You’re Pretty Serious About Your Bourbon If…

[MikeK]

You’re Pretty Serious About Your Bourbon If…

• Given a bottle of Bourbon, you can name the distillery that made it and when you last hung out with the Master Distiller.
• Local liquor stores call YOU when they run out of hard to find bottles.
• Distilleries send you hand written Birthday and Christmas cards.
• You’ve weaseled your way into most of the major distilleries and drank straight from the barrel. Sometimes straight from the still.
• Your Bourbon Bunker puts most liquor stores to shame.
• Many of the local liquor distributors and brand reps know you on sight.
• You arrange business trips to hit the cities with the best Bourbon hunting.
• You know all the airline regulations regarding the amount of liquor you can check through and carry on.
• You know about the new products coming out months before the distributors and liquor stores.
• Your dining room walls are decorated with barrel heads signed by the master distillers.
• Your ten year old daughter knows how to properly nose a glass of Bourbon.
• Very few bottles in your Bunker can be obtained at even the largest liquor stores.
• Some or all of your pets are named after major brands.
• You have the owner or manager of all the major liquor stores in the state in your cell phone.
• Been to all of the major distilleries. More than once.
• Your personal inventory is so large that if Prohibition was reinstated tomorrow you wouldn't be affected for many, many years.

[cowdery]

I think you've just described everybody on this site. Except I don't have any kids or pets.

[HighTower]

Well, I just got a puppy......suggested Elijah as a name but that didn't happen.......

[barturtle]

I think you've just described everybody on this site. Except I don't have any kids or pets.

No pet, kids or barrel heads. But the rest sounds vaguely familiar

[Nebraska]

My 4 year old weighs in each evening on what would be the appropriate bottle choice, although I think she is heavily influenced by label design.

[CrispyCritter]

• Your personal inventory is so large that if Prohibition was reinstated tomorrow you wouldn't be affected for many, many years.

I'm not quite to that level yet, but I'm getting there.

Then again, sometimes I think that Prohibition 2.0 might be just around the corner. If Texas is any indication, it's already on its way.

After reading about the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Comission's Gestapo-style raids on bars, where they'd bust bar patrons for public drunkeness without even bothering to measure BAC, even busting hotel patrons in hotel bars!, on the flimsy excuse that they might drive home drunk (Department of Pre-Crime, anyone?), I'm frickin' glad I don't live in Texas, and I have no intention of visiting Texas, either.

"I don't really understand the hateful outrage. I don't understand, 'Die in a fire.'"
-TABC spokeswoman Carolyn Beck

It's quite simple. Die. In. A. Fire.

[tachyonshuggy]

Well, I just got a puppy......suggested Elijah as a name but that didn't happen.......

We inherited a betta fish that was part of a wedding centerpiece (!) last month.

I named it Overholt

[SBOmarc]

My 6 year old can pour it neat, and on the rock, one cube only.

Some visitors get a bit uncomfortable.

Is this a problem?

[Nebraska]

Maybe they are afraid some will spill.

[gr8erdane]

I think you missed one: You have something bourbon related in every room of the house, including the guest bathroom and laundryroom. (GUILTY)