A.H. Hirsch 16 Box Set

[DeanSheen]

Is this the long rumored box set of the A.H. Hirsch 16 year old? I just stumbled on this and it looks like it has been out since June at a price of $1400.

http://healthyspiritsbourbonblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/ah-hirsch-16-year-pot-still-reserve.html

[Virus_Of_Life]

Wasn't Hirsch like 95.6 or 93 something proof? Looks like they watered it down a little more to 91 for this last great bottling.

EDIT: Check that I guess the original was only 91.6 so they didn't change it much.

[Halifax]

It is listed on our ABC for $1323.

http://www.ncabc.com/pricing/view_item.aspx?filing=48725

[silverfish]

Is this the long rumored box set of the A.H. Hirsch 16 year old? I just stumbled on this and it looks like it has been out since June at a price of $1400.

That image does look like the one show on the Preiss website.

[jburlowski]

Wasn't Hirsch like 95.6 or 93 something proof? Looks like they watered it down a little more to 91 for this last great bottling.

EDIT: Check that I guess the original was only 91.6 so they didn't change it much.

FWIW, my currently open bottle of AHH 16 (gold foil) is 91.6.

[cowdery]

The first Hirsch bottling was in 1989, 47 cases of 15-year-old bourbon bottled at 95.6 proof. Most of it went to Japan.

In the brand's early days, every bottling was a different age and proof.

The biggest and last release (prior to the box) was the 16-year-old gold foil, at 91.6 proof.

[donzz]

Same box different angle imho

Don

[Odiedog52]

We just sold one at auction (for charity) for $3000.

Preiss went all our and donated nearly everything from their portfolio; great people there.

[sku]

Given that bottles of this are still on the shelf for $200-$300, that's got to be one expensive box and scroll.

[OscarV]

It seems that there was another Hirsch set that was around 1400 bucks from the Hirsch people.

About a year or two ago.

There was a pic of it but I can't find it.

[HighTower]

No way I'd get one of these.....

that reveiw on the Preiss website: I'd be willing to bet it's an old one from the blue wax. I have an open and unopened gold foil, and I can't even bring myself to drink the open one. Not because this is stellar bourbon and I don't want it to end - I simply can't drink it....terrible stuff.

Scott

[White Dog]

The last A.H. Hirsch gold foil(no box) I know of in Milwaukee is sitting in a store for $189.99. PM me if you wanna know where. (I already have a couple bottles so I have no interest.)

[squire]

I had a couple of bottles of the blue wax when they came out and they were nice enough but at that price I would just buy a case of something else.

Don't get me wrong, I've got no problem with folks paying any amount they choose but my interest is consumption, not prestige.

[SMOWK]

Don't get me wrong, I've got no problem with folks paying any amount they choose but my interest is consumption, not prestige.

I like standing on my high horse drinking the prestige and not giving anyone else any because they aren't worthy.

[squire]

It's your horse.

[ErichPryde]

and you can stand on it if you want to.

[CaptainQ]

:deadhorse: :deadhorse: :deadhorse:

Your horse is dead.

[squire]

Perhaps, but posts involving expired equines tend to resurrect from time to time.

[cas]

Time to stop beating a dead horse?

Craig

[ErichPryde]

The horse isn't dead yet. It's only a flesh wound.

[squire]

The horse is dead, long live the horse.

[ErichPryde]

Shockingly enough, this thread actually isn't off topic at all. In this case I feel strongly that the subject (the horse) is a symbol of the item (Michters, and then Hirsch).

Some of you may agree.

[B1bomber]

Not that I'm looking to buy one-- I'm not, I've no where near that kind of cash to spend on bourbon-- but has anyone actually seen one of these for sale, other than on the Preiss website? I frequent a lot of NJ liquor stores including Bayway and Shoppers, both of which have extensive whiskey selections behind glass, and yet I've never come across this humidor set anywhere.

Just wondering.

[BradleyC]

I haven't seen it, but there is a humidor set at the distributor's warehouse in CO. My friend at my primary store showed it to me in their updated catalog. I think the store's cost was either $1300 or $1500. I think I might turn a closet here at the house into a humidor and see if it makes my bourbon collection go up in value by 700% or more.

[squire]

About as elusive as Bigfoot near as I can tell.