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re: World's best bourbon blind taste test concludes worlds is best a 25 dollar bottle.

Posted on 10/20/26 at 7:41 am to
Posted by Bunk Moreland
Member since Dec 2010
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Posted on 10/20/26 at 7:41 am to
We just got Willett in Michigan last year.

When I went to the distillery three years ago, people were going crazy for the purple tops. But, those were like $250.
Posted by lsusa
Doing Missionary work for LSU
Member since Oct 2005
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Posted on 10/20/26 at 8:06 am to
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I've had Pappy a few times and never was impressed. Never understood what all the hype was about. It was good, just not worth the price.


I had Pappy for the first time recently and was impressed, but absolutely agree it’s not worth the price.
Posted by GeorgeTheGreek
Sparta, Greece
Member since Mar 2008
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Posted on 10/20/26 at 8:10 am to
My 2021 Jack Daniel’s Coy Hill is all I need. Nothing else compares.
Posted by BrohemAlem11
Ratchet City, LA
Member since Oct 2014
14117 posts
Posted on 10/20/26 at 8:19 am to
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I did the craft beer thing, and there's been a lot of carnage in the industry with breweries shutting down. I hope it's the bourbon "cheaters" that get squeezed out and not the actual distillers.


I think you will... the real distillers putting out good juice generally have a wide enough portfolio to keep them going..... but to your point we should start to see the death of all these "labels" that are just 5-6 year MGP reject barrels
Posted by TideCPA
Member since Jan 2012
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Posted on 10/20/26 at 8:24 am to
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Eagle Rare, Blantons, and many others are 2-3X what they *should* cost.
Always kept a bottle of ER in the cabinet when I was out of college. $25 and probably my favorite overall bourbon.

I haven't seen a bottle in the wild in Alabama in probably a decade, and I'm not paying $45 or whatever for it when WT 101 is sitting there at half the price, and I enjoy it nearly as much.
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Posted by clamdip
Rocky Mountain High
Member since Sep 2004
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Posted on 10/20/26 at 8:24 am to
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Any bottle of bourbon you see that says "Bottled in Bond" will be pretty much as good as bourbon can be.

I agree. I've not had a BiB that was not above average. Bulleit BiB is excellent. Their standard bourbon is shite.

If you see it, try Walker Percy's favorite: Early Times BiB. Cheap and very good.
Posted by RedlandsTiger
Greenwell Springs, LA
Member since Jan 2008
3238 posts
Posted on 10/20/26 at 8:27 am to
Not if people are buying it. It's the law of supply vs. demand.
Posted by ghoast
Member since Jul 2020
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Posted on 10/20/26 at 8:31 am to
Try the Evan Williams Bottled in Bond… if you know, you know…
Posted by FliesByNight
Whale, wail, well
Member since Apr 2026
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Posted on 10/20/26 at 8:47 am to
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World's best bourbon blind taste test concludes worlds is best a 25 dollar bottle.


That's why I always buy the handle of Jim Bean for like $25. I've tried $50 and $60 for a fifth of the "fancier" stuff, and I can't tell much of a difference. Maybe my pallet isn't refined enough or what, but it doesn't make sense to spend 4x to 5x more for something that taste the same to me.
Posted by BitBuster
Lafayette
Member since Dec 2017
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Posted on 10/20/26 at 9:03 am to
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Always kept a bottle of ER in the cabinet when I was out of college. $25 and probably my favorite overall bourbon.


Same. I remember going into Rouses and they had single barrel store select ER on the shelf for months. It was $27/bottle and I could pick it up any time I wanted. Regular ER was, like you said, $25/bottle.

Then, something happened and availability evaporated overnight. Maybe it was a combination of the barrel house fire at BT and the craft beer shitlords transitioning over to bourbon. I don't know, but it sucks for the casual.
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