Tater Buying Guide 2020

[PaulO]

This is all in good fun.  If you remember David Letterman's top ten lists, that's where I'm going with this. 

 

Tater Buying Guide 2020

 

10. Clear shelves and hoard.  This may be your only chance.

9.  It's an investment.

8.  Don't worry about origins, like who made it.  If the package is fancy and the price is expensive, must be             worth it.

7.  Nobody ever gets ripped off on the secondary market.

6.  Everything KBD/Willett has ever bottled is awesome, well worth the up charge.

5.  If you spend enough money at a given store, they will take care of you when the limited or allocated                 bottles come in.

4.  Weller Antique is still a great value at over $50 a bottle.  

3.  Weller 12 is worth whatever you have to pay for it.

2.  The people on Facebook know what they are talking about.

1.  Pappy is "the best".

 

[GeeTen]

6 minutes ago, PaulO said:

 

3.  Weller 12 is worth whatever you have to pay for it.

 

 

What?  It'not???????  

 

[mross]

4.  Weller Antique is still a great value at over $50 a bottle.

 

Where you finding it for 50? Around here it is north of a Benjamin.

[CardsandBourbon]

11.  I don't drink it, I just collect it.*

 

*Actually heard that from someone.

[mal00768]

44 minutes ago, PaulO said:

This is all in good fun.  If you remember David Letterman's top ten lists, that's where I'm going with this. 

 

Tater Buying Guide 2020

 

10. Clear shelves and hoard.  This may be your only chance.

9.  It's an investment.

8.  Don't worry about origins, like who made it.  If the package is fancy and the price is expensive, must be             worth it.

7.  Nobody ever gets ripped off on the secondary market.

6.  Everything KBD/Willett has ever bottled is awesome, well worth the up charge.

5.  If you spend enough money at a given store, they will take care of you when the limited or allocated                 bottles come in.

4.  Weller Antique is still a great value at over $50 a bottle.  

3.  Weller 12 is worth whatever you have to pay for it.

2.  The people on Facebook know what they are talking about.

1.  Pappy is "the best".

 

1. Any SW is worth your first born child.

2. Hyper aged bourbon is better than anything else. Impossible to over oak.

[Bbstout]

1 hour ago, PaulO said:

This is all in good fun.  If you remember David Letterman's top ten lists, that's where I'm going with this. 

 

Tater Buying Guide 2020

 

10. Clear shelves and hoard.  This may be your only chance.

9.  It's an investment.

8.  Don't worry about origins, like who made it.  If the package is fancy and the price is expensive, must be             worth it.

7.  Nobody ever gets ripped off on the secondary market.

6.  Everything KBD/Willett has ever bottled is awesome, well worth the up charge.

5.  If you spend enough money at a given store, they will take care of you when the limited or allocated                 bottles come in.

4.  Weller Antique is still a great value at over $50 a bottle.  

3.  Weller 12 is worth whatever you have to pay for it.

2.  The people on Facebook know what they are talking about.

1.  Pappy is "the best".

 

This is hilarious. I remember Dave's top tens. It could be a top 100 in regards to Taters though.

[KyleCBreese]

I always laugh at number 6. I’ve seen so many people on Instagram buying 6-8 year old bourbon for $500 because it’s a WFE.

[fosmith]

Wade Woodard's list of 81 reasons why you are a whiskey tater.  Some genuinely hilarious ones...

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qGbn_dHjkcC2iKmFK2qvWu92zADTUg8WCmep_o6AJeI/mobilebasic

[Cornmuse]

Number 12. Everything Buffalo Trace makes is "collectable" and way better then anything those big names like Wild Turkey or Jim Beam make.

And...

Number 13. Tennessee whiskey isn't bourbon because it's not made in Kentucky.

[Chefjohn]

Number 14  you can depend on online and magazine reviews. 

Edited January 22, 2020 by Chefjohn

[dboland]

Bottles with less conventional designs are inherently worth more and have better whiskey.

 

Also, your LS owner has your best interests at heart. That store pick of 1792 Small Batch they are recommending probably is your ticket to bourbon riches.

[BottledInBond]

Number 15 or 16?: Craft distilleries are way cooler than the boring old establishment distilleries. They’re local and/or ‘grain to glass’ and have a cool backstory and good marketing, and you should spend $60 or more on their “aged 9 months in 15 gallon barrels” or whatever to help support them. 

[GeeTen]

3 hours ago, mross said:

4.  Weller Antique is still a great value at over $50 a bottle.

 

Where you finding it for 50? Around here it is north of a Benjamin.

 

In my bunker - L&K Private Selects (SiBs)!   

 

[PhantomLamb]

17. Every store pick must be good because it's a store pick.

[PaulO]

2 hours ago, BottledInBond said:

Number 15 or 16?: Craft distilleries are way cooler than the boring old establishment distilleries. They’re local and/or ‘grain to glass’ and have a cool backstory and good marketing, and you should spend $60 or more on their “aged 9 months in 15 gallon barrels” or whatever to help support them. 

Oh man, I did forget that one.

 

Craft distillers make tasty whiskey at reasonable prices.  They're great guys, and "are doing it the right way". 

[Harry in WashDC]

11 hours ago, GeeTen said:

 

What?  It'not???????  

