Someone asked how to do this...this is what I sent him: If you want lights you are going to need a false wall. To accomplish this I recommend you use 3" screws to secure 2'X4"s to each stud on the outside of the sheetrock. This gives you something to attach the false wall to and a way to hide your extension cords for the lights. I measured my wall and my tallest bottles and determined that I could fit 6 shelves with 15" of clearance and had my pipes cut accordingly. In retrospect I should have used precut 12" pipes instead of having the riser pipes cut 11.75". I could have just tightened them down some and saved some poor kid at home depot an 8 hour shift of cutting pipes. Buy all your pipes and couplings and put at least one together on the floor at home depot so you know you have all the right pieces. I used about .75 cans of metallic spray paint for each 8' length of piping including all the connecting parts. Ended up using just over 3 cans for 4 pipe sets. To paint the parts I took a scrap piece of 2"X12" and screwed in a bunch of 3' screws spaced apart. I would then attach a fitting to one end of a pipe, paint it, and put the open end down on the screw (which is sticking out of the board) to hold it up so it could dry without touching any of the exposed edges. Warning: I had to put all the pipes in a degreaser before I painted them so the paint would stick, didn't wear cloves, and it dried my hands out bad. You will need cedar fence pickets to do the false wall. Just buy the amount you need an add 30% for pieces that are too warped and to account for drop off. Do yourself a favor and run every board through a table saw to make sure they are straight and all the exact same width. If you don't there will be little gaps in your back wall that you can see through when you are done (I have this and it drives me nuts). I bought prestained. Pick 2 other colors of stain and stain 1/3rd one color and 1/3rd the other, and leave 1/3 the original prestained color. If they have them save a little money by buying 1/3 stained and 2/3rds unstained. My store was out of unstained so I bought all stained and stained over the top. Now you should have 3 colors. Split each pile in half and lay 1/2 of each 1/3rd out. Get some light paint (white, light grey, doesn't really matter) and water it down. Then paint the 1/2 of the boards you have laid out. Just remember that the paint is supposed to create an opaque look and not cover up the stain. Now you have all your boards in 6 colors. You will need 2"X12" pine lumber for the shelves. Stain them a color of your choosing, wax them for protection, rout a 1/2" wide slot about 1/8" deep from end to end to recess the light strips into, stain but do not wax the ends of the freshly routed edge where the light strip won't go so you do not see exposed wood on the higher shelves, and cut an arched deeper but narrower groove to turn the wire into the wall. This groove must light up with the gap in the wall you plan to have your power in. You will need to sync all the light strips to one remote. The instructions are online and very easy. As you do this you will have a strong urge to test out all the settings. DO NOT DO THIS. The lights are on a sequence so if you have 2 light strips synced to one remote and you hit any button but on and off and you change the sequence, and any lights you change the sequence on will never be on sequence with the other light strips that were not on when you changed the sequence. Do not test the settings of the lights until all the light strips are working on one remote and turn on and off at the same time...then go nuts. Now attach your studs to the wall, run your extension cords to the end where your lights will attach, and install your first few rows of pallet wall up to at least the height of the first shelf that will have lights (the one closest to the ground won't). Attach your base of the metal pipe for the first shelve, install the first shelve, then add the riser component to the second shelf (using a small level to identify that the shelve support is level), bring in the second shelf, install the track light, cut the whole in the wall where needed to pass it through the wall so it is hidden behind the shelve. Work your way up until you get to the top. Hope this helps!
Wow, what a collection. I have just recently started to invest into my newly formed whiskey collection, only 8 bottles, lol. Which is how I came across your channel. There’s a few things that I really like about your channel compared to the few others I’ve watched: 1. Your authenticity really comes through well in your videos. 2. The fact that you’re upfront on why you don’t have sponsors for the channel. I’m not sure some people may realize/appreciate how much more that legitimizes your opinions & recommendations. 3. You include your wife & not exclude her, & she seems supportive of your passion. 4. By you explaining why you sign off your videos the way you do, shows that you have a genuine compassion for people. I’ve taken up enough of your time. Thanks for sharing the video, & as always be strong & courageous in all that you do.
