Top 10 Game Day Bourbons | Our Favorites for Football Season

[@markvelazquez3893]

Fun video! My vote for another fun one is- "making an old-fashioned with Josh" video.

[@georgeweast18]

I clicked on comments to leave this exact message. You beat me to it Mark. 🙂

[@stuffandwhiskey]

There seems to be enough demand. I guess we need to make an Old Fashioned video. Stay tuned!

[@jeffruebens8355]

I moved from a small town in upper NY State to Frankfort Kentucky in 1991 when I was 31 years old. I stayed with beer until about 5 years ago, then switched more to bourbon. I still buy Juice Force IPA by New Belgium out of Asheville NC once in awhile. I now have 4 favorite bourbons/whiskeys- 100 proof Old Grand-Dad, 100 proof Early Times, 90 proof Bernheim Original Wheat Whiskey, and 100 proof Coopers' Craft. $21 to $35 a bottle. I have to clean the black angel share fungus off the roof of my vehicle about once a year, from living and working close to Jim Beam and Buffalo Trace distilleries in Frankfort. Castle & Key and Glenns Creek distilleries are about 5 miles south, also Wild Turkey and Four Roses about 15 miles south. My rebuys are made in Clermont and Louisville, Kentucky.

[@oldsoul8429]

Neighbors AND fellow Hilltoppers!! I graduated from WKU and work in BG to this day! Small world 😄 enjoy the videos! Cheers!! 🥃

[@kirklandeche937]

I enjoy bourbon with the Boys of October, the 12 man - 60 minute figure skating program, and Football upon occasion. I often find many of your choices in my cabinet to enjoy. Great show as always! Cheers!

[@jeffclamp5803]

Great list. I enjoy ginger ale too with bourbon, but my favorite is to mix with Jameson Black Barrel

[@jimneidhard7946]

Great list! I love the JTS Brown and Early Times and as an alumni……GO Bucks!!! Thanks for all the great content!

[@angelafox4380]

JTS is one of my favorites. I'm in Oregon on the west Coast. Love this bourbon. Great buy!!!

[@PEDMAN0216]

Another good one S/W. This past weekend not only did I bring out the Trace (Neat) but also a bottle of Crown Royal (Original NOT FLAVORED). Add a splash of Mountain Dew and little Lime over ice. Perfect refresher. Cheers to all and GO STEELERS!

[@ctmyers1976]

Hello fellow Nashvillians! Wild turkey 101 is a game changer.

[@BuffaloBourbonEnthusiasts]

I have the JD traveler's edition, and it is great! So, banana forward. A liter for less than $40! So, glad I bought it!

[@Rpaulmagee]

Actually 2 1/3 bottles. Just being a math nerd. No harm. Love y'all's content. Really appreciate you going after inexpensive bourbons. You have a great presentation. Thanks

[@haskell-ls4bp]

I’m glad wild turkey one01 was on that list that is my go to

[@tizzyredproductions]

One of my favorite videos by yall!

[@StevenThornton-h5r]

I was at WKU from 1976 through 80. At the SAE house we were loyal to MM and Coke. If going budget, Benchmark was a great option. Such great memories. I was Student Government president and one big breakthrough we achieved was getting ice in the cokes at the games! The administration feared it would lead to drinking. It did. That was 1978.

[@Crosmyn]

I've visited the campus a couple of times and immediately understood where "Hilltoppers" comes from...

[@89sooner]

So glad to be in one of the 13 Early Times states! And I will never fight over EW BiB. I’m sure I knew this before, but I go to WKU tubers for bourbon with you and economics with the elder Zoomer Kyla Scanlon. If I am home, I pretty much go non-alc thru about halftime of the 2:30 game tho, and if I am out, I find beer easier to keep track of. And I fear I will have to take Erin’s advice and go high proof in despair after OU-Texas in two days…maybe we get some receivers back by Bama. Great list, squad!

[@89sooner]

…and ginger ale is my go-to highball mixer, but someone turned me onto the occasional use of Diet Dr. Pepper…beyond the obvious Diet Coke.

[@MrCrazypops]

Whiskey and ginger ale is wonderful drink for mixing with soda. Jack and coke is too sweet for me nowadays but 101 and Canada Dry is perfect imo.

[@chrislaframboise7577]

Whiskey and root beer is a great combo also.

[@arbeckWA]

I need to know your old fashioned recipe. Mine is 2oz of whiskey, 2 bar spoons of Demerara gomme syrup (2 tsp), 2 dashes of angostura, 1 dash of orange bitters. Garnish with an orange twist and a cherry. I use Maker's 46 when making it for my wife and Old Forester Rye when making it for me. I also add a dash of absinthe to mine.

[@stuffandwhiskey]

There seems to be enough demand. I guess we need to make an Old Fashioned video. Stay tuned!

