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  1. 1 hour ago, TxTower said:


    Appreciate your thoughts but you failed to mention the Full Proof offering. Where do you land on that one? Pile of meh?

    Know what the difference is between the Antique and Full Proof?
    7 proof points.  Full proof is 114 proof.  Same mashbill, same age, same rickhouse as the 107.   That's it.  Our club won a Full proof single barrel pick last year and after picking it, asked BT if we could get it as a 107 instead so we could get more bottles.  No problem.  they just proofed it down and non chill filtered it.  And it was awesome. 

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  2. 2 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    I love regular Weller, Weller 12 is probably my all time favorite, and William Larue Weller is the epitome of what the BTAC should be. 
    Everything else is a pile of meh. Antique is just 107, Single Barrel (as SBs almost always are) is a marketing gimmick, CYPB is basically drinkable fan fiction, and Daniel Weller is a packaging concept to montetize an ag trade. 

    I get that distiller/bottlers are mostly in the bullshit business, and BT plays the game better than anybody. I don't have a problem with gimmicks; I deeply respect the way they work an angle. It's astounding how far bourbon has come. There are very few truly bad bourbons on the market anymore and despite the huge proliferation of manufactured scarcity the explosion of "high end" bourbons mostly manage to be both pretty good and distinct from one another. 
    My issue is that the flagship products in the Weller line are in fact truly great legacy bourbons, and I think it does a disservice to their brand to lend it to such mediocre products. Even though the drinking public doesn't seem to care, CYPB, Single Barrel, and Daniel Weller should be better whiskey. It's really that simple. 

    I agree 100% with everything you said except Antique being meh.
    Give me 107 over W12 all day.  

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