What Turns A Bourbon Festival Into A Bourbon Town

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He is in the house, and we are rocking and rolling, getting ready to go.
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Welcome.
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He, you know, Super Nash, it's great to have you on.
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This is the last podcast of the week.
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Because Thursday, I will be leaving at noon to head to Bourbon on the Banks.
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But just like last weekend on Saturday, check out, make sure, if you're watching on Facebook, watch, watch, watch the YouTube channel because there were lives left and right from where me and Roxy went down on Saturday.
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We were in Sparta, Kentucky for the start of the three boy or the three-chamber pot still first ever bourbon run.
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The first bourbon run for off a three-chamber pot still by Royce Neely since 1895.
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And honestly, that was an old Fitzgerald barrel, so it got filled.
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So we were there.
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We we filled the we ran all day.
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I got uh fantastic, fantastic video footage, but also we got really good lives, and the lives on fate on YouTube were fantastic.
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I want to just everybody out there, that definitely those the lives and the response.
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So I can't wait to get down to this podcast because I'm excited, I'm pumped up, I'm pumped up for this week.
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I I I just super Nash.
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The thing this this role of this that I've been on, and I don't know how I'm doing it.
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Here's here's just a really quick review of September.
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11 days in with you in Kentucky, where we went to, so it started out, met, met up, we went to We got wild and crazy quick.
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We we we we ate at went to Jim Bean, ate at the kitchen table, then we went over to right away, we went over to the Boundary Oaks distillery, had a tour there, tasted some good.
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They were like a mixed distillery for me.
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There was some really good stuff and there was some just okay stuff, but it was overall a great experience.
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And then that was Saturday.
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Sunday we went over to, we started our morning at Heaven Hill and had brunch at Heaven Hill.
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Then we went down to Makers Mark and checked out what's happening at Maker's Mark, and then we came back and went grocery shopping because Dan McKee, master distiller from you know, from Mickter's Distiller.
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Yeah, Mickter's distiller came over to our house.
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He smoked us a Boston butt and then shared a very special bottle of scotch with us, which was fantastic.
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Oh, yeah.
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You know, the only bad part is Roxy got stung, stung by a wasp.
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That was that's the only part of the day.
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So then Monday we wake up and we head off we head off to um tech in it was it's Tegrity, right?
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That's that's the place we went.
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Did some barrel thieving there, and then we went to see Amin downstairs at old Louisville because Tegrity's in the same building.
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They they rent space from Amin.
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And then we basically went crazy, and I think we we somehow picked a weeded barrel, and then we headed off to have a great dinner at the water.
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We call uh Vol Volchi Volisi?
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What was the name of that restaurant?
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The waterfall restaurant.
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Something like that.
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It it's it was it was the second time we ate there.
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Then we go home, wake up the next day, we go to head over to Lou, we we head up to Lexington, we eat at Godfather's Pizza, and then we go over to Macaulay's for a thing with a dark arts.
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Well, the dark arts thing.
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We did a whole tasting of everything.
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Right, it was released at the Kentucky Bourbon Festival, yeah.
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Okay, after the after old Louisville, we went to the River House restaurant and had a fantastic dinner.
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Then after Macaulay's, McAuley just went through his whole lineup, right?
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The whole lineup for Kentucky Bourbon Festival, like you said.
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And that was special, right?
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What's this in?
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What's up?
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CT.
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What CT just jumped in?
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Oh, yeah, CT just jumped in.
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Wait, wait, what's this?
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Holy man! Hey, CT.
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What's up?
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Hey, what a surprise! It's Chris Thompson, CT, in person, in the house.
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Oh yeah.
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You got the punch cut?
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Well, he's he's he's searching something for.
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Well, I need a I need a glass, so yeah.
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Yeah.
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Baby.
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Oh, he delivers the elk head.
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Woo!
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That everybody's talking about.
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I I mean, I'm on the hunt for it.
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As you came in, CT, we were just talking about the the ride of September, that all the stuff that we did, we were already to, but it was just like we just did one thing after another.
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And this past weekend for me was unbelievable.
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And one of the cool things, there Corey Johnson from Oates, and I met his partner, and they had a charity event at the at the VFW up in uh Cuyahoga Falls.
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But I got to go up there on Friday night, started from 6 to 9, 6:30 to 9.
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I I you know I went up there, he he didn't say, he didn't have to say I had to pay, but I wanted to pay because it's you know it's for charity.
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And but whiskey thief was there and Hannah was there.
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And we did a barrel pick while we're up there, and listen to this.
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It's it's Hannah, we picked Hannah's second barrel.
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It's a 10-year.
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Oh yeah.
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It's it's now it's gonna be a special reserve bottle that they're gonna pick, and it's just gonna be her line.
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So that's gonna be pretty cool.
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So that was that was that was Friday night, Saturday.
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Me and Roxy just jumped in the car.
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I was going, and then she's like, I'm going.
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So she came down with me, and we were at Royce and and Rebecca's.
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I mean, that was that was amazing.
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I mean, the people that were there, I I got to see Stacy.
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Stacy was there.
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You know, Royce and Rebecca were there, but Fred, what I gotta remember his name.
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He's the other tour guide from Buffalo Trace.
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You know, the older guy.
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I've had him a couple times, he was there.
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Bo was there, you know, Stacy, Stacy showed up, and then Randy Ford came with his wife, and then there was the owner of Vendome, because that three-chamber pot still, that was the first ever bourbon run that they did on that, on there.
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And they ran it, he ran, Royce ran it five times that day, and then he got enough, and then he filled the first barrel in Kentucky since 1885 that was off a three-chamber pot still.
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I mean, it's just so cool the stuff.
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And now, Thursday, I'm going back down to Kentucky for the Whiskey Thief kickoff festival.
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I'll be down there for that.
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Then Nash is trying to meet us.
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I don't know if CT will be able, but then Walter, we're go ahead, we're gonna converge on Friday morning at Old Carter Social Club.
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And then we are going to then drop all our stuff off, and Friday night, it all just starts again.
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I talked to Steve from Middle West.
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Roger?
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Yeah, and I'm trying to get the October 17th, Saturday thing for us to go down and whatever.
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But I also wanted to know who they're sending to the festival.
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I mean, to the, you know, we're gonna basically have Whiskey Thief, Neely, and Middle West all at one festival, all three of our sponsors.
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Yeah.
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The only thing I'm worried about is the weather forecast, but I'll do my best on that.
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We're uh they're calling for rain down here in South Carolina for Saturday and Sunday.
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Well, they're calling for I mean, I'm telling you I think a little bit on Friday evening.
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I looked at the weather.
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I looked at the weather forecast and they're cause calling for rain everywhere.
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Yeah, it's gonna rain Saturday.
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Well, it it will, but or it won't.
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So we'll see.
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Will they will they frown upon us we're wearing our Kentucky Burma Festival raincoats and jackets?
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I'm sure I will.
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Bastards.
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I mean, no, will they get upset because why would they get upset?
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How can they get upset?
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And two, I don't have one, so you guys take your chances.
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Actually, I got an A B fire extinguisher.
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One that I'll wear.
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I'm wearing Greg at Larrican.
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Yeah, I'm just gonna wear a Larrican.
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I I'll Rachel's Rachel's got Greg could hook us up, won't he?
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I'm just bringing mine.
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So I'm I'm texting Greg right now.
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Can I have here?
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Hold on a second.
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Greg.
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Hey, reserve one for me, CT.
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All right, I will, yep, here we go.
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Can hold on.
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Let's see.
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Can Nash and I have a purple oh wait, wait, Nash, I and Tiny.
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Why are you leaving why are you leaving?
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I can't.
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You just said you would bring in your own.
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I don't have one.
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Jeff has his own.
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Yeah, thanks.
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I appreciate that.
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Let's see what he says.
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Let's see if he answers me.
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There you go.
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Oh boy.
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Well, it's gonna be fun.
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And uh absolutely.
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Yeah, we're getting I'm getting ready to actually do a barrel pick with uh with Steve for uh one of our groups here in Columbus for a charity that we're doing.
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So I I I see Steve and talk to Steve a lot.
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He's he's a good dude.
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Well, I I'm so glad that really what's transformed for Middle West with Greg coming on or with Steve coming on board is is just been amazing.
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He has become a much more vibrant face of the brand and being out there pushing old elk, but he's also pushing Middle West, so it's it's nice to see that happening because Ryan is so busy that he just doesn't have time to do that.
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Well, yeah, Ryan.
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Okay, I gotta figure this out.
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All right, you guys are hold on, hold on.
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There we go.
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I filled the screen.
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No, what I wanted to say is Ryan was great early on.
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I mean, it was I I I I could not believe that I got any time with Ryan and to spend some time with him, and then you got to you got to jump in a couple times on the end, and but I'm trying to get us back in the barrel room, barrel, the barrel house.
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So do some thieving videos and everything, because the videos, I mean, now I the the social media now is just starting to go crazy.
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It's like everything's in the thousands instead of the hundreds, and I mean, just everything is way, way up.
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So that's that's kind of cool.
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But yeah, but you know what I'm looking forward to exactly on this bourbon bourbon on the banks is uh it's this one I'm looking forward to the people.
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I mean, all the people, it'll be interesting to see.
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I don't know if the spirit of French lick is gonna be there this year.
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You know what I mean?
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There's 70 distilleries.
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Uh let's just see.
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I got that right here.
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All right, it's it's the it's it's Saturday, October 30th.
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Go ahead.
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Well why you're looking why you're looking for that.
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Nash, you're coming up Friday morning then.
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I leave out of here.
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I leave out of Greenville at uh 5 30 in the morning.
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Are you flying or driving?
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Yeah, I'm flying.
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I'm flying into Yeah.
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Hell I I had uh I had a bunch of miles, why not use them?
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So it cost me twenty twenty-seven dollars to fly it fly into Lexington from Greenville.
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So you what time do you drive in Lexington?
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About nine nine thirty, nine twenty-five.
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Yes.
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Yeah, he's gonna hop in the car.
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As soon as I leave the airport, I'll drive straight there.
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Well, that's why I was trying to think if there was a way.
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If you you'll come by Frankfurt by way of what's that highway that goes up there.
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I was gonna say maybe I could meet you and I'd just ride with you instead of driving there.
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Oh, yeah, that'd be fine.
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So I'll have to come, yeah, from Lexington Airport.
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Yeah, you pass those two Frankfurt exits that both have Krogers at them.
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I was thinking maybe I'd meet you at one of those Krogers and then hop in the car, hop on the highway, and then that way we don't have to drive two vehicles.
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Yeah, that'd be great.
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Okay.
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Perfect.
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Well, I'll I'm gonna try to do that then.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Like I say, I should I should be hopefully coming by there, you know, between 9 45 and and 10 o'clock, somewhere right in there.
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Well, worst case scenario, if you don't get there in time, I'll just go explore Kroger's selection of you've hit Kroger's up several times and did real good.
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That's that's my Kroger right there in uh Frankfurt.
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That's the one that they get some great stuff, good people.
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Oh, yeah, they get old Carter stuff, all kinds of stuff.
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Yeah.
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Just okay, Jeff.
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Sounds like a plan.
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Just just know.
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Like we all need more bourbon from Kroger's.
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Yeah, I like supporting the Kroger people.
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I like supporting them.
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I like supporting them.
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I just don't know what I'm gonna do.
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God, I I and I'm afraid to go to bourbon on the banks.
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I I might have a like a one, like I did.
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I only bought one bottle when I was at uh New Orleans Bourbon Festival, so I might have a one bottle limit after Kentucky Bourbon Festival.
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This is ridiculous.
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Oh Greg, Greg gave the thumbs up on Nash Night getting a poncho, and Jeff, you already have one.
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Bring your own poncho.
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Yeah, I'm gonna ask him.
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So Kurt says Kurt says John Ritz, Eric Estrada.
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Yeah?
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I I'm asking him to please fill the pockets with bourbon.
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So the one thing the one thing I did get off of that whole thing is the run.
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They gave out two-ounce samples with a little sticker, and I got the white dog off the the three chamber still.
00:20:55.549 --> 00:20:59.789
And I'm telling you, Royce, the what was coming off there.
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Also, they did a corn liquor, and then they put it in a barrel for the month.
00:21:04.829 --> 00:21:09.069
That was their first run, the corn, a corn, 100% corn mash.
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And it is in one month in the barrel, and it was fantastic.
00:21:14.269 --> 00:21:26.829
And then they made a tequila or uh agave spirit CT, and it's the first ever agave spirit I've had where I can say I liked it.
00:21:28.509 --> 00:21:29.470
Holy shit.
00:21:30.190 --> 00:21:32.029
It was so good.
00:21:32.349 --> 00:21:33.470
Wait a second.
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You like the agave spirit that we had in French Link?
00:21:37.470 --> 00:21:37.789
Okay.
00:21:38.670 --> 00:21:45.789
That was bourbon and I need to take an interruption real quick.
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Okay.
00:21:46.509 --> 00:21:49.950
Greg is asking on Friday night do we still need tickets?
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And if so, how many?
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Three?
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Three.
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It would be me, you, and Nash, yes, because yeah, I can't.
00:22:03.149 --> 00:22:06.349
But you got we we don't got Andrew.
00:22:06.589 --> 00:22:14.589
We do have Walker, but and then we also Randy Ford's already going because he's got his ticket.
00:22:14.750 --> 00:23:19.039
Walker has I'm just gonna tell I'm just gonna tell him three for that event.
00:23:19.279 --> 00:23:22.079
Because if he gets it for us, I think that's right.
