The Hard Liquor and Miscellaneous Stiff Drinks Thread

[Sasaki Kojiro]

The problem is the 80 proof Canadian import JD tastes harsher (and not in a good way) than the pure 101 stuff that y'all get down there. Not the same quality it seems.

I don't think it's ever been 101 proof. Originally was 90 I believe, but they got bought out and the proof was dropped to 86 and then down to 80.

I had a taste of the JD Single Barrel at the "luxury" booze store in Montreal last summer. Not at all pleasent. It was beyond smokey, it tasted like a burnt piece of wood. Very sad. I was looking forward to something really special. Who knows, maybe the single barrel stuff was cut as well before it came north. Such a perversion if true.

Yah, JD is very smokey. Matter of taste I suppose. Like I said, the reason it's so popular is that it's so well known and marketed as a manly man's drink. As for quality it's more on the $10 a fifth level. Still good but not as good as makers, wild turkey etc. even though it's priced at that level.

The bottle design is one of the best:

As far as top shelf bourbon goes, Knob Creek is just about only one we see on a semi-regular basis around here. (Quebec is big on beer, wine and vodka, with a good amount of scotch drinkers as well. But the bourbon crowd is fed mostly with luck.)

Tasty.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v.../knobcreek.jpg

I'd like to try it some time. I'm always wary of the top shelf stuff because it's common sense that there's a point where you can't improve the bourbon anymore, and that the companies will push beyond that point just because people will pay for it. I'd like to try the wild turkey rare breed/kentucky spirit stuff as well.