When Does A Bourbon Become Worth It Elijah Craig 21, Rated Perfect

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For 11 generations, the Neely family has been making whiskey.
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Long before there was a distillery in Sparta, Kentucky, there were family recipes, copper stills, moonshine runs, and a tradition passed from one generation to the next.
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Today, that history lives on at Neely Family Distillery.
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Here, whiskey is made with sweet mashed fermentation, open-top cypress fermenters, and copper pot stills.
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But history here doesn't just sit behind glass.
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An original French absent still built in the 1890s is still producing spirits today.
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And now a brand new three-chamber column still begins another chapter.
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Old world tradition.
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Eleven generations later, the Neely family is still doing what they've always done.
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Making whiskey.
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Neely Family Distillery.
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For more information, visit Neelyfamily Distillery.com.
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What's up, everybody?
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Super Nash.
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And we got Tiny in the studio.
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Myself.
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Just glad to be here tonight.
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Looking forward to this podcast.
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All right, brother.
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But tonight we got CT myself, supernast CT.
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Uh thank you for coming on.
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Awesome.
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Hey, it worked out okay.
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I'm not gonna be on long, but I got uh got a few minutes to get away.
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So well, okay.
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So when you're gonna be able to do that, why don't you tell?
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So you need to pick an Evan Williams that hey Chris.
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You need to pick an Evan Williams or an Elijah Craig that you can you know figure out what we're oh he's got he has an Elijah Craig bullet.
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That's a grenade.
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That's a hand grenade.
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The grenades, yes, I know.
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Now, what was that the last one from the from recent?
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No.
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No, this is one I've had for a few years.
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I got a couple of I just I just drank one of those.
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That's what I carried with me up on the Harley ride up to the mountains last weekend.
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Oh, yeah.
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It was a grenade, yeah.
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Probably my all-time go-to favorite from Evan Williams.
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Absolutely.
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Yeah, you can't go wrong with a bottle.
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This bottle is so good for 79 bucks.
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Yep.
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Oh.
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And then my Elijah Craig that I'll have to have tonight.
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Is that the which one is that?
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C923.
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923.
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It's so funny because Walker, who has some of the our barrel pick, the Honey Heaven, he gave me two of the samples.
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So what happened was is my bottle from the bus, if we all got to have some on the bus, remember?
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But my bottle on the bus that was like on life support, now a little bit more in there.
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I I do have some of that one left too.
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So yeah, I do too.
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I I sipped that a little bit when I was putting the samples in and just put a little taste there, you know.
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And honestly, it is so sweet for it for an Elijah Craig.
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There, there, there's not a lot of them out there that are that sweet with that honey.
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I mean, no, that was uh that was that was a special, that was a special barrel for sure.
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That was a short barrel.
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We could we should talk real quick about what this weekend is here in the state of Ohio.
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Um, we're talking about the Ohio Craft Whiskey Festival that is coming up.
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Anyone in this from the state, it is in Delaware, Ohio, at the Hemrick Farms.
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And it's something that if you want to find out about the bourbon scene in Ohio, this is the the this craft distillery, it's put on by the distillers guild, and this festival covers pretty much all the distilleries.
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I mean, Buckeye, Buckeye was a little bit smaller, that not everyone was represented.
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But if if you're somebody in Ohio and you're making whiskey, and it's they say craft whiskey, but they're but who but you know, Middle West, we talked about it on the podcast on Saturday.
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They still consider themselves a craft, a craft bourbon whiskey maker, but other than they're they're there, but everybody else in Ohio is gonna be craft, right?
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Oh yeah.
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So, you know, I've I've been actually asked about some diff like leather and oak.
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Some people have been asking me about that.
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How do we get, you know, so since we've done and we covered, we really covered the Ohio craft distillers on the podcast this summer, pretty uh, you know, spring summer pretty well.
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You know, and and there and this is a chance to meet them all.
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Yeah, because most of the people that uh we have brought on and had throughout the summer will be there.
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You know, there there will be a few that are represented by you know the normal, like I think Indian Creek usually has Missy there, but she's not gonna be there with Joe.
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It'll be there, the other two that come, but they're they're consistently the ones who come to that event.
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So, but yeah, I I think uh I I was at Black Diamond the other night in Circleville.
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I went to Circleville for an event, and I get there and I'm sitting and I'm early, so I go to Black Diamond and I'm like sitting at the bar, and the girl's like, Well, what do you want to drink?
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And I said, Well, I gotta drink a Black Diamond beer because if by chance Adam or Brett would see me and not drinking, you know, I'm not gonna drink uh Coors Light or something, and I'll be damned.
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I'm sitting there and Brett walks in.
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He's like, What are you doing here?
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And I'm like, Well, I could ask the same question, but he is gonna be there doing the pores and stuff for Black Diamonds.
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So Brett will be there, and everybody remembers last year that line was pretty extensive.
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Is Adam gonna be there too?
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No, I think he's giving Adam the break because he's been busy running and doing everything and coordinating all the stuff for that release.
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And so I think I think just Brett.
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Yeah, dude.
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I saw them getting those barrels out with whatever.
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It was like the forklift farm forklift or whatever.
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It was not a normal forklift to try and get those barrels.
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They had them on the side of the car to move the move around the barrels to get some of them out to make their blend.
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Yeah.
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That was kind of cool last weekend with Black Diamond.
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That really was kind of an event, I think.
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I can't wait.
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You know, they're all excited.
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And it and the two-year-old whiskey was definitely for two-year-old bourbon, it was very good.
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But I can't wait till they get some some other, you know, they get more age on those things than that.
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It's gonna be real when it hits four and six, it's just does it get too hot that it evaporates the whole barrel?
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Well, I think that they proved that uh two-year could taste like four-year is kind of what I went on.
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You know, like most of those tasted more like a four-year version.
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I tasted in some of it on a couple of the things you could taste, some of the grain.
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The last barrel that we didn't pick that tasted the most mature to me.
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And then we picked barrel number four, which I have a bottle, the first ever bottle of their distillate, you know, from that barrel.
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Those were the first bottles that they ever released, so that was really kind of cool.
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Yeah, and they're gonna be there, but I mean, this Middle West Spirits is gonna be there.
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I I imagine Steve's gonna be there.
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Oh, Steve's gonna be there because he can't, you know, he's he's gonna get all the old elk out there.
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Well, I hope that I can I hope he's he has the double XL t-shirt.
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I'll remind him.
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All right, because that was a cool t-shirt, I have to admit.
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It really was all right.
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All right, so Super Nash, I mean, seriously, you hunt anything this past week when you're out and about, or did you pick anything, find anything, pick anything up?
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And if you did, say it really quiet into the microphone so the other room doesn't hear.
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No, I hadn't had time this past week.
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Uh Urban Hutting's been on the down low.
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Just to uh let a bunch of people know in the South Carolina, North Carolina, and Northeast Georgia, my friend Duvall at Liquor Express here in Anderson and some of their other locations, they're releasing their barrel pick antique 107.
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And also the stag is gonna be released on this Friday, tomorrow.
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So get out there and get those uh those uh barrel picks.
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Love those antique barrel picks.
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The non-chill filtered man is a next level for that bottle.
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It's uh if you ever get a chance to get one, go get it.
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And and the same thing, uh, we're uh I you were mentioning that our old Louisville has been bottled, so everybody needs to get let everybody know because when we go down there, we'll we'll definitely pick one up for you.
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You know, if you just anybody in my area that's interested, if you want to sample it, just uh get a hold of me and I'll get I'll get you a sample by there.
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We we will probably know what that bottle count is maybe tomorrow or this weekend, but it's short.
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I I seriously am thinking there's gonna be somewhere between 40 and 50 bottles.
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And I already I think I already told you I have like well, I I've got a lot of bottles between with whatever.
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It's all I I would say that.
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Now, the whiskey thief, the same thing.
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We'll pick it up for you.
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It's the bus tour bottle that they got available, they'll have available through their through their gift shop.
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You just have to let us know, and when we're down there, we'll pick one up for you.
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So that's kind of how we're going about it.
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We're not, you know, it's just kind of we just go do that.
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But you know, anybody out there, contact me and we will get you what you need.
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And from that standpoint, what okay, our pick, you went from from what Nash was doing.
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I think we're ready to to do this Elijah Craig 21-year-old, man.
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I I just I'm excited.
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I know that Elijah Craig this year did the their last year the 18 to me was a little oaky, but they came out with the 15 and we all agreed it was fantastic.
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So I'm really excited to see.
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I mean, the coolest part about this is it comes in this when we were there at the distillery during Bourbon Festival.
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This is something Heaven Hill was releasing right from their gift shop, and it's the 21-year-old, it's got a it's got this the door.
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You you push it in, pop open the door.
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If I can figure out how to do it.
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Oh, it just flips out like that.
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But if you look, it's got this really nice Eliza Crack, but it's lit.
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There's a light in there, so when you put the bottle in, it lights up the it lights up, lights the bottle up.
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But I can tell you, it took me 15 minutes to get this bottle out of this box.
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I was trying, I couldn't.
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I'm not lying.
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It was tough to get that bottle out of there.
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I had to take this whole insert out, and then I had to go and then I and pull it because I could not get my fingers around it to get the bottle out with this in there.
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I had to push from behind.
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It was, it was, folks, it was definitely in there.
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The way you could say for them is the releasing the, you know, the 18-year people don't know.
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The 18 year did not come in anything, it was just the bottle, no, no special packaging.
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So for them to do this, the 15 year come in that little rectangle frame.
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Yeah, you're right.
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But this came in a really cool packaging.
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So it not that packaging's everything, and there are some people that would say, Oh my god, packaging, it's selling, trying to sell.
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But you know what?
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The end of the day, the packaging tubes are cool.
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We all like that stuff.
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It's it's it's a a thing to have when people come over to talk about it to show them.
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So I think it's pretty awesome.
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Well, like I've always said I want I want it all.
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I I want good bourbon.
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You want the whole box?
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I want good packaging.
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I want, you know, I want I I'm always looking for, I love bookers for that.
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I love Little Book for that.
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I mean, that is like, yeah, the Elijah Craig 18, it's it's it's it's it's just another bottle.
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This is if you're just getting this, it just says 21.
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It's the same bottle that the you know, the the the 15-year and 18-year are in.
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And if it just comes like that, it's not that special.
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It comes like this.
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This changes, this is a game changer.
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It even has a light.
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Now, this was$200.
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I believe a$199.
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Uh it was more than that.
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$299.
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$200.
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Yeah.
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It was$300.
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Okay.
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And then$300.
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And then the other one we got taxes somewhere like around 330 something.
