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[SPEAKER_02]: So these are the last three barrel picks that came out.
[SPEAKER_01]: These are pretty dang good pours.
[SPEAKER_01]: They are solid.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we have we have new riff, which I'm excited about this guy.
[SPEAKER_00]: I haven't tried it yet.
[SPEAKER_02]: We have a seventeen and a two full proof and we have a still Austin burp.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love the Austin.
[SPEAKER_02]: So have you ever gone to new riff?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, I have.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, did I take you there one time?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's in like, uh, it's right by the party.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's, yeah, it's in the, uh, party source of parking lot.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's the parking lot of party source.
[SPEAKER_00]: The party source was like the, I was like, like, a micro shoot.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, how that started, but yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so the, the backstory is, um, the, a gentleman in Kentucky had this vision like, hey, let's, uh, let's start a much larger liquor store that has a much wider selection.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so he kind of created the concept of liquor,
[SPEAKER_02]: super stores.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's almost like a Walmart of whiskey.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's huge and he sold off all of his locations except for this one I can't remember what's in the city.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a new porter coming ten, but it's web north.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and it's right by the river.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right by the river.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so he had this liquor store and he was doing very well financially and he had the idea to start a distillery, but you can't own a liquor store and a distillery at the same time.
[SPEAKER_02]: because of the preacher system loss but this goes smart so he gave the liquor store to his employees so we don't have it I want to open up a distillery in the parking lot I'll be out here yeah and I don't know what the payout situation was but basically now that is an employee on store so when you go to the party source and you're talking with somebody that's working there
[SPEAKER_02]: They're more donor to the owner.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're talking the owner.
[SPEAKER_02]: So don't ask to talk to a manager because you're talking the owner or talking to the owner.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and so the story on this one was we had a very quick trip coming up and we tried to do them in batches because it cost so much to travel from Texas to check and see how this sounds.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, that's a solid pot.
[SPEAKER_02]: We like to check the pot.
[SPEAKER_01]: We got to check the pot, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and so we go there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Tour is amazing.
[SPEAKER_02]: They give us all headphones because there's a lot of places on the tour that it's kind of loud and they're gonna like a little speaker that they're carrying around and we're there with this couple that is engaged.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we've made the range with them.
[SPEAKER_02]: That whatever barrel we pick, they can buy as many cases as they want for like a anniversary type thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: But they're going to serve this whiskey at their actual wedding.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then they're going to keep bottles of it for them to sit together throughout the years of their marriage.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so they're planning on buying quite a bit of this whiskey.
[SPEAKER_02]: And when we do barrel picks, most of the time they're totally blind.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we don't know what the proof is.
[SPEAKER_02]: We don't know really anything about the whiskey.
[SPEAKER_02]: We don't know when it was bottled.
[SPEAKER_02]: We don't know anything.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so we go through the entire tasting and it comes down to two.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like it always does.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we vote this once the clear winner.
[SPEAKER_02]: And after we selected, it was like firm.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: We discovered that that barrel was literally originally filled on the date of their first date.
[SPEAKER_02]: No way.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that's the whiskey that they're gonna be drinking for the rest of their marriage.
[SPEAKER_02]: that's that's talk about and say yeah that's insane and we're all like what no and she's literally she pulls up on her phone yeah and she pulls up the picture that they took on their first date and pull up the photo information and we're looking at the day to the photo and we're looking at the date on the barrel and it's the same day you tell me God don't love whiskey that's it I'm saying that was like an order that was a fine dinner fiction these people are going to have the greatest marriage of all time yeah uh...
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're going to probably have some amazing whiskey, stories, memories, all because of that magical moment.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, no, what do you think of this guy?
[SPEAKER_01]: I love it, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've always loved new riff in general, but this one, you know, it's like a like a ceremony.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm getting like a good
[SPEAKER_01]: kind of cinnamon punch to it.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot overbearing it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not overbearing cinnamon in the way of like fireball, but just like a good baking spice of cinnamon in there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I would have to agree with that.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's we know on the front and new riff is one of those whiskey's that I can always count on it to be a solid pour.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that would have been said offense.
[SPEAKER_02]: I haven't had a new roof yet that just blew my mind.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I've never had one that I was like, this is a bad quality price relationship.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're all really solid.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think part of that is because they are a newer distillery and their whiskey is getting higher in age and we're starting to see.
[SPEAKER_02]: a little bit more development in the barrel and all that stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: But they did it right and they didn't release whiskey until it was age to point that they felt comfortable and a lot of the stories don't have the financial ability to wait.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just start to release products because they've got so much money tied up in those barrels they got to start selling something.
