What's Your Favorite Bourbon?

[.dsaavedra.]

I haven't had a chance to try too many nice bourbons (college student budget) but I would say that of the one's I've had, I'd have to say Eagle Rare is my favorite.

[RoLo]

Wild Turkey

[slonezp]

Why limit yourself to just one?

[Dwight Hottle]

Not my favorite but there is a guy out in Cali that likes Pappy Van Winkle.

[.dsaavedra.]

Not my favorite but there is a guy out in Cali that likes Pappy Van Winkle.

 

Does he go by the name Robert? His answer is not valid in this thread

[slonezp]

Not my favorite but there is a guy out in Cali that likes Pappy Van Winkle.

and likes to complain on fishing forums about how difficult it is to get

[.dsaavedra.]

Why limit yourself to just one?

 

Fine, favorites?

[aavery2]

Maker's Mark, Wild Turkey, Knob Creek  and the old standby Jack Daniels.

[slonezp]

Makers, Knob Creek and Woodford Reserve

[00 mod]

So hard to pick just 1!  Just sayin!

 

Jeff

[Hi Salenity]

Jack is not bourbon.

[aavery2]

Jack is not bourbon.

Point taken- Tennessee Whisky

[Hi Salenity]

My favorite changes monthly and I drink mine with Coke but my last 2 bottles have been Turkey 101

[.dsaavedra.]

Jack is not bourbon.

 

It meets all of the qualifications to be classified as bourbon, they just choose not to market their product as bourbon!

[Hi Salenity]

Yes it does but I think they filter it through Maple wood so they can't call it bourbon

I just learned the other day and I'll try to find the article I saw it in.

[flyfisher]

I am by no means a connoisseur but i do like the knob creek single barrel and maker's mark when i do have a drink.

[Hi Salenity]

"Tennessee whiskey is filtered through sugar maple charcoal in large wooden vats prior to aging, unlike the process used to make Kentucky bourbon.[9] Tennessee whiskey is not bourbon whiskey, as defined by Title 27 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Chapter 1, Part 5, Section 5.22.[10] However Tennessee whiskey is defined as a bourbon under terms of the North American Free Trade Agreement"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_whiskey

Source(s):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbon_whiskey

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_whiskey

http://www.jackdaniels.com/GentlemanJack/tasting.aspx

3 yrs ago / Gossow86

[Hi Salenity]

I am by no means a connoisseur but i do like the knob creek single barrel and maker's mark when i do have a drink.

That 120 Knob Creek is great!

[MarkH024]

Makers or Knob with a splash of 7up.

[.dsaavedra.]

Filtering the whiskey through charcoal doesn't make it not bourbon. Evan Williams is charcoal-filtered and is labelled as a Kentucky straight bourbon. Choosing to call your product a Tennessee whiskey instead of a bourbon appears to be purely a marketing decision, the only difference is that Tennessee whiskey has to be made in Tennessee.

[00 mod]

Just some food for thought on this Tennessee Whiskey vs. Bourbon debate....

 

While this is only a debate brought by some, and you will not find much in writing about this, but some people I have talked to reserve the opinion that the "sugar maple charcoal" used in the Lincoln County Process adds artificial flavoring to the whiskey, and therefor excludes it from the qualifications of a true bourbon.

 

Jeff

[00 mod]

And before someone points out that Bourbons such as Evan Williams and Jim Beam are charcoal filtered.....

 

There is a difference.  The bourbons referred to here as well as MANY more are filtered through "activated charcoal"

 

Activated charcoal is nearly pure carbon, created by heating wood to over 5000(?) degrees in an oxygen rich environment. Many bourbons are filtered through this to prevent "chill haze."  Activated charcoal is also common in water filters.

The sugar-maple charcoal used by JD is more like the charcoal used on your barbeque . The wood was only heated to a few hundred degrees for this charcoal, leaving some minerals in with the carbon. The unaged whiskey is slowly filtered through 10-foot tall containers of the sugar-maple charcoal to give the whiskey its taste. It takes days to work its way though these containers.

 

Jeff
 

[.dsaavedra.]

I was going to ask whether the fact that it is specifically sugar maple charcoal used in Tennessee whiskies made any difference as I figured that would probably be a point of argument for those who believe the two are actually different.

[mrmacwvu1]

Woodford Reserve is my everyday bourbon

[Hi Salenity]

I like Beams Devils Cut but I'd be curious about how they make it, they imply they have a proses to squeeze the more flavorful "stuff" from the barrel and wait for it to mature then they call it Bourbon?