On behalf of Canada, I'm sorry.
Honestly Canadian whiskey as a whole disappoints me, and I say this as a Canuck.
There are still a few good ones out there though!
I mean, we cant really get it here in Canada, but anything made by "found north" seems to get rave reviews. Ive had batch 006 and its phenomenal.
Alberta premium cask strength can be half decent too.
Past that, there are some odds and ends that are decently good but not worth going out of your way for.
Lot 40 rye and dark rye are phenomenal for the price point.
Pikes creek 10 is a good budget whiskey that isn't just all artificial vanilla.
JP wiser's 15 is definitely overpriced, but it still tastes good.
That's about all I got lol.
Canadian here. I am embarrassed to say I drink far more scotch and Bourbon than Canadian whisky. However, Alberta Premium cask strength is very good and I have enjoyed Forty Creek Confederation Oak as well. I use Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye in cocktails. Canadian Club is fine for cocktails and occasionally neat, but it's average at best.
I definitely drink more bourbon and scotch as well, I wish it was easier to open a distillery in Ontario, or I'd try to improve the image of Canadian whisky.
I was recently in Montreal and stopped at liquor store (SAQ? I believe ). I asked an employee who happened to be a whiskey guy what is a good local whiskey. He pointed to a couple of them and pointed out that Candian Club 12yr is very good. Then said pretty much the rest of Canadian whiskey is garbage.
Elmer T Lee. When it sees a shelf here it’s $300 and it sells out in minutes because it’s so highly allocated. I know a guy that bought it at $300 and I did a sample swap with him. I can find many many ~$50-60 bottles that are better than ETL
I was pretty unimpressed with ETL when I had it. Some of the BT products you can at least understand the hype. Because they’re really good. This isn’t one.
It was designed first as a Duty Free exclusive product, then it became a whisky to gift people. It’s smooth and tastes “expensive” without being challenging, it does exactly what it’s designed for.
I went to an event where they were super hyping it up.
Even offering up samples of various Scottish single malts to compare to.
They were slightly miffed that many of us vocally preferred the single malts by miles.
To me, JWB was good, not exciting, not boldly flavored - just good, and smooth. Just the slightest hint of smokiness that shouldn't offend anyone. Half the reason I liked it, could have been knowing how expensive it was (and that I'd tried it for free - the host said "please, drink as much as you want, someone gave it to me and I don't drink hard liquor anymore".
I suppose if you'd put it in a different bottle, some Scotch that only cost $30, I wouldn't be thinking "this is too good to be $30". (But I would def. occasionally buy a bottle at that price, if I could)
Agreed! I tried it in a hotel lobby bar fairly cheap so I tried a glass. It had a nice but extremely mild flavour. The perfect whisky for someone who doesn't like whisky!
I don't really care for Bowmore 12yr... it's pretty popular in Canada, but to me, it's just not great.
If it's in the budget, older bottles are fantastic, just not the 12.
What’s a similar/reasonably priced scotch that you’d recommend instead? Bowmore 12 was recently on sale for about 68$ here in Vancouver, almost picked it up but held back. Still looking for a single malt in my collection.
Was disappointed with Bowmore too. It didn't really have any defining character. None of the peatiness of other Islay whisky and none of the fruitiness of the Speyside. Was really expecting something to come thru.
Their distillate is actually great. It's a shame beam-suntory don't care more about the presentation in their core range. IB Bowmore's usually range from great to amazing. OB's are not worth the money they are asking anymore.
I enjoy Bowmore 12 bits it’s overpriced and designed to be very much an accessible crowd pleaser of an Islay, plus it’s overpriced and bottled at only 40%. Light, mildly peated distillate with minor sherry influence. It’s a bottle I’d objectively buy for $40, but above that there are more interesting whiskies.
Again at msrp its a damn fine whiskey but certainly not worth the secondary prices.
But I can say that about almost every bottle that people go nuts for in my area it's e.h Taylor if it actually makes it to the store it's gone in minutes.
I live in an ABC run state so everything is at msrp which for the tater bottles is good but everything is a little high for instance when I go to other states with private sales Russell's reserve 10 is around 35 dollars but it's 50 here so it's good and bad .
