[SPEAKER_00]: So, you've got a whiskey lover in your life, and Christmas is coming up and you're freaked out, you don't know what to get them, where you're guys.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, disclaimer.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because, unfortunately, in 2025, we have to have those on every freaking episode.
[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of haters out there, but in this episode, we're going to give you our top five recommendations on what you should be looking for for that whiskey lover for Christmas.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, again, these are all just our opinions.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's lots of whiskey items out.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's no shortage of websites you could go to to find something that would be considered a whiskey gift for that person in your life.
[SPEAKER_00]: So,
[SPEAKER_00]: go do whatever you want to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: These are just what we think as experienced, been drinking whiskey for decades now, what we would love to get them to treat from our significant other.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we're going to kind of clue you in on some of that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and uh, let's start off with the list of things that you probably should not buy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's probably like a good start.
[SPEAKER_01]: A number one whiskey stones.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, do not, like, I get it.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're cool looking.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're literally drinking on a rock because the stone is rock.
[SPEAKER_01]: You put the whiskey on the rock and all that stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not saying that whiskey stones are a bad idea for everyone, okay, but it would be a really small niche of person who wears want to use whiskey stones plus they scratch up the bottom of your glass and make it not look as pretty and all that stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: Whiskey stones are for the guy who wants to look cool from his friends and then ends up not looking cool I wouldn't say that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've had whiskey stones and I've I've used them But they're honestly for what they're supposed to be supposed to cool off your whiskey and they don't do it Well, they do lose their ability I mean if you want your whiskey chilled
[SPEAKER_00]: They put ice in there, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Or if you don't believe it, chill your glint or whatever your glass is Yeah, chill the whiskey.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, chill the whiskey.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but in the freezer it'd be fine.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so I Whisky stones.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'd stay with some other other things.
[SPEAKER_00]: The the guy working at total water specs where you walk in Okay, what should I buy my whiskey?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, let me show you what we recommend and are going to probably point you toward their own brand of some kind of kickback incentive that they have and it's probably is not the greatest whiskey out there Yeah, that's that's probably the way from that not not the best idea Any sort of
[SPEAKER_01]: drinking equipment that does not match the way the person drinks their whiskey.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if your person doesn't drink cocktails, don't get them a cocktail smoking kit, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: If your person doesn't drink out of rocks glass, they drink everything neat out of a a tulip shape glass.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't get them rocks glasses.
[SPEAKER_01]: Even if they're really beautiful cool rocks glasses, that's not how they drink.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're whiskey, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: So you need to be thinking about, you know, your person and how they enjoy their spirit and then get something that's alignment with that, but those are some of the more common things that we see.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now some of the things we're going to get into you are going to help you to kind of navigate some of those I kind of play off some of those.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, if that's not what we're supposed to do, what direction should we go?
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'll kick the leg off here.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mentioned going into the story just Willie Nillian saying, hey, what do you recommend?
[SPEAKER_00]: my husband likes bourbon or my wife likes the whiskey what should I get or what I would recommend.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number one is that you find you know who these people are in their life.
[SPEAKER_00]: You find their whiskey friends.
[SPEAKER_00]: Guys that they're always going out to the whiskey events with and the guys are already always sitting on the back porch with a sip of their whiskey and secretly go in and ask those guys or girls.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hey what should I get them?
[SPEAKER_00]: What have they been talking about?
[SPEAKER_00]: What do they want?
[SPEAKER_00]: What's on their bucket list of bourbons?
[SPEAKER_00]: and can you help me find it?
[SPEAKER_00]: Good story with this, my 40th birthday, my good friend Randy here helped out my wife.
[SPEAKER_00]: She called him way ahead, do this way ahead of time, by the way, don't wait until right now to do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: You want to get that ball rolling early.
[SPEAKER_00]: She reached out to Randy, well, ahead of time, said Randy, this has been one of Wes's bucket list burblings.
[SPEAKER_00]: Can you, is there any way to help me find it?
[SPEAKER_00]: And he was like, probably not, but let me try to figure out a way.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was a wild story where it ended up getting personally.
[SPEAKER_01]: We won a raffle, and they're going through the list.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm like, they go, do you know a bottle you want?
[SPEAKER_01]: And I said, I'm sorry, but you're gonna have to read the list of every bottle that's available before I will give you an answer.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they were like, okay, so they're going through the list.
