Bourbon anyone?

[SharkB8]

My dad loved a good bourbon (among good other things) and thanks to my boyfriend, I realized that I love a good bourbon, too.

My goal is to buy and try a bottle of my dad's favorite bourbons. He would drink Booker's, Bulleit, Baker's, Basil Hayden's and something with a pewter-looking man riding a horse on the cap...although that may have been a whiskey.

So far I've tried (and I realize most of these are Jim Beam bourbons):

Basil Hayden's
Knob Creek
Maker's Mark
Woodford Reserve

I gotta say that Basil Hayden's is, hands down, my favorite. I love it neat, on the rocks, and in an old fashioned. It's smooth, a little sweet, singes the nose hairs. It makes me smile. And though I don't dislike Maker's Mark or Knob Creek, Woodford Reserve is a close second - but I've only had it once (on the rocks).

So what are your favorites? And how do you like them? Why do you like them?