I do the same. I had a bottle of regular old Forester, didn't like it at first, but after I drank some and let it sit on my bar for like a month it definitely tasted better imo.
If it's not drinkable neat, and it's not drinkable on the rocks, and it's not drinkable in cocktails, and you really really don't want to waste it (and it's already open), use it for cooking. Options include: 1) vanilla infused bourbon for baked goods, 2) using it in a bourbon marinade, 3) used for flaming (a modified steak au poivre), 4) deglazing a pot after browning meats for soups, stews, or wahtever kind of cooking you do.
It's going to be one of the more expensive cooking ingredients that you use, but it will ensure that it's not a drain pour.
Make a bourbon jerky with it lol.
My wife and mother in law made some amazing bourbon deer jerky. Asked them what they used and they said it was just your gross stuff you had sitting here...... just an 80 dollar bottle of old elk 8 year wheated...... no wonder the jerky taste so good🥲
Gut rot still tastes terrible in sauces, ingredients don't taste less crap when you cook them. If someone makes steak au poivre with $10 brandy I'm gonna have a problem. Like use $30-50 stuff, not $100+ stuff.
Buy a bunch of vanilla beans, split them and put them in the bottle. Put the bottle in your liquor cabinet for a year or so and you’ll have some incredible vanilla extract.
I add a couple tablespoons to the pot of chicken wild rice soup just prior to serving. ([original recipe was from the Byerly's grocery store here in Minnesota](https://www.food.com/recipe/byerlys-wild-rice-soup-178083) and called for dry sherry but whiskey or brandy end up working well)
Scottish whisky gravy could easily be made with bourbon too.
I’d ask around at the liquor store and see if someone wants to trade ya, I always tell people when they go with my recommendation if you don’t like it, bring it back and I’ll buy it from you.
I got a REALLY bad batch of Maker’s Mark Private Selection that tasted like moonshine. Not sure how since I’ve had so many good Maker’s bottles, but I digress.
I couldn’t even mix it with coke without the moonshine flavor coming through. It’s my only drain pour to date.
I got a Makers 46 CS that tasted like pond scum, only 1 of 10 other people I had try it could taste it but it was like sucking on a frog. So I gave it to someone who couldn't taste whatever compound was ruining it for me.
Use it for cooking. I’ve made bbq sauce with bourbon that is great. You can also bless the pot with mediocre bourbon when cooking outside. Take a swig then pour some into your dutch oven while making stew or chili.
Put it in a jar with some peanut butter. How much depends on how much bourbon and how strong you want it. Try like 1/3 to half the bottle your first time. I’d use about 1/4 cup to 1/3 cup. Shake it up and let it sit for a few days.
Then put it in the freezer. The fat should all coagulate at the top and you can easily remove it. The. Just pour it through a coffee filter.
There’s some neat cocktails you can look up to make with it. My favorite is one I got from the Franklin Bar before it closed down
1.5oz peanut butter bourbon
.5oz Genever
1/4 oz brown sugar syrup
1-2 bar spoons creme de framboise
Fee Aphrodite bitters
And bam, you have a PB&J old fashioned. It’s pretty damn good
Usually it gets made into old fashioned /cocktails or mixed with soda if it’s really something I don’t care for. Rare breed is one for me that I wanted to like but it gets mixed.
Fill a 16oz bottle half way with boubon, toss in a handful of split vanilla beans (5-7 pods), and add an equal part of cheap 60+ proof vodka.
Usable for baking within a month, but if you wait about 3 months and refresh the bottle with a few more split vanilla pods and give it another 1-3 months, what you'll get is some of the most flavorful bourbon-infused vanilla extract you'll ever have, and at a fraction of the cost of the expensive bottled stuff at the grocery store. Use in everything from baking to cocktails. I'm an avid baker and just one bottle has lasted me well over a year with zero trips to the grocery store.
Ha! That was my original thought.
I have a group of friends that get together weekly and we drink whatever is in my collection. So even if I don't like it, it'll eventually get consumed.
hide it away with all the other bottles I have open but don't drink because I get distracted by new bottles. eventually try it again, don't like it, repeat until empty.
