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Blanton's Gold and Four Fun Blanton's Facts you didn't know · 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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  Good pop. Really good pop.
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  What are you drinking that, David?
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  Tonight is a Blantons Gold.
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  Blantons is that bottle with the horsey topper.
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  But this horsey topper is gold. I know.
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  It's super fancy.
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  Show the nice people on the YouTube channel.
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  There you go. Have a look at that.
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  Gold.
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  So you know how you collect them and you put them on the stave or whatever?
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  Well, this one is. Yeah.
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  This one's a little O underneath the back foot.
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  Yeah.
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  Blantons Gold. Cheers.
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  Now go on, ask the question that you want to ask because-What makes a Blanton's
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  gold different to the regular Blantons?
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  Do you remember what makes a Blantons green different to a regular Blantons?
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  It's like a single barrel? No, no.
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  All Blantons are a single barrel. Yeah.
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  That's like the thing. Yeah, that's what Blantons is.
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  But I don't know what makes a gold one different to it.
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  No, do you remember what the green one is? Do you know why it's green?
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  Yeah, the green one is Australian.
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  The Australian one, and it's 40 %, 80 proof.
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  A normal Blantons is-About 90 something.
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  93 proof. Yeah.
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  Okay, it's great. So the gold- Before we get into it.
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  Yeah, what are you getting?
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  See if you can tell from the flavours.
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  That'd be sad.
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  Caramel Oh, yummy. Oh, yummy.
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  Vanillary.
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  Peacans.
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  Butter, buttery. Buttery goodness.
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  Very buttery. Buttery, desserty, like a crumbly crust.
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  I was sitting in my kitchen table at home as a kid eating sticky hair
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  pudding with lots of sauce.
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  Oh, my goodness. That smells delicious.
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  And that mouthfeel is very velvety and delicious and good.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  My sister used to work at the cheesecake shop, which is a cheesecake shop.
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  It's one of those companies.
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  It's named as it is.
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  But she used to bring home what was called damaged stocks.
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  If they dropped a cheesecake or if something happened to something, they put
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  a red sticker on it and you get it cheaper because no one's going to
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  take that to a birthday party.
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  This reminds you of cheesecake?
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  No, they had a product called a pecan pie.
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  But a pecan is a flavour of ice cream.
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  I suppose this would be a bit butter pecan.
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  But a pecan pie. You definitely get that.
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  I can see the nutty- I need there to be a cheesecake shop open
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  right now that I can go and get a pecan pie and eat it because the crust
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  on that freaking thing was so good.
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  Would go really good with this.
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  It was good.
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  If you're going to drink a Blunt and Gold, I recommend it with a pecan pie.
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  I'd go sticky day.
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  I mean, this is pretty delicious.
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  I've got four things I need to tell you about that I learned today, four
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  different things that are new. New things?
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  I woke up this morning and I didn't know these four things about Blanc's
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  Gold, and I want to tell you. There you go.
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  They say you learn something new every day, Dave.
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  I learned four things. Well, now I'm going to learn four.
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  The first one is about what makes Blatons Gold different because I had to Google it
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  because I knew it was more expensive because I bought- That's a fact.
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  I bought Blatons Gold as a gift for- I already knew that fact.
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  Our friend Cain. Yeah.
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  We've also been giving it as a gift. For his birthday.
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  I think he turned 21 recently.
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  I got him I got in a Blaine's Gold, and I knew it was considerably more
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  expensive than normal Blaine's.
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  But I didn't know what the actual difference was.
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  So I googled it. Okay.
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  Tell us. Difference number one.
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  It's actually one and two, because the first part of it is that
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  it was made for Japan.
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  The first Blant's Gold was made for Japan. As in they made it gold?
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  And it was the second only expression of Blant.
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  So Blant's existed normally, the one that you know with the beige
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  label, handwritten thing.
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  It's all still the same thing, single barrel You know, I'm going
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  to say I did this thing. Yeah, they put the little like, which?
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  Rickhouse number 3. Yeah.
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  Warehouse H.
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  It's not a Rickhouse number three, it's Rick number 3.
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  So it's like- Oh, sorry, Rick. Yeah, it's what Rick is on.
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  And then when it's dumped and all that stuff.
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  Yeah, they do all that. Yes.
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  But the other thing, so that's one.
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  And then number two is that.
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  It tells you the barrel number and everything.
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  A 103 proof instead of 93 proof.
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  So it is 10 % or 5 %, 10 proof higher. Higher than a regular.
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  So it's a richer Theoretically, richer flavour, less water, all that stuff
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  that they add to make a thing. So that's the difference.
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  Which doesn't seem- That's two differences.
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  Yeah, it goes. But it doesn't seem that exciting.
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  But also the price tag is different.
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  Yeah, well, it's high proof.
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  And it's got a fancy gold label.
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  Fancy gold label written on a gold pen.
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  I don't know if it's this bottle, but it's jolly good.
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  It's really delicious. Okay.
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  It's very desserty.
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  You know, there's so many things that I love about bourbon, but one of the things
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  that I really have liked about drinking Blantons and all the other single
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  barrel expressions that have followed thereafter,
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  since Amatilla did this thing, is that there's a real purity to drinking a
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  single barrel, knowing that it's the thing.
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  Nothing else has happened to it.
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  They did this thing where they took four ingredients, three ingredients.
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  Put it in a barrel.
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  Cooked it and distilled it and then stuck it in a wooden barrel and
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  left it there for bloody ages.
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  And then they put it past these bits of cheese cloth, take the
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  chunky stuff out, and then they put it in a bottle.
