Perfect Picks for a Beginner Whiskey Collection

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The truest expression of craft
doesn't come from a recipe, a

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process, or even a perfect
season for aging.

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Now it happens naturally, deep
inside the barrel, untouched by

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human intervention.
That's why, at Blackwood

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Distilling Code, they don't rush
perfection.

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Rather, they let time and nature
take the lead.

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Their proprietary Blackwood
toasting process isn't just

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about tradition.
It's about unlocking layers of

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complexity that only emerge when
you extend the maturation of a

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spirit.
By carefully toasting their

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barrels, they coax out these
rich, nuanced flavors.

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Flavors like Creme brulee,
toasted pecans, warm baking

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spices.
Flavors that cannot be forced.

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Each sip reveals something new,
something distinct, something

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that can only be achieved when
craftsmanship meets patients.

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To raise a glass and taste what
happens when we step back and

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let the barrel do the talking.
Head over to

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blackwooddistillingcode.com and
discover the unhurried elegance

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of Blackwood Distilling.
Well, hey everybody, welcome

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into the podcast.
It's time for another special

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bonus episode.
Bonus episode.

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I love recording these bonus
episodes that go live in between

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seasons.
Brad 'cause I never quite know

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where to categorize them.
You know, I save all of our

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audio files in a Google Drive
and I never know if I should put

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them in season eight or season
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It's kind of like when when they
made that movie Lion King 1 1/2.

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Like, that's good.
That's how I feel about our

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season right now. 8.58. .5 man.
Man, it's good to be with you.

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Yeah, you too, man.
Not only is it in between

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seasons, but it's also 846 in
the morning when we're recording

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this.
Yeah, it is.

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And you know what they say,
there's no better time to talk

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about whiskey than the moment
you wake up in the morning.

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I mean, I've been up since like
5:00 AM, Bob.

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Too.
Nah, not me man.

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These kids, these kids and I
stay up too late.

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I got to get the sleep where I
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Yeah, I, I, I believe it, man.
Well, we figured today, folks,

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while we're in between seasons,
we would try something a little

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bit more fun than usual.
We're known for being sticks in

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the mud, especially Brad.
Yeah, that guy.

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Brad, I feel like a lot of times
we get stuck in the rut of

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reviewing whiskeys.
And while we try to keep the

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average consumer in mind,
sometimes we're trying whiskeys

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that are just really out of the
price range of the average

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consumer and also a little bit
too far down the rabbit hole, if

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I'm being honest, You know what
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Like people that are just
walking into the liquor store

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looking for the first time to
start building out their

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collection are not going to know
all of the intricacies of a

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brand's vertical, you know what
I mean?

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And so I think while we try to
keep that in mind with our value

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score, sometimes we kind of just
need to get back to basics.

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And that's what we're going to
do today, folks.

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Brad and I are going to just
have a two person draft going

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on.
So it should go very quickly.

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But here's the rules of our game
that we're playing today.

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We're drafting our perfect
starter whiskey shelf.

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We have 300 hypothetical dollars
to buy real world bottles with.

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Yeah, we we definitely don't
have $300.00 personally.

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No, let's be honest here.
The the, the Patreon needs to

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get bumped up a little bit
before we can do this for real.

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So we have 300 hypothetical
dollars to draft our perfect

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starter whiskey shelf.
Now, we've been pricing out all

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the whiskeys that we might
potentially draft.

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And Brad, I guess the first
thing I should say is when we

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set this at $300, you know, it
was completely arbitrary.

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And I thought that it was a good
number to start with.

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Now I think that it's a good
number, but because it's so

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challenging, like the the price
of whiskey in this economy has

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gone on.
Oh my gosh, dude.

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I'll give the perfect example of
this, one of our most beloved

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whiskeys on this podcast from
way back in the day when it

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still had two different year
expressions.

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Is the Glen Moringy keen to
Ruben?

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When we started, they used to
have the 12 year and the 14

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year.
Now they just have the 14 year,

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which I think was a good
decision.

