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Originally Posted by scho63
I drink Scotch / Whiskey and Bourbon was always too harsh. Elijah Craig and Buffalo Trace both too harsh  |
When I first started drinking bourbon, I thought a lot of them were too harsh or had too much "alcohol burn." After a while, I figured out that the tingling on my tongue wasn't harshness, but it was the spiciness of the rye most bourbons use. After a while you get used to it like an acquired taste and now I enjoy a little spiciness and prefer that to a "smoother" whisky.
If you can't acquire a taste for the rye spice, try some bourbons that use wheat instead of rye. Maybe larceny or makers mark (or better yet makers 46 or 101). Redemption, 1792, and old elk also make wheated bourbons.