 

I got a case, Frank.  Send me the money in small, unmarked bills, and I'll send you the case.  TRUST ME! HAHAHAHAHAH!

 

WAIT!  I just remembered I got the case from YOU! You mean it's NOT?????????

[Harry in WashDC]

10 hours ago, mal00768 said:

1. Any SW is worth your first born child.

2. Hyper aged bourbon is better than anything else. Impossible to over oak.

I don't have a child.  Would you take a wife or a 2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee?

[Harry in WashDC]

9 hours ago, Cornmuse said:

Number 12. Everything Buffalo Trace makes is "collectable" and way better then anything those big names like Wild Turkey or Jim Beam make.

And...

Number 13. Tennessee whiskey isn't bourbon because it's not made in Kentucky.

Except for Virginia Gentleman, a bourbon distilled in Virginia since the 1930s (which will get you a WIN or a good beating in a bar if you bet that a non-KBW is a BW).  I speak from experience.  Carry a bottle of VG with you to prove you are correct.

Edited January 23, 2020 by Harry in WashDC

[The Black Tot]

18. If you break it up into pours it's only $50 a pour. Them's bar prices, right?

 

[Harry in WashDC]

27 minutes ago, The Black Tot said:

18. If you break it up into pours it's only $50 a pour. Them's bar prices, right?

 

We are obviously enabling each other here.  I do recall a recent post wherein you endorsed my detailed rationalization for overspending on bourbon by comparing the per ounce costs of such to the per ounce costs of French wines.  That said - I suggest that "bar prices" should be off the table if one is eating there as well.  For one thing, I'm picking the liquid to match (or at least not clash) with the food I am expecting.  Hence, its price is secondary and, in some cases, irrelevant even if outrageous - after all, it is a one-shot, literally, and I betcha the meal I am ordering is gonna cost more than $50 a human.  If not, I'd be at home and let my wife, a gourmet cook, feed me where we'd be drinking a wine I bought at Wegman's or Total Wine and laid up about ten years ago.  IF, however, I am tasting spirit instead of eating, I can't handle more than, say, three selections if I intend to drive home instead of sleep in the parking lot so there is an artificial cap to our indulgence.

 

In other words - your #18 is a good addition, and I speak from years of epicurean indulgence, but "bar prices" is negotiable.

[Harry in WashDC]

Did I just write that?  Holy hyperbole, Batman.  This kid has had FAR too many 1792 FPs tonight even if I put ice cubes in them all.

[The Black Tot]

4 minutes ago, Harry in WashDC said:

We are obviously enabling each other here.  I do recall a recent post wherein you endorsed my detailed rationalization for overspending on bourbon by comparing the per ounce costs of such to the per ounce costs of French wines.  That said - I suggest that "bar prices" should be off the table if one is eating there as well.  For one thing, I'm picking the liquid to match (or at least not clash) with the food I am expecting.  Hence, its price is secondary and, in some cases, irrelevant even if outrageous - after all, it is a one-shot, literally, and I betcha the meal I am ordering is gonna cost more than $50 a human.  If not, I'd be at home and let my wife, a gourmet cook, feed me where we'd be drinking a wine I bought at Wegman's or Total Wine and laid up about ten years ago.  IF, however, I am tasting spirit instead of eating, I can't handle more than, say, three selections if I intend to drive home instead of sleep in the parking lot so there is an artificial cap to our indulgence.

 

In other words - your #18 is a good addition, and I speak from years of epicurean indulgence, but "bar prices" is negotiable.

19. Parking lot or motel? It's not the first thin line to be overstepped...

Edited January 25, 2020 by The Black Tot

[Harry in WashDC]

7 minutes ago, The Black Tot said:

19. You wake up in the parking lot.

Good thing I not drinking or there be bourbon all over my keyboard.  AND on that note, I know enough to go to bad.  'Night.  ANd it is only 9:49PM ET.

 

EDIT - That should be "bed" not "bad" and "AND" not "ANd".  God's proof I should have stopped typing and drinking about a half hour ago.

 

EDIT #2 - Married 46 years this coming May.  Only person I spent the night in a parking lot with is my bride. AND THAT'S THE TRUTH.  I swear on my bunker.

Edited January 25, 2020 by Harry in WashDC

[The Black Tot]

5 minutes ago, Harry in WashDC said:

Did I just write that?  Holy hyperbole, Batman.  This kid has had FAR too many 1792 FPs tonight even if I put ice cubes in them all.

 

I would have been just as sensational last week in a Rio hotel room if it weren't for the fact that SB.com was the only one of my websites that didn't work no matter what I tried.

 

A little 80 proof Turkey, 80 proof JBW, and 80 proof Johnny Walker green goes a long way...

[The Black Tot]

3 minutes ago, Harry in WashDC said:

Good thing I not drinking or there be bourbon all over my keyboard.  AND on that note, I know enough to go to bad.  'Night.  ANd it is only 9:49PM ET.

 

EDIT - That should be "bed" not "bad" and "AND" not "ANd".  God's proof I should have stopped typing and drinking about a half hour ago.

 

...and all that remained was a solitary red feather, dancing contentedly in the brisk winter wind...