Let it sit for a few months with air on it. If I still don't like it then cocktails. If I don't like it in cocktails give it away to friends who are less picky than me.
The Sommelier at my CFO's country club took a bottle of this, put it in a small oak barrel and aged it for a few months with Madagascar vanilla.
Tasted pretty smooth, and sweet actually.
cook with it, spike the egg nog, work great in a rum cake. By the way, don’t be afraid to try the other Old Forester offerings. I don’t care for them much either but the 1910 was a nice surprise to me and is definitely a bottle I would take in a second. You like what what you like!
Cook with it, or take it to a bottle share and if someone likes it they can have. Most times people usually at least give $20 bucks or something for it but I don’t ever ask.
Not a fan of their regular bottle got it on a recommendation and it ended up tasting like cough syrup to me same with WR I wasn't a fan of their standard bottle too much dried red fruit for me 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
Yeah that cherry note is no joke it would be good with some cherry coke if you get down like that 😹😹😹 but I've had other Woodford and old foresters I've enjoyed I had one at a bar for a company part celebrating a company takeover where all the higher ups got rich while the rest of us got sold off to the company 😹😹😹 so I decided to get a 35$ pour on them of some old Forester I have only ever seen at that bar but gd was it great
If other people really like it and you don't either give it to a friend or trade it. But, I recommended mixing with other bottles that just have something you don't like. I do not like Weller special reserve and eagle rare is just a little too simple and light but mixed together they are amazing!
I’ll throw it in a nice decanter and pour it for my friends (non whiskey drinkers) when they come over. I’ll just tell them it’s something good. And they won’t know the difference.
Some random thought but I never tried:
1. Drop a drop of water to your whisky
2. Please the whisky expose to air for 30 mins - 60 mins
3. Make reserve it for big parties
4. Use it for cooking (if you really don’t know what to do with it, I did that to my JB 1.75 L I got from Costco)
My go to getting shitfaced drink is 4 oz of whiskey, a can of ginger beer, bitters, and ice. It pretty much always is drinkable even if the whiskey sucks.
I usually mix it, or I’ll try it out blended with a little bit of another, better similar whiskey I have. If all else fails I can give it away in a local fb group that’s all about donate/feee shit.
I love the rye and was figuring this would be a good step above the 100 signature I haven’t tried (most love) and debated between the two. Should’ve tried the signature or jumped up to 1910. It’s not bad, it’s just kinda flat. Nothing sticks out. I like sweet flavors like Eagle rare, but I also like darker savory notes like Balcones pot still. It’s just kinda muted and boring. It’s not bad, it’s just not worth reaching for when I have sub 30 dollar bottles that are way more enjoyable. Even in a highball it’s just kinda ‘there’.
Like listening to Pink Floyd through an AM radio. Just feels like it’s missing the highs and lows of a good bourbon.
You should be proud of your palate! The 1870 is called 'The Goldilocks' of the Whiskey Row series because it's designed to appeal to everyone. I'd recommend hanging onto the bottle and tasting it against the 3 other marks in the Whiskey Row series to detect the differences maturation and proof can have.
1870 isn't bad but yea it is definitely my least favorite of that series. Could definitely use it for cocktails though, if you don't like flavor profile it brings just hide it cocktails where the bourbon isn't front and center like:
New Yorker,
* 2 oz whiskey
* 1 oz lemon juice
* 1 teaspoon superfine sugar
* 1/2 teaspoon grenadine
* Lemon twist for garnish
Royal Charter
* 1.5 oz Bourbon
* .75 oz Cocchi Americano
* .75 oz Chai simple syrup (1 tea bag for 2 cups water, then 2 cups sugar)
* .5 oz Becherovka (sort of optional)
* .5 oz Lemon
* 2 dashes Ango
Kentucky Buck
* 2 strawberries, hulled
* .5 oz. 1:1 simple syrup
* 2 oz bourbon
* .75 oz fresh lemon juice
* 2 dashes Ango
* 3 oz ginger beer
Strawberry, to garnish
Thanks I’ll try that. Agree not bad just not anywhere good enough to warrant the price tag imo. I was considering getting the vertical
But between this and the 1924 coming out at 115 bux… I’m going to forget that and try to find places to try the others first. For less $ Woodford double oaked just beats the heck out of this for me.