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I mean, I got a really cool dynamic going with the podcast in the background.
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I've got the 35th anniversary bottle of Evan Williams.
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Of Heaven Hill.
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Okay.
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All right.
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Sorry.
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35th anniversary of the Kentucky Bourbon Festival.
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They released at the festival as a blend.
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Me and Super Nash had an argument whether this was better to do it this way or release a bunch of, you know, release Parker Heritage and release all the old Fitzes and release the SLQ and the VSRs and the STPs and all those that they released at the festival the year before.
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No, I will have to say there's a there was a lot of collectors, which were the flippers, that were complaining.
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But I mean, I'm just gonna say it right here.
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Who gives a shit what the flippers think?
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It's not like the festival's gonna, if they don't buy a ticket next year because they can't get any special bottles, then real bourbon people will have a shot at a ticket.
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They're real enthusiasts will have a shot at getting there, yeah.
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And they're and they're out there, and it's not so they still got they still got special bottles because I mean look at look at all the different things that were released, and but this year for sure, the craft end of it was was.
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Oh, the craft end was killing it this year with their places.
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All the special picks they had, and people were really seeking them out, but then you had Will Forester that really brought the game with the with the Plucky Boy, and then and then they brought they did release some birthday bourbons, which the line so so it went from the line was stupid last year for Heaven Hill, and this year there was almost no lines.
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Everybody was able to get this if they wanted, and it's so funny because initially I went and tasted it, and this was like$211 or something like that.
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It was like$99.
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What?
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$299.
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No, no, no.
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This was not three.
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This one, this one was not$300.
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This one was like$220.
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Oh, you're right.
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I think it was$219.
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$219.
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And I tasted it.
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But we're talking when I tasted this, that was second day of the festival Saturday.
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So I had been drinking every single day for like eight days straight, and my my palate was fried.
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So when I tasted, I thought it was good, but I didn't buy it at the festival.
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So then we go and we go down and we're down, you know, for you know, after for bourbon on the banks, and we go to Evan Williams' bourbon experience, and it's there.
00:19:51.680 --> 00:19:54.240
And and Nash is like, I'm like, I didn't get that.
00:19:54.319 --> 00:19:55.279
And he's like, You should.
00:19:55.359 --> 00:19:56.640
We'll podcast about it.
00:19:56.799 --> 00:19:57.839
So I grabbed it.
00:19:57.920 --> 00:20:04.960
Now I opened this up with Spanky last oh, it was a week, when it'll be a week or eight days ago.
00:20:05.039 --> 00:20:09.279
And when I opened it up, holy man, is this good?
00:20:09.519 --> 00:20:11.519
That's man, it is good.
00:20:11.839 --> 00:20:13.920
That's what I've been sipping on on the pre-pour.
00:20:14.079 --> 00:20:16.079
I'm just telling you, it's fantastic.
00:20:16.240 --> 00:20:17.759
I'm so happy they did this.
00:20:17.920 --> 00:20:23.519
This tastes, I think it might be one of the better things I've ever tasted from Heaven Hill.
00:20:23.599 --> 00:20:25.519
Even when you're talking about those 17 million.
00:20:28.000 --> 00:20:33.039
It's so good, and they released it and had enough for everybody.
00:20:33.279 --> 00:20:39.519
Yeah, you didn't have to wait in line to get this, and there was some left over, and I actually got it at the Evan Williams bourbon experience.
00:20:39.599 --> 00:20:50.720
I mean, so people got it, but once again, why what they but but then you had old Forester with the lines, the crazy lines, you know, people waiting all day for birthday.
00:20:50.879 --> 00:20:58.400
But anybody waiting in those lines, I mean, you could there was the 117 series, though those were all over the place.
00:20:58.559 --> 00:21:04.960
If you wanted, you could get two of those, and you could get the the Kentucky boy one a day for all three days.
00:21:05.119 --> 00:21:07.680
If you wanted three bottles, and that was a hundred bucks.
00:21:07.759 --> 00:21:16.400
I mean, that was kind of like, but overall, they had a line for birthday bourbon that I think whiskey was in for like three days.
00:21:16.559 --> 00:21:18.799
He was in that, I think he had to camp out.
00:21:18.960 --> 00:21:26.000
I had to give him my raincoat because it was it rained and then it got sunny, and he's in line the whole time, you know what I mean?
00:21:26.160 --> 00:21:32.559
So and and so, like the Kentucky boy has that blend of all those things, and that's kind of like what we talked about with this box.
00:21:32.640 --> 00:21:33.599
So I love that box.
00:21:33.920 --> 00:21:40.559
This this is a distillery only, so you have to go to the Evan Williams Bourbon Experience in Louisville.
00:21:40.960 --> 00:21:49.920
But the beauty of this bottle, and people that haven't seen it, it's white with a gold bottom, and it says that this is a master blend.
00:21:50.319 --> 00:21:54.799
The funny thing about this bottle, and I'll talk about it real quick and I'll let you guys get on.
00:21:55.359 --> 00:21:57.920
The first time I had this was in a cocktail.
00:21:58.079 --> 00:22:17.039
My friend Micah was the bartender at the level at the three bar upstairs, and he was making this old-fashioned with this product, and he put that cold foam stuff on top of it, and it was one of the most delicious old fashions I ever had.
00:22:17.200 --> 00:22:17.519
Yeah.
00:22:17.759 --> 00:22:32.240
And I remember going there, and they had run out of this, and he was using I forget whatever other Evan Williams bourbon, it absolutely tasted nothing like the other one.
00:22:32.720 --> 00:22:36.640
This is a blend, and it has Evan Williams 23.
00:22:36.799 --> 00:22:39.519
So 23 year old Evan Williams is in this.
00:22:39.759 --> 00:22:43.440
It has a blend of the black label and so on and so forth.
00:22:43.680 --> 00:22:45.200
But$79.
00:22:45.839 --> 00:22:54.640
You can buy it every day at the distillery in Louisville, and everybody that ever goes there, I think, goes home with one because it's just that good.
00:22:56.240 --> 00:22:57.119
It's a delicious.
00:22:57.839 --> 00:23:04.400
I initially got this in 2019 when we did the that was one of a part of doing the Kentucky.
00:23:04.720 --> 00:23:05.599
It's a screw cap.
00:23:06.160 --> 00:23:06.640
Yep.
00:23:06.879 --> 00:23:08.640
But it does have wax.
00:23:09.119 --> 00:23:10.879
Wax over the screw cap.
00:23:11.440 --> 00:23:12.319
I'm gonna go ahead.
00:23:12.480 --> 00:23:13.519
I needed to pour some.
00:23:13.599 --> 00:23:15.119
I I can't talk about it like this.
00:23:15.200 --> 00:23:16.400
It's not nice.
00:23:18.960 --> 00:23:20.319
Enjoy that spirit.
00:23:20.559 --> 00:23:21.119
Yes.
00:23:21.440 --> 00:23:25.839
So I'm gonna open my 21 year.
00:23:26.079 --> 00:23:26.720
Here goes.
00:23:26.799 --> 00:23:29.440
Here yeah, I've already had to have a sip of it.
00:23:29.759 --> 00:23:32.720
Oh John Rent, don't even start with the money, Chris.
00:23:33.119 --> 00:23:34.879
That's not even right, dude.
00:23:36.720 --> 00:23:39.279
That Nash and I can't even have one right now.
00:23:39.359 --> 00:23:41.440
What what are you doing to us?
00:23:43.599 --> 00:23:45.359
All right, so here it goes.
00:23:45.599 --> 00:23:48.400
21 year cracked.
00:23:49.440 --> 00:23:54.079
There goes all the oh no, there goes all the collectibility.
00:23:54.400 --> 00:23:56.160
What the shit, John Ridd.
00:23:56.480 --> 00:23:57.440
What the shit?
00:23:58.079 --> 00:24:00.079
Hey, that's a good comic strip.
00:24:00.240 --> 00:24:02.799
That's that's that's some fucked up shit.
00:24:03.039 --> 00:24:04.240
What the shit.
00:24:04.640 --> 00:24:05.279
Yeah.
00:24:05.920 --> 00:24:10.079
God, the nose on that master blend is stupid.
00:24:10.319 --> 00:24:13.440
Well, I had that initially, and I had to have it.
00:24:13.519 --> 00:24:24.559
I've probably that's probably behind for a bottle of what I purchased the most throughout this, you know, collecting since you know 2018.
00:24:24.960 --> 00:24:32.319
I that's only eight years, but eight years of collecting, I've probably gone through five of those bottles.
00:24:32.480 --> 00:24:33.759
This is my fifth.
00:24:34.000 --> 00:24:38.240
And I always, I mean, it was just something to share.
00:24:38.400 --> 00:24:46.559
It's a great pour when you have friends over that you know, you don't gotta get you pour that for them, and they're just not the hugest bourbon fans.
00:24:46.640 --> 00:24:47.519
They they'll drink.
00:24:47.680 --> 00:24:52.799
They will they that's something that that's just something special to pour someone like that.
00:24:53.119 --> 00:24:55.039
Because it's so drinkable.
00:24:58.640 --> 00:25:02.559
All right, I'm putting this while they're pouring, John.
00:25:03.440 --> 00:25:05.440
Yeah, trolling us.
00:25:05.680 --> 00:25:08.240
Yeah, I I got you with your cigars.
00:25:08.559 --> 00:25:13.200
Yeah, Crisp, that's but not a conquistador.
00:25:16.480 --> 00:25:19.680
But John got me speaking in tongues.
00:25:21.359 --> 00:25:23.200
Like, we're gonna need a commercial break.
00:25:23.440 --> 00:25:24.960
That's stupid.
00:25:25.519 --> 00:25:26.960
That that is stupid.
00:25:27.119 --> 00:25:28.240
All right, guys.
00:25:28.559 --> 00:25:45.200
We are going to do our barrel bottle breakdown of Elijah Craig 21 year, and maybe we'll pull I'll pull that 15 year and see put it up against if it deserves it.
00:25:45.519 --> 00:25:51.279
But our barrel bottle breakdown scale is based off of four categories.
00:25:51.440 --> 00:25:53.519
What are they in Super Nash?
00:25:54.160 --> 00:25:57.680
They are nose, body, taste, and finish.
00:25:58.319 --> 00:26:01.039
What are the the nose and the body?
00:26:01.279 --> 00:26:07.920
Using the body, you can give it up to four butt bumps, knocks on the barrel, knocks on the barrel.
00:26:08.079 --> 00:26:08.720
Yep.
00:26:09.279 --> 00:26:14.720
And on the taste and the finish, you can give it up to five knocks on the barrel.
