We realized pretty quickly that our house at the beach had quite a collection of bourbons for the week. It was decided pretty early on that we should do a tasting to see what everyone likes or think they like. As I have never been a fan of bourbon I volunteered to lead the tasting. We had 5 bourbons to go into the tasting.
Woodford, Lexington, Blanton's, Basil Haydens, & Elmer T. Lee (Pictured above)...Even though I was so tempted to do so there were not pictured in order of the tasting glasses :-)
I kicked the group out of the kitchen and I poured out ~1/2 ounce of bourbon in each plastic glass label 1-5. Each participant had their own sheet labeled 1-5 with an area for comments as well as a ranking.
Everyone had the opportunity to sip straight as well with an ice cube. It was definitely interesting to hear people's thoughts and reactions to bourbons they had assumed were their favorites and they were not liking at the time!
Overall, everyone got the opportunity to try different bourbons blindly and think about what they really enjoyed! This could easily be done with other liquors, wines, or even sodas!
It sounds very nice to see all your friends together at party in home and the best thing is you don't have to cook anything.
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