Sorry for the general post (lack of quoting), but I remember seeing someone post about 1792 Small Batch on here a while back, and looking back I must be overlooking the post that I saw.

Finally got to try it this weekend.

Probably my new preferred Bourbon in that price range.... Very good stuff.

100% agree..

This seems to be a thing more recently; at least locally to me.

Friend of mine owns a liquor store in town, he bought a barrel of Makers. My golf club bought their own barrel. They all went for a tasting, picked their blend, had it bottled and sent to them. I've got one from each.

It's awesome...

Here are the two I picked up. One on the left is from my buddy at the liquor store. One on the right was given to me by my bartender friend at the club. Zoomed in you can see the blend they picked.


https://i.imgur.com/JzYnXt7.jpg

What do the numbers in the blend mean?

I honestly don't know for sure. I'm sure someone in here will know.

Staves are the pieces of board that are used to make the barrels. The listing you see on the bottles are the staves used in to make the barrel to create the desired flavor profile. The number next to the stave is the char level.

1 is a 15 second char
2 is 30 seconds
3 is 35 seconds

Interesting. Thanks for the info.

Hopefully they stick around.

I'm far pickier about beer, so I usually know what I'm getting into and rarely disappointed with a purchase... and a 22oz bottle of course goes far quicker.... compared to bourbon, where there's just a ton out there (and so much of it sounds great on the surface), and collecting it like beer would make for a lifetime supply 10 times over., so I rely much more on goof bourbon bars to try stuff or try before I buy.

:thumb:

The bartender said they've been there like 30 some years but admittedly started as a vodka bar (wtf?). They also seem to have a pretty big following in the local bourbon world

What I liked is how the dining room was separate from the bar so its an easy place to just sit and try things without feeling like you're in a full blown restaurant

Unfortunately their live menu is QR code so its not really possible to see everything they have available prior to going

They also have probably a dozen or so flavor infused barrels of varying flavors for cocktails. They let me try a Juicy Fruit Old Fashioned from one which was out of this world

I'd definitely meet you there sometime

InvinciBill, Why the **** did you downvote me?

I think the number is just the # of that kind of stave, not the char level.

The numbers always add up to 10, and there are 10 custom staves on each barrel.

https://www.makersmark.com/makers-ma...vate-selection

I didn't look up MM's labeling I was going by just standard stave ratings.