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It used to cost 5299.
A few years later jumped up to

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5899.
Still reasonable, right under

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$60.00.
I checked it today in order to

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do this exercise.
So I was like, oh, clear clear

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option for my bar.
It is $74.

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That's $74.
It's not getting drafted by me,

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I'm not going to lie.
Yeah, I I don't think it's going

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to get drafted by me either.
It like it went from a lock in

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pick at like 60 bucks to like
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Yeah, 'cause you could budget
around like a $60.00 bottle of

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whiskey. 100%.
And I think that's kind of, I

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don't know, I don't want you to
give away your whole strategy

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here, Brad.
And I'm certainly not going to

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give away mine.
But I think that we need to set

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a minimum number of bottles to
target for our shelf.

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Like you can't just say, OK, I'm
going to go try to find a bottle

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of Eagle Rear 17 at cost and it
just magically show up at MSRP.

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And that's my one bottle.
I think you need to get, I would

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say at least three, hopefully 4
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And I would even say like maybe
the target should be 5.

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Yes.
OK, cool.

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Yeah.
So I, I mean, I don't know, Bob,

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are you going for five bottles
today with our challenge?

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Well, it kind of depends on how
you draft because one rule that

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we did set down that the people
should know about is that once a

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bottle is drafted, it cannot be
redrafted.

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So I've got a range of prices on
things that I'd be willing to

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spend for, but if you scoop up
all of my lower end stuff, then

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I'm going to be forced to get
fewer bottles.

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So it it really depends.
I could have 9 bottles, who

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knows.
Well, Bob, I just in my head

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started thinking through
whiskeys that are in a price

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range that made sense.
And the first five whiskeys I

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came up with added up exactly to
$300.

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Man, guess what though, I'm
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Are you now?
I kind of doubt it.

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There's there's two that I'm
worried about.

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Which two would those be, Brad?
Who's to say?

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Canadian Mist.
Yeah, dude.

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Is is one.
Now I guess the question is, can

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I start buying 50ML bottles of
stuff?

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Can I just throw in like that?
We're talking handles.

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We're talking if.
Here's the goal of the episode,

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guys.
If you are starting off a little

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whiskey bar at your house and
you wanted to spend 300 bucks,

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we think that this would be a
good $300 to spend.

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At least we hope it ends up
that.

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Way absolutely.
And I think that, you know,

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we've all also been kicking
around this idea of maybe we

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should do an episode where we're
just breaking down what is the

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best whiskey at each kind of
price point that we talked about

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that like sub $25.25 to 4040 to
60, you know what I mean?

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And, and I think that that would
be a good way to go as well

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because I don't expect that
anybody who's just getting into

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whiskey is going to want to
throw $300.00 behind it.

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But I think if you're serious
about, hey, I want to buy more

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than two bottles and I'd like to
have enough that I can entertain

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people when they come to my
house, $300.00 is probably a

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good starter point.
So I think we did said it

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correctly.
A few more things I'll say

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before we dive in.
I went back through every score

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we've ever done on our whiskies
on filming whiskey.

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And I think because of that,
whiskeys that we tried on bonus

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episodes really suffered because
we don't typically give those a

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score.
We we kind of give our

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impressions, but not always a
score.

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And so there's a lot of them
that just slipped my mind.

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I'm sure that there are some
that we've had on bonus episodes

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that would be in my top ten
we've ever had on the podcast,

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but it's 8:00 in the morning and
I can't remember them right now.

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So it's it's pretty much just
ones that we've done on our

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regular episodes that that made
my list at least.

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Yeah, I was going to say.
And the other thing is every

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single whiskey I have on my top
five I hope to get and I have

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about 10 alternates.
Every single one is easily

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available nationwide.
Like we're not picking these

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random like, you know, some
barrel store pick from Lucky

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Joe.
'S like.

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We're, we're, we're talking
whiskey, you can get pretty much

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nationwide at a cost similar to
what you would pay in Ohio.

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Now I will say that the
inspiration for this episode was

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the new bottle of Green River,
which I believe is called Green

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River 1885.
Is that correct?

