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Our Top 5 Bourbon Moments of 2024 and a blind challenge that was harder than it sounds. · 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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  No Corkpop tonight? No.
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  Should we explain why? Cheers.
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  Cheers, Dave.
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  Tonight, we have both poured each other's drink, and we don't know what
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  we're drinking, so that's fun.
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  It's going to be so funny if we've poured each other the same thing.
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  Okay, we're going blind into this because we're doing the top five Bourbon Moments
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  of 2024 for Aussie Bourbon Lovers.
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  So things that we've done together.
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  Yeah, because we're getting towards the end of the year.
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  Merry Christmas, everyone. Merry Christmas.
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  Happy Boxing Day.
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  Or whatever day it is you're listening to us.
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  Maybe Happy New Year if you're late to the party.
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  Top five, Dave. Top five.
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  So we were trying to work how to do this.
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  We decided we would do our top five together and work through it.
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  It doesn't mean we agree about the rank of where they are.
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  We had to make a few compromises.
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  But generally speaking, the top five.
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  Coming in at fifth place, which is something we've done just
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  now, is blind tastings.
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  You have heard us tell the story of Watch Hill Proper, where we did a blind tasting,
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  a couple of blind tastings, actually, and we had a lot of fun in
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  Kentucky, which was awesome fun.
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  So that's really the one that takes my number five.
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  But on that night, we said, We should just do this more.
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  Should we play with bourbon and do blind tastings more?
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  Then one night, we did it in front of the fire at our house.
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  You poured a whole What, three?
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  A lineup of three.
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  Yeah, we do little flights, blind flights.
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  And it's one of my highlights because that night I was
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  having a stab, crack in the dark at what they were and different flavours and
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  pretending I knew what I was saying.
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  I got them right and I got the flavours right.
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  I impressed you, Dave.
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  So that was definitely- You definitely impressed me.
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  One of my top five moments.
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  This is only a few weeks ago and I'm a bit like- He's-emmasculated or something by
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  how good a job you did, because there's no way I could do it.
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  Amazing what you did.
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  I think your face will have named the one I thought I was drinking.
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  I don't think I'm ever going to be able to do it again.
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  But that night- I'm pleased that we weren't recording.
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  Is going on this.
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  So that's number five.
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  In number four, this will come as no surprise to anyone.
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  This is our top five. Yeah.
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  Kbf.
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  The Kentucky Bourbon Festival 2024 in Bardstown in 2024 in September.
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  And we loved it so much.
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  It's just such a fun thing for us to do.
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  So many great people, so many great bourbons, like such a great few days.
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  And it's funny.
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  One of my moments that I remember from that Kentucky Burbon Festival, we weren't
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  actually drinking bourbon at the time.
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  We were sitting down in a patch of grass to have some lunch, and the local church
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  had cooked steak sandwiches, and they were the best.
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  It's one of my hearts, the whole festival, just sitting there, looking at it, across
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  it, all the people enjoying the festival and eating a really great steak sandwich.
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  Amazing.
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  There's so many good things about Kentucky Bourbon Festival that you would have heard
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  us bang on about, but the relaxedness of just hanging out with other
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  people who love drinking bourbon and people who Love.
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  Do you reckon we've poured each other the same thing?
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  I'm just looking at the two pours now to see- Just while you're talking, you
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  keep talking about the bourbon festival.
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  Yeah, but it's very distracting for you to take my drink away from me.
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  Just sitting under the trees, drinking bourbon with people who make it and love
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  it and hearing experts talk about it.
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  There's so many people who love bourbon.
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  It's just such a good thing to do.
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  It's a great experience.
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  So that's five and four, is Kentucky Burn Festival.
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  Into number three now.
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  Was only a couple of days after that.
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  Yeah, we got an amazing experience.
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  Thank you, Tom, at the Michter's Distillery in Louisville.
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  Fort Nelson. So yeah, in the main street of Louisville.
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  And We were really treated very well, and we were taken great care of.
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  Thanks for Tom for giving us the lovely experience.
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  But we got to go on the tour.
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  We got to experience the bar.
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  But best of all, Dave.
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  And Dave, I think in your words at the time, you were like, This
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  is better than Christmas.
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  It was so getting to feel...
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  I don't know if everyone else like me who's in Bourbon social media, and all of
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  my Instagram, TikTok, feeds are all bourbon things.
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  That's what I look at when I open in my phone and I'm bored, is
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  looking at urban things. Urban stuff.
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  So you will have seen people doing that thing where they pull on that lever at
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  Michter's and fill their bottle from it.
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  The pure joy that it brought me after I'd seen so many people do it, it is to do it
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  in real life is so incredibly fun and fulfilling.
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  He was happy a little boy on Christmas Day.
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  I don't even understand what the chemistry of the occasion is that
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  makes it so much fun.
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  But dear God, it's Pulling that lever, watching the bottle fill, then you get to
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  name it, and you get to write your label, and you get to sign like that.
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  It's like build a bear for grownups.
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  It's so good.
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  So wait, actually, we should just explain it.
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  So basically what it is, is you basically feel from a...
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  It's not directly from a barrel, but it feels like it's filling it from a barrel.
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  You fill a bottle through a clear canister by pulling on a lever at Michter's Fort
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  Nelson, which is a mini distillery.