Not sure how your not the #1 whiskey channel on RU-vid. That send off gets me every time 😭 The fact that you take time to tell the same story at the end of every video shows how genuine you really are. Love you guys! Salud🥃
@@BourbonRealTalk Can we get Lindsay's top 5 whiskeys in an episode? She dumped on one of your bottles in the video so I am curious to see what she gravitates towards. Nice collection and best of luck down the road...cheers!
Nice job on your collection. Appreciate that it is more realistic in turns of pricing, availability and like you said its more the "experience than the flavor". Would like to have heard your wife's picks also. Cheers!
100 comments on the wall. One more to mark them all. What a wild and wonderful place to be, to share a Turkey with the like of thee. Long time viewer, first time commenter. I saw the opportunity to be the 101st commenter and could not resist. Love your content and thanks for sharing your beautiful collection!
Love the wall. Wonderful craftsmanship. And you spoke about our FAVORITE bottle again. 2017 GTS is absolutely THE BEST bourbon I have ever tasted. Always trying to acquire more bottles when they present themselves.
Cachaca! I got really into world spirits a few years back. Too bad you don't have the same admiration for Baijiu as I do. Most admirable part of this is that it's not all BTAC or $100+ bottles as your go-to dailies. Personally, I could drink Mellow Corn all day. Also, love the fact you're not into overpaying on secondary. That a $500 bottle of RedBreast 27 is your most expensive is shocking for someone with your clout. Randy - the man's man. 🥃🤘
In truth I have bought some more expensive bottles on secondary. I have a WLW I paid $600 for, and I used to buy GTS for $400 all the time. I once traded a WLW I paid $650 and a GTS I paid $400 for a PVW15 year, so the most cash I have every invested in a bottle was $1,050, but I do not have either of those bottles now so the most expensive I have is the RB27.
@@BourbonRealTalk just shocking to me that you don't have many more bottles that you've paid out more for. Personally I'm more impressed by variety rather than someone having a highly allocated bottle as a daily drinker and a collection of 10 PVW23 bottles and not much else. I just left a NC ABC store and let me tell you the way the "shortage" is working out here Kentucky Tavern is getting close to being allocated! It's been moved up one shelf from the bottom in order to fill empty space. Regular Ancient Age is now mid-shelfer 🤣🤣
@@BourbonRealTalk I say allocated facetiously of course. The other parts not so much. Have seen Rare Breed twice in the last two months. WT101 has been out for a few weeks. No regular Jim or Jack for over 3 weeks!
I have to say...I'm hooked...you both are AWESOME... I'm gonna raise my bourbon high for ya Dude and Dudette.. from North Attleboro Massachusetts...Life Rules
Great job on the wall. Looks amazing. You know you will soon start wrapping the other 3 walls. It's bound to happen. Soon I will be finishing my basement bar and I can't wait to put my bottles out. One day... It must feel great to sit back and stare at the wall. Congrats.
In case anyone out there is wondering about the Bourbon Real Talk Wee Glens, I have both the BRT and the official Wee Glen and I prefer the slightly larger size of the BRT glass. The official glass is more of shot glass while the BRT glasses are now my very favorite nosing glasses. Of course the quality of service from Lindsey and Randy is exactly what you would expect, I could not recommend them and their products more.
I love the Bob Ross “Happy Accident” bottle however I would like a bottle of “Brooklyn’s Finest.” 👍🏽. Keep up the great job and I’m real glad I’ve supported the channel.
