Can a Budget Bourbon RIVAL Blanton's!? | Blanton's vs Early Times Bottled-in-Bond BLIND REVIEW

GLASS ONE: Blanton's, 93 proof, ~$60 retail pricing ($85-150+ secondary pricing)
GLASS TWO: Early Times Bottled-in-Bond, 100 proof, $25 retailing pricing per liter

0:00 -- Intro
1:32 -- First Impressions
7:33 -- Tasting Scores & Discussion
12:37 -- Reveal & Reactions
13:49 -- Consumer Discussion & Real World Scoring
20:23 -- What We've Learned?
22:28 -- Bloopers

We entered this pairing into our blind sample pool because they're both crowd favorites, Blanton's being very difficult to find and Early Times heading a similar direction. We wanted to see if either of them were impressive enough when tasted blind to bother hunting down.


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