Wednesday Night Dynamite! Best day of the workweek. Excluding Fridays obviously.
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Jesus, look at the color of that thing.
So this should be interesting. A friend of mine apparently bought a BARREL of bourbon from Heaven Hill. Here’s his announcement:
Elijah Craig Single Barrel
Private Selection
We did it. We purchased a barrel of bourbon.
We blind-tasted several barrels at Heaven Hill and selected a 9-year-old bourbon aged in rickhouse V on the 3rd floor. It’s 123.0 proof out of the barrel. Caramel and sweet on the nose and smooth on the way down.
We have 216 bottles which will be available September 7. This single barrel bourbon costs $40 per bottle. If you’d like one, select the bottle number(s) you want and fill out the sign up. We’ll hold that bottle (or two or three…) for you. I’ll be in touch when they are ready for payment and pick up.
I don’t drink much bourbon, but I signed up for a couple of bottles just for kicks. Mainly I’m just lolling at the idea of effectively buying more than 200 bottles of bourbon in a single transaction. I heard second hand that he might have had to drive to Maryland (from Ohio) to actually pick it up from a registered broker (rather than just driving it next door from Kentucky), but I’m not sure that’s accurate. I should find out the real details Friday.
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123 proof sounds… rough
Has anyone had Boone’s Bourbon? They are sponsoring some bounties in the Orleans mystery bounty tournament this fall.
Today I stopped by our local sour beer and cheese restaurant, and to my surprise found this on the menu:
I’ve never tried Heady Topper before. It was good but I wouldn’t say it blew my mind. Maybe it was tbe overly high expectations. Extremely hoppy, almost like a wet-hopped IPA. I know they say you have to drink it from the can, but I felt I was missing something by not being able to really get all the aromas.
Still, pretty cool that I had a chance to try it.
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I always pour it into a pint glass.
I think it’s good but these days there are tons just as good and probably better. (I’m not up on the scene like I used to be, but friends are always giving me crazy good beers from places I’ve never heard of.)
I agree, the quality of IPAs is really high these days. I recently moved to Colorado and although I knew they have a pretty good beer scene here, I was surprised at the amount of consistently high quality beers at most places we go. It helps that we have like 20 breweries or taprooms within a 15-minute walk from our house.
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More for me
$40 a bottle for a hand-selected single-barrel barrel-proof is pretty sick.
I think you mean “awesome.”
Yeah, back in 2013 or 2014 we found a bunch of Four Roses single barrels with different mash bills and yeast strains, so a few of us picked up a mix of them to sample the differences.
I know, right?
I never posted these when I got them a couple of months ago but if you are interested in mezcal the two bottles on the left are a great bang for your buck, full of flavor. (Most mezcal and certainly cheap mezcal is espadin, so it can be hard to find a genuinely good one. And that cupreata has loads of agave flavor.)
On the right we have two bottles of raicilla, which is sort of the even wilder version of mezcal. (I’m told its history includes a technical classification as medicine to get around prohibition laws.) It’s more expensive but also has a lot of wild and funky flavor; I especially recommend that green label of La Venenosa if you like really funky stuff. (There’s also a red label, the most expensive, but I think the green is more flavorful.) Fun note, that green bottle is distilled in a hollowed-out tree trunk.
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More mezcal posts please. I enjoy drinking it but am ignorant. Slowly exploring the spirit.
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I don’t know where you are, but the best way I can recommend to learn is to find a mezcaleria in town that knows their stuff. The Pastry War in Houston and La Doña in Denver taught me a lot of what I know.
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I also do the occasional research on Tequila Matchmaker and Distiller if I just want to pick out a bottle and I’m looking for a well regarded / good bang-for-the-buck one.
Grunch, I find myself drinking nothing but Mich Ultra lately. It’s less filling 
Prost!
Yeah, I saw Costco selling a Masskrug like that and a liter can of Paulaner for $8 together. Snap-buy.
Good call on the blue and white checkered shirt for the pic, too. You’re a pair of lederhosen away from a perfect look.
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