Great display and collection. Love the channel. My current whiskey selections: Single Malt Scotch Abelour 10 year Abelour 12 year Abelour 16 year Double Cask Aberfeldy The Golden Dram 12 year Ardbeg Ardcore Ardbeg Ardcore Committee Release Ardbeg Arrrrrrrdbeg! Ardbeg Scorch Ardbeg Scorch Special Committee Edition Ardbeg Traigh Bhan 19 year Ardbeg An Oa Ardbeg Uigeadail Ardbeg Wee Beastie Ardbeg 25 year Ardmore Single Malt Balvenie Sweet Toast of American Oak Balvenie Week of Peat Balvenie 12 year Double Wood Balvenie 17 year Double Wood Balvenie 21 year Portwood Bowmore Small Batch Bowmore 15 year Sherry Cask Bruichladdich Bere Barley 2008 Bruichladdich Black Art 1994 Bruichladdich Classic Laddie Bruichladdich Islay Barley 2009 Bruichladdich Islay Barley 2010 Bruichladdich Islay Barley 2011 Bruichladdich Islay Barley 2012 Bruichladdich Port Charlotte Heavily Peated 10 year Bruichladdich Scottish Barley Bruichladdich Sherry Cask Edition 25 year Compass Box Artist Blend Compass Box Glasgow Blend Compass Box Peat Monster Compass Box Spaniard Dalwhinnie 15 year Dalmore Cigar Malt Dalmore 18 year Douglas Laing’s Small Batch Big Peat Glenfiddich 12 year Signature Malt Glenfiddich 14 year Bourbon Barrel Reserve Glenfiddich 15 year Distillery Edition Glenfiddich 15 year Unique Solera Reserve Glenfiddich 18 year Small Batch Reserve Glenfiddich 18 year Small Batch Glenfiddich 19 year Bourbon Cask Reserve Glenfiddich 21 year Reserva Rum Cask Finish Glenfiddich 21 year Winter Storm Glenfiddich 22 year Gran Cortes Glenfiddich 23 year Grand Cru Glenfiddich 26 year Glenfiddich 30 year Glenfiddich Vintage Cask Glenfiddich 125th Anniversary Edition Glenfiddich Project XX Glenfiddich IPA Cask Glenfiddich Fire and Cane Glenlivet Founder’s Reserve Glenlivet 12 year Glenlivet 12 year Double Oak Glenlivet 13 year Sherry Cask Glenlivet 14 year Cognac Cask Glenlivet 15 year French Oak Reserve Glenlivet 18 year Glenlivet 21 year Glenlivet 25 year Glenlivet Master Distiller’s Reserve Glenlivet Code Glenlivet Enigma Glenlivet Caribbean Cask Glenmorangie Original Glenmorangie Signet Glenmorangie 14 year Port Cask Finish Glenmorangie 15 year Glenmorangie 18 year Glenrothes Vintage Reserve Glenrothes 18 year Kilkerran 12 year Kirkland 24 year Sherry Cask Lagavulin 8 year Lagavulin 9 year Lagavulin 10 year Lagavulin 11 year Lagavulin 12 year Lagavulin 16 year Lagavulin Distiller’s Edition 2015 Lagavulin Distiller’s Edition 2019 Laphroaig Cairdeas Laphroaig Select Laphroaig 10 year Laphroaig 25 year Loch Lomond 18 year Longrow peated Macallan 12 year Sherry Cask Macallan 15 year Fine Oak Macallan Rare Cask Muckety-Muck 25 year Oban 12 year Oban 14 year Oban Bay Reserve Oban Distiller’s Edition 2019 Singleton 15 year Signatory Vintage, Glenlivet 2006 Signatory Vintage, Glenlivet 2007 Springbank 10 year Springbank 12 year Springbank 15 year Springbank 18 year Blended Scotch and Whiskey Dewar’s Double Double 21 year Islay Journey Johnny Walker Blue Label Johnny Walker White Walker Monkey Shoulder Tiger Thiggg Canadian Whiskey Caribou Crossing Single Barrel Crown Royal Pendleton 20 year Two Brewers Single Malt (YT) Asian Whisky Japan Chita single grain Fuji-Sanroku Signature Blend Hakushu 12 year Hatozaki Hibiki Japanese Harmony Hibiki 12 year Kamiki Nikka Coffee Grain Whisky Nikka from the Barrel Suntory Toki Tenjaku Blended Whisky Tenjaku Pure Malt Whisky Umiki Yamazaki Single Malt Yamazaki 12 year Korea Escort 17 year Reserve Taiwan Kavalan Whisky American Whiskey Anchorage Distillery Small Batch Balcones Single Malt Denali Spirits Small Batch Guidance Small Batch High West Silver Jack Daniel’s Old No. 7 Jack Daniel’s No. 7 legacy Jack Daniel’s Coy Hill Jack Daniel’s, 10 year Jack Daniel’s Master Distiller Series Limited No. 5 Jack Daniel’s Gold No. 27 Jack Daniel’s Gentlemen Jack Jack Daniel’s Single Barrel Select