The weather finally broke, opening up the patio for some fine cigars along with tasting 3 unique whiskies. We started out with a very different whiskey, Delta Dirt Distillery Sweet Roots Arkansas Brown, which is a highly rated whiskey distilled in accordance with all bourbon criteria except their added ingredient is sweet potato roots on top of the corn, rye and barley. Since bourbon must be made with grains, Delta Dirt is a bourbon reimagined. Our second selection was Whistl

Our May meeting was a Nod to the Kentucky Derby, complete with Hot Brown Sandwiches made famous by the Brown Hotel in Louisville and 3 fine Kentucky Bourbons! We started off with the Woodford Reserve Kentucky Derby Edition # 152, then tasted a somewhat “new-kid-on-the-block” New Riff 8-year Straight Bourbon Whiskey, founded 12 years ago in Newport, KY just across the river from Cincinnati. Lastly, our get-off-the-stage selection was our most expensive taste, Old Forester 1924

April brought us 3 new bourbons, all scoring well with our crowd, along the model of a less expensive, dare we say “cheap,” a moderately priced drinker, and a more expensive bourbon, at least in the view of a “cheap” pilot. And…….cheap almost won the day just .05 points off the winner! Let’s take a closer look at these great bourbons. 1) Benchmark Straight Bonded Bourbon Bottled in Bond 100 Proof | 4 years | $25 Mashbill: Buffalo Trace Mashbill #1 HF score: 3.2 Produced by