00:23:22.400 --> 00:23:22.720
Oh, yeah.
00:23:23.039 --> 00:23:23.599
Three is good.
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That's that's good for the VIP.
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And that's yeah.
00:23:27.839 --> 00:23:30.960
So he's yeah, he's gonna he's gonna get us three tickets for that.
00:23:31.279 --> 00:23:35.119
Because I asked Carl to ask him, and obviously Whiskey did.
00:23:35.359 --> 00:23:38.160
Whiskey's not coming till Saturday if he comes.
00:23:38.480 --> 00:23:42.720
Andrew, for sure, I touched base with today, and he's coming Saturday morning.
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He'll meet us at the the Airbnb, and he's staying.
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Saturday night.
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So we have him for the Saturday night.
00:23:49.599 --> 00:23:56.319
So it's me, us three plus Walker, four people, and Andrew one night for a fifth.
00:23:57.680 --> 00:23:58.000
Okay?
00:23:59.599 --> 00:24:03.440
Greg said it's gonna cost us a big sit-down interview.
00:24:04.319 --> 00:24:08.160
Uh what about like like why can't it be multi?
00:24:09.200 --> 00:24:09.599
Yeah.
00:24:10.079 --> 00:24:19.359
Hey, have you seen have you seen, have you watched on social media anything that he is so the stuff from KDF, he has been busting my chops.
00:24:20.160 --> 00:24:26.640
I went over to talk to him on Saturday morning and he was busy with somebody, and I didn't, I'm not gonna interrupt.
00:24:26.720 --> 00:24:34.319
Like, so I stood there, tried a few things, and actually what the rest of his face was standing there with me, but I didn't interrupt.
00:24:34.640 --> 00:24:39.519
And then now he keeps posting mate, you didn't even say hi to me.
00:24:39.599 --> 00:24:43.519
And I'm like, I tried to say hi to you, but you were busy.
00:24:43.759 --> 00:24:49.920
So he keeps every everything that he sees, he tags and he's like, mate, you didn't even say hi.
00:24:53.599 --> 00:24:57.440
Yeah, he even said it when we and Jeff went over there and did a live.
00:24:57.839 --> 00:24:59.839
Basically did interrupt and pull us up.
00:25:00.079 --> 00:25:01.039
No, we did a live.
00:25:01.359 --> 00:25:03.359
We did a live with him and we did it.
00:25:03.440 --> 00:25:08.640
Yeah, we interrupted, and he did say that you were gone and you didn't even say hi.
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He's literally, it's three or four different posts he keeps commenting on it.
00:25:16.400 --> 00:25:17.039
He's killing me.
00:25:17.920 --> 00:25:20.640
I think I think, matter of fact, I got that record.
00:25:22.400 --> 00:25:23.359
Where are you saying?
00:25:23.440 --> 00:25:26.000
Yeah, he left and didn't even say bye.
00:25:27.119 --> 00:25:32.079
Well, he wasn't gonna sign my chest like he would certain someone that's sitting here.
00:25:32.720 --> 00:25:34.000
Well, did you see the post?
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Did you did you see their the LARP?
00:25:38.480 --> 00:25:40.720
We won't put them through signing Jeff's chest again.
00:25:40.960 --> 00:25:44.400
No, no, they actually put that out on their social media.
00:25:44.799 --> 00:25:55.759
There they did a post just yeah, uh just recently of that saying, uh yeah, there's an aspect of me that's I don't know, am I getting infamous?
00:25:56.240 --> 00:26:03.440
There's a lot of stuff on on out there, but obviously it's catching people's attention, and that's what we're gonna do.
00:26:03.599 --> 00:26:10.960
All right, so just everybody for the statistics on Bourbon on the Banks 2026, the main festival is Saturday, October 3rd.
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There's a bunch of stuff happening Thursday and Friday night, but that's not part of the festival.
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It's at Riverview Park in Frankfurt.
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Special access begins at noon, early entry at 1 p.m., general emission at 2 p.m., and the festival runs until 6 p.m.
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There is between I believe 5 and 6 p.m.
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There is Twilight.
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A Twilight ticket also.
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It was limited at 29 tickets, 2,900 tickets, 70 distilleries plus select breweries and wineries.
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Bottles can be purchased at the festival.
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Officially enlisted them.
00:26:50.799 --> 00:26:52.720
They did a lot more barrel picks this year.
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I've noticed watching uh yeah, it's okay.
00:26:58.720 --> 00:26:59.279
Okay, have fun.
00:27:00.160 --> 00:27:01.759
Roxy's on her way.
00:27:02.400 --> 00:27:03.599
She's got she's got a mom.
00:27:04.960 --> 00:27:07.440
She's got a mom ready to ready to go.
00:27:07.599 --> 00:27:08.799
She's at she's gotta go.
00:27:09.119 --> 00:27:09.680
All right.
00:27:10.319 --> 00:27:20.880
All right, and then so we are officially listed by bourbon on the banks as one of the 2026 special guests.
00:27:21.119 --> 00:27:25.119
That so it's really kind of funny when you send it out to AI.
00:27:25.519 --> 00:27:30.880
I even went and looked, and that we're like part of their promotion on Bourbon on the Banks.
00:27:31.119 --> 00:27:42.160
And honestly, I really like that part of how well Diane and Amzi and Renee make us feel so welcome when we do this, you know.
00:27:42.400 --> 00:27:45.119
Now I'm great.
00:27:45.359 --> 00:27:46.720
Yeah, they are super.
00:27:47.039 --> 00:27:52.480
I think next year we might do the same, we might just take a take a break and do St.
00:27:52.640 --> 00:27:55.599
Louis, but I haven't completely made that decision yet.
00:27:55.680 --> 00:27:58.880
But I but you know, this is I believe what?
00:27:58.960 --> 00:28:07.440
We were there, and this is our our I think this is our fourth fifth, I think our fifth, fifth, is it?
00:28:08.079 --> 00:28:14.559
Yeah, because the first one they invited us just to go participate, and then we've had the one, two, three.
00:28:14.640 --> 00:28:16.480
This is the fourth year for the tents.
00:28:16.799 --> 00:28:18.160
This will be our fourth year, right?
00:28:18.319 --> 00:28:18.880
Yeah.
00:28:19.200 --> 00:28:27.920
Because the first year, I think the first year was your tent, the second year was mine, and then last year was mine, and this year will be the third year for the tent.
00:28:28.079 --> 00:28:28.720
Yeah.
00:28:29.440 --> 00:28:31.920
So four years of tents and one year.
00:28:32.079 --> 00:28:34.640
So this is our fifth year going to Bourbon on the banks.
00:28:34.720 --> 00:28:36.400
And I mean, I love the festival.
00:28:36.480 --> 00:28:42.640
I think this is so such a different, what would you say, vibe compared to Kentucky Bourbon Festival.
00:28:42.720 --> 00:28:47.680
They're just not comparable as festivals, they're each atmosphere.
00:28:48.160 --> 00:28:50.160
Great in their own way, you know.
00:28:50.400 --> 00:28:51.039
Yeah.
00:28:51.680 --> 00:28:52.160
Oh, yeah.
00:28:52.319 --> 00:29:02.559
It's it's I mean, like we always tell people, the ABF is so big and has so much going on that this is uh definitely a toned-down version.
00:29:02.720 --> 00:29:08.880
But also, just like the barrel picks they're doing, there's some brands that are involved in this that aren't involved in KDF.
00:29:09.039 --> 00:29:15.279
So when you go, you're gonna see some some brands like Benson Valley that's right there in Frankfurt.
00:29:15.359 --> 00:29:18.880
They don't go to KDF, and there's several like that.
00:29:19.039 --> 00:29:24.799
So I think that's kind of the other thing I like about it is you pick up some of those other craft distillers.
00:29:25.039 --> 00:29:29.759
But it's yeah, you get uh uh Indiana and Ohio distilleries.
00:29:30.079 --> 00:29:33.920
Yes, this isn't Kentucky bourbon on the banks.
00:29:34.079 --> 00:29:35.839
This is bourbon on the banks.
00:29:36.000 --> 00:29:55.599
Now, the the actual out-of-state distilleries have to sell their their bottles through a bottle shop that's there, you know, and we've done that, and that's I don't see I I understand that you can sell as a Kentucky distiller, you can sell straight from the booth and that's all fine and dandy.
00:29:55.839 --> 00:30:12.480
But as far as like just having it's not if you like the bourbon there, I don't think it's a deterrent if you have a Tennessee with you like a Tennessee bourbon or you like Spirit of French Lick or you know a Middle West spirit, and you just walk over and make the same transaction.
00:30:12.640 --> 00:30:14.799
I mean, you're talking like a minute more.
00:30:14.960 --> 00:30:19.359
I don't think that's really when it comes to the festival a downside, do you, CT?
00:30:22.160 --> 00:30:24.480
I don't believe he thinks it's a downside.
00:30:24.640 --> 00:30:26.559
Uh all right.
00:30:29.920 --> 00:30:32.640
So I've got to pull a poor.
00:30:32.720 --> 00:30:34.960
So I wish I knew where Marnie was.
00:30:38.079 --> 00:30:40.400
So there's a couple things.
00:30:40.559 --> 00:30:56.799
Like, I think that we uh the one thing that I would like to do is find a whiskey that nobody is talking about yet at the festival this year, and find out like find that up in come coming bourbon.
00:30:56.960 --> 00:31:05.119
That's one thing you can do on on this type of a festival, you know, going around taste stuff.
00:31:05.359 --> 00:31:09.039
I mean, this is where we discovered Turner, right?
00:31:09.599 --> 00:31:14.240
I don't know, I don't think Turner's gonna be at bourbon on the banks this year, though.
00:31:14.400 --> 00:31:15.680
I don't think so.
00:31:15.920 --> 00:31:16.880
Do you know?
00:31:17.920 --> 00:31:20.880
I don't I don't know if Turner's gonna be there.
00:31:21.200 --> 00:31:25.279
I think I asked him, and I'm pretty sure he didn't, you know.
00:31:26.319 --> 00:31:27.680
So we'll see.
00:31:28.000 --> 00:31:49.200
But you know, definitely what I also no, I was gonna say the other cool thing for people that you know are trying to go down to the festival if they didn't get tickets, same kind of thing with KDF, but there is a lot of things going on in Frankfurt during this event.
00:31:49.359 --> 00:31:53.359
So if you don't have tickets, oh you got it.
00:31:53.680 --> 00:31:56.000
Yeah, I we just realized where it was.
00:31:56.799 --> 00:32:06.480
But if you don't have tickets to go to Bourbon on the banks, you still can go down Saturday, Friday night, Saturday, and enjoy the festivities going around town.
00:32:06.559 --> 00:32:16.960
I mean, just as Barnstown has grown with KBF, Frankfurt is has transformed a lot too, since this has become more and more of a destination.
00:32:17.119 --> 00:32:19.279
And there's so many distilleries.
00:32:19.519 --> 00:32:33.119
So, like if you go down and you can't go to the festival within so many miles, I mean, you've got probably six distilleries that you can touch in a matter of 20 minutes from one to the other, all within that same distance.
00:32:33.279 --> 00:32:40.240
So there's a lot going on this weekend, and that's not just being at Bourbon on the banks if you don't have a ticket.
00:32:41.200 --> 00:32:42.240
This is true.
00:32:42.480 --> 00:32:43.839
I mean, there's no doubt.
00:32:44.000 --> 00:32:47.519
I mean, Frankfurt has completely revamped.
00:32:47.759 --> 00:32:58.559
If you look and pay attention to Bo Cumberland, um, one he has really isolated on that Lawrenceburg and Frankfurt area in his documentary videos.
00:32:58.799 --> 00:33:00.400
So it's a great thing.
00:33:00.559 --> 00:33:04.400
I mean, he the McBri the McBrayers, right?
00:33:04.640 --> 00:33:07.519
That's what it is and then he's done that.
00:33:07.680 --> 00:33:14.559
He's covered, he's covered, you know, the history of Frankfurt as a town.
00:33:14.720 --> 00:33:16.880
I mean, there's a lot of stuff out there.
00:33:17.039 --> 00:33:21.119
He's covered the Buffalo, Buffalo Trace, you know, that whole aspect.
00:33:21.279 --> 00:33:24.640
I mean, he's done a great job promoting Frankfurt.
00:33:24.720 --> 00:33:30.720
And I really think that Amsey, Diane, and and Renee have done a great job too.
00:33:30.880 --> 00:33:42.799
Because when, you know, we had them on, and we've had Diane on, but we've also had Amsey and Renee this year, and they talk about how it's not just the fest, how the festival has moved forward.
00:33:42.960 --> 00:34:06.960
I mean, even the renovation to the hotels and how many more Airbnbs and how many, many different places to, and this is partially, I believe, you know, Buffalo Trace being in Frankfurt and Whiskey Thief, you got you need places to stay, but it's also realistically bourbon on the banks gives back to the town.
00:34:07.200 --> 00:34:19.199
I mean, they're not just doing this, I believe they're a nonprofit that does give back to, you know, they they've they've written checks to charities in Frankfurt all over the place.
00:34:19.359 --> 00:34:24.239
And it's a great festival to come down because, you know, it's good bourbon people.
00:34:24.319 --> 00:34:38.880
And like you said, CT, the people that are on, you know, that are walking around the town, the festival lets out at six on Saturday, but there isn't even a festival, and everybody's in town on Friday.
00:34:39.119 --> 00:34:54.319
There's just a whole almost like the festival's happening outside the festival from it's almost like a family fair atmosphere down all down on Main Street.
