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Freeland Spirits Cask Strength Straight Bourbon Whiskey - Is This the World's Best Looking Bottle of Bourbon? · Aussie Bourbon Lovers

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  Incredible flavours, even better stories.
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  One more, 10 minutes.
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  Aussie bourbon lovers, sharing bourbon with Australia.
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  Oh, yeah. Still a good pop.
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  Nice. No worries.
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  What are we drinking, Dave? What a great question.
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  I don't easily want to give away the best-looking bourbon bottle award, but
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  this one definitely has to be in contention for the
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  best-looking bourbon bottle.
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  This is a freelance spirit's straight bourbon whiskey from Portland, Oregon.
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  And if you haven't seen the bottle before, check out the podcast artwork,
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  or if you're watching us on YouTube, you're going to be able to see it there.
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  So freelance spirits in Portland.
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  It's a large teardrop. Oregon.
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  Yeah.
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  Really cool.
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  And my goodness gracious me, what a cool bourbon and cool story.
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  Cheers.
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  Cheers.
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  Well, you just confirmed that it's in case some people were mistaken and think that
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  bourbon only can come from Kentucky. Oh, my goodness.
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  I feel like that one dude, Ryan's rolling around in his sleep.
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  Just hearing you say that.
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  So yes, you're right.
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  It doesn't just come from Kentucky.
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  It doesn't just come from Kentucky.
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  It's drinking from Portland. Correct.
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  And isn't just distilled by dudes because Freeland is a women-owned
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  distilled distillery in Poland.
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  And ask me how I came across this How did you come across this one?
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  It'll be, Hold on, hold on. Let me answer it for you.
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  A work trip? I was on a work trip.
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  We were filming in Portland, Kentucky. Portland, Oregon.
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  And I do That's the thing I always do, where I go- Pick the prettiest bottle?
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  What?
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  No, I go, I'm on a work trip, and what can I do?
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  What should I be doing?
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  And I should be visiting it as still there is what I should be doing.
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  And so came because I didn't know much about it before, and then went out to the
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  distillery and we did a flight of their whiskies, and I have a few in their light.
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  They'd also do gins, I think maybe vodka as well.
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  But they do some amazing work and really cool story.
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  So Freeland Spirits is actually named after one of the founders' grandmothers,
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  Meemore Freeland, who was all about living off the land.
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  And so it's all natural spirits.
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  And they speak a lot about the power of women and what women and all that stuff.
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  It's really cool.
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  I learned a very fun scientific fact and also answers the question of why I'm
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  really good at blind flights or better than you at blind flights.
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  It could be how incompetent I am, but go on.
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  No, no.
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  But apparently, women have more taste buds than men.
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  Well, go on.
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  Have a taste of this and tell me what flavours you're getting if you want to
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  get on the- I don't know about my nose.
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  I don't know about what my nose is because...
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  I'm not going to make any comments.
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  So It's a straight bourbon whiskey, so at least 15.
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  1% corner.
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  I actually don't know the match bill on this one.
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  I just read, and I just don't know if it's the same as this releases it is of the
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  newer releases that they're doing, that it spend some time in a
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  Pinot task, maybe at the end.
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  It might be just part of the finishing technique.
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  I don't think this one has been because it's called a straight bourbon whiskey.
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  So I don't think this one has been.
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  This one's cast drink, 57.
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  18% alcohol, and these bottles are 750 millilitres.
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  But my goodness, whenever we empty that, it's going to become a decanter of some
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  description because it's just so pretty. My goodness.
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  Isn't it? It is.
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  I love it.
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  I love that it just stands out as just a different shape bottle.
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  But the bourbon was given 94 points by the...
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  I'm going to get the name wrong now.
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  I'm getting the name wrong, but it puts them- Getting misinformation.
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  I was just reading it a second ago. There we go.
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  94 points by a Wine Spectator, which puts them in the top 11 bourbons in the
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  world, which is that's an amazing stat.
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  So if you haven't tried it, get your hands on some.
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  So delicious.
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  And if you don't like drinking it, leave it on your shelf because it looks so cool.
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  But if you don't like drinking it, you got a rock in your head.
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  Yeah, exactly.
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  But we've spent some time in Portland, Oregon.
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  It's very cool. It's very arty.
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  Yes.
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  Arty and...
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  Yeah, very chill. I love Portland.
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  Yeah.
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  And it's also home to the Multanoma Whisky Library, which is another place
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  that I visited on that same trip.
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  Because we talk about what you're proper. Yes.
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  What have been another one? Probably the same day.
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  It must have been the same day.
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  I was only in Portland for one day.
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  So it must have been- I was going to say, I think you knocked over a few on Monday.
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  Yeah. Make it sound like it was a bad thing.
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  It wasn't a bad thing. I was having a great work trip.
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  You've got spare time on a work trip.
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  Spare time?
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  Obviously, in between important business meetings.
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  But if you're in Portland, try this one because It's delicious.
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  What must the people think about what I do for work when you heckle like this?
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  You know I like to heckle.
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  It's mostly heckle.
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  The Morton Omen Whisky Library was one of the places that the Whatchill Proper guys
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  went to work out how they should set up Whatchill Proper.
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  Oh, there you go. That's something I learned tonight.
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  And when you go to Portland, Oregon, my goodness, everyone needs to book some
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  tickets to the States to try out freelance spirits in Poland and then go to
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  the Milton Omen Whisky Library.