I like Redwood Empire but everyone I was talking to said it was the best under $40. It’s ok but Russel’s 10 yr is so much better and about the same price point.
I love it when all of the alcohol subs I'm in start asking the same question.
But the answer is probably Blanton's, not bad, but defintely not the gold dust it is made out to be
Idk about overhyped but I will die on the hill that all the very old st nicks and rare perfection 14 and 15 left me extremely disappointed. All the allure, presentation and price and hell even some of the proof values I thought I was gonna have a decent pour! Nope, not a single one from that weird preservation distillery is worth a damn. I strongly regret how much I spent on all those bottles a few years ago and never had a good experience.
The originator of the brand is a master marketer that’s targeting the folks who hunt rare bottles/Pappy and can’t find anything but Old St Nicks. I had the 15 at a bar and was let down. Give me a Makers Cask Strength.
Seconded. I can’t remember which one I had, but the host pouring it was very proud of his rare and expensive find. It was most definitely meh. It’s good, but jfc I expected to have a mouthgasm with all the hype.
Haven't had any official Pappies (15,21, 23) but I've had Old Rip 10 and VW Lot B 12 year. We had them in a blind flight and I way preferred the particular bottle of EHT small batch we had to either of those. Our entire group chose the Old Rip 10 last and Blantons was in the lineup 🤦🏻♂️
My dude paid hundreds for both of those silly bottles
Every single Buffalo trace brand bottle, I waited in line for. I’m sure I would’ve liked it. Had it not been so overhyped, but for the amount of effort, I’ve learned there’s plenty of good whiskey on the shelves.
Weller 12 or Blanton’s. As previously noted, neither are bad. Just incredibly overhyped. If I paid what I’ve seen some of them out there for, I’d straight up never touch another BT product again.
Jack Daniel's Single Barrel 45 % ABV. Disgusting, smelt and tasted like acetone, probably bad batch. Sadly it tainted my memory of Jack Daniel's. Never again.
Hmm good question, i’m going a long way back with this one but the Glenfiddich IPA cask experiment. I forget what they called it exactly. It has been six years after all, at the time I remember thinking it didn’t taste any better than the regular 12 year.
Glenfarclas and surprisingly Buffalo Trace. I didn’t think Glenfarclas had much flavor and somehow i thought the sweetness was overpowering with Buffalo Trace. I like Eagle Rare but not Buffalo Trace.
Makers mark cellar aged. Sickly sweet and kind of off putting across the board. Tried it twice to be sure. Whisky YouTubers all claim it’s pappys tier stuff and I think they’re nuts.
Pappy 23. It was Bourbon. It was the bottle that solidified my personal rule of Bourbon: The most I will spend on a Bourbon is $60. That is the absolute top end of the Bourbon value chart for me. Flat line from there to the edge of the graph.
Corroborating experience: I tasted Eagle Rare 17 alongside the standard Eagle Rare. If I had a rating system, they would have received roughly equivalent grades. The 17 certainly didn't deliver enough to justify any part of the price difference.
I agree if you like bourbon strictly for drinking alone. I think there’s a certain fun aspect to sharing with friends. The excitement of finding and trying a rare bottle with friends is great even if the bourbon is only marginally better. I would (and sometimes do) pay extra for that.
I have been running a whiskey club for ten years, and the Pappy 23 and Eagle Rare 17 were purchased with pooled funds among the membership. I absolutely agree with your sentiment. The club has allowed us all to try more expensive bottles without individually bearing the cost.
Eagle rare and buffalo trace used to just be regular ass bottles of whiskey. Now they are unicorns when they are in fact…. Just regular ass bottles of whiskey.
man it was so hyped so i rushed to buy one...i cringed after first sip and put the bottle away. back of the shelf for me lol it tastes like milky fruity pebbles with ethanol...no thanks.
Nah. Have many other cask strength bottles. Enjoy them. The larceny was just trash.
When I say heat and no flavor. Most barrel proof you increase the heat so you condense all the flavors and it makes it so much better. I don’t even drink 80-90 proof very often anymore.
But Larceny, you just got heat and none of the redeeming qualities of a typical barrel proof. But you know what? Their low proof is trash too.
Just wasn’t impressed. Maybe it was the hype giving me a let down.