00:26:15.519 --> 00:26:23.839
But if one of the categories is an exceptional in that category, then you can actually give it an extra butt-up.
00:26:24.559 --> 00:26:25.599
But up bump.
00:26:26.160 --> 00:26:26.960
There you go.
00:26:27.039 --> 00:26:28.480
That's how it works.
00:26:29.039 --> 00:26:29.680
All right.
00:26:30.079 --> 00:26:32.799
So check this out, Nash.
00:26:32.879 --> 00:26:33.920
Hey ACT.
00:26:34.559 --> 00:26:36.400
Oh, what the shit?
00:26:37.519 --> 00:26:40.879
It's a filth, it's one of the filthy hooligan cigars.
00:26:41.119 --> 00:26:41.440
Yeah.
00:26:41.680 --> 00:26:42.400
Halloween.
00:26:43.039 --> 00:26:44.160
Oh yeah.
00:26:44.720 --> 00:26:47.279
What makes a cigar Halloween besides a ring?
00:26:47.599 --> 00:26:49.279
Because they put a freaking ghost on it.
00:26:49.440 --> 00:26:51.359
They put on a ghost, put a ghost on it.
00:26:51.920 --> 00:26:54.000
Yeah, that's why I want to smoke it.
00:26:54.160 --> 00:26:54.960
Just the reason.
00:26:55.119 --> 00:26:59.599
It's like smoke a cigar on Halloween because there's a ghost wrapper on it.
00:26:59.680 --> 00:27:07.279
It's just people are gonna like it if I smoke that at Halloween while I'm passing out ring pops and stuff for kids.
00:27:07.519 --> 00:27:08.640
Oh yeah.
00:27:09.119 --> 00:27:14.879
Oh, speaking of that, when I went going through, you know those 3D dragons that are in.
00:27:15.119 --> 00:27:16.879
Have you ever seen the little eggs that they in?
00:27:17.119 --> 00:27:20.480
You unscrew an egg and there's like a 3D printed dragon.
00:27:20.559 --> 00:27:21.920
Have you ever seen that?
00:27:23.759 --> 00:27:28.160
They're like you can see them that used to be unique, but that those are done on 3D printers.
00:27:28.400 --> 00:27:32.960
Well, I got a bag of like 150 of them.
00:27:33.279 --> 00:27:37.039
So that's what we're that's what we're handing out for Halloween.
00:27:37.200 --> 00:27:42.079
We're gonna hand out 3D printed dragons to in an egg to everybody.
00:27:42.480 --> 00:27:47.279
Listen, Jeff, Jeff is gonna be passing out everything that Amazon Return got.
00:27:47.440 --> 00:27:56.240
You're gonna get kitchen knife, cutting boards, you could get more store decanters for all the guys stopping by.
00:27:56.319 --> 00:27:57.039
Yeah, yeah.
00:27:57.599 --> 00:27:58.559
Rock's glasses.
00:27:58.720 --> 00:28:00.400
I'll be passing out rocks glasses.
00:28:00.480 --> 00:28:05.839
And then I got enough, I'll just be pouring bourbon for all the men that stopped by the house.
00:28:06.079 --> 00:28:09.759
I and some some bags of shorts.
00:28:10.079 --> 00:28:11.279
Three packs of shorts.
00:28:11.519 --> 00:28:13.599
You should you should get more of those than that.
00:28:14.400 --> 00:28:17.279
That when you purchased it, you thought they were t-shirts.
00:28:17.519 --> 00:28:17.920
Yeah.
00:28:18.640 --> 00:28:19.119
All good.
00:28:19.279 --> 00:28:20.160
Well, at least you could.
00:28:20.319 --> 00:28:23.200
I could I could be giving you sample bottles.
00:28:23.920 --> 00:28:25.119
I need more.
00:28:26.319 --> 00:28:28.319
I was like, you'd be like, you didn't do that.
00:28:28.400 --> 00:28:29.519
I'm like, yeah, I did.
00:28:29.599 --> 00:28:35.039
That was I I made sure you got a full full uh whatever contingent of it.
00:28:35.119 --> 00:28:39.440
It was that I still that that was uh coolest find ever.
00:28:40.240 --> 00:28:42.400
I've been finding them like this now.
00:28:42.720 --> 00:28:44.960
Look, yeah, I need those.
00:28:45.119 --> 00:28:46.319
I'll get those too.
00:28:46.480 --> 00:28:48.400
Yeah, I need some of those.
00:28:48.559 --> 00:29:02.160
Yeah, that's that would be nice to share the bottles that we get for the you know, when we get a bottle to do the podcast, it's nicer to have that bigger 100 milliliter or 200 mil than the uh the little dinky ones.
00:29:02.799 --> 00:29:06.400
Yeah, but either way, Tiny.
00:29:06.720 --> 00:29:09.839
You were talking about what's which one was it that you booked?
00:29:10.079 --> 00:29:11.519
It's got the weird name.
00:29:11.920 --> 00:29:12.559
Silk Velvet.
00:29:12.879 --> 00:29:13.519
Silk Velvet.
00:29:13.599 --> 00:29:14.400
Uh, you get samples.
00:29:14.720 --> 00:29:15.839
That's good stuff.
00:29:15.920 --> 00:29:17.359
I can't I can't wait for Zeb.
00:29:17.599 --> 00:29:18.799
There, those guys are gonna be fun.
00:29:18.960 --> 00:29:19.680
On what day?
00:29:19.920 --> 00:29:21.680
Yeah, that's December 1st.
00:29:21.839 --> 00:29:23.039
Yeah, are you getting samples?
00:29:23.680 --> 00:29:26.960
I did a nice little video of them at Bourbon on the Banks.
00:29:27.200 --> 00:29:28.000
Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:29:28.079 --> 00:29:30.240
They're they're brothers, they're good guys.
00:29:30.400 --> 00:29:34.480
I mean, and they they came on the scene last year and like took over KDF.
00:29:34.559 --> 00:29:35.920
They were the talk of the town.
00:29:36.079 --> 00:29:38.160
Are you gonna get samples?
00:29:38.400 --> 00:29:41.359
Yeah, hopefully we're getting some stuff sent, so we'll see.
00:29:41.440 --> 00:29:45.279
But I have a bottle from this year from Bourbon on the Banks.
00:29:45.440 --> 00:29:47.680
So even if not, I'll send you some of that.
00:29:48.000 --> 00:29:53.599
I didn't, I couldn't, I couldn't get anything at Bourbon on the Banks because I was like stuck in a tent.
00:29:53.920 --> 00:30:02.559
Not that I not that I I think I learned a lot this year based off of our numbers going up since Bourbon on the Banks.
00:30:02.720 --> 00:30:04.400
It's what I've always should have been done.
00:30:04.480 --> 00:30:08.000
If you're gonna have a tent there, you gotta kind of be there.
00:30:08.160 --> 00:30:17.680
If you're off exploring and taking videos like you, whatever, you're not promoting the brand, and that's kind of what I was able to do.
00:30:17.759 --> 00:30:19.759
So I felt that that was important.
00:30:20.079 --> 00:30:29.200
I think it worked good because you were there and then we were out talking, and then that way when Greg from Larrick and came to do a podcast and I wasn't there, you know, it worked out pretty well.
00:30:29.440 --> 00:30:31.359
Yeah, it worked out perfect.
00:30:32.960 --> 00:30:34.559
He's dead to me.
00:30:34.799 --> 00:30:35.759
He's dead to me.
00:30:40.400 --> 00:30:42.559
And he's like, talk to the hand.
00:30:44.400 --> 00:30:45.359
Exactly.
00:30:46.480 --> 00:30:50.160
All right, so what do you get on the nose?
00:30:53.279 --> 00:30:56.720
It's it's raspberry and chocolate.
00:31:00.879 --> 00:31:06.480
I also get I get chocolate fudge frosting from a cake.
00:31:09.200 --> 00:31:10.480
I get that frosting.
00:31:10.640 --> 00:31:12.079
Did you almost just throw up?
00:31:12.960 --> 00:31:24.160
I said chocolate frosting from a cake, and Nash goes, yeah, it's so sweet.
00:31:24.400 --> 00:31:41.519
I would say this is one of the if if you are like brown sugar, you're a sweet person, what the this is legitimately this is like smelling something some sort of dessert.
00:31:42.160 --> 00:31:43.359
Like you know.
00:31:44.400 --> 00:31:45.680
I mean it's so sweet.
00:31:45.920 --> 00:31:48.960
It's fruit, fruity, so sweet smelling fruity.
00:31:49.279 --> 00:31:50.079
How can it smell it?
00:31:50.400 --> 00:31:52.720
This is twenty-one years old.
00:31:52.960 --> 00:31:56.000
And it doesn't it doesn't smell oak.
00:31:56.400 --> 00:32:00.640
It doesn't know it's like yeah, no ethanol or oak.
00:32:04.879 --> 00:32:06.079
What else is there?
00:32:06.240 --> 00:32:06.559
Okay.
00:32:08.480 --> 00:32:13.279
It just smells like a fla fudge brownie with frosting on it.
00:32:18.240 --> 00:32:21.200
I I I I have to I'm going better.
00:32:21.519 --> 00:32:23.920
I'm going a four on this nose.
00:32:26.240 --> 00:32:27.519
Uh yeah, I gotta go a four.
00:32:27.920 --> 00:32:29.039
With a but up up.
00:32:29.680 --> 00:32:30.079
But up.
00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:31.759
I'm going a four.
00:32:32.720 --> 00:32:34.559
That's good, it's exceptional.
00:32:34.799 --> 00:32:37.279
I threw the but up up in there, you heard that, right?
00:32:37.599 --> 00:32:38.000
Yeah.
00:32:38.879 --> 00:32:39.519
Yeah.
00:32:41.519 --> 00:32:42.960
I uh CT.
00:32:43.440 --> 00:32:50.559
It's actually like smelling a can like a baked good with sugar and f you know what I mean?
00:32:50.720 --> 00:32:54.879
It does there's it does not smell like whiskey or bourbon.
00:32:55.519 --> 00:32:59.359
No, that is stupid.
00:32:59.920 --> 00:33:01.359
Like some kind of candy dessert.
00:33:01.599 --> 00:33:05.519
Is that it would make our uh our list of burgons of the year?
00:33:05.759 --> 00:33:06.240
It can.
00:33:07.119 --> 00:33:07.680
Yeah.
00:33:07.920 --> 00:33:10.400
I mean, it sounds like it from the smell.
00:33:11.039 --> 00:33:13.759
The nose the nose is just phenomenal.
