Our Barrel of Eagle Rare Was Stolen!! (lost) 

Giving this a shot! Cheers!

I’m furious

That store needs to be exposed

@@apeekintime Unless the owner and distributor are tight. Makes one wonder how such a big address mistake was made.

A similar example of what just happened here is pawn shops. They purchase items that are believed to be "clean and clear" of any encumbrances. However, when it is brought to their attention that it was stolen, they get to give the item back to the rightful owner no questions asked. The big difference here is they did NOT pay for the barrel from Sazerac but they profited by selling the bottles (at what was surely an inflated price). Bourbon Junkies is now out what they paid for the barrel with no way to recoup those costs. (Of course, they now have 40ish bottles they could sell, but that part is logistically problematic.) That store owner KNEW what he had and took advantage. He deserves whatever backlash he gets in return until he makes those that have been shorted whole. I'm sure he made out well enough on the sales of the bottles he stole to reimburse and still have some profit leftover.

@@everyday.grease or if it was the first time..

Yea f that guy too

Sales reps shouldn't have access to allocated items. At least that's how we do it

The sales rep wouldn't have known it wasn't for their account until after it was delivered and they saw the stickers. They also probably wouldn't have been the one to release the allocation to the account. Allocations are almost always hidden from inventory for regular sales reps and allocation decisions are almost always made by a district/regional/area/product/... manager or higher. Also, within the last few years most sales reps for big distributors like RNDC and SGWS were moved to salary. The only monetary incentives most of them have left is to make X number of placements at X number of accounts of for example Jameson Orange, Wheatley Vodka, or whatever stuff the producers are trying to push into the market.

Not the sales rep its the brand manager

The Sazerc BDM should know better. Shame on him if that's the case.

Yep, just left a 1 star of my own. These guys are on high alert.

The guy also hides negative Google reviews so that you can only publicly see the good ones

@@jrlanger42 Yeah, your review looks to have disappeared. I just left a 1 Star, lets see if it sticks.

​@@joeosullivan52why are businesses even allowed to do that, I didn't even know that they could on Google. Where's the integrity in that?

You could always call the store and ask why theres so many fake reviews

I was going to comment the same thing! Kind of negates the “I didn’t know” excuse.

Out of curiosity, what was the store selling it for?

$50 plus the crazy 10% tax on liquor in DC.

you love walmart huh?

This is the way

It won't show up. He is deleting all of them and blocking the people that left them.

I just left a comment on his Instagram page and it was deleted withing a minute and I was blocked. hahaha what a scum bag. Oh and he's from Ethiopia so of course why would he care about the country and it's citizens that allowed him to flourish in America where he couldn't in that failed state.

​@@everyday.greaseI doubt he'll keep it up after 2,000 bad reviews come pouring in on him. 😂

What's the name of the store

Problem is that it, by law, does belong to them. The laws need to change to get them to be a function of distribution at the behest of the distilleries and not their own say. e.g. - get rid of the useless middleman.

@@silver3344 yes but when theres a preset buyer i find that to be a grey area

@@LeatherDaddy97 It's not a grey area, otherwise there is easy route of litigious recourse (which isn't an obvious option). The laws are old and outdated. They only benefit the middle man nowadays. The laws were made on a precedent of ease of monitoring alcohol sales prior to the internet for the sake of taxation (didn't want you brewing your own) and under the guise of "moral" heresay. There's no real need or convenience for the distributor anymore. I wonder how much money goes into lobbying to keep the status quo at the cost of the distilleries and the consumer... Both the generator and the consumer in this instance would advocate for law changes because the greed and theft have become outright stupid and obvious. You think the Bourbon Junkies would've gotten their EHT barrel pick if they didn't have the exposure that they do? NOT. A. CHANCE. I call bullshit on the "mistake" and bullshit on distributors creating and supplying secondary markets by proxy (your local guy who has boxes of BTAC ain't getting that from his local so that only means one thing). I hate the game, and the game is the distributors running on borrowed time and outdated legislation.