[SPEAKER_01]: And she's reading through.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's as soon as she said, oh, first of birthday, Perman.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: To be honest, I was like,
[SPEAKER_01]: Damn it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and literally it's like what and I was like we don't have a choice Sarah needs this for Wes his birthday, but I thought I was gonna get a bourbon for me But I don't have a choice is the only way to get it So this is what girlfriends did yeah, and I've never I've never I got that bottle for that Yeah, yeah, he didn't get it back
[SPEAKER_00]: when he quit drinking.
[SPEAKER_00]: I went through a phase where I would kind of pair down and quit drinking and I was like, you gave it back to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I said, if this is going to go back to anyone, I want you to get it back.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: You didn't enjoy it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But that's in, that's full circle.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's, that's what it's all about.
[SPEAKER_01]: But your, your, your whiskey lover in your life, they probably have a whiskey loving friend.
[SPEAKER_01]: It knows more about their taste and their palate and what's available and what an appropriate price is.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's how you, if you want to buy somebody whiskey, you find that whiskey loving friend and you have them after you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Randy knows way more about my palate and probably if you do, if you watch a show very often, then way more about my palate than my wife or any freaking store clerk is going to know, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: So go, my number one tip, number one on this list is to go to their whiskey friends behind their back and say, hey, help me find a good burger from my buddy.
[SPEAKER_00]: you know how those companies have like their own logo on a glass with that be cool if if there was a website where you could go and like put your own logo on on your whiskey glass that you drink like at home yeah and but like I would want a variety of glasses like
[SPEAKER_01]: So small drinking glasses, some large or neat glass, maybe like a rocks glass.
[SPEAKER_01]: And what about a tumbler?
[SPEAKER_01]: Like the Yeti tumbler?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that'd be dude.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like you can get your logo on that, that'd be awesome.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, like imagine like even like plastic glasses, imagine you're like at the pool, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: And you've got like your own whiskey club or your own name or something like on your little plastic glass you're drinking out of at the pool.
[SPEAKER_01]: that would be awesome and like you know how sometimes when you're at a bottle sharing you've got to clean your glass out because you're going to take a real small pouring yeah like a yeah like if you get like a custom like lit free rag that'd be really good with your logo like right on it yeah and and not just that dude what if you know how you always get samples yeah yeah so like you have your box it's like just a blank wooden box but what if on top of there you had like
[SPEAKER_00]: your own brand or something or yeah your logo on there logo that's like you know west's whiskey collection right or something you could even use that for charities too because like you could do like a sample box that you didn't like a charity raffle but you could custom match it that'd be cool what if this same website like all those things were there but you could also use it for the holidays coming up like oh yeah like like admin counterbox
[SPEAKER_00]: You can do that and I could get your like some of the special for you on it and give it to you as a gift.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, as a gift for Christmas, that's really cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: There was a website.
[SPEAKER_01]: What if there was a website that had all of those things?
[SPEAKER_01]: And what if the company that did it could set up a custom website for you to pick any of those things?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah, that's like what if there was a one of those things?
[SPEAKER_01]: So my so number two, and this is a no particular order.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, but if you want to buy whiskey and you are looking for something unique and nice experience, I would strongly consider hooking up with these guys.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, you're all sorry.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sorry.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought.
[SPEAKER_01]: So blind barrels look at this packaging.
[SPEAKER_01]: You cannot be this and if you were online You've rapidly seen their commercials.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, what I was I was I was on playing yesterday and one other commercials popped in in the middle of One of my videos.
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, I thought I always call these guys barrel monkeys, but no
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, their logo is a monkey, but this is a really nice product.
[SPEAKER_01]: The concept is you get, this is the packaging you get, and it comes with kind of instructions, and everything is always blind.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you get samples A, B, C, and D, incidentally, there's only one company in the world that has a certificate of label approval that has the word sample on it.
[SPEAKER_01]: and it's this company.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so they sent out these four samples.
[SPEAKER_01]: You have no idea what you're getting.
[SPEAKER_01]: You get to taste them.
[SPEAKER_01]: They do online tasting events where you can get on with the experts and taste through the whiskeys.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then after you've had a chance at the time what you like and you don't
[SPEAKER_01]: They revealed the truth of what it was that you were drinking and they give you the opportunity to go find five full bottles of whatever it was that you tried, which is really cool because they're partnered with an online shipping retailer.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so I will warn you that if your whisky lover in your life does not like craft whisky, this may not be the best option because almost everything that they do or smaller craft producers.
[SPEAKER_01]: But if they're open to trying new things,
[SPEAKER_01]: that is one of my favorite ways to give surprise whiskey to somebody.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I love that idea.
