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The Elijah Craig Barrel Pick Is HERE at Briarwood Wine & Spirits 🥃 || Nathan McHardy · Out of Bounds with Bo Bounds

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you got you got the Elijah Craig barrel pick.
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  Speaker 1: You've got it. And then you've got the Glenn karn
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  Speaker 1: or Rocks glasses at your house or outdoor kitchen, back patio,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is, your condo in Oxford or start will
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  Speaker 1: and then you get to be the one that shares
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  Speaker 1: it with people, which is super fun. We picked this
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  Speaker 1: out several months ago at Heaven Hill and Nathan McCarty
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  Speaker 1: is joining us in studio, owner of Briarwood Winded Spirits.
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  Speaker 1: They have the Elijah Craig barrel pick and they open
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  Speaker 1: in forty five minutes. Nate Dogg, good morning, how are
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  Speaker 1: you man? I'm great, glad to be here. It's been
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  Speaker 1: it's been a minute. Yeah, it's been a minute.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Super stoked to introduce this this whiskey. And we had
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  Speaker 3: a great trip us as we all. I mean, what
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  Speaker 3: what what better fun is there than going to the
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  Speaker 3: the mecca of of bourbon Bardstown. Baby, Yeah, And then
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  Speaker 3: sitting around I was thinking about it.
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  Speaker 2: I was recollec on the trip, on the drive up here.
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  Speaker 3: And you know the name of it was five plus
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  Speaker 3: six equals three, also known as bad math.
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  Speaker 2: And so the reason for that was. You'll remember there was.
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  Speaker 3: Five of us and we went three ended up going
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  Speaker 3: through six barrels total, and every time it was barrel three,
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  Speaker 3: which was this one that won that won out blind
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  Speaker 3: because we do them all blind.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. We don't know what, we don't know anything
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  Speaker 2: about anything. We just know there's six barrels of whiskey.
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  Speaker 1: And not everybody does that, but it's fun to do
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  Speaker 1: that way too.
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  Speaker 2: I do all my barrels that way.
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  Speaker 3: I always have because the brain is real powerful and
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  Speaker 3: if you're sitting there talking about it, I mean it
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  Speaker 3: just I like the blank slate sure method that we do.
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  Speaker 3: And so barrel three was the one that won out
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  Speaker 3: because you remember we picked we were like, oh yeah,
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  Speaker 3: this is our favorite. This was the first batch or
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  Speaker 3: first run of barrels. And then the young lady that
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  Speaker 3: was running that I wish Sylvia. Sylvia thinks she's awesome. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: she's great.
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  Speaker 1: She she was like, she kind of nod and she
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  Speaker 1: was like like there was something about the fact that
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  Speaker 1: we picked that one that got her thinking. And I
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  Speaker 1: always like it when that happens because it means you've
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  Speaker 1: hit on something that's unique, which is something that I
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  Speaker 1: shoot for in our barrel picks.
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  Speaker 3: But and then she was like, okay, I'll be right back.
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  Speaker 3: I remember she went and got three more and she
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  Speaker 3: brought those and poured them up. That's right, and we
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  Speaker 3: mixed them and then we went back through them again
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  Speaker 3: and it was that barrel again three that one, uh,
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  Speaker 3: that one or that.
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  Speaker 2: Was everybody's favorite.
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  Speaker 3: And so that was that was That was how we
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  Speaker 3: how we got the That was how we got the
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  Speaker 3: name of five plus six equals three. I always try
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  Speaker 3: to name our barrels after an experience of the.
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  Speaker 1: What we're doing, because we're it's fun. It's supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be an experience and a hell of a time. And
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  Speaker 1: whether you and I are at four Roses or Russell's
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  Speaker 1: Reserve or Heaven Hill, Elijah Craig, there's always something going
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  Speaker 1: on on the trip and which makes it fun.
