As a former rower I’d like to add a 5th. The rower, it’s a slower way, not reliant on the wind although it helps, similarly needing a destination, but it’s hard repetitive work that breaks you down. The enemy therefor is yourself loosing site of the goal in the pain but if you keep working, you can make it.
Daniel, my husband and I have watched you for years (since he is a whiskey lover!), and I am really enjoying the new format. Your marketing takes encourage me, as an author building her platform. Thank you for creating these and sharing your insights. I'll keep watching! So glad to be a "sailor" with friends who recognize my benchmarks even when I blow past them.
Daniel, I love everything that is Crowded Barrel. I love everything I’ve seen of the Whiskey Marketing Academy. I especially enjoy your bits of wisdom shared in these videos. I love the nerding out over the whiskey, but the bits of true, storytelling and life lessons shared are exceptional. I plan to see you in person at school within the next 3 years. In so many ways you remind me of the man I call Pop, the father whom I shared no DNA with. Thank you, I cannot tell you how much I look forward to the Vault drops.
Don't forget the seagulls. Those who fly in, make a lot of noise, shit all over the place, and then fly away again. Love the thought-provoking direction you're taking the channel in, look forward to more!
Did an Offerman Edition flight with some friends recently (well, we didn't have the original 11, but we had the Guinness Cask, the Charred Oak, and the Caribbean Cask). Thought they were all pretty terrific! The Caribbean may have been my favorite of the three - that funky rum undercurrent plays really well with the classic Lagavulin notes.
Damn you Daniel… how do you keep punching out these kinds of videos with stories that make me have to confront things that I’ve been battling in my head! 😂 Seriously though - first ever RU-vid comment and it’s to praise you and this new direction that the channel has taken since the separation. Very well done and I love it. Thank you!
I've had the Offerman Charred Oak, and recently got my hands on the Offerman Rum Cask (never got a chance to try the Guiness or the other Offerman, I forget what that one was). The Charred Oak was, to date, the smokiest scotch I've ever had, and I loved it, but I think I like the Rum Cask just a little bit more, it's got this great briny note to it, almost like a Talisker, and also this rum funk on the back end. Just delightful. I hope all of you get a chance to try it soon! Cheers!
Daniel went veggie? I couldn’t. I don’t eat much meat. But can’t say no to a bloody fry up. For breakfast or for supper. Only part of a fryup I don’t eat is black pudding. But might end up changing my tastes on that. As never used to like smoky/peated whisky. But now I love them.
Hey Daniel! Love the videos! Pertaining to the video, can a drifter, surfer, drowner, become a sailor? I would think so? Also I work over at Cascade Hollow Distilling and ran into Zack and Dustin from Balcones! That afternoon me and my buddy Logan were doing a special edition of an event we call the Single Malt Club and we hit a couple of our North Stars. We are connected to a non-profit and the tasting was about the Master Distillers and Blenders of Scotland. The cool part was it was with our Master Distiller Nicole Austin! Dustin ended up donating a bottle of Balcones Single Malt for our next meeting which will be American Single Malt! I would definitely credit you and Rex as an inspiration on my path that I have taken in the last year. There is more to my story and I hope to tell you one day at Wizard Academy!
I was feeling pretty good about myself when I didn't fit into the first two categories... Time to pick a few practical goals that are in alignment with my North Star.
As an ex Coastie (I earned my Cuttermans pin) and now retired systems guy, I won't take a class but do hope to find my to Cowded Barrel someday for a pour or 2. Fair winds and following seas to you and the staff.
I’m sure you’re painfully aware, but the goals you’re describing use the SMART format when it comes to “sailors”. That’s a VERY similar format for most successful people and is certainly the case for me as a program and project manager. Well said and awesome video. I definitely agree with your categories of people!
Daniel, wondering if you’d had the original Offerman and 2nd edition Guinness cask. Don’t believe either ever appeared on the channel. Seems like a really consistent lineup of great finished whisky.
Would you consider talking about why you became a vegetarian and what benefits you have noticed since making that change? I was a vegetarian until I was 20. I started eating meat on my doctor's recommendation.
I do understand your point that you're trying to make. But as a person who has been learning how to surf since they were about 12 and a half years old I do take slight offense to your reference about surfers. As I said though I do understand what you mean cuz yes we are constantly chasing the next wave but at the same time people who are truly devoted to surfing do it because that's when they find their most calm inner peace introspective period of being able to think and that's when we come up with some of our most brilliant ideas. I have been a butcher and a smoker for 25 years now. And I get some of my best ideas on how to cut me recipes for seasonings stuff like that when I'm surfing so like I said I do understand where you're coming from but not all surfers are oh shiny I love you Daniel keep up the good work have a great day I'm sorry my punctuation sucks
Interesting philosophy but what is the sailor that wants to drift or surf for a while? Where drifting or surfing is their goal (drowning is usually only a goal of professional drowners)?? Would they be...... vacationers???
Wait. When did you become a vegetarian? I succinctly remember Rex talking about how deftly you could carve meat from bone on Buffalo wings. Was that just made up? So confused here.
Wizard Academy is a non-profit organization that Daniel runs, but Crowded Barrel is a for-profit company that Rex runs. Therefore, Rex had to leave the Whiskey Vault channel because it may be construed that Rex is using the non-profit channel to advertise for Crowded Barrel, which the IRS doesn't like.
This endless business and life coaching need to bucket people into discreet categories has been around for forever. I don't disagree that this is a powerful metaphor designed with good intent, but the reality is that people are complex, and are all four at once. There is no start line, but we all have the same finish line. Underwater, haha.
Where you a therapist in a previous life? This sound like a therapist would say. I’m not a fan of colored whiskey, I can expect chill filtering whiskey.
