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Houston and Dallas Specs at their main locations. I know by opening, they will have 500-600 people in line. There are people in line as of this morning at the Houston location. We still don't know what the official date is and the official list of bottles. This is some degenerate level of bourbon hunting.

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Nothing that good happening up here in PA
 
Margs to go with some fresh guacamole and chips…

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Probably late to the story but I recently watched “Bourbon King”, Netflix Heist series about Pappygate. Fairly interesting story. I’m sure you all know about it.

My main thought after watching it was if the Pappy was such a valuable commodity why was Buffalo Trace so lax in their control of it? The show said that Buffalo Trace still doesn’t know how much of the Pappy was stolen. Amazing!
 
I gave away a major portion of a bottle of that. I tried to like it. I really did.
Gave it to a buddy that loves it.

It is okay but I don't think it is worth the price. Reminds me of Oban 14 (same price) but the Oban is better.

I got a bottle of Compass Box Orchard House also. I tried that earlier and for a blended scotch at a $52 price it is pretty good.
 
Kind of confusing.

"Barrel proof " Blended from multiple barrels only 100 proof .

How can it be barrel proof? Does not sound right.

Some kind of newcomer to the whiskey business selling floor sweepings.
I think the distiller is Barrell Craft Spirits, and it’s a blended Bourbon.

A bit strong for my tastes…Michters Rye being my go to.

An appreciated Christmas addition from a guest….

 
Not intending to disparage @pmclaine at all.

Some of these companies crack me up. Basically buy leftovers that distillers don't want to put thier name on, mix blend and market.

"Cask strength sorced ", nice one .
 
It's not jus how just label and describe bottles. Companies just make up random ass pricing on bottles, it's insane to spend 2-500 dollars on a bottle that is not allocated or not know anything about. Having said that, I just spent 250 on the RR15. At least know it's a good bottle and super allocated.
 
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Not intending to disparage @pmclaine at all.

Some of these companies crack me up. Basically buy leftovers that distillers don't want to put thier name on, mix blend and market.

"Cask strength sorced ", nice one .
Barrell was buying everything on the market for a long time. They had some big hitters over the years but seen where the market was heading and sold a lot of the inventory… musta has some internal issues to… not to sure what’s in the future for them but there is a new distillery being built in Etown and they are strictly contract. A few of the main guys at Barrell are over there now.. fwiw
 
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It's not jus how just label and describe bottles. Companies just make up random ass pricing on bottles, it's insane to spend 2-500 dollars on a bottle that is not allocated or not know anything about. Having said that, I just spent 250 on the RR15. At least know it's a good bottle and super allocated.
Would spend $250 on a RR15 in half a heartbeat. Hell I don’t see it for twice that here.
 
Not intending to disparage @pmclaine at all.

Some of these companies crack me up. Basically buy leftovers that distillers don't want to put thier name on, mix blend and market.

"Cask strength sorced ", nice one .
Never assumed any disparagement. It’s good.

Best thing about gift bottles is you never know what you will get.

Good way to get to try without the financial risk.

I will say this is an extremely well packaged bottle from the slip case box the the heavy steel cork topper.
 
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