00:33:14.079 --> 00:33:16.319
Let's see what this baby does in the glass.
00:33:16.559 --> 00:33:19.039
This is the first time you guys have tried it, correct?
00:33:19.279 --> 00:33:19.920
For me, yes.
00:33:20.160 --> 00:33:23.200
I'll look at you doing the doing the Becca.
00:33:23.839 --> 00:33:24.640
The Becca.
00:33:27.359 --> 00:33:29.279
They are our sponsor.
00:33:30.640 --> 00:33:33.279
That's totally a Becca roll around.
00:33:33.359 --> 00:33:35.599
She's like, here, roll it on the table.
00:33:35.920 --> 00:33:37.359
I love to, yep.
00:33:39.599 --> 00:33:40.079
Wow.
00:33:41.839 --> 00:33:45.200
It just sticks on the side and don't release.
00:33:45.519 --> 00:33:49.119
It's like it's like caramel syrup rolling down a glass.
00:33:49.440 --> 00:33:50.960
Like, now there you go.
00:33:51.279 --> 00:33:52.240
Starting to release.
00:33:52.319 --> 00:33:59.839
I I love how a really good viscos with the high viscosity bourbon releases the legs.
00:34:00.160 --> 00:34:01.440
It's got a great body to it.
00:34:01.680 --> 00:34:07.599
It doesn't release the legs from the top, it releases it from the tulip part of the glen.
00:34:09.519 --> 00:34:10.160
All right.
00:34:12.240 --> 00:34:14.400
Yeah, that's that's real good.
00:35:00.910 --> 00:35:04.110
So what's the what's the behind this?
00:35:05.390 --> 00:35:06.830
What's the 94?
00:35:09.470 --> 00:35:10.270
94.
00:35:11.150 --> 00:35:11.790
Is it?
00:35:12.590 --> 00:35:13.950
Yeah, 94.
00:35:14.430 --> 00:35:14.990
Forty seven.
00:35:15.310 --> 00:35:18.270
It tastes like about a hundred or a hundred and five.
00:35:18.990 --> 00:35:19.630
You know what?
00:35:20.190 --> 00:35:22.990
How thick it is and chewy.
00:35:23.630 --> 00:35:35.310
Yes, but molasses.
00:35:37.230 --> 00:35:42.910
So what are you gonna give what are you giving the body?
00:35:44.270 --> 00:35:45.310
Definite four.
00:35:46.270 --> 00:35:47.550
Definite four.
00:35:53.550 --> 00:35:54.670
I gotta see.
00:35:55.070 --> 00:35:57.470
I'm not sure if it's hitting my cheeks.
00:35:58.670 --> 00:35:59.550
It is mine.
00:35:59.870 --> 00:36:02.750
Sides of my tongue, and it's sticking there too.
00:36:06.830 --> 00:36:09.390
Nice little tingle across the roof of my mouth.
00:36:09.630 --> 00:36:10.190
What?
00:36:10.590 --> 00:36:11.230
Why?
00:36:12.510 --> 00:36:14.510
What about that is whiskey?
00:36:14.830 --> 00:36:19.710
Oh, I'll tell you, the only thing that's whiskey about this CT is the hug.
00:36:20.190 --> 00:36:22.110
It it warms you up going down.
00:36:22.270 --> 00:36:32.990
But in the the actual mouthfeel and the taste, that's not that's how is that 21 year?
00:36:33.550 --> 00:36:36.590
Creamy, velvety, silky.
00:36:37.470 --> 00:36:50.990
What's crazy is that the way you're describing it, it's like how did how did 18, which everybody that reviewed it that I that I saw was very tannic, yeah, oaky.
00:36:51.550 --> 00:36:56.030
And everybody was like, Yeah, it's good, but it's a little oaky.
00:36:56.190 --> 00:37:02.110
And then you go 21, and it's like three years later, it's not as oaky, it's more desserty.
00:37:02.270 --> 00:37:06.590
But Evan Williams 23 is really good.
00:37:06.990 --> 00:37:09.150
When did you when have you had that?
00:37:09.390 --> 00:37:10.190
Oh, I have it.
00:37:10.270 --> 00:37:11.950
Plus, I have a bottle of it.
00:37:12.830 --> 00:37:13.470
What?
00:37:14.110 --> 00:37:14.750
Yeah.
00:37:16.270 --> 00:37:18.510
You know, you just gotta know people.
00:37:22.590 --> 00:37:24.270
Oh, yes, I know.
00:37:24.430 --> 00:37:31.070
You couldn't you you realize I went to Evan Williams like every Friday for three months in a row.
00:37:31.150 --> 00:37:36.590
So, yeah, I got a bottle of 23 once when it was available three, four years ago.
00:37:36.910 --> 00:37:39.870
But Evan 23, I think, is fantastic.
00:37:40.030 --> 00:37:43.710
I don't think what was the price point on that?
00:37:43.950 --> 00:37:44.990
500?
00:37:45.390 --> 00:37:46.350
399.
00:37:46.590 --> 00:37:47.870
Okay, 400.
00:37:48.590 --> 00:37:50.590
And that was three or four years ago.
00:37:50.670 --> 00:37:59.550
I think it's actually stayed the same because they re-released it, they released another batch this year, and I think it was 399 as well.
00:38:00.270 --> 00:38:02.030
That's that's delicious.
00:38:02.350 --> 00:38:04.830
All right, so he gives it a four.
00:38:05.070 --> 00:38:05.470
Uh-oh.
00:38:05.790 --> 00:38:06.750
Nash has got it.
00:38:07.790 --> 00:38:08.910
What is that?
00:38:11.950 --> 00:38:13.630
Looks like a 23 to me.
00:38:13.870 --> 00:38:15.470
I hate you guys.
00:38:15.870 --> 00:38:18.670
I I haven't even seen one of those bottles.
00:38:18.830 --> 00:38:20.830
When did you pick that up, Nash?
00:38:21.150 --> 00:38:24.110
Oh, and he wonders why I called it.
00:38:24.270 --> 00:38:27.550
And he wonders why I called this Devin Williams.
00:38:28.030 --> 00:38:30.670
He's opening it, Robins opens it.
00:38:32.190 --> 00:38:34.510
Just like I said, I was gonna do.
00:38:36.270 --> 00:38:40.830
These bottles are not made to just sit on the shelf, dude.
00:38:40.990 --> 00:38:48.430
That's that is theft or to sell to somebody for double the or triple the price.
00:38:48.830 --> 00:38:54.830
It's made to open that bottle right there was one of my favorites forever.
00:38:54.990 --> 00:39:03.870
Like, I I chased that flavor for years looking for something, and it was just that thing knocked my socks off.
00:39:03.950 --> 00:39:04.990
I loved it.
00:39:05.630 --> 00:39:08.030
I know you can't give this half.
00:39:09.710 --> 00:39:10.830
Oh my god.
00:39:12.110 --> 00:39:22.590
This 23 year is doing the same thing that this 21 year is doing.
00:39:23.150 --> 00:39:23.870
I'm gonna go.
00:39:24.430 --> 00:39:31.070
I get just a little bit of oak off it, a lot more off the 23 than I do off this 21.
00:39:31.710 --> 00:39:33.870
I'm that is phenomenal.
00:39:34.110 --> 00:39:38.910
I'm gonna go three on the body.
00:39:41.630 --> 00:39:49.230
It just doesn't a four-body is like a barrel-proof where it just invades the sides and cheeks.
00:39:49.310 --> 00:40:08.110
And this one, it kind of tickles your cheek, but it just doesn't give you that full four but that makes kind of sense because at that age, at that age with all the water pretty much being evaporated from it, well, and it's that it is it is proof down to 94 proof.
00:40:08.350 --> 00:40:15.790
Yeah, they proof it back down, and then it's but it the but but the finish on this is stupid.
00:40:16.030 --> 00:40:21.310
I mean, I'm still getting a finish from my first set five minutes ago.
00:40:22.030 --> 00:40:26.030
If wonder if they will ever release cast strength of that.
00:40:27.230 --> 00:40:28.910
Man, that would be fun.
00:40:29.150 --> 00:40:31.070
Wouldn't that be wouldn't that be awesome?
00:40:31.630 --> 00:40:35.550
Elijah Craig, 15, 18, and 21 cast strength.
00:40:35.790 --> 00:40:38.190
Holy antique collection.
00:40:38.430 --> 00:40:39.070
Yeah.
00:40:40.110 --> 00:40:41.390
That would be interesting.
00:40:41.630 --> 00:40:43.630
I forget how old our barrel was.
00:40:43.710 --> 00:40:46.110
I think our barrel was what eight, seven year?
00:40:46.270 --> 00:40:50.590
What we had that we had that big huge poster that said it, right?
00:40:50.830 --> 00:40:52.990
I'm pretty sure ours was an eight-year.
00:40:54.590 --> 00:40:55.150
All right.
00:40:57.550 --> 00:41:00.990
Flip this around since we're doing the fun part.
00:41:02.510 --> 00:41:02.750
All right.
00:41:08.110 --> 00:41:10.270
So tastes.
00:41:11.870 --> 00:41:26.750
I'm getting like rich vanilla with maybe some a little bit of currant, and then like almost like a plum.
00:41:29.630 --> 00:41:39.230
Like a almost like a little bit of I mean it's so I get rap that that in a raspberry.
00:41:39.790 --> 00:41:40.430
Yeah.
00:41:40.830 --> 00:41:43.070
The nose is so different.
00:41:43.550 --> 00:41:44.510
The nose does not match.
00:41:44.990 --> 00:41:47.070
Oh, the nose is totally different.
00:41:47.390 --> 00:41:59.390
Because I'm getting like burnt caramel, brown sugar, raspberry, and that that sweet, sweet to bitter chocolate.
00:41:59.790 --> 00:42:05.790
It's almost sweet, and then it's almost on the finish of it, is it's like a bitter chocolate.
00:42:07.390 --> 00:42:18.910
Not like a dark cocoa, but more like a dark chocolate with that the like a rich dark chocolate with sugar, not without it.
00:42:19.070 --> 00:42:27.950
Yeah, but I don't know what more you can like, you know, you know what whiskey, everybody knows what whiskey tastes.
00:42:28.030 --> 00:42:39.390
And if if like a really good whiskey that tastes like whiskey is like sitting there a nine out of eighteen, I don't know what more you want from a bourbon than this.
00:42:40.110 --> 00:42:44.750
I mean, the taste, there's nothing wrong.
00:42:44.910 --> 00:42:49.710
There's nothing bitter, there's nothing too hot, there's nothing too peppery.
