@@apeekintime half 🤣😂. We have a couple hundred reviews and a few hundred blinds/news/tier lists/collectors corners/vlogs and about 15 other types of videos. When we launch/try out new content it makes it safer (for analytics) if we do it with Distilleries we know will do better. That just so happens to be BT products. Honestly the idea is to do this with other distilleries but launching it with BT is generally how we'll try it.
I remember working at a liquor store in 2016 and one of the big bourbon guys that regularly bought stuff from us got one of each bottle in the antique collection. He brought us samples from each bottle a week later and we did a blind tasting of each. I distinctly remember my friend describing it as tasting like "vanilla jet fuel" lmao. It was by far my personal favorite of the lineup
I run a Whiskey Club and we meet monthly to do double blind tastings of 4 or 5 whiskeys. It's been super fun and enlightening and one of the things I have learned to avoid is mixing proofs too much. It's really hard to taste a 125 proof whiskey before or after a 90 proof whiskey and give either a real fair shot. You guys have obviously tasted a hell of a lot more whiskey than our crew, but I think proof, more than similar flavors is the real x-factor in large blinds like this.
Yep... I think you really need to keep the proofs within 10 or so points for a fair comparison. Every time we've had 3 things that were 100 or less and one thing that was cask strength, the cask strength gets crushed because it it fire water compared to the others. One of my favorite tastings involved 4 pours that were lower proof and available and then whichever was your favorite, you'd get a step up version that was either older/rarer or higher proof... so if you liked EC Sm Batch, you got to try EC 18 after. If you chose Bardstown Fusion, you got a Discovery, if you went Baker's 7 yr, you got Bookers and if you went Maker's, you got FAE-01. It was really fun to zero in on something you liked and then step up or over to taste something in the same product line. But a Bookers vs. EC18 taste would be terrible.
Only switch id make is make is the small batch EH Taylor and the eagle rare. If you get a chance the blantons straight from the barrel is excellent. May disrupt the ranking s a bit.
I've tried alot of bourbons because bourbon is the only kind of whiskey i drink and only kind of liquor i drink in general but for me the best bourbon I've ever drinked is the one i bought this past weekend and that blanton's. Damn It was smooth and delicious it was worth the price i paid which considering it's and expensive brand that was $75. Hell as a matter of fact i don't think I'll ever drink another kind of bourbon blanton's is that good. It's my favorite whiskey of them all. 🥃
Loved that content and appreciate how you did that blind and double blind to reduce any bias! Great format...and you did a nice job of editing what was probably an hour-long raw video. i was fortunate enough to land a 2022 GTS and at first sip it was EASILY the best whiskey I'd ever had...surpassing a tie between an older Lagavulin 12 CS and Ardbeg Dark Cove.
Sorry you're unable to reconcile someone evaluating one whiskey experience over another despite them being drastically different flavors. What's the best dinner you've ever had? Was it steak, was it seafood, was it a hamburger? Those aren't the same, but if you said hamburger, I won't argue that your hamburger dinner beat out your best steak dinner. And I won't even think you're a maniac for thinking that.
Definitely a fun video. With your collection, you should be able to do this for quite a few distilleries. Seeing how all of the Sagamore variants do against each other would be fun to see.
Just did a blind with two friends.. we all had Buffalo Trace, Taylor Small Batch, Eagle Rare and Blanton's. All three of us independently had Buffalo Trace first. Two of us had Blanton's second and we all three had Eagle Rare last.
All these things show is that taste is mostly subjective, and we taste and appreciate different things differently on different days. The top will always stand out and the bottom will always be the bottom, but the middle of the road bourbons will always be a more of “what you’re feeling” that kind of day.
It think the only surprise was the 107 being so low, but really all of those are great bottles and its not gonna jump too much for my palate if i knew what it was. cool blind.
Excellent Excellent vid guy's. Exactly what Everyone wanted to see. Super fun ...super content. Straight to the point. Wham bam thank you.... Thanks a bunch for posting.
This video made me subscribe. Please do 4 more of these from different distilleries and then take the top 2 from all 5 and have a big dog blind tasting!