00:34:54.799 --> 00:34:57.599
And the whole Friday evening.
00:34:58.000 --> 00:35:07.279
Yeah, it's and if you've never been to downtown Frankfurt, again, we we talk about the difference in these towns, especially people from Ohio, South Carolina.
00:35:07.519 --> 00:35:16.480
You know, you go to Frankfurt is a very different geographically laid-out town compared to Louisville, to Bardstown, to Lexington.
00:35:17.599 --> 00:35:24.960
And it it's really cool because you have a lot of highs and lows, it's it's a hilly area.
00:35:25.039 --> 00:35:28.480
Like last year we went and ate breakfast at that place on the hill there.
00:35:28.559 --> 00:35:29.359
That was really cool.
00:35:29.519 --> 00:35:34.799
That little diner to the side of the literally on the side of a hill, right along the river.
00:35:35.119 --> 00:35:35.359
Right.
00:35:35.440 --> 00:35:39.679
And you don't have that in Barstown because Barstown's pretty flat for the most part.
00:35:39.920 --> 00:35:43.839
But Frankfurt just has just a cool old vibe.
00:35:43.920 --> 00:35:53.359
I mean, the state house is there, it's it's uh, I think for me, it's my favorite town to go visit for this kind of stuff.
00:35:53.519 --> 00:36:07.840
And I think this festival, when you go there and you see the train track going through town, that you're literally parking alongside a train track, and then streets are blocked off, and they're not just blocked off for this festival, that one street's blocked off all the tonic.
00:36:08.079 --> 00:36:12.880
They leave that like blocked off so people can go in and out of restaurants and enjoy downtown.
00:36:13.199 --> 00:36:14.880
Well, so it's unique.
00:36:15.199 --> 00:36:24.719
Old, the old brick buildings downtown, you know, that were built uh, you know, what like in the late 1800s, early 1900s, yeah, right along through there.
00:36:24.800 --> 00:36:34.559
Well, and that architecture, and then a lot of the restaurants and the stores themselves take that architecture at like the old 50s cafe.
00:36:34.800 --> 00:36:38.480
Oh, the little diner breakfast, yeah, that we breakfast in sometimes.
00:36:38.800 --> 00:36:42.079
You know, and I mean just a perfect setting and all.
00:36:42.239 --> 00:36:44.159
So, yeah, it is a great town.
00:36:44.480 --> 00:36:54.079
Oh, well, Frankfurt is the capital, and then it also is a river town.
00:36:54.400 --> 00:37:00.400
I mean, and it's kind of like it's a river town that got frozen in time.
00:37:00.800 --> 00:37:10.559
When we first started going there, there was like Bourbon on Maine, it was like there was Buffalo Trace and Bourbon on Maine, and everything else kind of there, there wasn't a lot of stuff for it.
00:37:10.639 --> 00:37:28.800
And they've been remodeling the hotel, which was Oak and I think it's Oak and Embers or uh something, I I don't remember the name, but but it definitely the restaurant that's in that hotel, the whole the hotel is now remodeled beautifully.
00:37:28.960 --> 00:37:30.960
So they've been capturing that.
00:37:31.119 --> 00:37:33.039
Like we went to the the cemetery.
00:37:34.320 --> 00:37:35.199
I want to stop you.
00:37:35.519 --> 00:37:44.400
Definitely, if you decide to go there, you gotta make reservations, especially during Bourbon on the Banks Festival that week.
00:37:44.559 --> 00:37:47.920
So if you want to go check this restaurant out, it's really cool.
00:37:48.159 --> 00:37:50.960
But you gotta make reservations ahead of time, right?
00:37:51.119 --> 00:37:52.960
Yeah, as we so found out.
00:37:53.840 --> 00:38:15.840
But like when we went to the cemetery, CT, you're like on top of the hill and you're looking at all the people, all the distillers and famous people that are in that cemetery, and all the people from Frankfurt, but you're look out looking on this beautiful hill down at the river, across over at the town.
00:38:16.079 --> 00:38:18.559
It's I I I mean, there's a it's go ahead.
00:38:18.880 --> 00:38:21.199
It's a scenic, it's a scenic picture.
00:38:21.360 --> 00:38:30.719
It like you stand up and Davy Crockett is buried up on the top edge of the of the cemetery.
00:38:31.039 --> 00:38:43.760
On on the cemetery on the bank right there, and you're looking down at downtown Frankfurt, but you're literally at his cemetery looking at the statue, and it it it is just a cool, cool spot to go.
00:38:43.840 --> 00:38:52.559
And and again, even if you go to Frankfurt and you're not even there for the bourbon and you're like, hey, I just want to go hang out, the bars have changed dramatically.
00:38:52.639 --> 00:39:05.119
I mean, when we first went there, there there wasn't there wasn't a lot of places to go, you know, and now it's changed and and they keep revitalizing the downtown area and building more and more.
00:39:05.360 --> 00:39:12.800
That restaurant we went to last year that was kind of on the edge of town by the railroad track that we walked in and they couldn't see this.
00:39:14.159 --> 00:39:15.679
That's what we were talking about.
00:39:15.840 --> 00:39:17.039
Reservations needed.
00:39:17.199 --> 00:39:17.360
Yeah.
00:39:17.599 --> 00:39:25.519
But we met there the night before when we when Rachel lost her mind because the guy didn't have gloves on and oh yeah.
00:39:25.760 --> 00:39:26.400
Oh yeah.
00:39:26.639 --> 00:39:33.119
That was that was that I hope they I hope they well, we don't have Rachel this year, so uh we don't have to worry about that.
00:39:33.360 --> 00:39:40.239
But I will say, compared to Barge Town, then Bargetown's a historic small town.
00:39:40.400 --> 00:39:44.480
It's not a historic river town, and they they is very different.
00:39:44.559 --> 00:40:03.760
I mean, Bardstown has that square, and four roads go off in direct in different directions, and Frankfurt has a little bit of a downtown with modern, modern, a couple modern buildings and hotels and and you know, office buildings, and a convention center where that's not Bardstown.
00:40:04.000 --> 00:40:06.639
Bardstown's convention center is on the outskirts.
00:40:06.719 --> 00:40:10.719
It's not, it has nothing to do with you know, Bardstown, downtown area.
00:40:10.800 --> 00:40:12.559
They're very different, like you said.
00:40:12.719 --> 00:40:20.480
And so each one provides a unique experience, both decent in theirselves.
00:40:21.920 --> 00:40:22.239
All right.
00:40:22.800 --> 00:40:24.079
Walker just died.
00:40:24.159 --> 00:40:28.239
He's he's like T plus 40 minutes and still no old L.
00:40:28.559 --> 00:40:30.960
Good thing Nash has a pre-pour.
00:40:31.760 --> 00:40:34.079
CT's been pre-pouring old L too.
00:40:34.400 --> 00:40:35.679
Pre-pour, I'm on my second pour.
00:40:36.000 --> 00:40:37.760
All right, all right, all right.
00:40:38.000 --> 00:40:39.039
Here we go.
00:40:39.440 --> 00:40:39.920
All right.
00:40:41.039 --> 00:40:43.360
So I get my third one.
00:40:43.519 --> 00:40:47.840
Yeah, this is our bare, this will be the barrel bottle breakdown.
00:40:48.079 --> 00:40:48.800
Oh God.
00:40:48.960 --> 00:40:49.920
Help me, Lord.
00:40:50.400 --> 00:40:55.440
Oh what are you what tell us, Tiny, what are you barrel bottle breakdown?
00:40:55.599 --> 00:40:56.880
So I can write it down here.
00:40:57.119 --> 00:41:03.360
What we are barrel bottle breaking down is the old elk cigar cut punch cut.
00:41:03.519 --> 00:41:04.880
And CT has it.
00:41:05.039 --> 00:41:07.280
I have it, we both have a bottle.
00:41:07.519 --> 00:41:10.559
We were able to because you weren't there.
00:41:10.800 --> 00:41:12.159
Well, Nash, you gotta come.
00:41:14.159 --> 00:41:15.360
Because I'm not special.
00:41:15.599 --> 00:41:17.679
No, you live in South Carolina, bum.
00:41:17.840 --> 00:41:28.159
So when you when you send us messages from your back patio staring out at the ocean, smoking a league of bravada, and we're stuck on the concrete.
00:41:30.559 --> 00:41:31.519
It holds off.
00:41:31.679 --> 00:41:31.840
Right.
00:41:32.079 --> 00:41:33.199
I kind of get it now.
00:41:33.440 --> 00:41:34.719
Yeah, you're welcome.
00:41:35.840 --> 00:41:36.480
Yeah.
00:41:37.119 --> 00:41:37.679
All right.
00:41:37.920 --> 00:41:39.840
What what's the proof on that?
00:41:41.280 --> 00:41:48.880
Um if I could read, she is 109.1 proof.
00:41:49.440 --> 00:41:55.280
And it was it was whiskey advocates top 20.
00:41:56.800 --> 00:41:57.280
All right.
00:41:57.519 --> 00:41:58.480
And I still love it.
00:41:58.559 --> 00:42:00.960
I don't have any room on my pad to write that down.
00:42:01.360 --> 00:42:03.360
So I'll I'll talk about it a little bit.
00:42:03.519 --> 00:42:11.440
So the one thing that's cool on the side of their bottle, old Elk puts some some mash bill and where it came from.
00:42:11.519 --> 00:42:19.199
So this this says this year's cigar cut is a select blend of our award-winning straight whiskeys, aged six to eight years.
00:42:21.840 --> 00:42:26.480
Exquisitely finished and expertly blended.
00:42:26.719 --> 00:42:55.199
It has an old elk eight-year high malt bourbon finished in an Armagnac cask for four months, and it has an old elk seven-year high malt bourbon and an olor rosso sherry cask for six months, it has an old elk six-year wheat and a tawny port for eight months, and then it has an old elk six-year wheat and a saw turn barrel for five months to a year.
00:42:55.679 --> 00:43:07.840
Holy shit! So the saw turn barrel, which we know from our good friends at Neely, you know, that is one that they did some pretty seriously good stuff with that saw turn barrel.
00:43:08.239 --> 00:43:10.719
You don't see that a lot, not common.
00:43:10.880 --> 00:43:13.199
You know, it's it's an expensive barrel.
00:43:14.000 --> 00:43:19.360
So this blends like a like a great wine barrel.
00:43:19.760 --> 00:43:21.679
Well, but they turn wine.
00:43:22.079 --> 00:43:32.880
The way they say it is each old elk cigar cut represents the best of the best from our award-winning cask finish series.
00:43:33.039 --> 00:43:34.159
That's what it is.
00:43:34.480 --> 00:43:40.079
So it's and it is old elk, old elk.
00:43:40.400 --> 00:43:42.480
Do you have a flashlight out, McGyver?
00:43:43.920 --> 00:43:44.400
Yes.
00:43:46.639 --> 00:43:48.960
Holy, holy shit.
00:43:49.039 --> 00:43:51.679
You just had a flashlight out in a lighted room.
00:43:52.000 --> 00:43:53.199
This is the reading.
00:43:53.920 --> 00:43:54.559
No, no, no.
00:43:54.639 --> 00:43:56.239
No, no lights above.
00:43:56.480 --> 00:43:57.119
No lights.
00:43:57.280 --> 00:43:58.320
There's no lights.
00:43:58.400 --> 00:44:03.519
I need, hey, this has been an issue from day one, eight years ago.
00:44:03.760 --> 00:44:08.000
I had, but maybe it'll be different because you weren't here for this part.
00:44:08.079 --> 00:44:22.400
But yesterday, CT, I went and had my an eye, I went and saw an eye doctor because my my my my reading is really bad, but I'm having good days and bad days, mid-range, like for whatever.
00:44:22.480 --> 00:44:24.239
Some days it works, some days it's not.
00:44:24.400 --> 00:44:29.840
So he told me I had astigmatism, but he is going to do the glasses for me.
00:44:30.960 --> 00:44:48.960
I am getting transition, and I'm getting the the bifocals that are that don't have the line, so it's continuous transition, and they're gonna go into my ray bands.
00:44:49.199 --> 00:44:58.159
So pretty much my glasses are gonna become my meta glasses, will become my actual glasses.
00:44:58.320 --> 00:45:01.039
So I will be able to wear them full time.
00:45:02.079 --> 00:45:02.400
Okay.
00:45:02.880 --> 00:45:05.039
Let's go back to the old elk part of this conversation.
00:45:05.199 --> 00:45:06.000
Yeah, there we go.
00:45:06.639 --> 00:45:10.960
You're the one that got me off on the noise.
00:45:11.199 --> 00:45:14.000
You can't you can't see is not my problem.
00:45:14.159 --> 00:45:15.360
It's the old elk.
00:45:16.000 --> 00:45:16.159
Okay.
00:45:16.480 --> 00:45:17.760
So let me get this straight.
00:45:17.920 --> 00:45:21.519
You two are gonna barrel barrel knock this, barrel bash this thing.
00:45:21.760 --> 00:45:25.920
Yeah, we are going to barrel bottle break it down.
00:45:27.039 --> 00:45:27.679
That's what I said.
00:45:27.920 --> 00:45:30.079
Yes, we will break this baby down.
00:45:30.159 --> 00:45:33.360
And what are you're breaking down the Arminac from Ohio?
00:45:35.280 --> 00:45:39.519
Why don't we just let you two break it down and I'll sip on this stuff from Arminac from it?
00:45:39.679 --> 00:45:42.079
Okay, then you're MC in this bitch.