00:42:49.950 --> 00:42:56.350
The finish is pulling out the only place where it pulls out just a little bit of sweet oak, no bitter oak.
00:42:56.590 --> 00:43:00.190
It sits it sits in the corner of slightly peppery, too.
00:43:00.590 --> 00:43:02.030
But not too peppery.
00:43:02.270 --> 00:43:03.950
Yeah, no, I said slightly.
00:43:04.110 --> 00:43:05.470
I mean, it's Elijah Craig.
00:43:05.550 --> 00:43:13.390
I mean, Elijah Craig is a peppery beast when it's you know, cast strength, and you do one of those A21s or A, whatever.
00:43:13.630 --> 00:43:28.190
It can be really peppery and and kind of burn, and and and a lot of the if you're like tasting uh doing a tasting with all the different batches, they start to blend together because the pepper can kind of tie them all together on those cast strengths.
00:43:28.430 --> 00:43:30.110
This doesn't pull that out at all.
00:43:30.190 --> 00:43:34.270
This sets itself above and beyond of the sweetness that it brings up.
00:43:34.350 --> 00:43:37.950
It's almost good goes goes from the pepper to nutmeg.
00:43:39.230 --> 00:43:40.350
I'll give you that.
00:43:40.830 --> 00:43:44.350
That's a good or clove, a little bit of clove and nutmeg in there.
00:43:44.510 --> 00:43:45.870
Yeah, a little bit of clove in there.
00:43:45.950 --> 00:43:46.830
Yeah, all right.
00:43:46.990 --> 00:43:49.710
The flavor I just I I can't I can't diss this.
00:43:49.790 --> 00:43:51.550
It's gotta be, it's a five.
00:43:52.350 --> 00:43:56.350
Yeah, I agree with the taste is phenomenal.
00:43:56.670 --> 00:44:02.270
Lots lots of flavors going on, and you can you can pick them out, you know.
00:44:02.350 --> 00:44:06.270
It's like each one of them sort of hits you on a different part of your tongue.
00:44:06.750 --> 00:44:09.070
So five and five.
00:44:11.950 --> 00:44:15.790
Well now, on the Nick is still watching.
00:44:15.870 --> 00:44:16.750
He said he's still here.
00:44:16.830 --> 00:44:22.830
He's slipped, he's he's he's he doesn't have streaming to watch the game, so he's streaming and watching this game.
00:44:23.150 --> 00:44:27.790
All right, so a guy said he's looking for a good seasonal depression bourbon.
00:44:28.190 --> 00:44:30.190
This this one will be great.
00:44:30.350 --> 00:44:38.750
Buy this one here, this 21-year Elijah Craig, because it's gonna be really good, but you can stay depressed because it costs so much.
00:44:39.390 --> 00:44:40.030
Yeah.
00:44:43.950 --> 00:44:44.350
I don't know.
00:44:44.910 --> 00:44:46.990
What one isn't good for that?
00:44:47.870 --> 00:44:48.350
Bourbon.
00:44:48.670 --> 00:44:49.790
Bourbon's good for that.
00:44:49.870 --> 00:44:50.750
Yep, that's it.
00:44:50.910 --> 00:44:52.270
But this one is a good bourbon.
00:44:52.590 --> 00:44:58.030
Like, if you if your wife gave you this for for seasonal depression, it would work.
00:44:58.590 --> 00:45:00.830
Oh yeah, I'd be a happy man.
00:45:01.550 --> 00:45:03.630
It snapped me out of my depression.
00:45:06.670 --> 00:45:08.910
Until she handed me the bill.
00:45:10.190 --> 00:45:12.030
If she hands you the bill.
00:45:12.190 --> 00:45:15.310
No, this would have to be out of to get you out of the depression.
00:45:15.390 --> 00:45:16.990
This would have to be under her.
00:45:17.790 --> 00:45:20.030
She'd have to buy it out of her salary.
00:45:20.510 --> 00:45:21.790
That's right, yeah.
00:45:21.950 --> 00:45:22.670
There you go.
00:45:22.910 --> 00:45:23.390
All right.
00:45:23.710 --> 00:45:27.310
So what are you giving this finish?
00:45:28.510 --> 00:45:29.150
Finish.
00:45:33.390 --> 00:45:38.670
As much as we I've pumped up and talked about the body and the taste and the nose.
00:45:40.990 --> 00:45:42.270
I really think.
00:45:54.190 --> 00:45:56.590
It lasts a great finish.
00:45:56.750 --> 00:45:59.150
And it's it's not a perfect finish.
00:45:59.710 --> 00:46:00.910
But it's long.
00:46:01.470 --> 00:46:06.190
But it's long, it does, and the flavors just keep going and going and going.
00:46:07.790 --> 00:46:15.550
And for 94 proof, you get just the mount of hug that I mean it's just perfect.
00:46:15.790 --> 00:46:17.150
It's not peppery.
00:46:17.230 --> 00:46:21.390
It's not that's you know, it's not real ethanol.
00:46:22.190 --> 00:46:28.910
The oat, the oat barely comes through, so you're still getting all those flavors.
00:46:29.070 --> 00:46:32.110
I would say it a five.
00:46:32.350 --> 00:46:44.030
I would say what's crazy about this one, C T and Nash, is that this bourbon makes you not care what proof it is or what age it is.
00:46:44.190 --> 00:46:51.070
It's like like if you someone just never know it's 21 and you'd never think it's 94.
00:46:51.150 --> 00:46:55.070
You'd think it's like a 101, 102, and you you know what I mean?
00:46:55.150 --> 00:46:57.150
It's drinking, it gives you a great hug.
00:46:57.310 --> 00:47:09.790
But but even when you're drinking it, you're you're just being blown away by the the flavors and the sweetness and the aromas and all the other stuff kind of doesn't matter because it's just good good whiskey.
00:47:10.030 --> 00:47:10.430
Yeah.
00:47:10.750 --> 00:47:12.990
All right, so you give it a five.
00:47:13.230 --> 00:47:13.870
Yep.
00:47:16.350 --> 00:47:18.350
And I give it a five.
00:47:21.230 --> 00:47:25.230
And we both score it an 18 out of 18.
00:47:28.190 --> 00:47:30.110
You can't ask for much more than that.
00:47:30.270 --> 00:47:35.150
I mean, the only thing that would make this better is if it wasn't 300 bucks, right?
00:47:35.870 --> 00:47:37.790
That would be the only thing.
00:47:37.950 --> 00:47:42.430
Yeah, but but you know, if if they would have put would it have been as special?
00:47:42.590 --> 00:47:49.630
I mean, this box is definitely, I mean, it's got, you know, you can't get this for free.
00:47:49.870 --> 00:47:57.790
The way it's made and all the intricacies on how it's put together and how well the hinges and everything.
00:47:57.950 --> 00:48:02.350
This is sometimes it's made out of press board, whatever.
00:48:02.430 --> 00:48:09.790
This is made out of actual, it's wood, it's it's a wood stain beautifully, right?
00:48:10.990 --> 00:48:12.750
It's okay.
00:48:22.350 --> 00:48:23.710
Yeah, there you go.
00:48:24.030 --> 00:48:28.190
Grandma's making it at the at the the old age home.
00:48:28.350 --> 00:48:29.230
What's what's that?
00:48:29.310 --> 00:48:30.270
Your fingers hurt?
00:48:30.510 --> 00:48:34.030
Well, now your back's gonna hurt because you just pulled landscaping, dude.
00:48:37.550 --> 00:48:38.990
Oh all right.
00:48:39.070 --> 00:48:42.990
Hey, real quick, while you guys are deciphering that, I'm working on other things.
00:48:43.150 --> 00:48:45.870
What is next Tuesday night's podcast?
00:48:46.350 --> 00:48:47.230
Nothing.
00:48:47.710 --> 00:48:50.670
I have it, I have one pegged.
00:48:50.990 --> 00:48:51.310
Okay.
00:48:52.510 --> 00:49:07.150
So so we will be tentatively working with our friend from Louisville on the release of our special barrel pick.
00:49:08.910 --> 00:49:10.830
Okay, sounds good.
00:49:11.470 --> 00:49:13.310
So that that will work out nice.
00:49:13.390 --> 00:49:14.990
We can uh talk about that.
00:49:15.150 --> 00:49:17.230
As he has not barreled that yet.
00:49:17.310 --> 00:49:29.150
Today was the day it turned 11 years old, but he felt that an extra day or two of maturation was important or was necessary because they were behind.
00:49:29.470 --> 00:49:35.630
Either way, it'll be 11 years and one day or 11 years and two days old when we get it.
00:49:36.510 --> 00:49:37.390
The bottle count.
00:49:37.470 --> 00:49:41.630
And there's we're just picking, we'll pick that up for you, but there's not a lot to pick up.
00:49:41.790 --> 00:49:48.430
So just if you're gonna you need to jump in and let us know you want us to pick you up one.
00:49:48.590 --> 00:49:50.190
That's what's gotta happen.
00:49:50.750 --> 00:49:51.790
That's perfect.
00:49:51.950 --> 00:49:52.750
It's funny.
00:49:52.830 --> 00:49:54.590
I don't know how that happened.
00:49:55.470 --> 00:49:58.670
You're gonna be on next Tuesday on one of the off weeks.
00:49:58.750 --> 00:50:00.430
That's kind of cool, dude.
00:50:00.590 --> 00:50:05.310
Listen, for a meme, not for you, but for a meme, I'm on next Tuesday.
00:50:05.630 --> 00:50:06.110
That's a lie.
00:50:06.190 --> 00:50:09.550
It's just that that's just the meme doesn't, yeah.
00:50:09.630 --> 00:50:13.630
You would do it because you don't, you don't the mean's not very often, and I get that.
00:50:13.790 --> 00:50:16.990
But at the same time, you've been on.
00:50:17.550 --> 00:50:26.830
But the other thing is, is Rachel is here next Tuesday, and Rachel will want to be on if a mean's on because she's a brand ambassador, basically.
00:50:27.070 --> 00:50:28.670
She thinks for it.
00:50:28.910 --> 00:50:30.590
So she'll want to be on.
00:50:30.830 --> 00:50:31.950
Okay, for sure.
00:50:32.110 --> 00:50:32.670
Oh, yeah.
00:50:32.830 --> 00:50:33.470
That sounds great.
00:50:33.550 --> 00:50:36.270
Hey Walker, here's a question for you about CT.
00:50:36.750 --> 00:50:39.230
Did you give me something to give CT?
00:50:39.390 --> 00:50:44.750
Because I'm gonna see him on Saturday, and I can't remember why I was supposed to meet up with him and give him something.
00:50:44.830 --> 00:50:47.070
But if I'm not mistaken, you did.