Jack Daniel’s Single Barrel Barrel Proof Jack Daniel’s Bonded Jack Daniel’s Sinatra Select Orphan Barrel Fable and Holly 14 year Redwood Empire, Lost Monarch Uncle Nearest Premium Widow Jane Whiskey Widow Jane 10 Year Irish Whiskey Blue Spot Clontarf Triple Distilled Feckin Irish Whiskey Green Spot Jameson Triple Distilled Jameson 12 year Jameson Black Barrel Jameson Caskmates Jameson 18 year McConnell’s Middleton Very Rare Barry Crocket Middleton Very Rare Dair Ghaelach Middleton Very Rare 2019 Vintage Release Red Breast 12 year Slane Triple Cask Bourbon Amador Double Barrel Ancient Age Angels Envy Angels Envy Cask Strength 2020 Baker’s 7 year Baker’s 7 year SiB Balcones Texas Pot Still Barrel Cask Strength Batch 28 Barrel Cask Strength Batch 31 Barrel Infinite Barrel Project Barrel Private Release (Peneau des Charentes Barrel) Barrel Private Release (Wise Vineyards Syrah Barrel) Barrel Sea Grass Bardstown, Fusion Series Basil Hayden Basil Hayden 10 year Basil Hayden Toast Bernheim 7 year Bib and Tucker 6 year SB Blackened Blade and Bow Blanton’s Red Blanton’s Black Blanton’s Gold Edition Blanton’s SiB Blood Oath Pact 7 Blue Note Bombergers SB, 2021 Booker’s Small Batch, Bardstown Batch Booker’s Small Batch, Donahoe Batch Booker’s Small Batch Noe Strangers Batch Booker’s Small Batch Pigskin Batch Booker’s Small Batch Teresa’s Batch Bowman Brothers Small Batch Buffalo Trace Bulleit Calumet Small Batch Calumet 8 year Calumet 12 year Calumet 14 year Calumet 15 year Clyde May’s SiB Clyde May’s Cask Strength 13 year Colonel E.H. Taylor Barrel Proof Colonel E.H. Taylor SiB Colonel E.H. Taylor SB Cooper’s Craft Cooper’s Craft Barrel Reserve Copper and Cask 5 year MI-208 Copper and Cask 5 year MI-240 Copper and Cask SB 6 year MK-175 Daviess County Double Barrel Doc Swinson’s Eagle Rare Elijah Craig, Barrel Proof batch C920 Elijah Craig, Barrel Proof batch A121 Elijah Craig, Barrel Proof batch C921 Elijah Craig, SB Elijah Craig, Toasted Barrel Elijah Craig, 18 year Elmer T Lee Evan Williams BiB Evan Williams SiB Ezra Brooks Distiller’s Collection Fighting Cock Five Brothers Fistful of Bourbon Four Roses SiB Four Roses SB Four Roses SB Select Flatboat George Remus Straight H. Deringer SB Heaven Hill BiB Henry McKenna Sour Mash Henry McKenna 10 year SiB BiB High West American Prairie Hotel Tango Horse Soldier Small Batch Jefferson’s Ocean, Voyage 17 Jefferson’s Pritchard Hill Jefferson’s Reserve Jefferson’s Very Small Batch Jim Beam Distiller’s Masterpiece Kentucky Owl Confiscated Kentucky Owl, St. Patrick’s Edition Kentucky Vintage Kirkland 7 year Kirkland Barton’s SiB Kirkland Barton’s SB Kirkland Barton’s BiB Knob Creek SiB Knob Creek SiB 9 year Knob Creek Small Batch 12 year Larceny Larceny Barrel Proof Legendary Duke, Founder’s Reserve Legent Little Book, Chapter 4 Little Book, Chapter 5 Maker’s Mark Maker’s Mark 46 Maker’s Mark Cask Strength Batch 20-03 Maker’s Mark Cask Strength Batch 21-02 Maker’s Mark 101 Maker’s Mark 2020 Limited Release SE4xPR5 Maker’s Mark 2021 Limited Release FAE-01 Michter’s SB Michter’s 10 year SiB Noah’s Mill Old Bardstown Old Charter Old Grand-Dad 144 Old Elk Old Ezra 7 year, Barrel Strength Old Forester Single Barrel Old Forester Single Barrel, Barrel Strength Old Forester Statesman Old Forester 1910 Old Forester 1920 Old Soul 13 year Old Tub Parker’s Heritage Barrel Finished Peerless Small Batch Pure Kentucky Rabbit Hole Cavehill Rabbit Hole Dareringer Rabbit Hole Heigold Rebellion Bourbon Remus Repeal Reserve Rowan’s Creek Russell’s Reserve Single Barrel Russell’s Reserve 10 year Smoke Wagon Straight Smoke Wagon Small Batch Stagg Jr. Batch 15 Stagg Jr. Batch 17 Stellum Town Branch Weller Antique 107 Weller C.Y.P.B. Weller Full Proof Weller Single Barrel Weller Special Reserve Wild Turkey Long Branch Wild Turkey Rare Breed Wilderness Trail SB BiB Wilderness