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Brent will be playing the part of the drunk Uncle · Sips, Suds, & Smokes

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  On the next episode of sip suds and smokes.
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  Here's the whiskeys we're going to be discussing today. From old Ezra, we have the old Ezra rye, seven year old straight rye whiskey. From bard sound bourbon company, we have their origin series bourbon, the origin series weeded bottled in bond bourbon. And the origin series kentucky straight rye. And from uncle nearest, we have the uncle nearest eight rye, the uncut, unfiltered rye, the single barrel whiskey barrel number eight and the single barrel rye barrel number one. Everybody's palate is different.
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  That's why it's important to have a show like ours where you have four or five people going around the room because there are certain things people pick up. You got two people here picking up the vegetable thing, and it's knocking them over. You got two people over here not picking up at all.
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  Have you eaten a vegetable, Bob? You don't look like you eat vegetables.
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  We'll be right back after this break.
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  Brought to you almost live from the dude in the basement studios. Why? Because that's where the good stuff is. It sips suds and smokes with your smoke and host the good old boy.
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  And now it's sippin'time.
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  Hey. Yes, uh, it'sippin'time again.
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  Hello, and welcome to this sips episode where everything good in life is worth discussing. As always, we
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  are the best thing on at 02: 00 a.m.. Oh, that's a fact.
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  are the best thing on at 02: You know what? There's a contract dispute between some of these, uh, stations and their providers, so when long as those other shows are off, we're good to go.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Thanks to SAG, after strike the writers strike, we're the best thing on baby.
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  are the best thing on at 02: I'm sorry I wrote this script, so therefore, I must have crossed a picket.
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  are the best thing on at 02: One. I feel bad because we actually went to the writers guild theater when we won the taste, uh, awards this year, so sorry. I wrote my own script.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Well, uh, our sip segments are all about oh, wait, sorry. Forgot to introduce everybody first. So let's start with the introduction. So, we have made man Brent.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Thanks. Uh, why are there so many frogs in the basement today? I like frogs.
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  are the best thing on at 02: We got to go frogs.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Got to kiss a lot of them.
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  are the best thing on at 02: I guess that's how you get around man and Maidman. Maury.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Pleasure to be here in the damp basement again today, Bob. Thank you.
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  are the best thing on at 02: And good old boy harm.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Thanks, Bob. Um, I was thinking we have a lot of banjo in the intros. Made me remember a Steve Martin joke. He was talking about how comparing the banjo to a guitar the difference is guitar players get to have sex.
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  are the best thing on at 02: We have too much banjo.
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  are the best thing on at 02: You should be used to banjo. I mean, you have to go visit your in laws in Alabama. I'm sure you hear a lot of banjo.
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  are the best thing on at 02: And that's when I run.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah, exactly.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Paddle faster.
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  are the best thing on at 02: I hear banjo.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Hey, boy, you got a purdy mouth.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Okay, our six segments are all about wine, distilled, spirits, tea, coffee, and pretty much anything else you can sip. And here's the whiskeys we're going to be discussing today. From old Ezra. We have the old Ezra rye, seven year old straight rye whiskey. From Bard Sound Bourbon Company.
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  are the best thing on at 02: We have their origin series bourbon, the origin series weeded, bottled and bond bourbon.
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  are the best thing on at 02: And the origin series Kentucky straight rye. And from uncle nearest, we have the uncle nearest straight rye, the uncut, unfiltered rye, the single barrel whiskey, barrel number eight, and the single barrel rye barrel number one. So we're going to go to Brent and have him tell, uh, us about our sips ratings.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Thanks, Bob. We'll be tasting and discussing these whiskeys and rating them with these sips ratings plus our signature sounds.
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  are the best thing on at 02: One sip. Give me a glass of water to wash out my mouth.
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  are the best thing on at 02: I'm not saying he's not doing a good job, but I do miss Justin.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Two sips. Nice. What else do you have?
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  are the best thing on at 02: Well, isn't that nice?
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  are the best thing on at 02: Could you do a really bad accent? I'm missing Justin.
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  are the best thing on at 02: You're missing Justin? Yeah. Three sips. Interesting. What was that in the glass there's? The Drunken Leprechaun. What was that there's?
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  are the best thing on at 02: The Drunken Leprechaun. I've been looking for four sips.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Let's keep this secret to ourselves. Pour me another classified.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Remember that time the keyboard elves made rum cookies?
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  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Five sips. Oh, my. I was unaware anything can be this good.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Oh, my goodness.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Kiss my lucky charms.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Okay.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Gosh. Well, uh, let's go talk about our next whiskey.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Bitter powder. Let's get at her.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Okay.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Why our first whiskey? Let's talk about our first whiskey. So, Brent, tell us about that one.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Thanks, Bob. This first whiskey is old Ezra, seven year old straight rye whiskey. It's 57% ABV, 114 proof, seven years old. Old Ezra, uh, seven years straight rye whiskey is a blend of two rye mash bills, 51% rye whiskey and 95% rye whiskey is aged a full seven years and is bottled at full proof, 114 proof, 57% ABV to deliver a full complex flavor.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah, this has got that nice copper penny, uh, color to it. Um, the nose on this I love this nose.
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  are the best thing on at 02: It's like orange and honey and a little bit of vanilla on it on the palate.
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  are the best thing on at 02: The first thing I picked up on the palate was actually tobacco. And then it just follows off with the baking spice and the vanilla and the honey. Um, it's just a beautiful, creamy mouthfeel, which when you think of rise, you don't always think of creamy mouthfeel. Then you got this nice, beautiful finish to it. Just lingers and lingers and lingers. I was pleasantly and, uh, love this expression. What about you? Um murray.
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  are the best thing on at 02: You know, Brent, as much as I hate to admit it, I think you were spot on. I thought your description was right on.
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  are the best thing on at 02: It was definitely a beautiful mouthfeel. Um I love the creaminess. I thought it hit all the boxes. Uh, it was really a beautiful whiskey. I was really pleasantly surprised. Uh, I think it punches way above its weight. I think for the price, it's an outstanding whiskey. Um, it's got plenty of flavor, it's got plenty of proof behind it. Seven years it's done. It's not immature.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Uh, it's really an expression that, uh, I was very much surprised. Hadn't tried it before, but I think if you see it on the shelf, it's worth having. Ah, at home on your bar.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Oh, for.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Um I really am coming back to this whiskey and thinking about it more. When I first tasted it, when we first poured it, I mean, the nose was just amazing. Was the first thing I poured today. Oh, that just smells great. I thought, this is going to be a good show.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Um, and it's been sitting in the glass. It's just been getting better.