00:50:47.150 --> 00:50:52.590
Let me know what it is that I have to bring CT on Saturday, because that's the only thing I can come up with.
00:50:52.750 --> 00:50:55.710
Otherwise, I have no idea why we were supposed to.
00:50:55.870 --> 00:50:58.110
You're like, we'll get that in at a different time.
00:50:58.270 --> 00:51:02.350
But I think I think Walker gave me something to give to you.
00:51:02.510 --> 00:51:05.070
I think it's what it was, but we'll see.
00:51:06.590 --> 00:51:08.990
Yeah, I that I do not know.
00:51:09.230 --> 00:51:10.590
All right, let's do that.
00:51:10.670 --> 00:51:13.150
Let's let's do real quick, Super Nash.
00:51:13.390 --> 00:51:21.310
Let's do this Evan Will or this Heaven Hill 35th anniversary because I want to do this one, and you know what?
00:51:21.470 --> 00:51:25.390
And you guys give me crap that it said, I want to ask you a question.
00:51:25.550 --> 00:51:32.190
I want you to look at this bottle right here, and then I want you to put that Evan Williams 23 out there.
00:51:32.270 --> 00:51:33.150
Just put it next to me.
00:51:33.310 --> 00:51:33.630
Oh, no.
00:51:33.870 --> 00:51:34.750
So similar.
00:51:34.910 --> 00:51:35.550
Same exactly.
00:51:35.710 --> 00:51:37.070
What do you mean similar?
00:51:37.230 --> 00:51:38.590
They're the exact same bottle.
00:51:38.670 --> 00:51:44.670
So why do you uh this is a lighter blue?
00:51:44.830 --> 00:51:49.790
Yeah, not mine, his maybe, but not looking at 23 years old.
00:51:50.030 --> 00:51:51.870
Well, you know what, Jeff?
00:51:51.950 --> 00:51:55.470
If you had an Evan Williams 23 to compare it to, we could tell.
00:51:55.710 --> 00:51:56.350
Yeah.
00:51:57.390 --> 00:52:02.350
Yeah, if you had something to make your point just stand out a little bit more.
00:52:02.590 --> 00:52:04.750
Hey, that that would be good.
00:52:05.230 --> 00:52:10.190
I didn't I didn't go to Evan Williams every Friday for three years.
00:52:10.350 --> 00:52:11.390
I went to Javasi.
00:52:11.630 --> 00:52:15.230
You want me to ever pick it up when we went?
00:52:15.790 --> 00:52:19.470
I got this at the KBF festival, and I got that 23 year.
00:52:19.550 --> 00:52:22.670
That's what I picked up when we all three went by there.
00:52:22.830 --> 00:52:24.190
Yeah, you picked a 20.
00:52:24.430 --> 00:52:28.110
It was available to oh, that's because yes, it was available.
00:52:28.430 --> 00:52:35.710
This one hit me for 224, and that would have hit me for 400, and I would have been killed and castrated when I got home.
00:52:35.950 --> 00:52:37.790
So that's probably why that didn't happen.
00:52:37.950 --> 00:52:40.590
Yeah, you have to be the first time.
00:52:40.670 --> 00:52:43.230
You'll serve you're you would have survived it.
00:52:44.270 --> 00:52:50.910
I mean, you've been married this long, it's pretty much a given, you know, like pretty castrated.
00:52:53.070 --> 00:52:55.790
You you see, I got I got both of them.
00:52:55.870 --> 00:52:57.630
I I'm the man in my house.
00:52:57.870 --> 00:52:59.790
Oh boy, no, you didn't get both.
00:53:00.030 --> 00:53:03.390
You picked the first one, you did not buy them both at the same time.
00:53:03.550 --> 00:53:05.870
You put the first one up at Kentucky Bourbon Festival.
00:53:06.190 --> 00:53:07.230
Sorry, honey.
00:53:09.630 --> 00:53:10.590
I was just kidding.
00:53:10.750 --> 00:53:12.510
Uh, just kidding.
00:53:13.470 --> 00:53:15.790
Anyways, you got that poured up.
00:53:16.670 --> 00:53:17.310
Oh, yeah.
00:53:17.630 --> 00:53:20.190
That's what I was pre- that's what I was pre-sipping on.
00:53:20.270 --> 00:53:21.550
This shit's good.
00:53:21.790 --> 00:53:27.390
This shit's good, but I will say now this blend we're Yeah.
00:53:27.630 --> 00:53:28.910
You want to talk about it?
00:53:29.070 --> 00:53:29.790
Or shall I?
00:53:30.110 --> 00:53:31.550
You talk about it.
00:53:32.670 --> 00:53:34.670
All right, I'll I'll get the AI.
00:53:35.310 --> 00:53:51.070
This Heaven Hill Kentucky Bourbon Festival 35th anniversary commemorative release is a limited edition blend of 10, 12, and 13-year-old straight bourbons bottled at 113.5 proof.
00:53:51.310 --> 00:53:59.230
The expression presents a general aroma with notes of leather and caramel leading to a rich palate of dark fruits and a warming finish.
00:54:02.750 --> 00:54:05.150
What was it?
00:54:05.630 --> 00:54:07.950
The proof 113.5.
00:54:09.070 --> 00:54:10.990
No, what was the the years?
00:54:11.150 --> 00:54:12.430
10, 12, and 13 years?
00:54:12.670 --> 00:54:14.270
10, 12, and 13 years.
00:54:14.350 --> 00:54:14.830
Yep.
00:54:19.070 --> 00:54:25.070
And and and what is the what was the brand that they were pulling from?
00:54:25.870 --> 00:54:27.070
Heaven Hill.
00:54:27.630 --> 00:54:28.830
The Heaven Hill brand.
00:54:29.070 --> 00:54:33.150
Does that mean if it's Heaven Hill, that it can be any of them?
00:54:33.390 --> 00:54:34.750
It just is Heaven Hill.
00:54:34.830 --> 00:54:39.230
Like they can pull a 13-year-old Elijah Craig, a 12-year-old Evan William.
00:54:39.550 --> 00:54:44.030
I understand, but tell me what Heaven is Heaven Hill a different mash bill.
00:54:45.630 --> 00:54:49.470
It's from the Heaven Hill Heritage Collection.
00:54:50.030 --> 00:54:50.670
Hmm.
00:54:51.470 --> 00:54:58.270
So that would probably be like a lot of the bottles or barrels that make the William Heavenhill bottle line.
00:54:59.150 --> 00:55:07.550
And it's got the mash bill on this bottle: 57% wheat, 37% corn, 12% malted barley.
00:55:07.790 --> 00:55:12.190
So Heaven Hill is a frickin' wheat whiskey?
00:55:12.510 --> 00:55:14.350
A wheat whiskey, yeah.
00:55:14.670 --> 00:55:17.150
So this is a wheat whiskey, probably.
00:55:18.030 --> 00:55:19.470
I don't I don't care.
00:55:19.630 --> 00:55:22.030
That would be, or is it say it's a bourbon?
00:55:22.190 --> 00:55:24.910
I wanna s now we're talking.
00:55:27.630 --> 00:55:29.150
This is a bourbon whiskey.
00:55:30.030 --> 00:55:32.110
So it's not Heaven Hill.
00:55:32.590 --> 00:55:34.670
So it's gonna be a different mashville.
00:55:35.070 --> 00:55:36.270
Yeah, uh huh.
00:55:39.470 --> 00:55:40.510
Oh boy.
00:55:40.750 --> 00:55:44.430
This is gonna get this is gonna get the people riled up.
00:55:50.270 --> 00:55:52.190
Who was the blender?
00:55:52.430 --> 00:55:55.390
Was it I don't know.
00:55:58.750 --> 00:56:12.110
The Kentucky Bourbon Festival brings together bourbon lovers, distilleries, tastings, education, and experiences in the bourbon capital of the world.
00:56:12.350 --> 00:56:18.110
Cheers to celebrating 35 years of bourbon tradition and community.
00:56:21.710 --> 00:56:26.030
Yeah, we probably should have looked this bottle up and seen how it got blended.
00:56:26.270 --> 00:56:29.310
It's the commemorative release.
00:56:30.030 --> 00:56:37.950
I mean, look, I've got I've got what's kind of cool, you gotta admit, guys.
00:56:38.110 --> 00:56:48.270
Look, I've got the logo here, and then right behind me on the on the barrel head, I got the barrel head back there.
00:56:48.350 --> 00:56:50.830
Look, it's like a little on the glass.
00:56:51.070 --> 00:56:51.790
It goes.
00:56:52.830 --> 00:56:53.630
Yeah, you do.
00:56:53.710 --> 00:56:56.110
I got those two, but somewhere.
00:56:57.710 --> 00:56:58.830
Somewhere.
00:56:59.070 --> 00:57:01.550
Did did you get a couple of those CT2?
00:57:02.430 --> 00:57:05.710
The the glasses from the KBF?
00:57:05.950 --> 00:57:06.430
Yeah.
00:57:06.750 --> 00:57:09.390
I got one because I was supposed to get one.
00:57:11.070 --> 00:57:14.910
I I got I got I got way more than one.
00:57:15.470 --> 00:57:16.670
I only got one.
00:57:16.830 --> 00:57:17.790
Oh, okay.
00:57:18.350 --> 00:57:20.830
I followed, I'm a rule follower.
00:57:21.230 --> 00:57:30.190
Well, Roxy Roxy went, so I should have two, but that doesn't count what what I had five different five different wristbands.
00:57:30.510 --> 00:57:34.750
Well, in I got if I'd have gone season, I would have got more.
00:57:37.070 --> 00:57:38.110
Did I show you guys this?
00:57:38.190 --> 00:57:51.950
What I did, and then so after the the festival, I was hanging out with Randy at at Scout and Schowler, and I was able to get his.
00:58:00.030 --> 00:58:05.470
Kurt says, Yeah, the mash bill is 78 corn, 12 rye, and 12 malted barley.
00:58:05.630 --> 00:58:06.030
Thank you.
00:58:06.190 --> 00:58:06.670
Thank you.
00:58:06.830 --> 00:58:09.070
Oh, nope, nope, that don't work.
00:58:11.390 --> 00:58:12.830
That's 102%.
00:58:13.870 --> 00:58:15.870
So this math.
00:58:17.310 --> 00:58:18.670
See that, CT?
00:58:19.790 --> 00:58:22.030
Maybe 10% malted barley.
00:58:22.750 --> 00:58:26.590
So that's all my wristbands from all the years.
00:58:26.910 --> 00:58:34.990
Plus, it's Randy's actual lanyard with his past this year with his picture on it.