00:45:44.159 --> 00:45:45.519
So let's let's start.
00:45:46.079 --> 00:45:47.599
So let's start.
00:45:47.760 --> 00:46:07.519
Well, let's let's say because uh in honor of Amin and the weeded barrel pick that we got coming, we will then, because we already threw out a bunch of whiskey thief stuff that's happened, we will throw out the old we'll we'll we'll go and old Louisville.
00:46:08.000 --> 00:46:11.039
We'll just throw one in because Amin's awesome.
00:46:11.599 --> 00:46:12.159
CT.
00:46:12.320 --> 00:46:12.559
That's right.
00:46:12.719 --> 00:46:17.360
Talk about my friend old Amin car at Old Louisville Whiskey Company.
00:46:18.159 --> 00:46:19.440
I don't know the guy.
00:46:20.639 --> 00:46:24.719
Is that you take it from here, you mess me.
00:46:27.199 --> 00:46:33.519
Somebody left one of those bags of his uh at an event I was at and it had cigars in it, and they were like, hey, is this yours?
00:46:33.599 --> 00:46:34.320
It has to be yours.
00:46:34.400 --> 00:46:40.639
And I'm like, nope, that's Mark's, because he was so happy that he turned that bag into a cigar bag.
00:46:41.199 --> 00:46:44.639
So you were you were able to give it, get it back to him, huh?
00:46:44.960 --> 00:46:49.119
Yeah, a friend of mine he decided he loved it so much he was gonna make it a cigar bag.
00:46:49.280 --> 00:46:50.159
That's awesome.
00:46:50.400 --> 00:47:06.320
But now at Old Louisville, one of the coolest things is at their new location is you could go up on the roof and see Louis the whole old distilling section of Louisville from the top of the roof.
00:47:06.400 --> 00:47:07.440
That was amazing.
00:47:07.679 --> 00:47:09.760
I mean, Amin took us up there.
00:47:09.920 --> 00:47:13.440
I can't wait to put together the promo for old Louisville.
00:47:13.519 --> 00:47:21.280
We got there, we did it, it was fantastic, and we did that, but it's the old Louisville barrel bottle breakdown.
00:47:21.360 --> 00:47:24.320
And what's the scale, Super Nash?
00:47:25.199 --> 00:47:28.239
All right, we have four different categories.
00:47:28.480 --> 00:47:29.760
Four, I tell you.
00:47:30.559 --> 00:47:36.480
And the first one is nose, second is body, the third is taste, and the fourth is finish.
00:47:36.800 --> 00:47:43.280
Now on the nose and the body, you can give it up to four barrel knocks, right?
00:47:43.440 --> 00:47:44.559
Knock, knock, knock.
00:47:45.440 --> 00:47:49.519
And on the taste and the finish, you can give it up to five barrel knocks.
00:47:49.679 --> 00:48:05.119
But if one categoric is exceptional, beyond your wildest dreams, you can actually give it a butt up um butt up um total of either six or five on the category.
00:48:05.760 --> 00:48:17.920
Woo! So it can possibly score a 19 out of well, the 19 out of 18.
00:48:20.400 --> 00:48:21.119
Yes, it does.
00:48:21.840 --> 00:48:25.440
There's only 18 points, but the butt up up adds an extra.
00:48:25.679 --> 00:48:26.880
All right, here we go.
00:48:27.679 --> 00:48:30.800
All right, all right from a cigar blend, CT.
00:48:30.960 --> 00:48:32.079
How do you like this one?
00:48:32.159 --> 00:48:33.840
I mean, overall, I've had this.
00:48:34.000 --> 00:48:35.679
I mean, me and you've had this.
00:48:36.159 --> 00:48:39.760
My bottle's pretty down for a bottle that I got.
00:48:39.920 --> 00:48:44.079
So you drank more than me, but I I will say this.
00:48:44.159 --> 00:48:45.039
I love it.
00:48:45.199 --> 00:48:47.519
I think you drank more than me tonight.
00:48:48.000 --> 00:48:49.360
No, my bottle's not.
00:48:49.519 --> 00:48:52.079
Mine's barely below the label, top of the label.
00:48:52.159 --> 00:48:53.840
So you're you're further down.
00:48:54.559 --> 00:48:57.360
Um, I was pouring small pours, okay?
00:48:57.519 --> 00:49:00.800
It just looked like it was more because it was coming out of an elk's face.
00:49:01.840 --> 00:49:04.639
At least it wasn't coming out of something else.
00:49:05.760 --> 00:49:07.280
That would be funny, though.
00:49:07.519 --> 00:49:12.880
An elk's ass bottle pour spout would be really cool.
00:49:13.119 --> 00:49:16.159
Like Larry, Larrican needs to do that with the kangaroo.
00:49:16.239 --> 00:49:17.440
We gotta get Greg on that.
00:49:17.599 --> 00:49:21.199
A Lyrican kangaroo that comes out the kangaroo.
00:49:23.440 --> 00:49:25.519
Do not give Greg ideas like that.
00:49:25.679 --> 00:49:29.760
He's already handed out actual kangaroo balls for two years.
00:49:30.079 --> 00:49:31.519
Yes, Greg will do it though.
00:49:32.400 --> 00:49:35.039
I had my hands on mine just the other day.
00:49:35.920 --> 00:49:36.480
What?
00:49:38.000 --> 00:49:38.880
What did you just say?
00:49:40.559 --> 00:49:41.840
The kangaroo ball.
00:49:42.079 --> 00:49:44.480
Oh, kangaroo.
00:49:44.559 --> 00:49:44.719
Okay.
00:49:44.960 --> 00:49:45.760
It's a keychain.
00:49:46.480 --> 00:49:48.079
Kangaroo ball keychain.
00:49:48.639 --> 00:49:51.519
So what'd you what did you think I said?
00:49:51.760 --> 00:49:56.239
I all I heard was something about your balls, and I'm like, what?
00:49:57.679 --> 00:49:58.480
Your kangaroo.
00:49:58.960 --> 00:50:00.960
The kangaroo part got blurped out.
00:50:01.199 --> 00:50:03.599
Anyway, back to the cigar batch.
00:50:03.679 --> 00:50:23.119
So, what I do love, they've included things that that Magnus has done so well, and over the years, that's always been my go-to for cigar batches because I love the fact that she uses the blend of the Armagnacs, the cognacs, the sherries, those kind of things.
00:50:23.360 --> 00:50:33.119
And and I think that's great that they followed suit with similar kind of profiles, but they added in that Saulne barrel, which is definitely different.
00:50:33.679 --> 00:50:36.400
Sherry can be a little overpowering for me.
00:50:36.480 --> 00:50:42.239
Like if it's by itself, it gets a little bit uh tart and over overpowering in some.
00:50:42.480 --> 00:50:46.159
But I think in this blend, it's just the right touch.
00:50:46.400 --> 00:50:47.440
It works well.
00:50:48.000 --> 00:50:54.480
So the cigar cut concept was deliberately built around whiskey that could stand alongside a cigar.
00:50:54.639 --> 00:51:03.280
Old Elk says the base whiskies are aged at least six years, followed by secondary maturation, like you were in finished barrels.
00:51:03.519 --> 00:51:19.679
But during our Middle West interview, Steve explained the thinking behind cigar cut enough structure and acidity to keep the palate working alongside a cigar rather than letting the cigar completely overwhelm the whiskey.
00:51:19.920 --> 00:51:23.360
Now, I thought that was pretty cool to pull that from our interview.
00:51:23.599 --> 00:51:24.239
Yeah.
00:51:24.880 --> 00:51:25.679
Absolutely.
00:51:26.239 --> 00:51:30.960
It's amazing what a I will do.
00:51:31.519 --> 00:51:35.920
I even I even checked that and you said that, and it does it.
00:51:36.239 --> 00:51:38.880
You ask it to do it, and it reviews the whole.
00:51:39.199 --> 00:51:46.480
How does it review the whole interview that we did for like an hour and a half there in like 30 seconds?
00:51:46.559 --> 00:51:48.239
He's it's got all the stuff.
00:51:48.480 --> 00:51:52.239
What is that is an amazing tool, is it not?
00:51:52.800 --> 00:51:53.119
Yeah.
00:51:54.000 --> 00:51:56.800
I just used AI to quote ourselves.
00:51:58.719 --> 00:52:04.000
But you know, the other thing, talk about this before we break it down, and we need to get to breaking it down.
00:52:04.400 --> 00:52:16.159
Old elk, one of the great things that they did, and we probably don't give them enough credit because Steve's been a big part of this once they were acquired by Middle West, is bringing the price down.
00:52:16.400 --> 00:52:25.119
So people for years have followed old elk, they love old elk, and if they like it, it's it's been one of those things they look for it constantly.
00:52:25.199 --> 00:52:33.280
And at$99 for the bottle, it still was a good value for what you were getting for the complexity of it, blah, blah, blah.
00:52:33.599 --> 00:52:45.039
Now they've dropped the price to$79 and just re-released a cigar cut, which we're drinking right now, called Punch Cut.
00:52:45.199 --> 00:52:52.400
And I think at$79, when you compare this, and no offense to Magnus, because I think Magnus is fantastic.
00:52:52.559 --> 00:52:54.639
I love Magnus Cigar Batch.
00:52:54.880 --> 00:53:04.320
But for$199, comparing this at$79, this is definitely for people who don't want to step into that realm.
00:53:04.480 --> 00:53:14.880
This is a great comparable type of bourbon that does not have Amberana in it, because when you throw Amberana in, you're definitely throwing it in a different realm.
00:53:15.119 --> 00:53:15.679
It's not over.
00:53:16.639 --> 00:53:17.360
Wait a minute.
00:53:17.599 --> 00:53:19.440
Did I hear you correctly?
00:53:21.199 --> 00:53:22.880
And then again about Ambarana?
00:53:23.440 --> 00:53:25.199
There's no Ambarana in it.
00:53:25.360 --> 00:53:26.480
Oh pennera.
00:53:26.719 --> 00:53:32.559
So but there are a lot of cigar batches that have Amberana now because they've they've done that over time.
00:53:32.639 --> 00:53:35.039
And that's whatever, if that's what you like.
00:53:35.280 --> 00:53:37.280
Well, I think I think I won't judge you.
00:53:37.840 --> 00:53:38.880
I won't judge you on air.
00:53:39.119 --> 00:53:39.840
In person I will.
00:53:40.159 --> 00:53:42.159
I think what is it?
00:53:42.400 --> 00:53:45.599
What are the I had the stupid cigars.
00:53:45.760 --> 00:53:48.719
What are the ones, the blue ones that are sweet?
00:53:48.960 --> 00:53:51.679
It's oh it's not an Olivia.
00:53:51.840 --> 00:53:52.320
What is it?
00:53:52.480 --> 00:53:53.440
Oh my god.
00:53:55.440 --> 00:53:57.760
No, it's the ones that have the sweet end.
00:53:58.480 --> 00:54:05.360
They're they're everybody there, it's just a one-word cigar that's and it's a hot brand.
00:54:06.880 --> 00:54:07.920
Cigarillo.
00:54:08.159 --> 00:54:09.039
Oval, opal.
00:54:09.440 --> 00:54:09.920
Well, wait a minute.
00:54:10.000 --> 00:54:12.639
You're talking about, are you talking about like sweet cigars?
00:54:13.039 --> 00:54:13.920
Uh not sweet.
00:54:14.239 --> 00:54:17.679
Yeah, a sweet cigar that's the that's that they sell with the cigars.
00:54:17.840 --> 00:54:22.239
You you don't it's not an Olivia, it's something, but that what's the name of that?
00:54:22.320 --> 00:54:27.119
It's the the wrapper's blue and it's it's got a sweet end.
00:54:27.360 --> 00:54:30.480
You had one and I smoked it with you on the porch.
00:54:30.800 --> 00:54:31.760
I'm trying to think.
00:54:31.920 --> 00:54:32.880
So that brain.
00:54:33.119 --> 00:54:39.360
Yeah, it's the creep, it's it's all those crazy Alice and all those different ones that are by uh yeah, yeah.
00:54:39.440 --> 00:54:40.239
I know it's dumping.
00:54:40.559 --> 00:54:48.960
Anyways, if it an Ambarana would go good with if you had a sweeter cigar, you could have a little Amberana and it would make sense.
00:54:49.119 --> 00:54:53.519
But most cigar blends, Amberana has tatiana blues.
00:54:53.679 --> 00:54:53.840
No.
00:54:54.159 --> 00:54:56.559
No, those that's not that wasn't it, but you're right.
00:54:56.639 --> 00:54:59.039
Those are those are sweetened cigars big time.
00:54:59.360 --> 00:55:01.679
Yeah, but I'm talking about one that's just subtle.
00:55:01.760 --> 00:55:07.440
The the end is like it's been dipped, and it's like a brand I bought them like three times before.
00:55:07.679 --> 00:55:09.119
Anyways, it doesn't matter.
00:55:09.280 --> 00:55:17.840
But that type of a cigar, you could have a little Amberana in it, but the whole idea, in my opinion, is exactly what Steve said.
00:55:18.400 --> 00:55:30.800
You want the whiskey to hold up and against the acidity, and there you want it to work alongside the cigar rather than letting the cigar completely overwhelm the whiskey.
00:55:30.960 --> 00:55:33.599
And that isn't a sweet thing.
00:55:34.800 --> 00:55:36.800
You also that that goes vice versa.
00:55:36.960 --> 00:55:39.360
I know I know that that they'll agree with that.