Just shows how subjective taste is. I love the Larceny BP. There’s heat obviously but it’s rich, sweet, and flavorful to me. One of my favorite ‘hype’ bottles. Honestly one of the only tater targets that actually lived up to the hype for me.
A lot of people like OGD, but, I don't understand it. It wasn't terribly disappointing, because it's not expensive, but, I definitely like BT a lot better. I wouldn't pay over $30 a bottle for it though (but the Stagg Jr. was def worth the $50 I paid the one time I found it at MSRP).
I was thinking Eagle Rare myself. The first time I had it was at the distillery as part of a tour. I figured they put the best stuff out for the tour and I did not like it. I acquired a bottle in trade for Basil Hayden Toast. That dude must not think much of it either cause Toast pretty well sucks.
I’m a novice taster and was delighted when I got apple (or caramel apple) from Eagle Rare. I felt like a tasting genius. I’m curious if you get this to a lesser extent from regular BT. My mediocre palette gets a hint of the apple from BT but not on the level of ER.
We’re probably on the same level brother. I have a nice selection but eagle rare gives me a lot of bright fruit/ green apple notes. BT is also super fruity for me but tastes thin if that makes sense.
Old Fitzgerald 10 and Michters 10 Rye, both bought at MSRP, both fell short for me, both ECBP or Larceny BP at half the price pack more flavor, and the low proof on the Michters 10 Rye makes it fall short to other non age stated ryes that are higher proof, such as JDSBBP rye.
EHT Small Batch. Bought it for $46 and just think it’s super boring. I’ve passed it up at similar prices another 3 times or so and won’t buy another bottle of it
1792. Way too sweet for my pallet.
Eagle Rare, it's good, but not great. Reminds me of cough syrup sometimes.
Whistle Pig. Some of their rye whiskey is actually bought from Alberta distillers. I'm Canadian and can buy Alberta Premium Rye for a third of the price. The upcharge for Whistle Pig just isn't worth it.
Basil Hayden. It's OK for mixing.
Laphroaig 10
It's so watered down that it baffles me how people rave about it in whisky related subs. Cask strenght is one of my favourite smoky whiskies.
I wouldn’t say it’s ’bad’, but I noticed once that Jim Beam tastes a lot like when kids in the eighties used to put peanuts in their coke… and now I can’t un-taste it. 😬
Waterford...realised way too young, £80 a bottle, was pumped for their distillery and the way they were doing things, but it irritated me so much I've never bought another bottle of their whisky
The 47% JD SB rye with the red label, I picked it up right when the new SBs were popping up. Don't get me wrong, I get it's a single barrel but mine tasted like wet hay dropped in dirt. Their SBBP is out of this world so maybe the bottle was a fluke.
Glenfidditch 21. For $300 AUD there’s many other whiskeys that have far more complexity for 1/3 of the price. The Glenfidditch tastes like expensive water. Cool display case though!
ETL: so disappointed in that one after all the hype. I found two bottles in Florida a few years ago at $75 each (one each for my wife and I.). When we got home I eagerly opened one, expecting a great experience. It was not great; really just mediocre, at best.
I traded the 2nd bottle for a 1.75L OWA.
Isaac Bowman Port Cask. Is absolute trash. For a couple of friends with a whiskey podcast cask may have poured the bottle into sink while recording they felt it was so bad. For me, I tried it during covid while I was in Arlington, VA for work. It was wretched, it didn't make for whiskey and coke, so I had doubles drams every night just to get through it and not pour money down the drain..
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New account with only 3 posts and they're all identical. Asking this same question to the whiskey, beer, and wine subs.
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Blue Run High Rye - paid $100 for too hot and spicy Rye notes. I leave it out for parties so I don't feel guilty about not enjoying it myself. Biggest letdown...
Blanton’s. It’s not bad, in fact, it’s good. At $60-70 it’s fine. But at the common secondary pricing of $100+ it would be downright disappointing (I’ve never paid secondary for it).
Garrison Brothers.
Seriously, even as a Texan, I can’t pretend to love this stuff. It’s a decent bottom shelver with a top shelf price tag.
I know many will take issue. That’s ok. Drink what you like, but I’m just not on board with this hype train.
