over there, but have you tried Gospel rye made in Melbourne Australia. Would love to hear what you think of it and how it compares in your eyes to American rye.
It's funny, I've been eating next to no sugar for the last 6 months just in an effort to be more healthy and I've found myself loving Ryes more and skipping bourbon more often. I still love bourbon but sometimes the sweetness has put me off a little. For American single malts, I have dipped my toes in and have a couple bottles of Westward that are probably the best whiskey I own right now.
You guys ever try the Lawrenceburg Bourbon Company? My local place got a lot of their stuff because they were switching distributors I think, either way the juice is amazing. They were selling at $40, which is really low for what I’ve found online, and it’s really tasty.
Started with scotch in 2001 , got heavy into Peated scotch, switched to bourbon/rye in 2004. Now mostly a rye drinker. New Riff is my goto brand, the Balboa rye is my favorite at this moment
@@theotherdonald8604 I like the Mediera cask G4 bottles. I have some great tequilas but I’m trying to expand. I have a Wild Common that’s great and some ArteNom bottles.