I'm glad you guys actually make use of the 100 points range in total, not like other people who effectively use a range between 80 and 100. And I'm also glad that I'm not the only one detecting a grainy note in many BT products lately. Imo this doesn't correlate with age though, had experienced something similar with a very recent Eagle Rare as well. A lot of heat and roughness probably due to shortened fermentation periods and rushed distillation, neglecting quality to maximize profits. Can't do the same with WLW or GTS, or else, I guess. Best of luck with your Virtue project, Cheers dudes!
@@Mr10usdad Yup here in upstate NY they are getting $25.99 for a 375ml bottle $28.08 after the 8% sales tax! I only spent the money because I wanted to know what it was like but will never replace it at that price and I dont see the price coming down! once it's down to a 1/3 of a bottle it's just going to be a show piece!
I only own and have tasted 10 - 5 and pretty much rank them in that order with Stagg Jr (24A) the clear winner. I've never tried 4 - 1 and can't comment except to say that I definitely want to, especially WLW and GTS. What's interesting is that EHT SB did so well in this blind/3rd, so it sounds like something I need to find even if it's at secondary prices which I prefer not doing.
the first time i was introduced to bourbon was through a blind taste test with all of these except the William Weller and George T Stagg. Blantons won for me and stagg came in dead last the others were about the same
Finally today (May 18, 2023) I was able to find, buy and taste a bottle of Stagg (22B @130 proof)! [Choir music in the background . . . ) for the first time; after looking for years. It is soooooooooooooooooooo great. Pricey, yes. Hard to find, yes. But the nose and the flavors are amazing. As I am not a "proof hound" like you guys, I would rate E. H. Taylor, Jr. Small Batch as an "A" and Stagg an "S".
Great video! There are no losers in that line up! For me, Blanton's is #9 (second to last) which moves everything else up. Also Stagg Jr. ahead of EHT SIB. Don't know about #1-2, I'm sure you're right placing them there, gonna have to take your word for it. Sean, I think you might have just had an off day on the other 8.
I always thought RHF was tater bait (read: Lee, Elmer T.) until I actually got a bottle a couple of years ago. It's quite a delicious pour. No shame at all in ranking it above Stagg Jr.
You need to separate them by proof. Stagg "Jr", EHTBP, and the barrel proof BTAC all drink dramatically different. It'd be interesting to see how all the 80-100 proofers line up against each other - EHT Small Batch & Single Barrel, Weller CYPB/12-year/Special Reserve, Buffalo Trace, Eagle Rare, ALL of Mash bill 2.
I agree, jumping back and forth on proof can screw with yer pallet, which they even commented going back a few after getting acclimated towards the end.
EHT single barrel is the highest in the list that I have ever owned. It’s a great pour and bottle. Never Owen any stagg jr or higher options would love to one day though.
Lol "Everytime I see an EH Taylor Single Barrel I am 100% in" I have see it on a shelf once and it was $239.00. I was not 100% in at that price. Same store had a stagg for $450.
You guys were hyping up the WLW and I was like "Oh! OH! Oh yes, which one is it?!" And then my heart dropped because I'll probably never get to try it lol 💔
Some buds and I blinded batch 15 Stagg jr against 3 different Stagg jr picks. Batch 15 was dead last for all 5 of us and 2 of us didn’t finish it. *then* our buddy revealed he had filled his batch 15 bottle with Benchmark FP. I was bummed as I was hoping for a better fight from it.
@@jaymze44 oh yeah I just blind tasted the Benchmark SiB and BT and ER. I was shocked how sweet the Benchmark SiB was and the BT had this rough oak flavor. I thought the Sib was better and it was I think 4 years younger and cheaper.
Sometimes I think it's hard to compare a bunch of relatively similar products, because it makes it more difficult to pick up on the flavor of some of them. You get acclimated to certain similar aspects of the products. Kind of like how the tenth drink of slushie tastes different than the first.
Yea I'm honestly thinking that's what happened with the stagg Jr. Too much of the same kind of drown it out a little. We were a little rushed on time shooting this so it might have done a little better. Overall I think that's really close to how we'd rank them normally
@@BourbonJunkies Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. Of course a 130 proof whiskey is going to seem a bit underwhelming when you just drank something else that's, if we're being honest, pretty darn similar to it (other than being lower proof of course).
