Buffalo Trace Availability -- National roll out?

[TheRoff]

TNbourban and One Cube Only: Thanks for the feedback and link. I think I now understand more of the marketing discussion here and a comment I read here somewhere thanking Elmer T. Lee for Buffalo Trace. I am surprised that the BT web site did not mention the other bourbons. Ah, marketing? I also now have a line of bourbons to buy and taste. This is fun!

[kitzg]

Hey, Prof. Send me a private message or e-mail and I might be able to help you out. Greg

[MurphyDawg]

Nah man, I havent seen any of the Buffalo Trace Antique collection in Ohio. Although I have not found it listed online, there is a state wholsale price list, and I am sure you could talk to your local State Store to see it. From what I have been told if it aint on the list, you aint getting it. I also know it is updated monthly in an Ohio liquor trade publication (saw one laying around in the back room of the store I work for).

TomC

[MurphyDawg]

Hey I got a plan for you so you will feel better about this whole Stagg thing. Its simple. Go out and buy a bottle of Kentucky Spirit (available in MA, at least in Lowell when I visited in June) or Eagle Rare 17 year (Bargian priced at around $35 in Nashua, NH), then go home and enjoy a pair of whiskies that are BETTER than Stagg!

It'll do your body good!

Welcome To Bourbonia

Tom (Displaced MA native) C

[voigtman]

Tom, sounds like very good advice, but I'd still like to do the head-to-head-to-head comparison myself. I don't know of anyone whose tastes exactly match mine, so I'd like to know if I'm missing something seriously amazing. And, of course, it is puzzling that Eagle Rare 17 seems to excite little spontaneous reaction, unless people are brought around to thinking about it, in which case it gets high marks and people say they love it. But Stagg sucks all the air out of the room, the moment its name is whispered. What accounts for this wild difference? Just the rocket fuel proof of Stagg? I dunno, but thanks for the advice. Ed

[MurphyDawg]

The think about Stagg is that it screams "Drink Me!" at barrel proof while Eagle Rare 17 whispers it to you sweetly (at 90). It can get drowned out in the ruckus sometimes although that is a shame. Stagg is a great pour, ER verges on the sublime.

TomC

[ratcheer]

While I have never tasted Stagg, I agree with Tom about the ER. I had one drink of the 17-yr at a bar in Atlanta, It was absolutely beautiful.

Tim