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  are the best thing on at 02: It's been nicer.
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  are the best thing on at 02: It's softened, it's rounded, it's smoothed out.
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  are the best thing on at 02: I've had the old Ezra seven year old bourbon before. This is my first time I've had the rise. It's a new expression from them, I guess.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah.
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  are the best thing on at 02: And, um, rather you said you got the tobacco on the palate right away. That came in later for me. For me, it was like toasty oak.
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  are the best thing on at 02: But, um, you said, um, orange, right?
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  are the best thing on at 02: Yes.
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  are the best thing on at 02: I'm getting, like, orange, like flowers and orange blossom, and then like candy and vanilla custard. But I smelled that sweet tobacco, too. You smell on the nose.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Initially, I didn't smell it, but now when you go after you taste it, after you've tasted and you go back to it, then you can get a little bit of it.
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  are the best thing on at 02: I really dig what they did here, because it's not that 95 five rye that everybody's familiar with that's over the top with the orange peel or sometimes dill, they've got that 51, and that 91st.
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  are the best thing on at 02: They don't tell us the percentages that they blended them in, but doing this blend, I think they did a great job.
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  are the best thing on at 02: They did a great job.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Um, they really did. It's like everything that they have done so far. Like the old Ezra Seven. We first did that a couple of years ago when that first came out, and we were all blown away. I mean, this cost how much a bottle?
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  are the best thing on at 02: Well, after that show, it doubled the.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Wholesale price stayed the same, but what you paid at the store so we're.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Going to tell people, this one is really bad.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Don't look for this one, look for.
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  are the best thing on at 02: This one on the shelf.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Leave it there.
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  are the best thing on at 02: The folks at Luxro have always we were discussing before, they've always pitched above their weight. They've always given you a better bottle of whiskey for the dollar than a lot of folks do. I mean, they routinely do that. That old Ezra bourbon was fantastic, and for the money, you could not beat it. So when I saw this, that was my first thought is, I hope it lives up to the bourbon. And it absolutely does. I mean, on the nose, it's just orange cream.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Again, uh, the very tip of the nose, just a little bit of a dusty wood note to it.
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  are the best thing on at 02: And on the palate there's that warm.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Honey with that, uh, wood too.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah, it's honey and vanilla.
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  are the best thing on at 02: It's got a great mouth coat to it, really.
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  are the best thing on at 02: It covers the whole palate. I get that sweet pipe tobacco on the back end on the finish, on it.
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  are the best thing on at 02: I mean, just a really well blended, well put together whiskey.
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  are the best thing on at 02: I wish the finish were longer. I think that's the only thing knock I have against it.
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  are the best thing on at 02: It's long.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Uh.
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  are the best thing on at 02: To get a longer finish, you're going to pay$200 or more.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah, you're right.
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  are the best thing on at 02: For what this is probably selling for at MSRP, this is a long finish.
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  are the best thing on at 02: It's a longer finish than most. Yeah.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Again, uh, so far everything they've done under, uh, all the old Ezra sevens have been an absolute knockout. So congratulations to them. Really well put together whiskey. And we're going to be rating the old Ezra seven year old straight rye whiskey, a well deserved four sips.
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  are the best thing on at 02: M.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Hey guys, if you do another release, send a full size bottle.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah. You might get an extra sip if you send us a big that's the way we work.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah, if you send a case, you might get eight. I don't know.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Um, so that takes us on to our next whiskey. So we're going to have Harm tell us a little bit about that one.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Thanks, Bob.
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  are the best thing on at 02: So, uh, our next whiskey is the Bardstown bourbon Company origin series bourbon 48% ABV. And since its founding, Bardstown bourbon Company has grown to be a major player in the bourbon industry. While carefully waiting for their own distillate to reach maturity, they have become the goto custom distiller for many known nondistiller producer brands. After six long years, the wait is finally over as they released the origin series, consisting of three different six year old whiskeys. The origin Kentucky straight bourbon, the Origin, um, bottled and Bond and origin Kentucky straight Rye. The full series, all of which has been distilled, aged and bottled at Bardstown bourbon company. So this is 100% theirs from grained, uh, gloss. Well, I guess they don't grow the grain, they buy the grain, but it's distilled in there and they're balling. Uh, it will be distributed to 24 states and the distillery gift shop and, uh, a number of online retailers as well. The Bartstown bourbon company origin series bourbon 48% ABV, 96 proof six year old mash bill is 60% corn, 36% rye, and 4% malted barley color is a beautiful copper penny. And on the nose, um, what hit me first was caramel. And then I got like the orange blossom and there's some stone fruit, uh, a little bit like I'm not sure it's peach or apricot. And then underneath the oak starts coming out and it's really rich. Um, on the palate, caramel, vanilla, cinnamon.
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  are the best thing on at 02: And, um, it's got a nice, medium, long finish with a little bit of herbal and stone fruit quality going on.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Brent.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah, um, the nose gave it more promise than the palate. Yeah, let me grab you. I really enjoyed the Nose to know. And we'll get back to this and talk about this after the break.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Hey, we're back and we are discussing, um, some whiskeys from Bardstown Bourbon Company. Brent was telling us his thoughts on the first one here.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah, I was getting out of the palate, so, uh, right off the bat, the fruits don't come through very much on the palate. Right know, and so I get like, a floral, light, clove note. Um, I get some bitterness to it and stuff. And it's very front forward on your palate. It doesn't give you that mouth coating that you like to have ah, in a nice bourbon and stuff. It doesn't give you that whole mouth coating. It was just a little bit on, um, a little bit of bitterness for me.
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  are the best thing on at 02: You sure that's not a defect in your soul?
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  are the best thing on at 02: It probably is. Yeah, I definitely have a bitterness in my soul.
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  are the best thing on at 02: It doesn't have that mouth coating palate like you're talking about. It's a little bit not watery, I would say, but it's a little bit lighter on the palate, not giving you that, uh, nice heavy hug.
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  are the best thing on at 02: It tastes kind of younger than a six year old.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Well, let's try this at seven. I think they're going the right place, because oftentimes I find it happens more in wine than it does in whiskeys.
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  are the best thing on at 02: But the nose promises everything. And then you taste it, it doesn't stand up. It's been a while since that's happened to me. And when we were doing the radio show in the whiskeys here, and this one is one of those the nose promises the world, but the whiskey just doesn't quite show up for the rest of it.
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  are the best thing on at 02: I think that's a nice way to describe it, Harm.
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  are the best thing on at 02: But maybe if we had this had more air I didn't put any water in it. I don't know.
