This is really goood

This is gonna blow peoples minds... but by and large the American Whiskeys you buy over-seas are not the same ones you get in the Domestic Market, the rules are, well, not as strict for export vs. domestic consumption.

If you are drinking the "real deal" in most places in Europe it will be 1.5-2.5x as expensive as in the USA. If you're drinking the Export juice, it'll be cheaper of course, and also usually no where near the quality of the domestic product.

How do I differentiate?

Depends on the country, and the brand, a good way to tell is proof levels. Also, some less good brands subtly change the label, calling it "American Bourbon" instead of "Kentucky Bourbon" or "Whiskey" instead of "Bourbon".

They might not change anything at all, but instead of the "hearts" of the distillate, you're getting the heads and tails, less quality barrels, less quality blending, etc.

the Export market is where juice that got rejected by the soms and the distillery can get re-blended and sold off, because, frankly, most people outside the USA don't even have a clue what a good bourbon is, let alone if the one they got is somehow inferior to the domestic product.

Makes sense. Was wondering how shipping it across the world made it cheaper.

Sorry it's got nothing on maker's

Makers is literally babbys first bourbon, it has the highest sweetness of nearly any bourbon on the market. Each glass of makers is like taking a real Bourbon, adding a spoonful of simple syrup, and mixing it. We literally call it "cocktail in a bottle" it's so sweet compared to most good bourbons.

It's an overly sweet high-wheat mash-bill bourbon for 21 year olds trying to be old men and old men who don't know what the fuck they're doing.

FFS people, Knob Creek, Makers, Bulliet are all actually pretty crap, there are literally dozens of better bourbons but you all insist on drinking the popular brands because that's all you know, and then somehow you end up tying your identity to one brand and boom, you're that idiot who tries to tell me Makers Mark is better than Jefferson's Reserve.

Thank you for projecting so goddamn hard. If you'd pull your head put of your ass you'd see I was making the exact same point you were. Makers is shit and is still better than this swill. Calm down faggot

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I'd love to try that but sadly I'm in Canada so shipping is impossible and prices are fucked up (Whistlepig 10 is over $130 at LCBO).

Slightly off topic, but the other day I was in the liquor store and there's this guy punting samples of "bourbon" out of Breckenridge CO, it wasn't bad at all tbqh, but I felt compelled (autism) to scold the guy for calling it "bourbon." He was just some cunt, had no idea what I was talking about, and looked at me like a cow who just got hit with a hammer. I didn't buy a bottle.

tl;dr: when the fuck they decide they can call whiskey made outside KY bourbon?

>when the fuck they decide they can call whiskey made outside KY bourbon

since always?

Jim Beam makes a damn decent everday rye as well

Rye is almost always better than bourbon.

Bourbon is a style

Kentucky Straight Bourbon is a protected name.

Also, that CO whiskey is actually not horrible. Yes it's bourbon, it's more than 51% corn in the mash-bill aged in new american oak barrels for 3 years minimum, meaning it's totally a bourbon, it's just not a Kentucky Straight bourbon.

And yes, there is a big argument going on over all that, but technically he was right, it's bourbon... also don't sperg out on the poor local marketing guy, he's usually not even a brand employee.

Yep, JB rye is good. My two everyday ryes right now are Old Overhold and Rittenhouse.

If you like JB, get a bottle of the bonded JB, it's awesome.

>While bourbon may be made anywhere in the United States, it is strongly associated with the American South, and with Kentucky in particular.
either clever ruse or actual autist that went of on an innocent man working

>don't sperg out
I wasn't a dick about it, just a mention, like "this is good but it shouldn't be called bourbon," I know the guy was just doing his job, OTH, you *should* know something about what your selling, but it is what it is. I had always though "bourbon" was a protected term, like Champaign, should have read the wiki before my shitpost

the whiskey gods forgive you, go forth and sin no more.

Bulleit is cheaper than all of those so you have 0 idea what you're saying

my favorite bourbon and reasonably priced to boot

It always tastes off to me. I dunno why, but there's just something weird in the taste that I don't get from other bourbons, and I can't stand it.

its kinda caramel-ish imo

>Champaign
Does your pretentious stupidity ever end

Breckenridge is great, you know it because you tried it, and you were still a fucking asshole? Don't be such an elitist and enjoy the good stuff that's given to you, prick.

We had this stuff at work over the past two nights. I don't think a single person disliked it. It's definitely a very enjoyable bourbon.

This will be my next bottle.

Saw it in the store tonight and considered it. However, they had their 10 year old bottle right next to it for $50. I mulled it over and decided for something else tonight, but my next bottle will likely be the 10 year aged.

It's barely cheaper then Buffalo Trace and that blows Bullet out of the water.

>101
My brethren

I stick to 101 when I'm just looking to have a drink. I've tried a ridiculous number of whiskies in my life and I enjoy trying new ones but I'm not made of money these days. At work I use Jack Daniel's quite a bit in my baking recipes and it works really well for that application. Never really enjoyed drinking it because it's sweeter than I like and smells like bananas but that makes it perfect for dessert recipes.

It's about 5$ cheaper and on the same level, if not better. I'd rate them pretty equal, personally.

I've had only one rye and it tasted like the smell of shoe polish

This thread is exactly the same as every other thread here. STOP LIKING WHAT I DON'T LIKE!! I mean seriously this is every bit as bad a faggot containment board as /mlp/ and /r9k/. There is no genuine discussion or debate. Rampant faggotry and cancer. Fuck this place. MODS = FAGS
HANDS FREE FAPPING
FUCK YOU FAGGOT MODS COME AT ME

dude relax and have a few fingers of bulleit, if you really want indepth discussion go to a whisky and bourbon forum or join a club, this is fucking Veeky Forums

its pretty overrated, IMO. not really any better than JD even though its nearly ten bucks more for a fifth

>tfw champagne can be made in a few other places then france
i feel like a cunt telling people, but it's true

You mean sparking wine can be made outside of France

No, because literally all champagne is sparkling white wine made in Champagne. Is it better than other sparkling white wine? It doesn't matter; the appeal is to make stupid whores and black people think you're intelligent and cultured for buying it over other white wine.

Oh shit, I don't hear much talk about Eagle Rare.

That was my first night getting drunk, thought it was fuckin fantastic. How does something like four roses compare?