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Peerless Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey and All The Stories · Aussie Bourbon Lovers

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  Incredible flavours, even better stories.
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  One Pour, 10 Minuts.
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  Aussie bourbon lovers, sharing bourbon with Australia.
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  Oh, a bit of a delayed pop there, sorry.
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  What are we drinking tonight, Dave? It's okay.
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  This is the Peerless Small Batch Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whisky.
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  It's from Peerless.
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  It's bourbon.
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  So in America, this is a bottle that's...
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  See, I say this stuff with some pretending like I've got authority on this.
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  I don't really know.
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  I think it's not that hard to get in the US, in a lot of states in the US.
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  But you can't get it here.
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  Very hard to get your hands on here, in my experience.
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  Yeah, so you can get it It's hard to get. Sometimes you can get.
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  I think they sometimes ship so over to us.
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  Cheers to some Peerless. Cheers.
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  It doesn't have the usual team because we're drinking them out of the…
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  These are glasses you get when you do the distilleries.
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  We brought back the little Peerless glasses.
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  We went to the tour. It was such a great tour.
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  It was one of those tours where you felt like you were one of the team.
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  Did you think that?
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  Yeah, I think we were very lucky.
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  We got a tour guide who was very much very close to the
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  family that run the distillery.
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  She just made you feel like you were one of the gang.
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  That's what I found anyway.
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  What did you got on the nose, Dave?
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  I- alcohol.
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  Oh, really? You have not been drinking.
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  You've not been in the air for a few weeks.
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  And you're not into it.
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  So caramel, vanilla-y, like sticky date, puddingy stuff.
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  And then there's this nice oatiness that's real complementary to it.
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  So I don't know.
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  Gentle and subtle.
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  Falls into that desserty category for me.
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  It definitely has the caramels and stickiness.
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  There's a nice bit of heat there.
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  Yeah, I think that's what I accidentally noticed it without my mouth open.
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  The other thing is that we're not used to drinking from glass like this.
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  Glencaron and a little glass, it's still a tulipy, bulby shape.
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  And glasses do make a difference when you're tasting them.
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  It really does.
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  Or when you're nosing them and tasting them or the whole lot.
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  One time I did a tasting for some mates, and I put the same whiskey in four
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  different kinds of glasses and I asked them which whiskey they liked the best.
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  Oh, you mean?
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  It was pretty funny. It was the start of the night.
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  But I suppose it does give off different smells and different tastes.
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  Oh, I really got the caramel then.
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  I'm going to point out which Nostril I'm getting more.
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  How little you've bought me.
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  That is so delicious.
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  You'll notice in the thumbnail, those same mates have also
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  been unkind to me about the fact that a lot of our thumbnails
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  are mostly empty bottles.
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  In fact, if you look at it as a collection, often the pictures
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  are mostly empty bottles. It means that we enjoy them.
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  We're not collecting them. Exactly.
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  We're enjoying our bourbon. We're not collecting it.
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  This PLS one is, again, an almost empty bottle because
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  we have enjoyed our Peel-as.
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  Do you know, I literally, we were talking about which bottle should we do?
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  And I looked at the shelf and went, oh, we better do a podcast about
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  that one before it empties. That's true.
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  Some of them we need to make sure we do the podcast before the bottle is gone.
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  It's just a banger.
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  Do you know, this is the bottle that I come in here and I go, oh,
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  I really feel like something that's easy to have a crack at, but I'm
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  going to have an easy go of it.
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  It's going to be delicious.
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  It's going to be really good.
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  And I feel like I'm treating myself a little bit, but
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  I'm also conscious that I'm not going to get another bottle of that unless I'm in
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  the US and grab one-off the shelf over there.
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  This bottle came to us through-I was going to say we didn't bring this one back.
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  We didn't bring it back.
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  What was the name of the one we brought back?
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  The Peelers. I haveIt's the rye.
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  It's the Rye. It's the Rye Whisky we brought back.
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  And that was when we got on the tour there when we were there.
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  Is it the shape of a doubler? Have I got that wrong?
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  I thought it was the barrel, but it's not the barrel.
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  Is it the doubler that that's the shape is?
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  I thought it was the barrel. I'm going to have it wrong.
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  Whisky nerds everywhere are going to be like, Dave, you're a nuff-nuff.
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  But I think it's a piece of the- They're all thinking that anyway, Dave.
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  It's a piece of the equipment.
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  And it's not the barrel because I thought it was the barrel.
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  But those little dots are the rivets.
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  So it's a bit of copper that it's based on.
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  But they're such beautiful bottles, but they're also a lot of class.
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  They're very heavy to bring back if you're weight-restricted.
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  Bourbon bottles often are.
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  And so don't be way restricted if you're coming back from Kentucky.
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  Exactly.
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  Sorry. So I got it with a shipment.
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  You said you wanted a nice bottle of Four Roses.
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  Yes. And so I said, I'll get one.
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  You're paying for the shipping.
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  So you add a few extra bottles. Why not?
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  And you got to pay the taxes. It comes in all that stuff.
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  Anyway, so what do I really want if I'm going to have to get
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  something from the US? So a bottle of Peelers was on the list.
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  There are so many amazing things that Peelers do.
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  What are your favourite, Dave?
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  Well, here's the thing- Because you took me to the distillery.
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  You'd already been, and you took me because you loved it so much.
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  Yeah. So we love telling the stories.
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  We love telling the stories and sharing the stories and stuff.
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  There's a previous story you can listen to about that bottle, the rye,
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  that we already talk about.
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  If you want to go back, you can listen to the story.
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  Yeah, we won't repeat ourselves, but.
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  Yeah, we should probably- Waffle on that, the rye But things like Corky
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  who is the guy who owns it.