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Sure is.
Oh yeah.

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We just received a bottle in the
mail yesterday.

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We have not had a chance to try
it yet.

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Now, I will say that it's the
inspiration for this episode

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because we didn't want to drink
it and then not included in our

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starter shelves just in case it
doesn't, you know, it just in

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case it doesn't make like our
top five ever.

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But the reason that it's the
inspiration is Green River has

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just announced it as kind of
their baseline.

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It's called blended for the bar.
They want to put it behind every

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bar in America.
It's like 80 something proof.

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It costs I think $28.00.
Like it's a really reasonable

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bourbon and.
Do you want to?

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Do you want to know exactly what
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Yeah, sure.
It it's 85.

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Proof.
Oh, oh, see, it all makes sense.

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Now see what they did there?
I get it now, but I just respect

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the hell out of that and it
really launched us into this

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conversation of what what is
still a good bargain in the

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world of whiskey and that that
launched us down the path.

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Now we will have a full review
in our next bonus episode,

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hopefully, so stay tuned for
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Brad, I think we've vamped long
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We need to do a two person snake
style draft, which means we need

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to flip the coin of destiny to
figure out who goes 1st and who

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goes second.
Do you want to be heads or tails

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on this flip?
I'll be tails.

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All right, go ahead and flip
that coin.

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Bob, I will be picking first in
the inaugural draft.

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Oh yeah, I thought you'd be
excited about that.

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Oh, I sure AM.
I am going to pick wait, hold

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on.
Hold on, hold on, hold on.

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Sorry.
No, no, it's OK.

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I just want to say before we get
started, you got to keep track

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of your own.
You got to have your own

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calculator.
I can't keep track of both of

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our three hundreds.
I trust.

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I trust your calculations.
Also, we should say we are not

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limiting ourselves to just
bourbon or rye.

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Like we're trying to get a
variety here.

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Hopefully it's not just a shelf
of bourbon.

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Brad, as I look through my list,
there's not a lot of rye on

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here, but you're also the rye
guy, so maybe I tipped my hand a

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little bit.
Honestly dude, I I was trying to

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work through, you know my list
from the past few years and I

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couldn't, I couldn't find a lot
of rise in the right price

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points for what I was looking
at.

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Agreed, it was really weird.
All right.

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Anyway, with all that out of the
way, Brad, you are picking

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first.
Bob, you know what I'm picking.

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I don't.
There's only, there's only one

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choice at the top of this draft.
I am getting my value pick out

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of the way and I am taking
Rubble 100.

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Good for you man.
Yeah, it's such an easy choice.

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Like for me rounding out my
$300.00, I had to have something

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that would be good as a mixer
and also still good by itself.

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And and Rebel 100 is the obvious
choice here.

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OK, that actually does help my
strategy a little bit.

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So I get 2 picks here and I
think I am going to go bourbon

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heavy on the front end and I
think that I'm going to kind of

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blow my wad a little bit up
front too here Brad, and then go

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for the bargain stuff in a
little.

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Blow, blow your wallet, Bob.
No, no, no, Nope, not what I

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said.
My first pick in the category of

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bourbon is going to be $56 now
in the state of Ohio and it is

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Woodford Reserve Double Oak.
That was my second pick.

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Yeah, man, I knew it was coming
at some point.

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It is just perhaps the biggest
crowd pleaser we've ever had on

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this podcast, and I knew I had
to get it at some point or you

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were going to get it.
Now with my second pick, folks,

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I don't necessarily recommend
that you immediately jump into

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the world of high proof whiskey,
but if we're talking crowd

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pleasing high proof whiskeys,
I'm going to stick in the world

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of bourbon.
And my third overall pick here,

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my second pick is going to be
Wild Turkey, Rare Breed.

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Oh, look at you.
So I'm trying, I'm trying to

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knock out the ones that I knew
were on both of our radars.

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And I think those are my, those
are my first two.

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Man, you knocked off my second
overall choice and my first

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overall alternate.
Hey, there you go.

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So you, you're, you're taking it
to me, Bob.