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  Speaker 2: Something always happened.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's why you got bad man with this
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  Speaker 1: Elijah Craig barrel pick at Briarwood Wine and Spirits. They
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  Speaker 1: opened in forty one minutes, all right. So, and by
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  Speaker 1: the way, the dinner that we had at Repell was unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: It's a restaurant. Nate and I and the crew went
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  Speaker 1: in downtown Louisville, which is Bourbon Row by the way,
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  Speaker 1: which is really cool. Nate, and I've hit those spots too.
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  Speaker 1: Now you do this pick out in Bardstown at the
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  Speaker 1: heaven Hill Distillery.
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  Speaker 3: But it's like the Death Star of bird It's it's
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  Speaker 3: I you know what I mean, like it is.
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  Speaker 2: It is a ridiculous facility.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, so repill was amazing. It's in
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  Speaker 1: it's a restaurant in the Marriott, a boutique Marriott Hotel.
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  Speaker 1: So we had a great night doing that. And then
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  Speaker 1: we do the pick and I had not done this.
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  Speaker 1: Nate may have because he's been up there and picked
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  Speaker 1: a ton of barrels. But we eight lunch at the
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  Speaker 1: heaven Hill Bar and Restaurant, which a lot of times
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  Speaker 1: you don't ever know. It's really nice. It's a great
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  Speaker 1: place to go, Nate, and experience the whole thing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, can you can spend a day out there?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, and they've they've done a real good job.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this is their newer facility. And I can't
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  Speaker 3: remember how many millions of.
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  Speaker 2: Dollars they spent on the rehab, several hundred.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they've really catered to the you know, the guest experience, right,
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  Speaker 3: beyond just having a store that sells schwag.
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  Speaker 1: And bourbon, craft cocktails and a great lunch menu.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. And then the tours are great.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know there's a couple of different ways
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  Speaker 3: you can do that. I mean, it's yeah, they've they've
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  Speaker 3: really done a good job of kind of catering to
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  Speaker 3: the to the guest experience beyond just selling them stuff
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  Speaker 3: at a store.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Elijah Craig Barrel Pick is now at Briarwood Wine
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  Speaker 1: and Spirits. Nate's already tasted it. I was out of town.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't wait, and I haven't and I've been thinking
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  Speaker 1: about this all weekend. So it's now been I'll let
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  Speaker 1: Nate walk us through this, but it's now been proof down.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, this is barrel proof. Barrel proof. Okay, no,
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  Speaker 2: this is this.
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  Speaker 3: Is how it came one hundred and twenty three proof.
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  Speaker 3: Really yeah, cheers man, cheers. Okay, all right, now take
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  Speaker 3: another sip. I mean, I mean that first step is
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  Speaker 3: just really kind of proof in your mouth up because
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  Speaker 3: you're not used to having something like this in your
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  Speaker 3: mouth right now, right, I mean, I mean some people maybe.
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  Speaker 1: But right, no, we are not nine twenty in the morning, right.
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  Speaker 3: So the second sip is really the one that I
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  Speaker 3: really try to try to get into.
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  Speaker 2: That is delicious.
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  Speaker 1: That I think that may be our best pick yet.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think, because you've had some great picks.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's an amazing pick.
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  Speaker 1: It is I and well, you know, part of the
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  Speaker 1: fun of this is obviously you have the trip, you
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  Speaker 1: pick it, and then and then it just you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a process. They gotta they gotta dump it, they
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  Speaker 1: gotta bottle it, they gotta label it, they gotta ship
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  Speaker 1: it to us, all that, so you forget, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you forget what you know, you forget.
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  Speaker 2: What it tastes about.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely, and then it comes in and you try it.
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  Speaker 1: It's you know, it's just I don't know that I
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  Speaker 1: love that part of it. No, it's an amazing pick.
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  Speaker 1: It came in at nine years.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's heaven Hills standard. Uh, seventy eight percent corn.
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  Speaker 3: So I mean that high corn is always appealing. Uh
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  Speaker 3: it is, man, it is, but yeah, seventy eight percent corn,
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  Speaker 3: twelve barley, and I think ten rise how they do it?
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  Speaker 1: And uh, that's a rot bottle.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So one hundred and twenty three proved to me
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  Speaker 3: is like the right at the sweet spot. Okay, because
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  Speaker 3: for people that like to drink high proof stuff meat,
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  Speaker 3: we are right it. It checks that box, right, But
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  Speaker 3: it also gives people that like to tweak it a little.