00:58:35.150 --> 00:58:43.150
And I was like, he goes, so we're sitting there and he goes, I go, you probably, he goes, you probably want my lanyard.
00:58:43.230 --> 00:58:45.230
And I go, yeah.
00:58:47.390 --> 00:58:48.270
He goes, what?
00:58:48.430 --> 00:58:48.670
Really?
00:58:48.830 --> 00:58:50.030
I'm like, absolutely.
00:58:50.190 --> 00:58:54.750
I go, if you give me, if you give me your lanyard, I'll put it in a shit.
00:58:54.990 --> 00:58:56.110
Oh, here, I'll show it to you.
00:58:56.190 --> 00:58:56.910
You can even show it.
00:58:57.790 --> 00:59:04.110
I'll put it in a shadow box with all my other perfect bands.
00:59:04.270 --> 00:59:06.030
And there it is in the shadow box.
00:59:06.110 --> 00:59:06.910
You can see his face.
00:59:06.990 --> 00:59:08.830
You see his little face peeking out there.
00:59:09.070 --> 00:59:17.790
Now he gave me one without his it's still one of the badges to put in here eventually, but he wanted this one back.
00:59:19.390 --> 00:59:28.350
It's just like so that like I got back and I put it in the shadow box in like five minutes, so I should could show him a picture with it in the shadow box.
00:59:28.830 --> 00:59:36.270
I mean, in the past, I think I wore I wore the the bands like for an extra week.
00:59:38.270 --> 00:59:44.590
It's it it's it's it's still special, but it's not we've done it so many times.
00:59:44.750 --> 00:59:47.150
It's not like you know, the first time whatever.
00:59:47.230 --> 00:59:48.510
The first time's always whatever.
00:59:48.750 --> 00:59:52.670
When you my bands are still hanging from my gear shifts on both of my trucks.
00:59:52.910 --> 00:59:53.790
There you go.
00:59:55.310 --> 00:59:55.950
Yep.
00:59:56.430 --> 00:59:59.870
I mean, it's it is cool to be able to media.
00:59:59.950 --> 01:00:07.230
I mean in a drawer with everything, all the badges, the buttons, the holders, everything.
01:00:07.550 --> 01:00:23.790
Well, the media pass you we get a staff, a media, and then we also get a regular, and then the you know, this year I think I had four between the VIP, the regular, the the media, and the staff.
01:00:23.950 --> 01:00:26.990
And and which one's the most important to us?
01:00:27.630 --> 01:00:28.910
It's the staff.
01:00:29.470 --> 01:00:30.430
The staff want to have it.
01:00:31.310 --> 01:00:35.150
That gets gets us where we want to be so we can do what we need to be.
01:00:35.390 --> 01:00:42.350
I mean, I think the coolest part of Kentucky Bourbon Festival this year for me was actually getting to that's right, Kurt.
01:00:42.990 --> 01:00:43.950
I agree with you.
01:00:44.190 --> 01:00:46.270
He said he always gives 102.
01:00:47.070 --> 01:00:49.470
100% is just average.
01:00:50.430 --> 01:00:50.910
There you go.
01:00:51.150 --> 01:00:52.270
What's up, Matt Lisen?
01:00:52.910 --> 01:00:53.390
Lisen.
01:00:53.790 --> 01:00:55.230
All right, quick, Nash.
01:00:55.310 --> 01:00:59.710
Let's do the fastest barrel break barrel bottle breakdown ever.
01:01:00.110 --> 01:01:01.630
Barrel break bottle down.
01:01:01.950 --> 01:01:04.590
All right, so you could give this nose up to a four.
01:01:08.830 --> 01:01:10.670
It's got some nice notes.
01:01:10.750 --> 01:01:19.630
There's some graham cracker, there's some vanilla, a little bit of apple, maybe a little bit of honey.
01:01:20.670 --> 01:01:21.710
It's nice.
01:01:22.110 --> 01:01:24.030
I get the honey and the apple.
01:01:26.510 --> 01:01:28.910
And then there's just that graham cracker flavor.
01:01:29.150 --> 01:01:33.710
Now this I was almost gonna say cinnamon crisp.
01:01:33.870 --> 01:01:34.510
Yeah.
01:01:35.310 --> 01:01:39.630
Now, now this one is delivering what you call it for us, right?
01:01:39.710 --> 01:01:42.270
It delivers proof for us, correct?
01:01:43.150 --> 01:01:45.390
Where is my light?
01:01:46.430 --> 01:01:47.550
There it is.
01:01:48.830 --> 01:01:50.190
Let's see, what proof are we?
01:01:50.510 --> 01:01:51.230
13.5.
01:01:51.710 --> 01:01:52.670
118?
01:01:53.150 --> 01:01:54.270
113.5.
01:01:54.590 --> 01:01:55.390
113.5.
01:01:55.550 --> 01:02:07.710
So we're gonna, I would imagine the body on this is gonna be bigger, but I would say on the nose, it's it's nice, better than average, but I'm it's it's special, so I'm gonna give those.
01:02:07.950 --> 01:02:09.150
I give it a three.
01:02:09.630 --> 01:02:10.350
I agree.
01:02:10.430 --> 01:02:12.510
I was about to say I give it a three, two.
01:02:15.230 --> 01:02:17.710
All right, yeah, it's nothing like that 21 year.
01:02:17.790 --> 01:02:19.870
That 21 year had a lot going on.
01:02:20.110 --> 01:02:22.510
Yeah, that I gave that a but up up.
01:02:22.830 --> 01:02:25.230
This is this one's just about average, though.
01:02:25.550 --> 01:02:28.830
All right, viscosity on the beck a roll.
01:02:34.030 --> 01:02:35.470
Oh dear God.
01:02:37.550 --> 01:02:38.830
There we go.
01:02:40.990 --> 01:02:42.910
The shell game Beccarole.
01:02:44.910 --> 01:02:46.190
Body's pretty good on it.
01:02:46.430 --> 01:02:47.950
Pretty thick in the mouth.
01:02:49.310 --> 01:02:50.750
Little chewing.
01:02:51.390 --> 01:02:53.310
Looks great in the glass.
01:02:55.870 --> 01:02:57.790
I'm gonna give it a three.
01:03:01.150 --> 01:03:02.030
What's up?
01:03:02.350 --> 01:03:02.750
Almost.
01:03:06.430 --> 01:03:10.350
I'm giving the body a four because it's everywhere.
01:03:11.710 --> 01:03:14.110
And I'm not gonna repeat what you said.
01:03:16.670 --> 01:03:20.510
What did I say something out of the ordinary?
01:03:21.230 --> 01:03:23.630
Out of the ordinary for Super Nash?
01:03:23.870 --> 01:03:24.670
Nope.
01:03:27.870 --> 01:03:30.590
So all right, taste.
01:03:31.470 --> 01:03:39.790
So it this this brings back what I mean Heaven Hill.
01:03:40.830 --> 01:03:47.550
You know, I still have some of that bottle that you did bottle bottle your way, or bottle your, what was it called?
01:03:47.630 --> 01:03:48.350
Bourbon your way.
01:03:50.510 --> 01:03:55.150
Yeah, that that Heaven Hill one that you did, and then you gave me that bottle, part of that bottle.
01:03:55.310 --> 01:03:55.470
Yeah.
01:03:55.950 --> 01:03:57.630
I still have some of that.
01:04:05.070 --> 01:04:07.310
All right, flavor.
01:04:09.870 --> 01:04:11.390
Tons of caramel.
01:04:14.030 --> 01:04:15.870
And it goes to apple.
01:04:16.110 --> 01:04:20.670
It's like it's like a caramel, I mean it's a great caramel, yeah.
01:04:20.910 --> 01:04:29.950
I mean the apple right now when you breathe in, is like after you've eaten that fresh flavor of an apple when you you know, after you bit into an apple.
01:04:34.110 --> 01:04:36.510
That goes away and it goes peppery.
01:04:37.630 --> 01:04:39.630
It is peppery on the finish.
01:04:40.030 --> 01:04:40.670
Yeah.
01:04:42.270 --> 01:04:44.110
It hurts my tongue.
01:04:51.150 --> 01:04:51.790
This is on you.
01:04:51.870 --> 01:04:52.670
What do you think?
01:04:55.070 --> 01:04:57.470
I give it four out of five.
01:05:02.830 --> 01:05:05.070
It's got some good flavors going on.
01:05:06.350 --> 01:05:08.910
This is where the fin the finish.
01:05:10.590 --> 01:05:17.470
Now, when I was drinking it the other night with Spanky, I was not picking up the pepper that you're picking.
01:05:17.710 --> 01:05:20.350
It was not as peppery off the crack.
01:05:20.670 --> 01:05:24.670
It was a little, I want to say, easier.
01:05:26.110 --> 01:05:31.070
I poured this up before we right before we uh started podcasting.
01:05:31.630 --> 01:05:37.310
But the even the that pepper that peppery boy, it's got it's got a warm, peppery finish.
01:05:37.630 --> 01:05:46.910
But does the count do in the finish, C T, do you think if that my mouth feels like I just ate an apple, that's part of the finish?
01:05:47.150 --> 01:05:51.390
Like, like even my teeth feel like I I bit the apple.
01:05:51.630 --> 01:05:52.910
Well, that's part of the finish.
01:05:53.230 --> 01:05:58.670
Whether it stays in your palate or goes down your throat, it's still the finish.
01:05:58.830 --> 01:06:02.030
I mean, in my opinion, at least.
01:06:02.270 --> 01:06:04.030
Yeah, that's what I was asking for.
01:06:04.110 --> 01:06:04.670
That's for sure.
01:06:05.070 --> 01:06:08.350
Apple-y flavor is all up front.
01:06:09.310 --> 01:06:18.510
But then as soon as you swallow it back, it goes to that caramel, that oaky, sort of leathery taste.
01:06:19.150 --> 01:06:19.870
Peppery.
01:06:21.310 --> 01:06:22.430
Yeah, I'll give you that.
01:06:22.510 --> 01:06:23.310
But then what's left?
01:06:23.550 --> 01:06:25.390
I think this has got a great, great finish.
01:06:25.630 --> 01:06:50.670
But I what what I taste in my mouth afterwards, like not the after taste that's happening, that kind of goes to the back of your throat, and then you're just tasting it in your like you can you it's in your mouth, but you really taste that finish is always like happening in your brain because you're thinking about the flavors, and the flavors aren't really aren't actually tasting these flavors.
01:06:50.750 --> 01:06:55.950
The I'm getting the apple on the sides of my tongue, and that caramel.
