Better Availability

[Hop]

That was South Carolina up until a few years ago. Imagine being a bartender in a busy bar....

[Jiggity]

I've also asked myself why producers don't do more 375ml bottles, and had this same conversation with another board member. This was especially relevant since MMCS come in 375ml containers. I had no issue paying $40 for 375ml at POS, but reality is that translates to $80/bottle which is not worth it to me...yet I've bought 3 bottles. Maybe I just bought them for their convenience.

Eitherway, if producers were to do this, distributors would likely allocate those extra bottles to stores that currently receive none. This would make flippers work 2x as hard to make the same money.

I'm interested to see where this thread goes.

2 things regarding the FR 10 recipe sample:

- part of the fun for me is hunting down the SB options from different stores, different whiskey buyers, different palettes, etc. I buy a decent number of store select FR SB from a local store, and I find that they are often very bold forward flavors. To me, that's what the whiskey buyer likes. I go down the street to a competitor and find more balanced offerings.

- I've thought about buying all 10 recipes from various online vendors and splitting them amongst 2 or 3 other bourbon buddies. The price would be closer to $250 or so (x3), but that would give you roughly 8 oz of each recipe to taste and mix.

[Flyfish]

Climbing back on my hobby horse about state control: While you fellas are debating the appropriate size of bottles to stretch the supply, some of us are coping with the reality that we will never see any of those highly desirable bourbons in any size, at any price. Our "betters" have decided that a) we are unworthy or we are ignorant fools who must be protected from exploitation by the bourbon oligarchs.

[ThirstyinOhio]

The only way to fix this is to change the entire way the product is sold and distributed. I wish that the producers could sell direct, across state lines, and offer their limited editions through an auction. Let the market determine the true price of the product and remove all flippers from the equation. The guys making the stuff would be the ones getting to profit for a change and no one would be able to complain about people clearing shelves. Only if they would let me be king, I could fix so many things.......

[The Black Tot]

Climbing back on my hobby horse about state control: While you fellas are debating the appropriate size of bottles to stretch the supply, some of us are coping with the reality that we will never see any of those highly desirable bourbons in any size, at any price. Our "betters" have decided that a) we are unworthy or we are ignorant fools who must be protected from exploitation by the bourbon oligarchs.

[ebo]

Climbing back on my hobby horse about state control: While you fellas are debating the appropriate size of bottles to stretch the supply, some of us are coping with the reality that we will never see any of those highly desirable bourbons in any size, at any price. Our "betters" have decided that a) we are unworthy or we are ignorant fools who must be protected from exploitation by the bourbon oligarchs.

[Flyfish]

You are right. Which is why most of my bourbon dollars are spent out of state. OH could get a much higher proportion if the local Liquor Gods were not so annoyingly stupid.