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  Speaker 2: Bit, which we will in the next segment that's right,
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  Speaker 2: to proof.
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  Speaker 3: It down a little bit, and it just gives you
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  Speaker 3: a little little headroom right to work with. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I was stoked that it came in at one hundred
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  Speaker 3: and twenty three. The last one we did, Elijah Craig
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  Speaker 3: barrel Proof, or one of the first ones we did,
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  Speaker 3: was called the Other Side of the Pillow because it
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  Speaker 3: was like one hundred and thirty four proof or something.
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  Speaker 2: But it drank like a ninety you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: It was just a bizarrow.
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  Speaker 3: But I love I love Elijah Craigs Whiskey's in general,
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  Speaker 3: but the I've Got barrel Proof is kind of my favorite.
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  Speaker 1: I got some everybody's different. I've got some caramel and
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  Speaker 1: honey in here. Okay, you're the one that knows how
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  Speaker 1: to do this from being a sommier. I'm not good
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  Speaker 1: at at describing it. I just know that I like
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  Speaker 1: to sip on it. But am I right there?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah for sure. I mean on the nose and how
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  Speaker 2: it both.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you'll get the everything in that category what
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  Speaker 3: we'll call that category of flavors. So you know brown
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  Speaker 3: sugar hunt, yeah, you know, caramel, toffee like those are
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  Speaker 3: all those are all in the same family of of flavors.
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  Speaker 1: And it's smooth at nine to twenty four in the
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  Speaker 1: morning without we haven't put rocks or water on it.
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  Speaker 2: We will. Yeah, That's what I.
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  Speaker 3: Like about it, even at one hundred and twenty three
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  Speaker 3: proof is you can tell you're drinking at a high proof,
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  Speaker 3: but it's not slapping you in there.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no more With Nathan McCarty Briarwood Winded Spirits,
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  Speaker 1: the Elijah Craig barrel pick is here and they open
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  Speaker 1: in thirty five minutes. And this is going to be
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  Speaker 1: a great bottle for football season college or NFL.
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  Speaker 3: Seventy nine ninety nine is the kick and you can't
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  Speaker 3: beat that. I mean, there's not a whisky more.
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  Speaker 1: From Nate Dogg coming up next. All right, we're rolling
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  Speaker 1: along out of bounds ESPN one oh five nine the
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  Speaker 1: zone and we're brought to you by Elijah Craig Bourbon.
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  Speaker 1: The Elijah Craig barrel pick has hit the shelves at
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  Speaker 1: Briarwood Wine and Spirits. Barrel proof barrel pick. Barrel proof
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  Speaker 1: barrel pick. That's right, barrel proof barrel pick that we
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  Speaker 1: picked out several months ago. We had a great trip
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  Speaker 1: up to Louisville and Bargetown, Nathan and I and several others.
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  Speaker 1: It's usually about four to six people in there. It's
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  Speaker 1: a cool, intimate deal. Barrel picks are so much fun,
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  Speaker 1: as Nathan said, because you're it's just.
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  Speaker 2: You're in a rick house.
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  Speaker 1: You're having a great time and the banter in the
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  Speaker 1: back and forth, and your you're drinking bourbon.
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  Speaker 2: Were they'd be drinking.
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  Speaker 3: You could be drinking literally the bottom of the bear
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  Speaker 3: Like you could just blind pour somebody some swill bourbon,
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  Speaker 3: right and you'd be standing in there doing that and
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  Speaker 3: it would taste like the best whiskey in the world.
