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Originally posted by slyguy:
Oy I'd have to pass on the $250 shot also!

I forgot to add that I also picked up a Weller 107 last Friday. It keeps going up in price and is at $59 here, but I like it enough to keep reserves.

Cheers~

Weller 107 is my personal favorite in the line up. Be thankful you can get it at all. We can ONLY get Weller Special Reserve here in FL and it's ONLY through ABC Liquors. You can occasionally get some of the other Weller labels via the ABC Vault, but I dont spend enough money to qualify.

Just downloaded photos from my camera to computer today of our Bourbon Trail vacation from a couple of weeks ago. Visited two distilleries in TN (George Dickel, Jack Daniels), then nine more in the Louisville area. Our 2nd year in a row doing this, it is a lot of fun.

Makers Mark, here workers manually dip the bottles in the famous red wax-



...they also manually print the bottle labels using old Chandler printers.



And our tasting flight:



Here we did the Maturation Matters Warehouse Experience at Jim Beam, where we tasted bourbon straight out of three barrels which were stored at different levels in the rickhouse- top row, middle, bottom row, location and age produces different products including Booker, Baker, Knob Creek, and Jim Beam. A volunteer for each barrel (I was one) dipped the Whiskey Thief tool into the bung hole and poured a sample for each of us until we said "when" . Extremely cool experience.



We also had a barrel sampling at Bardstown Distillery.



At Heaven Hill, we signed up for bottling our own bourbon, we both chose Elijah Craig. Using a handheld nozzle tool, we filled our bottles with barrel proof whiskey and created label info-



If you haven't done the trail tours, it is a lot of fun and well worth the time and effort.

I haven't done the "trail" but I have done tours at Jim Beam, Buffalo Trace and Makers Mark when my Ambassador barrel was ready. They were all very cool

That’s really cool, oddball, thanks for the pictures

Nice pics Odball !

Was down there on my first adventure last August and was able to fit several tours in.

Makers is a great tour and facility.

Cheers~

I just picked up a bottle of Craig Barrel Proof today. $66.

Did a little shopping today and picked up one of the new Red label Four Roses OESK Single Barrel's, a Russell's Private Barrel Selection Single Barrel store pick from one of my favorite shops and a Wild Turkey 8yr. I hear those are even better than the 70th Anniversary bottles.

Last Friday I picked up a Knob Creek single barrel Rye store pick. Looking forward to some 115 proof spice.

Saturday out of town I found a James E Pepper decanter bottle. What the heck, I've never tried that one.

Yesterday the girlfriend hands me a bottle of Trail's End 10 year.

Wowza - I think there will be a cigar this weekend with some sampling.

Cheers all ~

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Originally posted by slyguy:
Saturday out of town I found a James E Pepper decanter bottle. What the heck, I've never tried that one.

I've had a couple of these bottles. Seems like the first couple of pours out of them isn't the greatest but after they've been opened for a bit I really like them.

Grabbed a bottle of EHT small batch today. I’ve actually never bought a bottle.

Local shop has quite a few good bottles on the shelves. EHT, ER, BT, Blantons, John Bowman, Larceny Single Barrel, etc.

anyone seen Eagle Rare 12 in the wild yet?

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Originally posted by YellowJacket:
anyone seen Eagle Rare 12 in the wild yet?

Not in my area yet but my guess if any stores locally get them they will go to buddies of the owners or available at way over secondary prices.

I've seen they've also announced an Eagle Rare 30yr will hit this year as well.

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Originally posted by YellowJacket:
anyone seen Eagle Rare 12 in the wild yet?

Not yet, but I am stoked to try it, if I can find it reasonably priced.

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Originally posted by P-220:

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Originally posted by YellowJacket:
anyone seen Eagle Rare 12 in the wild yet?

Not yet, but I am stoked to try it, if I can find it reasonably priced.

MSRP is basically the same as ER10 and they are saying it is not a special limited edition but will be a permanent product so that should keep costs down.

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Originally posted by YellowJacket:
Grabbed a bottle of EHT small batch today. I’ve actually never bought a bottle.

You will not be disappointed!
Col. EHT is one of my favorites! I dont think the Buffalo Trace puts out a bad product.

Just got a bottle of 1792 Sweet Wheat yesterday!!!

I haven't seen a bottle of that for sale for ages^^^^^^^^^.

Looking for Eagle 12, I got a EH Taylor small batch $59, Eagle 10 yr for $42 and a Dickel 8 yr. Maybe next time

I saw they had a drop of Eagle Rare 12 at Buffalo Trace today and that bottles are already hitting the secondary market at $600.

I passed on the opportunity to buy a bottle of Woodford Reserve Double Double Oaked at $167. Reportedly selling for >$200.