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  are the best thing on at 02: We've had it out for quite some time. I would say that it's a lovely whiskey to me. I would describe it in two words light and sweet. Um, I found it a little bit of a lighter style. It was definitely not mouth coating. It was definitely not that viscous, creamy mouthfeel that we're used to. And I thought it was just not, uh, as complex as I would have liked it was.
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  are the best thing on at 02: But the nose is so complex. I think that tells me this is going to be a better whiskey. Maybe another year.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Take another year, two years. It's going to really well.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Here's the thing, and hats off to them for doing it. How many people set up a distillery and start pushing stuff out at 18 months and two years? Two and a quarter years? Two and a half years two and three quarter years.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Or they make you buy their vodka, their gin.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah. So they had enough sense to sit on it until they had a respectable product to put out. And this is a well made six year old product. I mean, is it going to improve? I think it's actually going to get better. They give it eight or seven or.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Eight, but I agree with you there. But that's the thing. It's so promising on the nose. It's only going to get better.
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  are the best thing on at 02: It has to get better. And it's not like this is more.
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  are the best thing on at 02: On wine than whiskey. More on wine.
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  are the best thing on at 02: It happens a lot more on wine.
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  are the best thing on at 02: You'll stick your nose in that glass and you'll go, oh, my God, this is going to be and you'll sip it and you'll go, that's water. What happened? Yeah, that's not the case here. It's not like you go, uh oh, no.
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  are the best thing on at 02: I don't want people to get that idea.
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  are the best thing on at 02: That's an extreme example. It just didn't quite match up to what the nose was like.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Strawberries, they smell better than they taste. They taste good, but they always smell better than they taste.
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  are the best thing on at 02: You're really broken. Yeah.
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  are the best thing on at 02: No, I'm serious.
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  are the best thing on at 02: You are just broke.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Of course, you put them in a blender with ice and some rum.
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  are the best thing on at 02: You know what? Yeah, a little bit of sugar.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Get this little sweet and sour mix. There you go. That got me through four years of Catholic high school.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Had a nun teach me that cocktail. Um, but, yeah. No, I mean on the nose.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah, I definitely get the apricot on it. I get a heavy caramel. I definitely get the underplayment of the oak.
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  are the best thing on at 02: And in their notes, they have mint. And I swear, I don't know if it's a power suggestion. I do pick up just that slight bit of coolness of the mint on the very tip.
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  are the best thing on at 02: I do not smell it, and I disagree with that completely.
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  are the best thing on at 02: But on the very end of the finish, I pick up a little bit mint. I didn't mention earlier.
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  are the best thing on at 02: I mean, I got most of the fruits from the palate. On the finish is where I got most of the fruits after that followed through on the nose.
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  are the best thing on at 02: I agree.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah.
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  are the best thing on at 02: I thought the palate was sort of muted and, um, not very complex.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Anybody put water in it?
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  are the best thing on at 02: Provided some I don't know.
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  are the best thing on at 02: You guys are bogarting all the water down there.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Slide some water down.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Pour a little bit more first. This is the green. Uh, label was the first one.
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  are the best thing on at 02: I don't think it was green.
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  are the best thing on at 02: No, I think it's the white labor.
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  are the best thing on at 02: The white creamy. Oops.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Mind the microphone.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Hey, uh, I've got priorities. I need to pour some more whiskey. We'll worry about the microphone later. Let's see. Still that beautiful nose. A little bit of cold water.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Softens it up a little bit.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah, the water definitely does. Open it up a bit.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah, I get more fruit. On the nose with the water, too.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah, the nose definitely even opens up more.
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  are the best thing on at 02: And the mouth feel yeah, the mouth feel comes out. The mouth feels better with the water. Taste it. Do it here.
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  are the best thing on at 02: I just did. Yeah, absolutely.
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  are the best thing on at 02: I think this one's just a little bit closed up, but, uh, again, give.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Another year or two.
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  are the best thing on at 02: What I always say is a lot of people, and I understand when you're starting out, sometimes you do have to push stuff out before you're ready. And there's a lot of distilleries out there who we love, who we had stuff when they first started that was like, but m now they're making great stuff. And I understand it's not like opening a brewery. You open a brewery on a Monday and by Friday you have product, you're selling it.
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  are the best thing on at 02: I mean, it's a lot of money and a lot of operational cost to get to the point where you have whiskey to sell. So I understand why some push it out earlier, but the fact that these guys didn't if you're well financed and you think it out and you've got the backing, you can hold off for five or six or seven years and they've done it just like Wilderness Trail did it and didn't come out with a subpar product.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Came out with a, uh, Woodenville in Washington.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Woodenville. Same thing. Came out with start with money.
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  are the best thing on at 02: They had partners with money.
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  are the best thing on at 02: That's it. You got to have money. Yeah, it's like anything else. Money can cure almost anything.
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  are the best thing on at 02: You went through the construction and you paid all your employees during the time.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Money and time is all you need.
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  are the best thing on at 02: But, uh, overall, a solid effort. So we're going to be rating the Bardstown Bourbon company orange series. Bourbon? Well deserved, three subs.
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  are the best thing on at 02: I think it should be higher.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Honestly, with water, I'm leaning higher myself, but that's what we put down. So let's go on to our next one. We're going to have Maury tell us about that one.
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  are the best thing on at 02: All right, well, thank you, Bob.
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  are the best thing on at 02: The next whiskey we're going to discuss is the Bardstown Bourbon Company origin Series weeded, bottled, and Bond bourbon. It comes in at 50% ABV, or exactly 100 proof.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Uh, it is 68% corn, 20% wheat, and 12% malted barley.
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  are the best thing on at 02: That's a high barley content.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah, it really is. So this whiskey, uh, like the last, again, has a nice burnished copper color to it.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Add some water, the barley comes out on the nose.
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  are the best thing on at 02: There's definitely some serious baked peaches and cream. Um, there's hints of cocoa and lemon on the palate, very similar to the other one. You get a lot of stone fruit and toffee, and then it finishes kind of medium again, like the first whiskey. I found this one to be a little bit light, a little bit sweet. Well, um, made, um, but not as complex as what I'm used to. I think that this whiskey, again, is going to continue to evolve and uh, I would love to see this whiskey in another year or so, but I think it was well made, and it's going the right direction.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Harm I think it's gotten better with air. When I first smelled it, I was not impressed. I could hardly smell anything when I first poured it.
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  are the best thing on at 02: And now the baked peach and cream you're talking about just explodes out of the glass.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Earlier, when we first poured it, all I got was the lemon and a little bit of cocoa. But now that's coming at the end.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Out of the bottle.