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  Speaker 2: That's true.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you have to see past that kind of
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, because when you're in there,
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  Speaker 1: it is so overwhelming because it's fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: Taste it before you water it. Okay, just to remind yourself.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of how you're right right, Plus I may
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  Speaker 1: have to pour a little more. Nathan McCarty, Briarwood Wine
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  Speaker 1: and Spirits, forty nine, forty nine Old Canton Road, barrel proof,
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  Speaker 1: barrel pick. Elijah Craig has hit the shelves at Briarwood
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  Speaker 1: Wine and Spirits. All right, here's another I got, And
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  Speaker 1: Nathan was right on the brown sugar. I got caramel
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  Speaker 1: and honey and that kind of which is right in
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  Speaker 1: my wheelhouse. As far as what I I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: like a bunch of different bourbon. But that's that's my
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  Speaker 1: main deal. You're listening to ESPN one oh five down
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  Speaker 2: Sports right, just to remind your palette what it was like. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: what it's like.
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  Speaker 1: What Nathan's about to walk us through on the flavor profiles,
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  Speaker 1: and I love this.
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  Speaker 2: There's three.
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  Speaker 1: There could be more than this, but there's three different
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  Speaker 1: flavor profiles. There's neat, which is what Nate and I
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  Speaker 1: just did.
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  Speaker 3: What you're talking about methods, the way that we're drinking it,
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  Speaker 3: not necessarily flavor profiles.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, the way that we're drinking it.
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  Speaker 1: And then a lot of times you guys and ladies
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  Speaker 1: are gonna get together and you're gonna you're gonna taste
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  Speaker 1: it neat. Then you're gonna put a couple of drops
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  Speaker 1: of water on it, which Nate just did, and then
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  Speaker 1: some of you are gonna get a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: ice for the third one, and you're gonna get a
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  Speaker 1: different flavor profile or taste in all three.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So I mean, it just it just opens everything up,
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  Speaker 3: proofs it down a little bit too, which makes certain
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  Speaker 3: talk about that it proofs it down from one twenty
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  Speaker 3: three to whatever it winds up with. After we put
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  Speaker 3: the water in it. And it's not much water, just
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  Speaker 3: for those those of y'all that are listening. It's it's
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  Speaker 3: literally just a few drops into into a you know,
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  Speaker 3: a pore that we have. It's not like drinking bourbon
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  Speaker 3: and water where they put a heavy shadow water in it,
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  Speaker 3: you know. I mean, it's just a few drops just
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  Speaker 3: to prove it down a little bit by volume, and
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  Speaker 3: it just allows other flavors, uh, other layers of that
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  Speaker 3: to really kind of stand up and totally different in it.
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  Speaker 3: But but it's like candy you talk about, like it
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  Speaker 3: turns it into.
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  Speaker 1: Now the brown sugar, caramel, honey, this is beautiful, Jay Meadows.
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  Speaker 2: Look at you.
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  Speaker 1: You're you're drinking some Elijah Craig barrel proof, barrel pick.
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  Speaker 2: I gave him a little water. Yeah, you gave me
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  Speaker 2: a little water. It was a very little little amount
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  Speaker 2: of water. Yea, that's right. Like how much of a
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  Speaker 2: difference did that? It's a big difference, Yeah, totally is.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, and that's the way that I mean when
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  Speaker 1: you buy a bottle of whiskey off the or bourbon
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  Speaker 1: whiskey whatever, I call everything whiskey, if it's brown, so
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  Speaker 1: forgive me, that's ninety proof. I mean it didn't cut,
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  Speaker 1: it didn't come out of the barrel like that. So
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  Speaker 1: I mean, every every whiskey is proofed down with water
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  Speaker 1: to get it to whatever the producers desired.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Mark is I love barrel proof stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, when I'm picking a barrel if I can, and
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  Speaker 1: just because I don't know it's it's a true expression
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  Speaker 1: of what obviously is coming out of the barrel. And
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  Speaker 1: like I said, it gives you a little gives you
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  Speaker 1: a little headroom to kind of tweak it with water ice.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, really, where this thing's gonna shine is a
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  Speaker 1: good heavy poor and a big block that's right, that'll
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  Speaker 1: melt slow, Yeah, and in a really good yea rocks glass.
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  Speaker 3: I do I like, I mean, I like everything I
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  Speaker 3: drink to be chilled. Like I said, I'll try everything neat,
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  Speaker 3: you know what I mean. I'll try everything neat because
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  Speaker 3: I want to see what it's like.
