Bulleit bourbon

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Bloof - I know you've put this through a few taste tests and said it was a decent bourbon if you got a good price. Just wondering if you've had any new insights into this one? I've checked almost all the liquor stores around here and they carry more bourbons in plastic bottles than good stuff. But, they did have this one and I'm thinking about picking it up...
 
Yes, pick up a bottle. I had some last night. Very good stuff. I don't want anyone to get the impression that the only ones I consider worth drinking are the first ten or fifteen on my Top 25. Out of the 58 I've tried, I only hate about six or seven, at least 45 are worth drinking ANYtime, and only about five or so are really okay but not all that great to drink.

Having said THAT mouthful, Bulleit Bourbon is definitely good stuff, and I think guaranteed to please. I'm still working on a bottle a couple friends brought over for my birthday recently, and it's never disappointing, very steady, sip after sip.
 
Well, I said something quite different on another web site last night. I went back to this thread to see if my comments matched. They do not. In truth, the more I had of this stuff, the more the bite in it turned me off. I'm not going to say it's bad, although a couple guys on the other web site didn't like it, but I won't be getting any more. It's rather one dimensional, and the bite is annoying at times. It's not one of the ones I hate by any means, but perhaps feel indifferent about. I liked it a lot more the first couple times I had it, but it wore off about the fourth or fifth tasting.

It's still probably worth picking up for someone who hasn't tried it. The price isn't bad. If I was a politician, my comments on the other web site could have been used to make me look fairly bad. I apologize, because I'm usually a lot more consistent with "getting my stories straight." :cryinlaugh:

In truth, my final word on this is that not only won't I be buying any more, but it's probably somewhere between No. 46-51, and not among the first 45, which I'd drink any time.
 
I'd have to agree with you. After finishing the bottle, I did notice that I quickly tired of the lack of character. Like you said - it's not bad, but it isn't great either and for only a few bucks more you can move up to Knob Creek which is more than worth the extra $6.

I think Bulleit would be a decent whiskey if you're mixing it with something, but it doesn't quite have the legs to stand on its own for long.
 
Yes, perhaps a Manhattan or Mint Julep, but as I worked my way through the bottle, then got another for my birthday, every time I returned to something I'm more familiar with, I almost found myself saying, that Bulleit is kind of like, uhhhh, no???

I also cringed when I saw the hypocrisy in myself upon reading my post over at Cigar Wise and reviewing this thread. I had to search myself to see if I was posing or if somewhere along the line I had decided I hadn't liked it. I often like something after one or two tastings, perhaps because it's new and unusual, but after four or five tastings, which is when I write most reviews, I usually end up with a different opinion, sometimes slightly different, sometimes very different.

I don't like being a hypocrite, and it took me a while to figure out if I could explain it, or just admit to being a poseur and a fraudulent jerk. If I couldn't explain it to myself, I would have just come on and confessed outright hypocrisy. I had to look at my last post here, on November 18th, and what I said last night at Cigar Wise, and ask myself what changed in the past ten days.

It was in fact, during the last couple of tastings when I decided I didn't really want to finish my birthday bottle after all, but pass it along to someone else. That bite started to grate on my nerves upon my third or fourth tasting, after reviewing things in my mind.

Sorry if my hypocrisy caused any problems in the wallet or taste buds, cybrus!

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Bloofington said:
Sorry if my hypocrisy caused any problems in the wallet or taste buds, cybrus!


Bah - to butcher an old saying: Tis better to have tasted and spat, than to have never tasted at all!

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It's raw, that's for sure, obviously young, and probably with a lot of rye in the mash bill. I think I have a review around here somewhere. I'm going to look for it. I'll probably be up in front of a Senate sub-committee tomorrow. Look for me on FOX(y)-News. I'll probably have a jacket over my head, being pushed down into a black limousine.
 
Here's the text of what I posted over at Cigar Wise, in response to the first post, asking what people thought:

"No excitement here. I know what you mean about the bite. I don't have a real problem with that, although it's a bit much on certain sips with the Bulleit, because it's not backed by anything pleasant. At this point, I have a Top 25, and I've tried 58 bourbons altogether. There are six or seven that I hate, 45 that I would drink any time, and five or six that are okay but that I'm indifferent towards. Out of the 45 I would drink anytime, there are really only about 16 that are exciting, and about 30-35 that are really good. Bulleit is okay, but not among those top 30-35."

It doesn't make me look THAT bad. Okay, I'll be seen getting into the limo without the jacket on my head, just saying "no comment."

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