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Evan Williams Bottled in Bond and a Surprise that we weren't quite ready for. · Aussie Bourbon Lovers

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  One more, 10 minutes.
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  Aussie bourbon lovers, sharing bourbon with Australia.
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  I know, it's silent.
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  You didn't even do it really loudly.
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  It's a screw cap. I know.
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  So there's no delightful pop to start tonight's podcast.
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  No, but Dave's going to tell us what we're drinking tonight.
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  This isn't Evan Williams bottled in bond.
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  It's the Evan Williams white label, which I was surprised to find in
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  Australia, but it's easy to find in the US.
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  I think I just heard someone say it's the most popular or most sold-
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  Most sold bottle in Bond.
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  Anyway. Cheers.
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  All right, let's begin with H.
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  Tell me about what do you know about this one?
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  Well, I know it's a Bottled in Bond, which, don't quiz me on it,
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  but it's got a lot of ones.
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  One distil Distiller, one distillery, and one distilling season.
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  It has to all meet those rules.
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  Bottled in Bond has a lot of rules.
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  I don't know if that's all of them.
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  It has to be exactly 100 proof. Oh, yes.
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  Another number one with two zeros.
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  But it's all one, one, one, one, one.
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  That's how I remember it.
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  I know there's more rules, but they're the ones I remember.
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  One Distilling Season, one Distiller, one Distillery, and 100 proof.
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  Okay.
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  You can fact check us on that.
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  One Distiller, one Distiller, you sound like the same thing to me.
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  All right, let's go with it.
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  So what are you getting on the nose?
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  Let's go with... Can I start with...
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  I think this is somewhere between 15 and 30 US dollars for a bottle.
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  So this is not an expensive-No, this is a very affordable...
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  Get yourself a nice bottle of whiskey.
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  Well, get yourself a bottle of bottle of whiskey, right?
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  Yeah.
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  What are you getting?
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  I'm getting lots of caramel. Are you?
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  Yeah. I'm getting like a nuttiness.
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  Like a vanilla pod.
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  We said this recently, the nuttiness thing, but like, yeah,
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  it's a good bit of wood.
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  Yeah, there's definitely smoke there. Okay.
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  Have a taste, Dave.
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  Tell us what you got.
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  That's delightful.
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  You sound surprised.
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  It's so Just effective.
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  That is so much better than I was expecting that to be, actually.
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  Because I've heard people say this is such a good go-to.
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  Everyone should get a bottle of it.
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  But look how boring the label is.
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  You know how I bang on that? It's boring labels.
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  It's It's simple. It's affordable.
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  I don't even know where to put it. Goodness, that's tasty.
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  That is delicious.
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  That has exactly the right amount of vanilla and caramel-y.
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  Yeah, it's very desserty.
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  But for an affordable whiskey, that's really good.
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  I'm sorry that I'm so surprised.
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  I think this is my first time having this.
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  It's buttery or something.
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  The mouth feels great.
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  It's definitely desserty for me.
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  It's got that like…
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  When you're delicious. But I would…
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  Yeah, I'd love to have this in a blind tasting, I reckon.
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  Because I reckon it would really confuse you with a more expensive one.
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  But it'd be interesting to compare them because that is really delicious.
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  I think I thought I was going to get something pretty rough around the edges
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  because of how cost-effective it is.
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  Well, it's the most solid bottle in pond, so it's got to be good.
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  That speaks for itself, really.
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  Could be stated with the price tag.
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  The DSP That's on there is DSP1, DSP KY1.
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  But that's for Heaven and Hell Distillery. Correct.
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  Yeah, which I didn't realise that were DSP1.
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  Can you remind us what DSP KY1 means?
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  It's like what distillery number they are.
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  But then There was Prohibition, and they had to go back, and some of them
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  got their original numbers again. Some of them didn't.
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  But every distillery is registered, and they have a number.
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  And so that, obviously, was the first one.
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  Dsp stands for Distilled Spirits Plant.
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  Ky is the state, and then the number is the national number.
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  I'm fairly sure that's right. I'm pretty sure.
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  So DSP-KY1 means it's the first distil spirits plant ever to be given a number.
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  Yeah. Pretty cool.
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  I know.
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  This is the stuff that I love, the history of-The random stuff.
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  That's a pretty cool one to have, number one.
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  Yeah.
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  And it goes with the theme of tonight, one, one, one, one,
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  What I was like, Oh, it's probably not going to be much good.
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  I'm not too worried about it.
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  But now I think I'll- You could pour yourself some more.
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  We're only four minutes in there.
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  Pour yourself another.
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  I'm genuinely taken aback by how good that is.
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  He had all this stuff planned to say, and now he's gobsmacked about how good it is.
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  Part of the thing that really throws me on this, so it's a plastic screw cap.
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  It's the screw cap you find at a Coke bottle.
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  I'm not even being rude. It just is.
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  No, it doesn't It doesn't say super fancy, super delicious.
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  It's just super affordable and it is really delightful.
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  Yeah. I mean, there's other bourbons I prefer.
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  Is this easy to get in Australia or not?
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  Well, I think I was surprised that I could get it, so maybe not.
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  Although I wonder if it's...
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  Maybe it's just because I haven't been looking for it or when I've
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  seen it, I've ignored it.
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  I'd say this is going to be one of these ones where you can get
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  it online pretty easy.
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  But I think you wouldn't walk into a normal-Dance and just pick it up.
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  I think you wouldn't. I'm happy you're told that I'm wrong.
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  Why don't we have it out here?
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  I don't know.
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  Do you know what the problem I think it is?
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  Look how much that looks like a Jim Beam white label.
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  Yeah, that is true.
