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Bourbon Versus Bubbles At Midnight · The Scotchy Bourbon Boys

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  SPEAKER_01: Tiny here with you tonight, just just hanging out, getting ready for the new year.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know if we're gonna have a podcast on Thursday night.
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  SPEAKER_01: I do have our bourbon of the year podcast to air that I can share with everybody that we did live a couple weeks ago when everybody was in town.
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  SPEAKER_01: We did that live, but I will I'm debating if I put the audio on tomorrow and then New Year's Eve or New Year's Day the after that evening on the 8:30, still do a podcast.
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  SPEAKER_01: So tonight I'm specifically working on it.
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  SPEAKER_01: I wasn't successful, so I just reminded myself of it.
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  SPEAKER_01: But tonight we are gonna do the podcast on why do you do you, you know, and I'm gonna be monitoring the comments.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna try and monitor comments more than I usually do and keep up with it because the question is is that, you know, to do this podcast, I was looking for a New Year's bourbon.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, like I said, I'm gonna be monitoring comments tonight.
• 7:37
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• 7:38
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, was just checking in, was wondering if you ever pull out that cocktail smoker that I made from you from I yes, 100%.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_01: I've pulled out the cocktail smoker all throughout the holidays.
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  SPEAKER_01: We did the podcast on it, but at the same time, I've it's one of the things that are out there, and I'm trying, I think I'm gonna do a podcast on who does the best, the best one.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let's see which which um yeah, and then uh I'm watching Super Nashes on tonight, already shared it.
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  SPEAKER_01: We got Christy Maddie on, we've got Randy.
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  SPEAKER_01: I saw, I saw John Ritt.
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  SPEAKER_01: Did not see Walker yet tonight.
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  SPEAKER_01: We got Eric Bowler, we've got Steve Pitzer.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let me know if you liked how those burb, if you got those bourbon balls, you should have.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then we've got Scott Barr, the winner of the last week's uh one of the one of the people in the comment section.
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  SPEAKER_01: We've got Jeff Joyner, a good friend of mine from Wisconsin.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's drinking Booker's.
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  SPEAKER_01: We got brochure.
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  SPEAKER_01: I got Randy on, I think he said T.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then Tyler Richon says hi.
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  SPEAKER_01: He was uh he won, you know, something off last time, and then I believe I said Tony Hampton and Eric.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yep, there we go.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's a good amount of people watching tonight.
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  SPEAKER_01: Good, yep, he said he just got them.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just the time for New Year's, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: All right, John Strink and Shanks.
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  SPEAKER_01: I would say that one of the things that while I was watching and searching the internet, asking, I asked AI, I but there's not a lot of bourbon or whiskey things that promote New Year's.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's just not there.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's no, I I mean, you would think, I don't know, but you would think a distillery would come out with a New Year's release, the first release of 2026 at the distilleries, you know, everybody goes and picks them up.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_01: You would think that they'd have New Year's bourbon, like the lines would be, you know, for releases as far as drops, but there's not.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is the time of the year, usually in this time of the year after the holidays, they kind of back off and they don't push.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's no, I mean, you just don't.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now I think some of the distilleries have New Year's Eve parties, but not even that I did I notice.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_01: I'm I noticed some of the, like, for instance, Jervasie, they have their New Year's Eve parties because that makes sense because it's a party, but most everything is with champagne, sparkling wine, and a sparkling grape juice.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, not bourbon.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so, based off of that, I mean, what do you guys see?
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I just don't see it.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't see a push that I think should happen.
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  SPEAKER_01: I never check to make sure, my god, did that really just do that?
• 11:25
  SPEAKER_01: I gotta make sure the sound works.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, there we go.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, it's working.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let's catch up to live.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my gosh.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_01: I'm trying to monitor the the comments.
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  SPEAKER_01: I guess the comments are there.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_01: You should be.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_01: Let's see.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_01: Oh shouldn't you just be able to get online and go live?
• 12:01
  SPEAKER_01: Let's see.
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_01: Here we go.
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  SPEAKER_01: We'll just try.
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  SPEAKER_01: There we go.