[SPEAKER_00]: And actually number three on the list here is right along those lines is every kind of more veteran whiskey lover loves experiences nowadays more than they love just another bottle.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they, most of us have more whiskey than we could drink the rest of our lifetime.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've tried all the whiskey we've had the whiskey's in.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've got all the whiskey, little church keys and all the stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: And what we really love most and what sticks with us more than anything is the memories that we form with the people who drink whiskey with us.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so my number three on the list would be a recommendation to get your significant other whiskey experience.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe it's just as simple as going online, book an Airbnb for a few days, a long weekend, over in a barge town, or Louisville, or wherever in Kentucky, and let him take a few buddies on the Bourbon Trail or something like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or if you are nearby, within a few hours of a local distillery or craft history, that you haven't visited yet,
[SPEAKER_00]: set up a date night, set up a fun night for him to have a private kind of distillery experience to where he can really be around the spirit that he loves most, with the person that he loves most, and really form a memory that's going to last a lot longer than a bottle will.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and a lot of distilleries online have all different types of experiences that you can sign up for.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can go and check to see what schedules, what different tasting events are available, and quite often when you're going to a smaller local distillery,
[SPEAKER_01]: you're interacting with somebody who's deeply involved with creating that product and their passion really helps us to solidify the experience in my life.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that's, that's, that's really, really cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_01]: So my number four on the list is something that if you don't know about these guys, you, you need to know.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh yeah, it is.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ageed in awe.
[SPEAKER_01]: These guys are legit.
[SPEAKER_01]: particularly this little set right here.
[SPEAKER_01]: So this, for anybody who travels, this is an excellent way to bring your whiskey with you.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so this case is designed to hold four of the sample bottles.
[SPEAKER_01]: it actually comes with four.
[SPEAKER_01]: It comes with four.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're graduated on one side.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you can see how much you've poured in there.
[SPEAKER_01]: It also helps you to pay attention to how much you're drinking right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it is under 3.4 ounces.
[SPEAKER_01]: So these can go right through PSA, no problem, you know, they might pull your back to search it, they get out, they look at it and they go, yep, that's less than 3.4 ounces, have a nice day.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you're totally allowed to carry whiskey with you onto the plane.
[SPEAKER_01]: And what's cool about this is it comes with a little wax pin, and on the opposite side of the graduated cylinder, there's a smooth part of the glass that you can write which whiskey you've put in there.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then when you finish it off, you just wipe that off.
[SPEAKER_01]: and you're ready to put another sample in there and it's really cool and then you notice that mine doesn't have for in it it has it has three in it and that's because I discovered that my smaller whiskey tasting glasses are the exact same external dimensions as one of these and so because I want to drink out of a real whiskey glass because it enhances my experience I got rid of one of my four and I just carry this in here with me
[SPEAKER_01]: And then I just make sure that it's not glass on glass that it's rubber on on glass and Close that way up.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've taken this on I would I would guess I've taken this on 50 different trips.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I would I would never broke a glass I've never although I will tell you I bought I bought a second one of these sets.
[SPEAKER_01]: This one they gave me
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, they sent me samples of all their products years ago for me to do reviews and I normally give away the free samples that we get.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I love this so much.
[SPEAKER_01]: I kept it for myself and then I went and bought a second one and I the other day I flew someplace.
[SPEAKER_01]: And my brand new lids, I guess, like I hadn't cranked it down hard enough to seat the rubber gasket and it was enough to keep it from leaking on the plane, but when I pulled one of these out, I guess it tweaked it just enough and I came back and there's a big brown spot on the bed.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, tell room and it leaked all the way out.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if you get these, you know, especially when they're new crank them a little bit make sure it's all seated But they do not leak they do not break it even will protect one of the smaller tasting glass I don't know how many times I've flown with that to the other country every time I go to the DR.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll take one mine with me and and have a few samples of that Yeah, I'll have a little taste of home back with me that
[SPEAKER_00]: They're big rum country down there, which is good.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's good.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've grown to enjoy rum, but I do like to take my whiskey with me too.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I feel like, when I'm traveling someplace and I want to have a drink and I want to relax, it's like, I'm going to go to some restaurant and pay 15 dollars for a glass of whiskey that I could have bought the whole bottle for 25 bucks.
[SPEAKER_01]: Why?
[SPEAKER_01]: And I have all these open bottles.
