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Thanks! Drinking curtailed and purchasing ceased so I sometimes have to remind myself to come see my friends in this corner of the internet.

I’ve been carrying this beer around for a week. Finally got around to popping it. Excellent easy drinking beer out of Maine.

Oh, c'mon. I keep hearing all these stories about OWA being in every store there like it's water.

Haven't tried it yet.

The regular shelf bottles? Not too hard. This is a really good single barrel pick that the restaurant did. They serve it in the bar, as well as sell bottles. Since the wife and I enjoyed it so much, I bought a bottle.

Wild Turkey 101 is regularly $29.99 at BevMo, or, as I like to call it, BevPayMo. But it's currently one of the items included in their Buy One, Get One for $.05 sale. So, I bought two for $30.04 or $15.02 each plus tax. Not bad. I've only had one of the "new bottle" release several years ago and liked it so I'm anxious to try it again given that I've heard mixed reviews. If it's as good as I remember, I'll probably get four more at that price.

If you can fit it in, Castle and Key has incredibly beautiful grounds so even if you don't have time for a tour it's worth seeing. An added bonus is that just a short drive down the road is a great restaurant called The Stave that you can hit for lunch. https://kentuckyprojects.wixsite.com/thestaveky/about Woodford Reserve is only 5 minutes away from there.

Even though I'm generally a Turkey and Roses guy these days GTS remains my singular favorite bourbon. I've never had a bad one. I'd give it another chance from a different bottle.

Exactly this. And good to see you around again.

Who isn’t! Liquid beauty.

Yes! And I’m a big Chihuly fan! I’ll try to figure out how to get it in the schedule.

Entrance to gift shop.

I keep seeing how beautiful MM is! It looks like they have a 9:40 tour on Sundays but it would wrap up at 11 then we have a 3 hour drive to the airport. We could make that work. I will just need to extend our rental car for an extra hour. We just have to be at the airport by 3pm.

Is the restaurant at BBC open for dinner? It looked to only be available for lunch. I actually had a reservation there before the blending tour but switched it to Willett after he sent me a TikTok to “add to the list of we ever go”. I can definitely look at adding a tour at Willett. Maybe do that one Friday afternoon and just pop over to Preservation for a tasting if time allows? There are just so many options and I’m trying to keep it a total surprise. So I’m trying to avoid bringing it up very often to him.

A solid stand by for sure

How was the 7 year Old Fitzgerald?

Is it hard to find for you?

I thought the same which is why I am going to sample again.

Agree. Saw EHT SmB and SP of BLANTON'S each over priced and each paired up with something undesirable and expensive yesterday. Easy pass for me.

What I'm gathering from the discussion is, the people that had enjoyed it in the past will decline to purchase at newer (crazy IMHO) prices. The last one I bought was $25. It's an easy drinking 90 proofer, nothing stands out to make it worth the mad money. I don't drink labels.

It makes me wonder if the GTS could've had a bad cork, was stored on its' side, or had been open so long it oxidized. If you're interested in the hard to find stuff - most of it goes to on premise accounts (high end restaurants and bars). Consider how much they must spend on multiple cases of common stuff (well liquor) every month - puts them at the front of the line when the LE bottles come around.

Package deal @ MSRP is not bad, given those should both be pretty good. Package deal is bad when they couple a desirable bottle with something not wanted (overpriced craft nonsense etc.)

Ah. The company (formerly Cadbury Schweppes) was split in 2008, becoming Keurig Dr Pepper in the US. I wonder if that is when the product lineup changed? The brand is owned by Coca Cola in many other parts of the world.

You are a wonderful wife! He is a lucky man. My only comment/suggestion would be to try to fit a visit to Loretto/Makers Mark in. It is an iconic facility and some great choices in the gift shop.

Two of my favorite things. Session IPAs(for safety) and surfing.