Trail SiB BiB Willet Small Batch William Larue Weller Wiseman Woodford Reserve Distiller’s Select Woodford Reserve Double Oaked Woodford Reserve Straight Malt Woodford Reserve Straight Wheat Woodford Reserve Master’s Collection Series 13 Woodford Reserve Master’s Collection Series 14 Woodford Reserve Master’s Collection Series 15 Woodford Reserve Master’s Collection Series 16 Woodinville Straight Woodson Signature Yellowstone Select 1792 Small Batch 1792 Bottled in Bond 1792 Sweet Wheat 1792 Full Proof, 2020 1792 Full Proof, 2021 1933 Bourbon Rye Whiskey Angels Envy, Finished Rye Balcones Texas Rye Blue Run, Cask Strength Colonel EH Taylor Straight Rye Copper and Cask 5 year MI-224 Cream of Kentucky Crown Royal Northern Harvest Elijah Craig Straight Rye High West Double Rye High West, A Midwinter Nights Dram Act 8, Scene 3 High West, A Midwinter Nights Dram Act 9, Scene 2 Jack Daniel’s Single Barrel Jack Daniel’s Single Barrel Special Release 2020 Jefferson’s Ocean, Voyage 24 Knob Creek Rye Knob Creek SiB Select Michter’s Single Barrel Straight Rye Minor Case Sherry Oak Finish Nashville Barrel Company Single Barrel Pikesville Straight Rye Rabbit Hill Boxergrail Rittenhouse BiB Sazerac Rye Stellum Rye Templeton Rye, Cask Finish Very Old St. Nick, 8 year Whistle Pig, The Boss Hog VII Wilderness Trail Rye Willett Family Estate Small Batch Wild Turkey Master’s Keep Woodford Reserve Distiller’s Select
3/4" If you want lights you are going to need a false wall. To accomplish this I recommend you use 3" screws to secure 2'X4"s to each stud on the outside of the sheetrock. This gives you something to attach the false wall to and a way to hide your extension cords for the lights. I measured my wall and my tallest bottles and determined that I could fit 6 shelves with 15" of clearance and had my pipes cut accordingly. In retrospect I should have used precut 12" pipes instead of having the riser pipes cut 11.75". I could have just tightened them down some and saved some poor kid at home depot an 8 hour shift of cutting pipes. Buy all your pipes and couplings and put at least one together on the floor at home depot so you know you have all the right pieces. I used about .75 cans of metallic spray paint for each 8' length of piping including all the connecting parts. Ended up using just over 3 cans for 4 pipe sets. To paint the parts I took a scrap piece of 2"X12" and screwed in a bunch of 3' screws spaced apart. I would then attach a fitting to one end of a pipe, paint it, and put the open end down on the screw (which is sticking out of the board) to hold it up so it could dry without touching any of the exposed edges. Warning: I had to put all the pipes in a degreaser before I painted them so the paint would stick, didn't wear cloves, and it dried my hands out bad. You will need cedar fence pickets to do the false wall. Just buy the amount you need an add 30% for pieces that are too warped and to account for drop off. Do yourself a favor and run every board through a table saw to make sure they are straight and all the exact same width. If you don't there will be little gaps in your back wall that you can see through when you are done (I have this and it drives me nuts). I bought prestained. Pick 2 other colors of stain and stain 1/3rd one color and 1/3rd the other, and leave 1/3 the original prestained color. If they have them save a little money by buying 1/3 stained and 2/3rds unstained. My store was out of unstained so I bought all stained and stained over the top. Now you should have 3 colors. Split each pile in half and lay 1/2 of each 1/3rd out. Get some light paint (white, light grey, doesn't really matter) and water it down. Then paint the 1/2 of the boards you have laid out. Just remember that the paint is supposed to create an opaque look and not cover up the stain. Now you have all your