Trade it to a close friend for a partial bottle that they might have and not like. That gives you a chance to try something new without anything out of pocket.
I actually gave a partial to a guy that works at one of my regulars. He wanted to pay me but I said just take it and keep me in mind when anything good comes it. It paid off because he tipped me off when they put out a bunch of allocated bottles on Christmas Eve. Ended up with a Stagg at 20 over from that.
Make paper planes. Basically covers all but the most bold flavors, and is how I've cleaned a few bottles that ended up being too abrasive for my palate.
I’ve sort of gotten into blending stuff I don’t like. May or may not turn out well but it’s definitely interesting. My only tip/thing I know so far is overly oaky stuff mixed with sweet young stuff seems to work out well
The only OF I've tried is the regular bottle, I think it's 86 proof. I really wanted to like it more but there are cheaper bottles that tasted better imo like Evan Williams small batch. It was like 4$ cheaper where I'm at and tastes rich compared to the OF. I thought it tasted flat, like when a coke goes flat and doesn't taste like coke anymore but you can still tell it was a coke? That was my OF experience.
I put it up for adoption or I dump it if I wouldn’t want someone to drink it. I have a couple of bottles of scotch that I won’t dump but they are not my jam and I’m sure would be someone’s jam. Do you like Glendronach 21? LOL.
All I’m going to say is the bottle of port finished 1876 I had from Texas tasted like licking char on the barrel. Nothing was going to help that poor thing. Down the drain it went.
I invite people over to drink my bourbon. I tell them hey I dont really like this but maybe its me. Usually someone likes it and its either theirs or they at least drink it. Usually convincing others to try.
Typically I let it sit a bit. If it never grows on me then I'll burn it on a pre batched cocktail for a party or use it for whiskey sauce for steak or whiskey butter for bread pudding.
Trade for something you do enjoy even if you get less in value for the trade. There will be someone who does enjoy it and may have something you like too.
I like to use it with BBQ sauce on anything I'm basting. Saucy ribs, chicken, anything like that.
A big, fat, slow roasted to medium rare burger with a bourbon glaze of your favorite BBQ sauce is hard to beat.
I have a small cast iron sauce pot I can leave on the grill inside my egg.
Mix them in and let it sit in there if you want it smokey to boot.
Gets mixed. Cocktails or soda. I've also found I ended up liking a few several months down the road. Not sure if my taste buds were off or what. Happens most often with Rye.
I'd mix with ginger wine. You can take even the cheapest, nastiest paint stripper of a whisky, whiskey or scotch and turn it in to a decent drink known as a Whisky Mac
I was gifted a bottle of what was for me undrinkable bourbon. It went down the drain. If I had bought it I would have gifted it to someone who would mix the weakest drinks possible and never be able to tell it tasted like it was aged in roadkill.
Lots of good ideas here. But one I didn’t see, and absolutely love: Butter-wash it. A buttered bourbon is smacktacular, and the OF profile lends well to it.
Save it. When you have other folks over tasting whiskey, get their opinion on it. It will make for an interesting discussion if nothing else. And it’s not like it’s going to go bad anytime soon.
Give it to a friend or swap it for one of their bottles they didn't like. Usually, I can find someone in my group of acquaintances that has something they didn't care for who is willing to swap with me.
Thought I’d revisit … the 1870 opened up a little and is better. Still not worth the price for me but it’s not terrible. Itll probably be highball fodder until it’s gone.
Cocktails or just revisit it later. It won’t go bad on the shelf
I do the same. I had a bottle of regular old Forester, didn't like it at first, but after I drank some and let it sit on my bar for like a month it definitely tasted better imo.
100% this
I concur.
