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Eggo

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  1. How are you feeling besides taste? Is it getting worse? Do you have a beneficiary picked for your liquor?
  2. What do y'all know about Cotton Hollow bourbon? I'm getting a store pick from them this month that's supposedly their Texas variety. Looking at their website, I see that they're an independent bottler. Does anyone have any idea where they're getting their Texas bourbon? Edit: Reddit seems to think it might be Bone Spirits in Smithville. I have no experience with this distillery.
  3. Yes, but it was still sealed in your picture...
  4. Eggo

    Fire Mike Yurcich

    I don't know if this is completely fair. He decommitted shortly after Ewers committed. He knew what was up, and now we have neither.
  5. Anyone try their OFSiBBS? I have a bottle of Spec's and WB and haven't had a chance to crack.
  6. He still had a year on the contract. Why not just sit and wait? Recruiting?
  7. https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/30675288/michigan-coach-jim-harbaugh-reach-contract-extension How in fuck.
  8. We do have a rising Collins to go with massive upperclassmen in Coburn and Sweat. I feel pretty good about our pass rush if we get someone like Prince Dorbah to make his way to the edge.
  9. Another example of how antiquated our election process is
  10. It's my goal to bang Kate Beckinsale but if someone rushes in and points an assault rifle in my face, I'm probably not going to get the job done.
  11. I think it's a hard sell for most family-owned shops to try and slow foot traffic. If my goal is to sell 100 bottles, I don't care if it's 1 person buying 100 or 100 people buying 1. I'm personally more interested in examining the factors that have forced enthusiasts into a black market and determining if there's an opportunity to improve the situation for business owners and customers alike. I'm less interested in catering to or fighting against bootleggers.
  12. I don't have a PhD but I am getting a MA in Economics currently. If you're fucking over retail shoppers, it's because your willingness to pay elevated prices on the secondary market drives the flippers who camp out the stores to buy up any stock that comes in. In theory, if all transactions were above board, you'd know that all (or most) sales were for personal consumption. As it stands, it's a self sustaining problem where anyone who shrugs and says "well, Eagle Rare must be worth $200/bottle to some people" misses the point.
  13. I was a late 80s baby and remember when the can mouth was a lot smaller. I wonder if anyone has studied rates of obesity in correlation to canned beverage chuggability changes.... Gonna propose this to my graduate advisor.
  14. "Fans shouldn't lazily assign Wiggins credit for the studs they've produced at the position." Well no fucking shit,Nahlin. We shouldn't give Sark any credit either. Or Saban. Or Mac Jones.
  15. This is a lazy assessment. The point wasn't to determine what the product is worth. The point was to determine why people often must turn to a black market to procure their desired bottle. "Hur hur bubble will burst." Fuck off.
  16. Distillers have often been quoted as saying that they intentionally keep prices low in hopes that it reaches the widest audience. My hypothesis is that they do this because bourbon distillers are generally blue collar folks and not vintners who thrive on the high class perception that premium wine carries. The issue as I see it is the distillers have completely lost control of how their product gets distributed and at what price. Distillers want to produce a good product, they don't want to be in the logistics business, so they offload it to large distributors who have national and international channels. Distributors see the demand of the product as an opportunity to bundle it with other product that may not have the same frenzied fanbase. Suddenly this makes the good product exponentially more expensive for the small independent stores that normally wouldn't buy a thousand cases of Cuervo every month. To make up for the hit, they hide the bottle and find creative ways to either recover the cost by passing it onto the consumer, or by using it as a way to get folks in the store (raffles) for a chance at selling other product. One solution to the consumers' problem of being unable to find an affordable bottle is buying direct from the distiller. Unfortunately, this puts a lot of small independent stores at risk, but my free market opinion is that liquor stores only exist because of government regulations designed to curb access to the evils of alcohol. I want to purchase a product of which I am a legal age to purchase, therefore I shouldn't have to go into a special store for it. In summary: 1) Distillers don't need to make more product. There's a lot of it out there already. 2) Distillers don't need to increase prices. This will only inflate the already inflated secondary prices. 3) Distributors are playing the game because they can within the confines of the law. 4) Buying direct from distillers could risk putting independent small liquor stores out of business. 5) Buying direct could reduce the power of the slimy distributors.
  17. Eggo

    Sam Ehlinger

    Once we win another championship, a new generation of Sams will grow up loving the Horns.
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