00:55:39.519 --> 00:55:47.440
You don't want your your cigar batch whiskey to overrun your your uh cigar flavors at the same time.
00:55:47.679 --> 00:55:55.519
But when you can find the perfect balance between the cigar and and the cigar batch, and you know that as much as anybody, Nash.
00:55:55.599 --> 00:56:00.400
Like, because you smoke cigars with bourbon a lot more than I do because I don't like them with coffee more.
00:56:00.639 --> 00:56:03.519
But yeah, it has to be a match.
00:56:03.679 --> 00:56:08.880
It can't be sweet bourbon with a strong cigar, it just doesn't work.
00:56:09.039 --> 00:56:16.800
If you're if you're gonna have a medium body cigar, yeah, then it's gotta be a bourbon that's got a medium body flavor to it as well.
00:56:16.960 --> 00:56:27.360
Well, I I found those fuller, stronger cigars with with a heavy burner, bourbon or whiskey, then you start getting bitter taste out of it.
00:56:28.000 --> 00:56:32.000
It starts overrun and you lose your sweetness out of both of them.
00:56:32.320 --> 00:56:37.599
At Royce and Rebecca's at Neely, Maggie Kimbrell was was there.
00:56:38.000 --> 00:56:48.079
And that's she's and I gave I gave her kudos because she seems to be the only person anymore writing any articles about cigars or bourbon.
00:56:48.480 --> 00:56:57.360
Even when you read Whiskey Advocate, everything I've been reading, I actually enjoy her articles a lot, and she's done so much.
00:56:57.599 --> 00:57:01.039
But her, she understands and has taught classes.
00:57:01.119 --> 00:57:12.320
But then the classic person, Michael Veach, smokes cigars forever, and he knows almost every single bourbon he will, even today.
00:57:12.400 --> 00:57:22.960
He's when he re does the reviews with his his nephew Matt, he basically knows what cigar goes with that would go with that bourbon to a T.
00:57:23.440 --> 00:57:26.239
Like he will tell you the brand, the year.
00:57:26.400 --> 00:57:27.679
I mean, it's crazy.
00:57:28.159 --> 00:57:41.039
But just like the boat world, which I I got to find that out firsthand when you let me cover her procession down at New Orleans Bourbon Festival about three years ago.
00:57:41.199 --> 00:57:49.760
And all that's when I actually, and which I told you I, you know, I'd been wanting to meet Maggie for quite a while and got to meet her then and all.
00:57:49.920 --> 00:57:56.000
But also got to see her at uh Kentucky Bourbon Festival when she was there and talked with her a little bit then.
00:57:56.639 --> 00:57:58.079
Great person, very talented.
00:57:59.119 --> 00:58:06.159
All right, just like the bourbon world that's evolving cigars, there's golly, there's so many new ones coming out every day.
00:58:07.199 --> 00:58:09.760
All right, so let's break this down on the nose.
00:58:11.599 --> 00:58:14.000
So mine's been in the glass for a little bit.
00:58:14.719 --> 00:58:15.360
Mine too.
00:58:16.000 --> 00:58:20.800
It it still keeps giving you that nice punch in the nose.
00:58:21.360 --> 00:58:29.119
There's just a nice strong what what what it almost has a sweetness of an amber.
00:58:29.440 --> 00:58:31.519
It's a toffee, it's a toffee sweetness.
00:58:31.760 --> 00:58:32.000
Yeah.
00:58:32.559 --> 00:58:38.960
I mean, you could I I it there's there's some flavors in there that I will pick up.
00:58:39.039 --> 00:58:43.599
I don't know where that what which finishing maybe it's the Orla Rosso.
00:58:43.840 --> 00:58:53.360
But now, do you know if the barrels, is it the old elk finished in the barrels that whisk that Middle West Spirit?
00:58:53.599 --> 00:58:57.760
Is it are they the ones finishing the old elk for the cigar cut?
00:58:58.000 --> 00:59:03.679
Or was this already being finished when they did when they purchased it?
00:59:04.320 --> 00:59:15.679
I could have sworn, and God, is Steve shoot me down if I'm wrong, but I could have sworn he told us this was stuff that they did since the acquisition.
00:59:16.000 --> 00:59:17.119
Yeah, that's what I thought.
00:59:17.440 --> 00:59:23.360
I feel like I feel like this is their new version of the punch.
00:59:24.719 --> 00:59:26.960
Not done out yeah, exactly.
00:59:27.840 --> 00:59:38.800
Yeah, I mean it's it's this is old elk bourbon, uh, but it's also and old elk is unique in the fact that it is a barley bourbon.
00:59:38.960 --> 00:59:44.159
It's not a it's not a rye and it's not a wheat bourbon, it's a barley bourbon.
00:59:44.239 --> 00:59:46.639
It is 34% barley.
00:59:47.280 --> 00:59:59.440
And then I don't believe that you mention that because I'm drinking an OHLQ Arminac cast penis, and I was just reading that about this.
00:59:59.599 --> 01:00:05.119
That this is a high high malted barley.
01:00:05.199 --> 01:00:07.519
This is 34% malted barley.
01:00:07.760 --> 01:00:09.039
That's old, that's old elk.
01:00:09.360 --> 01:00:17.519
That was their that was their thing, is that that's that's what he did is that high barley content what made them what they are.
01:00:17.760 --> 01:00:23.679
Well, Greg Metz came up with that mash bill at MGP and he had a shit ton of it.
01:00:23.840 --> 01:00:33.360
And old elk bought his stock of what he did and made it into a brand in Colorado.
01:00:34.320 --> 01:00:43.199
And and it was out there for a while, and at first, you know, I thought it was a little bit, there was some issues with old elk for me.
01:00:43.440 --> 01:00:52.719
But when middle when when OHLQ did the pick and I got to meet Greg and we did those, there were some fantastic barrels, including that Arminac that you have.
01:00:52.800 --> 01:00:53.920
I have that bottle.
01:00:55.920 --> 01:01:23.840
But what's happening with this right now is there's a there is the Orlor Rosso, I mean, there's caramel toffee, there's a little bit of chocolate, there's baking spices, and then if you the this is one where you gotta rotate your nose around the glen because at the bottom it smells one way, and at one point you will pick up a wine, a red wine or LaRosso Sherry.
01:01:24.480 --> 01:01:28.960
You you actually pick it up, you know what I mean?
01:01:29.199 --> 01:01:31.840
You can actually pick that up right there.
01:01:32.159 --> 01:01:36.239
Now, do you get much leather or tobacco CT?
01:01:36.880 --> 01:01:47.199
Yeah, there is definitely a tobacco that's somewhat sweet, but it's not like super it's like sometimes you get a sweet, sweet tobacco.
01:01:47.360 --> 01:01:48.159
This is not like that.
01:01:48.239 --> 01:01:49.920
This is a I mean, there's raisin.
01:01:50.400 --> 01:01:52.719
It's more like a yeah.
01:01:53.119 --> 01:01:53.679
There's raising.
01:01:54.159 --> 01:01:55.280
Let's back it up a little bit.
01:01:55.840 --> 01:01:56.719
What about the nose?
01:01:57.519 --> 01:01:58.960
Let's break down the nose, guys.
01:01:59.119 --> 01:02:00.239
Let's break down the nose.
01:02:00.320 --> 01:02:00.480
Yep.
01:02:00.719 --> 01:02:01.519
Yeah, break down the nose.
01:02:02.960 --> 01:02:04.159
Jeff, you're getting long-winded.
01:02:04.320 --> 01:02:04.800
All right.
01:02:05.119 --> 01:02:06.400
I'm getting long-winded.
01:02:06.559 --> 01:02:07.760
I'm always long-winded.
01:02:08.000 --> 01:02:09.119
I'm not detonated.
01:02:09.199 --> 01:02:09.840
I am.
01:02:10.159 --> 01:02:11.039
No shit.
01:02:11.199 --> 01:02:15.920
I remember, I remember those conversations Jeff would have with me before the podcast.
01:02:16.079 --> 01:02:17.760
Hey, I'm gonna let you talk.
01:02:17.840 --> 01:02:18.880
You do all the talking.
01:02:18.960 --> 01:02:20.239
We're gonna get on, get off.
01:02:20.320 --> 01:02:22.000
I'm sure he's had them with you too, Nash.
01:02:22.400 --> 01:02:22.800
Oh yeah.
01:02:22.960 --> 01:02:23.599
I remember those.
01:02:24.880 --> 01:02:28.559
And we're gonna we're gonna be done in 45 minutes, two hours later.
01:02:28.800 --> 01:02:29.840
The hell we are.
01:02:30.159 --> 01:02:32.239
Okay, so on the nose.
01:02:32.800 --> 01:02:34.000
Is this get a four?
01:02:34.159 --> 01:02:35.440
Is that a four is the high one?
01:02:35.599 --> 01:02:36.639
Yep, four is the high.
01:02:36.960 --> 01:02:37.840
I love the high.
01:02:38.159 --> 01:02:40.320
Honestly, I love this nose.
01:02:40.559 --> 01:02:45.599
I don't know what more I would want out of the nose than this because it just hits it.
01:02:45.679 --> 01:02:47.280
So I'm four on the nose.
01:02:47.440 --> 01:02:48.000
He's four.
01:02:52.400 --> 01:03:00.079
The only way it gets to be done in 45 minutes is if there's a Packer game on during the podcast.
01:03:00.320 --> 01:03:10.960
As everybody knew, we got it done last Thursday, and I should have I should have freaking stayed on and just skipped the Packer game, but that's beside the point.
01:03:11.119 --> 01:03:12.400
Um nose wise.
01:03:12.960 --> 01:03:13.920
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:03:15.440 --> 01:03:16.239
I don't know.
01:03:16.400 --> 01:03:17.280
I I all right.
01:03:17.360 --> 01:03:20.079
What's what are you giving on the nose signing?
01:03:23.440 --> 01:03:27.679
I I just it's between a three and a four for me.
01:03:28.800 --> 01:03:36.960
But I inch it one way or the other.
01:03:37.119 --> 01:03:39.119
I will, it's a light four.
01:03:42.800 --> 01:03:44.159
A light four.
01:03:45.119 --> 01:03:47.760
All right, I read my I read the four in real.
01:03:48.239 --> 01:03:51.440
So the body as dark as the four on I gave C T.
01:03:51.679 --> 01:03:53.599
So what was the proof on this CT?
01:03:55.360 --> 01:03:57.199
109.4.
01:03:58.960 --> 01:04:00.559
109.1.
01:04:00.719 --> 01:04:01.360
Yeah.
01:04:04.159 --> 01:04:06.239
I mean, the body in the glass is okay.
01:04:06.320 --> 01:04:08.079
It's nothing crazy though.
01:04:08.480 --> 01:04:08.800
No.
01:04:09.440 --> 01:04:11.840
It drinks middle.
01:04:12.480 --> 01:04:16.159
Like like it just doesn't hit the cheeks.
01:04:16.480 --> 01:04:18.239
Like the flavor's there.
01:04:18.400 --> 01:04:18.639
No.
01:04:18.880 --> 01:04:22.239
But that big body always is just that full mouth fill.
01:04:22.400 --> 01:04:23.920
And this like delivers.
01:04:24.239 --> 01:04:28.079
I mean, I'm not gonna sit here and say that you're not getting, you can't taste this.
01:04:28.159 --> 01:04:29.840
And there, it's that's a big taste.
01:04:30.480 --> 01:04:35.599
But it doesn't do the it's not taking it to a four, it's a three for me.
01:04:36.480 --> 01:04:38.960
Yeah, it doesn't tingle the cheeks at all.
01:04:39.119 --> 01:04:42.159
It's it's a this is a straight off the tongue.
01:04:42.880 --> 01:04:46.239
Yeah, I'm I'm a three on the on the body as well.
01:04:46.480 --> 01:04:56.639
I mean, it goes off the roof of your mouth and you know, and on your tongue, but but it just doesn't go, you know, like what what those big mouth, you know, those big mouth feels with the body.
01:04:56.800 --> 01:04:59.920
So all right, so now we're on to the taste.
01:05:00.320 --> 01:05:01.840
This is interesting.
01:05:05.360 --> 01:05:06.960
You're up on taste.
01:05:19.920 --> 01:05:31.440
So the thing about this for the taste is that the the initial taste the sweetness kind of is very light.
01:05:31.920 --> 01:05:41.360
The the beginning taste of this to me is is kind of light, it kind of comes in, just goes over the front of the tongue, it's not really much there, but it has such a good finish.
01:05:42.400 --> 01:05:54.639
But it's a little light through the beginning to mid palate, so I can't get real excited, but it's got a good flavor, like it's just it's enjoyable to drink.
01:05:54.880 --> 01:06:02.960
You can do up to five on the I'm I'm gonna go with man.
01:06:03.199 --> 01:06:15.440
The taste is good, but I this is so for the fact that I could sit here and drink this on an evening, especially with a cigar sitting by the fire or whatever, I this bottle I'm totally content with.
01:06:15.519 --> 01:06:18.159
I'd drink it all night if that was what I needed to do.
01:06:18.719 --> 01:06:20.880
Four is my score on that.
01:06:24.320 --> 01:06:25.440
Good analogy.
01:06:26.320 --> 01:06:32.400
So this is not a summer bourbon.
01:06:33.280 --> 01:06:36.400
This is fall winter bourbon.
01:06:36.559 --> 01:06:37.920
There's no doubt about it.
01:06:38.480 --> 01:06:42.480
I I don't know if you can honestly Are you saying that?