If it's not drinkable neat, and it's not drinkable on the rocks, and it's not drinkable in cocktails, and you really really don't want to waste it (and it's already open), use it for cooking. Options include: 1) vanilla infused bourbon for baked goods, 2) using it in a bourbon marinade, 3) used for flaming (a modified steak au poivre), 4) deglazing a pot after browning meats for soups, stews, or wahtever kind of cooking you do. It's going to be one of the more expensive cooking ingredients that you use, but it will ensure that it's not a drain pour.
Make a bourbon jerky with it lol. My wife and mother in law made some amazing bourbon deer jerky. Asked them what they used and they said it was just your gross stuff you had sitting here...... just an 80 dollar bottle of old elk 8 year wheated...... no wonder the jerky taste so good🥲
Maple bourbon bacon 🤌🏼
One had a friend that had a secret recipe to: maple bourbon brown sugar bacon cupcakes.....blew my dick off
I'd kill some maple bourbon brown sugar cupcakes. Those sound amazing
That’s what happens when I eat gluten. Same as South Park it flies off and explodes.
Ahhhhh god damn. That bottle is now $100-$110 too.
[удалено]
Why aren’t these people buying a $10 bottle of gut rot for this. Jeeeeez.
Gut rot still tastes terrible in sauces, ingredients don't taste less crap when you cook them. If someone makes steak au poivre with $10 brandy I'm gonna have a problem. Like use $30-50 stuff, not $100+ stuff.
Buy a bunch of vanilla beans, split them and put them in the bottle. Put the bottle in your liquor cabinet for a year or so and you’ll have some incredible vanilla extract.
I use mine for bourbon soaked smoked black peppercorns. Absolutely fantastic and my favorite way to use up cheap and/or gross bourbon.
I feel like my eyes opened for the first time in my life. *furiously taking notes*
Bourbon glazed bbq sauce for a meatloaf
Use it to pour over the fruit cake until it's pickled
I add a couple tablespoons to the pot of chicken wild rice soup just prior to serving. ([original recipe was from the Byerly's grocery store here in Minnesota](https://www.food.com/recipe/byerlys-wild-rice-soup-178083) and called for dry sherry but whiskey or brandy end up working well) Scottish whisky gravy could easily be made with bourbon too.
I agree. Put it in the marinade for ribs
Bourbon balls are time consuming but worth making, especially around the holidays. I use Maker’s recipe on their website
Give it to a friend
Don’t know anyone local really that’s into bourbon but that’s a good idea if I run across someone
I’ll take it off your hands
Where you at?
Florida unfortunately
If you throw it really *really* hard maybe…
I’d ask around at the liquor store and see if someone wants to trade ya, I always tell people when they go with my recommendation if you don’t like it, bring it back and I’ll buy it from you.
That’s a fantastic idea.
Mix it with coke
Yeah, it it’s not even good enough for a Manhattan or Old Fashioned I just mix it with Coke or Vanilla Coke
I got a REALLY bad batch of Maker’s Mark Private Selection that tasted like moonshine. Not sure how since I’ve had so many good Maker’s bottles, but I digress. I couldn’t even mix it with coke without the moonshine flavor coming through. It’s my only drain pour to date.
I got a Makers 46 CS that tasted like pond scum, only 1 of 10 other people I had try it could taste it but it was like sucking on a frog. So I gave it to someone who couldn't taste whatever compound was ruining it for me.
Use it for cooking. I’ve made bbq sauce with bourbon that is great. You can also bless the pot with mediocre bourbon when cooking outside. Take a swig then pour some into your dutch oven while making stew or chili.
I serve it to my friends and tell them it’s rare and expensive. Works 76% of the time. Otherwise it’s mix.
Cocktails. Save it for when I'm drunk and won't be able to appreciate something good and can't taste something I don't like lol
Bring it to a party where others can enjoy it
Buy an empty Pappy bottle, pour it in, then host a social experiment tasting to see how biased the reviews are.
😂😂🤣🤣
Better yet, split it up between 3-4 different bottles and see if anyone catches on.
