BTAC Releases

[savagehenry]

Bare with me, I'm a newbie (at least I got the abbreviation right). Is BTAC released every year? I stopped by a local liquor store and they had 4 of the bottles (no SAZ 18) for about $120 each. Seemed a bit steep, but google search did not bring me any better prices.

Cheers!

[speedbump47]

They've been released in late Q3/early Q4, annually, for the past decade or so, as far as I am aware.

MSRP for the last release was $80/bottle here in CA, so I'd figure $120 is a steep markup, but I've seen Handy for $100 and Saz18 for $140 at stores here too.

[Ejmharris]

Bare with me, I'm a newbie (at least I got the abbreviation right). Is BTAC released every year? I stopped by a local liquor store and they had 4 of the bottles (no SAZ 18) for about $120 each. Seemed a bit steep, but google search did not bring me any better prices.

Cheers!

It is hard to say what the Cali prices are, but $120/bottle I would walk away every time. I walked away today from all but the WLW that was 80-99. The saz18 is the only one that took me more than a second to consider. It was $80. Not bad but also not what I was looking for today.

[savagehenry]

There is a spot fairly close that pours the Stagg for $11 and the SAZ, Weller and Handy for $13. Sounds like a reasonably priced tasting, better than dropping $500 for one bottle of each!

[Bmac]

That is way too steep. Here in Dallas I paid 54 for my first George T Stagg at a discount store and 69 - 79 for the rest everywhere else.

The discount store was still making 20 -30 dollars profit from 54 bux. So at 120+ I would let it rot on the shelf. Sounds like they looked on eBay to see what they were going for and decided to sell them at just below that price.

[savagehenry]

Sounds like they looked on eBay to see what they were going for and decided to sell them at just below that price.

Yeah you are probably right. They wanted $169 for PVW 15. I didn't even asked the price of the 20 or 23.

[yountvillewjs]

Unfortunately, here in CA we are under the thumb of Youngs Market --which means we are going to see higher prices. The best in state I've seen is $67.99, which is off of $50/btl wholesale. Hard to find in general, but I found them all at one point or another for about $79/ea.

[Tucker]

There's a sticky on the "Premium Bourbons/Specialty Bottlings" forum with lots of good info. on the BTAC releases.

http://www.straightbourbon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11718

[Tico]

Everything is more expensive in CA but I'm glad we have access to all the good stuff. I'd rather pay a few more bucks per bottle and know that I have easy access to every BTAC bottling every year.

[berto]

Yeah you are probably right. They wanted $169 for PVW 15. I didn't even asked the price of the 20 or 23.

Pretty sure I know that place. I told them to shove it when they gave me the $169 price in Dec.

Shop around and wait on the BTAC release in the fall.

[StraightNoChaser]

Pretty sure I know that place. I told them to shove it when they gave me the $169 price in Dec.

Shop around and wait on the BTAC release in the fall.

You know what's sadder than a $169 PVW15?

The people who pay it :slappin:

[timd]

Yeah you are probably right. They wanted $169 for PVW 15. I didn't even asked the price of the 20 or 23.

I wouldn't go back to that store - they have auction site prices.