01:06:42.639 --> 01:06:45.840
Are you saying that because of the flavors it had?
01:06:46.159 --> 01:06:46.960
Yeah, you've been using it.
01:06:47.199 --> 01:06:54.800
The flavors, the flavors on this are fig, raisin, dark fruit.
01:06:55.039 --> 01:06:59.119
There's a little bit, I get a little bit of a sweet tobacco.
01:06:59.760 --> 01:07:02.400
I will save sort of sort of fall fall.
01:07:02.719 --> 01:07:03.039
Oh, yeah.
01:07:04.079 --> 01:07:06.880
You know, and this would make harvest time.
01:07:07.199 --> 01:07:10.639
If if it this would make excellent bourbon balls.
01:07:11.119 --> 01:07:18.639
This reminds me a lot of early times bottled in bond before Buffalo Trace changed it.
01:07:19.440 --> 01:07:20.719
There's all those flavors.
01:07:21.679 --> 01:07:23.280
Let's do bourbon balls with this.
01:07:23.360 --> 01:07:24.800
That would be kind of fun.
01:07:25.440 --> 01:07:30.880
Yeah, we should grab another one and see if we can get Middle West to do bourbon balls.
01:07:31.519 --> 01:07:32.320
Good luck.
01:07:32.559 --> 01:07:33.519
I've tried.
01:07:33.760 --> 01:07:34.960
I've tried everyone.
01:07:35.119 --> 01:07:36.400
Not not this one though.
01:07:36.639 --> 01:07:38.320
Old elk bourbon balls.
01:07:38.400 --> 01:07:39.599
That would be interesting.
01:07:39.840 --> 01:07:41.119
Old elk balls.
01:07:42.239 --> 01:07:43.519
Old elk balls.
01:07:43.760 --> 01:07:45.599
No, no.
01:07:46.639 --> 01:07:48.400
No old elk balls.
01:07:49.360 --> 01:07:53.599
I mean, if if it was Larrick and he'd be all Greg would be like, yes, yeah.
01:07:54.480 --> 01:07:56.000
Yeah, with Greg, I did him.
01:07:56.159 --> 01:07:56.880
I did Larric.
01:07:57.199 --> 01:07:58.239
I did it with Larrikan.
01:07:58.480 --> 01:07:59.280
He got him.
01:07:59.519 --> 01:08:03.679
And and then we were thinking you'd call him kangaroo balls.
01:08:06.159 --> 01:08:06.960
Anyways.
01:08:07.199 --> 01:08:07.519
All right.
01:08:08.880 --> 01:08:10.800
I'm on the spot for taste.
01:08:12.320 --> 01:08:13.519
Yes, you are.
01:08:20.000 --> 01:08:24.800
I'm gonna concur with a four on that also.
01:08:28.960 --> 01:08:32.159
Now, the finish is medium.
01:08:34.159 --> 01:08:36.480
It's not it's not a long finish.
01:08:37.199 --> 01:08:37.520
No.
01:08:37.840 --> 01:08:40.159
And it has no staying power.
01:08:40.480 --> 01:08:54.480
I would love to, except for the fact that social media doesn't allow for this, but I would love to be able to have a have the right paired cigar with this because this is a cigar blend.
01:08:54.720 --> 01:08:57.680
And to me, it has the sweetness.
01:08:57.840 --> 01:09:14.560
So if you were gonna do a bigger, bolder cigar with a little bit like you know, a little chocolate, but also a big tobacco flavor, this would pair really well to basically sweeten it up a little bit.
01:09:14.960 --> 01:09:18.640
And it's sweet enough, I think, to stand up to a big cigar.
01:09:18.800 --> 01:09:19.680
I do like it.
01:09:19.840 --> 01:09:28.560
When it comes to cigar blends, when you're talking about Magnus, I think there's only a few batches that stand up to this batch.
01:09:28.800 --> 01:09:35.119
I think there's a lot of batches, cigar batches that they do that don't stand up to this.
01:09:35.280 --> 01:09:36.960
So I'm gonna go.
01:09:37.360 --> 01:09:40.400
I think it is just an average finish.
01:09:40.560 --> 01:09:44.079
I don't get anything, I get pretty much a transfer.
01:09:44.400 --> 01:09:46.079
It's nice, it's pleasant.
01:09:46.239 --> 01:09:50.400
It's to me, it's pretty much average, so I give that a three.
01:10:06.159 --> 01:10:14.399
You know, you think about the different barrels that are influencing this batch, and you would expect the finish to kind of evolve.
01:10:14.800 --> 01:10:16.239
It happens on the taste.
01:10:16.800 --> 01:10:18.800
Yeah, it you would, but you would.
01:10:18.880 --> 01:10:20.319
You'd think, oh, it's gonna change.
01:10:20.479 --> 01:10:23.119
There's gonna be, oh, it's gonna do this if it really doesn't.
01:10:23.199 --> 01:10:30.319
And not that that's bad, because again, this bottle is a as a sit-down drink with a cigar is fantastic.
01:10:30.479 --> 01:10:36.800
That's a dissecting it for complexity and that it's going to evolve, probably not as much.
01:10:36.960 --> 01:10:42.079
So it definitely can't earn the highest award for the finish because it's just not.
01:10:42.399 --> 01:10:45.119
So again, I'm a three on the finish.
01:10:45.520 --> 01:10:49.520
Well, there we go.
01:10:49.840 --> 01:10:55.359
It's not a hard one to uh decipher considering we ranked it pretty much straight across the board.
01:10:56.239 --> 01:10:57.600
Total 14.
01:10:58.079 --> 01:11:10.239
14 out of 18, which in my opinion, you know, I'm always looking for anything over 12 is something that I would I would I'm recommending.
01:11:10.399 --> 01:11:18.640
But when you get into the 14 between the 14 and the 18, you're I mean, this bottle is what's the price?
01:11:19.199 --> 01:11:19.840
79.
01:11:20.239 --> 01:11:25.520
You can pull off a 14 for$79, and it's a cigar blend.
01:11:25.840 --> 01:11:29.039
And here's the kicker on it.
01:11:30.319 --> 01:11:31.920
It's a cigar blend.
01:11:32.239 --> 01:11:36.720
And we didn't taste, we just tasted this without a cigar.
01:11:36.960 --> 01:11:48.239
I mean, if the kicker is not that it's a cigar blend, the kicker is the kicker is it's a cigar blend that we just raided without a cigar.
01:11:48.479 --> 01:11:53.439
This is made to smoke a cigar with, and I understand we can't.
01:11:54.960 --> 01:11:58.800
Yeah, you can do that, but we can't.
01:11:59.039 --> 01:12:07.600
But like like I said, I would love to be able to with you guys this weekend.
01:12:07.760 --> 01:12:13.600
This is gonna be fantastic, I think, and I'm excited.
01:12:14.560 --> 01:12:15.439
Bring me in there.
01:12:15.680 --> 01:12:29.760
I mean, I just wanted to tell you that I stopped by my cigar humidor shop today, and I've got about 12 different nub cigars.
01:12:30.560 --> 01:12:33.199
Oh, you got the flavored ones for Jeff?
01:12:33.439 --> 01:12:34.640
The cappuccino?
01:12:35.279 --> 01:12:37.039
No, I did not get any flavored.
01:12:37.199 --> 01:12:39.039
I'll bring it I got the good ones.
01:12:39.680 --> 01:12:41.279
I got some flavored stuff, I'll bring it up.
01:12:41.439 --> 01:12:48.159
I got some nubs of my own, but I do like I I found but just keep keep this PG 13.
01:12:48.399 --> 01:12:48.880
Yeah, we don't have to.
01:12:49.119 --> 01:13:05.920
My um, but but my cigar smoking experience is it's I I admit that if I there's been, I would say 80% of the time, I don't I don't I don't have the time to take a full to do the full cigar.
01:13:06.239 --> 01:13:10.239
I usually it's just a quarter and I'm a full cigar.
01:13:10.560 --> 01:13:11.600
I can't take it.
01:13:11.760 --> 01:13:14.800
I mean, I'm not I'm not Monica Lewinsky.
01:13:15.039 --> 01:13:28.319
But anyways, I what I so but as you know, those smaller, I enjoy those, those are perfect.
01:13:28.399 --> 01:13:31.359
The timing of what I want to do.
01:13:31.520 --> 01:13:35.680
Usually, even in, I mean, I don't have an hour in the morning.
01:13:35.920 --> 01:13:39.920
I mean you don't what make time, make time.
01:13:40.239 --> 01:13:45.359
No, there's that's I I'm not smoking a cigar and drinking coffee at 5 a.m.
01:13:45.680 --> 01:13:46.880
for an hour.
01:13:48.640 --> 01:13:50.000
All right, guys.
01:13:50.319 --> 01:14:05.199
How about how about I do a five-minute minute bottle breakdown of Old Elk OHLQ 2022 pick of the Armadneck cask finish?
01:14:05.680 --> 01:14:14.319
I will barrel number 31, and it is cask finished at 113.5 proof.
01:14:14.800 --> 01:14:16.479
Boom, that's the bottle right there.
01:14:16.720 --> 01:14:22.159
Well, I can I can drink along with you because I have it right here, and I believe.
01:14:22.399 --> 01:14:25.359
Wait, hey CT, are you ready?
01:14:26.079 --> 01:14:26.640
What?
01:14:26.880 --> 01:14:27.840
Oh, Jesus.
01:14:28.079 --> 01:14:34.720
Mine is barrel 27, and this is Arminac Cast Finish, right?
01:14:38.159 --> 01:14:38.800
Is it?
01:14:39.600 --> 01:14:40.479
Yeah, okay.
01:14:40.720 --> 01:14:41.840
Yep, that's what I got.
01:14:42.319 --> 01:14:44.079
I picked that barrel.
01:14:45.039 --> 01:14:46.000
That's cool.
01:14:46.319 --> 01:14:47.439
You picked your barrel.
01:14:47.520 --> 01:14:48.720
I no, I picked all of them.
01:14:49.920 --> 01:14:50.720
All of them.
01:14:50.960 --> 01:14:51.920
The whole thing.
01:14:52.239 --> 01:14:56.800
We tasted 36 barrels and they picked 32 of them.
01:14:57.119 --> 01:15:01.680
That was and I sat next to Jim Kanepa that on that pick.
01:15:02.079 --> 01:15:05.359
How hard is it to pick 32 of 36 barrels?
01:15:05.600 --> 01:15:10.319
My God, the fact they didn't walk away with 36 after tasting them all is amazing.
01:15:10.479 --> 01:15:17.039
No, there was there was there was a couple of those four barrels because the one because wrong with them.
01:15:17.279 --> 01:15:17.840
What do you mean?
01:15:17.920 --> 01:15:19.600
One tasted like a band-aid.
01:15:20.159 --> 01:15:24.000
There was there was out of them, there was a yeah.
01:15:24.239 --> 01:15:29.359
And then a dill pickle, a flat tire, and a dill what?
01:15:29.439 --> 01:15:31.199
A dill a pickle?
01:15:31.840 --> 01:15:39.840
A dill pickle, a flat tire, and no, there was a couple of the the specialty barrels.
01:15:39.920 --> 01:15:47.199
They they took all the Armagnac, but there was a couple finished that were finished that they didn't take because of the the price.
01:15:47.439 --> 01:15:58.720
So three were were finished barrels, and then the the one there was only one that had a bad that everybody agreed that was not was not a pick.
01:15:59.920 --> 01:16:02.319
Oh my god, this tastes like mildew.
01:16:03.359 --> 01:16:04.239
Barrel rod.
01:16:05.039 --> 01:16:05.920
Pork rod.
01:16:06.239 --> 01:16:06.560
Yeah.
01:16:08.640 --> 01:16:10.720
No, I mean, and we tasted that.
01:16:10.800 --> 01:16:13.680
That was like barrel number 27 that we're tasting.
01:16:14.000 --> 01:16:19.359
And by the time you get to 27, CT, you know when you're tasting.
01:16:19.520 --> 01:16:23.199
I mean, did this happen to you guys at Kentucky Bourbon Festival?
01:16:23.359 --> 01:16:35.359
At one point, we tasted so much freaking bourbon, and that's what we were doing, because we probably tasted the most different, the most different bourbons at all times.
01:16:36.000 --> 01:16:41.840
But what was crazy about it was we didn't, we weren't drinking a lot of it.
01:16:42.000 --> 01:16:42.880
We were just tasting.
01:16:43.039 --> 01:16:44.960
Did you guys did it fry your palate?
01:16:45.119 --> 01:16:46.399
Was your palate fried?
01:16:46.560 --> 01:16:53.439
At one point, I swear to God, at the festival, every single bourbon I was tasting tasted exactly the same.
01:16:53.760 --> 01:16:55.119
It doesn't take long.
01:16:55.279 --> 01:17:02.479
I mean, you you start, I that's why I think we've all said that you drink the best thing that you're gonna drink for the day.
01:17:02.640 --> 01:17:09.840
Like if you have a special pour, drink it early because you just won't taste it as well as you started to have other things.
01:17:10.000 --> 01:17:23.199
And unfortunately, on barrel picks, we've all been on them where you get to the fourth, fifth, sixth barrel, and it's like, okay, yeah, that they get better because everything gets better at the sixth barrel.
01:17:23.279 --> 01:17:24.319
I mean, come on.
01:17:24.800 --> 01:17:36.800
But the the first barrel doesn't have a chance in hell of winning in a barrel pick unless barrel number five and six are absolutely trash.
01:17:37.439 --> 01:17:38.479
Trash is horrible, yeah.
