It's "just" 5-year MGP bourbon but the folks at Smokeye Hill are doing a bangup job of blending barrels; here's hoping they can keep it up (though I'm not sure what they're doing with the barrels that can't contribute to this profile). Compare this against any other barrel-proof, young MGP and this is clearly in another category. It's not a GTS-killer, but it is solid top-shelf ($70-90) whiskey if you see it in your corner shop.
Reminder. This was up against GTS. Which makes the idea that it would win the Small Batch category let alone the whole contest absurd at best. Let's face it. It's not going to out perform sjr let alone gts.
this wasn't tasted side by side with gts, but out of all of the different judging segments, the judges ranked it higher, but they aren't sipping 30+ whiskeys side by side.
@@dneuens So what was the point of even ranking them if they aren't going to do them side by side? Kind of makes the whole process seem even more absurd 🤷♂
@@BourbonForageFishing They taste hundreds of releases and use a composite scoring system to average the scores, at least to the best of my understanding. They couldn’t possibly taste every bourbon next to every other bourbon.
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It's "just" 5-year MGP bourbon but the folks at Smokeye Hill are doing a bangup job of blending barrels; here's hoping they can keep it up (though I'm not sure what they're doing with the barrels that can't contribute to this profile).
Compare this against any other barrel-proof, young MGP and this is clearly in another category. It's not a GTS-killer, but it is solid top-shelf ($70-90) whiskey if you see it in your corner shop.
I've heard this is contract distilled specifically for Smokeye Hill's parent NDP by MGP. MGP normally doesn't do blue corn bourbon.
Distilled in Indiana…. MGP I would think.
It's their 21% rye bourbon mashbill.
Reminder. This was up against GTS. Which makes the idea that it would win the Small Batch category let alone the whole contest absurd at best. Let's face it. It's not going to out perform sjr let alone gts.
this wasn't tasted side by side with gts, but out of all of the different judging segments, the judges ranked it higher, but they aren't sipping 30+ whiskeys side by side.
Different tasters got different samples, so this wasn’t put up “against” GTS. Plenty tasted GTS that didn’t taste SeH, and visa versa.
@@dneuens So what was the point of even ranking them if they aren't going to do them side by side? Kind of makes the whole process seem even more absurd 🤷♂
@@BourbonForageFishing They taste hundreds of releases and use a composite scoring system to average the scores, at least to the best of my understanding. They couldn’t possibly taste every bourbon next to every other bourbon.
@@dneuens
Seems like a deeply flawed system 🤔
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