What I AM referring to is "bourbon", and other than the mention of Pappy Van Winkle, which is way out of my price range and is way too rare anyway, there doesn't seem to be any interest in it on this site?
Or am I mistaken?
I've had the great experience of having a bottle of Buffalo Trace's excellent 2004 release of George T. Stagg Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey (17 years old, 129 proof, uncut and unchill filtered, straight from the barrel), and when that one was emptied I was able to snag a 2009 release (141 proof!
) and a bottle of 17 YO Eagle Rare (also a Buffalo Trace Antique Collection bourbon that has a higher percentage of rye in the mash bill), and have on have as staples Wild Turkey Rare Breed (another high proof bourbon), the standard Buffalo Trace, Bulleit Bourbon (just for da'rum-D!!!! 
), and Maker's Mark 46.I got into whiskies in the early 2000's and started going to a Whisky Expo held in San Francisco in March for the better part of the decade, and starting with the second one I attended the main thing for me at that one was to learn about bourbons, what they are and what are good ones.
I still have much to learn regarding the former and latter, but having had the opportunity this past June to actually visit both the Buffalo Trace and Wild Turkey distilleries I was able to see the great contrast between the tw osites as the Trace is an older, well established site with lots of history *and they were distilling that day!* while the Wild Turkey distillery was brand new, having been opened earlier in 2012, with a new bottling plant to be opened next year (Grupo Campari, having recently bought Austin Nichols is dumping plenty of $$ into WT and the Lawrenceburg economy, a good thing to my mind).
Anyhoo, what say y'all about America's contribution to brown liquor?