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  Was it he himself who was in military school with Al Gore?
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  Must be. And then the Olman Brothers.
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  Or his father. I'm pretty sure.
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  No, it was him. No.
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  No, it was him. Him.
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  Corky's dad was General Patty's right-hand man, and so he has General Patty's pistol.
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  There's those amazing stories.
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  But then Peerless was started as a distillery.
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  During Prohibition, there's these 64,000 barrels that get evacuated
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  on a private train line.
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  The warehouses covered in vines and Al Capone, and he hangs out with them.
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  They sell all the barrels to the Walgrand Brothers because they've got the- Yes.
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  The liquor license- The means to get rid of the war.
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  Or the pharmacies to get rid of.
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  So there's so So many amazing stories.
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  That's the reason that I took you there because so many amazing stories.
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  I love the stories.
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  But better than that- We even met the man himself.
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  He walked in right at the end of our tour.
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  It was fabulous.
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  He even told us a few of his stories and showed it.
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  He had a book there that different things.
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  He agreed and disagreed with what some of the stuff was in the written in the book.
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  He was the Olman Brothers. Anyway.
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  And he signed our bottle.
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  But so you asked the question about why do I like it so much.
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  They do things so well.
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  They do so many things as well.
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  Because he's just a…
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  I'm going to get the complete story a little bit wrong, but he made his money
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  independently as a businessman before he read- He's doing this like this, though.
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  It's like a retirement. Like a retirement fund.
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  Yeah, which I think it's really fun because that means he can really
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  do what he wants to do with it. Exactly.
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  Here are the things they do.
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  They don't work on weekends.
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  They do a sweet mash process, so that means they clean everything every time.
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  Because that is more costly and much more time consuming.
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  But it means they can control every…
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  Well, I mean, control is a silly word, but they've got this excellent
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  control over the process.
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  Every bottle of Peelis is kosher, even though no one in the family is Jewish.
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  It's a tips me lid to the-Was it his grandfather?
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  Yeah.
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  But I think they didn't even do it for him necessarily.
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  Wasn't that a respect to the family?
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  I thought he did it out of respect for his grandfather or
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  great-grandfather or something.
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  But yeah, they went to a lot of effort to make sure they got that.
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  It still is everybody's bottle is still kosher, which is, I think, quite uncommon.
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  Low barrel entry proof, 107 it goes in, which is that.
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  So this is like the Mictis thing.
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  So instead of going 120, it goes 107.
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  Mictis is, I think, slightly lower.
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  So that's interesting.
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  And this one, it's got on the label that it's in the glass at 108.
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  7 proof.
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  So low barrel entry proof means there's more water goes in.
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  After or before? Before.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  So they put the water in before and less after.
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  In fact, I'm wondering if they don't put any water in after, but please
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  don't quote me on that one. Don't quote us on anything.
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  Yeah, exactly.
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  Can you imagine if someone- someone who actually knows what they're
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  talking about is listening.
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  This is for people who want to get introduced to bourbon.
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  Then go down the rabbit hole and do the research themselves.
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  But let me say something that maybe is a bit controversial, and people are
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  definitely allowed to disagree with me on this.
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  If you go to Louisville in Kentucky and you've only got time to
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  do one distillery tour.
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  You do Peelers.
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  I reckon you should do Peelers.
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  Oh, I don't know. The stories are so good.
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  Yeah.
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  You definitely can't miss it, but one, there's so many good ones.
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  There's Michto's and Old Forrester and Angels Envy and Rabbit Hole.
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  It's just like, you can't just...
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  Why would anyone in their mind be in Louisville, Kentucky
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  and only want to do one?
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  That's a ridiculous idea. You're right.
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  But definitely, if you got a shortlist, put Peelis on it because
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  just Like amazing stories.
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  I think I could almost- The bourbon is really good, but amazing stories.
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  The bourbon is really good.
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  Then you end up in the tasting room at the end, and they're like these old woodlined
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  classrooms and with these glasses.
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  Then they go along and give you the taste of each of the things,
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  including the single barrels they've got.
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  And you can only get the single barrels from the distillery.
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  And then you also see they do these drops.
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  I'm not even sure what they dropped the other day, but they dropped, is it
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  a toasted barrel, rye or something?
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  Everyone's queued up for miles long. Amazing.
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  So cool. But they know where to get the good stuff.
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  Yeah. And so it's got this.
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  It's almost like a cult following because they're not a big distiller
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  because they do these small runs.
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  No, they're quite small compared to some of the other really big ones.
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  Yeah, true small batch.
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  And so all that stuff all adds up to being a really fascinating, cool,
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  true, I suppose independent or craft distiller, I think.
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  I think, yeah. Yeah.
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  I just love the stories.
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  I love that it's small.
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  It's on the small side, and I love that it tastes delicious.
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  Do you know what I think is happening? What's happening, Dave?
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  I think your pause for the podcast is getting smaller because
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  we've basically finished, but I'm about to cheese with an almost empty glass.
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  Oh, no, we can't do that, Dave.
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  I'll have to make sure I'm more generous with my pause.
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  If you get to Louisville and you've got any time at all and you're
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  wondering what to do with it, please, please.
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  Visit PLS. Visit PLS.
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  It's such a cool little spot. They're wonderful.
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  Right in the middle of town. They're friendly.
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  Easy to get to. Yeah.
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  Friendly. Awesome.
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  And only 30 staff, you're probably going to be doing a tour with the head of
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  marketing or with someone who's really close to connected with the family.
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  That's what I meant when I said, I think you feel like they're just so close,
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  tight knit, and it tastes delicious, too. Excuse us.
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  I need to pour some more in my glass. Cheers.
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