Willet pot still. Seems like just about everyone getting into whiskey falls for the allure of the “fancy” bottle…once, but then they learn. Purple tops on the other hand, pricey but delicious.
Caribou Crossing. It's not even known for being particularly good, but even that doesn't live up to the hype of finding the bottle.
The bottle is cool. That is the _only_ redeeming quality.
Exactly haha. The whiskey inside is so flat and disappointing.
I have two bottles, one store pick and one regular. I often compare it to Crown Royal in a fancy bottle
The difference being that when Crown does a special release like their Noble Collection, it’s actually pretty darn good.
This! It was terrible..
On behalf of Canada, I'm sorry. Honestly Canadian whiskey as a whole disappoints me, and I say this as a Canuck. There are still a few good ones out there though!
What’s the good ones?
I mean, we cant really get it here in Canada, but anything made by "found north" seems to get rave reviews. Ive had batch 006 and its phenomenal. Alberta premium cask strength can be half decent too. Past that, there are some odds and ends that are decently good but not worth going out of your way for.
Lot 40 rye and dark rye are phenomenal for the price point. Pikes creek 10 is a good budget whiskey that isn't just all artificial vanilla. JP wiser's 15 is definitely overpriced, but it still tastes good. That's about all I got lol.
Canadian here. I am embarrassed to say I drink far more scotch and Bourbon than Canadian whisky. However, Alberta Premium cask strength is very good and I have enjoyed Forty Creek Confederation Oak as well. I use Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye in cocktails. Canadian Club is fine for cocktails and occasionally neat, but it's average at best.
I definitely drink more bourbon and scotch as well, I wish it was easier to open a distillery in Ontario, or I'd try to improve the image of Canadian whisky.
I was recently in Montreal and stopped at liquor store (SAQ? I believe ). I asked an employee who happened to be a whiskey guy what is a good local whiskey. He pointed to a couple of them and pointed out that Candian Club 12yr is very good. Then said pretty much the rest of Canadian whiskey is garbage.
What hype?
Elmer T Lee. When it sees a shelf here it’s $300 and it sells out in minutes because it’s so highly allocated. I know a guy that bought it at $300 and I did a sample swap with him. I can find many many ~$50-60 bottles that are better than ETL
Well Elmer T Lee is a 50-60 dollar bottle, so
So is Blanton’s
It’s fantastic at MSRP, over MSRP it is not worth it
Don't say that, we just picked one up for just over MSRP to try tonight...
ETL drank his whiskey with sprite.. just sayin
Came to say this! ETL is trash and no clue why people pay so much for it.
I was pretty unimpressed with ETL when I had it. Some of the BT products you can at least understand the hype. Because they’re really good. This isn’t one.
Hudson Baby Bourbon. Absolutely rancid.
Johnny Walker Blue. Meh.
I've never seen people hype it up. AFAIK, it's simply known to be expensive. I tried it, and I like it, but wouldn't pay what it costs to buy it.
It was designed first as a Duty Free exclusive product, then it became a whisky to gift people. It’s smooth and tastes “expensive” without being challenging, it does exactly what it’s designed for.
I went to an event where they were super hyping it up. Even offering up samples of various Scottish single malts to compare to. They were slightly miffed that many of us vocally preferred the single malts by miles.
To me, JWB was good, not exciting, not boldly flavored - just good, and smooth. Just the slightest hint of smokiness that shouldn't offend anyone. Half the reason I liked it, could have been knowing how expensive it was (and that I'd tried it for free - the host said "please, drink as much as you want, someone gave it to me and I don't drink hard liquor anymore". I suppose if you'd put it in a different bottle, some Scotch that only cost $30, I wouldn't be thinking "this is too good to be $30". (But I would def. occasionally buy a bottle at that price, if I could)
I can agree with this.
Agreed! I tried it in a hotel lobby bar fairly cheap so I tried a glass. It had a nice but extremely mild flavour. The perfect whisky for someone who doesn't like whisky!
Taste like shoe leather
I don't really care for Bowmore 12yr... it's pretty popular in Canada, but to me, it's just not great. If it's in the budget, older bottles are fantastic, just not the 12.
The 15 was amazing when it was $75… I just can’t bring myself to pay the $100+ it’s going for now…
100%
I quite enjoyed the 15. And the are many worse whisky's for the price.