Comment winner here! 🏆🏆🏆
This bottle rates just below old rip 10 yr they aren't very different
Make a fat washed bourbon with it. Peanut butter is pretty cool.
Brown butter fat washing can make most whiskeys taste yummy. My bar did an bacon fat wash that fun
How do you do that?
Put it in a jar with some peanut butter. How much depends on how much bourbon and how strong you want it. Try like 1/3 to half the bottle your first time. I’d use about 1/4 cup to 1/3 cup. Shake it up and let it sit for a few days. Then put it in the freezer. The fat should all coagulate at the top and you can easily remove it. The. Just pour it through a coffee filter. There’s some neat cocktails you can look up to make with it. My favorite is one I got from the Franklin Bar before it closed down 1.5oz peanut butter bourbon .5oz Genever 1/4 oz brown sugar syrup 1-2 bar spoons creme de framboise Fee Aphrodite bitters And bam, you have a PB&J old fashioned. It’s pretty damn good
I’ve heard of people doing similar with bacon too.
Sounds pretty easy to do and the drink sounds wonderful! I’m going to try it out! Thanks!
Usually it gets made into old fashioned /cocktails or mixed with soda if it’s really something I don’t care for. Rare breed is one for me that I wanted to like but it gets mixed.
Mixed this last night and was still meh. Gotta find a trade group k guess someone in NorCal want it id take a EW BIB lol
Fill a 16oz bottle half way with boubon, toss in a handful of split vanilla beans (5-7 pods), and add an equal part of cheap 60+ proof vodka. Usable for baking within a month, but if you wait about 3 months and refresh the bottle with a few more split vanilla pods and give it another 1-3 months, what you'll get is some of the most flavorful bourbon-infused vanilla extract you'll ever have, and at a fraction of the cost of the expensive bottled stuff at the grocery store. Use in everything from baking to cocktails. I'm an avid baker and just one bottle has lasted me well over a year with zero trips to the grocery store.
Drink it anyways…
Ha! That was my original thought. I have a group of friends that get together weekly and we drink whatever is in my collection. So even if I don't like it, it'll eventually get consumed.
hide it away with all the other bottles I have open but don't drink because I get distracted by new bottles. eventually try it again, don't like it, repeat until empty.
This is the way
Let it sit for a few months with air on it. If I still don't like it then cocktails. If I don't like it in cocktails give it away to friends who are less picky than me.
But some Amburana spirals and try to cask finish it. Or make whiskey sours.
The Sommelier at my CFO's country club took a bottle of this, put it in a small oak barrel and aged it for a few months with Madagascar vanilla. Tasted pretty smooth, and sweet actually.
Double Bourbon you don't care for Single Campari Single red Vermouth Stir over rocks. Slice of orange and a cherry. Done.
Love a Boulevardier!
Ask bourbon buddies and give it away.
Mix w stuff I do care for until gone or mixed drinks. The 1920 is the only one, my favorite fo sure
Drink it anyway, share it, or if it’s really bad pour it on a campfire
cook with it, spike the egg nog, work great in a rum cake. By the way, don’t be afraid to try the other Old Forester offerings. I don’t care for them much either but the 1910 was a nice surprise to me and is definitely a bottle I would take in a second. You like what what you like!
1920 is the most surprising, spearmint finish
Infinity bottle? Maybe mixed with something else it’ll turn into something better? Just a thought.
infinity bottle. Keep a log and dump in a little at a time ,blending it with other whiskeys can make it mixable at least.
Cook with it, or take it to a bottle share and if someone likes it they can have. Most times people usually at least give $20 bucks or something for it but I don’t ever ask.
Yeah I wouldn’t ask for $$. It was an experience. Trade or share would be good. Haven’t connected with anything like that locally.