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  SPEAKER_01: Live.
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  SPEAKER_01: That is me live, that's for sure.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's working.
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  SPEAKER_01: I just want to make sure.
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  SPEAKER_01: I I took a picture.
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  SPEAKER_01: Anyways, all right.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we're live.
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  SPEAKER_01: We got everybody calling and so it really comes down to why.
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  SPEAKER_01: Why is bourbon and what can we do about it?
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  SPEAKER_01: I really there's like those are the questions that I asked.
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  SPEAKER_01: So the first one, and this fun, fun thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so the first thing is still spirits, bourbon and whiskey and rum are intimate and contemplative by nature.
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  SPEAKER_01: Champagne is communal and explosive, which fits midnight perfectly.
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  SPEAKER_01: It also has bubbles.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, bubbles equal celebration in psychology.
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  SPEAKER_01: It matters.
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  SPEAKER_01: Human associates effer humans associate effervescence with excitement.
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  SPEAKER_01: Bubbles feel alive, active, and festive.
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  SPEAKER_01: The pop of the cork signals a moment visually dramatic in a room full of people.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's kind of why champagne is the celebration, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: But it also has centuries of tradition.
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  SPEAKER_01: Champagne got there first, before the distilled spirits.
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  SPEAKER_01: It basically champagne locked itself into royal courts, victories and milestones, toasts and public celebrations.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you're talking about even when you think of it, nobody drinks a bottle of bourbon after they win a NASCAR race, royal courts, whatever they pop.
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  SPEAKER_01: It said by the early 1900s, champagne was already the default moment drink, and New Year's Eve became the moment of moments.
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  SPEAKER_01: So there you go.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's like because it's a moment drink, traditional snowballs.
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  SPEAKER_01: Once people expect champagne, everyone follows.
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  SPEAKER_01: So tradition snowballs, it's the snowball effect.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then marketing owned the moment.
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  SPEAKER_01: Champagne brands bought New Year's Eve imagery early, linked bubbles with midnight kisses and countdowns.
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  SPEAKER_01: Made sure TV, movies, and ads showed champagne at the strike of 12.
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  SPEAKER_01: Bourbon brands, they focused on heritage, aging, firesides, quiet reflections.
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  SPEAKER_01: Great for winter, terrible for a countdown clock.
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  SPEAKER_01: Champagne is easy for groups.
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  SPEAKER_01: New Year's Eve is not a tasting event.
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  SPEAKER_01: Mixed crowds, non-drinkers, light drinkers, cocktail avoiders, people who want one glass, not a pour.
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  SPEAKER_01: Champagne is lower ABV, obviously, easy to sip, socially safe, accepted by everyone at the party.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_01: Bourbon asks more of the drinker, and at midnight, people want simple.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ritual beats flavor.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, the ritual is everything.
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  SPEAKER_01: You chill the bottle, you count down, pop, pour, toast.
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  SPEAKER_01: That sequence is burned into culture.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the ritual the rituals win holidays.
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  SPEAKER_01: So why hasn't the hasn't bourbon claimed New Year's?
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  SPEAKER_01: Why hasn't it?
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  SPEAKER_01: Because Bourbon marketed seasons, not moments.
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  SPEAKER_01: Never created a midnight ritual, never simplified its message for mass celebration.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let champagne own the visual language.
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  SPEAKER_01: Bourbon could own New Year's, but it would require a ritual, a countdown pour, a shared moment, and brands willing to loosen the tie and have fun.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_01: Champagne doesn't rule New Year's because it tastes better, it rules because it shows up when the clock hits a zero.
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  SPEAKER_01: So there you go, as far as champagne.
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_01: Why champagne has done has done what it's supposed to do.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, that's why.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_01: But just because champagne's the winner, champagne wins even in market share.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, beer and wine and then other clear spirits, I mean, bourbon and whiskey, bourbon is only 12% and whiskey is only 12%.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_01: No, bourbon's only 12% of the market place.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_01: And it used it when it drops to nine or eight, it's like it's not in a bourbon boom.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_01: So it's just a couple points up, and bourbon becomes.