[SPEAKER_01]: I need to take this with me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's why I bought the second set, so I never run out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now Randy mentioned the custom smaller drinking glass and tasting glass in there, and that brings us to a number five on the list of the top five whiskey lover gifts we'd recommend for holidays.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that is go over to bourbonrilltalk.com.
[SPEAKER_00]: They've got the custom glasses, they've got the sample kits, they've got bottle bags, we've got shirts, I mean, any of those specialty whiskey, Chachke gifts that you can think of that your guy or girl would need there over there and with the custom lasering.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you can make it say or look like whatever you want.
[SPEAKER_01]: And this is one of the coolest things that you can get for somebody in the Christmas season.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a whiskey advent calendar box.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so this has slots for 25 one-out samples in it and slots for two of the smaller tasting glasses.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we've checked some of the other brands of smaller glasses work like the
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, I forget what they're called.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sorry.
[SPEAKER_01]: This.
[SPEAKER_01]: There we go.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, whatever the sheep is.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, the perfect range.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: The perfect range fit in here as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, the, the, the smaller version of the going count carrying glass fits in there, although it rattles around a little bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, our glass is fit in there.
[SPEAKER_01]: But this would allow you to make a gift for somebody out of your whiskey collection and give it to someone else.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, and then you can customize it as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if you have a logo or saying or something, or if you just wanted to be cute,
[SPEAKER_01]: We started making some generic ones that says like he sees you when you're drinking and stuff like that That's pretty good.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then of course we have our glasses, which can be custom-etched We've got the smaller chasing glasses full-size chasing glasses rocks glasses tumblers We even have a little plastic wine shape glasses
[SPEAKER_01]: Then you can custom match and that way if you have a pool you want to drink like your pool you have to worry about breaking glass or whatever So there's a lot of stuff even our our lit free rags We can we can put a custom logo on the lit free rags as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's tons of customizable options over there
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: So hopefully that helps you to kind of make a little bit more of an educated guess.
[SPEAKER_00]: What would be a great holiday gift for your loved one who is a whiskey nerd like us?
[SPEAKER_00]: And so we wanted to really help you to look like a stud, like a superstar at the holiday gift giving season.
[SPEAKER_00]: We don't want you to give the gift that just goes in the closet and gets re-gifted to somebody else.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've done that before, I've gotten a gift and I was like, hmm, thank you, and then I just give it to someone else.
[SPEAKER_00]: We don't want you to waste your money that way.
[SPEAKER_00]: We want you to give something to your significant other that they're going to love, appreciate and use.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so hopefully this list got you started thinking about, okay, these are some good ideas, and you just decide what's going to fit your guy or girl best.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, for their situation.
[SPEAKER_01]: And for this giveaway, we're not giving away whiskey.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to give away a $50 gift card to the bourbon world.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, it's nice.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is clutch right there.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think I'm going to enter the win this one.
[SPEAKER_00]: You should I think I am Yeah, and so what I'm going to do to enter the win and you should do the same thing is I'm going to like the video Subscribe to the channel, which I'm already subscribed and then ring the bell You want to ring the bell because that notification of future episodes will give away free stuff on every episode So you want to make sure you tune in for that
[SPEAKER_00]: And then in the description below you'll see a giant capsule that says give away and there's a link right there to a Google form You'll just fill out your basic contact info there.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll run it in our randomized organs to everyone else post the results publicly for accountability And then we'll notify our winner of their winnings and send you their samples absolutely for free.
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't have to pay a single dime to get free
[SPEAKER_01]: uh... when this case of free gift card to uh... to the uh... bourbon real talk dot com website well we'll just be sent it will email you the winner of the code that you enter and it will take fifty dollars off your order i'm in ring yeah and if you want some of those less than fifty bucks will just make it and sent it to you for free it'll be great
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so.
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[SPEAKER_01]: for Divine Equity, you know, we raise, I would estimate we raise $100, $150,000 for charities every year, and we don't get to pay it a penny for that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He was missing some of those social connections that keep us bound.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I saw how whiskey as a conduit, foremost kind of a connection.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I thought maybe if I got you connected to whiskey, the whiskey, do the rest of the job and get you connected to others.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But we did learn from most trolls
[SPEAKER_01]: and other forums, just strangers online to the thing and hate online, we can love online and that's why we end our episode the same way and that's this.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you woke up this morning, you're unsure whether or not anyone loved you, just know that we love you.
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll see you next time on Bourbon Real Talk.
[SPEAKER_01]: Cheers.