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Peerless Single Barrel Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 750mL

Sometimes it’s been a hell of a week so you decide – fuck it, let’s splurge and buy an over 80 dollar bourbon just to feel things. However while for the most part Scotches are fairly stable at that price range, with bourbon you really are making a shot in the dark. All to often everything is priced wildly with some things being far less or too much with no barometer to help you. What then of this expression with it’s barrel shaped bottle and Wegmans pedigree? (Yes because of the single barrel labeling this actually says Wegmans on it which is hilarious) Oh right, the result – well it’s mixed.

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Agitator Kentucky Bourbon Finished in Red Wine Barrels Whiskey 750mL

Aging whiskey in red wine barrels isn’t as common compared to beers, or even to sherry casking, but as we’ve seen before with Blood Oak, the effect is solid enough that more should give it a shot. Luckily Agitator makes wine, so them doing this makes – well a lot of sense. The question though is whether this soak in an old barrel has done anything to improve the whiskey, or just made it a slight shade of red.

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Black Eagle Bourbon Whiskey 750mL

Of course, not 2 weeks ago we had a bourbon that was well liked, and recommendable. So by the laws given of the universe we must balance with something from the lower shelves. And yes we pride ourselves on being the ones able to find the gold coin at the bottom of the wishing well, but let’s be honest – it’s mostly pennies. (We don’t actually do that because it’s morally wrong to take wishes, but the metaphor is strong).

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Old Elk Blended Straight Bourbon Whiskey 750mL

We really have to ask the makers of this – where do you get off? Sorry but time and time again we get a unique bourbon, one that isn’t awful, but is still littered with faults – and yet they charge WAY too much. We’re sympathetic (a little) to smaller distilleries, or small batches, hell even single malts – but this just a blended bourbon charging way above its paygrade.

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Maker’s 46 Kentucky Bourbon Whisky 750mL

We’ve not actually covered Maker’s Mark here so in typical HBR fashioned let’s review a special version of it first and review the regular spirit many years later as an afterthought. This Maker’s was actually bought as a gift until said person made a comment about hating American whiskey over scotch (and Japanese) so we ran an audible and bought a scotch instead – and enjoyed this ourselves.

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