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Attended my counties Whiskey event this afternoon. Tasted some Barrel Dovetail and Batch 9. Both good but not spending $110 ea. Tried the Legent, interesting but fizzled out quick and finish just left me hanging. Attended an EC seminar. Tasted through the 8 and 8 year PS’s, small batch and B519. The 8 year was my winner of the 2 PS’s. Seemed to be the consensus. The 9 was just too close the small batch. Tasted the 2 BT, 1792, and Blanton’s picks.
Palate is a little fried so just having a reg BT now.




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nc_6789 said:


Revisiting this
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Any better then before? I found mine to be too hot, and when adding water it was still pretty hot but muted the flavor. It could definitely stand to age another year or 2 in the cask, which would help. Anyone I talk to that’s tried Stagg Jr seems to have similar experiences lol


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Long day yesterday detailing a clients car. So after about 8 hours it was time for a cigar & an excuse to use my new Stanley/Filson flask. This thing is very innovative; it has a gasket with inner threads. I’ve never seen anything like it before. First fill was the rest of my Old Forester Single Barrel, and it ate it all up like a champ. Anyway enjoy the pictures:

$50 well spent paired along with a Joya Red (my new favorite budget stogie). Here’s a link for the flask if anyone is interested. It comes with a double lifetime warranty:

www.filson.com

Stanley Master Series Flask

Stanley's Master Series 8-oz. Flask is made of food-grade stainless steel.
www.filson.com www.filson.com



The inner threads and gasket



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BourbonBinder said:
Any better then before? I found mine to be too hot, and when adding water it was still pretty hot but muted the flavor. It could definitely stand to age another year or 2 in the cask, which would help. Anyone I talk to that’s tried Stagg Jr seems to have similar experiences lol


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It was much better, still hot, but once I added a few drops of water it was pretty delicious in my opinion
 
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nc_6789 said:
It was much better, still hot, but once I added a few drops of water it was pretty delicious in my opinion
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It definitely has potential if only Buffalo Trace would listen to their audience and age it a little while longer. I’d even be in favor for cutting the release down to 2 batch releases a year and dare I say, raising the price $10 if that would help.


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gurgalunas said:
The 122 proof is the lowest they've done on ECBP, and is B519

Both fantastic bottles, @icehog3. The EC just showed up last week in KC, and we seem to be swamped with it. It's never been this plentiful...
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Interesting, didn’t even think about inspecting the proof and cross referencing it with the batch number. So that must mean that my B518 was a long standing leftover. Weird as it saw prime placement in the case almost the entire time




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BourbonBinder said:
Interesting, didn’t even think about inspecting the proof and cross referencing it with the batch number. So that must mean that my B518 was a long standing leftover. Weird as it saw prime placement in the case almost the entire time




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I didnt do anything complicated other than recognize an irregular proof that was familiar because i just bought one...

Sometimes the distributor has some left in the warehouse, or maybe the distillery still had some in their warehouse. Never know which batch may be delivered.
 
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BourbonBinder said:
Nice! Had the 4RSB and it was pretty good. Hope you enjoy both. Picture is a little blurry on my iPhone, does that say B517?
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As @gurgalunas said, it is B519. They had numerous bottles, every single one of them was 122 proof. I remembered seeing a couple 135 proof in the thread, so I was looking for something higher if they had it, but wasn't going to pass it up since I was in the store.

I had actually sampled the Four Roses the night before, at a restaurant. While I knew that barrels will vary, I opened this one tonight and was pleased, tasted just like the pours in the restaurant. There were 3 bottles on the shelf, two different barrels.
gurgalunas said:
The 122 proof is the lowest they've done on ECBP, and is B519

Both fantastic bottles, @icehog3. The EC just showed up last week in KC, and we seem to be swamped with it. It's never been this plentiful...
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Yes, they had plenty of it at our local big chain, and this is one of their smaller stores...so I wonder if the big one near me has a different batch? I guess I have a trip to make.

 
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