Sounds like they just threw in everything that a newly rich hillbilly would find nostalgic and put a big price tag on it. Pork rinds and buttered sweet corn do kind of remind me of one of my old girlfriends.

Weird here in Va. Nextdoor to KY, and no Buffalo Trace products available due to allocation. No Weller either.

Little known fact: The decline of American society began shortly after the demise of the whiskey vending machine in office buildings.

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I stumbled upon a bottle in unlikely of all places, a Wal Mart Liquor store. I am impressed. Tried to find 1 more bottle, nothing anywhere. Also looking for a second bottle of Blantons, nothing anywhere.

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Geez, i might have to check the local Wallymart then. Last time I was in their liquor store, there was a pretty sparse selection of bourbon.

Mine had a case that had to be unlocked. I saw nothing that interested me until I saw the Buffalo Trace, I asked for the case to be unlocked and to have that bottle, last one.

When they rang it up, it was $25... I was in shock, why was it behind glass?


I have been searching for another bottle... nothing.



My son is friends with a kid who is a clerk at a small mom and pop liquor store chain, I planted a bribe, I told him anything Pappy or Blantons, he gets $20 for holding a bottle for me, Buffalo Trace gets him a 10 spot. :D

Lets see how this works out.

more weirdness-we had no eagle rare here in Va other than 375's and now they're gone, but for some reason we suddenly have 1.5's...

Mmmmm Eagle Rare....

I am going to total Wine tomorrow to see what is up.



what was that Rye you liked.


you moved maybe the UPS guys are honest there.


I am tossing down way too much elijah craig tonight. Call it a late night working companion.

Copper Fox...

It’s so weird because I can find that all day long at $25-$30 a 750 mL at a bunch of different liquor stores.

I wish that was the case here.

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Their BP offering certainly delivers (even proofed down a bit).
Grab some if you haven't tried it yet...

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:cool:

131 Proof. Ouch :D

BT is piled up at my local grocery store. This batch is a store pick which was surprising to see.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1550070622.jpg

I had some of this last night and it was very tasty. Is this the “cheap”
One?

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So it's sounding like it's maybe available west of the Mississippi, but not east of? Are they taking what they have and shipping it all out there to increase market share out west?

question at duty free; Woodford Reserve at $43 or Jack single barrel at $63 or nothing?

I was born way too late. Seems I missed some great times.


Keep this tucked on a shelf in the office for the after 5 nights when I have had a bad day. I have not touched in a while, I guess I have not really had a bad day in a while.

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Perseverance pays off!! I was working 3 towns south and saw a little mom and pop liquor store.

I walk and and first see a bottle of Blantons, they marked it up to $170. I was annoyed. The clerk told me, good luck finding one.

I then looked down 2 shelves and they had 5 bottles of Buffalo Trace, slightly marked up to 38 a bottle. I bought 2. I get to finish off my other bottle tonight.

Happy Friday.

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Buffalo Trace is $21.99 at my Sams Club.

I think Woodford is about $35 normal price at my liquor store of choice. That a doesn’t seem like a very good deal.

Yes it appears out west it is abundant. For whatever reason here in Florida, it is tricky to come across.

Not happy about the premium pricing, will get over it.



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+1

If it's the Double Oaked version, then it would be an "OK" deal, but for the standard stuff, that is overpriced. BTW, the Double Oaked is great (and not an oak bomb as the name might suggest/imply). ;)

Yeah, it will definitely put hair on your tongue, especially if not proofed down a bit. :D

I've been enjoying Buffalo Trace recently. Surprisingly good stuff.

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Looking forward to having a sip of this tonight. Only a 10 year old but comes highly recommended.

Sorry about the sideways photo. Good job the cork is still in...SmileWavy

No Buffalo Trace? OK, I'm going to make my own :cool:

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I’m no expert.

Can one turn vodka into a bourbon?

Redneck Jesus can.

I've had a few pleasant whisky adventures lately. The story starts a few months back on my Birthday when I dug in to my collection and opened up a classic bottle from my favorite distillery . . .

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This is pretty much a bottle of pure unobtanium these days. Having a friend locally who enjoys the odd dram, I thought I'd invite him over to sample it. He appreciated the gesture and we started to discuss resurrecting a whisky tasting group I had hosted previously.

Anyway, this particular friend works for a well known local tech company. They just happened to have a whisky tasting evening lined up with the area rep for Moet Henessy who own Ardbeg and Glenmorangie. He invited me along as a guest, and very good it was too! In doing so, I met one of his coworkers who expressed an interest when we mentioned the tasting group, so he got an invite.