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  Try to go early and say, I wanted to try to get in
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  upstairs because it's a members only club, like a whiskey.
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  You have to be a member to be, but they do have spare spots.
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  And so if you go, they'll let you upstairs.
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  If there's not a room. Yeah.
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  And so we did that and we had a great time.
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  And I think we were allowed to stay for two hours.
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  It was great. Really good fun.
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  I want to go there next time. I'm in Portland.
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  And extremely Instagramable, Instagramable wall of whiskey that you're sitting from.
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  Compared to what you're properly?
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  I don't want to say it's better, but I think it's better.
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  Because they also...
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  You said it, Dave.
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  But it's not just bourbon.
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  They're all over the world, those ones. A bit of everything.
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  Scotchers and Japanese and Irish whiskies.
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  And I'm sure they've got some Aussie whisky in there as well.
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  But It's not just bourbon.
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  It's a long wall. Big ladder.
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  The bar wraps around it.
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  When you order a drink and they have to go up the ladder to get
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  it, it's a good feeling.
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  What are you getting on the palate for this one?
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  I was like, it's...
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  Cinnamon is the wrong word, but I can get some nice spice.
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  I feel like I'm having...
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  I felt like I want to have it with a hot cross bun.
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  Oh, that's nice.
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  I was going to say orange peel, which is in a similar vein.
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  Yeah.
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  I was actually thinking the hot cross bun you get that have apple in them,
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  like the fruity-Wow. Yeah.
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  Yeah. But maybe orange peel is a better.
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  But no, I'm definitely getting that fruity, cinnamony, nice.
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  It's really delicious.
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  I think that it's one of these great bourbon expressions where, and this one is
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  the cask strength one, but you get that lovely warmth from the
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  spirit, but you're left with this lovely, yeah, desserty sweetness.
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  Flavour, yeah. It changes.
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  Leave a long time in between the sips because you get that sweetness first and
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  then goes to the back of your throat and it's like, I don't know.
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  I just had a nice warm hot cross one.
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  We often talk about what it's like to visit a Distillery.
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  And you weren't here with me on this one. No.
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  So tell me what it was like, Jeff. Yeah, it was good.
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  It was really cool.
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  It was almost like a little bit like visiting a brewery.
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  When there's like bench tables outside and the weather was pretty good.
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  So we sat outside and did a flight and then think had a cocktail
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  or something like this. I can't remember.
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  But then afterwards, particularly when I'm on trips like this for work,
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  you can go in and get a bottle and then you can get some merch.
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  Do you know what merch I brought you back?
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  Yeah, I've got a really nice white T-shirt with the logo that's on the bottle?
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  Yeah.
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  So you were just testing my memory, weren't you?
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  Super good, super good merch.
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  When you've got a really cool design, which the freelance design is so cool.
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  So it makes it really good.
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  You wear a strange, not strange, an impressive amount of bourbon.
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  I'm commenting on my clothes now.
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  I don't know.
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  Maybe we should wrap this one up now.
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  I don't want to get in any more trouble.
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  You're going to say I wear a strange- You wear so much good bourbon merch.
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  Because for whatever reason, they make them out of this really
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  nice feeling fabric. For some reason.
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  Yeah. Maybe just sell them?
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  Maybe. But they are comfortable to wear.
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  They make them out of good fabric.
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  I've got quite a few different ones.
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  It's all about what they...
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  Well, most of them, it's all about what they feel like.
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  What are the distilleries you've been to that are not in Kentucky, where there's
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  been a distillery, to a visitor distillery?
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  New York? Yeah.
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  What distilleries were out We were at-We're going to have trouble doing this.
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  What?
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  Fort Hamilton?
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  Yeah.
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  We went to Fort Hamilton, and then we went to King...
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  Is it King's...
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  County? County.
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  That was great, something. What was the great one?
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  That was cool. They went to the bar.
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  Yeah. Yeah, that was really cool.
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  See, there are lots of great distilleries outside.
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  Then I've been to a cool one on Treasure Island in San Francisco as well.
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  Another work trip?
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  It was a work trip. Yes, I want to see.
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  It was a weekend. It was a Saturday.
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  It wasn't during business hours.
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  It's funny because it's true.
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  You do what you love for work, don't you? That's right.
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  Isn't that part of it?
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  Then you drink some bourbon in between times.
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  Trying to think about what my next work trip is and how I can wedge a
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  trip to a distillery in there.
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  It needs to be someone new and fabulous that we need bourbon topping.
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  Maybe I'll hit up that one, Ryan, and see where there's a
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  good saturation of distilleries outside I to Kentucky that I can go for work.
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  But we're going to go back to Kentucky.
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  Of course, we go back to Kentucky.
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  Yeah, we're already planning our trip to the Kentucky Bourbon Festival.
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  We don't stop talking about this, do we?
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  Sorry, it's just a perpetual thing, but we're planning it already.
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  We're going to start planning our bottles that we're going to Bring back.
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  Correct.
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  So that we can then do podcasts on them for next year.
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  So if you've got any recommendations that you want us to try, let us know,
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  and maybe we'll bring a bottle back. Okay.
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  But it's fair to say that there's some delicious bourbon being made
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  outside Kentucky, so get around it. Let's go back to Portland.
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  Okay, let's do that. Cheers.
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