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Michters Fort Nelson Reserve Bourbon The One Dave Bottled Himself · Aussie Bourbon Lovers

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  But so much anticipation.
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  Sorry, everyone.
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  What are we having tonight, Hedge?
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  Tonight, Dave, is a special one.
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  It's a Michter's, but it's got a particular…
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  I can't share your label on it.
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  Just say the word. It's the Fort Nelson Reserve.
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  It is the Fort Nelson Reserve, but it says Dave Collins.
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  He's the person that hand bottled this.
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  Yeah, you pour it in.
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  I'll give the high-level thing of what it is.
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  When you get to go to Fort Nelson, which is the…
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  A lot of the distilleries have an experience on Distiller's Row
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  or Distillery Row in Louisville.
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  In the main bit of downtown Louisville, you can go and experience
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  lots of distilleries.
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  You're not necessarily always at the distillery.
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  Peel as you are, but at Michter's, you're not.
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  You're at an experience. And Evan Williams, you're not.
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  And Old Forest, you're not.
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  They do distil at some of those sites, but it's often like a sample.
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  They're doing testing and they're doing cool R&D stuff at that site.
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  But the big main distillery is somewhere else.
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  So this is from the Michter's one, which is called Fort Nelson.
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  A really cool experience. It's amazing.
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  I've said this, this is probably about every one of the ones we've spoken about
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  that's on on that main road in Louisville, but you got to go.
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  It's so good.
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  The day we did this, and again, thanks, a shout out to Tom for organising it for
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  us, it was like, I think Dave was more excited than a kid at Christmas.
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  I don't know.
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  You just couldn't wipe the smile off your face.
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  Bottling your own bottle of bourbon.
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  A bottle of a mix of bourbon is so special.
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  Yeah, it's amazing.
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  So tonight, the bottle is almost empty. Okay.
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  Here we go. We Here you go.
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  Let's do the cheers so we can start getting into this, please.
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  Here we go.
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  We know it's going to smell great. It's great.
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  It is great.
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  It's barrel proof Michter's bourbon. That's what we're having.
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  Barrel strength.
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  It's straight out of the barrel.
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  What's the proof of this one?
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  Hundred day proof.
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  Is it mixed?
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  I guess obviously, it's not straight out of it.
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  It's not a single barrel. Is it vatted?
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  Are you asking? I think it's vatted, yes.
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  I don't think that's a single barrel.
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  No, they put it through the thing and then…
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  But it's really fun because you get to connect your bottle up to the system
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  that's there and then pull the lever and watch it all fill in.
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  But then you get to write your name in the book to say that you
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  are bottling it because I don't have to do all these legal things, but it's fun.
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  Then you get to name your bottle.
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  What did you call yours, Dave?
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  I called mine Dave Collins.
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  Is that too boring? It was a big good use.
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  Which one?
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  The name of the bottle and the name of the…
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  Anyway, so I just called it Dave Collins. Dave Collins.
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  It's like a small version of me.
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  In a bottle.
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  It is everything that a nice barrel-strength bourbon
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  should be from Michter's.
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  Good on the nose and very calmly. It's just delicious.
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  It's almost like a butterscotch caramel over the top of pancakes.
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  But here's the thing. That bottle is really empty.
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  We've had it open for, I reckon, less than a whole week.
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  Let's call it two weeks, but it hasn't been long.
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  We We were at the fireplace going one night, and we just
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  were like, you said, because sometimes we take in turns as to who gets to pick the
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  bottle of bourbon that we're having a nightcap of.
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  We give each other descriptions of that needs to be desserty or it needs
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  to be this or needs to be that.
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  You just said, tonight, I need a good one.
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  I went to the cupboard and I went, Well, this one's got his name on it, so
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  we can't not say this is a good one. It's micked it.
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  I knew it was guaranteed for it to be something we were going to love.
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  We've had a few guests over, and very quickly it's gone.
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  I know some people have that hesitation, Dave, of like, it's a
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  really special bottle. When do you open it?
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  I love that we just opened it one random night, and
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  the fun was in bottling it and the story that went with it, and now we got to
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  enjoy it together and with friends.
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  It's interesting thing is what makes a bottle of whiskey so special that
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  you're so reluctant to open it?
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  I know we've had this conversation, and it's the It's an age-old discussion about
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  whether or not you should be able to have bottles that you don't open.
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  There's some bottles up there that we haven't opened yet.
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  But it's not that we're waiting for something in particular.
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  It's just like when the moment's right, I won't have any concern opening it.
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  Yeah, I'm looking forward to it.
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  There's a lot Actually, there's a lot.
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  There's some good ones that you're looking forward to open.
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  But I was genuinely had a real attachment to this one because-Well, you bottled it.
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  It captured a moment in time, right?
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  See, my hesitation is not opening a bottle.
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  My hesitation is when it gets to this exact point where there's two pores left.
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  For people listening who can't see, I've just been showing this bottle with
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  the camera basically the whole time.
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  I have not had much camera time. I'm so excited.
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  But it's got two or three pores left. It's not much.
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  Two centimetres.