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  are the best thing on at 02: It was very muted.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Um, but I think that's the case for a lot of weeders. Wheat whiskeys. To me, they need time, they need more aging. Um, they tend to be softer, so I expect that from weeders. I'm not a huge weeder fan, but a lot of people are.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Weeders generally need another year or two.
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  are the best thing on at 02: If you like this soft style, this is right up your alley.
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  are the best thing on at 02: Oh, yeah.
• 22:04
  are the best thing on at 02: Because I prefer Scotch and I prefer rye.
• 22:07
  are the best thing on at 02: Um, but weeders are just too light for me, usually.
• 22:10
  are the best thing on at 02: But as this evolved in the racist, it's getting better. Hey, I married a is alabama doesn't wear shoes. Yeah.
• 22:20
  are the best thing on at 02: White.
• 22:25
  are the best thing on at 02: What it really reminds me of is a peach cobbler with some fresh whipping cream on it. And it's just a very soft and elegant little bit of peachy. Uh, it was nice. Nice little warming finish to the end.
• 22:40
  are the best thing on at 02: Um, I enjoyed it.
• 22:43
  are the best thing on at 02: It keeps getting better. Yeah.
• 22:45
  are the best thing on at 02: There's nothing harsh about it. It's nice and light and creamy.
• 22:49
  are the best thing on at 02: I found it to be a little light. I would call it a little bit entry level.
• 22:53
  are the best thing on at 02: Too light for you? Really? Too light. Yeah.
• 22:55
  are the best thing on at 02: It was just like it's very soft.
• 22:58
  are the best thing on at 02: I do agree with that. Uh, it's got that softness.
• 23:01
  are the best thing on at 02: A little feminine.
• 23:05
  are the best thing on at 02: There's nothing wrong with feminine, man.
• 23:08
  are the best thing on at 02: Nothing wrong with Maury's trying out his.
• 23:09
  are the best thing on at 02: Feminine side right now.
• 23:11
  are the best thing on at 02: Bring me some more feminine, baby. The soft, fuzzy sweater.
• 23:18
  are the best thing on at 02: I'm with Harm. I think the nose has significantly improved since when we owned it. When we opened it, that's all I got was I got lemon.
• 23:25
  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah.
• 23:26
  are the best thing on at 02: But now I'm getting that creamy peach.
• 23:28
  are the best thing on at 02: Um, yeah. I don't know if I'd say it's.
• 23:34
  are the best thing on at 02: Cocoa or it's a little bit of baking spice in there.
• 23:38
  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah, there's a little baking spice, but it's kind of like a mocha baking spice kind of mix. I added water to mine, and that definitely opened up the nose.
• 23:53
  are the best thing on at 02: It's missing a little bit of that brioche taste or smell that would actually make it like a peach cobbler.
• 23:59
  are the best thing on at 02: More of that peach, but with a.
• 24:00
  are the best thing on at 02: Little bit of water. Um, the fruits come out.
• 24:06
  are the best thing on at 02: I'm getting pear. I'm getting a little bit of peach.
• 24:09
  are the best thing on at 02: Pear.
• 24:09
  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah.
• 24:11
  are the best thing on at 02: There is something wrong with you.
• 24:12
  are the best thing on at 02: And I get that toffee on the finish, and it's got a nice finish. It definitely stays with you. At least a medium to a medium long finish. It coats the mouth very well.
• 24:24
  are the best thing on at 02: Slightly salty.
• 24:27
  are the best thing on at 02: Yes.
• 24:27
  are the best thing on at 02: Get the top of your mouth covered.
• 24:29
  are the best thing on at 02: Exactly.
• 24:30
  are the best thing on at 02: Slightly salty.
• 24:33
  are the best thing on at 02: Creamy. That's really interesting and nice.
• 24:35
  are the best thing on at 02: I like it.
• 24:35
  are the best thing on at 02: Slight bit of salinity.
• 24:37
  are the best thing on at 02: It's nice.
• 24:38
  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah.
• 24:39
  are the best thing on at 02: Again, uh, I think they're onto it. They know what they're doing over there. Um, and I think this one's a winner. So, uh, we're going to be rating the Bardstown Bourbon company origin series, weeded, bottled and bond. Well deserved. Three sips.
• 24:54
  are the best thing on at 02: Interesting.
• 24:56
  are the best thing on at 02: Bob, why don't you tell us about the next one?
• 24:58
  are the best thing on at 02: All right, let me pull that one out here.
• 25:00
  are the best thing on at 02: So the next one we're going to talk about is the Bardstown Bourbon Company Origin series, kentucky straight rye. It's 48% ABV, 96 proof. The mash bill is a 95 595 rye, 5% malted barley. This is finished in custom barrels comprised of alternating toasted oak and toasted cherry wood staves. So interesting.
• 25:25
  are the best thing on at 02: Which completely explains that nose, which is like absolutely just bursting with ripe cherry.
• 25:33
  are the best thing on at 02: I thought it was because I ate cherries for breakfast this morning and it's.
• 25:36
  are the best thing on at 02: Really and it's kind of like ripe cherries, uh, but at the very tip of the nose.
• 25:42
  are the best thing on at 02: It's that, but it's not candied cherries.
• 25:44
  are the best thing on at 02: These are like the dark cherries, real cherry.
• 25:49
  are the best thing on at 02: Ah.
• 25:50
  are the best thing on at 02: It's not like cherry cough drops or cherry lifesavers.
• 25:53
  are the best thing on at 02: Not like Sardos. This is like real cherries.
• 25:56
  are the best thing on at 02: It's not like ranchers, which don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with a cherry candy. I love them.
• 26:01
  are the best thing on at 02: But this has got the stem in.
• 26:02
  are the best thing on at 02: The pit with it.
• 26:03
  are the best thing on at 02: Exactly.
• 26:04
  are the best thing on at 02: This is like real cherry.
• 26:05
  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah. Um, but to me the cherry didn't stand out as much as the toasted oak.
• 26:11
  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah, they're sort of fighting for the top level there but I definitely get that on the nose.
• 26:18
  are the best thing on at 02: Mhm?
• 26:19
  are the best thing on at 02: I get that little bit of dilliness in the very tip of the nose.
• 26:23
  are the best thing on at 02: Not a little bit, man. It grows, it's floral and I get a bunch of green coming out.
• 26:31
  are the best thing on at 02: But that cherry is just so it just leaps out of the glass which is really kind of cool.
• 26:38
  are the best thing on at 02: Mhm, on the palate, I'm getting toffee, I'm getting a little bit of mocha on it.