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  Speaker 1: I may need to do one more like this and
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  Speaker 1: then we'll do ice.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna do ice. I'm gonna do ice on
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  Speaker 2: a fresh board though.
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  Speaker 3: Ah okay, it's just another way to drink it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I can get.
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  Speaker 1: Two more glasses and we can do a fresh board. Oh.
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  Speaker 3: I figured we were doing that anyway, like after the
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  Speaker 3: next break or something.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, we can do it whenever.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, the transformation, this this one goes through with
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  Speaker 3: the addition of a little water to it. Of all
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  Speaker 3: the picks that we've done, no matter who the producer is,
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  Speaker 3: this is the one that's been the most drastic to me,
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  Speaker 3: you know what I mean, from from from the way
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  Speaker 3: that is right out of the bottle to the way
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  Speaker 3: that it is after a couple of drops, like it
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  Speaker 3: literally turns it into just this I don't know, candy
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  Speaker 3: delicious drinking bourbon well. And and that's not taking anything
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  Speaker 3: away from it straight out of the bottle, because if
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  Speaker 3: you like drinking higher proof stuff, you sure love it
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  Speaker 3: because you still get that depth and all those layers, right,
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  Speaker 3: but you just really get that that punch of the
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  Speaker 3: heat at the end, which and it just depends.
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  Speaker 1: On what the the bourbon afficionado or bourbon nerd wants, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's it's it's.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's totally subjective.
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  Speaker 3: So and that's that's a great point because when you're
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  Speaker 3: picking a barrel of bourbon, no matter where it's coming
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  Speaker 3: from or who's making it. As a retailer, there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of things to consider, right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're you're it's you're going through a lot of
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  Speaker 1: See I'm just having fun right at the barrel pick. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you are sitting there thinking this is going to be
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  Speaker 1: in my store. Yep, there's that thirty percent that is
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  Speaker 1: bourbon afficionado bourbon nerds and they are going to break
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  Speaker 1: it down, and you're thinking about that as we're going
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  Speaker 1: through all six barrels.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, yea, yeah, so yeah, I mean there's when I'm
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  Speaker 3: picking them, there's definitely a degree of sellability.
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  Speaker 2: Right that goes into it.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, But the things that I have a bit of
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  Speaker 3: a pro I personally have a process. So if there's
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  Speaker 3: let's just say six options out there, I've got two
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  Speaker 3: or three non starters for me, just generally, no matter
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  Speaker 3: what it is, I'm drinking, and I'll roll through all
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  Speaker 3: of them real quick first and see if any of
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  Speaker 3: them have what I for me are non starters, Like
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  Speaker 3: I'm done with that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to try it again, right.
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  Speaker 3: And if it doesn't or if they do, I'll take
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  Speaker 3: some out. If none of them do, then I'll start
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  Speaker 3: back over.
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  Speaker 2: And then.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: There's just characteristics that I look for to be present.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: There's certain characteristics that I look for to be not present.
