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Nice review and pretty close, Ben....looking forward to #3. :)

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Oh, Benny Boy...….. :D

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Posting up soon! #3 was the one that made me realize I have no idea what I'm talking about :sl

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Not true! And you're gonna nail #4, I'm pretty sure of it. :D

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#3 last night. Color is a dark amber, the nose is sweet with some fruit notes, no specific fruit in particular, and a little bit of ethanol if I really breath in but never overpowering. After sipping it really coated my pallet in a good way but I was having a hard time pinpointing a particular flavor, the finish is long and enjoyable. I felt like it was something I recognized but wasn't sure of, I guessed a Knob Creek 120 proof store pick. I was wrong

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I don't know why but I had it in my mind that this was a bourbon not a rye, probably the sweetness on the nose. I have never had this before, I enjoyed it as a change of pace but I think I liked the first two just a little more. Looking forward to #4 this weekend :dr

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Great inotes, Ben! Looking forward to hearing what you think about #4 this weekend. :al :ss :wo

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Just finished up #4. Nose has notes of leather and fruit, I can tell a higher proof than the others. The pallet is bright with a small sip coating my mouth, but the proof while not overwhelming makes it a little hard to make out any particular flavors but it still feels in the fruit spectrum. The finish is where some cinnamon starts to come through, it's not super long but it's there for a few seconds. I added a little splash of distilled water to see what would happen, and the cinnamon has come from a note on the finish to a red-hot-esque note on the pallet. I gave it another splash but it didn't enhance anything, so I stopped there.

My guess - Booker's...

...is where I should have stopped

But stupid me guessed "Any Booker's release other than Country Ham"

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Awesome, Ben! Even if we call you "half correct", you still beat me 0.5 to 0! :D

I had so much fun with this, hope you did too! I'd love to see other guys pair up and do this, or maybe we'll have to do this again later this year. :tu

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I agree, very fun both on the guessing side and on the "I wonder what they think of the whiskeys I love" side

Well now I have four little bottles with numbers still on them, anybody want me to fill them up and play the game? We'll call it four American whiskeys, max of one review per day, shoot to have all 4 reviews posted within 8 days of receipt? No high end bottles are expected, just enough variety to make it exciting

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Very entertaining thread. I'm a novice when it comes to bourbon, so its fun to read the lingo.

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After reflecting back on the samples Tom sent, I think the coolest thing was the cinnamon in the Willett compared to the cinnamon in the Booker's. One was from an apple pie, one was from hot cinnamon candy. Both things I've seen in other reviews but not anything I've tasted myself

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Great contrast/comparison, Ben. I'm going to have to try them side by side this week.