blog (log de bourbon)
Updated 20240722
current preoccupation: Old Grand-Dad 114
favorite entry-level: Maker’s no. 46
favorite mid-range: 1792 Full Proof
favorite top-shelf/high-proof: Crypt Keeper Straight Bourbon Whiskey
without question, bourbon consumption is THE most American thing i do. i have consumed at least 1 bottle (likely more) of each of the following in their entirey. ALWAYS neat. a few may only be close cousins of actual/by-definition bourbon, but they are included none-the-less.
disclaimer: i will never spend more than $100 on a bottle of alcohol. EVER. though i do save certain bottles (generally higher proof) for “special occassions”, bourbon is for drinking, not displaying, fantasizing, or boasting about.
schema: Brand | Name | mL | Alc./Vol. | Proof
1792 Bottled in Bond 750mL 50% 100
1792 Full Proof 750mL 62.5% 125
1792 Small Batch 750mL 46.85% 93.7
Angel’s Envy 750mL 43.3% 86.6
Bardstown Fusion Series #6 750mL 48.95% 97.9
Blackened American Whiskey 750mL 45% 90
Bradshaw Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey Batch No. 0005 750mL 51.9% 103.8
Buffalo Trace Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 750mL 45% 90
Buffalo Trace White Dog Mash #1 350mL 62.5% 125
Bulleit Bourbon 750mL 45% 90
Bulleit Rye 750mL 45% 90
Crypt Keeper Straight Bourbon Whiskey 750 mL 50% 100
Elijah Craig Barrel Proof 750 mL 63.5% 127
Elijah Craig Small Batch 750mL 47% 94
Evan Williams Bottled-in-Bond 1L 50% 100
Ezra Brooks Single Barrel Cask Strength Bourbon Whiskey 750mL 62% 124
Field & Sound Straight Bourbon Whiskey 750mL 50% 100
Five Trail Barrel Proof 750mL 59.5% 119
Four Roses Bourbon 750mL 40% 80
Four Roses Single Barrel 750mL 50% 100
Four Roses Small Batch Select 750mL 52% 104
George Dickel Bourbon Whisky Aged 8 Years 750mL 45% 90
Heaven Hill Kentucky Straight Boubon Whiskey Bottled-in -Bond 750mL 50% 100
Heaven Hill Henry McKenna Single Barrel Barrel 750mL 50% 100
Horse Soldier Barrel Strength Straight Bourbon Whiskey 750mL 60.3% 120.6
Horse Soldier Small Batch Straight Bourbon Whiskey 750mL 47.5% 95
I.W. Harper Cabernet Cask Reserve 750mL 45% 90
Jack Daniel’s Single Barrel Select 750mL 47% 94
Knob Creek Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey Small Batch 9 Year 750mL 50% 100
Knob Creek Single Barrel Select 750 mL 60% 120
Knob Creek Single Barrel Select Rye 750 mL 57.5% 115
Maker’s Mark Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whisky 750mL 45% 90
Maker’s Mark 101 750mL 50.5% 101
Maker’s Mark no. 46 750mL 47% 94
Maker’s Mark no. 46 Cask Strength 750mL 55.1% 110
Maker’s Mark Cask Strength 750mL 54.35% 108.7
Maker’s Mark Private Selection Stave Profile 1-3-4-2-0 Jul. 2002 750mL 54.55% 109.1
Michter’s Kentucky Straight Rye 750mL 42.4% 84.8
McKenzie Single Barrel Straight Rye Whiskey 750mL 52.2% 104.4
New Riff Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 750mL 50% 100
Old Forester 86 Proof Bourbon 1L 43% 86
Old Forester 1897 Bottled in Bond 750mL 50% 100
Old Forester 1910 Old Fine Whisky 750mL 46.5% 93
Old Forester 1920 Prohibition Style 750mL 57.5% 115
Old Grand-Dad Bonded Kentucky Straigt Bourbon Whiskey 1L 50% 100
Old Grand-Dad 114 750mL 52% 114
Penelope Barrel Strength 750mL 57% 114