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: But the main thing that I look for is balance
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: just across the board front palette to finish the heat
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: Like balance is the first thing, and then the second
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: thing is I look for something that's atypical in that whiskey. Right, Like,
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: if I'm picking Elijah Craig barrel Proof like we did,
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: I don't.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: I don't want to just pick one that tastes like a.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: Great bottle of Elijah Craig barrel proof, because the release
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: that they do from the distillery that's on the shelf
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: as Elijah Craig barrel Proof is.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Fantastic, sure, and you can get that right.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: So I'm looking for something in there that's atypical to
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: that whiskey, as long as it's not a flaw or
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: something that's you know, right off bad.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: What you're looking for is something that jumps out at you,
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: sets it apart from what you can buy on the
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: shelf otherwise exactly because it's finite, right, I mean, I'm
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: buying that barrel, so when it's gone, it's gone. Well,
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: And that's why there's so much fun for sure, Yeah,
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: because a guy or a girl can take it home
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: to their house, to their bar and what we do,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: as you know, which we've done with this but with
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: wine for years, you and I you share it with
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: someone and then it's a story and an experience. Yeah,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: that's why barrel picks are so much fun.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: Well, and the bourbon community has gravitated towards store picks
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: in general so hard in the last shoot five the
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: handful of years, right, because they're they were they realized that, right,
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: I mean all the all the all the bourbons that
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: are impossible to get. I could name them all, you
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: all know all the names. They're great, they're they're they're
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: they're good bourbons. But I mean it's just not worth
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: you know, the juice isn't worth a squeeze to go
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: through all that headache and pay all that money to
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: get them. And folks started realizing, you know, there's some
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: there's some store picks out there that are great and
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: they're unique, you know, And so yeah, the bourbon community
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: is really really really falling in with the with the
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: store picks, which is which is great because I love
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: them all Right.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: The first Russell's Reserve you and I did was unbelievable. Yeah, yeah, Okay,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: this is the Hall of fame. This is the this
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: is the Michael Jordan Tom Brady of all of our
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: of all of ours are this is the Beatles, the Doones,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: I don't whatever you want to say, This is it.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's of all the picks that we've done together.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: It's my favorite because it and that's not taking away
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: from any of the adults, because look.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Four roses single barrels you and I picked out eight
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: or nine was delicious.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's things about this whiskey that I like tremendously.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: The proof, the balance of it, the balance of it
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: right out of the bottle at barrel proof, and the
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: balance of it even after it's been proof down a little, right,
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: is what I like the most because a lot of
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: times that can get thrown off at some point, but
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: this one, it just makes it shine in different ways,
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: and I guess that's the part of it that I
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: like the most.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Nathan McCarty on ESPN one oh five nine The Zone.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: The Elijah Craig barrel Proof Barrel Pick is at Briarwood
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Wine and Spirits forty nine forty nine Old campon Road.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: They open in twenty minutes, and Nate, I don't think
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: it's gonna last long.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: It'll go pretty quick. I mean we.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Got seventy to eighty bucks. It's eighty bucks, and I
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: mean we got I don't know twelve cases of it
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: in we filed on.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: We sold a couple over the weekend and so yeah,
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: I would. I would. I would say come and get it.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, if you want a a rock Star bottle for
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: football season, you got to go get it in the
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: next week or less.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would. I would come this week. Yeah. I
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: mean football season started right, Yeah.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: I mean we've got week zero next weekend. Yeah, and
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: then we got week one and and it's here. Okay,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: I've never been so excited to watch two minutes of
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: a of a preseason sings game Saturday is Tyler Shuck
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: and the Norse. Oh, speaking of let's switch gear. Let's
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: talk a little sports, and then we'll go back here.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: You're gonna get us a fresh pour with on the
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: rocks like that, Yes, real quick. Drew Brees going into
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. That was incredible.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: That speech is top It is top tier from start
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: to finish. Yeah, to me his speech.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: You were a season ticket holder throughout that run. Yeah,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: and you had your crew up in section six whatever, yes,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: four or five, get the ball and you got to
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: live it. And how cool is it? First ballot Hall
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: of Famer Drew Brees.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: It was special, man, I mean, and and then and.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Then I got emotional listen to it.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I watched it.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I watched it live and then I've probably watched
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: it two or three times since from starting to finish,
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: just because I think that I think that his speech
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: was perfectly laid out, and I'm sure that he had
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: obviously had a lot to do with that, if not
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: all of it, But it kind of mirrored his career, right,
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: Like it was about gratitude, It was about it wasn't it.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: Wasn't about him.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: It was about the support system that he had from
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: the city, from the organization and all of that that
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: enabled him and lifted him to the ability, you know,
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: to put him in a place to be able to
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: do the things he.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Did right, no doubt.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: And can you believe that Miami screwed it up so
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: that you and other Saints fans could live the dream
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: for fifteen.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Years of Drew and Shawn.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that that think about it. Look whatever
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: it takes, right, I mean, that's how things like that
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: work out.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: For a reason, right, I mean, the surgery, taking the
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: risk on into Miami deal. I mean, yeah, there was
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: there was.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: You just Sean went all in.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: I mean he talked about it prior to They were like,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: you're our guy, Miami put him through two hours of
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: needles and everything else. He was only eight weeks postop. Yeah,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: just wore him out when he was down there, and
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: he could feel that they weren't sold. And then New Orleans,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: which was hammered by Katrina, but Loomis and Shawn didn't
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: even hit there, you're our guy.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Miami had it.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: It was done.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: He was going to Miami, but he talked about it.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: But that one of the things that Peyton and Loomis
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: have been able to do. It not to say that
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: they haven't had any had any misses, but for the
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: most part, they've had a really good record of going
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: that's the guy right, and then it ends up being
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: the guy right, you know.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: But yeah, and then I can't remember the first August
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: of them being at Millsaps and Bank Plush inviting me
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: out there, Nate to this private scrimmage or something, and
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Drew was not throwing at this time. He was still
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: trying to work his way through camp to be ready
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: right after Labor Day weekend.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Listen, are you going to pour one more of these? Yeah?
