tuntime Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 Thank you for that anecdote, Yeti. It's impressive that Mr. Rutledge was able to maintain quality in the Small Batch LE release this year, despite tripling the batch size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squire Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 Also speaks to the abundance of high quality whisky stored in their warehouses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockefeller Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 Does anyone know if this has hit NYC yet? PM if you don't want to blast out all the info. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthewdc Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 Does anyone know if this has hit NYC yet? PM if you don't want to blast out all the info. Thanks!I'd be interested in knowing the same for the DC area, please PM if you've seen it thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rajesh Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 Picked up a bottle of this yesterday evening @ Julio's Liquors (Westborough, MA) for 74.99 -- so it's definitely hit MA -- not sure about NY yet... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KCJason1 Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 Picked up a bottle today... The clerk/owners son seemed shocked they had one. He said they had run out but had ordered more. And on the 2nd shipment they must of got 2 because his mom sold one earlier that day... Pretty sure I got the last bottle in the kc area as I've run a bourbon circuit of a dozen stores in the last week! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TunnelTiger Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 A second shipment! Y'all are killing me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joboyd Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 With ~8,000 bottles in this release, surely there are more out there. Perhaps they're coming in waves? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yeti Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 With ~8,000 bottles in this release, surely there are more out there. Perhaps they're coming in waves?For whatever reason (maybe it's the surplus that I have put away) but it just struck me how small that number is. I mean, best case scenario, there will probably be 4,000 people in the states who end up with this.WV only got it 10 days ago. GA will get some soon. Hell, we didn't get the 2012 LE releases (single and small) until August of this year! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerlam92 Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 Allocation is super tight. One store I frequent got one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbroo5880i Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 For whatever reason (maybe it's the surplus that I have put away) but it just struck me how small that number is. I mean, best case scenario, there will probably be 4,000 people in the states who end up with this.WV only got it 10 days ago. GA will get some soon. Hell, we didn't get the 2012 LE releases (single and small) until August of this year!Once they found out there was a large quantity consumer in your state, they must have decided to speed the cycle up some. :grin: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theglobalguy Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 For whatever reason (maybe it's the surplus that I have put away) but it just struck me how small that number is. I mean, best case scenario, there will probably be 4,000 people in the states who end up with this.WV only got it 10 days ago. GA will get some soon. Hell, we didn't get the 2012 LE releases (single and small) until August of this year!Relative to the US population....so that makes us 0.001%'ers. I'll take it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smknjoe Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 A second shipment! Y'all are killing me!That's a distributor thing probably. They work in mysterious ways...Allocation is super tight. One store I frequent got one!See above...Has anyone seen it in TX yet? If you don't want to say it out loud PM me. I don't think any of the big boy stores even got any of the SBLE this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hn4bourbon Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 For whatever reason (maybe it's the surplus that I have put away) but it just struck me how small that number is. I mean, best case scenario, there will probably be 4,000 people in the states who end up with this.WV only got it 10 days ago. GA will get some soon. Hell, we didn't get the 2012 LE releases (single and small) until August of this year!Having read the way you put it, the number does come across kinda small... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smknjoe Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 I just realized that last year's release was around 4000 bottles. How many are in this release 12,000? The 2011 was still sitting on the shelves around here until January or so of this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbroo5880i Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 (edited) We also discussed the proof of this bourbon. I had no idea that some barrels can go down in proof. He said that was the case with some of the bourbon in this one. One interesting comment was: four roses will never put out a flavored whiskey product as long as I am the master distiller.That was one thing I noticed that it is barrel proof at 103. Just seemed interesting. Edited October 24, 2013 by mbroo5880i Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smknjoe Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 There are about 200 bottles to a barrel? So, around 60 to 75 (to play it safe?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyOldKyDram Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 More I would say. As I can't imagine them getting 200 per out of those 18 yo barrels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbroo5880i Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 · Hidden Hidden oops, I edit my post because I was trying to figure it out myself. Note - My original questions was "I wonder how many barrels they needed to make 12,000 bottles." Of course, it gets complicated not knowing the blend ratio, evaporative loss, etc.Of course, if the proof went down in some of the barrels, this makes me question how much evaporated in those barrels. Link to comment
mbroo5880i Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 There are about 200 bottles to a barrel? So, around 60 to 75 (to play it safe?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jersey12 Posted October 25, 2013 Share Posted October 25, 2013 Does anyone know if this has hit NYC yet? PM if you don't want to blast out all the info. Thanks!Just found out from one nyc spot today that they received their 2013 and it sold out already and was much less than they received in the past. . Strongly suggest you buy it as soo. As you see it in this area as there doesn't seem to be much around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JKLS Posted October 25, 2013 Share Posted October 25, 2013 In CT I have only seen one, bought one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suntour Posted October 26, 2013 Share Posted October 26, 2013 This actually made it to Corvallis, interestingly to the "non good" liquor store that rarely if ever gets anything but the bulk commodity stuff. Honestly, I had stopped going there (there's my mistake).I'm kind of broke right now though so honestly its probably for the better. I'd drink a ~%50 ABV Four Roses anything way too quickly. I can't even keep Yellow Label at my house. It goes too fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andym Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 If you're in the Seattle area and ISO this stuff, PM me for the location of a bottle on the Eastside - just beware, it'll cost you $120ish to get it out the door. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChainWhip Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 (edited) · Hidden Hidden ................ Edited October 31, 2013 by ChainWhip Link to comment
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