• 26:48
  are the best thing on at 02: A little bit of baking spice.
• 26:50
  are the best thing on at 02: Dark, almost burnt caramel.
• 26:55
  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah. Nice. Very nice. Gives you a nice mouth coat. Covers the whole palate. Uh, I think the weeder actually had a little bit longer finish but I added water to that. I haven't added water to this. So let's put a little squirt in there and uh what do you think, Bret?
• 27:12
  are the best thing on at 02: I mean, the nose on this one again is over promising for the palate.
• 27:15
  are the best thing on at 02: To, uh I'm, I'm expecting Sherry Jelly Rancher when right.
• 27:21
  are the best thing on at 02: And if it was, I would not.
• 27:24
  are the best thing on at 02: Weird, but I got some bitterness from the tannins from this, from, uh, the tobacco and toffee a lot of baking spice. Yeah, a lot of baking spice. But the tannins, um, kind of overpowered it a little bit for me.
• 27:39
  are the best thing on at 02: Do you think that's the cherry wood too?
• 27:40
  are the best thing on at 02: It might have been the cherry wood. I did add some water. I did add some water to it, but, yeah, that could be the cherry wood that those staves that they put in there.
• 27:48
  are the best thing on at 02: Actually, I get more of the tannin with the water than I did without. Now that I've added the water, I'm getting more of the dry wood note.
• 27:58
  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah, same here.
• 27:59
  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah.
• 28:01
  are the best thing on at 02: I'd say leave this one alone. Don't add water.
• 28:03
  are the best thing on at 02: Right.
• 28:05
  are the best thing on at 02: But I don't know anybody.
• 28:07
  are the best thing on at 02: Um, I don't remember if we've done anything where they've done alternating staves, where they've used cherrywood staves.
• 28:14
  are the best thing on at 02: I've had some cherry French and American staves.
• 28:16
  are the best thing on at 02: I've had some cherrywood finish where they either put chips or staves inside the barrel, but I haven't had it where they've alternated it before. So this is kind of interesting.
• 28:25
  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah. For me, I probably would have just stuck with a toasted.
• 28:30
  are the best thing on at 02: There's toasted staves. Are they toasting and charring, right? Yeah, I think this could have benefited.
• 28:36
  are the best thing on at 02: Char, but they're definitely toasting.
• 28:39
  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah, I think this could have benefit from more char.
• 28:41
  are the best thing on at 02: I mean, when you're making a whiskey barrel here in the US. They're all just straight up charred. But some of them are given a toast before the char right. For a long period of time to.
• 28:50
  are the best thing on at 02: Get deep into the wood wine barrels, they'll do a toast without the char. Yeah, but I'm saying with this, I think this layer goes a lot deeper. Yeah, I think this could have benefit from more toast. Uh, more char. Sorry?
• 29:00
  are the best thing on at 02: More char. No, I don't know. I mean, it already came from a charred barrel, and now you're just finishing it off with, uh the only thing.
• 29:07
  are the best thing on at 02: I would have done different is the toasted. And I think this is very interesting with the cherrywood. I mean, since it's their first release of the ordinance, I might have just left it just all toasted.
• 29:19
  are the best thing on at 02: Maybe the next release, I would have done, like, a side special release with the cherrywood. I'm not saying I don't like it. I kind of dig it. Um, but I would have just went straight down the middle of the road with it.
• 29:31
  are the best thing on at 02: There's a lot of dill here, too, and I know a lot of people love that dill rye. I think this is totally up your alley. To me, I prefer more orange and floral notes. That's the Canadian style more than this.
• 29:43
  are the best thing on at 02: Well, you got to drop the rye content. Once you hit 95, then you're getting that dill whether you like it or not.
• 29:50
  are the best thing on at 02: That's sort of the MGP, uh, moniker, like the bean peanuts.
• 29:55
  are the best thing on at 02: Everybody has their thing, but anybody that makes a 95 five rye, you get the dill. I mean, it's just inherent in the mash bill. I think if they drop the rye content down, that might take it down and get more of the orange. And if you had the orange and the cherry.
• 30:12
  are the best thing on at 02: That'S where I want it to be.
• 30:13
  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah, if you could get. The orange amped up along with the cherry. This thing would be like a mouthful of candy as it is.
• 30:20
  are the best thing on at 02: Uh, I think there's another one where the nose promised one thing and the palate didn't quite deliver, but it's going in the right direction. They're doing the right things.
• 30:27
  are the best thing on at 02: Agreed.
• 30:28
  are the best thing on at 02: 100%. What do you think, Mori?
• 30:30
  are the best thing on at 02: No, exactly. I mean, I agree with you guys. I think the nose is fantastic. Um, I love the cherry. I loved all the promise on the nose.
• 30:39
  are the best thing on at 02: I just felt that the palate was a little bit light and a little bit disappointing compared to, say, the nose. Uh, a beautiful mid whiskey.
• 30:49
  are the best thing on at 02: I don't even have that problem with it. I think it's just too green for me, and that's that too much dill. That's my personal taste.
• 30:56
  are the best thing on at 02: I'm just wondering if they knocked the rye content down a little and brought that orange out, and then they did. Not every other stay, but every third stay with the cherry.
• 31:04
  are the best thing on at 02: Oh, look at you getting all technical.
• 31:05
  are the best thing on at 02: Every third stay with cherry because then you'd get the cherry.
• 31:09
  are the best thing on at 02: You can't change too many variables at once, man. You want to see what's happening, change one variable at a time.
• 31:14
  are the best thing on at 02: It'd be like going to Willy Wonkas M and eating candy.
• 31:17
  are the best thing on at 02: All know.
• 31:20
  are the best thing on at 02: Okay, Bob, um, I'm just throwing that out know, you guys are the ones that are complaining. I want to tell you, I'm the chill one here.
• 31:28
  are the best thing on at 02: No, I really enjoy what is doing dude. I really do. The dude of vines.
• 31:33
  are the best thing on at 02: Exactly.
• 31:33
  are the best thing on at 02: We've been a couple times, and, um, uh, Bob and I have been a couple at least been a couple of times with Bob. I don't have any time. Bob bob's probably been there. Bob probably lives there. How many times you've been there, Bob?
• 31:45
  are the best thing on at 02: Uh, more than I can count.
• 31:46
  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah. There you go. I've been there a couple of times with Bob, and I think it's a fantastic facility, and they're very upfront with what they're doing. And they'll tell you whose whiskey they're making that day. It's great.
• 31:58
  are the best thing on at 02: And the restaurant is solid. It's one of the best restaurants in town.
