Bourbon

UTfball68 said:
Cowboys blue-ish and an oil tycoon can afford $200/bottle scotch, like I can water.
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Past life I traveled to Irving Texas for business and went to this restaurant for lunch. Sort of a bar restaurant place, nice but definitely not stuffy.
This was an old client friend and we had been clay shooting and so we ordered a drink with lunch. I ordered a bourbon and he ordered a scotch.
She said "Would you like Johnny Blue for no upcharge?"
Sure why not. I had never had Blue so I said me too if thats available. Sure thing. We each drank 2 or 3 drinks at ~$5 each...my buddy asks why the blue label is so cheap.
Apparently Jerruh frequents the place for lunch several times per week. Only drinks Johnny Blue and insists on a new unopened bottle brought to his table. Pays them for the whole bottle drinks a drink or two and leaves and leaves the bottle on the table. She says he does this a few times per week. Said after a while every employee and every regular customer had multiple bottles at home and it became a gift elephant. So to drain the well and not pour it down the drain...
 
SPOA87YJ said:
Wake County ABC store 21 in KnightDale is holding Buffalo Trace, Eagle Rare and McKenna FYI if anyone is near there
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They will probably release it Friday, just found out one of the stores I frequent is.
 
Was hoping for something more rare but I'm not complaining.

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Not a bad Christmas Eve morning



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Shoutout for the pro tip lead to…you know who you are.
 
Van-go said:
That McKenna is good stuff! I like it better than the others you got
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That is my personal favorite.
Of course regular McKenna is my botttom shelf of choice so i guess that makes sense
 
Got to try something I’ll probably never be able to buy. Saz 18. It was fantastic.
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Also, @hurt4x4 picked me up a bottle of EC Barrel Proof
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This one is good and hit all the local stores last week.
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McCracken said:
I'd be interested in that Saz. I've just got the regular Sazerac you can pull off the shelf. How does it compare?
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More oak and smoother. It’s great, but not internet price great. Reminds me of rendezvous rye by high west. Just more refined.
 
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Anyone have or know of any hidden gem liquor stores along or around this path??? I’ll be making a slow loop down to Florida soon and I don’t usually come up with much of anything when I google ‘best liquor store/bourbon selection in XYZ’. I think my ‘best’ find has been a couple bottles of EH Taylor. And I’m not so much looking for places like Frugal McDoogle’s just over the border where they just have a lot of the same old stuff, really looking for a top shelf…erm…top shelf selection.

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I'd check the small towns, not "best" liquor store. If everyone knows about it they'll be sold out of the allocated items.
 
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