The Buffalo Trace Lineup Blind Ranked!

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  • Опубликовано: 5 апр 2023
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  • @chrispankey807
    @chrispankey807 Год назад +204

    This might be my favorite video of all time. I would love to see you run it back with other distilleries.

    • @BourbonJunkies
      @BourbonJunkies  Год назад +31

      For sure will in the future

    • @marcremington7375
      @marcremington7375 Год назад +5

      Agreed absolutely loved this one.

    • @mrgoogan
      @mrgoogan Год назад +5

      I agree with the agreement 🤝

    • @apeekintime
      @apeekintime Год назад +3

      You must love this channel then, half the content has been about these exact bottles. I enjoy this content too but it's getting a bit old seeing Blantons, WLW, and/or GTS in almost every lineup.

    • @ericmorris9660
      @ericmorris9660 Год назад

      This! Yes!

  • @nygiantsfan3342
    @nygiantsfan3342 Год назад +5

    The results. You’re welcome
    10. BT
    9. EHTSmB
    8. OWA107
    7. Blantons
    6. ER
    5. Stagg Jr
    4. RHF
    3. EHTSingle
    2. WLW
    1. GTS

  • @columboscandela
    @columboscandela Год назад +83

    It'd be cool to have a series where you guys rank every legacy distillery's offerings then have a final blind with the winners.

    • @apeekintime
      @apeekintime Год назад

      Or just do something that is not about impossible to find buffalo trace products.

    • @shonk7279
      @shonk7279 Год назад +1

      @@apeekintime Seriously… everything besides Buffalo Trace, Eagle Rare and Blantons I’ve never seen on a shelf anywhere

    • @AudibleVisibIe
      @AudibleVisibIe Год назад +2

      OF next.. Or just brown Forman products in general

    • @AudibleVisibIe
      @AudibleVisibIe Год назад +4

      @@apeekintime they have tons of videos on budget bottles... Budget blinds even

    • @hintonb
      @hintonb Год назад +3

      @@apeekintime Reviewing more exclusive bottles is nice because when you find one you know what to expect

  • @murrayb29
    @murrayb29 Год назад +3

    Love it! It's like an objective based tier list. I can't wait to see you do brown Forman with the old non saz early times and watch it crush!

  • @Ali-Terkia
    @Ali-Terkia Год назад +6

    My guy said heavy rye spice to a wheated bourbon 🤣🤣.
    I loved the video thou, great job guys.

  • @titans77
    @titans77 3 месяца назад +3

    I remember working at a liquor store in 2016 and one of the big bourbon guys that regularly bought stuff from us got one of each bottle in the antique collection. He brought us samples from each bottle a week later and we did a blind tasting of each. I distinctly remember my friend describing it as tasting like "vanilla jet fuel" lmao. It was by far my personal favorite of the lineup

  • @erichartnett41
    @erichartnett41 Год назад +3

    Definitely a fun video. With your collection, you should be able to do this for quite a few distilleries. Seeing how all of the Sagamore variants do against each other would be fun to see.

  • @RocketSauce666
    @RocketSauce666 Год назад +50

    I run a Whiskey Club and we meet monthly to do double blind tastings of 4 or 5 whiskeys. It's been super fun and enlightening and one of the things I have learned to avoid is mixing proofs too much. It's really hard to taste a 125 proof whiskey before or after a 90 proof whiskey and give either a real fair shot. You guys have obviously tasted a hell of a lot more whiskey than our crew, but I think proof, more than similar flavors is the real x-factor in large blinds like this.

    • @robd8167
      @robd8167 Год назад +4

      Spot on.

    • @chrishauser5505
      @chrishauser5505 Год назад

      Like wine tastings to a degree. Need to keep the shot group tight.

    • @sirjcc
      @sirjcc Год назад +1

      totally agree.