Rabbit Hole Cavehill Four Grain Triple Malt 750mL 47.5% 95
Rabbit Hole Kentucky Straight Rye Whiskey 750mL 47.5% 95
Rebel Cask Strength Single Barrel 750mL 60% 120
Rebel Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 750mL 40% 80
Russell’s Reserve Reserve 10 Year Old Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 750mL 45% 90
Russell’s Reserve Reserve Single Barrel Rye 750mL 52% 104
Uncle Nearest 1884 Small Batch Whiskey 750mL 46.5% 93
WhistlePig PiggyBack Rye 750mL 48.28% 95.56
WhistlePig Roadstock Rye Whiskey 750mL 43% 86
WhistlePig Single Barrel Rye 750mL 55.1% 110.2
Wilderness Trail Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey Small Batch 750mL 50% 100
Wild Turkey Kentucky Spirit Single Barrel 750mL 50.5% 101
Wild Turkey Longbranch 750mL 45% 58.4% 90
Wild Turkey 101 Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 750mL 50.5% 101
Wild Turkey 101 Rye 750mL 50.5% 101
Wild Turkey Rare Breed Barrel Proof 750mL 116.8
Woodford Reserve Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 750mL 45.2% 90.4
Woodford Reserve Double Oaked 750Ml 45.2% 90.4
2024: a year in music
Updated 20240722
music purchased in 2024 (if ownership can be or is otherwise synonymous w/locally-available 1s & 0s or physically-existing, digitally-penetrable, wares):
October 2024:
Escuela Grind Dreams on Algorithms
ENTHEOS An End to Everything
Human Impact Gone Dark
September 2024:
The Cardigans The Rest of the Best, Vol. 1
The Cardigans The Rest of the Best, Vol. 2
Dale Crover Glossolalia
August 2024:
Laurie Anderson Amelia
The Cactus Blossoms Every Time I Think About You
Fulci Duck Face Killings
Jon Hopkins Ritual
Milton Nascimento & Esperanze Spalding Milton + esperanza
July 2024:
Black Hole Deity Profane Geometry
Category 7 Category 7
Gloop Tension
Mark Guiliana MARK
Krallice Inorganic Rites
OLDD WVRMS Abysséphale
Unearth Bask in the Blood of Our Demons
Giovanni Venosta Estômago 2: The Cookfather
June 2024:
Candy It’s Inside You
Cavalera Schizophrenia
Mark Dresser In the Shadow of a Mad King
Various Outer Spaceways Incorporated: Kronos Quartet & Friends Meet Sun Ra
Squid Pisser Dreams of Puke
Zu The Lost Demo
May 2024:
Barry Adamson Cut to Black
Al-Namrood Al Aqrab
Arooj Aftab Night Reign
Aseitas Eden Trough
BAT Under the Crooked Claw
Borderlands Trio with Stephan Crump, Kris Davis, Eric McPherson Rewilder
John Carpenter Lost Themes IV: Noir
Jeremiah Cymerman Body of Light
On Ka’a Davis …Here’s to Another Day and Night for the Lwa of the Woke
Gatecreeper Dark Superstition
Beth Gibbons Lives Outgrown
Gnasch INFINIHATE
JASTA …And Jasta for All
Kerry King From Hell I Rise
Knocked Loose You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To
Brad Mehldau After Bach II
Brad Mehldau Après Fauré
Messer Chups Dark Side of Paradise
Modney Ascending Primes
Mortal Wound The Anus of the World
David Murray Quartet with Marta Sanchez, Luke Stewart and Russell Carter Francesca
Shellac To All Trains
Sonic Universe It Is What It Is
Les Chants de Hasard Livre Quart
Alesssandro ‘Asso’ Stefana Alessandro ‘Asso’ Stefana
Terminal Nation Echoes of the Devil’s Den
200 Stab Wounds Manual Manic Procedures
Tzompantli Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force
