Blind Tasting: Bourbon County 2020 Single Barrel (Easter Egg Set)

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  1. not2quick

    not2quick Grand Pooh-Bah (3,600) Dec 1, 2015 Missouri
    BA4LYFE Society Pooh-Bah Trader

    I was able to acquire a set of the Chicago only single barrel Bourbon County "Easter egg" set from a great BA'r @sblickem

    I had a beer share with 9 participants voting. The beers were sampled blindly and everyone was to rank from best to last. I put in a regular Bourbco as well. So it was the Heaven Hill, Buffalo Trace, Wild Turkey and regular. My hypothesis was that the votes would be all over the place with great varying discrepancies.

    Upon sampling I really had a hard time differentiating between the bottles. They were all outstanding with perhaps some subtle differences. Once everyone cast their votes I was surprised to see that two bottles stood out as being the best, separated by one point and two stood out to be the worst and was also separated by one vote. This is the results:

    #1 Heaven Hill
    #2 Wild Turkey
    #3 Regular
    #4 Buffalo Trace

    Anyone else have a tasting with the single barrel bottles? What did you think? It was a fun experiment and I'd like to do more blind tastings in the future.
     
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  2. AMessenger

    AMessenger Aspirant (269) Mar 17, 2018 Pennsylvania

    I wish. Was there notable difference in the intensity of whisky character in these examples?
     
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  3. tolar111

    tolar111 Grand Pooh-Bah (3,094) Aug 17, 2008 New York
    Society Pooh-Bah Trader

    Wow, that's really super impressive!
     
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  4. not2quick

    not2quick Grand Pooh-Bah (3,600) Dec 1, 2015 Missouri
    BA4LYFE Society Pooh-Bah Trader

    I felt they were all pretty damn similar. Made it tough to rank.
     
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  5. CB_Michigan

    CB_Michigan Pooh-Bah (1,552) Sep 4, 2014 Illinois
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    Interesting, I had 2 bottles of the HH in Dec and got way more alcohol heat than Regular. So much that it totally overwhelmed both the base stout and the other barrel characteristics. :frowning2: Didn't bother trying to find WT or BT.
     
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  6. Rustytacos

    Rustytacos Initiate (0) Mar 19, 2018 California
    Trader

    Can we get the point totals?
     
  7. not2quick

    not2quick Grand Pooh-Bah (3,600) Dec 1, 2015 Missouri
    BA4LYFE Society Pooh-Bah Trader

    Everyone rank 1-4, the lower the score the better.

    HH-17
    WT- 18
    Reg -27
    BT-28

    HH-1,3,2,1,1,4,1,2,2
    WT- 2,1,1,2,4,2,2,3,1
    Reg- 4,2,3,4,2,1,4,4,3
    BT- 3,4,4,3,3,3,3,1,4

    I ranked them WT, HH, Reg, BT
     
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