    • @RocketSauce666
      @RocketSauce666 Год назад +6

      Yep... I think you really need to keep the proofs within 10 or so points for a fair comparison. Every time we've had 3 things that were 100 or less and one thing that was cask strength, the cask strength gets crushed because it it fire water compared to the others. One of my favorite tastings involved 4 pours that were lower proof and available and then whichever was your favorite, you'd get a step up version that was either older/rarer or higher proof... so if you liked EC Sm Batch, you got to try EC 18 after. If you chose Bardstown Fusion, you got a Discovery, if you went Baker's 7 yr, you got Bookers and if you went Maker's, you got FAE-01. It was really fun to zero in on something you liked and then step up or over to taste something in the same product line. But a Bookers vs. EC18 taste would be terrible.

    • @bc4evernow
      @bc4evernow Год назад

      Very much so. Tastings like this are just for fun.

  • @alanrubin9295
    @alanrubin9295 Год назад

    Brilliant segment. Loved it from beginning to end. Thanks

  • @Bourbonbelly231
    @Bourbonbelly231 Год назад +1

    Excellent video fellas! Love the scoring system 🥃💪🏻

  • @TheBeardedBourbonGuy
    @TheBeardedBourbonGuy Год назад

    Been waiting on this video for a minute!!! Great content and I hope I get to try top 3 at least once in my lifetime lol

  • @19mwright84
    @19mwright84 Год назад +2

    This video is a nice change of pace. You guys should do this with all major distilleries. Old carter next please. 😊

  • @OldFashionedWays
    @OldFashionedWays Год назад

    wow so much whiskey to taste at once. great job. Love this idea. Buffalo Trace has just so many. very crazy. cheers.

  • @823Brad
    @823Brad Год назад

    I love this video. Buffalo Trace is my favorite distillery. Now I'm excited to try some of the top Whiskeys yall ranked.

  • @gipstetz6720
    @gipstetz6720 Год назад +2

    Excellent Excellent vid guy's. Exactly what Everyone wanted to see. Super fun ...super content. Straight to the point. Wham bam thank you.... Thanks a bunch for posting.

  • @RMCB5S4
    @RMCB5S4 Год назад

    Maybe one of my favorite videos of late from y’all … love the rapid fire results!!!! Don’t over think it, just drink it!!!! ❤❤❤

  • @johncannon3593
    @johncannon3593 Год назад +5

    Would love to have seen Weller FP in there.
    Do Wild Turkey next!!

  • @themooseloungepodcast
    @themooseloungepodcast Год назад +1

    I really enjoyed this video you all. Great job., fun to watch, funny. Do it again!!

  • @armonafdjeie1238
    @armonafdjeie1238 Год назад

    Despite the video being a little messy organization haha I love this type of content great video 💚🤘

  • @pickleeater3102
    @pickleeater3102 Год назад +1

    Awesome video. 👌
    Next up, I recommend Jim Beam product line, including the Knob Creeks and Baker's, Booker's etc. obviously.

  • @OakvilleKGB
    @OakvilleKGB Год назад

    Great video! Love a fun double blind!

  • @garyprice6651
    @garyprice6651 Год назад

    One of your best, honest videos .

  • @garyclark8684
    @garyclark8684 Год назад +1

    I’ve only had about half of those but I think it was really spot on. The rankings I mean

  • @mikeives5233
    @mikeives5233 Год назад +18

    Loved that content and appreciate how you did that blind and double blind to reduce any bias! Great format...and you did a nice job of editing what was probably an hour-long raw video. i was fortunate enough to land a 2022 GTS and at first sip it was EASILY the best whiskey I'd ever had...surpassing a tie between an older Lagavulin 12 CS and Ardbeg Dark Cove.

    • @BourbonJunkies
      @BourbonJunkies  Год назад

      Much appreciated!