Talking about E.H. Taylor Single Barrel “every time I see one of those…”. What?! I’ve seen ONE and it was, of course, behind the counter, and, OF COURSE, marked up to a RIDICULOUS price that any normal person wouldn’t touch… ugh.
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This might be my favorite video of all time. I would love to see you run it back with other distilleries.
For sure will in the future
Agreed absolutely loved this one.
I agree with the agreement 🤝
This! Yes!
@@apeekintime half 🤣😂. We have a couple hundred reviews and a few hundred blinds/news/tier lists/collectors corners/vlogs and about 15 other types of videos. When we launch/try out new content it makes it safer (for analytics) if we do it with Distilleries we know will do better. That just so happens to be BT products. Honestly the idea is to do this with other distilleries but launching it with BT is generally how we'll try it.
I remember working at a liquor store in 2016 and one of the big bourbon guys that regularly bought stuff from us got one of each bottle in the antique collection. He brought us samples from each bottle a week later and we did a blind tasting of each. I distinctly remember my friend describing it as tasting like "vanilla jet fuel" lmao. It was by far my personal favorite of the lineup
The results. You’re welcome
10. BT
9. EHTSmB
8. OWA107
7. Blantons
6. ER
5. Stagg Jr
4. RHF
3. EHTSingle
2. WLW
1. GTS
It'd be cool to have a series where you guys rank every legacy distillery's offerings then have a final blind with the winners.
@@apeekintime Seriously… everything besides Buffalo Trace, Eagle Rare and Blantons I’ve never seen on a shelf anywhere
OF next.. Or just brown Forman products in general
@@apeekintime they have tons of videos on budget bottles... Budget blinds even
@@apeekintime Reviewing more exclusive bottles is nice because when you find one you know what to expect
My guy said heavy rye spice to a wheated bourbon 🤣🤣.
I loved the video thou, great job guys.
I run a Whiskey Club and we meet monthly to do double blind tastings of 4 or 5 whiskeys. It's been super fun and enlightening and one of the things I have learned to avoid is mixing proofs too much. It's really hard to taste a 125 proof whiskey before or after a 90 proof whiskey and give either a real fair shot. You guys have obviously tasted a hell of a lot more whiskey than our crew, but I think proof, more than similar flavors is the real x-factor in large blinds like this.
Spot on.
Like wine tastings to a degree. Need to keep the shot group tight.
totally agree.
Yep... I think you really need to keep the proofs within 10 or so points for a fair comparison. Every time we've had 3 things that were 100 or less and one thing that was cask strength, the cask strength gets crushed because it it fire water compared to the others. One of my favorite tastings involved 4 pours that were lower proof and available and then whichever was your favorite, you'd get a step up version that was either older/rarer or higher proof... so if you liked EC Sm Batch, you got to try EC 18 after. If you chose Bardstown Fusion, you got a Discovery, if you went Baker's 7 yr, you got Bookers and if you went Maker's, you got FAE-01. It was really fun to zero in on something you liked and then step up or over to taste something in the same product line. But a Bookers vs. EC18 taste would be terrible.
Very much so. Tastings like this are just for fun.
Love how Dan said W107 was very Rye forward spice… Enjoy this type of content, keep it up!
So strange cause I don't get spice at all. I think it's so smooth.
I get that spice on most wheaters. It can also come across like light effervescence or carbonation.
Only switch id make is make is the small batch EH Taylor and the eagle rare. If you get a chance the blantons straight from the barrel is excellent. May disrupt the ranking s a bit.
I've tried alot of bourbons because bourbon is the only kind of whiskey i drink and only kind of liquor i drink in general but for me the best bourbon I've ever drinked is the one i bought this past weekend and that blanton's. Damn It was smooth and delicious it was worth the price i paid which considering it's and expensive brand that was $75. Hell as a matter of fact i don't think I'll ever drink another kind of bourbon blanton's is that good. It's my favorite whiskey of them all. 🥃
Blinds reveal all lmao. Glad you guys aren't afraid to be "wrong"
Loved that content and appreciate how you did that blind and double blind to reduce any bias! Great format...and you did a nice job of editing what was probably an hour-long raw video. i was fortunate enough to land a 2022 GTS and at first sip it was EASILY the best whiskey I'd ever had...surpassing a tie between an older Lagavulin 12 CS and Ardbeg Dark Cove.
