How much does the 12 run?
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Anywhere from $50 - $60.
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Be a nice project if everyone who likes bourbon enough to post in this thread (and is going to the shack) would take one bottle off of a list and bring it to the SHACK. We could try and test that way and be sure that all the good stuff was available. And get hammered in the bargain, I'd bet. maybe that's NOT a good idea, lol.
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I love you! I'm in! :-)

How do we start? Big list of bourbon? Or something like I can bring x I'd like to try y?

Here's a list from wiki pedia



Kentucky Bourbons
1792 — Barton Distillery, Bardstown, Kentucky
Ancient Age — Buffalo Trace Distillery, Frankfort, Kentucky
Baker's — Jim Beam Distilleries, Clermont, Kentucky & Boston, Kentucky
Barclay's - Barton Distillery, Bardstown, Kentucky
Basil Hayden's — Jim Beam Distilleries, Clermont & Boston, Kentucky
Beam's Choice - Jim Beam Distilleries, Clermont & Boston, Kentucky
Benchmark & Benchmark XO (single-barrel) -Buffalo Trace Distillery, Frankfort, Kentucky
Black Maple Hill - Bardstown, Kentucky
Blanton's — Buffalo Trace Distillery — Frankfort, Kentucky
Booker's — Jim Beam Distilleries, Clermont & Boston, Kentucky
Buffalo Trace — Franklin County, Kentucky
Bulleit Bourbon — Lawrenceburg, Kentucky
Cabin Still - Heaven Hill Distillery, Bardstown, Kentucky
Colonel Lee - Barton Distillery, Bardstown, Kentucky
Corner Creek — Bardstown, Kentucky
Daniel Stewart - Heaven Hill Distillery, Bardstown, Kentucky
Eagle Rare — Buffalo Trace Distillery, Frankfort, Kentucky
Early Times — Brown-Forman, Louisville, Kentucky (export version)
Echo Springs - Heaven Hill Distillery, Bardstown, Kentucky
Elijah Craig & Elijah Craig Single-Barrel — Heaven Hill Distillery, Bardstown, Kentucky
Elmer T. Lee — Buffalo Trace Distillery, Frankfort, Kentucky
Evan Williams — Heaven Hill Distillery, Bardstown, Kentucky
Ezra Brooks Old Ezra Rare Old Sippin' Whiskey — Heaven Hill Distillery, Bardstown, Kentucky
Fighting **** — Kentucky Bourbon Distillers, Bardstown, Kentucky
Four Roses — Four Roses Distillery, Lawrenceburg, Kentucky
George T. Stagg— Franklin County, Kentucky
Hancock's Reserve - Buffalo Trace Distillery, Frankfort, Kentucky
Heaven Hill — Heaven Hill Distillery, Bardstown, Kentucky
Henry Clay Rare - Henry Clay Distillery, Kentucky (out of production)
Henry McKenna - Heaven Hill Distillery, Bardstown, Kentucky
I. W. Harper - Bernheim Distillery, Louisville, Kentucky
Jacob's Well - Jim Beam Distilleries, Clermont & Boston, Kentucky
James E. Pepper - Berheim Distillery, Louisville, Kentucky
Jim Beam — Jim Beam Distilleries, Clermont & Boston, Kentucky
J.T.S. Brown - Heaven Hill Distillery, Bardstown, Kentucky
J. W. Dant - Heaven Hill Distillery, Bardstown, Kentucky
Kentucky Gentleman — Barton Distillery, Bardstown, Kentucky
Kentucky Tavern - Barton Distillery, Bardstown, Kentucky
Kentucky Vintage - Bardstown, Kentucky
Knob Creek— Jim Beam Distilleries, Clermont & Boston, Kentucky
Maker's Mark — Maker's Mark Distillery, Loretto, Kentucky
Mark Twain - Mark Twain Distilling Co. Bardstown, Kentucky
Mattingly & Moore - Heaven Hill Distillery, Bardstown, Kentucky
Noah's Mill - Kentucky Bourbon Distillers, Bardstown, Kentucky
Old Bardstown - Kentucky Bourbon Distillers, Bardstown, Kentucky
Old Charter— Buffalo Trace Distillery, Frankfort, Kentucky
Old Crow — Jim Beam Distilleries, Clermont & Boston, Kentucky
Old Fitzgerald - Heaven Hill Distillery, Bardstown, Kentucky
Old Forester — Brown-Forman, Louisville, Kentucky
Old Grand-Dad — Jim Beam Distilleries, Clermont & Boston, Kentucky
Old Heaven Hill - Heaven Hill Distillery, Bardstown, Kentucky
Old Kentucky - Bardstown, Kentucky
Old Pogue - Bardstown, Kentucky
Old Rip Van Winkle — Buffalo Trace Distillery, Frankfort, Kentucky
Old Taylor - Jim Beam Distilleries, Clermont & Boston, Kentucky
Pappy Van Winkle - Old Rip VanWinkle Distillery, Louisville, Kentucky
Old Weller - Buffalo Trace Distillery, Frankfort, Kentucky
Pure Kentucky - Bardstown, Kentucky
Rebel Yell — Bernheim Distillery, Louisville, Kentucky
Rock Hill Farms Single-Barrel - Buffalo Trace Distillery, Frankfort, Kentucky
Sam Houston - Louisville, Kentucky
Ten High — Barton Distillery, Bardstown, Kentucky
Tom Moore - Barton Distillery, Bardstown, Kentucky
T. W. Samuels, Heaven Hill Distillery, Bardstown, Kentucky
Very Old Barton - Barton Distillery, Bardstown, Kentucky
Wathen's - Charles Medley Distillery, Owensboro, Kentucky
Straight Old Kentucky
Wild Turkey — Wild Turkey Distillery, Lawrenceburg, Kentucky
Willett — Willet family Distillery, Bardstown, Kentucky
W.L. Weller — Buffalo Trace Distillery, Frankfort, Kentucky
Woodford Reserve — Woodford Reserve Distillery, Versailles, Kentucky