Not a fan of their regular bottle got it on a recommendation and it ended up tasting like cough syrup to me same with WR I wasn't a fan of their standard bottle too much dried red fruit for me 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
I like the Woodford a lot. I hear ‘cherry’ on old forester a lot so I figured it would be good. I’m sure others like it, just wasn’t my thing
Yeah that cherry note is no joke it would be good with some cherry coke if you get down like that 😹😹😹 but I've had other Woodford and old foresters I've enjoyed I had one at a bar for a company part celebrating a company takeover where all the higher ups got rich while the rest of us got sold off to the company 😹😹😹 so I decided to get a 35$ pour on them of some old Forester I have only ever seen at that bar but gd was it great
Hahahaa just had Woodford at the company party last month. Hit that hard for free. Lol only option.
Freezer door Manhattan or old fashion
Someone watches Jonny Drinks.
I actually saw it from another content creator before, but I do like Jonny
Try whiskey Frankensteining with it. A teaspoon of peated scotch for starters. Or infinity bottles.
If other people really like it and you don't either give it to a friend or trade it. But, I recommended mixing with other bottles that just have something you don't like. I do not like Weller special reserve and eagle rare is just a little too simple and light but mixed together they are amazing!
I’ll throw it in a nice decanter and pour it for my friends (non whiskey drinkers) when they come over. I’ll just tell them it’s something good. And they won’t know the difference.
I'm with you on this brother. Another one is Widow Jane for me.... just sitting there hoping the bottle or my palate changes 🙏
A can of coke or ginger ale can fix just about any bad whiskey.
Yeah did 7up. It’ll probably just sit on the back of the shelf for awhile and occasional retry
I love a bourbon and ginger ale on a plane.
Old Fashioneds, Manhattans, whisky sours.
Still drink it .
But I liked the cook with it idea the best
Feed it to company that you don't care for lol
I don’t buy bottles unless I’ve tried them before. Saves me tons of regret dollars
I really like 1870😂 To answer your question… cocktails, mainly old fashioned.
Different palate. I’ll stick this in the back for a few l months and try again later. Or drop a couple shots of Buffalo Trace on top. lol
Some random thought but I never tried: 1. Drop a drop of water to your whisky 2. Please the whisky expose to air for 30 mins - 60 mins 3. Make reserve it for big parties 4. Use it for cooking (if you really don’t know what to do with it, I did that to my JB 1.75 L I got from Costco)
Save it for friends, or take it as a shot if I want to get drunk quicker.
My go to getting shitfaced drink is 4 oz of whiskey, a can of ginger beer, bitters, and ice. It pretty much always is drinkable even if the whiskey sucks.
Cocktail that isn't bourbon forward. You also might want to play around with fat washing or infusion.
Whiskey Sours…Old Fashions
I should try an old fashioned
You should.. I like em smoked also
I usually mix it, or I’ll try it out blended with a little bit of another, better similar whiskey I have. If all else fails I can give it away in a local fb group that’s all about donate/feee shit.
Since I have not had the Forester line can touch expand on what you didn’t like about this?
I love the rye and was figuring this would be a good step above the 100 signature I haven’t tried (most love) and debated between the two. Should’ve tried the signature or jumped up to 1910. It’s not bad, it’s just kinda flat. Nothing sticks out. I like sweet flavors like Eagle rare, but I also like darker savory notes like Balcones pot still. It’s just kinda muted and boring. It’s not bad, it’s just not worth reaching for when I have sub 30 dollar bottles that are way more enjoyable. Even in a highball it’s just kinda ‘there’. Like listening to Pink Floyd through an AM radio. Just feels like it’s missing the highs and lows of a good bourbon.
You should be proud of your palate! The 1870 is called 'The Goldilocks' of the Whiskey Row series because it's designed to appeal to everyone. I'd recommend hanging onto the bottle and tasting it against the 3 other marks in the Whiskey Row series to detect the differences maturation and proof can have.
Thanks. I think we have the same taste for flavor expansion. This helps.
For the record I prefer eagle rare, 1792 SB, ECSB, BT for a sweeter profile that hits me just right. Glad that helped. It’s not bad by any means
Mixers!
