Perry Ritter | This is my Bourbon Podcast
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Bourbon reviews with memory, candor, and community.
This Is My Bourbon Podcast follows Perry through bourbon reviews, rye comparisons, stout tastings, festival previews, and bottle nostalgia. The show mixes palate notes with loose, personal monologues that make the tasting table feel like a long-running hangout.
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This Is My Bourbon Podcast is a bourbon and spirits show built around Perry’s personal tasting practice and the community that has gathered around it. The format is loose, but the focus is clear. Bottles get opened, compared, criticized, remembered, and placed in the larger culture of bourbon releases. Recent episodes move through Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Stout, Old Fitzgerald 7 Year, Four Roses 2025 Small Batch Limited Edition, Heaven Hill Grain to Glass, Sazerac 100 Proof Rye, Canongate American Whiskey 15 Year, and New Riff’s first-decade releases. Perry talks proof, price, grain character, barrel influence, release timing, and how a current bottle stacks up against earlier versions. He is comfortable saying when something feels underwhelming. He is also quick to explain why a familiar label can carry emotional weight beyond the liquid. That mix gives the show its shape: practical bourbon criticism wrapped in a candid, personal running diary. Episodes often begin with life before they reach the glass. A government-shutdown job scare, illness, birthday-week energy, Thanksgiving timing, or popcorn stuck in a molar can all become part of the opening texture. The whiskey eventually takes over, but the detours are part of the appeal. The show also keeps close contact with its audience through Patreon, Discord, bonus episodes, pregame chats, live streams, listener reviews, and sample-pack giveaways. It has the feel of a mature enthusiast community rather than a polished buyer’s guide. Louisville and Kentucky bourbon culture run through the recent excerpts, from spirits-fest previews and Bourbon and Beyond plans to brand lists, auctions, local food, and familiar distillery names. The tone can be funny, foggy, blunt, nostalgic, or openly stressed, depending on the week. Perry’s long history with the show matters, especially in milestone episodes that look back to college friends, former cohosts, discontinued bottles, and the strange way one smell can return him to 2017. For listeners who want compact tasting verdicts, the show may wander. For listeners who enjoy whiskey as a social world, those wanderings are the point. It treats bourbon as flavor, memory, calendar, collection, local scene, and excuse to keep talking.
Made for: For bourbon and rye drinkers who want detailed bottle reactions alongside the personality, release chatter, and community rituals surrounding modern American whiskey.
What sets it apart: The show pairs practical tasting judgment with a long-running personal archive, so a review can move from proof and price into old bottles, listener giveaways, festival plans, and the emotional history of the podcast itself.
Lexington, Kentucky native Perry Ritter shares his passion for bourbon with friends, family, and the community at large, through interviews and conversations with some of the industry’s most interesting folks.
Blind pours become flavor detective stories, with Perry narrating every graham cracker, green apple, and wrong guess.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A milestone bourbon episode that feels more like gratitude than review.
Episode 400 reads like a thank-you note folded into a bourbon memory, with Perry marking the show's long run, thanking listeners, and circling back to a discontinued bottle that still seems to carry years of meaning.
A direct three-way tasting that keeps the verdict plain.
Episode 398 lays out Heaven Hill's 2025 Grain to Glass bourbon, rye, and wheated bourbon releases in a clean side-by-side format, with Perry contrasting this year's three-wave rollout against last year's all-at-once approach.
Bourbon talk, barrel stories, messy good pours.
Everyday life, thought through together.
Serious bottles, unserious table manners.
Perry and Chad blind-taste an unidentified whiskey before revealing it as Four Roses 100 Proof, which they score 16 and 16.5 out of 20.
Perry and Kyle taste a 121-proof Jimmy Red Corn bourbon before Kyle blind-tests Perry with four unidentified whiskeys.
The hosts introduce a bourbon taste-off episode comparing Benchmark Single Barrel and Blantons while explaining the terms 'cranking off' and 'corking off' in a humorous context.
Perry Ritter reviews the 2025 Bourbon County Stout and discusses the show's community support.
Host Perry Ritter introduces the episode, rambles about normalcy, and prepares to taste a sample of Knob Creek rye in the 'Flying Blind' segment.
Host Perry marks episode 400 of This Is My Bourbon Podcast with a solo review of the 2025 Four Roses Limited Edition Small Batch — a blend of 13-year and 19-year barrels at 109 proof — scoring it 17.5/20 with nose 4, palate 5, finish 5, and price 3.5 at $250 MSRP.
Host Perry reviews all three 2025 Heaven Hill Grain to Glass releases — a 105-proof high rye bourbon, a 106.6-proof wheated bourbon, and a 105.2-proof rye whiskey — side by side at $100 each.
Host Perry Ritter shares his passion for bourbon through interviews and conversations with industry insiders.
Host Perry Ritter celebrates 'Big-Ass August' with bonus content and invites listeners to support the show on Patreon.
Host Perry Ritter shares his passion for bourbon through interviews and conversations with industry insiders.
Host Perry Ritter shares his passion for bourbon through interviews and conversations with industry figures.
This episode features a review of Old Grand-Dad 7 Year Bourbon, a limited release from Jim Beam, as part of the host's 'Flying Blind' tasting segment.
This episode features a casual review and discussion of the Found North Hell Diver 2025 bourbon with guests Joseph Brazeau and Todd Couper, recorded during a meetup in Lexington, Kentucky.
The host Perry introduces a solo episode of his bourbon podcast, discussing his current streaming on Twitch, potential plans to play Backyard Baseball, and promoting Patreon support for bonus content.
Hosts Perry and Eric discuss their upcoming blind bourbon tasting competition and banter about potential embarrassment.
The hosts introduce an episode reviewing the 2XO Vinyl Blend Bourbon from the Icon Series, while sharing personal anecdotes and promoting Patreon content.
Host Perry and guest Eric discuss bourbon samples, pre-orders, and behind-the-scenes content on their podcast.