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  SPEAKER_01: So why hasn't everybody?
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_01: This is my question when you think about it, why hasn't everybody when it comes to bourbon?
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_01: Why hasn't bourbon just tried to claim their 12%?
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_01: Because I don't think they claim their 12%.
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  SPEAKER_01: What what do there I looked online?
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  SPEAKER_01: What would be a champagne or a bourbon celebration whiskey?
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_01: They don't they could do, I mean, they do special releases for the Kentucky Derby.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_01: They do special releases.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, they can do a celebration release.
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  SPEAKER_01: Why are they not releasing a bourbon that people can drink, you know, that people will drink on New Year's?
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, one, a special one that people try and get and share with their friends.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I asked for how bourbon could steal New Year's.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay?
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_01: And how bourbon could steal New Year's?
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  SPEAKER_01: One, bourbon needs a midnight ritual.
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  SPEAKER_01: Champagne wins because it owns the ritual.
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  SPEAKER_01: The pop, the pour, the toast.
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  SPEAKER_01: Bourbon needs its own shared moment.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_01: Count the midnight pour.
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  SPEAKER_01: Countdown hits zero.
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  SPEAKER_01: Everyone pours one ounce, glasses up, one unified toast.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay?
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_01: So you call it the midnight pour.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_01: But what would be in there?
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
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  SPEAKER_01: Simple, ruhable, memorable.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, why isn't there a midnight pour?
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_01: Why don't we all get together and have one midnight pour?
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_01: Something that all of us think what and then at the at the 12 o'clock, we all basically raise our glasses, have the pour, and share.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_01: That's kind of what I was thinking when it came to, you know, that makes sense.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_01: But what would that midnight pour be?
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_01: All right, so stop making bourbon so serious.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_01: New Year's is loud, messy, and fun.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_01: Bourbon marketing is leather chairs and fireplaces.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_01: Great, but not midnight energy.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_01: For New Year's, bourbon should feel bold, confident, celebratory, a little less, a little reckless.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so the pour, the midnight pour shouldn't be in a Glenn Karen tasting glass.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_01: It should be a pour on the rocks.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_01: Or what what would what how would you drink it that would you know bring in the coming new year, solidify the new year?
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_01: The the afterpour.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, you could have midnight call, and then it's the bourbon after pour.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_01: There's so much that we could do that's not being done.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_01: You could go back to Sirius on January 2nd.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_01: That's what I agree.
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_01: There's gotta be a fun.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_01: Where what would it be?
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, Jay Mattingley produces some awesome labels and they always seem festive.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, there might be someone's gotta own that, you know.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_01: What's the best?
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so we got someone right here.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, we got one guy who wants me to sing.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_01: That's not happening.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, thanks for that one.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not even gonna say that.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_01: They're just people are so mean to me.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, it's just like put the yeah, so no, my my son wants me to do that, put the liquor down and roll up a joint.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, no, I do everything I can do to get out of it.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_01: We got the other guy.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_01: What's the best non sweet tasting whiskey?
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_01: I would say Booker's.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_01: Booker's isn't sweet, it has some sort.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_01: Sweetness, but it's a pretty damn good pour as far as it tastes like bourbon.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_01: Another one would be cave hell, oh rabbit hill cave hell for that.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_01: But okay, so own the toast, not the night.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_01: Bourbon doesn't need to replace champagne at midnight, it needs 12:01 a.m.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, everybody starts singing, and afterwards you go up and you got a bourbon toast.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_01: Champagne is for the kiss, bourbon is for the promise, new goals, new risks, new chapters.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, think about that.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_01: So it's the afterpour.
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_01: Once that happens, you know, they all have those, you know, that's when everybody, what time would you do that?
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_01: You everybody does a champagne, and then 12:30, you have the afterpour that you do the toast for the future, and everybody does the there's so much you could do on New Year's that's not create a signature New Year's serve, one simple nationwide serve, one ounce bourbon, one quarter of maple or honey, orange peel, one cub, one cube.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, you could do yes, a signature New Year's drink.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, that is something that that that's not there.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_01: Like everybody who likes bourbon, you don't have the ability to do that.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_01: You don't have that ability, and that's crazy to me that there's not a specific bourbon drink for New Year's.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_01: Uh like I said, I was looking and there was virtually nothing.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_01: Do uh does anybody know of a New Year's release at the distilleries?
