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RichUT

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  1. Aren’t you the guy that was convinced we weren’t getting out of the first weekend alive? Your post intimates that you’re including yourself in the “intelligent people” bucket, but there is very recent evidence that you shouldn’t.
  2. I was indifferent towards the BiB the first time I had it. I didn’t come back to the bottle for a month plus, and poured some last night. I don’t know if it was just a matter of opening up or if my expectations were too high initially, but I found it to be damn good. Tons of vanilla and a bit of cherry. It’s a damn good flavor profile for a $50 bottle. I don’t believe in having a daily drinker, but I can totally see where this one would fit that bill for a lot of folks.
  3. OWA if they were selling to you at MSRP. At those prices, I’d go Larceny BP.
  4. It’s very different. Our group was excited to pick one up and nobody liked it. It’s great on the front palate, but the finish is where all the grapefruit and walnut notes appear and it just didn’t work for me. I flipped our opened bottle for a WFP and ER store pick combo.
  5. Well I included the picture from the rear because people are going to see a lot more of that end vs the front. [emoji6]
  6. Took possession on Thursday. This car is incredibly fun to drive. I’ve got to get her in for ceramic and full frontal PPF to protect the matte finish.
  7. You could stay in South Lake Union or Queen Anne and accomplish your goals. SLU will feel more city/urban whereas Queen Anne will feel more like the experience of living in Seattle. Hotels are easy to come by in SLU but I’d suggest going VRBO/AirBnB if you want to stay in Queen Anne. August is awesome, so long as there aren’t any smoke issues from wild fires in neighboring states.
  8. You do you, but THH drinks much more like a bourbon (and a damn fine one) to my palate. I’m sure the 51% mash bill has a lot to do with that.
  9. Speaking of Woodford, I picked up a bottle of Double XO Blend in Heathrow on my way back home Friday. It’s in the current Master’s collection bottle. The bottle claims it’s finished in “heavily toasted & in XO Cognac casks”. I don’t think there is a US release planned but it’s one of the better Woodford products I’ve had in a minute.
  10. In other news, Liverpool has put in 7 (and counting) against Man U. I wonder how many games it’ll take us to score 7 more goals. 15? 20?
  11. That’s awesome. I’m sure there would be some level of value associated with it amongst GB fans. I’m a pretty big GB fan and I’ve never even seen that before, so I’m sure it’s on the rare side.
  12. I spotted a bottle of VW 12 year at a London bar last night and was curious to see what they were asking for a pour. €12.50 for a single and €25 for a double. I quite enjoyed my double.
  13. We got a bottle of the double barrel JD special release and it was universally despised. I don’t know what they were shooting for with that one but it didn’t work at all. It almost tasted like BBQ a and not in a good way.
  14. Still is better than GB, but this isn’t an either/or situation. I have both brands in my bar and I’m happy about that. I don’t know why everyone still has to come out of the woodwork to shit on GB pricing 13 years later. It is what it is.
  15. Yes, for some there is that opportunity to turn it into a means to generate profit. I am also an avid sneaker fan and I am frustrated as fuck with that culture too. On many an occasion I have said "I buy sneakers to wear them and whiskeys to drink them.", and I don't foresee a scenario where that ever changes. It's not that I don't have the means, but I am not interested in contributing to that side of the culture in any way, shape, form or fashion. That just feels gross to me. There are a ton of ways to turn a nickel into a quarter, and I'm not interested in using things I am personally passionate about to do it.
  16. My view is that we've crossed a line such that proximity/access to the product is now a bigger focus than the product itself. Or at least that's true for many. People just want to rack up fictional "equity" for being in the general atmosphere of rare products more than they want to drink high quality product that is readily available. And look, I'm not at all butt hurt that I don't have access to bottle XYZ. I bought (at MSRP) and killed the Van Winkle 23 "Family Selection" that went for $50k in a charity auction last year. It was unquestionably phenomenal. But it didn't grant me any special powers, and it didn't redefine what good whiskey is for me either. This whole bourbon explosion is just another symptom of how pervasive FOMO is in our culture. People inherently want that which they cannot have, but the truth is that those rare bottles of whiskey are just an exercise in the optimization of the final 1-2%. It'd be great if the product in the glass was the focus, but I'm not naive enough to believe that we're ever getting back to that point.
  17. He’s right. It won’t help for a long time. It’s popular with the late majority now, and it’s going to take many years for another spirit to come along and grab their attention.
  18. God I can't stand that ascot wearing asshat. If the cost of having access to that bar included listening to him for any amount of time, I'd have to think long and hard about making that deal. Not that anyone is about to invite my grumpy ass to something like that, but still.
  19. Also, buying backups for a $50 shelf bottle? And people wonder how bourbon became so allocated.
  20. The oxidization argument is horse shit. There is no reasonable timeline where it goes bad.
  21. That bottle is delicious. Full stop.
  22. So we should buy BTAC bottles at MSRP? Super hot takes here, gents. [emoji849]
  23. I concur. The Total by my house went ten deep on that bottle. I picked up the one so as not to be a hypocrite. But it’s really excellent.
  24. That’s what nobody likes. I love it on the front of the palate but the finish just feels out of place. I’m probably going to try to flip our open bottle for…..something. Anything.
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