• 32:02
  are the best thing on at 02: If you're going to go visit Bardstown.
• 32:04
  are the best thing on at 02: Definitely if you're in Bardstown, if you don't go to Bardstown Bourbon Company, you've made a grievous error.
• 32:09
  are the best thing on at 02: And I think they're doing good stuff. And I'm very happy with this origin series. First time I'm tasting it.
• 32:14
  are the best thing on at 02: Exactly. It's their first release, and I think they're doing very well. So we're going to be rating the Bardstown Bourbon company.
• 32:19
  are the best thing on at 02: Origin kentucky. Straight rye, three sips.
• 32:22
  are the best thing on at 02: Interesting.
• 32:26
  are the best thing on at 02: Hey, and we're back, and we just finished talking about the new origin series whiskeys from Bardstown, um, bourbon Company. Very, very interesting stuff. I think they're well on the way to making some really quality whiskeys.
• 32:38
  are the best thing on at 02: So we're going to go to our next one, and we're going to have Harm tell us about that one.
• 32:42
  are the best thing on at 02: Thank you again, Bob the uncle.
• 32:45
  are the best thing on at 02: Nearest straight rye whiskey is 50% ABV 100 proof. This is a straight rye whiskey that originates in Canada according to the exact, uh, American specifications required to be straight rye whiskey and then aged in New York for a minimum of four years before moving down to Tennessee, where it is rested in Uncle Nearest barrels for an additional maturation. The liquid is tasted barrel by barrel and blended by master blender and great granddaughter of Nearest Green, Victoria Edie Butler. So, um, we didn't talk about the story of Uncle Nearest. We've done it in other episodes.
• 33:19
  are the best thing on at 02: You can go mean.
• 33:21
  are the best thing on at 02: Uh, Bob, you know more about than me. But Nearest was the guy who apparently, according to the stories, is the guy who taught Jack Daniels how to distill.
• 33:28
  are the best thing on at 02: Well, Jack Daniels was a young kid and was not happy with his stepmother, so he ran away from home twelve or 14 or something like that, and ended up moving in with, uh, Reverend Dan Call, who, in addition to being reverend, also had a distillery and made booze.
• 33:46
  are the best thing on at 02: And the man that ran that distillery was at the time was an enslaved man named Nearest Green.
• 33:52
  are the best thing on at 02: And Uncle Nearest was the gentleman who taught Jack Daniels how to make whiskey when he was a kid.
• 34:00
  are the best thing on at 02: Um, then the war happened.
• 34:02
  are the best thing on at 02: The slaves were freed and all that. And then eventually, Nearest ended up going to work with Jack. Um, there is a picture that circulates if you go there, that shows Jack Daniels, uh, standing next to a guy that originally they used to say, that's Uncle Nearest. But they've now come back and said, no, we're pretty sure it's not him. We think it's his son, because they look so much alike, because they were father and son. Um, but he's the man who basically ran the distillery when Jack Daniels was a kid and didn't know how to make whiskey. So, um, that's the story in a nutshell.
• 34:37
  are the best thing on at 02: So they've resurrected the name, and now they're purchasing whiskey and bottling it under the name. So this is, uh, again, the straight rye. The color is a bright gold copper. Uh, the nose. This is a weird one. This is a very herbal nose. I don't expect this from Canadian rye a lot. What's going on here? I get sweet pipe tobacco and tomato leaf. It's all tomato leaf for me. It's kind of weird. Very green. And, uh, there's something else going on. A little bit of spice underneath, but not much on the palate. The entry is little tannic, a little bitter, with a lot of baking, um, spice. And it fades into, like, a chocolatey note.
• 35:31
  are the best thing on at 02: Um, finish is medium, but then it goes sweet again. It's a medium long finish, goes bitter and then gets sweet like honeyed, and then goes away. It's just all over the place. I have no idea what to think. Maury, what do you say?
• 35:46
  are the best thing on at 02: No, I agree with you, Harm. Uh, I thought that the nose was okay, but what I was really getting was, uh, a monotone on the palate. For me, it was green, it was vegetal. It was, uh, young. It was immature. Um, it needs time. Really needs time. Um, brent.
• 36:13
  are the best thing on at 02: I actually liked, uh, the nose on this.
• 36:16
  are the best thing on at 02: It was like a soft, vanilla honey nose to me.
• 36:19
  are the best thing on at 02: Where?
• 36:20
  are the best thing on at 02: I mean, to me, it was where.
• 36:23
  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah, I didn't get the tomato leaf thing.
• 36:26
  are the best thing on at 02: I didn't get it either on the nose over me.
• 36:29
  are the best thing on at 02: I can smell green tomato leaf. Here, I'll give you the honey. Underneath there's the honey. But I'm not getting vanilla.
• 36:35
  are the best thing on at 02: But this one here, you really need to add an ice cube or some water to this to kind of take out some of those tannins and the bitterness to it.
• 36:48
  are the best thing on at 02: It softens it up a little bit, because I think the tannins kind of overwhelming a little bit on your palate.
• 36:55
  are the best thing on at 02: Uh, but that's what I get on my palate and on my, um know, I don't know if of not for me.
• 37:08
  are the best thing on at 02: Bob again, I didn't get that vegetable note.
• 37:13
  are the best thing on at 02: How do you not oh, my God. It must be really that's the thing.
• 37:18
  are the best thing on at 02: And that's why when you see a show where it's like one guy doing a review, it's like, well, that only works if it's your power. Line up with him.
• 37:27
  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah.
• 37:28
  are the best thing on at 02: Like when we do the wine episodes, when we get Denise in here, do the wine episodes. I love having Denise. Here one, she's much more literate than that monkey on the other end of the table.
• 37:37
  are the best thing on at 02: She's also easier on the eyes. Yeah, but how do you marry her? How did you do that?
• 37:43
  are the best thing on at 02: He lied.
• 37:45
  are the best thing on at 02: But her palate and my palate in wine seem to always be in sync. Like, if I'm going, I taste this, no one at the table will get it, but she'll get it.
• 37:54
  are the best thing on at 02: So your palate is different. Everybody's palate is different. So that's why it's important to have a show like ours where you have four or five people going around the room, because there are certain things people pick up. You got two people here picking up the vegetable thing, and it's knocking them over.
• 38:08
  are the best thing on at 02: You got two people over here not picking up at.
• 38:13
  are the best thing on at 02: Eating a vegetable. Bob you don't look like you eat vegetables.
• 38:16
  are the best thing on at 02: Um, no.
• 38:17
  are the best thing on at 02: Have you seen that body type of his?
