PBMichiganWolverine
Balcones Texas Straight Bourbon Spring 2021 Single Cask #8 (Lost Lantern)
Bourbon — Texas, USA
Reviewed
May 7, 2022 (edited May 16, 2022)
Two years can be really long or not long enough. It depends on the context, right? For example, in business school I dated this one woman, for close to 2 years ( more like 1 3/4 year ) who was a stripper unbeknownst to me. Those two years weren’t long enough. I wish that lasted at least a decade. But some two years are too long. Case and point—- my first job out of college was at a large pharmaceutical, where my job for 8 hours a day was to hold rhesus monkeys and force them to urinate into a test tube. Sterilize the test tubes, dry them, and then do all sorts of perverted things to these simians for the sake of greater science. Eight hours a day. Every day. For two whole fucking years. That’s an example of where two years can be too long.
This whiskey here, graciously sent by @ctbeck11, seems to be a case where the two years are perfect. Waves of caramel and oak. A punch of vanilla. Sure …lacks the complexity of an ECBP or a Garrison Cowboy, but it makes up for it in youthful exuberance. One of the two best Balcones I’ve had ( the other one being a tequila cask matured Balcones). My vote for top dog in the American whiskey scene had always been Balcones, and this is an example of their creme de la creme.
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@PBMichiganWolverine To be fair, it sounds like you probably deserved the poop grenades :) This remains one of my favorite bottles on the shelf. I hope Lost Lantern takes another trip through Texas soon.
@Ctrexman @ContemplativeFox @Scott_E the monkeys got their revenge on a daily basis. Much to my chagrin, they’re able to defecate at will, make it into a ball, and throw it with deadly accuracy. Imagine about a 100 of them doing that all within the span of a few minutes
Love your stripper tales but feel sorry for the monkeys
Wow, you've just further cemented your reputation here for having the best stories. I came here for the review, but I got a sentence in and was way too distracted to think about that anymore 😂
You always have great anecdotes. Einstein once described his General Relatively Theory much similar to yours. “When you sit with a pretty girl for two hours you think it's only a minute, but when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it's two hours. That's relativity.”