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My club’s annual JDBP we picked in August came in today and got a Christmas hookup from our retail partner when I went to grab mine.
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Weird take, but OK.  Stills are like Mexican food.  The best product usually comes out of the crappiest looking locations.

21 hours ago, GreenspointTexas said:

Lol at anyone paying over $20 for something distilled at a giant shed in indiana

You’re a crazy bastard. Never change. 
 

Greenspoint is Exhibit 1A of “drink what you like”. 
 

How’s Cowboy this year?

15 hours ago, BigDHornfan said:

Barrel Proof Batch 14 is better than this.
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I’ve read a lot of the same online. I asked on a guy on Facebook if he’d consider a WLW trade for a bottle of EHT BTAC. I hope he loses my number.

20 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Check your local Total Wine. They received some JD Heritage recently. Might be the most crushable new release this year. 

Thanks, I jumped on it. Still mulling over the Single Malt Sherry finish you keep advocating for 🤔

40 minutes ago, bureaucrat said:

Thanks, I jumped on it. Still mulling over the Single Malt Sherry finish you keep advocating for 🤔

Try it at a bar if you can. I understand the hesitation at that price point. It’s almost the same price as the JD Tanyard Hill Rye and the other JD special releases. 

Feeling fortunate to get this one. 
 
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Even this cold weather isn’t enough to motivate to that proof any longer. I’m sure it’s excellent, but not for me.
13 minutes ago, Party_Taco said:


Even this cold weather isn’t enough to motivate to that proof any longer. I’m sure it’s excellent, but not for me.

The next time they sell me a hazmat bottle, it’ll be the first. Glad to get one north of 135 proof. Reviews have great. I’m excited to try it, but it’s probably going to have to wait until January. 

12 hours ago, bureaucrat said:

Thanks, I jumped on it. Still mulling over the Single Malt Sherry finish you keep advocating for 🤔

Heritage barrel is great.  I have one of the OG special release bottles from ‘18 open and it still goes hard. 

I didnt realize the Heritage bottle was desirable.  Saw it at Village Liquor on Gessner yesterday for MSRP.  Already ordered one from TW this morning and probably will go back and buy another.

2 hours ago, huge said:

I didnt realize the Heritage bottle was desirable.  Saw it at Village Liquor on Gessner yesterday for MSRP.  Already ordered one from TW this morning and probably will go back and buy another.

That Village location selling anything above Jim Beam at MSRP is quite shocking. 

4 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

That Village location selling anything above Jim Beam at MSRP is quite shocking. 

That's my point exactly on this.

 

I didnt bother asking about the ER12.

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7 minutes ago, huge said:

That's my point exactly on this.

Very curious. The Brewzle guy has interviewed a couple mom and pop owners and they’ve basically said they’re getting squeezed by the distributors to charge less on anything that isn’t allocated. I remember Old Ezra 7 Rye at $40 was a bottle that was singled out.

Methinks he hung up a $130 dollar handwritten sign for Heritage and his Jack guy rapped him on the wrist.

That was a cool store. You could routinely find allocated stuff for 125% of MSRP. Of course it went straight to hell after Covid. 

I’m not a big Toasted Barrel fan but I’ll give it a try given its JD and semi- reasonable price point.

VIP Vault thoughts: 

- Many technical issues, but they usually fixed it. And they were always nice about it. User error probably cost me a bottle of Old Forester Presidential. 
 

- It’s more democratic. A lot of first time BTAC owners this year. I don’t give a shit because they’re going to give me Lot B/ORVW and WLW/GTS/THH every year. 
 

- I didn’t get Parker’s or 4RLE this year. These were lay ups in previous years, but I did get a JD Special Release. That was a floor drop every year previously. I wanted that Parker’s, agnostic on the 4RLE (it’s not priced well), but if I get a couple Coy Hills moving forward I’ll call it even. Hopefully stuff like 1924 and ER12 is an email instead of a drop. So sick of this camping out line bullshit. 

- I don’t love them throwing legacy points out. It’s a rolling 12 month point total now. I’ve tried to buy every 6 pack, bottle of wine, mixer, and nice bottle of booze at the same location since I moved back in 2011. Loyalty should mean something. 

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Love is: oldest son wondering who sent iceball molds to his house and having to ask who did it. His little brother did it. 
 

Also younger bro found Angel's Envy by his house in LA for $27.99.  They miss marked the 750 mL for the price meant for the 350.  They let him get two bottles at the lower price and he was very happy..

 

Merry Christmas bourbon lovers!!!

Went different tonight.
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Ooh nice, I have one of those… thoughts?

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2 minutes ago, Party_Taco said:


Sounds like they have a ton of inventory and it’s just a temporary shutdown while the primary location keeps a chugging for the low-end stuff.

We’ll see though…

It’s their main distillery even if the Boston one is bigger, and it’s 1600 workers possibly getting laid off which is the real concern. Don’t think anyone here is worried about their supply of Jim beam being interrupted lol. 

It’s their main distillery even if the Boston one is bigger, and it’s 1600 workers possibly getting laid off which is the real concern. Don’t think anyone here is worried about their supply of Jim beam being interrupted lol. 

That’s tip of the spear for the big boys if that actually goes down…

I assume Knob Creek is distilled at the Booker Noe Distillery? 
 

If Jim Beam isn’t selling, why keep making it? I would have liked a more detailed explanation. This leaves the door cracked for Reddit theories and similar bullshit. 

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