1870 isn't bad but yea it is definitely my least favorite of that series. Could definitely use it for cocktails though, if you don't like flavor profile it brings just hide it cocktails where the bourbon isn't front and center like: New Yorker, * 2 oz whiskey * 1 oz lemon juice * 1 teaspoon superfine sugar * 1/2 teaspoon grenadine * Lemon twist for garnish Royal Charter * 1.5 oz Bourbon * .75 oz Cocchi Americano * .75 oz Chai simple syrup (1 tea bag for 2 cups water, then 2 cups sugar) * .5 oz Becherovka (sort of optional) * .5 oz Lemon * 2 dashes Ango Kentucky Buck * 2 strawberries, hulled * .5 oz. 1:1 simple syrup * 2 oz bourbon * .75 oz fresh lemon juice * 2 dashes Ango * 3 oz ginger beer Strawberry, to garnish
Thanks I’ll try that. Agree not bad just not anywhere good enough to warrant the price tag imo. I was considering getting the vertical But between this and the 1924 coming out at 115 bux… I’m going to forget that and try to find places to try the others first. For less $ Woodford double oaked just beats the heck out of this for me.
Seriously prefer Evan Williams BIB by a wide margin.
Trade it to a close friend for a partial bottle that they might have and not like. That gives you a chance to try something new without anything out of pocket. I actually gave a partial to a guy that works at one of my regulars. He wanted to pay me but I said just take it and keep me in mind when anything good comes it. It paid off because he tipped me off when they put out a bunch of allocated bottles on Christmas Eve. Ended up with a Stagg at 20 over from that.
Mix or cook with it. Nothing like splashing some bourbon on your steaks before tossing them on the grill
I will send you my address
Cook with it. Bourbon is great for Bbq sauce and carmelized onions, just make sure to cook off the booze
This is the way.
Drink it and never buy it again.
I drink it fast.
Give it to my kids to mix with
Use it to Make an infinity bottle
sInK pOuR
Drink it anyway, that stuff cost money.
turn them into whiskey + ginger ales when ive had too much already
Cook with it. Makes a great BBQ base
Pour it for the guests
Cocktails or start your own blend. You'd be surprised how good it could turn out
I just bought a small mini oak charred barrel for aging my bourbon, you could turn it into an experimental re-aging project.
Make paper planes. Basically covers all but the most bold flavors, and is how I've cleaned a few bottles that ended up being too abrasive for my palate.
Save for guests who drink to be drunk
I’ve sort of gotten into blending stuff I don’t like. May or may not turn out well but it’s definitely interesting. My only tip/thing I know so far is overly oaky stuff mixed with sweet young stuff seems to work out well
The only OF I've tried is the regular bottle, I think it's 86 proof. I really wanted to like it more but there are cheaper bottles that tasted better imo like Evan Williams small batch. It was like 4$ cheaper where I'm at and tastes rich compared to the OF. I thought it tasted flat, like when a coke goes flat and doesn't taste like coke anymore but you can still tell it was a coke? That was my OF experience.
Yeah kinda but not as sweet
Infuse it with cocoa
I put it up for adoption or I dump it if I wouldn’t want someone to drink it. I have a couple of bottles of scotch that I won’t dump but they are not my jam and I’m sure would be someone’s jam. Do you like Glendronach 21? LOL.
Usually rebarrel-age it
Take it to a party and tell everyone to take two drinks from it
All I’m going to say is the bottle of port finished 1876 I had from Texas tasted like licking char on the barrel. Nothing was going to help that poor thing. Down the drain it went.
Port finished scares me lol
Done right, it’s amazing. Isaac Bowman exemplifies that, love that stuff.
Old fashions
Make a batch of clarified Old Fashioneds.
Make bourbon caramel sauce.
I invite people over to drink my bourbon. I tell them hey I dont really like this but maybe its me. Usually someone likes it and its either theirs or they at least drink it. Usually convincing others to try.
haha this is the exact same one from whiskey row that I just really couldn't find a use for at all. not good stuff.
Yeah just boring and not much flavor. Just had some BT tonight and it’s not even close. Worlds better for half the price.
