KBuzbee, from a different website wrote: ... I just tried this last night. JTS Brown Bottled in Bond. 100 proof. D.S.P KY 31 UPC 96749 21130. This was good! I wasn't really expecting much from it but it was quite good. In all this discussion I didn't read many "impressions". I'm going to revisit this tonight and see if last night was a fluke. If not, I may have to pick up a few more of these.
Ken, that is SO strange. I have a bottle of 80-proof J.T.S.Brown (current, HH imitation version), which I've tried once and never again, and a bottle of 100-proof BIB (also HH) which I've left unopened. Last week, while shopping at our favorite liquor store (http://www.thepartysource.com) for my regular mixing whiskey, Dowling Deluxe 100, I found 1.75 liter bottles of J.T.S.Brown for the same $19.99 and thought, "hey, maybe I'll try this instead". And I have to say I agree with you 100%. This cheap whiskey is quite appropriate for sipping neat!
The original Dowling was an Anderson County bourbon and so was J.T.S.Brown. They may even have been distilled at the same distillery (which also MIGHT have been the one now known as Wild Turkey or Boulevard). It's hard to say, because the Ripy brothers had several distilleries in the area. And, of course, we have no way of knowing whether they were ever similar-tasting. But J.T.S.Brown 100-proof tastes nothing at all like Dowling Deluxe 100-proof. All I can say about J.T.S.Brown is, "Okay, I'm ready. Where's my pool cue?"