• 38:19
  are the best thing on at 02: No.
• 38:19
  are the best thing on at 02: Does he look like he's ever eaten a vegetable?
• 38:22
  are the best thing on at 02: Pear is a shape. Yeah.
• 38:26
  are the best thing on at 02: I mean, to me, the nose was fruit.
• 38:32
  are the best thing on at 02: Pears of fruit.
• 38:34
  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah, pears of fruit. And so is a tomato, literally.
• 38:38
  are the best thing on at 02: Um, very sweet on the nose, which, for rye, just like, what it didn't register. This doesn't smell like rye.
• 38:49
  are the best thing on at 02: No.
• 38:52
  are the best thing on at 02: And then on the palate, um, that tannic edge to it that popped out is usually something I would get on something that had actually been aged a little too long. Uh, yeah. Um, but usually if you can taste through that tannic, that old wood, then you can taste the old whiskey behind it something that's come to that point. So I don't know why the tannic level is so high. Um, adding the water to it, it didn't make it go away, but it took that edge off to where it wasn't nearly as biting. Um, so this one definitely needs water. It is softened up a bit with air, but honestly, it doesn't taste like a rye to me.
• 39:37
  are the best thing on at 02: It leaves me confused.
• 39:38
  are the best thing on at 02: Right?
• 39:39
  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah. It leaves me not confused and angry.
• 39:41
  are the best thing on at 02: Just confused.
• 39:42
  are the best thing on at 02: No, just confused.
• 39:42
  are the best thing on at 02: Confused and angry is different.
• 39:44
  are the best thing on at 02: Confused and angry is your daily yeah, it's his nickname.
• 39:48
  are the best thing on at 02: But now I've got whiskey in me, so I'm no angry.
• 39:49
  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah.
• 39:50
  are the best thing on at 02: I'm a very happy drunk.
• 39:52
  are the best thing on at 02: Sure. You no have reason to be angry.
• 39:54
  are the best thing on at 02: He's a happy drunk. Okay. Yeah.
• 39:57
  are the best thing on at 02: How many times have you had to never mind. We won't even go there. So we're going to be rating the uncle nearest, uh, straight rye whiskey. Two sips.
• 40:06
  are the best thing on at 02: Well, isn't that nice?
• 40:08
  are the best thing on at 02: So that's going to take us to our next one from Uncle Nearest. We're going to have Bret tell us about that one.
• 40:12
  are the best thing on at 02: Thanks, Bob. This is the uncle nearest uncut, unfiltered rye. 59.8% ABV or 119.6 proof, 100% rye. Hey, careful, man.
• 40:22
  are the best thing on at 02: There's a beverage here.
• 40:24
  are the best thing on at 02: Oh, for sure. Yeah. This inaugural distillery only release was made in British Columbia and was aged in New York for a minimum of four years before moving down to Tennessee. On the nose, I'm getting, like, that's.
• 40:38
  are the best thing on at 02: Where it went wrong. It went to New York.
• 40:40
  are the best thing on at 02: They had a New York.
• 40:41
  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah.
• 40:43
  are the best thing on at 02: On the color of this one, you get that getting, um, more towards that 70s, uh, copper penny kind of looking, um, on the nose again. I got honey, vanilla. Nothing in the nose said rye to me. Not one thing says rye to me. But on the palate right away, I get some pipe tobacco, uh, some baking spice, a little bit of honey. Um, I get those tannins come through. Um, what you really need to do with this one again is you need to add, uh, some water or a ice cube to it. Uh, it really, uh, helps the entire, uh, complexity of this. But overall, the finish was kind of off putting to me a little bit a little bit on the side of my mouth where, uh, just on the side instead of my entire palate. And, uh, the tannins kind of overtook it a little bit as well.
• 41:39
  are the best thing on at 02: The funny thing is, this is the uncut rye.
• 41:42
  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah.
• 41:42
  are the best thing on at 02: And for me, the tannins were lower on this than they were on the first one.
• 41:45
  are the best thing on at 02: Yes.
• 41:46
  are the best thing on at 02: I mean, they're still high.
• 41:47
  are the best thing on at 02: Right.
• 41:48
  are the best thing on at 02: Um, and again, I'm a person who kind of likes an older Woody whiskey, especially like an older Woody bourbon. Um, I kind of get in that mood and I kind of enjoy it. But usually with that additional wood behind, that is 1718.
• 42:09
  are the best thing on at 02: Here I am trying to make older Woody jokes.
• 42:13
  are the best thing on at 02: Nothing PG 13 here.
• 42:16
  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah. No, it's the moment the world has waited for. Exactly. So, um, you're getting that up front, but then you're getting a, um, much younger whiskey behind, which, again, confuses me. Um, I'm trying to figure it out.
• 42:36
  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah, it's definitely different.
• 42:41
  are the best thing on at 02: You see, you said this didn't remind you of rye.
• 42:43
  are the best thing on at 02: This one I thought no, on the nose. On the nose, it did not remind me. M not on the nose at all. On the nose, not at all.
• 42:49
  are the best thing on at 02: But on the palate I did vanilla.
• 42:51
  are the best thing on at 02: And I got the vanilla on the nose. But I get a little bit of white flour, which sometimes I associate with light white flowers, which I sometimes associate with rye. But that damn tomato leaf keeps coming back again.
• 43:02
  are the best thing on at 02: It's there. It's not as prominent as with the one, uh, at the 50% ABV one, but it's still there. Uh, and the palate, it's very green.
• 43:15
  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah.
• 43:15
  are the best thing on at 02: Green wood, chocolate.
• 43:18
  are the best thing on at 02: Not very pleasing to me.
• 43:20
  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah. I'm still not getting that vegetable thing.
• 43:25
  are the best thing on at 02: You must have had too many vegetables last night because this thing is a vegetable bomb. It's young, it's not complex, it's not interesting. It might improve resume, it might improve with age, but gosh, I'm so disappointed. On paper, this sounded great.
• 43:44
  are the best thing on at 02: Uncut, unfiltered barrel strength 120 proof, 100% rye. I mean, how do you take something coming out of Alberta?
• 43:52
  are the best thing on at 02: Is this from British Columbia? This is British Columbia. It's a different this is not Alberta rye company.
• 43:58
  are the best thing on at 02: This is somebody else is producing it.
• 44:00
  are the best thing on at 02: It's not you, it's me.
• 44:01
  are the best thing on at 02: It's coming out of Canada. It should be amazing. And honestly, it's either in its, uh, introverted closed stage and waiting to open up and emerge, or I don't know. But honestly, I had high expectations.