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_01: Like you go in and they have one for New Year's that brings in the New Year's?
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_01: No.
• 22:51
  SPEAKER_01: Call it the New Year's pour.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, one, you know, we you could do so much.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_01: Make it social, not snobby.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_01: New Year's lives on social media.
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  SPEAKER_01: Bourbon should be shown as friends clicking glasses, countdown pours, laughter, not lectures.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_01: Make it visible, make it repeatable.
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  SPEAKER_01: The other things champagne celebrates in the moment, bourbon celebrates what comes next.
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_01: If bourbon ever figures that out, New Year's Eve won't belong to Bubbles anymore.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_01: That's my that's that's a take that I totally agree with.
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_01: Came up with that similarly on my own.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_01: I don't, but I just don't understand overall why bourbon isn't the marketing of bourbon isn't too new year's eve.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_01: And I understand everything, it isn't that type of a of a spirit in its marketing, but the one night you could you could call it you could call it something like not your normal bourbon night.
• 24:47
  SPEAKER_01: Not you know, not your you know, we could you just gotta take it a little bit further.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I'm sick and tired of I don't want I mean I don't want to have to drink champagne.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_01: I don't mind having a little bit.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_01: Most of the time I've got kids around, so most of the time I'm drinking sparkling grape juice, but the pop is part of it.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_01: You pop the cork, a lot of people, you know, it explodes out the bottle.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_01: That's not you, but bourbon has corks, but at the same time, I love the fact that maybe that the what was it?
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_01: Champagne is for the kiss, bourbon is for the promise.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_01: There you go.
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_01: That's the commitment.
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_01: Champagne is the the the surface thing.
• 25:35
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, how many times do you actually drink champagne besides New Year's?
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, maybe on very, very special occasions and stuff, but overall, that's you know what I mean.
• 25:48
  SPEAKER_01: It's just kind of crazy.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_01: So there you go.
• 25:52
  SPEAKER_01: Anyone got any thoughts on that?
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_01: I don't see a lot of commenting at this point.
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_01: Y'all must be listening.
• 26:03
  SPEAKER_01: Well, when I open it up in a couple minutes, I'll let everybody give their opinion.
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_01: That jumps on.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_01: But I will say now I've got the special quick, we're gonna do the old Louisville, the old Louisville barrel bottle breakdown of Cathedral.
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_01: I'll go a little bit into that, but old Louisville, Amin in Louisville, Kentucky.
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_01: You gotta check him out.
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_01: Old Louisville Whiskey Company, fantastic experience and fantastic whiskey.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_01: Doesn't release anything, seven years old.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_01: Nothing, seven years, younger than seven years.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_01: So you gotta check out Amin at the Old Louisville Whiskey Company, and then he's gonna be in Shively real soon.
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_01: Can't wait till that move happens.
• 27:09
  SPEAKER_01: So the old Louisville bourbon bottle breakdown is consists of a scale of four up to four barrel knocks for the nose and the body, and up to five barrel knocks for the taste and the finish.
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_01: But if you have an exceptional category, you can add an extra butt up up.
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_01: So check that out to our nation's future.
• 27:39
  SPEAKER_01: Jim Beam.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_01: There you go.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_01: The celebrating poor.
• 27:42
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, there's so much that can go on, anyways.
• 27:51
  SPEAKER_01: Champagne at baby showers.
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_01: That's well, champagne when you're when your grandson, but no, bourbon when you the poor when your grandson gets gets born.
• 28:03
  SPEAKER_01: So let me grab the cathedral bottle.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_01: And one of the this this bottle is not a bottle I ever thought I was gonna get.
• 28:14
  SPEAKER_01: And I got it through, oh my gosh, I pulled out that.
• 28:17
  SPEAKER_01: That's not what I wanted.
