But I did, and it’s the worst fucking part. Nose: I haven’t poured this for months, and I have dog allergies and live with a dog, so I didn’t expect to completely get the nose. I paid $75-100 for this bottle and I have to employ cognitive dissonance with every pour, even though that money went out to do better things than drink this bourbon. I ended up with a perfectly decent Woodford select and…. I went to a charity bourbon event several years ago to support UK football/charity and, being a recent law/business school grad, let’s just say I wasn’t in the running for anything good. Without a doubt, the ugliest experience I’ve had with bourbon is a neat pour of this Bird Dog Very Small Batch 10 Year.
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BIRD DOG 10 YEAR BOURBON FULL
The 50ml sample bottle I picked up only went so far.Īnother big virtue of Bird Dog Peach is the price: a full 750ml bottle typically runs $20. I imagine it would be dynamite as an iced tea mixer, but that will need to wait for another time. Putting it on ice in no way dulls the flavor, and turns it into a rather refreshing drink. The finish is of moderate warmth and length, leaving a syrupy, peachy aftertaste.Īlthough I fail to see much point to drinking Bird Dog Peach neat, I can see much merit to it as a summertime whiskey served on the rocks. A slight, cloying, alcoholic astringency lies underneath, a reminder of the young and unremarkable whiskey at the center of the drink. The flavor follows from there, with no surprises: super strong sweet peach with a shot of vanilla. Just a hint of vanilla and a very slight alcoholic tinge are, in fact, all that lies there to remind you it isn’t strong peach tea. The nose is very peachy and sweet, like strongly brewed peach tea. My guess is the peach flavoring has darkened what would otherwise be a very young-looking bourbon, because the coloring in tthe glass is honey gold. That in and of itself is something noteworthy, since you don’t see too many fifth-bottles of whiskey in the $20 range sporting a nice stopper like that. The BourbonBird Dog Peach is bottled at 80 proof (40% abv) in a clear glass bottle with a nice wood and cork stopper. Add to that the knowledge that flavored whiskey of this type is usually meant for cocktails (see Jim Beam Red Stag or DYC Red One), and the questions become 1) what does the flavoring do for the immature whiskey 2) is that enough to make it drinkable on its own? Because the whiskey does not bear the appellation “straight,” and because Bird Dog does not claim to have its own distillery, we know that the bourbon in question is both sourced and under two years old. Hawking its wares under the tagline “this dog don’t bite,” Bird Dog’s line begins and ends with flavored bourbon. and the U.K., but it’s not the only player in flavoring whiskey, as Bird Dog amply demonstrates. Honey whiskey has been getting much of the attention lately, both in the U.S. These days it seems every big distillery is either getting into secondary maturation, or barrel finishing, or producing flavored whiskey. Just like vodka before it, whiskey is experiencing a boomtime-driven expansion into the area of flavored liquor.
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