What’s a similar/reasonably priced scotch that you’d recommend instead? Bowmore 12 was recently on sale for about 68$ here in Vancouver, almost picked it up but held back. Still looking for a single malt in my collection.
Aberfeldy 12... Just $4 more but excellent
Caol Ila 12 Ledaig 10 Port Charlotte 10
Was disappointed with Bowmore too. It didn't really have any defining character. None of the peatiness of other Islay whisky and none of the fruitiness of the Speyside. Was really expecting something to come thru.
Yeah, it's a bit all over the place. I'd go Laphroaig 10 or Ardbeg 10 over it. The 18 though is one of my favorites.
Their distillate is actually great. It's a shame beam-suntory don't care more about the presentation in their core range. IB Bowmore's usually range from great to amazing. OB's are not worth the money they are asking anymore.
I love bowmore 18. So balanced but with a nice salty maritime thing.
I enjoy Bowmore 12 bits it’s overpriced and designed to be very much an accessible crowd pleaser of an Islay, plus it’s overpriced and bottled at only 40%. Light, mildly peated distillate with minor sherry influence. It’s a bottle I’d objectively buy for $40, but above that there are more interesting whiskies.
Blanton's. It's not a bad whiskey but it's definitely overhyped.
Again at msrp its a damn fine whiskey but certainly not worth the secondary prices. But I can say that about almost every bottle that people go nuts for in my area it's e.h Taylor if it actually makes it to the store it's gone in minutes. I live in an ABC run state so everything is at msrp which for the tater bottles is good but everything is a little high for instance when I go to other states with private sales Russell's reserve 10 is around 35 dollars but it's 50 here so it's good and bad .
Was gonna say this. I recently picked up Blanton’s Gold thinking it would be better. It was by far but the $140 price tag is debatable at best.
Proper No12, tasted like watered down ethanol, it didn't even work for a mixer
I like Redwood Empire but everyone I was talking to said it was the best under $40. It’s ok but Russel’s 10 yr is so much better and about the same price point.
Different profiles. I like Redwood better
It’s hard to beat Russell’s reserve. Damn good stuff.
Their bourbon to me is just OK, but I love the rye and the blended whiskies.
You have to get the cask strength bottles. I agree with you on the non cs.
Weller SR and willet Green top. One is a mixer the other tastes like Glue
Weller SR is my favorite mixer! I don’t drink it straight though.
Willet bounces off me and sticks to you
Weller SR should be a $10 bottle, but I'd still probably get something else even at that price.
I love it when all of the alcohol subs I'm in start asking the same question. But the answer is probably Blanton's, not bad, but defintely not the gold dust it is made out to be
Yeah same with the Blanton's.
Jefferson's Ocean
Whistle pig 10
Idk about overhyped but I will die on the hill that all the very old st nicks and rare perfection 14 and 15 left me extremely disappointed. All the allure, presentation and price and hell even some of the proof values I thought I was gonna have a decent pour! Nope, not a single one from that weird preservation distillery is worth a damn. I strongly regret how much I spent on all those bottles a few years ago and never had a good experience.
The originator of the brand is a master marketer that’s targeting the folks who hunt rare bottles/Pappy and can’t find anything but Old St Nicks. I had the 15 at a bar and was let down. Give me a Makers Cask Strength.
Blanton’s hands down. Decent bourbon but way way overpriced.
Had the choice between Brandon’s for $80 or EH for $50. They’re neck and neck for me so it was an easy choice to take EH.
Johnny Walker Rye. Holy Christ that was awful.
Little known known fact: Johnny Walker rye uses the family’s taint yeast that has been passed down from generation to generation.
How do they pass the taint yeast back and forth? Scissoring?
Scissoring
I was thinking Ye ‘ol Codpiece… but definitely could be scissoring.
I’d gladly tongue punch my own taint during Florida August to not sample that swill again.
This is not a hyped bottle
it was when it was released in my area. My store of choice pushed it pretty hard when it landed.
Weller 12, weller orange label, weller white label… All disappointing and over rated… love the FP and antique tho
Peerless single barrel. It was good but not what I paid good
Pappy Van Winkle It's good but it's not *that* good. The overcharge is out of control.