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I think for my second and third
picks, I am going to take a $34

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bottle of whiskey.
It's going to be Cooper Crafts

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Barrel Reserve.
Yeah, I had that on my list too.

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It's yeah, like still one of the
most under utilized bottles that

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we've talked about.
And I feel like people in the

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know they get it, but it's for
some reason it's just it hasn't

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hit the like underground.
Everyone appreciates this level

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that it should be at.
No, it really hasn't.

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There is so much flavor going on
and I feel like it's it's

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hitting in that diminishing 30
to $40 range that it's to, to

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use the pun Bob, it's a rare
breed anymore to find something

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in the $30 range that you really
want to drink and Cooper's Craft

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absolutely knocks it out of the
park there.

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I think with my next pick, I am
going, I'm going to go a little

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higher, Bob.
We're going to spend a little

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more money.
I am going to spend $85 in the

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state of Ohio on Barrel
Seagrass.

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Wow dude I didn't think that was
actually going to get drafted

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here, $85 is a chunk of change
man.

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I got, I got 300 bucks to spend.
We got to get.

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Going.
Not anymore.

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You don't.
I thought you were keeping tabs

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on this.
It's not.

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It's not a constantly
replenishing pot of 300, Brad.

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Bob, I had spent $54.00 so far
and I, you know, I, I like to

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enjoy the finer things in life.
Sure, tell.

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Me a little bit about Beryl
Seagrass.

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Why are you picking in here?
Film and Whiskey Nation.

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If you have not heard already
the praises of Beryl Seagrass,

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this is a absolutely perfect
whiskey.

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It is a rye whiskey finished in
a variety of cask types that has

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all of the decadence of a
bourbon with all of the depth

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and flavor of a high proof rye.
This thing absolutely knocked my

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socks off when I drank it.
I've bought a bottle since it is

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one of the best purchases I've
ever made in the world of

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whiskey.
I've drank the whole thing and

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normally I try to hold on the
bottles that I really really

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like for way too long and I I
can't like control myself with

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this stuff.
Barrel Seagrass is the best

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whiskey consistently that I've
ever had.

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What a freaking endorsement man
dude.

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Yeah, Barrel needs to hire me.
I'm looking through my list.

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Brad and I have, I have two
picks here now.

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It is a very bourbon heavy list.
Now our podcast has also been a

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very bourbon heavy podcast.
I do want to get a little bit of

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variety in there.
And so I think both of my picks

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are going to be outside the
world of bourbon.

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And in fact, I think they're
both going to be outside of the

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United States.
I'm a little iffy on the Scotch

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pick here, but I think I need to
take it now or it might go a

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little bit later.
So first I'm going to take a

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whiskey that we had like in our
first ten episodes ever and has

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just remained our standard for
blended Scotch.

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You're just getting into the
world of Scotch.

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I think you need to pick up a
$35 bottle of Monkey Shoulder.

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That's going on my list.
I, I could go with a single

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malt, but again, we're doing a
starter shelf and the cheapest

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single malt that I have on my
list right here is like 65

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bucks.
So I'm going to avoid that.

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I'm going to take the Monkey
Shoulder.

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At the at the rate you're going,
you're going to have like 19

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bottles.
Yeah, dude on.

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Your shelf.
This is the frugal shelf.

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I thought, I thought we were
going for like, here's 5

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bottles, this is what you want.
So my, my shelf's going to look

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a lot different than yours.
I think you're going to have a

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lot of free picks at the end of
this draft.

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Well, in fact, I'm going to go
even cheaper than the $35 Monkey

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Shoulder, and this is the one I
really wanted to get.

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It's the only Irish whiskey
that's going to make my list.

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It is $25 still in the state of
Ohio.

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I'm talking about the Sexton
Single Malt Irish Whiskey,

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perhaps still my favorite Irish
whiskey we have ever had on this

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podcast.
Yeah, 100%.

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Dude, it has so much flavor.
And here's the wild thing.

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It used to be $35 in the state
of Ohio and now it is $25.

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It's it's an even better.
Deal.