[SPEAKER_02]: and they release a product when it's too young and then some of the people that try it are like this really isn't good whiskey and then they don't want to give it a try when it's older and these guys did it right but yeah I I really love this product and it's a it's a good price and it's column still yeah which is non-show filter
[SPEAKER_01]: Just beautiful, beautiful complexities to it.
[SPEAKER_01]: All your traditional notes they're used to, but to me, in this particular barrel, just that cinnamon's pushing through.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love cinnamon, so.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: I ain't mad about it.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, let's talk about this guy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, this is still Austin.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love still Austin.
[SPEAKER_02]: And why do you love to Austin?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because they're Texan, first and foremost.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're Texan, baby.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, we love to our Texans here in Texas.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, but man, the reason I love still Austin is because
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot of micro distillaries, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot of kind of craft distillers out there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_01]: And for a craft distiller to do it right is
[SPEAKER_01]: in the top, the ten percent, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of them make great whiskey, it's good, but you can always tell that, yeah, that's probably, that's from a craft of story.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nothing terrible about it, but it's just like you can tell.
[SPEAKER_01]: But still Austin, man, they're like, they compete with big dogs in my mind.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think so.
[SPEAKER_01]: Especially their cast range, cast strength stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's really good.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so the reason why I'm excited about Still Awesome is that Texas product is they are one of the only Texas distilleries that is releasing whiskey that's actually been aged appropriately.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was made on a column still.
[SPEAKER_02]: So for those of you who don't know,
[SPEAKER_02]: When you are a big Kentucky bourbon drinker and then you try Texas whiskey, you're like, oh, this is terrible.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't like it, blah, blah, blah.
[SPEAKER_02]: What you don't like is pasta bourbon.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's very oily.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's thicker.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's denser.
[SPEAKER_02]: You feel like you've got to chew it before you can swallow it.
[SPEAKER_02]: This doesn't have that.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is more an alignment with that Kentucky palate that you're used to.
[SPEAKER_02]: So if you're one of those people out there that has a shoot Texas whiskey all together because you didn't like the first few things you tried, I challenge you.
[SPEAKER_01]: to try some of this still awesome because it is pretty solid yeah and even even more of a challenge try it in a blind with some of your favorite Kentucky bourbons yeah and see if you can even notice any difference and if not choose it because it's incredible their cast-bring stuff is
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's the best whiskey coming out Texas for sure, but I mean, I put it up there against some of the big dogs for sure.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's really good.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's early.
[SPEAKER_02]: My favorite column still whiskey in Texas, and you know, I love Iron Root and some of the other producers that use the pot still, but this is a pretty solid offering.
[SPEAKER_02]: What do you think of this guy?
[SPEAKER_01]: Give me a moment, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: And he quit rushing me.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll go first.
[SPEAKER_02]: Here's the thing, I write the script, so sometimes I talk too much and I gotta get less of chance to talk.
[SPEAKER_00]: Come on, my palate.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, nice hat.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, thanks.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nice landed.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nice rock splash.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks, man.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nice travel case.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nice blend topper.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nice candle.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nice bottle bag.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks, man.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a nice tumbler.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nice woman's t-shirt.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, thanks.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nice extra smedium shirt.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what's really strange is that as soon as you said Buffalo Trace, I was swallowing and I, on my palate, I was like this has a little bit of that almost grippy cherry.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Buffalo Trace profile on it.
[SPEAKER_01]: So.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it's in that direction.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's in that direction.
[SPEAKER_02]: To the point that I used to have a buddy of mine, he hated Texas whiskey.
[SPEAKER_02]: And anytime the subject that Texas whiskey came up, he would immediately start talking trash online.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like I'm immediately.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so one day I was like, hey buddy, I got a blind for you.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so I sent him E.H.
[SPEAKER_02]: Taylor barrel proof.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_02]: E.H.
[SPEAKER_02]: Taylor small batch.
[SPEAKER_02]: E.H.
[SPEAKER_02]: Taylor single barrel.
[SPEAKER_02]: And they had released a hundred proof version of the still Austin bourbon.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I put those three in a double blind.
[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't even tell him whether or not he was drinking bourbon.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he ranked the still Austin number one.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I was like, ah, I gotcha.
[SPEAKER_01]: I gotcha.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's when Randy wants to do a blind with you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just prepared.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just be prepared.
[SPEAKER_02]: You might, you might end up having some of the trash talking words you said last.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that'll happen.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, tell me about the seventeen ninety two.