@@silver3344 i was speaking more from a moral and doing whats right perspective on the grey area, but i think we all know that business and morals dont typically mix. I get that theres ways to deal with it, but the damage is done

@@LeatherDaddy97 I agree with your take on that. I'm just passionate about how stupid and outdated the whole system is. And I'd bet so much money this happens every other week and nothing is ever done to "make it right". Just by reading some of the comments of similar stories, it just confirms what is already known.

They are actively deleting negative reviews on Google.

you love walmart huh?

@@shamanschlong🧐…Not sure I understand?

I agree with you. If the distributor messes up again, Buffalo Trace needs to drop them permanently. Another thing is that BT is not off the hook. They picked a distributor, but the distributor isn’t the one who made a deal with them. It’s 100% on BT to make it right.

100% This. Don't liquor stores and distributors get "tagged" for this?

Its a shady place only hard core taters will travel

if only you and everyone held this attitude towards absolutely every business owner.

@@shamanschlong Who says I don't? Which business owners outside of the ones I mentioned do you think I should?

Yes 100%

Yep...eagle rare is ok...but for a few dolllars more...eht is the best at $50...period

I dont think he knew EXACTLY what happen. I think he knew he got someone elses barrel (he probably didnt even have a barrel pick in line) but he didnt know whos barrel it was, and didnt think he would get caught because he had no idea how big of a following the bourbon junkies have.

@@jacksmith2315 Exactly... He figures he's dicking over some little 30 member local club of drunks who got ungodly lucky... and he might get a couple whiney phone calls impotently raging at him for being a bad man... He comes to find out he's dicking over a 100k+ subs youtube channel... plus all connected/associated channels; because you know this is not knowledge that's going to only be restricted to this channel. That and he's possibly an accessory to theft now... and since he essentially told them over the phone that he planned to keep selling the bourbon that they HAD PAID FOR AND OWNED... he knowingly distributed stolen goods... probably well into whatever the cutoff is in DC to be a felony... AND there's probably some interstate commerce crimes that went on as well... He F'ed up bad and they basically have to convince the Junkies and whatever store they were working with to not pursue this... or we're talking maybe losing their liquor license/store and maybe even jail time.

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The boom boom room is a live music venue and Bar in SF that was owned by John Lee Hooker before his death

The store the BJ picks goes through is in DC

And it’s gotten worse because BT decided to only work with one distributor in the state, and they picked the worst one. They literally picked the one who had been caught selling straight to the secondary themselves.

Two different SKUs EHTSB and EHTBP. So just like you can’t get Eagle Rare bottled at barrel proof, you can’t get EHTSB at barrel proof, just at 100 proof. Highly unlikely they will get an EHTBP, those typically go to restaurants and bars

That store is in Anacostia. I seriously doubt yo will be going there any time soon.

Its corner market liquors in dc

@@LeatherDaddy97 Anacostia is part of DC. SE part of DC.

@@gkm072159 i never said anything to the contrary

Was this the most recent old forester single barrel pick in Va abc? I also live in VA and could fully see them fking something else up.

​@@G1ft3dConfus1onyup. It was the "One Stubborn Barrel" that was picked by Repeal bourbon and burgers. They ended up getting another barrel pick, and I tried them side by side. The first one was significantly better in my opinion.

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@@lukstephens1 He must have a way of deleting any bad reviews related to this issue because I'm not seeing any in there.

@@johng5710 most likely held to be reviewed by the owner

@@sideshowonacidaccurately reviewing a business and letting others know the store is being a scumbag is also scumbag behavior? You must be an angel

@@sideshowonacidhow is that scumbag behavior? You’re doing what google reviews is meant to do. Review the business. The owner did a bad thing for his business, so we’re reviewing it.

That’s the cool part. You don’t

Bottles are sold through bourbon outfitters via patreon links in order of tiers top down

They're back with JHOB, so it's confirmed they returned what was left

Picks are dropped tier to tier starting higher and trickling down. Anyone in a tier that it’s dropped to has a chance to snag one while they remain for sale. Link is dropped to bourbon outfitters and it’s first come first serve. I’ll be honest this pick is 100% going to sell out in the 15 dollar tier.