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Wish it were still $20 😮

Get em Bill!

Bill, the high price of bourbon is all YOUR fault. When you have a large whiskey UA-cam channel and talk a lot about bourbon you drive up the demand which ends up driving up the prices. It’s either that or global warming.

Love love love Barrell!! Their Seagrass is my favorite. Delicious! Of course it's Rye and not Bourbon but I vastly prefer Rye to Bourbon. My real love is peated scotch! Tonight I am sipping on Lagavulin 16!! Wish it wasn't $200 with taxes but it's a delight!! Cheers Bill! Love your videos! Hey I have these Barrell Bourbons and I will combine them!! 🙂

Bill I did finally see an ECBP A124 in central Indiana for $90. Yup I passed. Love your videos!

The market will always be changing has for years I've been drinking for 40+ years seen the bad times and the good. I do believe its starting to stabilize some what but you have some brands that are just out of their minds with pricing but I don't see that trend to continue.

Great info...Thanks! I would also add government taxation - property taxes for the distilleries, taxes on the alcohol sitting in the barrels, transportation taxes (Fuel and licensing), sales taxes, etc. It's amazing to me how much they get away with.

You basically touched on all the problems in bourbon that I have pinpointed myself. The bourbon market truly is a shell of its former self. It's hardly recognizable. Prices up, quality down and limited availability. I've owned or tried a large number of bourbons. I have enough exposure that I know what I like and what I don't, for bourbon specifically. I stick to these offerings and I try to get single barrel store pick versions of them if I can. I like the "All good things must come to an end" aspect of single barrel store picks. Eventually there will be no more, so enjoy it while it is here. This is the thing that perhaps bothers me the most about people hoarding and bunkering bourbon, specifically allocated bourbon. It will run out, at some point there will be no more of that bottle. Bourbon is a consumable! Not a pokemon to be collected and looked at on a shelf. If somebody is in it for speculation or any other reason except opening it and drinking it and sharing it and enjoying it, they are here for the wrong reasons. I still pick up bourbon, but I've mostly burned out on it. It's exhausting. I've switched focus more back to Irish whiskey, Scotch, Armagnac, tequila and vodka. Which are the spirits I was into first before I was into bourbon. Give me Early Times Bonded, Old Grand-Dad 114, Knob Creek 12, Driftless Glen and any of the mash bill #1 products from Buffalo Trace. I don't like wheated bourbon and I'm very picky on rye.

Corryvreckan is cask stregth, Bestie is not. Or am I wrong

Face it, we are affluent people and that allows us to indulge ourselves. I've said for years Starbucks doesn't sell coffee, they sell self indulgence. People treat themselves because they can. Whiskey is a classic example. But, I agree with you on the key points. I do not buy anything on the secondary market. In general, I don't chase rare bottles because we are spoiled for choice with so many great whiskies out there. Sure, I like to explore and try things and rare things are fun, but I get excited about finding a great whisky at a fair price. And, I have significantly reduced my purchases from Diageo and other big players who are driving prices beyond reason. Thanks, Bill.

You should try other batches if can find them The single digits batches is amazing. Been drinking A'Bunadh for years, started at batch 9. (Yummy) The high alcohol content burns your fast buds, try cutting it with lotz of water, it I'll explode in your mouth. You find all new flavors. Little water lotz water up to you. Great stuff

I was curious about this one, but I was robbed. $80+ with inflation, but I am having a good time with it, so 🤷‍♂️ It really is delicious!

I wonder what percentage of the people who pay ridiculous prices for a whiskey also drive a corvette and live in a trailer. A fool and his money are soon parted. I generally will not pay more than $60 for a bottle of bourbon or Scotch and yet enjoy most that I buy.

you forgot bottles as well.... (glass shortages)

My argument is that Costco's stock price is proof that the Walmart workers can get paid enough that they can get off of food stamps, and that the children of Sam Walton shouldn't be as wealthy as they are. Costco's price is 850 dollars a share and Walmart's Share price is 67 dollar I would argue it's not the Burbon that's the issue but the income of those who buy the Bourbon.

Thanks for trying this one so I don't need to! I'm a little surprised though, this distillery is apparently doing most things right so I'd expect this 18YO to be a bit of a sockblower. A very informative review anyway.

I never even noticed bourbon was expensive. I thought fishing was expensive (70k boat, 70k truck, 10k on equipment to get started)

Just be patient grasshoppah. Stop paying these prices and they will have no other choice, but to lower them. Price vs demand

Great video.... Thank you for the research and sharing. At the end of the day, we the consumers have the ability to stop this. Too many people (I was one when I started upto a year ago) are consumed by FOMO. This is a race that nobody wins... always chasing for the next one. Sometimes, I go for the unknown, but overall I am more selective. There are ones that I will always search for, Glenmorangie, but for everything else, I am more selective.

Thanks!

Inflation, demand. Stop buying it and watch the price come down.

Inflation

I jumped into bourbon hype a couple years ago, I soon started to see these outrageous prices, and realized that for me its not worth it, especially these barrel proof bourbons. I jumped back into craft beer and havent looked back.