boards in 6 colors. You will need 2"X12" pine lumber for the shelves. Stain them a color of your choosing, wax them for protection, rout a 1/2" wide slot about 1/8" deep from end to end to recess the light strips into, stain but do not wax the ends of the freshly routed edge where the light strip won't go so you do not see exposed wood on the higher shelves, and cut an arched deeper but narrower groove to turn the wire into the wall. This groove must light up with the gap in the wall you plan to have your power in. You will need to sync all the light strips to one remote. The instructions are online and very easy. As you do this you will have a strong urge to test out all the settings. DO NOT DO THIS. The lights are on a sequence so if you have 2 light strips synced to one remote and you hit any button but on and off and you change the sequence, and any lights you change the sequence on will never be on sequence with the other light strips that were not on when you changed the sequence. Do not test the settings of the lights until all the light strips are working on one remote and turn on and off at the same time...then go nuts. Now attach your studs to the wall, run your extension cords to the end where your lights will attach, and install your first few rows of pallet wall up to at least the height of the first shelf that will have lights (the one closest to the ground won't). Attach your base of the metal pipe for the first shelve, install the first shelve, then add the riser component to the second shelf (using a small level to identify that the shelve support is level), bring in the second shelf, install the track light, cut the whole in the wall where needed to pass it through the wall so it is hidden behind the shelve. Work your way up until you get to the top. Hope this helps!
I love a lot of TX whiskey. Ironroot, Balcones, Lone Elm, Garrison, Pflugerville, Andolusia, Still Austin, just to name a few. Here are some links to pieces I have done on TX whiskey: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-F8j6PueRxZw.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RdXJ_V2nAjI.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dTHmhPUjEDE.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VAaSHA69x10.html
TPG is going to be distributed in 10 states starting with the next drop, but SC isn't one of them...yet! We will continue to grow the brand so we will make it to SC eventually.
We might be doing something with them in the future. Things are still up in the air. Since they use the "black" corn it tastes a little like my favorite TX bourbon...Ironroot!
No offense, but I hope that store in Atlanta will check for state IDs this year. The regulars that keep the lights on are getting screwed IMO. Real talk.
No offense taken. They started this year and Rodney stopped shopping at their store as a result. You see, we knew about the store because Rodney's work took him to the area regularly. He stopped by the store every few weeks to build up his relationship with the owner and always bought a bottle when he was there. Once they stopped letting out of state people get bottles he stopped shopping there. Now nearly 100% of the bottles go to non regular shoppers who live in state and immediately flip the bottles. So your plan has been implemented and it created a bigger problem.
I can fit 2-4 more face front bottles on most shelves...except the SSW pick shelf (it is packed). I just don't want to nest and not have every bottle have face front positioning. We will see. The biggest deterrent is I just don't want to do the work right now :-)
Nice content! I have about 50 bottles now and most are open and half full. How long will these bottles last? Do I need to drink them quickly or will they last a while...I always seem to get mixed suggestions...what has been your experience?