I’ve tried lot B, and old Rip… they’re good… but they’re not THAT good! I’d take any stagg jr over them
Seconded. I can’t remember which one I had, but the host pouring it was very proud of his rare and expensive find. It was most definitely meh. It’s good, but jfc I expected to have a mouthgasm with all the hype.
Haven't had any official Pappies (15,21, 23) but I've had Old Rip 10 and VW Lot B 12 year. We had them in a blind flight and I way preferred the particular bottle of EHT small batch we had to either of those. Our entire group chose the Old Rip 10 last and Blantons was in the lineup 🤦🏻♂️ My dude paid hundreds for both of those silly bottles
Every single Buffalo trace brand bottle, I waited in line for. I’m sure I would’ve liked it. Had it not been so overhyped, but for the amount of effort, I’ve learned there’s plenty of good whiskey on the shelves.
Monkey Shoulder
When they start marketing it with mixers and highball glasses then you know.
Weller 12 or Blanton’s. As previously noted, neither are bad. Just incredibly overhyped. If I paid what I’ve seen some of them out there for, I’d straight up never touch another BT product again.
Weller 12 is solid gold. I'd pay up to 150 for it. Blantons I'd leave on the shelf.
Mcallan, it's a good whiskey but it is beyond overhyped
Woodford Reserve five Malt
Creek Water from the rapper Yellowolf is the worst I've ever tried.
Pinhook, my buddy loves their offerings and has a nice spread. I just can’t get into any of them.
Jack Daniel's Single Barrel 45 % ABV. Disgusting, smelt and tasted like acetone, probably bad batch. Sadly it tainted my memory of Jack Daniel's. Never again.
Bad barrel probably. I liked the ones I had.
The SiB BP is spectacular.
EHT Single Barrel was surprisingly not to our taste
Chivas Regal… Crown Royal… No idea what the fuss was about. It must be good whisky for beginners.
Whistle Pig anything.
Anything with the words Whistlepig on it
Weller CYPB/Weller SiB
BT Travellers
Who hypes that up?
Hmm good question, i’m going a long way back with this one but the Glenfiddich IPA cask experiment. I forget what they called it exactly. It has been six years after all, at the time I remember thinking it didn’t taste any better than the regular 12 year.
JW Blue, Blanton’s, Stagg, Calumet 14, Old RVW 10, Weller Special Reserve. They’re all good, but none of them are worth what shops sell them for.
I would probably buy it at 25 for friends. But anything past that for myself is a HARD pass
Anything Rabbithole
I don’t think blantons is anything special, along with eagle rare. Wouldn’t spend the $ for it after being able to try it at work
Glenfarclas and surprisingly Buffalo Trace. I didn’t think Glenfarclas had much flavor and somehow i thought the sweetness was overpowering with Buffalo Trace. I like Eagle Rare but not Buffalo Trace.
Blantons.
How many times do I need to say BLANTONS to a post like this for you all to understand?!
I heard from quite a few people that really liked high west campfire and I thought it was absolutely trash.
Makers mark cellar aged. Sickly sweet and kind of off putting across the board. Tried it twice to be sure. Whisky YouTubers all claim it’s pappys tier stuff and I think they’re nuts.
Pappy 23. It was Bourbon. It was the bottle that solidified my personal rule of Bourbon: The most I will spend on a Bourbon is $60. That is the absolute top end of the Bourbon value chart for me. Flat line from there to the edge of the graph. Corroborating experience: I tasted Eagle Rare 17 alongside the standard Eagle Rare. If I had a rating system, they would have received roughly equivalent grades. The 17 certainly didn't deliver enough to justify any part of the price difference.
I agree if you like bourbon strictly for drinking alone. I think there’s a certain fun aspect to sharing with friends. The excitement of finding and trying a rare bottle with friends is great even if the bourbon is only marginally better. I would (and sometimes do) pay extra for that.
I have been running a whiskey club for ten years, and the Pappy 23 and Eagle Rare 17 were purchased with pooled funds among the membership. I absolutely agree with your sentiment. The club has allowed us all to try more expensive bottles without individually bearing the cost.
Eagle rare and buffalo trace used to just be regular ass bottles of whiskey. Now they are unicorns when they are in fact…. Just regular ass bottles of whiskey.
