Old Grand Dad 114

How long did you leave it in the glass before taking your nosing and tasting notes?

I often get distracted/ interrupted if the kids are still awake. I once came back to this after 30 minutes and it had opened up beautifully.

I've never had a single malt at this price (I paid $20 US plus $5 shipping). And the only ones I liked at double this price were Amrut Fusion and Benromach 10 YO.

I don't drink cheap stuff because it's good "for the price". I only drink it if it's good. This certainly is....and it's cheap!

The OGD BiB is also an excellent bourbon.

@Nozinan It sat in the glass about 10min for sniffing. I'll try your suggestion of 30 next time (maybe tonight haha) but yes this is good stuff, not just because it is $25. It's good.

@casualtorture, let me know when you find any other whisky of any type from anywhere in the world at 57+% ABV for under $ 30. I've never seen one, and I do not expect that I ever will see one.

Glad you discovered OGD114. OGD114 was my first Connosr review. People needed to know about it. Hopefully it will still be around for a long while at a similar price point. It would be easy for Beam Suntory to abolish it and sell instead a small batch collection barrel strength OGD at a higher price...basically Booker's with a different higher rye content mashbill.

@Victor And if they did, chances are we would buy it if we could get our hands on it...

@Nozinan, sure I'd buy an Old Grand-Dad Barrel Proof if they offered it, if they didn't jack around with the prices too much. They might well name it "Basil Hayden Barrel Proof" since Basil Hayden was the Old Grand Dad on the label. I'd also like to see what OGD BP would taste like after 10 or 12 years of maturation. I do think that Beam is jealous of its own name on its popular products, and for whatever reason is somewhat reluctant to have any OGD product become a star. The OGD product line makes money for them with virtually no advertising. They spend their advertising dollars mostly on products named Beam.

The next best deal I've recently seen in high proof bourbon is Knob Creek Single Barrel Reserve (60% ABV) still being sold around here on sale for $ 35.96 tax inclu. I do not expect prices like that to last on KCSBR, so I've already stored several away.

@Victor didn't that KCSBR used to have a 9 year age statement? I have a couple of those... Still haven't finished my first...it's been years, but occasionally I want a dram...might even tonight...

@Nozinan, the 9 year age statement has not yet been removed from Knob Creek Single Barrel Reserve. That is another reason to like it, of course, and to buy it in the current time frame. I expect that the age statement will be removed in the next couple of years, for the same reasons it was removed from the standard Knob Creek Bourbon @50% ABV %. I think that the current KCSBR label is quite ugly. The bottle with which they started the brand had been nice-looking. But the liquid in the bottle is more important than the appearance of the label.

@casualtorture "I guess the guys at Beam Suntory agreed with me..." I think maybe you agreed with them :-)

@Victor KCSBR is upper $40 range here I think the ABC store had it at $45.99. I have yet to try it.

@casualtorture I Iike OGD114 better...