Basil Hayden Whiskey
Since golf is a game imported from a land of mist and meadows, it’s only fitting that a proper player have a dram or two of hooch in the old side pocket where one stores the spare spikes and the sunscreen. Leave it to the master whiskey distillers at Basil Hayden to fashion a couple of fine entries for the shoulder season. The Knob Creek Cask Strength Rye is designated “pre-Prohibition” style, is aged for nine years and weighs in at a pungent 119.6 proof. It is unfiltered, boasts big spicy flavor, but finishes as warm as a G-Man’s tommy-gun. P.S., the password is albatross.
And what kind of heartless wretch would buy a bottle of fine rye without asking its first cousin to the party? Booker’s Batch “Kentucky Chew” bourbon is a tribute to founding distiller Booker Noe, who would certainly approve of his namesake concoction – a fruit and vanilla forward, robust-flavored bourbon. It is both strong and a mite sweet, and would certainly pair well with a long day on the links or a sleepy Sunday watching the experts make effortless birdies till it becomes a crashing bore. Make mine a double (bogey). — David Weiss
