On 2013-08-10 14:18:32 +0000, Gary said:

> Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>
>> I have a couple of bottles of good single barrel bourbon, but I'm not
>> adding anything other than an ice cube.
>
> Ed. Please educate me. What would be a *good* bourbon for me to buy
> this coming week? I just want to use a tiny bit to make a
> honey-bourbon bbq sauce but I'll probably have to experiment several
> times before I get it right.
>
> I also would like to try it as you drink it...with an ice cube and a
> good cigar. I'm of the old school that you don't cook with anything
> that you wouldn't drink straight up....ie if it doesn't taste so good
> to drink, it's not so good to use in a recipe.
>
> I'll either buy a small *airline bottle* - 2 oz or at most a pint. I
> really don't like drinking hard liquor of any kind but I do love the
> honey-bourbon bbq sauce that I've tasted. If I can learn to make it
> from scratch, it will be so much better.

It hardly matters in something like a BBQ sauce, but if you're going to
experiment with Bourbon's, *most* of them are pretty damned good.
Maker's Mark, Knob Creek, Wild Turkey, Buffalo Trace, Bulleit are some
of my favorites. The world's best seller remains Jim Beam.