[SPEAKER_02]: So the seventeen ninety two is obviously a legacy distillery.
[SPEAKER_02]: The seventeen ninety two is owned by Cesar Corporation that also owns Buffalo Trace down the street.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we've had some really great experiences in the seventeen ninety two.
[SPEAKER_02]: We've got a lot of other stories.
[SPEAKER_02]: I got to meet Danny Khan when he was the master of the solar there.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's been promoted into a role that's like generally over Cesaric Rans now.
[SPEAKER_02]: but seventeen ninety-two is a really really subtle solid offering, but it's also very affordable.
[SPEAKER_02]: One of the problems with these craft facilities when they release a cash ring product that's at this quality that's been aged, they can't sell it for a sheep as the legacy distilleries.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so this bottle was only forty-nine ninety-nine.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's a hundred and twenty-five proof because it's full proof.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I like this week and the pot.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like a squeak and pot, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, that sounds dirtier than it is.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's not as dirtier.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's dirty.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, there you go.
[SPEAKER_02]: Very dirty.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so, so, do you know, can you tell what a full proof is versus a barrel proof?
[SPEAKER_01]: So a full proof is when you bottle the product out of the barrel at the barrel entry proof, which the what, uh, seventy-nine-two does.
[SPEAKER_01]: The barrel is your proof at one twenty-five.
[SPEAKER_02]: which means they may proof it back down to one twenty five in order to get that full proof hundred twenty five proof barrel in truth basically yeah so like for weller for instance they're brought in true personal fourteen and so uh... weller full proof is one fourteen uh... so sometimes people get those confused uh... but we there's a local liquor store here called tilt liquor uh... and uh... the owner reached out and he's like hey uh... trying to grow my barrel program
[SPEAKER_02]: I'd love to partner with you on some single barrels and you know a trust or pallet and so we do single barrel selections through till liquor for our Patreon members because patrons once have exclusive access, that's one of the benefits.
[SPEAKER_02]: you get exclusive access to single barrels.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so for this particular guy, we got the samples.
[SPEAKER_02]: I broke them up into little bit of a half ounce sample bottles.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then I did a survey of the Patreon group and said, who wants to do a barrel pick?
[SPEAKER_02]: You have to be able to be on a zoom at this date and time.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then we milled the samples out to everybody and we got on a zoom.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we all set around and we tasted the whiskey.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we all voted the way that we would if we were all in the same room.
[SPEAKER_02]: and this was the full proof that we picked.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I feel like it's a solid one.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and I don't remember being invited to that, but uh, that's okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Next time.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think you were doing miniscule American.
[SPEAKER_01]: The miniscule American.
[SPEAKER_02]: The miniscule American.
[SPEAKER_01]: The miniscule American.
[SPEAKER_02]: The miniscule American.
[SPEAKER_01]: The miniscule American.
[SPEAKER_01]: The miniscule
[SPEAKER_01]: is I get that kind of banana flavors.
[SPEAKER_01]: It will be full personally.
[SPEAKER_01]: Everything else was seventy-nine or two.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't get as much of that.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can more cherry.
[SPEAKER_01]: I get more cherry, but at the same time too, I get a little more banana.
[SPEAKER_01]: But with this one, I'm not getting as much of that.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is super well balanced.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's definitely a lot of proofier than the other two.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can definitely taste that from coming through the one twenty-five, but I mean,
[SPEAKER_01]: I love it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's great.
[SPEAKER_01]: Solid pork.
[SPEAKER_01]: Great job to all you got invited to the, to the, um, barrel pick, and without me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Great pal, it's all of you.
[SPEAKER_02]: All of them.
[SPEAKER_02]: They were all very, really excellent.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, my insolent thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're just trying to integrate all of our culture.
[SPEAKER_01]: All the cultures are welcome here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's going to be great.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's going to be so good.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, so we're gonna give some whiskey away.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're gonna have five one-out sample packs.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're gonna get one of each of these guys.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so they can try for themselves to see the Texas whiskey is worth.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe have some more pork for you, buy it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I dare you.
[SPEAKER_02]: I double don't.
[SPEAKER_02]: Double don't.
[SPEAKER_02]: See if you can identify the Texas whiskey.
[SPEAKER_01]: I bet you can.
[SPEAKER_01]: That you can.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think, though, that Bourbon Raleut talk community is, it's certainly one of the largest American whiskey forums in the world.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's definitely the largest troll-free learning.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's definitely the largest troll-free and it's been so successful.
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