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: For sure?
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, I'm gonna reset. All right, So the
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Elijah Cragg barrel proof barrel pick. Is it Briarwood wanted spirits,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: And of course they opened at ten am Monday through Saturday.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: And it's absolutely this is our We've had some great
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: four roses, some great Russells reserve and they were all
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: wonderful and majestic and magical and so on. Yeah, I
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: do too, believe it or not. I've kept I don't
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: know how old that four rows a single barrel is.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: It's got to be fifteen sixteen something years old, maybe more.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: But and we've got Russells in the back. But yeah,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: I need to hand you the bourbon. Nate is now
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: pouring on the rocks, which is beautiful. I'll go home
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: and take a nap.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Well, we don't have to drink it all. We're just
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: no get experience. This is so beautiful. Cheers man, cheers
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: for sure.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: We had so much fun going to Heaven Hill and
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: picking out this Elijah Craig barrel proof barrel pick which
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: is at Briarwood wanted spirits. Look at me, So Nathan
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: was rubbing it in. I was out of town. I
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: was at the beach over the weekend and Nate breaks
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: open the bottle on Friday, and so I had to
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: think about it all weekend and now we're I'm tasting
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: it for the first time. This is Nathan's second or
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: third time, whatever it is, Okay, oh yeah.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: I mean that's the lick right there.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, that is that is you know, that tastes
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: like fall football, It tastes like Thanksgiving, it tastes like Christmas.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: And what I mean by that is that's something you
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: pour with a good friend or a family member and
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: you just let the bourbon, you just let the Elijah
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Craig Beryl pick do the rest.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: It's so good.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, the the little the little
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: bit of rye in there gives it some spice. You
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: get the baking spiceses so kind of the cinnamon clove. Yeah,
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: you know, all that stuff you're talking about. But then
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: you you know, you still get the heavy dark you know,
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: like brulet caramel.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: This reminds me of an s DC football game. Kickoff
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: at six forty five at night and you've got a
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: rebel on the grill and you're about to binge watch
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: three to three and a half hours of Auburn, Georgia Ole,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Miss LSU, Mississippi State.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: A and m that's what it reminds me of day.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: And I love corn whiskey too, I mean, that's the
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: thing about it. I mean it's seventy eight seventy five
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: to seventy eight depending on who you ask percent corn,
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: which I like. I like corn whiskeys, and I like Weeded's.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: I love we wich.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: I don't love rye, but I love Elijah Craigs rye
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: because their rye is barely rye. It's like fifty one
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: percent rye, right, you know what I mean, and then
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: and then it's like twenty eight or thirty five corn
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: or something high, you know what I mean. So so
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: their rye whiskey actually I do really enjoy.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: But yeah, their standard mash bill that this is.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: Based off of is just is money at this proof.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: And it's called bad math, which is great.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: And I'm bad at math anyway. But yeah, it just worked.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: When you're it's a the experience is amazing. Everybody's talking
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: and so on. Now Nates, Nate's down there doing his thing.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: I can just kind of be the social chairman or
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: whatever of the pick.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we've gotten.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: We've had some large time. Because sometimes sometimes it it
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: takes an hour to to to do the pick just
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: because you're in no hurry.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: It's beautiful.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: What's oh?
