The Most Memeworthy Bottle Ever: Benchmark Full Proof
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- Опубліковано 21 тра 2024
- Imagine if the most in-demand distillery in the United Stated put out a bottle of straight bourbon from the same mashbill as the Eagle Rare and Stagg lines, presented strong enough to light on fire. Now imagine it selling for $23 retail and actually being pretty good. And then you only have to imagine absolutely no one caring and you'll have accurately pictured the product we have up for review in this week's bonus video:
- Benchmark "Full Proof" Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey (Buffalo Trace Distillery, Frankfort; mashbill no. 1, non-age stated/4+ years old, bottled circa 2023; 62.5% ABV), 83/100
This might be the funniest thing I have ever reviewed, and that includes Mellow Corn. Especially with water it's a dead ringer for (early) Stagg Jr., i.e. it's a functional if brutal marriage between a citrusy aromatic distillate and a truckload of barrel char. Except, again, it's less than twenty-five bucks. And yet the kind of customers who really really want that kind of thing are completely uninterested because I guess it doesn't have the antlers or the birdie or the horsey, and I cannot stop laughing. The very existence of this product, let alone its complete failure to get so much as a shrug from the tater population, makes it an argument that the simulation is starting to glitch. Yes it's an 83 in terms of quality but it's a 100/100 for entertainment value, and someone needs to make a devoted subreddit immediately.
Oh, and stick around for the invention of the ultimate budget high-proof bomb. Because Benchmark FP here isn't the only flammable option around $25...
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I couldn’t believe it when you pulled out the second bottle hahaha
“Against God’s plan for the world, but absolutely works”… haha you are a madman
I mean I had to bring up W&N _somehow_, right? And since a head-to-head would be boring... 😂
Amazing and fun video!
Thank you! 🤗
Funny, this popped up as I was sipping a $22 bottle of Old Grandad 114 from Costco
I hate you. 😭
I was pretty impressed with the single barrel for the price. Actually a pretty tasty bottle
I admit that this has me curious about the rest of the lineup; I pretty much just went straight for the firebomb. 😁 I have no doubt that Benchmark SiB would _also_ be better than Blanton's.
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Love it. Its like they made the label more generic in order to distinguish it from its hard to find fancy family members but its just too ugly for anyone to care. It looks like the Walmart version of Jack Daniels. Will 100% be picking this up for my home bar the next time I see it. WT 101 is my current bourbon and I hope this blows its pants off.
I mean, Turkey 101 probably isn't losing to this in a fight! I think I score them about the same, actually. But you couldn't use WT101 as a molotov cocktail.
You're about to have me mixing clairin and benchmark sib or maybe eagle rare 😂
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Did something change with the regulations? I thought a straight bourbon whiskey had to be aged a minimum of 2 years. I love this stuff. Killer deal. The bonded and the top floor were a miss for me. But this one and the single barrel are great great deals. The new mellow corn is a great way to put it.
This is one of the legal quirks of straight whiskey. Any whiskey meeting regulations gets to be labelled straight if it's been in barrel for two years, BUT if it's _under four years old_ it also has to have an explicit age statement. Ergo, if it says "straight" but there's no age statement, it's at least four.
Oh right! I forgot about that. Thanks for the info.
Another UA-camr, Drinking Buddy, put a charred oak spiral in one of these for about 8 months and it beat out a ton of Stagg's in a blind. Got a bottle for less than $20 and the spiral was a few bucks, so a pretty low-risk experiment that I'm looking forward to. Not that it has to be better than Stagg or any other bottle, it can be just a nice improvement on the original and bring out some more age and complexity that makes it shine.
Can you tell me where you get the oak spiral? I may try something like this myself.
Haaa, high proof 4yo mashbill no. 1 doped with extra oak sounds like exactly the kind of thing that would win over bourbon drinkers in a blind. 😂 That said, I don't know if that's the approach I would go for in bringing this up a touch. W&N aside, I wonder if you could vat in a bit of rye at maybe 1:3 - something really floral and citrusy to marry with the distillate, like Old Forester's rye or even something Canadian.
@@differentspirits4157 New to your videos and feel you talk about bourbon drinkers with disdain. Not sure where that comes from, but of all the things to be pretentious about, I don't think taste in spirits is worth the energy.
@@dneuensKeep watching; I think you’ll see what he is getting at. In the meantime you could watch his videos on Rare Breed or Old Grandad 114 or Sonoma to see his appreciation for good, reasonably priced bourbon.
Apologies, I might be hanging around with too many bourbon drinkers. I won't deny being pretentious - because that's just objectively true - but absolutely no one dunks on bourbon drinkers more or better than bourbon drinkers. 😂
Two of my favorite price friendly spirits, I have a bottle of both sitting on the bar right now within grasping range.
Theoretical question, if Wray and Nephew were aged four years. what would it be like?
I also sense a naming contest coming for the W&N Benchmark FP cocktail you created. My entry: The Jamatucky Hammer.
I mean, I think you get a decent (lower strength) example of what aged W&N would be like from the Appleton range, especially the Signature. As for this... not even cocktail, but "thing"... Wraymark? Bench and Nephew?
If it's not selling, just send it over the pond...
Our supply of Buffalo Trace & Eagle Rare has been quite good while those were apparently sought after in the US (my current 1l bottle of Buffalo Trace was
I went straight to Wray & Nephew, because _of course_ I did. 😂
I confess, I have to imagine Americans flying over to other parts of the world with all kinds of plans for their vacations... which are then ruined they see _the sacred horsey_ sitting on the shelf unpurchased, whereupon they buy it and get trashed in their hotel rooms.
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Because they have determinate effects, strictly speaking memes are things. (Part II, Def. 7)
It's young Stagg Jr/ GTS and most tater chasers can't tell the difference.
I honestly do not understand why some brands get the BT halo and others don't. Again, I'm going with "glitch in the simulation."
With the bottle I had, that /floral vodka smashed into the ground with new oak/ aspect was resolute in not sticking the landing for me. Characterful yet also distinctly in an aging valley that even another 4-6 months might’ve solved. Hardly a misapplication of funds all the same, but the single barrel and top floor offerings have been much more coherent for my palate despite the strange low proofs of each.
Ralfying in a bit of water really seems to help with this sucker, if you've still got that bottle around. But you're also not wrong!!