01:17:38.800 --> 01:17:41.520
By the time you get to it, you're like, yeah.
01:17:42.159 --> 01:17:45.439
You know, if I was setting up a barrel pick, I would do that.
01:17:45.520 --> 01:17:53.520
I would literally put the best barrel as number one, and I would put my worst barrel at number six so that you pick six by the time you got to it.
01:17:53.680 --> 01:17:56.800
I like barrel picks where they don't even have them open.
01:17:57.439 --> 01:18:00.560
Okay, now that my five-minute barrel.
01:18:01.039 --> 01:18:01.760
I'm ready.
01:18:01.920 --> 01:18:03.039
I'm ready to go.
01:18:03.279 --> 01:18:04.000
Here we go.
01:18:04.880 --> 01:18:06.880
Is in his 12th minute.
01:18:08.159 --> 01:18:12.000
Hey, Roxy went to a berth for F's sake.
01:18:12.159 --> 01:18:14.560
I'm telling you, I'm I'm I'm in it.
01:18:14.640 --> 01:18:16.239
And CT jumped on.
01:18:16.479 --> 01:18:18.880
Where were you, CT, before this?
01:18:20.079 --> 01:18:21.520
I'm not gonna let him answer that.
01:18:21.840 --> 01:18:22.640
It was working.
01:18:22.800 --> 01:18:26.560
No, I was working at my building and coming back from that.
01:18:26.800 --> 01:18:30.640
Okay, thank you for jumping on tonight because I can't wait to see you guys Friday.
01:18:30.880 --> 01:18:31.439
Absolutely.
01:18:32.399 --> 01:18:36.159
All right, we can wait, but you know, that's I appreciate it.
01:18:36.560 --> 01:18:37.840
On the nose.
01:18:38.479 --> 01:18:39.680
Great nose.
01:18:40.159 --> 01:18:41.359
Great nose.
01:18:41.680 --> 01:18:52.880
This Armanac finish is really fruity, and you can smell that that toasted wheat like uh like a frosted mini wheat.
01:18:53.199 --> 01:18:54.960
Great nose, love it.
01:18:56.079 --> 01:18:57.199
Got a lot going on.
01:18:57.359 --> 01:19:00.800
You can keep nosing it, and and more is gonna come out.
01:19:01.199 --> 01:19:03.119
But I gave it a four on the nose.
01:19:03.279 --> 01:19:06.479
There's a cinnamon toast crunch aspect to mine.
01:19:11.359 --> 01:19:12.560
Oh my god.
01:19:13.920 --> 01:19:15.439
I will give you that.
01:19:16.159 --> 01:19:19.920
It almost tastes like a cinnamon frosted mini wheat.
01:19:20.079 --> 01:19:23.359
Yeah, there's just like there's a there's just one little part.
01:19:24.000 --> 01:19:28.319
Toasted wheat, that toasted wheat is just so prevalent in my God.
01:19:28.479 --> 01:19:30.399
This this is this is really good.
01:19:34.640 --> 01:19:36.079
I love the nose on that.
01:19:36.159 --> 01:19:36.880
I agree with you.
01:19:36.960 --> 01:19:39.920
I'm not in this, but I agree with what you gave it.
01:19:41.119 --> 01:19:41.760
Hey Kirk.
01:19:42.880 --> 01:19:43.920
Kirk, good to see you.
01:19:44.159 --> 01:19:48.159
We're gonna be going, we're gonna be going live with you guys in a couple minutes.
01:19:49.680 --> 01:19:51.359
Real thick in the glass.
01:19:56.479 --> 01:19:57.920
It tangles all over.
01:19:58.239 --> 01:19:59.359
Even gets to the sides.
01:19:59.600 --> 01:20:00.479
It does.
01:20:00.960 --> 01:20:02.399
What's the proof on yours?
01:20:02.560 --> 01:20:04.079
Uh what was the proof on yours?
01:20:04.960 --> 01:20:07.279
Mine is 113.5.
01:20:08.399 --> 01:20:09.920
Oh, damn it.
01:20:11.039 --> 01:20:16.800
I dropped the inch right in there, right around 110 proof.
01:20:17.039 --> 01:20:19.520
All right, I'll tell you, I'll tell you mine.
01:20:20.159 --> 01:20:22.640
I'll give the bot body a four, too.
01:20:22.880 --> 01:20:23.920
There we go.
01:20:24.239 --> 01:20:24.560
Oh.
01:20:25.760 --> 01:20:31.760
Gotta not knock anything over in my little cramped space.
01:20:33.359 --> 01:20:35.359
You lost your son, your glasses.
01:20:35.600 --> 01:20:36.880
No, I dropped the.
01:20:37.439 --> 01:20:37.760
Oh.
01:20:39.920 --> 01:20:42.079
I gave myself a leg cramp.
01:20:44.479 --> 01:20:46.960
Oh, you old fucker, you yes.
01:20:47.279 --> 01:20:49.199
I did too much today.
01:20:50.479 --> 01:20:53.680
I had He got a leg cramp tasting whiskey.
01:20:53.840 --> 01:20:59.920
I got no, I got a leg cramp goddamn picking up a flashlight.
01:21:00.239 --> 01:21:03.359
Oh, and I needed to be able to read the label.
01:21:04.000 --> 01:21:08.960
Meantime, while we're waiting on the proof, I'm gonna move on to the taste.
01:21:09.359 --> 01:21:14.880
The proof is a hundred and five minutes-minute breakdown now for 25 minutes.
01:21:15.199 --> 01:21:16.720
116.8.
01:21:18.960 --> 01:21:20.239
116.8?
01:21:20.560 --> 01:21:22.239
Oh, yours is a little higher.
01:21:22.560 --> 01:21:23.840
All right, there we go.
01:21:24.000 --> 01:21:25.039
I gave you that.
01:21:25.359 --> 01:21:26.720
Leg cramping all.
01:21:28.319 --> 01:21:29.199
Jesus Christ.
01:21:32.800 --> 01:21:37.279
And we're talking like light summer fruits, a little citrusy.
01:21:37.600 --> 01:21:39.279
What did you get the body?
01:21:40.319 --> 01:21:41.439
Uh four.
01:21:42.159 --> 01:21:42.479
Okay.
01:21:43.520 --> 01:21:46.319
And uh, I'm gonna give the taste a four, too.
01:21:46.560 --> 01:21:51.199
Lots of flavors going on, well balanced across through there.
01:21:53.279 --> 01:21:55.760
A little caramel coming through.
01:21:56.079 --> 01:22:00.960
All right, but I'm gonna have to attribute that, move that on into the finish.
01:22:01.680 --> 01:22:03.760
I like the finish of this.
01:22:04.560 --> 01:22:08.880
This is not a summer sipping whiskey, bourbon.
01:22:11.279 --> 01:22:12.640
This is damn good.
01:22:12.880 --> 01:22:15.920
I remember picking this armanac, that's why I have it.
01:22:20.000 --> 01:22:22.000
Sitting out on the back deck.
01:22:22.800 --> 01:22:28.239
I too would recommend smoking a nice cigar, a medium-bodied cigar with this.
01:22:29.840 --> 01:22:32.319
I'm gonna have to give the finish because I like it.
01:22:32.399 --> 01:22:34.399
It's got a nice medium hug.
01:22:35.600 --> 01:22:39.920
You feel just a little bit of warmth right there in the top of your chest, too.
01:22:40.239 --> 01:22:42.880
But the flavors are lasting.
01:22:44.960 --> 01:22:48.239
Getting those light summer fruits still coming across.
01:22:48.880 --> 01:22:54.399
So I'm gonna have to give it the finish of four, too, for a total of 16 out of 18.
01:22:55.760 --> 01:22:58.560
So these are this is OHLQ.
01:22:59.840 --> 01:23:04.960
And I bought this bottle, and this is this is I shouldn't even be.
01:23:05.199 --> 01:23:07.359
But this is my I have the top too.
01:23:08.239 --> 01:23:09.760
This is my beef.
01:23:10.319 --> 01:23:20.800
So this I thought was we we got when we picked this bottle, it's got the it's this is unopened, and I put it up.
01:23:20.960 --> 01:23:27.920
I thought I was buying the OHLQ straight wheat whiskey because their wheat whiskey was seven years old, right?
01:23:28.560 --> 01:23:33.520
And this is the first avenue bourbon crew.
01:23:34.720 --> 01:23:35.920
That's not the right one.
01:23:36.159 --> 01:23:37.359
Steve Suja.
01:23:38.640 --> 01:23:39.439
That's not the one.
01:23:39.520 --> 01:23:40.560
That can't be the right one.
01:23:40.800 --> 01:23:44.159
I know it's not, and I'm realizing that.
01:23:44.319 --> 01:23:58.399
Why is the First Avenue Bourbon crew for sale at my giant eagle on single barrel Saturday?
01:23:58.720 --> 01:24:00.479
Welcome to the OHLQ.
01:24:00.800 --> 01:24:08.399
Yeah, that it's like at one point, everybody would I'd like to say if there's a maker's mark picked in the dark, I want to know about it.
01:24:08.640 --> 01:24:10.079
Hey, I really do.
01:24:10.960 --> 01:24:17.199
The Meerfield Golf Course would like to know what happened to their Eagle Rare barrel pick that got distributed just years ago.
01:24:17.520 --> 01:24:33.920
Well, right now they're the OHLQ's in the process of basically, I think we should all get together and form some sort of alliance because I think they're actually just going through and taking everybody's barrels.
01:24:35.039 --> 01:24:37.119
It's crazy, is what it is.
01:24:38.720 --> 01:24:43.119
They gotta be aging them and selling them for a higher price.
01:24:43.359 --> 01:24:44.800
No, they're they're bottled.
01:24:44.880 --> 01:24:45.600
It's bottled.
01:24:45.680 --> 01:24:51.359
I know for a fact it's already up here in a in a thing, waiting for me to give up.
01:24:51.520 --> 01:24:52.880
And I did give up.
01:24:53.119 --> 01:24:59.920
And today we started, we started our different version of what we do, and those two picks.
01:25:00.159 --> 01:25:14.079
Nash, you're gonna have to let me know how many, and you could start telling people about the old Louisville, and you could start telling them about the bus tour, and we need to on the bus tour, you know, everybody just needs to contact us what they want.
01:25:14.319 --> 01:25:23.680
We need to be able, hey, when we're down at when we're at you know, at Old Carter, where we're in Louisville.
01:25:23.840 --> 01:25:25.199
Yeah, can we go?
01:25:25.359 --> 01:25:38.720
Do you did can we get some more samples from I'm gonna get samples of the barrel from Hannah while I'm down at Bourbon on the you want to go to Old Louisville on Friday?
01:25:39.039 --> 01:26:07.279
Maybe pick up, ask Amin for a Amin is out of town, but I think Adam is there, so I I'll text him tomorrow and I'm sure we can stop in and yeah, pick that up for tasting so that we could sick mat on the world and just start getting this because we're just gonna basically have people tell us and we're gonna just make we'll just make a run down there for anybody who wants one, and you know, and that's what we're gonna do.
01:26:07.520 --> 01:26:14.960
We're just gonna supply a service to be able to, and and they're just getting it through the distilleries.
01:26:15.439 --> 01:26:16.880
Uh there's nothing wrong with it.
01:26:17.520 --> 01:26:18.720
There's nothing wrong with that.
01:26:18.880 --> 01:26:26.000
There's no illegal activities, it's being run through the distillery and a free mule service.
01:26:26.159 --> 01:26:26.319
Yep.
01:26:26.720 --> 01:26:29.439
Nash, did you come up with a point on this thing yet?
01:26:29.600 --> 01:26:31.840
Are we done with the old out on the finish?
01:26:32.079 --> 01:26:32.560
Yeah, yeah.
01:26:32.720 --> 01:26:33.600
What was the finish?
01:26:33.920 --> 01:26:35.279
Yeah, I said four.
01:26:35.520 --> 01:26:36.880
Total of 16.
01:26:37.359 --> 01:26:37.680
Okay.
01:26:38.319 --> 01:26:41.840
So I would go one, I disagree.
01:26:41.920 --> 01:26:43.760
I'd say the finish is a five.
01:26:43.840 --> 01:26:45.520
That's I would say 17.
01:26:45.760 --> 01:26:48.079
Uh, this this this was a good barrel.
01:26:49.760 --> 01:26:50.319
Yeah.
01:26:50.960 --> 01:26:52.239
So I agree.
01:26:52.399 --> 01:26:52.880
Very good.
01:26:53.119 --> 01:26:58.720
As we wrap this up and we talk about bourbon on the banks, a couple of things.
01:27:00.079 --> 01:27:08.239
If you've been to Buffalo Trace and you come down into town, Buffalo Trace is on your right.
01:27:08.479 --> 01:27:14.319
If you continue just about a quarter to a half a mile down the road, that's where Bourbon on the Banks is at.
01:27:14.399 --> 01:27:18.159
It's on the same side of the road, probably a half mile or more, actually.
01:27:18.399 --> 01:27:22.880
On the same side of the road as the bank, that's where you're gonna find bourbon on the banks.
01:27:23.439 --> 01:27:28.960
But let's plug some distilleries that we know offer some great things.
01:27:29.119 --> 01:27:34.079
We've already talked about Larrickan and in Lawrenceburg, which is not far.
01:27:34.319 --> 01:27:45.359
So you've got wild turkey, you've got Larrickin in Lawrence, and Greg's awesome, even though he gives me shit for not talking to him.
01:27:45.439 --> 01:27:48.880
I'm still plugging for Greg because we love Greg.