Great info Bill - looks like you work in finance industry 8-5. Language and presentation seems very second nature 😊

More videos bashing Buffalo Trace please!

I'll defend Cooperstown a bit. They are actually producing their own stuff & it's obviously where the hall of fame is. They are a young distillery. They were only charging 35-40 bucks for a bottle last time I bought it.

Here's my take. And get ready for the flack. When it comes down to it the CONSUMER is ultimately responsible for the prices. If the consumers refuse to support the secondary market, refuse to buy from "museum" priced stores, tells the reseller to take a hike then the prices would be what they SHOULD be. There's too many great whiskies out there for reasonable prices, just buy those!

Stores that gouge prices are worse than resellers for a number of reasons. Mainly, the prices are often 2-3x more than the secondary market and they’re essentially swindling people who aren’t educated enough in whiskey. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve talked random people out of shelling out $150 for a blantons at some store for their dad, brother, boss etc. It’s not like people are stumbling upon the secondary market. You have to search it out which would imply some knowledge of the whiskey game. And I’m not defending secondary; I just firmly believe these museum stores are a larger part of the problem. I completely understand a small markup depending on your circumstances but they’re selling bottles 300% and oftentimes much more. Obviously people like you who educate consumers are extremely important. I’m sure you’ve stopped a lot of people from overpaying for allocated stuff.

Great information 👍 What are some smaller distillers that could use the support?

I’ve been waiting for the bubble to burst for almost 10 years. Great info. I started drinking whiskey around 2007 and started learning about it around 2010. It’s interesting to me to see these stats over time. I learned early that whiskey goes in and out of style, and a good time to be into whiskey is a few years after it’s gone out of style; the distilleries will have a lot of stuff they can’t seem to sell so drop prices and sell stuff with older age statements

Great video Bill! You really hit the nail on the head with this one. 👍🏻

I loved this video! Thank you!

TBH I love Evan Williams more. Just bc Jack Daniels tastes like Water nowadays. I tend to drink a bottle easily and want some taste in my drink, which is what Evan Williams succeeded in doing. Cheers to all Whiskey Drinkers

My first thoughts too, when I tasted Blue Label .... yes, "Oily" .... I laughed out loud when you said exactly that. I bought a bottle many years ago in a duty free in an airport...... I'm gad I didn't pay full price for it. I wouldn't waste money on it again !!!

3 yrs. later, still great review. Thanks

EW is better. I've switched and never looked back.

I would love to try it if I see it in a bar to something but for $180.00 here in NC I will pass. And recently came a cross a bottle of Dark Arts for $529.00 yeah right, another pass!

Please do a side by side comparison 😊

I love this bottle and plan to grab at least two more of them.

Regular Jamason whiskey is still one of the best whiskey's ever. To me. It always makes me feel good and induces a rate type of happyness in me.

Black licorice, black berries. Smoke, salt and pepper Lemon, sea salt, grass

I'm still discovering whiskies. Evan Williams (black label) shot right up my list upon trying - I prefer it to Buffalo Trace and Maker's Mark (way too sour for me). Wild Turkey 101 remains my favourite in this price range.

I had never even heard of this company On The Rocks until I went to Las Vegas for the first time back the beginning of April this year. The old fashioned was one of the alcohol selections they had put in the hotel refrigerators for the guest conveniences. Well I like whiskey and like Old Fashions so I decided to give it a try. It was impressively good for a premix. I don't like most premixes. They're usually not very good like a fresh cocktail. But this one was very good. I had the whole bottle gone in about 20 minutes and was a bit drunk. Now whenever I go to the liquor store I pick this one up. I have 3 of the big bottles on my bar right now. I also just purchased the Blue Hawaiian, Midour Sour, and Jalapeño Pineapple Margarita. Haven't tried this yet but will soon

Hi! I bought this whisky after watching your video and now I’m obsessed, which other “summer bottles” would you recommend? I’m looking for other interesting drams with exotic fruit notes, your video of the Lagavulin rum cask sounds super interesting, but do you have any other recommendations?

Tried Tullamore Dew for the first time the other day because they had it marked down at my local grocery store so I figured I would try it. Well its pretty good. I am a guy who until recently Jameson is my go to Irish Whiskey, probably because of the name recognition. Tullamore Dew is gonna be my go to now because it taste better at a good value.

This was so informative and fun. Sorry I left it so long to watch it.

Very very interesting and informative, thank you Bill. Great addition to your channel's content. If i can suggest something for future episodes: (1) a little bit longer introduction to the distillery for the folks like me, who never heard about them and never tried anything from them yet; (2) ask them to share some video from their distillery that can be shown while you keep talking. But in general - i have very positive aftertaste from this video 😅

Insightful video! Thank you for this review. I wonder, though. It seems a bit contradictory in that you say the Norlan does give a richer, more pronounced nosing while drinking, but then you say that one will get no benefit from this glass aside from the way it looks. I'm guessing you mean no benefit over a glencairn for nosing, specifically? It seems there is a benefit when drinking whiskey neat, if one were to compare it to a standard tumbler, or am I misunderstanding?

unavailable in RI stores, great product I tried via nips.

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