    • @apeekintime
      @apeekintime Год назад +2

      Comparing GTS and Lagavulin/Ardbeg is a bit weird. They are so different. Hard to put any smokey Scotch in a ranking with a bourbon. Too different. I get comparing rye and bourbon since there are barely legal ryes, and high rye bourbon so there are similarities in the taste profile. Comparing an Islay Scotch to a Bourbon is like ranking Seafood and Ice Cream. You can have a best in each category but you really can't compare the best ice cream to the best seafood unless you are a maniac.

    • @pyotrilyichtchaikovsky3733
      @pyotrilyichtchaikovsky3733 Год назад +4

      @@apeekintime You can still like one better.

    • @mikeives5233
      @mikeives5233 Год назад +1

      Sorry you're unable to reconcile someone evaluating one whiskey experience over another despite them being drastically different flavors. What's the best dinner you've ever had? Was it steak, was it seafood, was it a hamburger? Those aren't the same, but if you said hamburger, I won't argue that your hamburger dinner beat out your best steak dinner. And I won't even think you're a maniac for thinking that.

  • @patrickfinley4152
    @patrickfinley4152 Год назад

    Great video! Keep these coming

  • @timmbottoni3135
    @timmbottoni3135 Год назад

    Thanks, I wish you had done all of the Wellers too, and Hancock's but this is a huge line up to compare.

  • @grantcofojohn1753
    @grantcofojohn1753 Год назад

    THESE ARE THE BEST VLOGS!

  • @_Slicedbread
    @_Slicedbread Год назад +1

    great vid. keep up the good work. looking forward to friday. good luck on matt madness.

  • @fredlabosch5164
    @fredlabosch5164 Год назад

    I'm glad you guys actually make use of the 100 points range in total, not like other people who effectively use a range between 80 and 100.
    And I'm also glad that I'm not the only one detecting a grainy note in many BT products lately. Imo this doesn't correlate with age though, had experienced something similar with a very recent Eagle Rare as well. A lot of heat and roughness probably due to shortened fermentation periods and rushed distillation, neglecting quality to maximize profits. Can't do the same with WLW or GTS, or else, I guess.
    Best of luck with your Virtue project, Cheers dudes!

  • @mattjackson8037
    @mattjackson8037 Год назад +5

    Love how Dan said W107 was very Rye forward spice… Enjoy this type of content, keep it up!

    • @jasonstallman2679
      @jasonstallman2679 Год назад

      So strange cause I don't get spice at all. I think it's so smooth.

    • @TheDwarfInvasion
      @TheDwarfInvasion Год назад

      I get that spice on most wheaters. It can also come across like light effervescence or carbonation.

  • @topekachazz9503
    @topekachazz9503 Год назад

    Great artist love them both. The island one is dreamy.

  • @Nomadt72
    @Nomadt72 Год назад

    The hype the hype! Loved this video

  • @davidvoth7218
    @davidvoth7218 Год назад +2

    Seems like a pretty accurate ranking of them. Only surprise is OWA, but still not too shocking knowing what it's up against

  • @scottallen7195
    @scottallen7195 Год назад

    Fantastic episode!!!!

  • @f0t0b0y
    @f0t0b0y 7 месяцев назад

    This was awesome! Way to be vulnerable guys. 🤣

  • @bman7452
    @bman7452 7 месяцев назад

    I’m just happy that I have 6 out of 10 bottles. Nice vid.

  • @kevinbeauchamp5292
    @kevinbeauchamp5292 Год назад

    Agreed, some of my eht single sp are absolutley the best.

  • @danielturner8798
    @danielturner8798 Год назад

    Love the pairings! Can’t find Girl Scout cookies, but fortunately Aldi has clones for Samoas and Tagalongs!

  • @davereitzel9528
    @davereitzel9528 Год назад +1

    Incredible video! I had my wife do the same for me but I only had the Buffalo Trace, Eagle Rare, and Blantons….. ER won… LOL

  • @dadkicks
    @dadkicks Год назад

    This was exactly what we want to see

  • @brettbelcher4726
    @brettbelcher4726 Год назад

    I think you guys nailed it.

