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So let’s all take a big poo! Seriously it’s one of those things we ALL do. Although we may not all use actual toilets. Every human must excrete so let’s all come together on this day and drop a mega deuce.

I do it often. Ouch. I feel painting or something coming soon. I always paint and make stuff when I’m broke (usually around fall/winter) in some sad hope that some random person would buy one or something. It’s kind of funny and it makes me laugh at myself. That is really the worst reason to do anything. Reality is nobody buys anything (okay, I sold a few) and it sits in my room taking up space making the place look cluttered. I’m okay with it at, the end I enjoy painting and it would be really weird if I could harvest my paintings and turn them into cash! Read the rest of this entry »

Has sucked so far. I walked into the office today at work and it was one of those insane deadline days. I pretty much sat down and worked till noon, took a break and worked till four… right trough lunch and bounced at fo’ thirty.

I was insanely busy the ENTIRE time. I sort of liked it. It made the day go by super fast but now I’m depleted and super hungry. I’m thinking Chipotle, I love that stuff. Then yogurtland booosh!

Food is awesome. What isn’t is logging in to your site to see you have 10 new comments and have than all be spam. They bum rushed my home page. For a split second I was super stoked (10!) but no. Time for akismet… vile spammers.

W.L.Weller is the greatest! I resisted it… I am a doushe. I totally discriminated because it has a twist top (doh!) It’s really good and very nice to the wallet at $23 a bottle. I always thought for that cheap and no cork it must taste like ass. Now I’m thinking a cork maybe totally a cosmetic thing. Because this stuff is smooth and it’s 12 years old! The Van Winkle 12 year old is usually $50 (not anymore though because I now know that bevmo does price matching.)

There are a few other bottles they make that I will soon be making permanent fixtures in my milk dungeon. It’s made with wheat (instead of rye?) and it taste similar to the Van Winkle stuffs (also wheaters… except for the rye, because obviously it’s a rye.) A lot of people say great things about the Weller stuff but I slept. I’m excited.

Go get some now and be impressed.

Okay so I just sat with the two again. Only this time I had one ounce servings of each side by side, two times. The ER17 was noticeably darker than the ER10. Again I really didn’t notice any major differences between the two. There were however enough subtle differences to make the two stand apart from each other a bit.

So really I am no major spirits writer, bourbon just tastes good. As does wine, I just happen to like bourbon a little bit more. I think the majority of spirits writers/reviewers/whatever have these overtly fantastic descriptions of tastes and it always leaves me a bit confused. Like I don’t often taste hints of citrus but have read it in descriptions of bourbons I drink regularly. It could be that I identify what that person identified as citrus differently.

I was talking to this guy at BevMo last Wednesday and he was telling me that reviewing a drink should take three words, two words if it’s really good. Which makes sense to me too. I mean surely we all have different tastes and what I enjoy occasionally my friend may not enjoy ever (Willet.)

With that being said I think that there’s nothing too complicated about this comparison. The ER17 is better. But to say it correctly; the ER10 is better (than the average cheapo bottle) and ER17 is best (as far as Eagle Rare goes.) I found the ER17 to be more of everything I enjoy in the ER10. Sweeter (chocolate covered cherry?), darker, more oak flavor and it is noticeably smoother. It’s good enough to drink straight and it’s 90 proof. I can’t seem to find a proof statement on the ER10, but I think it’s also 90 proof.

The next morning I went over to the empty glasses and took a sniff. They both had some pleasant scent left in the glass but I could tell which one was the ER17 because it smelled almost like cotton candy The smell took after the sweet cherry flavor I was tasting.

I’d say if you’re just starting out or don’t see any sense in dishing out sixty something dollars for a bottle to go with ER10. If you’ve had a few bottles or are a purveyor of the finest milks you may want to try the ER17. Will the difference wow you? Maybe. It didn’t wow me all that much but I can appreciate it for what it is. Now to get my hands on some of the other bottles from this years Antique Collection.