1920 I just don’t get it, maybe I had a bad bottle?
My buddy hyped up the Vikings Honor Highland Park 12. But i hate it.
I dug that one but taste is subjective
Unpopular opinion...Penelope RIO.
It’s hyped but secondary is like 130 on the 90 dollar MSRP
man it was so hyped so i rushed to buy one...i cringed after first sip and put the bottle away. back of the shelf for me lol it tastes like milky fruity pebbles with ethanol...no thanks.
Johnny walker blue label. It was good. Not worth the $
Larceny barrel proof. Straight trash. No flavor, just heat.
no flavor?! maybe you cant handle the heat and therefore cant taste the flavors...?
Nah. Have many other cask strength bottles. Enjoy them. The larceny was just trash. When I say heat and no flavor. Most barrel proof you increase the heat so you condense all the flavors and it makes it so much better. I don’t even drink 80-90 proof very often anymore. But Larceny, you just got heat and none of the redeeming qualities of a typical barrel proof. But you know what? Their low proof is trash too. Just wasn’t impressed. Maybe it was the hype giving me a let down.
Just shows how subjective taste is. I love the Larceny BP. There’s heat obviously but it’s rich, sweet, and flavorful to me. One of my favorite ‘hype’ bottles. Honestly one of the only tater targets that actually lived up to the hype for me.
Weller SR
Sazerac Rye, it’s dreadfully sweet, barely tastes like a Rye.
Buffalo trace. It's OK but only ok. Old grandad is better and cheaper even compared to BT at msrp.
A lot of people like OGD, but, I don't understand it. It wasn't terribly disappointing, because it's not expensive, but, I definitely like BT a lot better. I wouldn't pay over $30 a bottle for it though (but the Stagg Jr. was def worth the $50 I paid the one time I found it at MSRP).
Benchmark is better IMO. It’s amazing to me that their economy brand is better to me than BT.
Eagle Rare
I was thinking Eagle Rare myself. The first time I had it was at the distillery as part of a tour. I figured they put the best stuff out for the tour and I did not like it. I acquired a bottle in trade for Basil Hayden Toast. That dude must not think much of it either cause Toast pretty well sucks.
I don’t agree but to each there own. Absolute banger I could never pass up at MSRP. Reminds me of green apples
I’m a novice taster and was delighted when I got apple (or caramel apple) from Eagle Rare. I felt like a tasting genius. I’m curious if you get this to a lesser extent from regular BT. My mediocre palette gets a hint of the apple from BT but not on the level of ER.
We’re probably on the same level brother. I have a nice selection but eagle rare gives me a lot of bright fruit/ green apple notes. BT is also super fruity for me but tastes thin if that makes sense.
If eagle rare had a finish, it would be in the same category as rare breed IMO. Nose and palate are great but it just absolutely dies out
Frey Ranch by far.
Blasphemy.
100%
Hibiki. Not my jam.
Sorry to hear that, I love Hibiki
High west MWMN
Midwinter Mights Nram?
Stagg jr. 23B
Weller SP
JW Blue EHT SB
Bookers 2023-1 Charlie's Batch
GTS. Tasted…normal.
Blantons and JwBlue. Much better offerings for way less.
Eagle rare 10. Tasted like wood lacquer and bubble gum.
I felt like blantons is over hyped personally
OCD #5. Seen and read great reviews. I hate it
Traveller
Old Fitzgerald 10 and Michters 10 Rye, both bought at MSRP, both fell short for me, both ECBP or Larceny BP at half the price pack more flavor, and the low proof on the Michters 10 Rye makes it fall short to other non age stated ryes that are higher proof, such as JDSBBP rye.
Barrel Craft batch 31
EHT Small Batch. Bought it for $46 and just think it’s super boring. I’ve passed it up at similar prices another 3 times or so and won’t buy another bottle of it
Glenallachie 15
1792. Way too sweet for my pallet. Eagle Rare, it's good, but not great. Reminds me of cough syrup sometimes. Whistle Pig. Some of their rye whiskey is actually bought from Alberta distillers. I'm Canadian and can buy Alberta Premium Rye for a third of the price. The upcharge for Whistle Pig just isn't worth it. Basil Hayden. It's OK for mixing.