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_01: Let's pull out this one.
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_01: Alright, here we go.
• 28:23
  SPEAKER_01: That's the right one.
• 28:27
  SPEAKER_01: Cathedral is made by Bard's Town Bourbon Company.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_01: And it is like any other bard, this is a 375.
• 28:39
  SPEAKER_01: This is not a cheap bottle.
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I do have everything I need to do this tonight.
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_01: Alright.
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_01: Smallbats explorations of cask finishes and blends.
• 28:53
  SPEAKER_01: This is 45% Kentucky 14 year, 37 Kentucky 18 year, 10% Kentucky 11 year, 5% Kentucky 9 year, and 2.5% Kentucky 17 year.
• 29:08
  SPEAKER_01: Alright.
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_01: A blend of Kentucky straight bourbon whiskeys finished for 14 months in a 300-year-old French, in 300-year-old French oak barrels.
• 29:19
  SPEAKER_01: Premium blended straight bourbon aged an exquisite 300-year French oak originally harvested for Notre Dame Cathedral.
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_01: So what happens with the Notre Dame Cathedral is when they were gonna when they were rebuilding it, they had to chop down 300-year-old oaks because the cathedral to to rein recreate the exact dimensions of the cathedral, they needed 300-year-old oaks to get the length that was needed to rebuild the top cathedral part.
• 30:01
  SPEAKER_01: And the extra wood they were able to get, and then I think they got pieces, but I think it said bear it says barrels, and that's what I want to.
• 30:13
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna look at it again.
• 30:14
  SPEAKER_01: I believe it actually says they made staves and then made barrels.
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_01: Yep, French oak barrels.
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_01: 300 year old.
• 30:24
  SPEAKER_01: So the the wood came from trees, oak trees that were over 300 years.
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_01: So you're looking at all those different well-aged bourbons, and then they were put in a barrel that was made from a tree that was 300 years old.
• 30:41
  SPEAKER_01: Imagine the flavor in that tree.
• 30:44
  SPEAKER_01: And there's only one reason why you would cut that tree down.
• 30:47
  SPEAKER_01: It wouldn't be to make bourbon barrels, but because they're the extra from making it, that allowed it to the scrap wood to become bourbon barrels.
• 30:59
  SPEAKER_01: I'm making sure, is that the good one?
• 31:02
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_01: All right, we're gonna put that in here now.
• 31:09
  SPEAKER_01: I love this.
• 31:10
  SPEAKER_01: This is not something, this is not normal.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_01: It was hard to get.
• 31:14
  SPEAKER_01: I almost got it at the festival.
• 31:16
  SPEAKER_01: Someone skipped me in line.
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_01: I told the story, and somehow this bottle is signed by Steve Nally, and it was a birthday gift to me from Randy, and I am humbled and honored.
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_01: And a lot of you have tasted tasted this when you've been with me.
• 31:34
  SPEAKER_01: So here we go.
• 31:40
  SPEAKER_01: This is the barrel bottle breakdown.
• 31:47
  SPEAKER_01: Even with this stuffed up nose, I can smell.
• 34:04
  SPEAKER_01: This still coats every your cheeks, your A little bit of cherry.
• 34:30
  SPEAKER_01: Here's a non sweet bourbon, that's for sure.
• 34:38
  SPEAKER_01: Scott, the flavor of the oak is unlike anything because it's like almost toasted, but fourteen months, there's a char aspect to it that is coming out.
• 35:14
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 35:45
  SPEAKER_01: The body though, the body on this comes through.
• 35:50
  SPEAKER_01: The strength of this is insane.
• 35:53
  SPEAKER_01: It's the perfect the most perfect body I've ever had.
• 35:58
  SPEAKER_01: Flavor throughout my in my cheeks, underneath my tongue, everything, but not overpowering.
• 36:04
  SPEAKER_01: Just very, very like balanced throughout the everywhere.
• 36:08
  SPEAKER_01: And I've never had a body like this, so I'm gonna give this a four and a butt up up.
• 36:20
  SPEAKER_01: Now, taste.