01:27:49.199 --> 01:27:50.640
And he's got good cigars.
01:27:50.720 --> 01:27:54.880
He's one of the only places in the humidor.
01:27:55.119 --> 01:27:57.039
Yeah, he's got his own humidor there.
01:27:57.119 --> 01:28:01.279
And and let me tell you, and a nice smoking lounge outside.
01:28:01.520 --> 01:28:06.479
Yeah, he's got a great, like their menu for cocktails is always great.
01:28:06.880 --> 01:28:12.720
They do such a good job of making slushies to just bourbon-influenced cocktails.
01:28:12.880 --> 01:28:14.880
So go to Larrickan.
01:28:15.199 --> 01:28:16.239
You gotta go.
01:28:16.319 --> 01:28:23.680
If if anything for wild turkey is to go get a drink, you get a free glass, your glass is yours to keep.
01:28:23.920 --> 01:28:26.239
But sit out and look out over the gorge.
01:28:26.399 --> 01:28:28.079
That's that's a phenomenal view.
01:28:28.159 --> 01:28:29.199
It's it's awesome.
01:28:29.279 --> 01:28:30.319
So do that.
01:28:30.800 --> 01:28:35.279
If you're at Buffalo Trace and you're doing the tour and the tasting, it's all free.
01:28:35.439 --> 01:28:38.399
That's probably the one thing that Buffalo Trace does better than anybody.
01:28:38.560 --> 01:28:39.279
Everything's free.
01:28:39.520 --> 01:28:42.720
Tours free, tasting's free, you can do them daily.
01:28:42.960 --> 01:28:45.119
They always offer a lot of different product.
01:28:45.279 --> 01:28:49.439
I'm sure during bourbon on the banks, they're gonna have some special bottle drops.
01:28:49.600 --> 01:29:03.039
And the and the snakes, if you hear the word snake, just so you know, it's not an actual snake, it's a line that is now formed one, two, three, four lines, and they call it a snake.
01:29:03.359 --> 01:29:07.359
So go to Buffalo Trace, but also go across the street to Mattingley.
01:29:07.760 --> 01:29:10.640
Jay Mattingley is freaking awesome.
01:29:10.960 --> 01:29:18.159
They don't get probably the publicity they should, but Cameron Mattingley, I've talked to him several times here lately.
01:29:18.479 --> 01:29:18.800
Lately?
01:29:19.439 --> 01:29:23.840
Cameron, you've been talking to Cameron lately, he's back kind of in it.
01:29:24.319 --> 01:29:26.000
Oh, yeah, he's he's still there.
01:29:26.560 --> 01:29:37.359
So but that that whole thing is such a great experience to be able to blend your own mash, to to take different barrels, come up with your own thing.
01:29:37.520 --> 01:29:38.880
That's a great place to go.
01:29:38.960 --> 01:29:45.680
So go to Mattingley, but also right down the street, you've got what I call that little core.
01:29:46.159 --> 01:29:47.840
Corridor, you've got Woodford.
01:29:48.479 --> 01:29:59.359
You can stop at Woodford, then stop at the stave for lunch, then you can go down to Castle and Key, and again, probably one of the most places you're gonna see.
01:30:00.000 --> 01:30:02.159
And then Glen's Creek is right there.
01:30:02.399 --> 01:30:05.359
And then you finish at Glens Creek and Cranky Dave.
01:30:06.159 --> 01:30:07.520
Cranky Dave get any better.
01:30:07.760 --> 01:30:10.319
No, no, no, not Cranky Dave, Crazy Dave.
01:30:10.560 --> 01:30:11.680
I'll go with Crazy Dave.
01:30:13.119 --> 01:30:15.520
People, people love Cranky Dave, though.
01:30:15.760 --> 01:30:22.560
Like I was talking to somebody and they were like, is that that little place that's old, but has that guy who's like the owner?
01:30:22.640 --> 01:30:24.239
And he like comes out and I'm like, yeah, that's cranky.
01:30:24.800 --> 01:30:28.239
You mean the old old crow distillery?
01:30:28.560 --> 01:30:58.159
That that, yeah, I just I still to this time, I think I'm I I assert that when you go to Glen's Creek and Dave's there, it's like going to Disney World where you go on the Pirates of the Caribbean and they have animatronic pirates attacking you and things blowing up in the water on the Pirates of the Caribbean.
01:30:58.319 --> 01:31:00.800
And Dave's distillery is just like that.
01:31:01.119 --> 01:31:18.239
He basically has in you're you're tasting with him, and alarms go off in the back that maybe, and then he doesn't send his wife back there because they she sends the assistant back there, so the whole distillery doesn't blow up, and then sometimes there's flooding.
01:31:18.399 --> 01:31:42.319
I really feel that Dave is the pirates of the Caribbean Disney ride of bourbon, and he's the pirate that's dealing at the bar that's drunk, and he's dealing out the the you know the the pen pieces and and whatever, and he's talking and telling you all about the history.
01:31:42.479 --> 01:31:43.760
I mean, that's Dave.
01:31:43.840 --> 01:31:46.960
It's the Pirates of the Caribbean Disney ride.
01:31:47.119 --> 01:31:56.399
I mean, it's just like you're gonna basically have it's almost a guarantee that there's gonna be some sort of distillery emergency when you're there.
01:31:58.159 --> 01:31:58.319
Right.
01:31:59.039 --> 01:32:02.720
It's got a message from Randy about your uh old elf.
01:32:06.640 --> 01:32:09.039
He's got a message from Randy about the old elk.
01:32:09.279 --> 01:32:09.840
Oh, okay.
01:32:10.079 --> 01:32:13.359
But so then you get those three right on the same road.
01:32:13.439 --> 01:32:18.159
So again, you've got lunch at the stave, you've got those three places all on the same road.
01:32:18.399 --> 01:32:20.800
Then you can go up to Four Roses.
01:32:21.920 --> 01:32:32.479
There's so many other things, and and Benson Valley that's in actually, I think they have two locations now, one downtown and one at their actual distillery, the old site.
01:32:32.880 --> 01:32:37.359
But I think the place to end up the night is whiskey thief.
01:32:37.439 --> 01:32:42.319
And we talk about whiskey thief, and and there's people that have been there and there's people who haven't.
01:32:42.640 --> 01:32:47.680
That farm is the absolute best place to end your night.
01:32:47.840 --> 01:33:00.079
Like if you're gonna go and you wanna enjoy drinking straight from the barrel, and then have a cigar, sit outside, look at the fields, watch the sunset.
01:33:00.239 --> 01:33:02.479
That place is absolutely perfect.
01:33:02.720 --> 01:33:06.560
I will tell you to have some live bands out there.
01:33:06.720 --> 01:33:07.039
Yep.
01:33:07.359 --> 01:33:08.000
Food truck.
01:33:08.319 --> 01:33:14.640
And they got that Thursday night before, they have the whiskey thief kickoff party for bourbon on the banks.
01:33:14.720 --> 01:33:20.960
If you come out there, there's there's gonna be live music, there's gonna be, they're gonna be tasting their barrel pick.
01:33:21.039 --> 01:33:23.760
They the whole thing last year was Amsey, whatever.
01:33:23.840 --> 01:33:24.640
I can't wait.
01:33:24.800 --> 01:33:38.239
But the other aspect was is that I'm telling you, CT, this past Saturday, Hannah brought Whiskey Thief to Ohio, and it was nuts.
01:33:38.800 --> 01:33:46.319
Like, it was crazy to be here and have that of what they do.
01:33:46.720 --> 01:34:14.479
I mean, it's just like, but she's she's everything that is good about whiskey thief, and we 100% from the moment that Super Nash, I remember you talking to Hunter and the previous owner, and you had stopped there and told me and Roxy about it, and you're like, they want you to come out.
01:34:14.560 --> 01:34:17.359
And he brought the card out, and he said it was just great.
01:34:17.439 --> 01:34:19.760
You got the taste from barrels, you know.
01:34:19.920 --> 01:34:28.880
And then the next the next time I knew that you had said that, so we're driving home from the Alan Bishop experience, and we stop off there.
01:34:29.039 --> 01:34:38.239
And ever since then, it's been history with Hannah, with I mean, the the the staff is a is amazing who he hires.
01:34:38.640 --> 01:34:40.640
You know, oh yeah, absolutely.
01:34:40.800 --> 01:34:48.880
The whole team works Willem and Caleb, the nephews, his Walter's brother works there.
01:34:49.520 --> 01:34:53.039
The what's the hey CT, what's the guy?
01:34:53.600 --> 01:35:00.960
His name with the that the guy with the with the gray mustache, the big gray musta bushy mustache.
01:35:01.680 --> 01:35:02.800
Are you there, C T?
01:35:02.960 --> 01:35:03.119
What?
01:35:03.600 --> 01:35:04.399
That whiskey thief.
01:35:04.640 --> 01:35:04.800
Where?
01:35:05.439 --> 01:35:06.560
He does the tours.
01:35:06.720 --> 01:35:10.399
He's got the big gray musta the huge chops.
01:35:12.159 --> 01:35:13.119
I'm not remembering.
01:35:13.600 --> 01:35:15.279
Oh, the yeah.
01:35:15.600 --> 01:35:18.159
Is it the it's not the guy who plays music?
01:35:18.479 --> 01:35:24.720
No, he's older and he does tours and he's there and he used to and he's yeah, he's great.
01:35:24.880 --> 01:35:27.439
I mean, everybody on the staff.
01:35:28.479 --> 01:35:29.520
Oh my god.
01:35:31.840 --> 01:35:32.640
Kendall.
01:35:32.880 --> 01:35:42.399
Kendall, the the the people at um all Kendall, the bartender at the tasting room, uh, everything.
01:35:42.560 --> 01:35:45.119
They've got Tuesday night trivia.
01:35:45.520 --> 01:35:48.079
And that's one of the things I want to do.
01:35:48.239 --> 01:35:54.640
I want to start pushing the Tuesday night trivia at Whiskey Thief for Walter because Tuesday night trivia was fantastic.
01:35:54.880 --> 01:35:55.439
Tuesday trivia.
01:35:55.760 --> 01:35:56.399
Bourbon trivia.
01:35:57.600 --> 01:36:00.079
And honestly, honestly, CT.
01:36:01.520 --> 01:36:10.000
It's like, although in the end we decided we were not the ones that should win anything, we did decide that.
01:36:10.159 --> 01:36:12.239
We still we wouldn't have won if we wanted the one.
01:36:12.720 --> 01:36:23.680
No, we would have taken we would have taken second place if you would have stayed around for so that we would have been able to get the song.
01:36:23.840 --> 01:36:24.640
What was it?
01:36:24.960 --> 01:36:25.920
What was the song?
01:36:26.239 --> 01:36:26.880
All right.
01:36:27.199 --> 01:36:28.159
Scrubs.
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Which I still I still never even heard that.
01:36:32.960 --> 01:36:38.319
Hey, and just so you know, the show Scrubs is coming back.
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It's back.
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So what a what a career.
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All right.
01:36:44.000 --> 01:36:47.680
Hey, is there anything else you wanna wanna say before we wrap this up?
01:36:48.239 --> 01:36:49.119
I gotta get out of here.
01:36:49.439 --> 01:36:54.560
You gotta get so it's just me with everybody, you ain't gonna say hi to everybody.
01:36:54.800 --> 01:36:55.520
All right, everybody.
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We gotta go.
01:36:56.960 --> 01:36:57.840
Yeah, we can go.
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All right.
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Everybody, uh sorry I gotta cut out, but I got I got some work because I gotta head to Georgia tomorrow.
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All right, and then I will.
01:37:05.680 --> 01:37:20.319
There's nothing Thursday night, no podcast live Thursday night, but I will load, I'll probably load Royce, Royce's podcast from the festival on the audio.
01:37:20.560 --> 01:37:26.479
So if you didn't, if you didn't see it live, it'll be on Apple, iHeart, and everything.
01:37:26.640 --> 01:37:36.399
I will load that up on Thursday night, but I will not you look for a live maybe from Whiskey Thief because I will be there.
01:37:36.560 --> 01:37:40.000
So I might uh put in a couple lives while I'm there.
01:37:40.239 --> 01:37:41.600
So you definitely gotta do a live.
01:37:41.840 --> 01:37:42.239
Yeah.
01:37:42.479 --> 01:37:44.960
I have no problem to do a live.
01:37:45.279 --> 01:37:50.079
And just everybody, check us out this weekend.
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Starting Friday night, you're gonna probably see some live annex from the Scotchy Bourbon Boys, but all day Saturday, this Saturday, October 3rd, starting at around 11 a.m., we will be live at the Bourbon on the Banks Festival in Frankfurt, Kentucky.
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So come check us out.
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The Scotchy Bourbon Boys.
01:38:12.720 --> 01:38:13.840
Yes, for sure.
01:38:14.079 --> 01:38:35.760
Now, remember www.scotchybourbonboys.com for all things Scotchy Bourbon Boys Glenn's t-shirts, sometimes bourbon balls, and then also follow us on iHeart, Spotify, Apple, and also YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and X.
01:38:36.479 --> 01:38:48.640
And then also, if no matter where you whether you watch us or you listen to us, make sure that you leave good feedback and also become a member, subscribe, do all those fun things.
01:38:48.800 --> 01:38:57.039
And remember, good bourbon equals friends and good times.
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And good times.
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Make sure drink responsibly.
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Don't drink and drive.
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And live your life uncut and unfiltered.
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And AI will take us out.
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Here we go.
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All right.