Barrell Bourbon Batch 22 Review

Updated: Dec 22, 2020

It's devious trouble.

My third child was my first son. I named him Sturgill Trouble Winters. His mom wanted his middle name to be a catholic saint, but I always wanted to remind him that his middle name was trouble.

I drink responsibly. I’m too old and have too many responsibilities. When I have too much these days, I go outside and chop wood until I get sleepy.

I taste some bourbons and immediately I think, oh lord, this one is trouble. It’s usually the high proof delicious ones that make me feel that way, and Barrell Bourbon batch 22 is trouble incarnate.

I was once floating down a river. This river starts in Indiana and then meanders down to the Ohio Kentucky border. That’s when I saw what trouble with bourbon looks like. She was about 40, but looked 50. She had the look you get when you’ve gotten too much sun to the face over the years. She was in an inner tube floating to the left side of the river near the bank of the river, slightly entangled is some low hanging branches. She was disheveled, alone, and drunk, and screaming BOURBON! at the top or her lungs over and over again as she slowly floated down the river. She was, as they say, in bourbon trouble.

She was disheveled, alone, and drunk, and screaming BOURBON! at the top or her lungs

Don’t get in bourbon trouble even if you find a high proof, delicious bottle of Barrell Bourbon batch 22. Just enjoy it. And let’s all learn from the lady screaming "BOURBON" going down a river in southern Indiana...