Much appreciated!
@@apeekintime You can still like one better.
Sorry you're unable to reconcile someone evaluating one whiskey experience over another despite them being drastically different flavors. What's the best dinner you've ever had? Was it steak, was it seafood, was it a hamburger? Those aren't the same, but if you said hamburger, I won't argue that your hamburger dinner beat out your best steak dinner. And I won't even think you're a maniac for thinking that.
Incredible video! I had my wife do the same for me but I only had the Buffalo Trace, Eagle Rare, and Blantons….. ER won… LOL
Love it! It's like an objective based tier list. I can't wait to see you do brown Forman with the old non saz early times and watch it crush!
Definitely a fun video. With your collection, you should be able to do this for quite a few distilleries. Seeing how all of the Sagamore variants do against each other would be fun to see.
I’ve only had about half of those but I think it was really spot on. The rankings I mean
Seems like a pretty accurate ranking of them. Only surprise is OWA, but still not too shocking knowing what it's up against
This video is a nice change of pace. You guys should do this with all major distilleries. Old carter next please. 😊
Would love to have seen Weller FP in there.
Do Wild Turkey next!!
Just did a blind with two friends.. we all had Buffalo Trace, Taylor Small Batch, Eagle Rare and Blanton's. All three of us independently had Buffalo Trace first. Two of us had Blanton's second and we all three had Eagle Rare last.
Awesome video. 👌
Next up, I recommend Jim Beam product line, including the Knob Creeks and Baker's, Booker's etc. obviously.
"That smells like nothing". My exact problem with buffalo trace lol
All these things show is that taste is mostly subjective, and we taste and appreciate different things differently on different days. The top will always stand out and the bottom will always be the bottom, but the middle of the road bourbons will always be a more of “what you’re feeling” that kind of day.
100%
It think the only surprise was the 107 being so low, but really all of those are great bottles and its not gonna jump too much for my palate if i knew what it was. cool blind.
The bottom 5 makes sense to me as a whole...although i would have guessed a different order
Excellent Excellent vid guy's. Exactly what Everyone wanted to see. Super fun ...super content. Straight to the point. Wham bam thank you.... Thanks a bunch for posting.
"zhere you ghooo buffahlo traceheshe that'shs the ordershs"
Godspeed gentlemen, you'e done us proud.
I’ve been lucky to have tasted this entire lineup, minus WLW. My top 2 is RHF and GTS, so not too surprised how this panned out.
Should have dumped the remnants ultimate infinity pour….Thanks for confirming my Eagle Rare love
Fun video to watch but for me it doesn’t matter which one is the best or worst because I can’t find any of them on the shelves anyways 😢
You can't get BT these days? Since they fired the hoarding distributor it's been readily available here
Kinda curious why Elmer wasn't apart of this reunion 😅
I don't drink bourbon (yet at least), but I love your videos.
The Buffalo lineup you still can’t go wrong
Would be great to include the cost of each bottle to give a little more context to how good or bad the ratings for each one is...
first-timer. Seeing the cat in the promo early on sealed the deal with the subscribe.
Maybe one of my favorite videos of late from y’all … love the rapid fire results!!!! Don’t over think it, just drink it!!!! ❤❤❤
Interesting! I love Stagg. It is one of my favorites.
One of your best, honest videos .
I love this video. Buffalo Trace is my favorite distillery. Now I'm excited to try some of the top Whiskeys yall ranked.
Perfect timing. Going to the BT distillery tour next month…EH Taylor is on the buys list
I’m just happy that I have 6 out of 10 bottles. Nice vid.
Agreed, some of my eht single sp are absolutley the best.
Thanks, I wish you had done all of the Wellers too, and Hancock's but this is a huge line up to compare.