Maybe a seperate Shack Spirits thread?
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hahah, we're not going to go to the Wiki again are we? I read how that turned out, lol. From what I have read in the last few days, the 4 Roses sounds like a good pick, as does that Pappy van Winkle or Rip van Pappy, or Dick van Patten something or other. I have not had Buffalo Trace yet, the girls were offering T-shirts and 3 free hot wings to anyone who ordered some at the Blue Monkey, but it was not enough to get me off my Turkey. I think the main prob was they were discount models or something. They were hot enough to look good only after a generous imbibation of Buffalo Trace. Clever.

--------------Looking at that list, it seems that Buffalo Trace produces all the stuff you guys like alot. I rectum I can be counted on for a bottle of Eagle Rare and a Rare Breed.
So put me down for those. Remember, it doesn't do any good if we all bring the same $hi+, lol. Well, actually, it will do ME fine.
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:-) for the bourbon wiki!
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I say go ahead and make a separate thread for the Shack Herf tasting so we keep this thread on general bourbon talks.
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Picked up some Eagle Rare 10 at the store today. :-)
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As did I. I grabbed a 1.75 of that and a 1.75 of Ciroc vodka for my upcoming vacation for the 4th with the family.

On another note, I also made my first ever batch of bacon infused bourbon this evening. I'll update everyone with how it is in the next couple days after I try it. Word it if you mix 2oz of bacon bourbon, 1/2 oz of maple syrup, and a dash or two of bitters and pour over ice it makes a mean morning vacation cocktail. :-)
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does your family live near Milwaukee WI?
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This was my first Bourbon purchase aside from Makers Mark and Knob Creek. I had a hard time deciding between the Eagle Rare 10 and Elijah Craig 12. I figured I'd try the Eagle Rare and then pick up the Elijah Craig. The store that I visited didn't have anything rare or I would have picked up something special.
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My extended family lives in Chicago. Were vacationing at our lake house in Lake Leelanau Michigan, just north of Traverse City.
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not close, looks like I will buy my own :-)
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Just got an update, Jefferson's Reserve Presidential Select bottles next week! Should start shipping out soon after. 3100 cases will be produced, then no more. The bottling reads 17 yr, but it's actually very close to 18 from what I've been told.
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I just picked up some Wathen's? I bought it without ever hearing anything about it....will try it later this week. I also picked up my first bottle of Rittenhouse Rye BIB 100* for $15.
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In regards to George T. Stagg:

:-)

When should I be on the look out? Thanksgiving?
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Start in October around Halloween, I got mine here in NY on 11/17 last year which was a week or so after other states got theirs.
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Had my first two glasses of Rittenhouse Rye 100* BIB last night.... This may have stopped me from writing off Rye altogether...and at $15 a bottle....I think this will be a staple in my rotation.
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I've been singing the praises of this since I first tried it. Good stuff, and affordable. Drink up! :-)
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I agree with both of you, great stuff!
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