ETL was off the shelves at Twin by 13:30. They did manage to pull a bottle out of the back for me though. Also picked up a bottle of Russell's Reserve Single Barrel after reading this review:
"Now, Russell's Reserve Single Barrel is a different beast altogether. It's a bourbon, like the Russell's 10 Year, but it's a bourbon like Barry Bonds was a baseball player. This is bourbonamplified. While most bourbon is chill-filtered to remove fat compounds that make the liquor cloudy, Russell's Single Barrel is unfiltered. Distillers typically blend several barrels to even out the character of a bottle of whiskey, but Russell's Single Barrel is, well, bottled from a single barrel. All of this is designed to offer an intensity that you typically don't find in bourbon.
Wild Turkey uses the world "explosive" when talking about the Single Barrel and this is one situation where the marketing speak is dead on. The Single Barrel smells like a damned candy bar, it's so rich with caramel and vanilla notes.
It's incredibly intense, with a significant amount of heat, even after dropping a massive ice cube in the glass (beginner bourbon drinkers beware, this is 110 proof hooch). But along with that big whiskey heat, you get huge sweet notes, and a big, round body. Altogether, this bourbon is unforgettable. My only concern is that the Single Barrel is so intense, it might ruin other, more tame bourbons for me in the future. Like when you binge watch The Walking Dead and then you go out into the real world and are kind of disappointed that the postman is just delivering your mail and not trying to eat you. Yeah, it's like that."
"Now, Russell's Reserve Single Barrel is a different beast altogether. It's a bourbon, like the Russell's 10 Year, but it's a bourbon like Barry Bonds was a baseball player. This is bourbonamplified. While most bourbon is chill-filtered to remove fat compounds that make the liquor cloudy, Russell's Single Barrel is unfiltered. Distillers typically blend several barrels to even out the character of a bottle of whiskey, but Russell's Single Barrel is, well, bottled from a single barrel. All of this is designed to offer an intensity that you typically don't find in bourbon.
Wild Turkey uses the world "explosive" when talking about the Single Barrel and this is one situation where the marketing speak is dead on. The Single Barrel smells like a damned candy bar, it's so rich with caramel and vanilla notes.
It's incredibly intense, with a significant amount of heat, even after dropping a massive ice cube in the glass (beginner bourbon drinkers beware, this is 110 proof hooch). But along with that big whiskey heat, you get huge sweet notes, and a big, round body. Altogether, this bourbon is unforgettable. My only concern is that the Single Barrel is so intense, it might ruin other, more tame bourbons for me in the future. Like when you binge watch The Walking Dead and then you go out into the real world and are kind of disappointed that the postman is just delivering your mail and not trying to eat you. Yeah, it's like that."