We are doing a podcast on this. The short answer is you really don't need to worry about it unless it is going to be a very long time. No one seems to know that whiskey is not reactive with oxygen. It just lacks the chemical compounds to react with oxygen. It does change, it is very very very slow, it is likely due to evaporation of ethanol and dissolved CO2 changing PH, UV rays are also bad (oxygen is involved in that chemical reaction), the change does not take it from good to bad (just different), who is to say if the change is bad or good (everyone's palate is different), and the whiskey will never become dangerous to drink. So open what you want and drink at the pace you want. And I swear to God if someone comes on here and replies to this comment that they can taste the difference I will ban you from the channel 😂 We deal with science and facts on BRT, not interested in your placebo affected opinions 😂
That's a sweet collection. I collect too. But the prices are outrageous and now everyone wants to make a killing on each bottle even other collectors where I live. So now there is no such thing as retail because the stores sell a 100 dollar special for a 1000 plus. So now we can only dream.
I know its a question asked a million times but do you feel your whiskey suffers from having so many open bottles? I currently have a few bottles open but would love to open just about all of them but am always afraid of the whiskeys flavor getting changed to much especially with my better stuff.
Too much to explain here. I am doing a 2 year study. I have covered this topic in other podcasts. The short answer is whiskey is NOT reactive with oxygen as people incorrectly assert. It does change with time due to evaporative loss of ethanol, dissolved CO2 levels changing PH, and exposure to UV rays. The changes are slow and mostly undetectable and not necessarily changes for the worse. No one believes that whiskey changes in a noticeable way within 2 years, so feel free to open as many bottles as you can drink in 2 years (hopefully sharing with friends), and don't worry too much about the ones you don't finish in that time. They may taste different but it may be better or worst for you palate, but it will still be drinkable. Cheers!
Awesome wall of whiskies. Very nice. It's nice that you have your wife on the videos with you. But one thing is you have to have her stop rockingl. At one point in the video I thought you both were on a boat until I seen you wern't rocking back and forth.
She rocks when she is nervous. I really have to beg her to be on camera. I thought she did great, but I don't notice her rocking because I am used to it. Cheers!
@@BourbonRealTalk : She did great. You did great. Your wife is very photogenic. I hope she gets past her fear of being on camera, as you both do a nice job of presenting. The stories she helps draw out of you is what helps make this channel, indeed, Real Talk. Cheers, from AZ. PS. Awesome wall of whiskeys. ;)
I invite members from the club over about every 3 weeks and let them drink their fill. In this way we go through most bottles in under 2 years. Whiskey will change over time, but it is slow and not always for the worse. I have had many bottles open over 2 years and I can not think of one that changed so much that I didn't like it. They change but they do not go from good to bad, just good to different.
Hey brother you had to go through all that to come to the conclusion Wild Turkey 101 was the best dram of 'em all. Hell I could have saved you some money and told ya that. Look no further ... you have arrived! And it's not cheap ... it's inexpensive to boot.
I agree with the sentiment. My collection is used for more than just having a great tasting pour, so even though I love WT101 I buy a lot of other things to create opportunities for connection.
I have a hard time thinking any mass produced widely distributed KY bourbon from a legacy distillery is "grotesque". Most of the time a person who holds this opinion formed it from a bad experience long ago. How long has it been since you tried it? Have you tried it side by side with Maker's or Woodford? Have you had someone blind you?
The truth is a make a lot more money off the connections I make giving my whiskey away for free than I could ever make opening a high risk venture like a bar. I do drink whiskey every day.
Why would anyone want a whiskey "collection"? Isn't whiskey to drink, not collect? I have about ten different bottles but I am drinking them all at a reasonable rate.
I collect to share. My time in the collecting game affords me opportunities to acquire bottles that most people don't have access to. I then use those bottles to bring people together so they can form connections with each other, my podcast, the whiskey club I run, and to network for business. Other people collect for financial reasons because whiskey as an asset typically appreciates. Some people collect as stewards of the whiskey to preserve it for future generations. Some people are a combination of any of these three things. One think I know for sure is collecting isn't a waste. You might have 10 bottles, but I would bet none of them are $100,000+ rare bottles of scotch that their best use would be as a museum piece to preserve it for a future generation rather than being gulped down while watching TV on a Tuesday night.
