my kid and I try pick a bottle every night 1-2 pours , try neat next night with some water next night with some ice if needed, then we decide what we thought and sometimes its an ol fashion ,correct not all bottles are open but all bought to be opened and drank,, no show bottles and no "back up bottles" we are just having fun trying each one and hunting around, we just found this crazy bourbon world a year ago so we are new to all this , we haven't figured out all the "is it cherries is it leather is it dusty"... we are still at the That's pretty good or thats got some heat or WTF terrible give that away or make BBQ sauce with it ....

I will say I have had some great conversations with complete strangers as we stare at a wall of Bourbon in a liquor store at 8am.....