:dubious: Your massive, zillion-bottle bourbon and scotch collection says otherwise.
I voted for Maker’s, but I’ve been drinking Maker’s 46 as my usual since I found it. It’s a little mild sometimes though. I like the vanilla in Maker’s Mark. Knob Creek is also good, but I don’t like is quite as much as Jefferson’s Reserve, Woodford Reserve, or Elijah Craig.
Thanks for the link, lieu. My husband’s in Colorado at the moment, so I emailed him to see if he can find it for me.
Maker’s or Woodford. Never had Knob Creek, but I’ve driven by the distillery a few times.
Hey, that collection took years to amass. The Scotch collection is shrinking, slowly but surely, since I’m not really replacing bottles as they give up their last drops.
Stop it. I can’t afford to buy new Whiskey right now!
You too!
This may have just become my favorite thread ever.
Just know that it comes from a place of pure envy, not populist outrage ;).
Yes yes, even with a vagina I am well versed on all of the differences and enjoy quite a few; it’s easier to group them all as “whiskeys”. I still maintain that all scotch tastes like trumped-up paint thinner (yes, I’ve had stuff as good as Balvenie Doublewood and the Glen’s).
We’re covering the French Revolution in my AP Euro class this week, so I wanted to make sure. Maybe if Louie had spent more time slugging back shots with the masses instead of sipping champagne he’d have come to a better end. 
On iceso it looks like Knob Creek. Interesting that one is good by itself while the other is better for mixing but then again I got some honey Seagrams 7 (seems like the new trend is a honey whiskey) and promptly ruined it by adding 7up to make a 7&7.
Jim Beam, One of the finests burbons around and a quarter the cost.
I absolutely agree. I have two bottles I’m afraid to drink because I worry that I’ll never find an adequate replacement. The 18yo is very nice as well, and less intimidating, so I go through it reasonably quickly.
Oh yeah? If you believe that, well I’ve got some subprime mortgages to sell you…
Naw. Jim Beam (at least the regular 4 year) is just utility bourbon. I don’t like drinking that stuff neat. It’s not terrible, but it’s not anywhere near the same league as Maker’s or Knob Creek, both solid mid-range bourbons (though I prefer Knob Creek.) And I’m not sure where you are that it’s a quarter of the price. Around here, a fifth of Beam is about $17, a fifth of Makers is about $25, and a fifth of Knob is around $30.
I am proud, yet humbled as a bourbon drinker. You guys rawk!
Let’s hear from those pussy [whatever] drinkers!
You can get a fifth of Knob for $30? Where do you live?
Chicago. Feel free to look it up here. (That’s a link to Binny’s, a local liquor megastore.) If you look online, you can find it for even cheaper.
ETA: Now that I think about it, I’m pretty sure I’ve seen it in the mid-$20s at Costco, too.
You realize, don’t you, that Knob Creek, Basil Hayden, Baker’s and Booker’s are all made by Jim Beam, and all made at the same distillery? They all start out from the same barrels - it’s just a matter of aging and where in the warehouse the barrels came from. (The ones in the very center of the rack are less subject to temperature fluctuations and are therefore smoother.)
Granted, Knob Creek tastes better than regular 4 year Jim Beam, but they both began from the same mash.
No they don’t. The grain bills for each are different. Just because the same distillery produces them doesn’t mean they all have the same recipe. Even if they did, so what? Mouton Rothchild and Mouton Cadet are made by the same chateau from the same grapes, but to say there is a few parsecs of difference between the two is ridiculous. Aging, blending and polish are everything.
Yes. That’s partly why I specifically name the 4-year Jim Beam in my post (which is what I assume people are talking about when they generically refer to “Jim Beam.”)
This I know nothing about it, but, assuming it’s true, I don’t understand your point. You admit that Knob Creek is better than Jim Beam (White) yourself.
Ain’t nothin’ wrong with Jim Beam. No, I wouldn’t put the standard white label on my list of Fine, Must-Drink Bourbons, but I wouldn’t shake a stick at it. To me, it tastes most like “what bourbon is supposed to taste like,” if that makes sense to anyone. It’s a little rough around the edges (I’m actually a strange duck who goes for that sort of thing), but still not bad. Jim Beam Black is worth a shot, for any Beam naysayers.
If you like it rough ( 
) try the aforementioned Redemption bourbon. Different shaped bottle, and it’s barely 2 years old.
I, of course, meant “isn’t a few parsecs” in my previous post.
Where’s my coffee?