• 36:24
  SPEAKER_01: I'll be honest with you.
• 36:35
  SPEAKER_01: If you like aged scotch, aged whiskey, this is here.
• 36:44
  SPEAKER_01: There's leather, there's oak, there's maybe even a little bit of tobacco.
• 36:53
  SPEAKER_01: It's not sweet.
• 36:58
  SPEAKER_01: Not a huge hug, there's a little bit of a hug.
• 37:02
  SPEAKER_01: So as far as taste goes, it starts off there's a little bit of French toast, but then there's char and leather and oak.
• 37:12
  SPEAKER_01: And for me, that caramel and everything.
• 37:16
  SPEAKER_01: So the taste on this one out of five, I'm gonna give it.
• 37:22
  SPEAKER_01: I know it it's a good tasting whiskey.
• 37:26
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not saying, but it gets a four.
• 37:34
  SPEAKER_01: Then the finish is long, but the finish is tobacco, and I'm just being honest, people.
• 37:44
  SPEAKER_01: This is a high-end pour, no doubt.
• 37:48
  SPEAKER_01: Finish is super long.
• 37:50
  SPEAKER_01: It's an experience of when when can you ever drink a whiskey that's been finished in a barrel that was made by 300-year-old French elk to rebuild a famous cathedral?
• 38:06
  SPEAKER_01: Excuse me.
• 38:07
  SPEAKER_01: For people who love this, this is it.
• 38:11
  SPEAKER_01: You like those tobacco flavors, you love those wood, you know, that wood, there's that flavor, the char.
• 38:22
  SPEAKER_00: If you like leather, it's all there.
• 38:31
  SPEAKER_01: This is not a sweet whiskey.
• 38:35
  SPEAKER_01: There's a little bit maybe brown sugar on it.
• 38:47
  SPEAKER_02: All right, let's just see one more time.
• 38:49
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna give myself a little, little bit more.
• 38:57
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's way sweeter right there.
• 39:12
  SPEAKER_01: Based based off of length, like on the taste with Ford, there's a little bit of French toast there.
• 39:21
  SPEAKER_01: I'm getting.
• 39:22
  SPEAKER_01: But on the finish, I'm not a huge fan of leather finishes and whatnot.
• 39:29
  SPEAKER_01: And I would have to say on this one, for me personally, and this just me personally, once again, our rating system is based off of what we think personally, not what I'm telling you.
• 39:42
  SPEAKER_01: If you like that leathery, those long leathery, they've got some wood in it, and they got some char and they've got the you know, if you like that, this is this is your thing.
• 39:57
  SPEAKER_01: But I I like to pick up some other flavors, like if a lot I love if there's like a sweeter vanilla pudding caramels, creme brulee, that type of stuff.
• 40:06
  SPEAKER_01: But this doesn't, this is not that.
• 40:09
  SPEAKER_01: So I will have to say on the finish, I'd give the finish a four if it was based on the length.
• 40:17
  SPEAKER_01: But it this is when you throw in the other part, I'm gonna give it a three.
• 40:25
  SPEAKER_01: So three and four are seven, plus six and three are nine.
• 40:34
  SPEAKER_01: So I gave this a 16 out of 18, I believe.
• 40:39
  SPEAKER_01: I think I did that.
• 40:41
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, of course she would.
• 40:43
  SPEAKER_01: She likes this, is what she loves.
• 40:45
  SPEAKER_01: This is this is Rachel's jam.
• 40:49
  SPEAKER_01: But you know, I'm just sitting there saying 16 out of 18 is not a bad score, right?
• 41:01
  SPEAKER_01: Three and three and four is seven.
• 41:04
  SPEAKER_01: And wait, okay, so 15 out of 18, because it would be, I gave a four, a five, a five, and a three, eight.
• 41:16
  SPEAKER_01: Seven and eight, fifteen out of eighteen.
• 41:18
  SPEAKER_01: There you go.
• 41:19
  SPEAKER_01: The Scotchy Bourbon Boys barrel bottle breakdown of the old Louisville whiskey company sponsored rating is a 15 out of 18 on Cathedral.
