Matty's Ranking of Bourbons and Tennessee Whiskeys
Crack-like
1. Jack Daniel's Single Barrel
2. Maker's 46
3. Maker's Mark
4. Buffalo Trace
5. Bulleit
6. Eagle Rare Single Barrel
7. Fighting Cock
Excellent
8. Booker's
9. Wild Turkey 101
10. Woodford Reserve Something or Other
11. Knob Creek Single Barrel Reserve
12. Knob Creek
13. Four Roses (yellow label, 80 proof)
14. Four Roses Small Batch
15. Old Fitzgerald's 1849
16. 1792 Ridgemont Reserve
17. Elijah Craig 12 Years
Good
18. Corner Creek
19. Jim Beam Black
20. Jack Daniel's Old No. 7
21. Gentleman Jack
22. Jefferson's
23. Jim Beam White
Bad
24. Wild Turkey 80
Booker's debuts at #8. Big bold flavor and intimidating red color. Gimmicky packaging that's supposed to make it look like some kind of redneck luxury item. This is apparently bottled straight from the barrel, uncut and unfiltered. It reminds us of Fighting Cock but with less of a distinctive flavour. Bit of a disappointment especially considering the price point ($70!) We will enjoy this bottle but there's no way we're ever buying this again. I think we'll skip over the other small batch stuff from the Beam family (Basil Hayden's and Baker's) since we're clearly not a big fan of theirs (mind you, we do like regular Jim Beams, white and black labels).
We'd be a lot more enthusiastic about Booker's if it was priced under 50 dollorz. As it is, it feels like a bit of a rip-off even though the liquid is well above average.
good job kato
I wanna live in the States just to have access to that stuff kato-san. Rye's the bomb.