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: That was?
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: That was so much fun, just in generals and going
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: to that Bob Dylan bar. What's it called when you
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: I love I love.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: When they draw it out of the Yeah.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: The brass copper thing. That's so much fun. Yeah, it's
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: all part of that experience. Like we were looking at
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: those picks again the other day.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I since you fourteen, Yeah yeah, I.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Was like, yeah, I needed a couple of picks for
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: the post, and I had some, but it was just us,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Like I didn't get any picks of us actually at
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: the table. I was like, hey, Bo, you got a
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: couple of picks, and all of a sudden, it's like okay, yes,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: but yeah, I mean that's all. That's all part of it.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: And they're all very different, right, I mean that the
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: room that we sat in for the Heaven Hill experience,
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's nice you're in the rick House, but
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: it's it's a it's a part of the rick House
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: that's been developed in a way to receive guests. And
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: look that's right, you know, look shiny and all that,
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: you know, and then you look at the Four Roses experience.
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: They have their own room, right, It's it's also really
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: nice and all that. And then you think about the
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: wild Turkey Russell's.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Experience where you're sweating your ass off standing in a
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: one hundred and forty degree rick house, just standing there sweating.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: That's right with any number of Russells. Bruce Russell, Yeah,
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: with Bruce or.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Who Yeah, pouring and seeing jim mister Jimmy at the
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: you know, at the store on the way out. I mean,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: so it's they're all very different experiences and they're all
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: fantastic in their own right. I agree with you. Everyone
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: is different and they're all great. It doesn't matter you
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: know what direction you're going. The Elijah Craig barrel proof
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: barrel pick. Is it briarwood, wind and spirits. It will
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: not be there long. We've got a couple of minutes. No,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: I'll see, Oh yeah, you opened in ten minutes, and
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: so go see the crew and get your Elijah Craig
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: barrel proof barrel pick. For our listeners, Ran Day had
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: football coach at Ohio State when I was there two
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: weeks ago. He had just been in there and they
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: had just done Nate talked about how corporate people will
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: do barrel picks for all sorts of different you know,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: way shapes and forms. Ohio State did an nil barrel
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: pick at Heaven Hill for Elijah Cragg and they had
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: just been in there, I think a week before. Sylvia
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: was like they had isn't that cool? Yeah, so some
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: alums flew Ryan Day down and and they did the
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: whole deal. Yeah yeah, And she mentioned some other celebrities.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: You'd be like, holy smokes.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean celebrities, I need you sorry, celebrities, fundraisers.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: I mean, they do barrel picks for any any number
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: of reasons. So they're real good about kind of sharing
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: the well.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: And you may have an opportunity to get a glass
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: of this at Kessler. I haven't sold any yet, any
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: to him yet, but I'm sure that you will. Scott,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: I'll be calling you today if.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: You're listening, so expect you to pick up a couple
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: of bottles.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: But yeah, there's a handful of restaurants around town that
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: have been real good about supporting our barrel picks and
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: have them having them as an option. So yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: we're we're we're thankful for that.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: There's only around one hundred and forty four bottles. There's
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: already some that have been bought. Yeah, So, like Nate said,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: it's a finite amount of juice.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: That's what makes it so much fun.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and very unique and for us, like I said,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: we've tried to something that's very no you atypical, different,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, but but still represents the brand.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: All right, Uh, football you you got to come back
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: in the next few weeks. Football season is here, hunting season,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: football season, all kinds of stuff. People are freaking out.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: I love it. Great time of year for us too.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Like a wine breakdown or something. No, I'd love to.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: I just sent you some whiskey, but let's do Let's
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: definitely do a wine breakdown. And I got to.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Show you what all I've I know, you've drank everything
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: under the sun. You get all kinds of cool you
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: and Leslie Orsembliers. But we had some unbelievable wine a
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago up in Louisville. I want to
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: hear about that trip. Yeah, yeah, it was. It was
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: big time. All right, go to Briarwood Wine and Spirits,