• 44:17
  are the best thing on at 02: Instead taking it to New York thing. That's what they did.
• 44:19
  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah, I had high expectations last time.
• 44:21
  are the best thing on at 02: I went to New York. I got bugs, for crying out loud. So, yeah, I'd stay out of New York.
• 44:26
  are the best thing on at 02: Well, this is because you brought them from home with you.
• 44:29
  are the best thing on at 02: I wish, I wish it was that easy.
• 44:33
  are the best thing on at 02: Well, what are we going to rate this one, Bob?
• 44:35
  are the best thing on at 02: Well, we're going to be rating the uncle. Uh, nearest uncut, unfiltered rye. Uh, two sips.
• 44:41
  are the best thing on at 02: Well, isn't that nice?
• 44:43
  are the best thing on at 02: So we're going to go to Maury for our next one.
• 44:46
  are the best thing on at 02: Why, thank you, Bob. The next whiskey is the uncle.
• 44:49
  are the best thing on at 02: Nearest single barrel whiskey barrel number eight at 59% ABV, or 118 proof. Each barrel for this relief release excuse me. Is distilled aged and bottled in Middle Tennessee.
• 45:06
  are the best thing on at 02: Again, it's got a beautiful burnished copper color on the nose, fairly, uh, similar to the others in that, um, it does have a hint of vegetable, but it's definitely a little bit more approachable. And it's got some niceties that, uh, I think you can appreciate.
• 45:27
  are the best thing on at 02: Then this one has much better viscosity. It coats the palate a little bit. Nicer. It's got a little more complexity. It's got a little more age on it, and it's got a more of a medium finish. This is definitely more drinkable and approachable compared to the other two. Uh, I think it's pleasant.
• 45:44
  are the best thing on at 02: I think it's well made. I think with a little bit of air, perhaps a touch of water, uh, it's a serviceable whiskey. What'd you think, Brent?
• 45:53
  are the best thing on at 02: So this one reminds me more of a rye than the first two that were nose. I love this nose.
• 46:00
  are the best thing on at 02: You're right. The best of all, this is not a rye.
• 46:02
  are the best thing on at 02: This is just an American whiskey.
• 46:04
  are the best thing on at 02: This is American whiskey.
• 46:06
  are the best thing on at 02: Right.
• 46:06
  are the best thing on at 02: An American whiskey. But, uh, this one, I love the nose on it over above everything else that we had from them. Uh I really love this. And then, um, I got lots of pepper, baking spices, a bit of tobacco, hints of vanilla. And then I got that little funk to it, like that old kind of like that old funk that you get from the older whiskeys. Just a little bit. Not a lot and stuff, but, um, still has that little bit of bitterness to it. Yeah. So I don't know where they're sourcing from or how they're getting, because this is the third one with the bitterness. And how do they go from three different places and still get that same bitterness, is what I don't understand of why I'm getting those tanins and that bitterness all from three different sources, uh, of their product. I don't know what's going on.
• 46:55
  are the best thing on at 02: So many inappropriate jokes spring to mind.
• 46:57
  are the best thing on at 02: Which I just I was just thinking something along the lines of uncle nearest tears. Add the bitterness to the whiskey.
• 47:06
  are the best thing on at 02: Let's not go there.
• 47:07
  are the best thing on at 02: All right, well, we're going to rate the uncle nearest single barrel whiskey barrel number eight, three sips.
• 47:13
  are the best thing on at 02: Interesting.
• 47:13
  are the best thing on at 02: It was definitely better than the other two, too. I didn't even get a chance to talk about it. Man. I'd got that's.
• 47:18
  are the best thing on at 02: Okay, we don't care what you have to say.
• 47:20
  are the best thing on at 02: Whatever.
• 47:21
  are the best thing on at 02: All right, let's move on to our last one, which is the uncle near single barrel rye. Barrel number 160.5%, AB 121 proof, 100% rye, made, uh, in Canada, age in New York for a minimum of four years.
• 47:36
  are the best thing on at 02: Again, New York.
• 47:38
  are the best thing on at 02: Why?
• 47:39
  are the best thing on at 02: And again, probably something to do with the taxation.
• 47:42
  are the best thing on at 02: I get a sweet nose on it.
• 47:45
  are the best thing on at 02: Like a candied like a candied orange.
• 47:50
  are the best thing on at 02: Exactly. That orange is, like, pops right out.
• 47:53
  are the best thing on at 02: Like a candied orange. Peel a little bit of the pith. I get just a little bit of that bitterness on the nose, uh, on the Palate brown sugar maple. And then the finish just drops as, uh, soon as you swallow it, the finish is gone.
• 48:15
  are the best thing on at 02: Closest down where I like, yeah, on the nose. Yeah, that vanilla. The honey orange.
• 48:22
  are the best thing on at 02: I love that. Um, again, I must have a bad nose.
• 48:25
  are the best thing on at 02: This does not remind me of a rye. Uh, but the palate vanilla, honey, a little bit of slight tobacco.
• 48:31
  are the best thing on at 02: It's all front, palate.
• 48:33
  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah, and you just said it just finishes off right off. So dies right off.
• 48:38
  are the best thing on at 02: All right, well, we're running out of time, so we're going to rate the uncle nearest single barrel rye. Uh, barrel number one, three sips.
• 48:45
  are the best thing on at 02: Interesting.
• 48:49
  are the best thing on at 02: So, anyway, um, I don't know about you guys, but, uh, I'm just still kind of puzzled as to why the first two didn't smell like rye.
• 49:00
  are the best thing on at 02: Yeah, same thing.
• 49:03
  are the best thing on at 02: I was puzzled by that as well.
• 49:06
  are the best thing on at 02: The one that's actually not classified as rye smelled more like rye.
• 49:08
  are the best thing on at 02: Exactly. Well, that's all the time we have for today. I want to thank our co host for joining us. Thank you, Brent.
• 49:14
  are the best thing on at 02: Uh, thank you. I kissed a lot of frogs today.
• 49:16
  are the best thing on at 02: Yep. And thank you, maury.
• 49:18
  are the best thing on at 02: Thank you, Bob. Always a pleasure to be in the damp, dark basement.
• 49:21
  are the best thing on at 02: And thank know well, I was here.
• 49:29
  are the best thing on at 02: I mean, well, for sip said and.
• 49:32
  are the best thing on at 02: Smoke, it's better to drink whiskey than not, right?
• 49:35
  are the best thing on at 02: For sips, sudden smokes is made, man. Bob, thank you for joining us. Remember, life is too short to drink bad whiskey.
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