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Though for the typical Midwesterner, it is the time when they start preparing for disappointment so they aren't disappointed in the end when things turn out to be disappointing. It's a time of excitement and hope for fans who like to be into excitement and hope. Because honestly, games that happen before my team plays, don't really show up on my radar. One of them may have even featured the team that my beloved Minnesota Gophers are playing tonight. Sure, there may have been games before tonight. This requires further research before I can come to a final conclusion.In my house, tonight is the start of the 2018 College Football season. It’s a very good Bourbon, but now that I learned a bit about its legacy, I’m not sure if it’s worth paying double the price of a bottle of Old Grand-Dad. Before I did my bit of research, I was very happy with the Basil Hayden’s, and have always considered it to be one of my favorites. This is a well rounded, full flavored, and easy drinking Bourbon. I have purchased several bottles of the Basil Hayden’s Bourbon over the years, and have enjoyed it every time. Warm, long lasting, cinnamon infused finish. This spiciness is nicely balanced with some brown sugar/maple syrup sweetness. Tingles the front third of your tongue with cinnamon spiciness. Thick, slow moving legs form after giving it a swirl. So here’s the question: Are a couple more years in the barrel worth twice the price? Let’s find out… It had been a long time since I sipped the Old Grand-Dad, but after trying it on this particular occasion, I remember finding it to be very smooth and easy drinking. Per the Pennsylvania Fine Wine and Good Spirits website, a 750ML bottle of 50% ABV Old Grand Dad Bottled In Bond Bourbon retails for $19, while the 40% ABV Basel Hayden’s Bourbon retails for $38.Īlthough I did not have any Old Grand Dad on hand for a direct comparison, I did have a glass of it in early December. More than 200 years later, Basil Hayden’s is a singular bourbon that bridges the flavor of rye whiskies and small batch bourbons together.īased upon what I read on the Beam Global websites, the Old Grand-Dad and Basil Hayden’s sound awfully similar, and they obviously share a similar ancestry. He used a traditional corn base, but mixed in small grains in his mash to capture the spicy flavor of rye and complement the sweet smoothness of corn. The eponymous Basil Hayden’s® Bourbon dates back to 1796, when Master Distiller Basil Hayden Sr.
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Hayden, who honored his grandfather by naming his justly famed whiskey “Old Grand-Dad.”Īnd here is Beam Global has to say about the Basil Hayden’s 8 Year Old Bourbon on their Small Batch Collection website: It was the third generation distiller, Colonel R.B.
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Basil Hayden passed along the art of distilling to his son and then, in turn, to his grandson. Old Grand-Dad was a distiller named Basil Hayden who made his name by distilling a bourbon whiskey made with a higher percentage of rye. Here is a bit of history about Old Grand-Dad Bourbon from the Beam Global website: Although Beam Global doesn’t come right out and state this, the following information from their website backs this up in a roundabout way… After reading a review of this whisky by our friend Ryan of Value Whisky Reviews, I came to learn that the Basil Hayden’s Bourbon is essentially an older, lower ABV version of Old Grand-Dad Bourbon. I have had the Basil Hayden’s 8 Year Old Kentucky Straight Bourbon on numerous occasions over the years, but I never bothered to research this whiskey until it was time to write a review ( Shameless Plug Alert! This itty bitty bottle of Bourbon was part of a 50ml four pack of the Jim Beam Small Batch Bourbon collection that I recently purchased, so stay tuned for more reviews from this collection).