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  I hesitate when it gets to that because if it's a bottle like this that I love,
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  or if it's a rare bottle, like a bottle that's a limited release or something,
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  and you've really enjoyed it.
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  But can you get more limited release than one-of-one bottles that you bottled
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  yourself on a special day in Louisville?
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  We've got two of these because I bottled one, too.
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  Yeah, but you bottled that one, and so it's not the same as my one.
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  It's special to me.
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  But it's going to taste the same because it's not the same.
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  But I get what you mean.
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  This one is your special bottle.
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  But that's my hesitation is finishing the bottle.
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  It's like, I want that goodness to keep lasting, especially when
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  it's-When it's this good.
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  Delicious and desserty like this.
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  Because then the question comes up, and you've been poking fun underneath my
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  voice because I haven't been 100%.
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  Yes, he's trying to copy my deep, sexy radio voice.
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  Yeah, you've got such a lovely voice, and I'm trying to copy it.
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  But are you allowed to put that in a hot toddy, for example?
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  That's totally your choice, Dave.
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  Dave made really good hot toddys last night.
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  Well, that's medicinal.
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  He needed them. He has the man flu.
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  Yes.
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  I think you can put whatever you like in it, Dave.
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  It'd be a very special hot toddy.
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  He had a There's a lot of flavours in it, but I tend to go…
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  I go with ones that I like, but that aren't super sentimental, I suppose.
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  It's not about the price tag to me.
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  It's more the sentimental side of it.
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  I I would put a good bourbon in a Hot Toddy,
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  but I wouldn't put something that was, again, getting low and about to run out,
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  and I really just wanted to enjoy the flavours.
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  I love this hobby that we've come up on because you know what I did?
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  I came in here a couple of nights ago and looked at our whisky's and I said, What?
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  You talked to the whiskies?
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  I sang to them. No, I didn't.
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  No, I was like, I wonder if there's any bottles in here that a Kentucky Bourbon
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  Festival barrel selects that we haven't opened yet.
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  Do you know what the answer is?
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  Yes, there's a few that we haven't opened yet.
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  Do you think there's more than one? Yes.
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  Oh, do you really?
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  I know of one only.
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  But there is one.
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  Why?
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  I was like, Well, we got our flights booked for the next one.
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  We have to open it before we go to the next We're very much looking
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  forward to going to the next one.
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  But for anyone who is actually heading to the Kentucky Bourbon Festival, I highly
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  recommend the Michter's experience of bottling your own bottle.
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  But you don't need to be at the festival.
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  Just any time you're in- No, but I'm just saying if you're heading
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  there for the festival, make sure you do it.
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  But if you're just generally in the Kentucky area, put it on your
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  bucket list because it's pretty fun. Yes.
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  I find it hard to express how much fun I had doing that because
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  I've seen all the videos.
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  There's lots of videos online about people doing But when you pull on that lever and
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  your bottle fills with the bourbon that's going home with you in
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  your hand-labeled bottle.
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  You get to label it.
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  I don't know what that feeling is.
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  It was just so incredible.
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  It's hard to describe.
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  I was so excited that I put the wrong date on the bottle.
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  Is that excitement? I put two months later.
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  Two months later? I think it was two months.
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  I put the wrong month, and it was in the future.
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  Then I realised that I probably should have to resticker it because it needed to
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  match the ledger that we got to to say that we were bottling
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  and buying a bottle of our own.
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  Because there's certainly a thing of like...
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  And in different cases, sometimes we're in a very lucky position that we're
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  given bottles of whiskey, which is so lovely.
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  And then in other cases, we spend a reasonable amount of money on
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  bottles we really, really want.
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  So is there a good reason?
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  And at both ends of the spectrum, some of my favourite bottles that are definitely
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  at that, there's only a quarter of it left or less, are some of the ones that are
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  really nice that we've been But by the same time, some of those are
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  also those ones that are really quite expensive.
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  And then I like the ceremony of a bottle kill.
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  We're at the end of a thing that I've enjoyed and this is wonderful, and you're
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  going to enjoy the last thing of it.
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  Yeah, I like.
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  A good bottle kill.
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  Wow, you brought a lot.
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  That's what I'm thinking.
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  All right.
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  Well, if you get a chance to bottle your own anywhere, because there's definitely
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  other places you can do it, but I really recommend you do it.
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  But head over to Michter's and get that one.
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  I'll win the lot of them. Just get a whole barrel.
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  Yes.
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  You can't get a barrel of Michter's, though.
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  This is part of the allure. Yeah, I know.
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  You can't. You got to buy it by the bottle.
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  Exactly.
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  So just queue up over and over to try to get that.
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  And Michter's is a good one because it's guaranteed to be good bourbon.
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  That's it.
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  Well, here's to opening the bottles that you love that will make you happy.
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  And they make you happy when they're open. Yeah.
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  And drink it however you like in a hot toddy.
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  I'm not putting this in a hot toddy.
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  No, I wouldn't put this in a hot toddy either.
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  Especially because the bottle is so low and it is so special.
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  But yeah.
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  Enjoy a hot toddy. Drink it how you like it.
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