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Maybe it's a victim of shrink
flation, Maybe the bottle's only

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like 375 mil now.
Who knows?

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Shrink flation.
Yeah, that was also on my

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alternate list.
Sex and single Malt's an

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incredible whiskey, Bob.
Well, man, I I'm just getting

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the my pick of the barrel.
I'm going to spend the rest of

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my money, Bob.
Wow, this is the shortest

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episode ever.
You really are here, huh?

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Yeah, I'm, I'm spending the rest
of my money.

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I am going to purchase next a
incredible bourbon that we drank

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a few seasons back.
I'm going to get the Old

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Forrester Prohibition series
1910. 1910, interesting.

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I have the 1920 on my list and I
thought that that was always my

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favorite one.
So I'm interested that you went

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with 1920 or 1910, I mean.
Yeah, I I remember specifically

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thinking that the 1910 was way
better than the 1920 and it

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comes in perfectly to replace
the Woodford Double Oaked at

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$56.
There you go.

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So are you left with exactly
$0.00 here?

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After my next pick, yes.
OK, wow.

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Yeah, so I have $105.00 left and
I am going to spend it on the

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pinnacle of Scotch whiskey.
The price point at which you can

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get it paired with the flavor,
you literally cannot beat this

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bottle.
Now this is going to be your

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sophisticated drinker on your
shelf.

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If if you ever get into the
world of single malt scotches,

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then you cannot go wrong with
Lagavulin 16.

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Oh yeah.
Bob, tell me that this is not

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one of the most delicious things
you've ever drank in your life.

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It's really good man, and you
have always I'm.

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I'm certainly not opposed to a
peated Scotch, but I have always

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been surprised with the, I don't
know what's the term, the vigor

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with which you jumped into the
world of peated Scotch.

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I never expected you to to latch
onto it so quickly and so

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easily.
Dude, it's one of one of my best

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friends that I drink whiskey
with constantly.

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We love all types of whiskey.
He's a big Widow Jane fan and

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like, you know, all sorts of
bourbons and stuff.

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But we've kind of come to the
point where we're like, man, if

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we're going to spend money on
whiskey, it's going to be on

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single malt scotches.
Like I like.

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There's very few things.
Like honestly, my list of five

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here are all whiskeys I would
buy and keep on my shelf, but

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mostly because they're not that
expensive.

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If I'm going to spend more than
50 bucks on a whiskey, it's

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going to be barrel Seagrass or
it's going to be Scotch.

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Oh man, what do I want to do
here?

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All right, I have a question for
you.

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This is really going to dictate
where I go from here.

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Yeah, yeah, you, you have, you
have full reign of the.

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I do.
I'm completely taking over this

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episode now.
So one of my picks was going to

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be Rebel Distillers Collection,
which is like my favorite

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whiskey to drink day-to-day.
Yeah, it is a typically 4499 in

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the state of Ohio.
However, when I googled it or

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when I looked it up on Ohio's
liquor Bureau website, they are

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currently doing a sale on it for
3149.

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So I don't know if I should
factor in sale prices or if I

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have to go by retail price.
I mean, I would lean towards

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using retail because that's
probably around what people will

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get it for nationwide that so
that that's what I would lean

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towards.
But Bob, you.

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But you don't have any money, so
why should I listen to you?

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That's right.
OK, here's where I'm at Brad.

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I have 5 whiskeys left on my
list of like I really want to

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draft these.
They added up to $187.00.

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I only have $134 left so I've
got to eliminate something.

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And then when you make me draft
at retail price they it bumps up

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to like 200.
So I'm going to take out Rebel

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Distillers Collection.
Unfortunately, I'm also going to

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take out Weller Antique.
Yeah, I that was on my alternate

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list.
It's a good whiskey, but it's

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just it, it's it's creeped up in
price and you're not going to

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get it at retail in most places
anyway.

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So it would be unfair for me to
draft it.

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And that leaves me with a list
of three whiskeys.

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Now I have $134 left.
These three whiskeys come in at

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132 dollars.
OK.