For our first tasting, we started off easy with a 'bargain bottles' theme and had eight people turn up with some interesting choices, all of which were duly sampled. We had quite a diverse group, some total beginners, one or two longtime enthusiasts, and the rest somewhere in between. We ended the night with a sample of the '77, and a couple of other bottles I retrieved from my collection.

A few weeks later I was invited back to another tasting with my friend's company. This time Benriach, Glendronach, and Glenglassaugh. Once again, I bumped into another coworker who had heard about our other group. It would be rude not to, so I invited him along to our next session.

After the enthusiastic reception the 'bargain bottles' had received, people expressed an interest in trying a wider variety of flavor profiles. For this event I organized a 'Whisky Tour of Scotland'. This was a virtual road trip, starting in the Lowlands, heading up through Speyside, into the Highlands, up to Orkney, then back down to Cambeltown, and finishing off on Islay. This turned out to be a bigger group of friends with several new faces. I can tell you, sampling 14 single malts in a 3 to 4 hour session is a challenge. My tasting notes started to run out of inspiration at about #12.

We already have our plan in place for the next session - a vertical tasting of different single malts, all from the one particular distillery. This is as much an educational experience as it is a social event, depending on what each person wishes to get from it. I've changed the way the bottles are supplied to, so we limit the samples to a manageable number. Tasting in a group setting is so much more fun!

Anyway, after several years where I haven't been paying enough attention to my whisky collection, I'm now getting back up to speed and appreciating it again. I'd be happy to share some of our selections if anyone's interested.

I have a bottle of Buffalo Trace, it is good stuff for the price IMO. Have been leaning toward Irish Whiskey's lately, Redbreast 12 Year is one of my favorites. Has anyone tried Greenspot? Hard to find in our area.

Had a taste of a micro distillery whiskey this week on Bainbridge Island in WA. Tasty stuff, sadly the only bottle they had left was the taster, so I’ll have to buy some on my next trip.

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This is really nice too!
Not too pricey. Comes in around $60-$70 CAD.
Working on my second bottle since discovering it.

Every year when I make another trip around the sun, I like to grab a glass and quietly enjoy this alone. After playing with many different whiskeys all year long, this one just puts me back in my place. I need to get one more bottle and drink this more.

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Another rickhouse collapse! This time it's OZ Tyler. Oh, the humanity ...

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This was the Barton 1792 collapse last year:
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My FIL had one of those and it all evaporated in a few months. He was sad...

I haven't started the barrel yet. I need to be in one place for 4-5 months. I know there were some specific instructions concerning evaporation and other problems. Will need to make sure I follow the directions to the T on this one! :cool:

Does the barrel have to be mostly full? I'd think so.

Don't recall anything about that. I do know the barrel has to be prepped by filling it with water and letting it sit for a couple of days to swell the staves. They also recommend checking the bourbon weekly and topping off as needed for evaporation. It only takes a few months to age because of the greater barrel contact area compared to a full size barrel.

I've been exchanging whisk(e)y samples with a work colleague and last night had a sample of M.B. Roland Single Barrel Bourbon.
WOW! This was something else, dark, rich, and full of delicious burnt sugar, peanut brittle, dried figs and stewed prunes, with some nice woody oak and maybe even cedar background notes. I got very little of the things I've traditionally associated with bourbon such as the vanilla. I'm guessing this was matured in some fairly heavily toasted oak casks. Don't know much else about it as it was just a small pour in the exchangeable 3oz sample bottle, but guessing it's probably in the 50% to 55% ABV range and no idea on age.
We'll be adding bourbons to our tasting group schedule.

Oh, and the mini casks. Definitely fill it with water and give it a good soaking for a week or so until it doesn't leak anymore. The wood has to swell in order to seal. I've had a mini cask for a while now. The first fill with spirit lasted for a month and a half. I stopped it there as the spirit was becoming very sweet from the fresh oak and was becoming a little over powered. I was working on an acceleration factor of x8 based on volume to surface area, so that's about 1 year equivalent. There's definitely substantial loss of volume on that first fill partly from evaporation, and party from the wood soaking up the spirit I suspect. I've since filled the cask with sherry and seasoned it for a similar time before emptying the sherry and filling with scotch to see how sherry aging comes out. Should be done by Christmas so I'll let you know.