[@DaveNorton-yi5ix]

I prefer the Benchmark Top Floor for mixing myself ... it ain't bad for sipping, but I prefer the Single Barrel for sipping. During my time at UGA, we were too cheap for Evan Williams ... we rolled with Ezra Brooks 😁

[@stuffandwhiskey]

Our Benchmark SiB is pretty trash. Very grainy. If we had a good one I’d likely feel the same way.

[@RebeccaPaige]

If you're in the TN/KY area, only place I've been able to find AAA 10 Star was in GA

[@GeeWhizbang]

Cool vid…how about taking your Jack/Coke note and expanding it into a whole video of best pop soda with bourbon? Ginger ale, Ale 8, 7-Up, Cheerwine, etc…giddy up! Josh vs Erin 🤔

[@ItsNadrik]

Between flags on every down and commercials every 20 seconds, the NFL has become absolutely unwatchable. But bourbon, bourbon is always there!

[@nschlueter13]

Haven't been able to watch the no fun league for about 5 years now. Cheers!

[@DavidBush-ez7vl]

College football is so much better! Roll Tide!

[@miaggido16]

A handle of black label E W is $18 in the Sacramento area Sam’s Clubs. Best value!

[@Josh_P_1992]

Whiskey and Sprite has been my go to for many many years. Everyone would laugh at me because they were all coke mixers until they tried the sprite. Crown and sprite or old charter 10 and sprite!

[@sweetsinnndy5201]

Big Buckeyes fan. I know you both like Evan Williams white, it was my first bottle, just an ok sipper for me, good mixer. I like JTS Brown, can get it in Illinois, would rather have Makers, OF Signature, Top Floor, WT101 and my favorite listed is Buffalo Trace. Cannot find Early Times BIB here.

[@robfrisch]

Buffalo Trace has become my go to for Manhattens. I love the flavor profile. Not as nutty as Jim Beam products.

[@larsnelson7998]

I love benchmark top floor

[@StacheXXL]

Picked up a JTS recently....not in my market though :( . Slaps hard!

[@stuffandwhiskey]

Yessir!

[@DanDaWhiskeyMan82]

Have you done a video on how you make your old Fashions ? Josh???

[@stuffandwhiskey]

There seems to be enough demand. I guess we need to make an Old Fashioned video. Stay tuned!

[@wpeezy10]

#1 is definitely the answer

[@gorenflo8]

Erin- Go Bucks!

[@Acaines]

I wish I could find Early Times BIB in Lincoln nebraska.

[@stuffandwhiskey]

We feel you on the distribution woes.

[@brianclick7080]

All great picks. White label is a staple on my bar for sure.

[@haskell-ls4bp]

Although I have to do admit that I like most of what you put on the counter there

[@islepilot]

'SKO BuffS, Go Broncos!! Great list. I understand why you would want a lower cost for a mixer, but it seems to me a better bourbon will give a better mixed drink. Do people tend to disagree and think no matter how good it is, it will be lost in the background of the bitters and other ingredients?

[@stuffandwhiskey]

Mixed drinks for game day and elevated cocktails are two different animals. We do enjoy a nice spirit it an elevated cocktail when it’s at the forefront of the experience. On game day the game and present company take center stage unless we’re sharing near pours together.

[@johng5710]

This video made me realize how much of a whiskey snob I have become lol...the only ones I own are the Early Times BiB and Buffalo Trace which are left over from when I first really started getting into building a whiskey collection a year ago 😂

[@stuffandwhiskey]

We're with you there. Only drink a couple of these with any level of regularity, which is still very infrequent. We tend to gravitate toward higher proof and quality these days. These are game day only pours for us.

[@johng5710]

@@stuffandwhiskey I’m at the point where even on game day I’m drinking the good stuff lol

[@877-MASH-NOW]

WHISKEY CHEERS 😎

[@umami0247]

My only problem is I don’t buy plastic bottles of bourbon or whiskey. Just me but I love WT 101 but would never buy it in plastic. Everything else is solid on this list. Enjoy!! 🥃🥃🥃

[@nschlueter13]

I have never seen a bottle of Early Times. I want to, just haven't. Do you happen to know what states it us currently in, same for JTS Brown? Cheers all!

[@stuffandwhiskey]

We don’t know the specific states unfortunately. We just know TN and we get Early Times but no JTS Brown. We thankfully have awesome members of our Patreon community that help others get bottles like these if they aren’t distributed in certain states.

[@Oggi7777]

My list has the top 500 whiskies .

[@numanuma20]

Jack Daniel’s sounds good.

[@toddchamberlin282]

I don't drink soda. So it's either neat or on the rocks.

[@WhiskeyDearg-MichaelS]

Josh- “I’m a fancy boy.” @ADHD Whiskey…clip it please for Matt Madness.

