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ERhine

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  1. None of the involved parties have been named.

    I think it was July. I hated him for it because it was hot as hell and I don’t think there was air conditioning in the historic church we were in. We were all in tuxes and he’s comfortable in a seersucker.

  2. If it says black tie optional most people will be wearing a tux. Especially if the reception is at a nice club. If not a tux then a dark suit.


    I was in a wedding for a surly poster a few years ago that was black tie. I’ll never forget standing at the front of the church and seeing a different poster (shall remain nameless) walk in wearing his seersucker.
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  3. Yes Chaco is better...but it's a hell of a lot more difficult to access. Long (25 or 60 miles, depends which way you go) bumpy rough dirt road. No walk in the park.


    Was a nice ice covered dirt road that practically shook the car apart when I was there. Easily worth the hassle of it.

  4. I've heard the same thing from the Balcones and Ranger Creek master distillers.  That's their stick. 


    They all own the same stick? Some kind of joint custody arrangement?
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  5. Growing up my parents would have bacon wrapped filet's for special occasions and they would serve us kids bacon wrapped hamburgers.  When we finally got old enough to ask "Why mine not look like yours?"   they held out for another couple of years before we got the upgrade.  


    It’s called a mock filet.
  6. Didnt High West (along with like 100 other distilleries) source their distillate for years from a big metal shed in Indianapolis? 


    You seem to believe sourcing is inherently bad. That would be incorrect.

    There is nothing wrong with sourcing barrels. If Garrison had followed that route while aging his own, and releasing tasty sources barrels in the meantime; then I’d have nothing against them. They’d be just like a whole bunch of others who have sourced at the start, recent examples being High West, Smooth Ambler and Whistlepig (not going to divert this into what Whistlepig is really sourcing).

    Tasty bourbon is tasty bourbon. What I had from Garrison early on, like many many others, turned me off the brand.

    And to bring this full circle, four years ago I attended a seminar at Tales regarding sourced bourbon and transparency in labeling. The Smooth Ambler distiller was on the panel. Dan Garrison was in the audience. I’ll never forget the awkward feeling in the conference room when during the Q&A Garrison stood up and offered to sell the Smooth Ambler guy as many barrels as he needed if MGP couldn’t cover his needs.
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