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Here are the other pumpkins I made for the Halloween party at my Mom’s house. I got the patterns as well as a really nice carving set from Zombie Pumpkins. Great things going on over there.

So I’ve been looking at my stats and I have 42% more visitors than usual… and some kook is still using Internet Explorer 6 to view my site. IE6 is poop as is IE7, go and get yourself a real browser.

Either way it’s cool to see more people peeping the bloggy. I will be trying to conjure up better content as time goes by, and who knows maybe even something that may prove itself useful at some point in time.

Mucho Amor,
El Creature

Just got back from my local BevMo and swooped a bottle, this bottle is from the 2008 Buffalo Trace Antique Collection. Nasal passages detecting a mustiness and hints of tobacco… old as balls, bitter tobacco. It’s really dark colored too.

I’m currently sipping about an ounce in my sniffy glass straight. It’s been sitting for a few minutes. The smell hasn’t died down so I’m going to give it a cap full of water. Okay, two caps of water. I think it’s good to go.

Wow. Well my first instinct was “shit, I like the 10 year old better.” I gave it a few sippers and realized it’s a completely different taste. I need to try some with a little ice.

Once I poured me a glass with some ice it turned a nice gold color. It’s really good because it so different. At first it smells and tastes like regular old Buffalo Trace with earthy/leathery notes, but it’s got that sweetness that regular ER10 packs.

Even then, it’s a different kind of sweet. A bolder, thicker sweet along the lines of cherries and vanilla. I usually find the ER10 to be on the cinnamon side of the sweet, kind of a side effect rather than one of two major taste elements.

Either way it is a nice change from the Eagle Rare I’ve come to know and love. I will probably enjoy the bottle more as I have few pours. Some bottles take a little time to appreciate.

Edit: I got a bottle of the ER10 and they in fact do taste very similar. I think last time I was drinking the ER10 I was in a festive mood and had a few drinks. The 17 year old is good though.

Seriously folks, I know some of my friends are voting but the rest of y’all lazy asses need to go vote!