[@WhiskyForBeginners]

I haven't watched American football since the last time the Ravens were in the Super Bowl. I just lost interest. But if I ever come back I'll support the Ravens and the Texans in the NFL. On the college level all I care about is the Texas-Oklahoma game - Hook 'Em Horns! 🐂 7:24 The Old Forester 100 is good whisky. 9:29 So's the Turkey. In fact, though they are different, on my palate Wild Turkey 101 and OF 100 are similar - dark, earthy, and substantial. 12:37 Of the entries that I've had so far, which is only three at this point, I rate Buffalo Trace last. It's just not special to any degree or in any way, in my judgment. Obviously YMMV. 🙂 17:58 Evan Williams Bottled In Bond is, in my judgment, nearly as good as Turkey 101 and Old Forester 100.

[@stuffandwhiskey]

You’re pretty spot on across the board. Especially about Buffalo Trace (which is where its broad appeal comes from since it’s low proof and disappears on the background). WT101 actually had flavor and presence.

[@msspi764]

Go Hilltoppers! “The” Ohio State University? The university that actually tried to trademark the word The? Y’all are legends in your own minds.

[@thomasgallagher1945]

Can't believe you didn't do your Z-Biotics promotion ----- a pre-tailgaters best friend! My suggestion for gameday: Wolcott Kentucky Straight Bourbon 90 Proof, $30 750ml bottle. Delicious! Cheers!

[@xiamengbaby]

What was the head to head with Evan Williams bottled in bond?

[@stuffandwhiskey]

It’s just a week or two back in the channel archives.

[@jeffreuter8843]

Go Bucks! OH

[@philiptravis5526]

T-O-P-S…..TOPS, TOPS, TOPS!!

[@PorscheSpeedster-kz6nc]

Sucks to be an Alabama fan. “Nobody Loses To Vandy!” 😂😢

[@stuffandwhiskey]

Been a fan since diapers (mom’s family is from north Alabama) so my allegiance isn’t shaking anytime soon. Rough loss for sure though. Being born and raised in Nashville, if someone is going to beat Bama, I’m glad it was the real hometown team (and not the Vols).

[@BudgetBBQ]

GO DUCKS!!

[@mzondi1970]

Lucky man enjoying bourbon in a beautiful lady to enjoy it with my wife says they taste like turpentine even though I have some pretty good bottles

[@angelafox4380]

How does Josh make his Old Fashion??

[@stuffandwhiskey]

We’ll be doing a video soon. Stay tuned!

[@davebenson8547]

jd bonded is $50 here in ny....

[@stuffandwhiskey]

For the 700ml or the 1L? We’d be an easy pass at that for the 700ml.

[@Brad_Boersma]

1774 days since Ohio State beat Michigan. 😊 (I’m well aware of what’s probably going to happen this season.)

[@KennyStillwagoner]

Erin is freaking beautiful and so elegant!

[@stuffandwhiskey]

And what about me, Kenny!? 😂 I'm biased but I agree. Cheers and thanks for watching!

[@KennyStillwagoner]

@stuffandwhiskey I really enjoy ya'lls style. No stupid stuff like the two idiots that drink out of the bottles in their collection. I mean full on tongue deep drinking out of the bottle and then right back on the shelf.

[@justink7936]

Whiskey and Dr Pepper is so much better than coke

[@MrJaneails22x]

I-O!!!!!

[@wkndwarrior4733]

Let’s just say Bama was to lose to Vandy, what would you be reaching for?? Asking for a friend 😂

[@stuffandwhiskey]

Hazmat anything. 😂

[@jdubb0284]

Noooooooo Erin is a buckeye 😢

[@JackBass9]

Go Ducks

[@JackBass9]

Cannot get either of the two limited bottles in my state or any western state.

[@elcamaleon97]

Roll Tide

[@stuffandwhiskey]

My man!

[@mkaspageofthingsandstuff1867]

O-H

[@xiamengbaby]

Jack Daniel's bonded is $38 in the Chicago area. It's also only 700 ml vs the usual 750 ml bottle (why did they chintze on the bottle size?).

[@stuffandwhiskey]

International is all 700ml so it lets them produce less variation on glass size worldwide to keep cost lower. 50ml is just 2 oz and not something that bothers us personally because we don’t really drink in high volume for it to matter, but we get how others might feel slighted by it.

[@xiamengbaby]

@@stuffandwhiskey I know that international uses a 700 ml size, but it seems everything else JD puts out is in 750 ml bottles except for this bonded series (JD bonded, JD Rye bonded, and JD Triple Mash) and none of my other American whiskeys and even most of my Scotch single malts are still in 750 ml bottles. Some that have made the switch to smaller size, the price stays the same or increases (when it was supposed to result in a cost savings for the distiller). The shrinkage is just an additional slap in the face when the price is already steep for what you're getting.

[@johng5710]

@@xiamengbaby Unfortunately my Jack 10 year and 12 year is also a 700 mL

[@xiamengbaby]

@@johng5710 ah, ok. I never even got close to getting one of those age stated offerings. I think it's pretty lame using the 700 ml bottle size.