Booker's bourbon

So, for some time now, since I first heard about it, I've intended to buy a bottle of Booker's. And this comic reminded me of that fact.

See, Jim Beam is a reasonable bourbon. And they also make rye, which I like (and which I can taste is objectively a better rye, but I still personally prefer Old Overholt), and that puts them up in my estimation. But Jim is just a bourbon. You can mix it with Coke, you can do all sorts of things with it, but drinking it straight, well, you can, but it's really not worth it.

But they've got really good distillers there. And they wanted to Show Off. So they created their "Small Batch" collection, a series of four bourbons that prove that their distillers are really All That And A Bag Of Some Kind Of Cracker That You Eat To Cleanse Your Palette Between Tastings.
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