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One of them is a personal
favorite of mine.

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It is from the Willett
Distillery.

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It's called Johnny Drum.
It's one that we had last year

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on the podcast.
It's like a slightly lower proof

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version of Noah's Mill, which I
absolutely love.

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Johnny Drum it it like if you
want a good picture of what the

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Willett funk is like, you could
do a heck of a lot worse than

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Johnny Drum at $44.
Secondly, I'm going to pick a

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whiskey that I really thought
was going to go earlier in this

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draft to you, because it's from
the company that we've been

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talking about all day that
inspired this.

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It's the Green River.
Foolproof.

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Yeah, dude.
Like, I don't know if there's a

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whiskey that's come out in the
last year that I've talked about

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more.
I don't know, Like it's, it's so

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affordable.
It's such an incredible flavor.

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And the fact that they're
balancing those two things and

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they're riding the wave of the
hype without hiking the price is

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like, I just respect what
they're doing at Green River so

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much.
Yeah, 100%.

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They are making incredible
whiskey.

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The Green River Foolproof is
coming in at $60.00 and it is so

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much value at that price point
for how much flavor you are

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getting.
All right, my last pick I was

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going to go with like my my Bob
book frugal pick, which is when

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I go to Kentucky, I always get a
handle of a whiskey called TW

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Samuels.
It is made by the Heaven Hill.

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Company.
I knew you were going to get

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that.
Or like JW dance or something.

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They were on my list man dance
15 bucks and to get a handle of

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TW Samuels for 24 is it's the
best value in bourbon.

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It's like it's my mixer that I
use for everything because it's

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100 proof.
It makes a heck of a cocktail.

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I'm not going to draft it here
because you can't get it

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nationwide.
I am going to draft a whiskey

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that we immediately loved.
I gave it to a buddy because I

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wanted him to experience this.
And then I immediately regretted

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giving him that bottle because
I've never been able to get

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another one.
And that is the Jack Daniels

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triple Mash that came out about
two years ago.

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They've raised the price
slightly on this.

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I think it started at 2999.
It's up to $38.

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So it is, you know, as far as
Jack Daniels stuff goes, it's

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it's on the higher end, but I
still think it's the best Jack

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Daniels product we've ever had
when you're accounting for

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value.
Yeah, I I remember doing that.

445
00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:34,120
And what was the other Jack
Daniels that came out at the

446
00:24:34,120 --> 00:24:34,840
same time?
Yeah.

447
00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:38,600
It was the Jack Daniels bonded
and I gave my buddy the triple

448
00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:42,000
mash because I, I had already
hyped it up to him and I didn't

449
00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,160
want to give him the bonded,
which I had said I didn't like

450
00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:46,040
as much.
Yeah, because then you make him

451
00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:48,280
feel like, oh, he's just giving
me the stuff he doesn't want.

452
00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:52,400
But man, I, I don't like the
bonded nearly as much.

453
00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:55,240
And I missed that triple mash.
Yeah, you should have, should

454
00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:57,120
have held on to it.
Man, that that was a great

455
00:24:57,120 --> 00:24:58,960
bottle.
I I remember both of those being

456
00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:01,120
really good.
But you're right, the triple

457
00:25:01,120 --> 00:25:04,280
mash just had a depth to it that
was incredible.

458
00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:06,760
All right, man.
I think we're both out of money.

459
00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:09,640
I have $2.00 left.
Now again, we drafted without

460
00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:12,120
the the presupposition of tax
here.

461
00:25:12,120 --> 00:25:15,400
So in this world that we drafted
in, there is no tax.

462
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:18,520
If you need to factor that in,
just pretend like you found a

463
00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:22,080
$20 bill in your wallet after
you your 300 was gone.

464
00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:24,720
It was just a a bonus surprise
tax bill.

465
00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:28,440
A bonus episode Surprise pay for
your taxes.

466
00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:30,560
All right, Brad.
Let's go through our lists here.

467
00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:33,600
Yours is much shorter than mine.
Go ahead and and run down what

468
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:36,680
you drafted and at how much each
one cost you.

