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    One Brand to Rule Them All

    Something I did not realize - a whole lotta individual brands of whiskey, including some real pricey ones, are made with base stock whiskey from Midwest Grain Products. Around 95% of the finished product of these brands is absolutely the same as the competition. The list below doesn't even count the non-MGP brands which use MGP base stock.

    It is all marketing, folks. A tanker full of MGP base stock is cut with some extra flavoring and voila! High class, store liquor.

    MGP brands:

    31 N 50 Bourbon (Dry Diggings)

    4 Spirits Bourbon and American Whiskey (4 Spirits)

    1888 Bourbon (Diversa Brands)

    99 Bottles Bourbon & Rye (PA Private Label Spirits)

    Angel’s Envy Rye (Louisville Distilling Co.)

    Aztec Spirits Whiskey Distilled from Bourbon Mash (Aztec Spirits)

    Backbone Bourbon (Crossroads Vitners/Strong Spirits)

    Barrell Whiskey (some batches) (Barrell Craft Spirits)

    Batchers’ Bourbon (Litchfield Distillery)

    Bearded Lady Bourbon (Vok Beverages)

    Belle Meade Bourbon (Nelson’s Greenbriar)

    Big Ass Bourbon (Diversa)

    Big Bottom Bourbon (Big Bottom)

    Big House Bourbon (Underdog Spirits)

    Big Y Rye (PA Private Label Spirits)

    Bone Snapper Rye (Strong Spirits)

    Booze Brothers’ Corn Whiskey (NLV Tequila)

    Bourbon 30

    Bower Hill Rye (Meier’s)

    Breaker Bourbon (Ascendant Spirits)

    Bull Run Bourbon and American Whiskey (Bull Run Distilling)

    Bulleit Rye (Diageo)

    Cadée Bourbon & Rye (Cadée Distillery)

    Cascadia Rye (Cadée Distillery)

    Chattanooga Whiskey 1816 Reserve (Chattanooga Whiskey Co.)

    Clarion Bourbon and Blended Whiskey (Distilled Spirits Epicenter)

    Cleveland Rye Whiskey (Cleveland Whiskey)

    Cloud’s Batch ’41 Blended Wheat Whiskey

    Coney Island Carlo Bourbon (Terresentia)

    Copper City Straight Bourbon (Arizona Distilling Co.)

    Corn Star Corn Whiskey (Bardstown Barrel Selections)

    Cougar Bourbon & Rye (Foster’s)

    Country Smooth American Whiskey (Speakeasy Spirits)

    Deceptivus Bourbon (Cadée Distillery)

    Defiance Whiskey (Defiant Spirits)

    Doubleday Bourbon (Cooperstown Distillery)

    Eighteen 33 Bourbon (Boone County Distilling Co.)

    Fast Luck Light Whiskey (Mosswood Distillers)

    Filibuster Bourbon Rye (M.S. Trading LP)

    George Dickel Rye (George Dickel)

    George Remus Bourbon & Rye (Queen City Whiskey/Strong Spirits)

    Henderson Rye (North Texas Distillers)

    High Liquors Bourbon & Rye (High Liquors)

    High West (an an element of many of their whiskeys blends)

    Homestead Bourbon (Homestead American whiskey)

    Hooker’s House (some of their bourbons and their rye; Prohibition Spirits)

    Iowa Distilling Company Caribbean Cask Rye

    J. Green Bourbon and Rye (Shadow Beverage Group)

    James E. Pepper 1776 Bourbon & Rye (James E. Pepper/Strong Spirits)

    James Oliver Rye (Indio Spirits)

    J.R. Revelry Bourbon (La Bodega Internacional/Speakeasy Spirits)

    Joint Bourbon (Temperance Distilling Co.)

    Joseph Magnus Bourbon (Jos. A. Magnus & Co.)

    Knotter Bourbon & Rye (Blaum Bros.)

    Krofters Double Barreled Bourbon (Litchfield Distillery)

    LeMont Rye (PA Private Label Spirits)

    Lost Republic Bourbon & Rye

    Mayor Pingree 10 year old Bourbon (Valentine Distilling)

    Melvale Bourbon (New Liberty Distillery)

    Metze’s Bourbon

    Maryland Club American Whiskey (some bottlings) (New Liberty Distillery)

    Maryland Club Bourbon (New Liberty Distillery)

    Mosswood American Light Whiskey (Mosswood Distillers)

    O.K.I. Bourbon and Rye (New Riff Distilling)

    Old Bones Bourbon (Strong Spirits)

    Old Hickory Bourbon (Meier’s)

    Old Scenter Bourbon and Rye (Strong Spirits for R. Griesedieck Distilling)

    Pinhook Bourbon (CJS Beverage Corp.)