01:06:56.270 --> 01:06:58.590
To me, this has got a fantastic finish.
01:06:58.670 --> 01:07:01.550
Yeah, I'm gonna give it five for the finish.
01:07:06.830 --> 01:07:19.790
The apple flavor or the apple mouthfeel, as if I ate an apple, which is there, is what will is exceptional to make it have a five finish for me.
01:07:19.950 --> 01:07:22.910
If I was go, if I took that away, I would give it a four.
01:07:23.310 --> 01:07:26.270
But I never experienced this before.
01:07:26.670 --> 01:07:27.790
So five.
01:07:28.350 --> 01:07:29.710
That's what she said.
01:07:32.030 --> 01:07:33.390
I hope so.
01:07:34.910 --> 01:07:36.990
That's what I strive for.
01:07:39.310 --> 01:07:43.070
Uh he gave it a 16, and I gave it a
01:07:51.150 --> 01:07:53.390
Did you get those tickets email?
01:07:55.070 --> 01:07:55.630
Yeah.
01:07:55.950 --> 01:07:56.270
Okay.
01:07:57.230 --> 01:07:58.830
I don't know if Rachel's gonna go.
01:07:58.990 --> 01:08:06.030
She was we were talking and she was like she wasn't enthusiastic, so I'll probably be going myself.
01:08:06.830 --> 01:08:18.430
I'm still trying to work out because I've got my grandson to bring him because Henrik Farms is doing it's a 21-year-old thing.
01:08:19.310 --> 01:08:24.750
So you I can't bring him, so I've gotta try to figure out if I'm gonna be able to make it work.
01:08:25.869 --> 01:08:47.390
Oh yeah, I I didn't know that, and one of my friends messaged me and he's like, hey, you might want to check, and then I text Joe, or he texts Joe and I text Joe, and he's like, Yeah, Henrik does like a special, like, this is the only event they do, or not the only, but this event they put a 21-year and over thing on it.
01:08:47.789 --> 01:08:56.829
Well, you could you can bring him, but you couldn't take him in it, right?
01:08:57.070 --> 01:08:57.390
Right.
01:08:57.550 --> 01:08:59.390
Yeah, which doesn't make any sense.
01:08:59.710 --> 01:09:00.190
Nope.
01:09:00.750 --> 01:09:08.349
I mean, also, if you have him strapped to your chest, you might dribble on him, and it might be a that might not be the best thing.
01:09:08.750 --> 01:09:19.149
Well, no, I I had planned on if if he was coming, um Rachel was gonna come and she was gonna, you know, do that and all that stuff.
01:09:19.469 --> 01:09:25.949
Yeah, except for the fact that now she'd have to be outside and you'd be inside, and then that would just be all bad.
01:09:26.109 --> 01:09:30.989
That's no, no, it it would only work if she could walk around with them and like say hi to everybody.
01:09:31.469 --> 01:09:32.590
No, I understand.
01:09:32.829 --> 01:09:34.429
I completely understand.
01:09:34.590 --> 01:09:37.069
That wouldn't even work in my situation.
01:09:37.149 --> 01:09:38.989
That wouldn't even work with my Rachel.
01:09:39.069 --> 01:09:40.109
There's just no way.
01:09:40.349 --> 01:09:46.429
Because wrap this up and give that final on the on this.
01:09:46.909 --> 01:09:47.949
What is the final?
01:09:48.109 --> 01:09:48.509
I did.
01:09:48.590 --> 01:09:49.469
We wrapped it up.
01:09:49.949 --> 01:09:51.309
The final, all right.
01:09:51.550 --> 01:10:02.590
Final was 18 on Elijah Craig and 15.5 on the Kate Heavenhill KBF 35th anniversary commemorative edition.
01:10:03.149 --> 01:10:07.149
So they kind of did the what you get for your money kind of thing, right?
01:10:07.310 --> 01:10:16.189
One was one was one was$2.99 and the other one was$225, and it's one the$2.99 delivered at 18.
01:10:16.670 --> 01:10:17.869
I mean, that's rare.
01:10:18.109 --> 01:10:22.590
I mean, I think I think that I think if you have the money, that's that's the key.
01:10:22.670 --> 01:10:25.630
You can't, you know, and you have the money and you're spending money.
01:10:25.949 --> 01:10:29.470
This is a good at$2.99.
01:10:29.550 --> 01:10:37.710
It's you got an 18 out of 18, in our opinion, and you get a box that lights up your bottle.
01:10:38.109 --> 01:10:43.789
And the box isn't is is a very, very well-made box.
01:10:44.350 --> 01:10:46.109
I mean, above and beyond.
01:10:46.269 --> 01:10:48.989
It's better than a it's better than a booker's box.
01:10:49.149 --> 01:10:52.430
Bookers are nice, but this is all sand finished.
01:10:52.750 --> 01:10:57.789
It's got in, you know, it's got laser what called laser ingrained.
01:10:58.029 --> 01:11:04.109
Yeah, I mean, the whole thing is, I mean, you can just feel the texture and whatever.
01:11:04.269 --> 01:11:14.989
So it's a it's a I'm gonna say you got it, it doesn't deliver bang for your buck, but you get your money's worth on that one.
01:11:15.149 --> 01:11:24.269
Because a lot of times you get a 21-year-old and you taste it, and it's too oaky, and you just paid five thousand dollars.
01:11:26.510 --> 01:11:32.109
I'm telling you, these two, this 23-year and this 21-year-old I'm glad that I bought them.
01:11:32.430 --> 01:11:39.630
Because this will be these bottles, as good as this tastes, will be like special pours for me, you know?
01:11:40.510 --> 01:11:48.189
It won't be my like my every weekend tour, you know, with this with a off-brand cigar.
01:11:48.430 --> 01:11:54.829
It I'll have a nice cigar with it, and it'll be just, you know, just a special time.
01:11:55.149 --> 01:12:03.949
All right, so Nash, other than a Liga Pravada, because we know that would be your what would you put with that Elijah Crape 21?
01:12:04.590 --> 01:12:05.310
Oh my gosh.
01:12:05.949 --> 01:12:10.670
I've got a perfect cigar right there right now that we're smoking on.
01:12:10.909 --> 01:12:18.189
These are Drew made by Drew Estate, and they're Kentucky fire cured leaves.
01:12:18.590 --> 01:12:22.590
Is that the ones that are kind of like the smoky ones?
01:12:22.670 --> 01:12:26.510
There's there's they they make like one that's like tastes like Tabasco.
01:12:27.229 --> 01:12:29.869
No, this this one doesn't taste like Tabasco.
01:12:30.269 --> 01:12:38.670
These are almost they're a little bit more heavier than the limestone branch cigars.
01:12:38.909 --> 01:12:39.069
Okay.
01:12:39.550 --> 01:12:41.710
Okay, just a little bit more heavier than that.
01:12:42.269 --> 01:12:49.310
And on the on the last fifth of the cigar, it's got a dark wrapper on it.
01:12:49.390 --> 01:12:56.909
And so it's got the the lighter, lighter brown wrapper for the four first four fifths of the cigar.
01:12:57.229 --> 01:13:01.470
And it's gives a great flavor to it.
01:13:01.630 --> 01:13:04.590
And that's what I that's what I'd pair with the 21 year.
01:13:04.829 --> 01:13:05.390
All right.
01:13:06.750 --> 01:13:07.789
All right, guys.
01:13:07.949 --> 01:13:09.310
Let's uh wrap this up.
01:13:09.390 --> 01:13:12.109
I'm gonna then we'll send it out to the what you call it?
01:13:12.189 --> 01:13:13.149
I'm gonna be off quick.
01:13:13.229 --> 01:13:14.430
I think you're gonna be off quick.
01:13:14.510 --> 01:13:17.630
Uh I'm gonna, you know, because I want I got a bunch of stuff I gotta do.
01:13:17.710 --> 01:13:19.949
I stayed on till freaking quarter to one.
01:13:20.430 --> 01:13:20.909
I mean too.
01:13:21.310 --> 01:13:22.510
Like I said, I got I gotta get up.
01:13:22.909 --> 01:13:27.390
I'll get everybody on, we'll say we'll say hi, and then I'll turn it over and hop off.
01:13:27.470 --> 01:13:29.310
I'll turn off Facebook and YouTube tonight.
01:13:29.390 --> 01:13:30.590
It's gonna be an early one.
01:13:30.829 --> 01:13:37.710
But with that said, everybody w scotchy bourbonboys.com for all things Scotchy Bourbon Boys.
01:13:39.390 --> 01:13:40.989
I'm a swag.
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I'm thinking that it would be cool if the there's Kirk was I made mention that maybe he could write a paragraph or do what Young knows used to do on the pod on the on the website where once a month he does, you know, he highlights something and we can we could post it there.
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And then also it would be cool is when we did barrel bottle breakdowns, that we could update the website and put our barrel bottle breakdowns rankings on the website so people could see.
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So that's a possibility that I can work on.
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The other thing is with with from what I've been seeing with Chat GPT and AI, you can design websites to do whatever you want.
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And I've been watching some people do some things with programs and everything.
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I mean, designing an app for the Scotchy Bourbon Boys, you can just basically ask it and it will design it and put it together, and then ask it to do whatever you want.
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So this is gonna get exciting, I really think.
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About what we can do and put out there.
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So I'm really I just did an ad for Middle West Spirits here.
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I'll just quick CT.
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Watch this.
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I did it, it is in no okay, quick.
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It's uh on my messenger.
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Messenger.
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It's stuck over there.
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Okay, listen to this ad.
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This is this is all gronk.
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Middle West Spirit starts at the source in the soil of Ohio's farmland.
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Since 2008, we've built our distillery around a single belief that the best spirits begin where they're planted.
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Today, that means 25,000 acres of dedicated Ohio farmland, grown to our standards by trusted agriculture partners, feeding our 15-acre distillery campus in Columbus.
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We mill that grain on site, then distill, age, and bottle every spirit ourselves.
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True crop-to-cask philosophy for our own brands and for the partners who trust us to make theirs.
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It's a standard we've held since the beginning, and one that now shapes a portfolio of distinct brands, each true to its own character, each held to the same uncompromising craft.
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Middle West Spirits, Columbus, Ohio.
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I mean, I typed in that lit that that body copy off what Steven gave me, and then I spent 15 minutes and had that.
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You for me to do my own reading is at least at least three to four hours to record it, record it right, and whatever.
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What did you think of that?
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I mean, it's it's pretty professional.
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So what I mean, there's a lot of stuff that we can do coming up, so I'm excited.
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All right, and then we're on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and X, along with iHeart, Spotify, and Apple.
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