• 41:32
  SPEAKER_01: But I guarantee you, if you like something a little bit more, this is definitely this would definitely be your jam.
• 41:40
  SPEAKER_01: And I still, the fact that I can taste something.
• 41:43
  SPEAKER_01: Something like this.
• 41:44
  SPEAKER_01: This is this is special to me.
• 41:46
  SPEAKER_01: It's a special pour, and there's nothing wrong with the 15 out of 18.
• 41:50
  SPEAKER_01: Alright, everybody, there you go.
• 41:52
  SPEAKER_01: That is the old Louisville with old Louisville whiskey companies barrel bottle breakdown.
• 41:59
  SPEAKER_01: Make sure if you're in the Louisville area to stop in and say see Amin.
• 42:06
  SPEAKER_01: There we go.
• 42:07
  SPEAKER_01: Let's not knock that over.
• 42:09
  SPEAKER_01: Let's drop it in.
• 42:11
  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
• 42:13
  SPEAKER_01: Drop back the hammer.
• 42:15
  SPEAKER_01: Bung hammer.
• 42:18
  SPEAKER_01: And any more, let's see.
• 42:22
  SPEAKER_01: What's the best non- Okay, Whirly Films is India.
• 42:26
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, okay.
• 42:27
  SPEAKER_01: Great.
• 42:28
  SPEAKER_01: You should check out really good bourbons.
• 42:30
  SPEAKER_01: You guys over in India love 100% love whiskey.
• 42:34
  SPEAKER_01: There's no doubt about that.
• 42:37
  SPEAKER_01: Alright.
• 42:37
  SPEAKER_01: I'll set that up.
• 42:39
  SPEAKER_01: We gave that a 15 out of 18.
• 42:41
  SPEAKER_01: You should write that down, Super Nash.
• 42:44
  SPEAKER_01: Before I think that was the Knob Creek 21 there for the peanut butter pretzel mat.
• 42:52
  SPEAKER_01: That would make a difference in the in the pairing.
• 42:54
  SPEAKER_01: There's no doubt about it.
• 42:56
  SPEAKER_01: I want to show everybody this barrel.
• 42:59
  SPEAKER_01: I am going to take suggestions about what we're going to do it.
• 43:04
  SPEAKER_01: But this is my present from CT.
• 43:08
  SPEAKER_01: It is a barrel and it is designed to do some aging.
• 43:13
  SPEAKER_01: So this one is 2025, Canton, Ohio, Barrel Age, Spirits.
• 43:22
  SPEAKER_01: What does that say?
• 43:25
  SPEAKER_01: In I don't know why I can't read, but Spirits Unknown Tiny's batch.
• 43:36
  SPEAKER_01: This is the 2025.
• 43:38
  SPEAKER_01: I gotta fill it.
• 43:39
  SPEAKER_01: We'll fill it one time.
• 43:40
  SPEAKER_01: I believe there's instructions on this.
• 43:43
  SPEAKER_01: I can't even get that little top thing out.
• 43:46
  SPEAKER_01: I know that doesn't come out, but it should be pretty cool to fill this baby up, see what happens after a couple weeks or whatever.
• 43:54
  SPEAKER_01: We'll just sip from it.
• 43:56
  SPEAKER_01: So I wanted to show everybody that.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_01: I think it's actually in the wrong.
• 44:02
  SPEAKER_01: Let's see.
• 44:05
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, there we go.
• 44:06
  SPEAKER_01: Now it's sitting right.
• 44:09
  SPEAKER_01: But with that said, or a pumpkin cupcake.
• 44:17
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, come on.
• 44:18
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• 44:20
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• 44:21
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• 44:25
  SPEAKER_01: Would you not agree, Matt?
• 44:28
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• 44:32
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• 44:43
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• 44:46
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• 44:50
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• 44:58
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• 45:02
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• 45:05
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• 45:07
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• 45:10
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• 45:11
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• 45:56
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• 45:57
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• 45:59
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• 46:03
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• 46:07
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• 46:16
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• 46:18
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• 46:22
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• 46:30
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