Anyone care to do a rundown of all the acronyms in this thread? I'd love to be on the lookout for some things listed here to try, but I can only identify a handful of the labels listed as acronyms here. TIA!

We generally do a poor job keeping folks abreast of abbreviations. Heck, I have to figure out a few.

Nice list HD06!

I don't understand how people remember all the details that many of y'all do on bourbon. I had two friends over on Friday night and they had three prime bourbons (according to them) to taste, and I can't even recall what they are on Monday. It's dizzying what y'all remember.


I have the same observation on golf. Some friends can recall every round, almost every shot, for years. I remember that I played golf last weekend, but I can't replay every shot like some people can.


I guess I'm just not wired for it. (and to respect that, knowing I wouldn't appreciate it, I refrained from drinking their expensive bourbon and just had some cheap beers!)

Time, experience, passion..

To most people, whiskey is whiskey. You throw it down your throat, wince, make some joke about being tough because you stomached whiskey, then you go drink your hop flavored piss water.

Most of us, at some point, realized that when sipped at the right temperature and at the right pace, there were flavors beyond the standard "whiskey" flavor that we were tasting. Then we got curious. We started reading about the different types. We starting buying. Then we compare them. The we read more, engage our friends and family, taste more, but more. On and on.

Whiskey is unrivaled except for wine in the nuances and variety of flavors you can get. The whiskey world is crazy, but once you learn the basics of bourbon, irish, scotch, Canadian, etc it really isn't hard to form the knowledge.