This video made me subscribe. Please do 4 more of these from different distilleries and then take the top 2 from all 5 and have a big dog blind tasting!
I'm glad you guys actually make use of the 100 points range in total, not like other people who effectively use a range between 80 and 100.
And I'm also glad that I'm not the only one detecting a grainy note in many BT products lately. Imo this doesn't correlate with age though, had experienced something similar with a very recent Eagle Rare as well. A lot of heat and roughness probably due to shortened fermentation periods and rushed distillation, neglecting quality to maximize profits. Can't do the same with WLW or GTS, or else, I guess.
Best of luck with your Virtue project, Cheers dudes!
Sean is never ready for the STAGG!
This wouldn't hurt so much if I hadn't just spent $48.59 on a bottle of Buffalo Trace. 🥃cheers
Wow! I have never seen Buffalo Trace for that much! It is under $30 here in Georgia.
@@Mr10usdad Yup here in upstate NY they are getting $25.99 for a 375ml bottle $28.08 after the 8% sales tax! I only spent the money because I wanted to know what it was like but will never replace it at that price and I dont see the price coming down! once it's down to a 1/3 of a bottle it's just going to be a show piece!
I really like this type of video, like the simple soring simple and the blinds. Hope the next one is with Dan double blind instead of Sean!
The Stagg Jr. was not batch 12. 130.2 proof was Batch 14. Batch 12 is 132.3...I think this might have been mixed up
Excellent video fellas! Love the scoring system 🥃💪🏻
The 2022 GTS might be the greatest bourbon I've ever tasted in my life. It was transcendent. A supernova of flavor bursting in your mouth.
Wow you guys are tough critics. Love the content!
This was exactly what we want to see
Guys I recently just got a george t stagg in a raffle...best bourbon I've had yet
Hope you can enjoy every last drop!
Next up - Old Forester!
Hey wait a minute...you're not the same guys that were in the video I watched the other day...😁
Brilliant segment. Loved it from beginning to end. Thanks
I only own and have tasted 10 - 5 and pretty much rank them in that order with Stagg Jr (24A) the clear winner. I've never tried 4 - 1 and can't comment except to say that I definitely want to, especially WLW and GTS. What's interesting is that EHT SB did so well in this blind/3rd, so it sounds like something I need to find even if it's at secondary prices which I prefer not doing.
Great artist love them both. The island one is dreamy.
Another fun one. Thanks. Love the blinds, double blinds in particular, of available and affordable bottles. Keep it up. Cheers.
the first time i was introduced to bourbon was through a blind taste test with all of these except the William Weller and George T Stagg. Blantons won for me and stagg came in dead last the others were about the same
Finally today (May 18, 2023) I was able to find, buy and taste a bottle of Stagg (22B @130 proof)! [Choir music in the background . . . ) for the first time; after looking for years.
It is soooooooooooooooooooo great. Pricey, yes. Hard to find, yes. But the nose and the flavors are amazing.
As I am not a "proof hound" like you guys, I would rate E. H. Taylor, Jr. Small Batch as an "A" and Stagg an "S".
Can’t say that i agree with all of them but GTS number one and not being close is the truth!
Great video! There are no losers in that line up! For me, Blanton's is #9 (second to last) which moves everything else up. Also Stagg Jr. ahead of EHT SIB. Don't know about #1-2, I'm sure you're right placing them there, gonna have to take your word for it. Sean, I think you might have just had an off day on the other 8.
This video is effing awesome! You guys are getting back to basics and your individual idiosyncrasies. *Sorry Dan, big words.😅 I ❤ Junkies.
Wonder how Elmer would have done
what did you say, I'll add 5 to it. "97".... uh oh. lmaooo that was hilarious. this was fun to watch
Been waiting on this video for a minute!!! Great content and I hope I get to try top 3 at least once in my lifetime lol
Weller antique 107. Not available here in Finland. Found it in Ireland .
That's too bad. 107 doesn't even have to be your favorite. It's just everything a good bourbon should be.
Love the pairings! Can’t find Girl Scout cookies, but fortunately Aldi has clones for Samoas and Tagalongs!
That hat looks like it's trying to escape from Sean's head.
