Just bought 2 more myself, so good. Man, this no drinking during the week SUCKS.

No drinking during the week? Why do you hate yourself? During the week is when I need the juice the most, no way I would punish myself like that! Is there some underlying somehow good reason behind that decision? If health reason then I get it otherwise you get yourself a glass and a bottle and you get your head back in the game asap

Stopped to pick up some 1942 as a gift and ended up getting a gift for myself too Any thought on this Michters 10yr Single??

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Michter's makes good whiskey! I like the way they wrapped it special for you. (:

Michters is good stuff i've never seen a 10yr by them though. Let us know how it is

Hmmm as a matter of fact..

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Stagg? What about W.L.Weller ?2018 batch... Iam expecting a 2019 bottle. Hope it is as good as the 2018 is.

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Now thats some good stuff right there.

Another reason for that detour over this way. (:
The Yee Haw brewery is about 100 yds from The Label and Silverball City.

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Lovin' some Saturday Sam Houston.
Bottle is getting low and boy, the price seems to have jumped about $20!

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Just finished eating hard shell crabs from thecrabplace.com my favorite meal every year. After having beers with crab just a little Jack on the rocks tonight.

Never seen that one what does a bottle go for? As fas as jumping $20 that seems to be the trend for every kind of bourbon

There is never enough time when on a road trip!
Sad about the pinball "museum" in Asheville. Years ago when it opened it was a great place. With all the tourists flocking around, I don't think they really care anymore or else don't have the ability to keep things together.

We are lucky to have an arcade run by someone like Andreas who loves the games and keeps things nearly 100%.

It was about $80 when I bought that bottle. The ones in the store locally now are topping a bit over $100.

Next time maybe visit the Retrocade in West Asheville. It really is a shame about the Asheville Pinball Museum. I have been going there for the last 6 years and they are really having a hard time keeping up with traffic now. They have a great collection of machines, but i think they need to be closed an additional day for repairs. I have had the opportunity to sit and talk with the owner several times and he is a great guy. He also may have over extended himself as he also opened a pinball place 30 minutes south in Hendersonville.

This was not bad... One of the lower proof Bourbons that I've had but I've switched to drinking it neat so that works better.

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Ouch $70.. thats $48 around here.

Hey as long as something brings you joy and you can afford it by all means enjoy the moment!

It’s really good. Like really really good.

I totally agree! Does seem as though its getting harder to come by pretty much like everything else though. I guess it's the trendy hipster thing right now to look cool and sophisticated drinking bourbon.

Because everyone and their brother rolls through KY and TN on the hunt for bourbon when they do the trail/tours...

Friends that live down that way usually stock up when they are up here in Yankee land visiting.

The whole insanity of all of this in recent years has me almost completely giving up looking for anything; I'm a relatively young man, and I've probably got enough of the good stuff bunkered for a good 15-20 years (if I average a bottle a month or so) bought at pre-insanity prices. The days of $170 cases of OWA are LLLLOOOOOONNNNNGGGGGG gone...

Should I tire of drinking owa/ec12/w12/er/ecbp, I doubt I'll have any problem finding regular old MM.

Sorry for the doom and gloom, haha.

I'm holding out hope that my couple regular, longtime loyal, mom and pop's call me in November for my yearly allocation of the antique collection, assuming they even get a bottle or two anymore.

Anybody have any thoughts on these prices? I'm teally not a fan of regular Makers but if these are decent prices I may give em a try.

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Heres Mckenna at my local grocery store. Full disclosure I have never seen it this cheap.

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I personally like Maker's 46 but never tried the cask strength version. The price you show is kinda high, it's around $27 around here.

Seemed awful high to me as well. Thx!

I passed on the Makers and instead grabbed these 2 bad boys.

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Around here its totally hit or miss and you better be at the store when its a hit cause it goes fast.

Did you happen to go by the Dickel distillery? It was probably a little too close to Nashville if you drove down Chattanooga way.
I would love to make it by some of the places in Nashville, especially the Pennington Distillery. Looks very cool for a "relatively" small operation.

Picked this up at Costco for just over $30. I like it!

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I am not a makers fan but did enjoy the cask strength my favorite by them

I need to get some at the store.

I suggest blantons or Willett at that price point

When you are down at the BT distillery do you hsve the ability to buy whatever you want or are the top botrles still not for sale there either?

Very little is actually for sale, other than regular bt and er. Sometimes Blanton's. Because of the three tiered system, the distillery must still bring in their own product for sale through a distributor to sell at their on premise store front.

It is not like Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory: There aren't fountains of pappy, and they definitely don't flush the urinals with weller.

Had some folks over.

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I will be at Buffalo Trace in two weeks. Did they have weller full proof for sale ? In the picture,the bottles had tags,was the stuff for sale?

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I'd wager a big time "no" on the weller; the picture is of the locked library at bt, of which none is for sale. They tell you multiple times during the tour, and people still ask at the end, lol.

So I will assume few got lucky with the October 1 Pappy allotment release? God knows I tried. Called every person I knew in KY to score a bottle and struck out.

Well let's just say if they did flush the toilets with the Weller I would apply for full-time fucking janitor and I would never leave the shitter!