When my grandparents passed back in the 90s, my parents - as the only relatives who lived in the same town - inherited the contents of their liquor cabinet. If I'm being honest, it was my grandmother's liquor cabinet. She had bourbon delivered to the house by the case while I don't think I ever saw my grandfather take a drink. Anyway, my parents aren't really whiskey drinkers, so they have quite a few older bottles of bourbon gathering dust in the back of their cabinet. When we went down to visit my folks last weekend, I decided to poke through their collection for probably the first time in about 8 years and this is what I walked away with these: https://imgur.com/gallery/WgPwAiF

• Yellowstone - 6 year, 90 proof
  • Based on the lack of UPC, IRS instead of ATF on the tax strip, and being measured in imperial units, it's clearly from the 70s. The 72 on the bottom of the bottle supports this, though they supposedly added a picture of Old Faithful to the label in 72, which is missing here.
  • I skipped this bottle on my previous raid because my impression of Yellowstone from the late 90s was that it was bottom-shelf stuff. Based on some reading, this was one of the most popular bourbons in Kentucky in the 60s/70s.
  • Only one I've opened so far and it has a nice, rich, fruit and brown sugar flavor. I can see why this would have been popular.
  • Good news is that there's easily another 6 bottles of this sitting at my parents' house.
• Ancient Age - NAS, 90 proof
  • Dating this one around 1982 based on the UPC and tax strip ("ATF" instead of "IRS" puts it between 82 and 85)
  • Haven't gotten into this one yet, but I can't say I've ever had a really high opinion of Ancient Age
  • If it's good, there are a few more bottles sitting just a couple hours away
• Canadian Club - 6 year, 86.8 proof
  • The Canadian excise tax strip (under the US tax strip) helpfully dates this bottle to 1966, 3 years before Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the moon
  • Again, haven't opened this one up, but looking forward to it