Well, I did it. . . .

Put in an order with samswine.com, probably my last bourbon/rye order until next season. With temperatures increasing in my neck of the woods, I'll soon lose my taste for the stuff until next football season, and turn my attention to mixed drinks with either gin or rum, beer and what I can invent with the stockpile of my ex-second wife's homemade Kahlua.

But there's still a few bourbon/rye drinking times ahead, so with this order, on Vince's recommendation I actually asked them to include a bottle of Old Overholt rye. Mind you, the price is $10.79 plus 70 cents per bottle Cook County Internet Nuisance Sales Tax plus shipping, so the "walk-out price" will be in the $16-17 range, or the VERY SUSPECT range, and I mean suspect in the quality department. Let's hope I didn't ask them to include a bottle of diesel fuel here. Who knows, I might be pleasantly surprised.

More to come.

:shock: :roll:

COMPANYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY, . . .

TENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNCH, . . .

HUT!!!




HUT, HUT, HUT!!!!




GO DOWN, . . .

FURTHER, PAST "A" BARRACKS, . . .



BALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!


Sheeeeeeeeuuuuuuuuut!!! If he had jumped he would have had it, and for once our company would have won the breakfast game.


Good morning, Colonel, SIR!!! Sorry for the delay, Sir, just had to get that last play in, it was our Hail Mary, y'know.

At any rate, about your Old Overcoa-------,

errrrrrrrrrrr, I mean Old Overholt rye. Spend the money. It's one of the cheapest bottles you'll ever buy and well worth it. Although I am still a ways off from determining its position in my Top Ten of Rye, it will clock in at no less than No. 5 or 6, and perhaps higher. It's got quite an appeal to it, perhaps more so than the Jim Beam rye. Hard to rate it with The Classic Cask 22 or 21, the Van Winkle 13, but when I get down to the Sazerac 18, the picture becomes a bit muddled.

I know I'm going to hear it from Hollow Point about even considering Old Overholt to go ahead of the Sazerac rye, but it just might happen. At any rate, it's dirt cheap and it has a nice, nutty, honeysuckle flavor to it with a gentle rye "tang."

$11.29? mg:

Is that a walk-out price, or is there some tax in there? Nice going anyway, because even with tax I guess your walk-out price is still less than $15. Anytime you can get a bottle of whiskey in America for less than $15 that's got some nice flavor, you're kicking economic tuchas.

Hey, can we say "economic" during family hour?

As someone who drinks it room temperature, always straight up and as a "warmer" I find that interesting. Let us know how future tastings work out.

So I assume the $12.29 was a "walk-out" price? No tax? Nice price.

I'll have to visit you some time.

In a car.

With an empty trunk.