Yeah, yeah – I finally got my blog moved over to the new name (thanks Ray!) and I haven’t written a single thing since. I’m sorry!! It’s not that I didn’t want to. I even have a handful of started ideas, but life has been happening at full speed, and nothing I wrote was working. See, I’m one of those writers that has to feel it. Usually, when the posts are ready, the words flow, things start to click and I’m just going along for the ride.
Being brutally honest, I’m pushing through the hurdle of getting back into it in the hopes that the next post will come to me more organically. I mean, it’s nearly May, does anyone really want to read a post about Christmas, or my big 4-0 back in January? At least in this bit of the country, folks don’t want to think about the winter that wouldn’t end!
For now, instead of agonizing over the half-baked ideas that aren’t ready, let’s go with low-hanging fruit. How about a quick little whiskey recap? It’s been a few years now since I first started liking whiskey – almost to the day! It was 4 years last week when I day-drank Wild Turkey on a madcap solo trip to Chicago. It still amazes me that one day I just turned into a fan of bourbon and even a bit of scotch (straight from the bottle or the flask, mind you!), and still can’t say the same about beer!
There was a time when I had a list of every bourbon I’d had, bought, whatever. It’s so out of date, I don’t even know how to update it. We don’t save many bottles anymore, so a visit to the basement bar won’t help much. It would feel a bit odd to go hang out in the whiskey aisle with a notepad, so maybe we just skip it. This is supposed to be an easy post, right?! So here, a list of the bottles I see on my IG feed that I haven’t tried! I’m sure I’m missing some and I’ll remember them after I hit publish, but here goes:
- Willet – I’ve had the one in the pot still shaped bottle, but I know there’s a wide range of offerings from Willet.
- Weller – I want to say I’ve had it, but in truth, I’ve probably just seen it so much that my memory is playing tricks on me. Ah my wacky hole-filled mind…
- Pinhook – never heard of them before last fall and now, I see this bottle all over IG!
- Belle Meade
- EH Taylor
- Bookers
- Widow Jane
- Stagg
- Heaven Hill
- Old Fitzgerald
- Anything with Van Winkle, Pappy or Granddad in the name!
Luckily this list isn’t longer because of trying things at bars and always taking the opportunity to sample something at a friend’s if they have something I’ve not tried. Now the big question – what from this list should I try first???