  • @matthewbykowski2353
    @matthewbykowski2353 Год назад +1

    Another fun one. Thanks. Love the blinds, double blinds in particular, of available and affordable bottles. Keep it up. Cheers.

  • @ReverseProof
    @ReverseProof Год назад +1

    Great video! There are no losers in that line up! For me, Blanton's is #9 (second to last) which moves everything else up. Also Stagg Jr. ahead of EHT SIB. Don't know about #1-2, I'm sure you're right placing them there, gonna have to take your word for it. Sean, I think you might have just had an off day on the other 8.

  • @brianfrydl2741
    @brianfrydl2741 Год назад +1

    This video is effing awesome! You guys are getting back to basics and your individual idiosyncrasies. *Sorry Dan, big words.😅 I ❤ Junkies.

  • @BourbonSauced
    @BourbonSauced 6 месяцев назад

    what do you have your DJI mics set at for gain? Have you noticed any bleed over being that close to each other?

  • @thewhiskeycloset
    @thewhiskeycloset Год назад

    Well, that was super fun!

  • @johns.6543
    @johns.6543 Год назад

    This is what we love to see

  • @LanceRomanceF4E
    @LanceRomanceF4E 4 месяца назад

    Perfect timing. Going to the BT distillery tour next month…EH Taylor is on the buys list

  • @Roadhouse-00
    @Roadhouse-00 7 месяцев назад +1

    Kinda curious why Elmer wasn't apart of this reunion 😅

  • @Mr10usdad
    @Mr10usdad 12 дней назад

    Interesting! I love Stagg. It is one of my favorites.

  • @Jason_Batman25
    @Jason_Batman25 Год назад

    These are really cool. How bout one with finished and one with toasted. For sure do more videos like this though!

  • @carrick-on-suir72
    @carrick-on-suir72 Год назад

    Great video fellas!

  • @GTX2202
    @GTX2202 Год назад

    top shelf smirnoff on the far right. cheers

  • @robertrussell840
    @robertrussell840 Год назад

    That was awesome. I can’t find any of them in NJ.

  • @johnflanigan2568
    @johnflanigan2568 Год назад +1

    The bottom 5 makes sense to me as a whole...although i would have guessed a different order

  • @winstonmiller4854
    @winstonmiller4854 Год назад +1

    I don't drink bourbon (yet at least), but I love your videos.

  • @bigreb62
    @bigreb62 Год назад

    Great blind competition

  • @Superman_305
    @Superman_305 Месяц назад +1

    I've tried alot of bourbons because bourbon is the only kind of whiskey i drink and only kind of liquor i drink in general but for me the best bourbon I've ever drinked is the one i bought this past weekend and that blanton's. Damn It was smooth and delicious it was worth the price i paid which considering it's and expensive brand that was $75. Hell as a matter of fact i don't think I'll ever drink another kind of bourbon blanton's is that good. It's my favorite whiskey of them all. 🥃

  • @notsure2105
    @notsure2105 Год назад +1

    Only switch id make is make is the small batch EH Taylor and the eagle rare. If you get a chance the blantons straight from the barrel is excellent. May disrupt the ranking s a bit.

  • @nickyfresh14
    @nickyfresh14 8 месяцев назад

    I’ve been lucky to have tasted this entire lineup, minus WLW. My top 2 is RHF and GTS, so not too surprised how this panned out.

  • @AudibleVisibIe
    @AudibleVisibIe Год назад +4

    Blinds reveal all lmao. Glad you guys aren't afraid to be "wrong"

  • @shaytprevost
    @shaytprevost 3 месяца назад

    This video made me subscribe. Please do 4 more of these from different distilleries and then take the top 2 from all 5 and have a big dog blind tasting!

  • @nvrubley
    @nvrubley Год назад +4

    Would be great to include the cost of each bottle to give a little more context to how good or bad the ratings for each one is...