Kamasi Washington Fearless Movement
Wheel Charismatic Leaders
John Zorn New Masada Quartet Benefit [LP]
John Zorn & Jesse Harris Love Songs Live
April 2024:
Atræ Bilis Aumicide
Casagrabde & Hanysz Liminal
Decide Banished by Sin
Empire State Bastard Silver Cord Sessions
Exist Hacking the Zeitgeist
FM Skyline Images
Full of Hell Coagulated Bliss
Bill Frisell Orchestras
ГРЕХ 2019
High on Fire Cometh the Storm
Melvins Tarantula Heart
Meshell Ndegeocello Red Hot & Ra: The Magic City
Necrot Lifeless Birth
Neck of the Woods LUXURY TRAP EP
Pearl Jam Dark Matter
REPLICANT Infinite Mortality
St. Vincent All Born Screaming
Marta Sanchez Trio with Chris Tordini & Savannah Harris Perpetual Void
Anoushka Shankar Chapter II: How Dark It Is Before the Dawn
John Zorn The Hermetic Organ, Vol. 12: The Bosch Requiem
March 2024:
Civerous Maze Envy
CNTS Thoughts & Prayers
Aoife O’Donovan All My Friends
Taylor Eigsti Plot Armor
Elbow Audio Vertigo
Exhorder Defectum Omnium
Judas Priest Invincible Shield
Julian Lage Speak to Me
Charles Lloyd The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow
Sean Ono Lennon Asterisms [LP]
Phantom Orchard Hit Parade of Tears
Slimelord Chytridiomycosis Relinquished
Ministry HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES
Squarepusher Dostrotime
Stephan Thelen Atomic [Bill Laswell Mix Translation]
Zombi Direct Inject
February 2024:
Carnosus Visions of Instrumentalihility
Ghoul Noxious Concoctions
Simon Hanes Tsons of Tsunami
Hecatoncheir Nightmare Utopia
Brittany Howard What Now
Vijay Iyer / Linda May Han Oh / Tyshawn Sorey Compassion
Ihsahn Ihsahn
Ihsahn Ihsahn (Orchestral Version)
Job for a Cowboy Moon Healer] Sean Ono Lennon Asterisms [CD]
Molly Lewis On the Lips
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Of the Last Human Being
Ches Smith Laugh Ash
Spectral Voice Sparagmos
Street Power Promo 2024
Chelsea Wolfe She Reaches out to She Reached out to She
January 2024:
Sunny Five (Tim Berne — David Torn — Ches Smith — Devin Hoff — Marc Ducret) Candid
Dissimulator Lower Form Resistance
Escuela Grind DDEEAATTHHMMEETTAALL
Eye Flyes Eye Flys
Mary Halvorson Cloudward
Trevor Horn Echoes: Ancient & Modern
Ethan Iverson Technically Acceptable
The Smile Wall of Eyes
Terton Outer, Inner, Secret
Chester Thompson Wake Up Call
Various Artists Greenleaf Music 2024 Annual Subscrtiption
Reissue/Archival:
Cannonball Adderley Burnin’ in Bordeaux: Live in France 1969
Cannonball Adderley Poppin’ in Paris: Live at L’Olympia 1972
Air Moon Safari
John Barry On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Black Sabbath Anno Domini 1989—1995
David Bowie David Bowie
David Bowie Rock ‘n’ Roll Star!
Alice Coltrane The Carnegie Hall Concert
dälek Negro Necro Nekros
Blossom Dearie Great Women of Song: Blossom Dearie
Ella Fitzgerald Great Women of Song: Ella Fitzgerald
Yusef Lateef Atlantic Lullaby: The Concert from Avignon
Paul McCartney & Wings Band on the Run
Carmen McRae Great Women of Song: Carmen McRae
Helen Merrill Great Women of Song: Helen Merrill
Municipal Waste Tango & Thrash
Seal Seal
Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention Whisky a Go Go, 1968
Zu Bromio