469
00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:42,200
Yeah, starting from the top and
going down, I have $105.00

470
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:49,040
bottle of Lagavulin 16, an $85
bottle of Barrel Seagrass, a $56

471
00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:55,720
bottle of Old Forester
Prohibition Series 1910, and two

472
00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:59,600
more a $34 bottle of Cooper's
Craft Barrel Reserve.

473
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:05,840
And rounding it out is the film
and whiskey peak of value, the

474
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:11,040
$20 Rebel 100.
That's a really good list man.

475
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:15,320
I'm shocked that you were able
to get 2 like high high price

476
00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:19,960
point whiskeys in that $300.00
because you said 105 and like 80

477
00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:22,320
something or whatever it was and
I was like 85 man.

478
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:26,000
Like you really only had 100
bucks to work with after those

479
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:29,400
two and you you managed to get 3
pretty good bottles after that.

480
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:33,600
Yeah, I was going to say the the
Old Forester 1910 is still a $56

481
00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:36,040
bottle of whiskey, so that I
think hopefully what it

482
00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:39,640
highlights for you is that you
can have your cake and eat it

483
00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:42,800
too.
A. 100% all right.

484
00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:46,720
I was able to draft 7 bottles of
whiskey with my $300.00 because

485
00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:50,600
I am a cheapskate and so
starting at the top for me, my

486
00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:53,040
most expensive bottle was only
$56.

487
00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:56,840
That was Wild Turkey rare breed.
I had two bottles that were

488
00:26:56,840 --> 00:27:00,400
drafted at $50 on the dot.
One of them is Green River

489
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:03,640
foolproof, the other is Woodford
Reserved double oaked.

490
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:05,440
Oh, you know what, I had those
backwards.

491
00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:07,680
Double Oaked is 56, Rare Breed
is 50.

492
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:10,840
There you go.
Moving down in my list, I had

493
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:16,760
Johnny Drum at $44, Jack Daniels
Triple Mash at 38, and then to

494
00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:19,880
round things out I had a bottle
of Scotch in Monkey Shoulder at

495
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:25,440
$35 and the Sexton Single Malt
Irish Whiskey at $25.00.

496
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:28,880
So there you go, dude.
And if you want to spend

497
00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:33,640
$600.00, you could spend a lot
worse money than this line up of

498
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:37,520
12 whiskeys.
I mean, we like literally we

499
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:42,000
would be averaging $50 a bottle
for that, those 12 whiskeys.

500
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:45,800
Yeah, 100%.
And I like if you really wanted

501
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:50,320
to go all out and like, stock
your whiskey shelf, like tell me

502
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:52,880
that this 12 wouldn't be
absolutely perfect, I think.

503
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:54,440
The only thing that's missing is
rye.

504
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:56,920
Like we really don't have any
rise represented here at all.

505
00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:58,680
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.

506
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:02,000
I mean, and there's there's good
options there like Templeton Rye

507
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:06,600
would be a good honestly the
Wild Turkey rare Breed rye I

508
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:09,560
have not drank but I've heard
incredible things about.

509
00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:13,040
So that yeah, there's definitely
options out there.

510
00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:15,600
They just didn't quite hit our
list today.

511
00:28:16,120 --> 00:28:19,200
No, they did not.
So folks, we want to know what

512
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:22,560
would your shelf look like?
But also, and even more

513
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:24,680
importantly, who wins this
battle today?

514
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:28,320
Whose shelf looks better?
Obviously I win that battle.

515
00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:31,520
I'm going to give another value
pick that I think people might

516
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:33,240
miss out on for high proof
things.

517
00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:36,520
Maker's Mark Cask strength at
$45.

518
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:39,320
That was such a good whiskey.
Yeah, I didn't even think about

519
00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:40,560
that one.
Yeah, that.

520
00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:44,000
That was on my list.
I I was very drawn to the

521
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:49,120
spending exactly 300, but that
was probably my top alternate

522
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:50,600
that I didn't.
Pick Yeah, that's a good one.

523
00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:53,880
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