My son entered a lottery for a chance to buy a bottle of beer for $100 he got it home and sold it on a craft beer website for $450 in 3 hours
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That's crazy nut pretty cool!
I tried it again today. I don't know if my taste buds were burned out last night or whether letting the bottle breathe makes a difference. I thought today's taste was exceptional. I only poured about a thimble full and took eyedropper sized sips.
I bought a bottle of Buffalo Trace yesterday and yes it is good bourbon. Very smooth and fairly complex. Great for a $35 bottle. Like the Master distiller says it's his go to backyard bourbon.
Dave on FABO is chemist and explained why: “The first time you pop-open a whisky bottle it'll be tight on flavor, and less expressive on the nose. You'll need to leave it out in the glass longer to get it to show-up with its full flavors. The closer to empty the bottle gets, the more the flavors will either flatten out or exaggerate (depending on the whisky).
When you pour a glass of whisky, you can smell the alcohol, caramel, vanillas, and smoke (if it's peated) from an arm's length away. Whisky is volatile. When you pour your whisky, those molecules dispersed into the room. Chemists and physicists call this dissipation.
As these volatile molecules leave the bottle, this changes the overall flavor of the whisky. At first, the harsher volatile molecules depart smoothing out the flavor and rounding out the whisky. This is why the first pour of a new bottle needs to sit in the glass a little longer so that the harsher volatiles have some time to depart. Once the bottle gets poured a few times, the air that is introduced into the bottle gives those molecules somewhere to go and so you don’t need to let it sit in the glass to let them escape.”
Ironbuilt
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That's a solid pick!
Ironbuilt
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In N.C. we only have State run ABC stores so choices are limited. They didn't have what you recommended, but that bottle was on a display all by itself, so I figured that I couldn't go wrong.
Years ago a good friend had a bar and had Remy Louis xiii cognac on hand. He gave me a shot and later gave me the bottle when it was empty. I gave the bottle to my cousin, who sold it for around 200 bucks, the empty bottle, hand-blown crystal!! It's been so long ago I can't remember what it tasted like, I was young and dumb. It's about 3500 hundred bucks today and I believe it was about 40 or 50 bucks a shot then. I Googled it and it's about 150 shot now. Nothing is worth that to me, but someone paid to empty that bottle he gave me!!! This is a picture I found , not the bottle I had, but it looked like this. I remember the crystal top.
That's a cool bottle and a great story. I did a little math on the $2000 bottle of Eagle Extra Rare I posted above. 2 grand probably isn't too far out of line. First off you have the packaging which probably costs a hundred or 2 just for the bottle, lid and box. Next is the angels share. (the amount of spirit that evaporates out of the barrel in 20 years) About 20% evaporates out of the barrel in the first few years. After 20 years up to 100%. Yes they have opened 20 year old barrels and they were empty. Say there's only 20% left in the barrel after 20 years. That's only10 gallons or only about 40 bottles. You have to charge a lot for the good stuff especially because there's not much of it. It is interesting watching the Buffalo Trace videos on You Tube, how much they are doing to understand the whole process so they can produce a higher quality product in a shorter time. They do a lot of R&D with barrel location, temperature, humidity, and fluctuation. The good stuff comes from particular locations in certain warehouses and if they can purposely duplicate those conditions they can produce a 8 or 10 year old quality product in 3 or 4 years. As far as the barrels themselves, they experiment with different woods for density and flavors and toast and char levels as well. It's crazy that no 2 barrels are alike. 2 barrels sitting next to each other in the rickhouse for 10 years with the same contents from the same batch will have slightly different flavors when all the variables come into play. One of the big reasons that single barrel spirits are so popular now days.
Sorry to ramble on. I find the whole industry quite fascinating. Some of these distilleries have been around for 200+ years and have a rich history to be told.
Not rambling, I enjoy the knowledge you are sharing. I'm learning from you!! Thanks for sharing. My cousin sold it a few years ago after having it on display for years.
If you are interested, here is a podcast interviewing Harlen Wheatley, Master Distiller for Buffalo Trace.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podca...n0U56Dnek7bvftfeoCvlDzQu_z-25MEeVXwLnmXn9B0uU
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podca...n0U56Dnek7bvftfeoCvlDzQu_z-25MEeVXwLnmXn9B0uU
In case you didn't know, Blanton's has some cool bottles and the stopper tops are a race horse that has a letter cast into the back hoof that spells" Blanton's". Each different letter has a different horse and when you line them up in order it's a horse race. The winning jockey has his hand up. Makes you want to collect all 8. LOL
Here's a great video specific to Blanton's.
Here's a great video specific to Blanton's.
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Ironbuilt
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Here's a great Buffalo Trace video that kind of tells it all.
threewood
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We visited the distillery back in January and saw the shop where they hand cork Blanton's. And they had a few for sale in the gift shop...
Nice! I probably won't collect all 8. LOL
Hope to see it sometime.
threewood
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It was amazing. The smell is phenomenal. The tours are free you just have to reserve a spot online. I'm from KY and that was the first time I had been.
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