The Bourbons I'm Pouring After Another Sox Loss

Marcus Delaney

@mdelaney_chi858

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Listen, here's the thing — a bad ninth inning doesn't fix itself, but the right bourbon buys you about twenty minutes of peace before you start yelling at the bullpen again. I'm a Beverly guy, I like my numbers in a spreadsheet and my whiskey in a rocks glass, and I've got zero patience for people who think good bourbon has to come from some coastal speakeasy with a $22 cover charge. This is the lineup I actually keep stocked, ranked by how many times I've reached for the bottle mid-rant about the Cubs bullpen. No fancy allocations you'll never find, no gimmicks — just the stuff that earns its spot on the cart.

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The Bourbons I'm Pouring After Another Sox Loss — 6 items
Name	Comment	Distillery	Proof	Price
1Buffalo Trace	The Jose Abreu of my liquor cabinet — steady, no drama, gets the job done every single night.	Buffalo Trace Distillery, Frankfort, KY	90 proof	$25-30
3Four Roses Small Batch	Smoother than anything the Cubs bullpen has thrown all year. Fruity, easy, dangerous in the best way.	Four Roses Distillery, Lawrenceburg, KY	90 proof	$35-40
4Woodford Reserve	The bottle you pour when your brother's over so he stops acting like Kentucky invented sophistication. It's good, I said it.	Woodford Reserve Distillery, Versailles, KY	90.4 proof	$35-40
5Knob Creek 9 Year	Full-bodied and a little cocky about it — basically the bourbon version of a guy who thinks the Bears are one QB away.	Knob Creek Distillery, Clermont, KY	100 proof	$35-40
6Eagle Rare 10 Year	Harder to find on a shelf than a Sox win in September lately, but worth the hunt every time.	Buffalo Trace Distillery, Frankfort, KY	90 proof	$35-45
7Elijah Craig Small Batch	Charred oak, a little spice, no attitude problem. The Tim Anderson of bourbons before things got complicated — just pure talent.	Heaven Hill Distillery, Bardstown, KY	94 proof	$30-35