OldDude
Reviewed
July 30, 2019 (edited October 20, 2019)
I know I reviewed Old No. 7 about a month ago, this will be a different kind of review. This is for Al, one of the old guys I meet up with at IHOP who just passed away... this was his whiskey.
Most everyone knows what this whiskey tastes like so I’m not going to go into the flavor profile. But when you crack open a bottle JD it’s always the same, the bottle you buy in Amarello will taste just like the bottle you buy in Grand Rapids or Boise. It’s reliable, you know what you’re getting, it doesn’t say one thing and do something different, Al liked that. Al didn’t like surprises, he had plenty of those as a marine in Vietnam. After the war his sense of adventure was limited to having a JD and Pepsi instead of a JD and Coke LOL. I used to kid him that you could drain the water from the bottom of his charcoal grill pour it in a blender with a banana and strain it into the bottle and it would taste the same as his JD. Now we all know it isn’t that bad, this was just friendly banter between a bunch of old guys. Old No. 7 isn’t overly complex, there isn’t a lot of nuance, you get what you get which is a solidly reliable Tennessee whiskey that delivers without a lot of fluff.
He said this whiskey never let him down so he stuck with it, that was Al. A little rough around the edges but you always know what you’ve got, this is the working man’s whiskey, honest and straight up, you’re the man Al. Today we raise the glass and retire this bottle until next year, Semper Fi my friend.