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  And here it is in my glass now.
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  That's all they've done.
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  And how on Earth.
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  This bloody good is confusing me.
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  I like the fact that when you get it from a single barrel, that
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  if you really love this particular bottle, that the next one might
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  not taste exactly the same.
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  You can go to Dan Mervies and not get anywhere near as good as
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  that or something better. Yeah.
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  I think I like that adventure about it.
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  But it does get sad when you find one like this that is really
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  particularly delicious.
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  Then you know that once that bottle is gone, it's gone.
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  But do you think that's sad or do you think that's- I think it's exciting, but I
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  do get a little bit sad when it gets close to the end of the bottle.
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  Okay.
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  Luckily, we just opened this one, so we're a long way from the end.
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  My other two facts are less scientific and more story-based.
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  Tell us. Fact number three, Dave.
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  I think I'm going to tell the next one as a...
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  Okay, I know which one it is.
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  At the end of Prohibition...
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  No, no.
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  Let me begin with this one.
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  Warehouse H is very famous because everyone who loves Blantons and
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  all the memes about you got any Blantons and all that stuff.
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  Blantons is so...
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  Everyone loves it.
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  And Whisky Noobs does these things where he does blind tastings, or
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  he did them a while ago.
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  Blind tastings is, is it which one's Blantons and is it better than Blantons?
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  Or which was using it that's better than Blantons?
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  It's a huge thing.
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  It's much easier to get here than it is in US.
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  Hugely easier to get in Australia.
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  You can walk into a lot of Dan Murphy stores and other liquor stores here and
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  get a bottle of Blantons off the shelf.
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  The US, very hard to do.
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  And it's comically hard to do.
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  Warehouse H, where Blans comes from, is very unique because of the
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  way that it's made.
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  At the end of Prohibition, like at the end of COVID Here,
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  there was a shortage of stuff.
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  Prohibition was a big, trying for the bourbon industry.
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  I mean, COVID was trying for every industry here, or the world over.
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  But at the end of Prohibition, everyone needed to make whiskey all of a sudden, or
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  the people who could still make whiskey wanted to make whiskey all of a sudden.
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  Everyone was like, We can do it now. Let's make lots.
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  Let's go.
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  So they all needed to get their operations back in order.
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  And one of those things is to build or rebuild rickhouses that have been torn
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  down or used for other staff or whatever.
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  So there's a shortage of supplies. Correct.
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  So what's a rickhouse usually made from?
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  I would say wood. Yes.
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  Or there's some that are made from.
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  Is it stone?
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  Yeah, I think often blue stone and stuff like that, or bricks and stuff like that.
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  Something that keeps the cold in and the heat in so it It's nice and hot.
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  I mean, effectively, it's just a big warehouse, isn't it?
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  But the old ones out at Woodford Reserver, I think they're blue stone.
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  They're probably a different. Anyway, they look like blue stone.
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  But anyway, big old sheds.
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  Made of stone. Made of stone, made of wood.
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  I'm sure- But not warehouse H.
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  Warehouse H isn't the only one in the whole world that's this, but
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  it is specifically made of...
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  Metal? It's made of metal.
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  So it's like a tin shed.
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  And Colonel Blanton, Colonel Alfred B.
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  Blanton, said that he felt like it was creating the
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  most pleasant expressions of his bourbon because he feels like
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  it's almost the best…
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  Well, I mean, obviously the bourbon tastes the best, but he figured that it was the
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  closest it would get to being exposed to the elements because in the afternoon, the
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  temperature in there reflected what the afternoon temperature outside was,
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  obviously, depending on the day.
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  If you've been in a tin shed, it gets very hot on a hot afternoon and
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  very cold on a hot afternoon. But it cools quickly, right?
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  Yeah, it does.
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  So you get the fluctuations probably a bit If it's cooling down the evening,
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  the shed will cool down quickly.
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  Whether a stone one would hold that heat in.
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  And Kentucky gets those huge fluctuations.
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  When it gets freezing cold or in a snow, it's going to probably get the extremes of
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  outside closer than a wood or stone Then frick-out.
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  The fact that matter?
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  Does made of metal help with this delicious flavour?
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  What? Please don't ask me.
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  I've got no idea.
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  But this is what he's saying.
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  Anyway, so there you go. Made of metal.
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  Where has H? Four fascinating facts.
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  No, no. That's only three.
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  That's only three? I can't count.
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  Number four. Two sips and I can't count.
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  Colonel Alfred B.
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  Blanton's name has a hidden secret.
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  Colonel Alfred.
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  His middle name starts with a B, and his middle name.
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  I've got to guess, haven't I? No, it was Bacon.
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  Bacon.
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  Colonel Alfred Bacon Blanton. Bacon.
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  Easily the finest middle name of all history.
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  Wow.
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  I'm really glad you didn't know that was a name you could legally name
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  people before we had kids.
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  Our son Henry would have been Henry Bacon. Henry Bacon.
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  Oh, no.
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  Wow.
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  Are you a little bit jealous of the fact he's got the name Bacon on his name deck?
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  I was going to say he's a bourbon. He's proud as well, though.
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  No, it's not bourbon. But Bacon and Bourbon go all together.
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  Well, I think I'd go dessert with this one.
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  I think I'd just go more of that. That was so good.
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  Although if there's any cheesecake shop, I'm heading out to get me a pecan pie.
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  I don't have very much time for my class, but let's still cheers.
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  Cheers. Here's to anyone whose name is Bacon.
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  To you out there, have another bourbon and a bacon and a pecan pie.
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