  • @mplayne
    @mplayne Год назад +1

    Should have dumped the remnants ultimate infinity pour….Thanks for confirming my Eagle Rare love

  • @EKF_FC
    @EKF_FC Год назад

    first-timer. Seeing the cat in the promo early on sealed the deal with the subscribe.

  • @JeffreyR
    @JeffreyR Год назад +1

    It think the only surprise was the 107 being so low, but really all of those are great bottles and its not gonna jump too much for my palate if i knew what it was. cool blind.

  • @SDGolfGuy
    @SDGolfGuy Год назад

    I did a blind buffalo trace and had almost the same thing - minus I ended up having ER and ER in front of the EH taylors.

  • @LeatherDaddy97
    @LeatherDaddy97 Год назад +3

    "That smells like nothing". My exact problem with buffalo trace lol

  • @Ilikebourbonalot
    @Ilikebourbonalot 8 месяцев назад

    Best contest ever.

  • @robinhoodOO7
    @robinhoodOO7 Год назад +4

    The Stagg Jr. was not batch 12. 130.2 proof was Batch 14. Batch 12 is 132.3...I think this might have been mixed up

  • @stoodz
    @stoodz Год назад

    Wow you guys are tough critics. Love the content!

  • @greggpasternack9792
    @greggpasternack9792 Год назад

    this is a great video idea

  • @FNGWhiskey
    @FNGWhiskey Год назад

    This is awesome!

  • @adoyleBU
    @adoyleBU Год назад +1

    I always thought RHF was tater bait (read: Lee, Elmer T.) until I actually got a bottle a couple of years ago. It's quite a delicious pour. No shame at all in ranking it above Stagg Jr.

  • @royn8032
    @royn8032 Год назад

    Fantastic and useful video

  • @DanielBarryIsMyName
    @DanielBarryIsMyName Год назад

    Sean, is that a Karas Kustoms? Love that model!

  • @Admitit09
    @Admitit09 Год назад

    Great video boys

  • @TommyD28
    @TommyD28 Год назад +1

    Sean is never ready for the STAGG!

  • @hulkslayer626
    @hulkslayer626 11 месяцев назад

    You guys were hyping up the WLW and I was like "Oh! OH! Oh yes, which one is it?!" And then my heart dropped because I'll probably never get to try it lol 💔

  • @planecrazyish
    @planecrazyish Месяц назад

    Same test of all of these making old fashioned and sours ? That would be great 👍

  • @jimmelay71
    @jimmelay71 8 месяцев назад

    I wonder if you have to cleanse the nose just like you cleanse the palate to get everything neutral again.

  • @GermanOperaSinger
    @GermanOperaSinger Год назад

    The 2022 GTS might be the greatest bourbon I've ever tasted in my life. It was transcendent. A supernova of flavor bursting in your mouth.

  • @ecarson04
    @ecarson04 Год назад

    EHT single barrel is the highest in the list that I have ever owned. It’s a great pour and bottle. Never Owen any stagg jr or higher options would love to one day though.

  • @lexwaldez
    @lexwaldez Год назад

    which year was the Blanton's? are these all most recent offerings?

  • @John_B.
    @John_B. 4 месяца назад

    what did you say, I'll add 5 to it. "97".... uh oh. lmaooo that was hilarious. this was fun to watch

  • @aaronward428
    @aaronward428 Год назад +3

    Curious where EHTBP would land

  • @Nickcib01
    @Nickcib01 Год назад +1

    If I win, can I get it aged in a Basil Hayden dark rye barrel?

  • @AM2PMReviews
    @AM2PMReviews Год назад +1

    I want to see the benchmark series in this too since I bet some of them beat regular BT.

    • @jaymze44
      @jaymze44 Год назад +1

      Some buds and I blinded batch 15 Stagg jr against 3 different Stagg jr picks. Batch 15 was dead last for all 5 of us and 2 of us didn’t finish it. *then* our buddy revealed he had filled his batch 15 bottle with Benchmark FP. I was bummed as I was hoping for a better fight from it.

