393foureyedfox wrote:even though i refuse to spend over $50 for a 750 of anything, and am pretty frugal to begin with, I do agree that the best stuff i also find in the $35-50 range. sure, every now and then, i pick up a $11 bottle of HH BIB 6 year, and am content with it.....I never enjoy it the way I do a $40 bottle of KC120 or $45 bottle of bookers.
there are too many bourbons and whiskies out there to try them all, at least in the year that ive been into this. So, i dont mind that i limit the playing field to over 100 proof and under $50. there is PLENTY there to play with, and a good deal of it quite enjoyable. I make a point to pick up something new regularly, but overall, I think there are few that I consider good enough to continue to buy. I have a fairly narrow profile that suits me, and while i enjoy experimenting, I tend to only keep a few regulars around, which suits me fine. I dont want to be one of the guys who has 200 bottles of this and that open in his cabinet. a few regular favorites, and a few experimentals, and i am happy
Impeccable logic, against which there is no reasonable, emotion excepted, defense. My pleasure, believe it or not, as you wish, comes, not from having a large collection of bourbons from which to try, but in trying new bourbons and exploring their strengths and weakness against other bourbons about which I have some familiarity. It is true that I can afford such an enterprise, and if I could not, and were not of a different personality than you, 'fox, I would undoubtedly be in complete accord with your opinions.
Even so, I would recommend your approach even to someone to whom cost is never an object....... it makes the most sense. At its best, what I see as having on my side is a strange curiosity......... not a great recommendation by anyone's standards, I should think. I would envy you in the reasonableness of your approach, except that perversely, I don't, nor do I deny that it is perverse.
Stick to your guns, everything says you are right in your judgment, and that I am wrong. That I have ever gone agin the grain in matters great and small is not a credit to me, but a check mark agin common sense. I know this well, and still persist in my ways. It is thus.