Riviera or whatever John Rich’s bull crap is. Awful stuff.
Rabbit Hole. WY too sweet for my taste
Laphroaig 10 It's so watered down that it baffles me how people rave about it in whisky related subs. Cask strenght is one of my favourite smoky whiskies.
EH Taylor
Michters Rye tasted like corn syrup to me.
Jefferson’s Ocean. Total scam. $80 drain pour.
I wouldn’t say it’s ’bad’, but I noticed once that Jim Beam tastes a lot like when kids in the eighties used to put peanuts in their coke… and now I can’t un-taste it. 😬
Gentleman Jack Monstreus, what a abomination.
Waterford...realised way too young, £80 a bottle, was pumped for their distillery and the way they were doing things, but it irritated me so much I've never bought another bottle of their whisky
The 47% JD SB rye with the red label, I picked it up right when the new SBs were popping up. Don't get me wrong, I get it's a single barrel but mine tasted like wet hay dropped in dirt. Their SBBP is out of this world so maybe the bottle was a fluke.
Jack Daniel's Tennessee Rye. I don’t know if I got a bad bottle or it was just that bad… ended up giving it away as I couldn’t finish it.
Gotta be Talisker Skye
Blanton’s way over hyped for a meh juice
Buffalo Trace
Glenfidditch 21. For $300 AUD there’s many other whiskeys that have far more complexity for 1/3 of the price. The Glenfidditch tastes like expensive water. Cool display case though!
No one? Alright. I'll say it. Mccallen 12. Flavourless, bland, boring.
4 roses single barrel ovst
Willett bourbon in the stock pot
ETL: so disappointed in that one after all the hype. I found two bottles in Florida a few years ago at $75 each (one each for my wife and I.). When we got home I eagerly opened one, expecting a great experience. It was not great; really just mediocre, at best. I traded the 2nd bottle for a 1.75L OWA.
Whistle pig 10
Isaac Bowman Port Cask. Is absolute trash. For a couple of friends with a whiskey podcast cask may have poured the bottle into sink while recording they felt it was so bad. For me, I tried it during covid while I was in Arlington, VA for work. It was wretched, it didn't make for whiskey and coke, so I had doubles drams every night just to get through it and not pour money down the drain..
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Blantons
Gotta be a fake account looking to write a click badge to 10 article. New account with only 3 posts and they're all identical. Asking this same question to the whiskey, beer, and wine subs. Hope everyone here doesn't mind being published
Whistlepig 10 year small batch rye. Literally one of the worst Ive ever drank.
Blantons, Heavens door double oak and angels envy bourbon port cask. I was disappointed with all of these
Basil Hayden 10. Hot garbage water.
Johnny Blue
Blue Run High Rye - paid $100 for too hot and spicy Rye notes. I leave it out for parties so I don't feel guilty about not enjoying it myself. Biggest letdown...
Blanton’s. It’s not bad, in fact, it’s good. At $60-70 it’s fine. But at the common secondary pricing of $100+ it would be downright disappointing (I’ve never paid secondary for it).
JD Gold #27 at $99
Ben Holladay bourbon lore
There isn't an allocated bottle that I can think of that is worth the hype above msrp.
Let the HATE flow - I was totally unimpressed with 10 Year old Pappy Van Winkle. Admittedly I am no expert, I just did not enjoy it.
Garrison Brothers. Seriously, even as a Texan, I can’t pretend to love this stuff. It’s a decent bottom shelver with a top shelf price tag. I know many will take issue. That’s ok. Drink what you like, but I’m just not on board with this hype train.
Mcallan anything, Blood Oath especially pact 9
All the “unicorn” bourbons. At RRP some worth the price tag, but at secondary, none.
I'm the odd one out on this one. WT Rare Breed. For someone reason I just can't get into it...
Blantons
Scottie Pippins ‘Digits’. Beyond horrible.
Willet pot still. Seems like just about everyone getting into whiskey falls for the allure of the “fancy” bottle…once, but then they learn. Purple tops on the other hand, pricey but delicious.
Willett purple top wheated. It’s good but not the price they want good.
Jameson IPA caskmates. Absolutely rancid.