The Liquor Store Podcast Big Red Liquors

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I didn't think I would love this whiskey, but boy was I wrong. This is a 12yr old Buffalo Trace aged in French oak barrels. Some other French oak whiskies tend to be overpowering, but this was just the right amount of silkiness, mouthfeel and richer vanilla and red fruit flavor that I love. It somehow manages a sweet mouthfeel without tasting sweet and also manages a fairly heavy oak profile without tasting too heavy. Nougat, caramel, vanilla and a very finely wrought and subtle oak note throughout. Label is kind of a mess, but the whiskey inside is fantastic. Very elegant.

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This 6.2% abv hazy IPA from Founder's is made with Citra, Mosaic, Chinook, and Cascade hops and weighs in at 50 IBUs. Medium plus hop profile with lots of citrus notes, light mouthfeel, and no teeth scraping aftertaste. Perfectly balanced warm-weather hazy IPA.

 
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Jim Beam's latest innovation is a 5 year old 94 proof SINGLE MALT whiskey made with 100% barley malt, distilled in column stills in Clermont Kentucky from a jug yeast mash, and aged in new American oak, as stipulated by US law. This is one of many recently released barley-based whiskies by American distilleries, looking to push the category forward. Toasted cereal grain on the nose with dark fruit and a distinct breadiness, akin to heirloom rye bread. On the palate it's nutty, with burley tobacco, caramel, and honey nut Cherrios.

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If you like drinking LOCAL and you're into LOW CAL and LOW ALC, then Upland Little Dragon is the best-tasting one on the market, in our opinion. Many beers in this category suffer from being either under malted, or under hopped or over hopped and under malted. Still, Little Dragon miraculously manages the exact right balance of each of these, with enough malt heft to provide body and just enough hop bitterness and aromatics to deliver a true IPA experience but with only 4% alcohol and 110 calories.

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The latest Orphan Barrel project is a fantastically tasty blend of Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee bourbons, all bottled at the Dickel distillery in Tullahoma. I'm glad to see they could pull this one off, as Dickel is not to everyone's taste, but they've managed to sweeten up the normally corn-heavy whiskey with MGP, along with some spice and elegance from an 18-year-old Kentucky bourbon as well. Doesn't matter where it came from, the juice is legit. Bottled at 90 proof, the palate is nougatty soft with caramel, vanilla, and a really balanced oak profile. This is a sipper for sure at this proof. REALLY impressed with this one.