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  You get your very own bottle of Michters.
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  And in our case, it's a barrel-strength bourbon, a special Fort Nelson.
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  We haven't opened it yet. I know.
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  We're going to have to-I was thinking we should open it here, but we decided
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  to do this blindpour instead.
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  Why didn't you suggest that earlier.
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  I think the blind pour is good, though.
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  I'm getting really good flavours from whatever it is you've poured me.
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  So I'm true about what I've got. I hate doing blinds.
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  I'm bad at this, and you're good at this.
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  All right, great.
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  So that's number three.
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  Into number two, we're Getting down to the point yet now.
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  Yeah. Number two.
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  The top three were really close.
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  But in number two, we started a podcast this year.
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  Can I...
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  Is this a weird time for us to talk about why we started the podcast?
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  Go for it, Dave. And then I'll reveal what number two is.
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  Well, if we talk about it, then maybe number two will make more sense.
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  We started the podcast to participate in the bourbon fund, the fun of the
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  bourbon industry that we identified.
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  And share our love of bourbon with other Aussies.
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  Introduce more people to how amazing bourbon is.
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  Right.
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  And when we started, we were like, we just want to be a part of it, which would be
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  fun for us and fun for people who we think can love it and enjoy it more and learn
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  from the stories and try more bourbons.
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  That's what we wanted to do.
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  Meet more people who are in the bourbon world and know what they're talking about.
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  So we can pass that knowledge on.
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  Number two, we had Andrea and Dan from Michter's on our podcast.
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  And we love Michter's, but their bourbon royalty in every sense.
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  Incredible people were so much fun that they were drinking bourbon
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  at 7: 00 AM in Kentucky.
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  So that they could be on our podcast.
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  Over here.
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  We just couldn't believe that they would be so friendly and warm and
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  open to coming and joining us.
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  So that's absolutely an easy number, too.
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  And I think they just narrowly beaten out.
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  We've had lots of other great guests, but they...
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  Yeah.
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  Such fun. More on our bucket list.
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  Such fun. If you haven't listened this.
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  There's already two of those podcasts have been really...
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  If you jump back into the...
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  Just search Mictis in the playlist and you'll be able to see them.
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  But now all three of those have been already released.
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  So you've heard all three of those episodes.
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  So That is one of my favourites for sure.
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  Yeah, definitely. Definitely.
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  That was up there with number two.
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  And only very, very closely above that in first place,
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  Dave, what's number one?
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  So 2024.
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  Was the day we got to spend out at Star Hill Farm in Loretto in Kentucky
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  with Trevor Bowles, who's the head of VIP for Makers Mark, who
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  I don't even understand, Trevor, why you decided to take great care of us.
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  I don't-Thanks for making us your VLPs that day.
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  You must have been confused about who we were.
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  But by goodness, you looked after us and private tour of the Star Hill
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  Farm and got extraordinary.
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  Hospitality, classic makers, Mark, hospitality.
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  And heard some incredible stories.
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  And just that whole experience of it's so much more than just the bourbon, the
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  sustainability in the farm and picking fruit and meeting the donkey Gus.
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  It's just, yeah, there's so much more than just the distillery.
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  But I think that took my number one spot because
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  I say, Make His Mark, our first ever tour we did there, I
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  was very new to the world of bourbon.
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  A few years ago, that's where I say I fell in love with bourbon because just the
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  story and the arty side of it, behind it.
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  Yeah, but that day at Stuy Hill Farm was pretty incredible.
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  It was incredible fun.
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  As our third visit to Stahill Farm, we had such a good day, and we were treated like
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  royalty we didn't deserve to be treated like.
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  It was amazing. Pretty incredible.
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  So that's our top five bourbon moments from 2024.
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  And now we have to work out what these blind tastings are.
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  So yours is slightly darker than mine. Yeah.
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  Okay.
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  Mine's got like...
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  You've picked a familiar... It's familiar.
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  It's familiar, yes. And mine's really familiar, too, actually.
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  Mine's got a lot of wood on it. Old.
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  It's a high proof.
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  It's got very oaky aftertaste and a really nice mouth feel.
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  It's a good one.
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  I know Have you given me a good one?
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  I've got no idea.
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  Have you given me a Michter's?
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  I haven't given you a Michter's.
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  Or a Michter's. This is going to take too long.
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  I've given you the Watch Your Proper five-year-old batch
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  number one, the first ever Watch Your Proper.
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  Great.
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  That's amazing.
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  It's like the-Mine's high proof. What did I get?
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  You got the Pachute one right there.
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  There you go. Pachute Toasted.
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  There you go. Woody.
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  I was right about it being Woody. Okay, there you go.
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  Great.
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  Well, an amazing year for Bourbon, an amazing year for Aussie Bourbon
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  Lovers, our first year of the podcast.
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  And we had so much fun.
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  We could have listed more than five, but we did five and that was good.
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  There was so many more. So many more great moments.
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  And we're really grateful that we got to share them with whoever
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  it is listening out there.
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  And we're really, really grateful for all the people who've come on as guests.
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  And yeah, it's just been an amazing year. That's it.
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  We're looking forward to- 52 more episodes between now and the next one of these.
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  Yeah. Cheers.
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