This was awesome! Way to be vulnerable guys. 🤣
Despite the video being a little messy organization haha I love this type of content great video 💚🤘
I did a blind buffalo trace and had almost the same thing - minus I ended up having ER and ER in front of the EH taylors.
I always thought RHF was tater bait (read: Lee, Elmer T.) until I actually got a bottle a couple of years ago. It's quite a delicious pour. No shame at all in ranking it above Stagg Jr.
top shelf smirnoff on the far right. cheers
Would love to see the other popular distilleries blinded like BT was.
This is what we love to see
wow so much whiskey to taste at once. great job. Love this idea. Buffalo Trace has just so many. very crazy. cheers.
great vid. keep up the good work. looking forward to friday. good luck on matt madness.
Can't wait!
You need to separate them by proof. Stagg "Jr", EHTBP, and the barrel proof BTAC all drink dramatically different. It'd be interesting to see how all the 80-100 proofers line up against each other - EHT Small Batch & Single Barrel, Weller CYPB/12-year/Special Reserve, Buffalo Trace, Eagle Rare, ALL of Mash bill 2.
I agree, jumping back and forth on proof can screw with yer pallet, which they even commented going back a few after getting acclimated towards the end.
These are really cool. How bout one with finished and one with toasted. For sure do more videos like this though!
EHT single barrel is the highest in the list that I have ever owned. It’s a great pour and bottle. Never Owen any stagg jr or higher options would love to one day though.
Lol "Everytime I see an EH Taylor Single Barrel I am 100% in" I have see it on a shelf once and it was $239.00. I was not 100% in at that price. Same store had a stagg for $450.
Curious where EHTBP would land
I think you guys nailed it.
Same test of all of these making old fashioned and sours ? That would be great 👍
You guys were hyping up the WLW and I was like "Oh! OH! Oh yes, which one is it?!" And then my heart dropped because I'll probably never get to try it lol 💔
I want to see the benchmark series in this too since I bet some of them beat regular BT.
Some buds and I blinded batch 15 Stagg jr against 3 different Stagg jr picks. Batch 15 was dead last for all 5 of us and 2 of us didn’t finish it. *then* our buddy revealed he had filled his batch 15 bottle with Benchmark FP. I was bummed as I was hoping for a better fight from it.
@@jaymze44 oh yeah I just blind tasted the Benchmark SiB and BT and ER. I was shocked how sweet the Benchmark SiB was and the BT had this rough oak flavor. I thought the Sib was better and it was I think 4 years younger and cheaper.
Great video fellas. Wild Turkey next?
Yup, I know Mash and Drum just did it but I’d like to see the Junkies do Wild Turkey as well.
I really enjoyed this video you all. Great job., fun to watch, funny. Do it again!!
Sometimes I think it's hard to compare a bunch of relatively similar products, because it makes it more difficult to pick up on the flavor of some of them. You get acclimated to certain similar aspects of the products. Kind of like how the tenth drink of slushie tastes different than the first.
Yea I'm honestly thinking that's what happened with the stagg Jr. Too much of the same kind of drown it out a little. We were a little rushed on time shooting this so it might have done a little better. Overall I think that's really close to how we'd rank them normally
@@BourbonJunkies Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. Of course a 130 proof whiskey is going to seem a bit underwhelming when you just drank something else that's, if we're being honest, pretty darn similar to it (other than being lower proof of course).
Remember a couple years ago when these guys did a blind of mash bill 2 and put blantons first?
Nope never happened!
if you guys could keep the bottle you are drinking on the screen longer, that would be swell.
Talking about E.H. Taylor Single Barrel “every time I see one of those…”. What?! I’ve seen ONE and it was, of course, behind the counter, and, OF COURSE, marked up to a RIDICULOUS price that any normal person wouldn’t touch… ugh.
I think the stagg annihlated your tastebuds. Hard to drink right after haha
Best contest ever.
Need a bottle of Benchmark Full Proof in this lineup.
I'd do a 10-year rye finished in toasted french oak.
Should’ve added Benchmark Full Proof in there too(Stagg Jr Jr)
Of course, all the ones I can actually find are on the bottom 😃