    Preamble Bourbon and Rye (Seven Jars Distillery)

    Prichard’s Rye (Prichard’s)

    Rebel Yell Rye (Luxco)

    Rebellion Bourbon (Market Street Spirits – newer batches)

    Redemption Bourbon & Rye (Bardstown Barrel Selections)

    Riverboat Rye (Bardstown Barrel Selections)

    Rough Rider Bourbon & Rye (Long Island Spirits)

    Rye Whiskey 30 (Bourbon 30)

    Ryskie Rye Whiskey (Glenns Creek Distilling)

    Sagamore Spirit Rye (Distilled Spirits Epicenter)

    Seagram’s 7 Blended Whiskey (Diageo)

    Single Track Rye (Range and River Distilling)

    Smokin’ Joe’s Bourbon & Rye (PA Private Label Spirits)

    Smooth Ambler Old Scout Bourbon, Rye and Corn Whiskey (Smooth Ambler)

    Smuggler’s Notch Rye

    Spirit of America Bourbon (Hobson & Roberts)

    Spring Mill Bourbon (Heartland Distillers)

    Stave & Barrel Bourbon (Glenns Creek Distilling)

    Stoutheart Bourbon (Hobson & Roberts)

    Taos Lightning (KGB Spirits)

    Temperance Trader (American Whiskey and some bourbon; Bull Run Distilling)

    Templeton Rye (Templeton)

    Temptation Bourbon (Bardstown Barrel Selections)

    The Saloon Bourbon & Rye (PA Private Label Spirits)

    Tin Cup Whiskey (Proximo Spirits)

    Troubadour Bourbon (The Original Texas Legend Distillery)

    Untitled No. 1 Whiskey (One Eight Distilling)

    Virginia Black (Proximo Spirits)

    WH Harrison Bourbon (Tipton Spirits)

    Whistle Pig Old World Rye

    White Heart Bourbon (Hobson & Roberts)

    Widow Jane Rye (Cacao Prieto)

    Willett Rye (Indiana ryes)

    Winghart’s Bourbon & Rye (PA Private Label Spirits)

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    MGP will make the end user's mash bill and then the end user does whatever they might do to the base to make it their own. It might be additives or it might be in the aging.
    The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke

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    So many Bourbons so little time.
    OPINION....a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.

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    The deal of the day is JTS Brown.. same JTS Brown that Paul Newman orders in “The Hustler “.. made by Heaven Hill.. same mash bill as Evan Williams.. just a different location in the Rick house..

    If you mix cheap bourbon.. JTS Brown is a bottom shelf to try.. (it does wonders for Canada Dry, 7Up or Pepsi)

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    All bourbon tastes like gasoline to me.

    My great grandfather distilled his own brandy from wine he made from fruit grown in his backyard. We called it "palinka" and he'd pull it out on holidays. He'd pour you some, you'd toss it down and he'd say "Yach somash?" (how does it taste) and we'd say "Dobray! Na zdroveye!" (Good! To your health!). Dedo did not speak much English but he loved making his guests happy. You could smell and taste the plums in the final product.

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    I’m not a whiskey guy and only recognized 2 names on that list. I’m ok with that.
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    I grew up around beer drinkers.. while in Navy school I was allowed to hang around a sprint car garage in Memphis.. the sprint car team drank cheap whiskey.. blended mostly, a lot of Calvert.. there was a 7-11 next to the gas station and they would buy cokes and mix the whiskey right in the bottle.. they would pour the first 1/3 of the coke out on the ground and then add the whiskey.. since. Had zero $$$ the pouring out was a painful sight.. so I developed a plan.. I kept an RC bottle in my car and when they would send me next door to buy cokes, I’d stop on the way back and pour their 1/3 pour off into my bottle.. I learned to drink cheap whiskey mixed with cola..

    Fast forward many years.. I camped with a group of bourbon aficionado and they would sit around the campfire drinking high $$$ single barrel bourbon.. I could never convince them that it was waisted on me..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sandman View Post
    I grew up around beer drinkers.. while in Navy school I was allowed to hang around a sprint car garage in Memphis.. the sprint car team drank cheap whiskey.. blended mostly, a lot of Calvert.. there was a 7-11 next to the gas station and they would buy cokes and mix the whiskey right in the bottle.. they would pour the first 1/3 of the coke out on the ground and then add the whiskey.. since. Had zero $$$ the pouring out was a painful sight.. so I developed a plan.. I kept an RC bottle in my car and when they would send me next door to buy cokes, I’d stop on the way back and pour their 1/3 pour off into my bottle.. I learned to drink cheap whiskey mixed with cola..

    Fast forward many years.. I camped with a group of bourbon aficionado and they would sit around the campfire drinking high $$$ single barrel bourbon.. I could never convince them that it was waisted on me..
    That's a very nice story. It reminds me of some of the hijinks I used to pull back in the day.
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    Bourbon is too sweet for me... Nurse Paula likes it though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phillbo View Post
    Bourbon is too sweet for me... Nurse Paula likes it though.

    Try some Rye. Templeton or Bullelit. Templeton is the more expensive of the two, I generally go with Bulleit. Old Overholt is good, too. Do go messing it up with Coke or 7-up though. I like it with a touch of water and ice.
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    My bourbon, Woodford Reserve, is not on that list, which is just fine with me.

    Having, over the years tried to taste test them all I eventually deemed it a fools mission. I drank far more bad bourbon than I needed.

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    For my B-Day yesterday my buddy bought me a bottle of Glenlivet Nadurra.... Now that's good stuff!!

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    Lips that touch booze, I will always refuse...Especially any of you goobers even if you dry out......Ben
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    Well thats nice to hear

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