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

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.

 

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

 

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