    • @AM2PMReviews
      @AM2PMReviews Год назад

      @@jaymze44 oh yeah I just blind tasted the Benchmark SiB and BT and ER. I was shocked how sweet the Benchmark SiB was and the BT had this rough oak flavor. I thought the Sib was better and it was I think 4 years younger and cheaper.

  • @syenet02
    @syenet02 Год назад

    Would love to see the other popular distilleries blinded like BT was.

  • @tillersbourbonchallenge8240
    @tillersbourbonchallenge8240 Год назад

    Great Job 👍

  • @jasonreinecke3569
    @jasonreinecke3569 Год назад +1

    Sometimes I think it's hard to compare a bunch of relatively similar products, because it makes it more difficult to pick up on the flavor of some of them. You get acclimated to certain similar aspects of the products. Kind of like how the tenth drink of slushie tastes different than the first.

    • @BourbonJunkies
      @BourbonJunkies  Год назад

      Yea I'm honestly thinking that's what happened with the stagg Jr. Too much of the same kind of drown it out a little. We were a little rushed on time shooting this so it might have done a little better. Overall I think that's really close to how we'd rank them normally

    • @jasonreinecke3569
      @jasonreinecke3569 Год назад

      @@BourbonJunkies Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. Of course a 130 proof whiskey is going to seem a bit underwhelming when you just drank something else that's, if we're being honest, pretty darn similar to it (other than being lower proof of course).

  • @BATMAN19
    @BATMAN19 Год назад

    Great video

  • @1125mikem
    @1125mikem 10 месяцев назад

    Very entertaining and interesting

  • @jasonloraine1674
    @jasonloraine1674 Год назад +5

    Fun video to watch but for me it doesn’t matter which one is the best or worst because I can’t find any of them on the shelves anyways 😢

    • @rickw5024
      @rickw5024 Год назад

      You can't get BT these days? Since they fired the hoarding distributor it's been readily available here

  • @Kank7605
    @Kank7605 Год назад +1

    Great video fellas. Wild Turkey next?

    • @chargerguy74
      @chargerguy74 Год назад

      Yup, I know Mash and Drum just did it but I’d like to see the Junkies do Wild Turkey as well.

  • @michaelmoorehouse8440
    @michaelmoorehouse8440 Год назад

    "zhere you ghooo buffahlo traceheshe that'shs the ordershs"
    Godspeed gentlemen, you'e done us proud.

  • @chrisbrug7924
    @chrisbrug7924 Год назад +1

    Weller antique 107. Not available here in Finland. Found it in Ireland .

    • @ReverseProof
      @ReverseProof Год назад

      That's too bad. 107 doesn't even have to be your favorite. It's just everything a good bourbon should be.

  • @bourbonapprentice
    @bourbonapprentice Год назад +1

    Next up - Old Forester!

  • @iiVegasI
    @iiVegasI Год назад +2

    You need to separate them by proof. Stagg "Jr", EHTBP, and the barrel proof BTAC all drink dramatically different. It'd be interesting to see how all the 80-100 proofers line up against each other - EHT Small Batch & Single Barrel, Weller CYPB/12-year/Special Reserve, Buffalo Trace, Eagle Rare, ALL of Mash bill 2.

    • @scottbartlett2087
      @scottbartlett2087 Год назад +1

      I agree, jumping back and forth on proof can screw with yer pallet, which they even commented going back a few after getting acclimated towards the end.

  • @Farwalker2u
    @Farwalker2u 11 месяцев назад

    Finally today (May 18, 2023) I was able to find, buy and taste a bottle of Stagg (22B @130 proof)! [Choir music in the background . . . ) for the first time; after looking for years.
    It is soooooooooooooooooooo great. Pricey, yes. Hard to find, yes. But the nose and the flavors are amazing.
    As I am not a "proof hound" like you guys, I would rate E. H. Taylor, Jr. Small Batch as an "A" and Stagg an "S".