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  That looks a lot like a- I don't get it into focus.
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  Just from a distance, it's the square bottle with a white label on it.
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  Yeah, and it's got the neck on it.
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  It's very similar to the Jim Beam.
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  Yeah, it does have a very Jim Beam-esque look.
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  Maybe it's just- I can't believe how good that tastes.
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  I am so embarrassed that that's on our shelf unopened.
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  It's the first pour we're having out of it.
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  It's my suggestion for tonight's podcast, and I'm really glad we opened it.
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  I have a sneaking suspicion that is not going to last that long.
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  I have a sneaking suspicion.
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  I'm going to be sure I get a few more bottles of it.
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  The photo for the thumbnail will be a full bottle, Dave.
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  Well, depending on how much you drink in the next five minutes.
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  You're right. It'll be a full bottle.
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  Can't we pour some more?
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  No, this is great.
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  Why did they do bottle in Bond, Do you know any information about that?
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  Yeah. Have I spoken about this before or not?
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  I think we've touched on it briefly, but that was a long time ago.
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  So here's the thing.
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  This is really before they were selling whiskey in the bottles.
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  This is like we're going way back, probably '80s, '60s,
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  '60s, '70s in that spell.
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  And I don't read Fred Minnick's book where he talks about this because
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  there's so many more historians who will write well about this.
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  But basically what was happening is you could make whiskey and sell whiskey
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  to anyone and do whatever you want to it.
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  Fill it out with whatever you liked. Exactly.
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  So you could put something that was distilled.
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  So maybe imagine a vodka or something like that.
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  And then you could put anything in it.
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  And the go to is tobacco spit is the thing that makes it the right
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  colour, which is so gross.
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  But that's something you could do.
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  You could put a tea bag in it to make it that colour.
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  And then you could sell it and no one would necessarily know what was in there
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  because it's being sold in these barrels.
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  So you don't know what you're getting.
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  And so what they did is they I said a few of them.
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  Unfortunately, a lot of those distilleries are no longer around.
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  They all went by the wayside, but they went and said, Let's go and get
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  a-Official signed piece of paper.
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  That's what it says.
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  It's about getting the legislation through.
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  And so Bottled and Bound was the first of these acts, the Bottled and Bound Act.
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  I'm going to get the names of the people wrong, but there were
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  people who were involved. I think Colonel E.
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  H.
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  Taylor was one of the people involved in that.
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  And he was lobbied the government and said, said, Hey, we need to have a way of
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  saying this is an official way of saying this is a real American whiskey.
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  And so this was the first thing.
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  So before, there's the rules about bourbon.
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  Before that was instituted, this thing of bottled in wine.
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  This was before then. This is early on.
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  This was in 1890 something? Yeah, 1897.
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  They said that this is what they wanted to do.
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  Yeah, exactly.
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  And it had to be at least four years as well.
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  And then so the rules for bourbon came after that.
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  Bourbon came, I think, quite a fair bit later.
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  I think bourbon seemed, I could be wrong about this, but it might
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  be like 1940s or something.
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  I'm going to be wrong.
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  I probably wasn't currently- I don't know how many people check
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  any of the stuff we say.
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  Yeah, but there's some dudes.
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  There were some dudes in America, and they did some good work.
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  But they made the bourbon taste delicious.
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  And dear goodness, we love it. So Evan Williams.
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  So you can go to the Evan Williams experience.
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  I think it's called on the Main Street in Louisville.
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  Oh, yeah. And you can go to Heaven Hill as well.
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  You can.
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  Yeah, that's out in- Because that's where they make it.
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  Yeah, exactly.
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  And in fact, I think they've just finished, or not just, but recently
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  finished their new version of their visitor experience.
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  Not visitor experience, but like the distillerian stuff.
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  Because Heaven Hill make lots of different expressions.
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  Elijah Craig is one of them.
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  So that's all in that group.
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  So they know how to make good quality, affordable bourbon.
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  Well, that's why I'm looking at how little I've got left because of
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  how small your pour was.
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  But that's why I was so pleasantly surprised that this was so good, because
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  they need to have these tiers of what's the good stuff, what's the next best
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  stuff, and then what do we sell at 15 to 30 dollars a bottle.
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  And so you can't expect it to be that good.
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  Is this there a super affordable one. Well, this is one of them.
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  There's also an Evan Williams black label, which I'm going to guess is 80 proof.
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  It's there. It's not bottle in bond.
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  So it's like- So it's less than this?
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  Less proof, yeah.
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  No, no, less cost. I imagine.
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  I don't know.
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  But it But if you walk into a supermarket in the US, I reckon you'll find both a
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  black and white label, Evan Williams.
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  I'm excited about doing a blind tasting and putting that in.
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  You're going to throw it in there. It's a spanner.
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  Not in the next one because you're going to be looking for it.
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  You'll be like, Which one is it?
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  I'll have to wait a few. I'll have to have a few.
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  But that's going to...
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  I'd like to just compare it to some of the really more high-end ones because it
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  really is delicious.
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  But it might just be because it's our first bourbon.
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  Well, colour me surprised.
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  That was more delightful than I was expecting.
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  If you can find yourself a bottle of that.
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  In Australia, this is going to be maybe 70 bucks or something like that, which
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  is well worth the spend, in my view.
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  Yeah, so you can find it because- Grab a bottle.
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  I can I got that at Celebrations.
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  But one- Yeah, and enjoy some caramel-vanilla- And he'll have more.
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  For sure. Deliciousness.
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  Yeah, real good bourbon-y notes and a really excellent mouthfeel.
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  Stop laughing at how much I'm enjoying this.
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  Go and get yourself a bottle. And be surprised.
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