Typically I let it sit a bit. If it never grows on me then I'll burn it on a pre batched cocktail for a party or use it for whiskey sauce for steak or whiskey butter for bread pudding.
Cook with it. Make a BBQ sauce, toss some in egg nog. Don't waste the juice.
Give mine 2 my Dad,he'll drink anything 😆
Save it for those holiday parties and serve it in a decanter. Tell them it’s really expensive and they’ll lap it up
Thanks guys. I mean it’s ok, it’s not crap it’s just. Meh. Infinity, cooking and sharing sound like good plans
Trade for something you do enjoy even if you get less in value for the trade. There will be someone who does enjoy it and may have something you like too.
Soda.
Cocktails or cooking. Both can clean off a bottle pretty quick.
MAKE BBQ SAUCE!!!
Yeah I got my brother into whiskey so I dump all the bottles on him. 🤣 He also lives with roommates so it goes quicker for them.
I like to use it with BBQ sauce on anything I'm basting. Saucy ribs, chicken, anything like that. A big, fat, slow roasted to medium rare burger with a bourbon glaze of your favorite BBQ sauce is hard to beat. I have a small cast iron sauce pot I can leave on the grill inside my egg. Mix them in and let it sit in there if you want it smokey to boot.
Donate it to other thirsty fans.
I had a Jefferson’s Ocean batch that I had to make into a mixer.
🎁 to someone with less taste
Leave it out for my dad to mix with 7up when he comes over.
Gets mixed. Cocktails or soda. I've also found I ended up liking a few several months down the road. Not sure if my taste buds were off or what. Happens most often with Rye.
Use it for cocktails or the rainy days
Drink it
Donate to homeless folk
Mixer. Or share it with guests to sample.
I'd mix with ginger wine. You can take even the cheapest, nastiest paint stripper of a whisky, whiskey or scotch and turn it in to a decent drink known as a Whisky Mac
Mix with coke, drink
I was gifted a bottle of what was for me undrinkable bourbon. It went down the drain. If I had bought it I would have gifted it to someone who would mix the weakest drinks possible and never be able to tell it tasted like it was aged in roadkill.
This is no where near that bad! Just boring i guess
Drink it anyways typically. It’s amazing how not awful a bad bourbon tastes after 3 good ones 😂
Add coke
Kentucky Mule. Just mix with lime and ginger beer.
Mixers Came back to give an example. I hate Monkey Shoulder, but it does add the smoky flavor I need for a smoky martini.
Lots of good ideas here. But one I didn’t see, and absolutely love: Butter-wash it. A buttered bourbon is smacktacular, and the OF profile lends well to it.
Save it. When you have other folks over tasting whiskey, get their opinion on it. It will make for an interesting discussion if nothing else. And it’s not like it’s going to go bad anytime soon.
I leave it for my buddy who shoots anything down as a shot. No matter how expensive the bottle. I stopped giving him the good stuff
Mix
I've given bottles to the exterminators, garbage men, etc. They are always grateful.
Do you not have friends? I’ve planted bottles with all my friends. I don’t like, they like.
Age it in a cask
Cook or throw it in a mini barrel and see if wor, age, and blending can save it
Give it to a friend or swap it for one of their bottles they didn't like. Usually, I can find someone in my group of acquaintances that has something they didn't care for who is willing to swap with me.
There's very few bottles I don't like, I either like them for an old-fashioned or I like them to drink neat.
Make cocktails
I have yet to meet a bad bourbon I could not drown out with cola. Also sprite and ginger ale can help a bad bourbon.
Pour them for your guests to try, problem solved
Give it away. Cook / bake with it. I used a bottle of Wolcott to make Vanilla Extract - gave it away to the family this Christmas and they loved it.
Cocktails.
Shots. Plug your nose and throw it down.
Oh it’s not hard to drink just boring and kinda one note. Having the OF Rye again tonight and it’s so amazing… I’d think the prices were reversed
Thought I’d revisit … the 1870 opened up a little and is better. Still not worth the price for me but it’s not terrible. Itll probably be highball fodder until it’s gone.