Old Rip bottle change?

Can anyone tell me when (& why?) Old Rip switched from the older
tall "Pappy" bottle shown on the left to the newer "squat" bottle?


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I believe the taller one on the left was the export edition. Probably 700ml

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Originally Posted by birdman1099

I believe the taller one on the left was the export edition. Probably 700ml

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Yes that’s perfectly right Scott. Both have been available here, but the squat was sold out years ago and the other is almost impossible to find anymore as well.

Leif

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Originally Posted by birdman1099

I believe the taller one on the left was the export edition. Probably 700ml

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That explains why I saw it listed on a UK website. I thought maybe it
was an earlier version that preceded a switch to the shorter bottle.

Thanks.

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Originally Posted by birdman1099

I believe the taller one on the left was the export edition. Probably 700ml

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Guess you can cram a lot more thin, uniform bottles in a small box for export...

I'm glad to hear that this isn't a change to the tall bottles. I really like the look of the squat old bottles with the old school label. The antique label doesn't work as well on the tall new looking bottle.

The squat bottle is called a "barrel bottle" and was the trademark of the Van Winkle family's Stitzel-Weller Distillery. Every Stitzel-Weller brand used it and that was one of the ways you knew it was Stitzel-Weller. When the family sold the distillery but retained the Old Rip brand name, and JPVW Jr. began his bottling operation at the old Hoffman Distillery, he adopted the barrel bottle. His son, JPVW III, kept the barrel bottle but also added a tall bottle, more like a wine bottle. That bottle is the exception, the barrel bottle is the rule.

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Originally Posted by cowdery

The squat bottle is called a "barrel bottle" and was the trademark of the Van Winkle family's Stitzel-Weller Distillery. Every Stitzel-Weller brand used it and that was one of the ways you knew it was Stitzel-Weller. When the family sold the distillery but retained the Old Rip brand name, and JPVW Jr. began his bottling operation at the old Hoffman Distillery, he adopted the barrel bottle. His son, JPVW III, kept the barrel bottle but also added a tall bottle, more like a wine bottle. That bottle is the exception, the barrel bottle is the rule.

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I like the barrel bottle better as it's a screw cap on it.

Leif

I prefer the barrel bottle also. What is the story with that label on the barrel bottle in the picture? Is that an older style label, or are they changing the current label?

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Originally Posted by nor02lei

I like the barrel bottle better as it's a screw cap on it.

Leif

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Just out of curiosity, why is a screw cap superior to a corked one?