Harry in WashDC Posted March 6, 2022 Share Posted March 6, 2022 OGD BIB was back on the shelf of my favorite store. Only took three visits to convince them to restock. Bought 3 and felt so good I picked up one MM 101, a Tyrconnel 10 yr Madeira finish for St Pat’s, and a JD BIB. Re: the OGD - I decant it into an OGD BIB bottle with an orange screw top that I bought in the same store mid-2014. Price tag says I paid $17.99 then. Now, it sells for $24.99. Why decant? Easier to unscrew than to pull the fake cork when I’m in a hurry. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clueby Posted March 6, 2022 Share Posted March 6, 2022 1 hour ago, Harry in WashDC said: Easier to unscrew than to pull the fake cork when I’m in a hurry. Why are you in a hurry? Gotta get the pour before SWMBO comes back in the room? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinsfan1311 Posted March 6, 2022 Share Posted March 6, 2022 15 hours ago, PhantomLamb said: That's been my hope as well. Hoping to pick some of this up when I head to the motherland next month. Btw Skinsfan, where in Maryland are you located? I'm about 1.5 hours from Oakland and curious if you ever come up thru Pittsburgh again if you'd want to mule for each other? PM me if you're interested. Cheers! Baltimore metro area. We never go to, or through, the Pittsburgh area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinsfan1311 Posted March 6, 2022 Share Posted March 6, 2022 2 hours ago, Harry in WashDC said: OGD BIB was back on the shelf of my favorite store. Only took three visits to convince them to restock. Bought 3 and felt so good I picked up one MM 101, a Tyrconnel 10 yr Madeira finish for St Pat’s, and a JD BIB. Re: the OGD - I decant it into an OGD BIB bottle with an orange screw top that I bought in the same store mid-2014. Price tag says I paid $17.99 then. Now, it sells for $24.99. Why decant? Easier to unscrew than to pull the fake cork when I’m in a hurry. You must be in a pretty big hurry, if the extra couple of seconds to pull a cork out of the bottle makes a that much of a difference I can respect that 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clueby Posted March 6, 2022 Share Posted March 6, 2022 This came home with me last night. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhettro Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 Stopped by an ABC store while out and about today. I hadn’t had a Cooper’s Craft in a while, and was happy to grab one. The Virgin Bourbon on the other hand, I was on the fence about. I’d left my phone in the car and didn’t remember if it was a solid bargain bourbon or a total waste of hard earned cash. Decided to take the chance and I’m glad I did. Solid bargain bourbon it is. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kjbarth Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 Local distillery purchase from Jersey Spirits Distilling Co, about 2 miles from me. It's very young stuff, the rye 18mo, the bourbon 1 yr. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomLamb Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 On 3/6/2022 at 2:52 PM, Skinsfan1311 said: Baltimore metro area. We never go to, or through, the Pittsburgh area. Disregard then . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinsfan1311 Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 15 hours ago, Rhettro said: Stopped by an ABC store while out and about today. I hadn’t had a Cooper’s Craft in a while, and was happy to grab one. The Virgin Bourbon on the other hand, I was on the fence about. I’d left my phone in the car and didn’t remember if it was a solid bargain bourbon or a total waste of hard earned cash. Decided to take the chance and I’m glad I did. Solid bargain bourbon it is. The Coopers' is pretty good whiskey. If you ever have the chance, I can highly recommend the Brown-Forman Cooperage tour. It's really cool and one of the highlights on our last Kentucky trip. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.B. Babington Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 another woodford stout and masters keep one. I now have 2 of each. probably pop one tonight 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.B. Babington Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 42 minutes ago, Skinsfan1311 said: The Coopers' is pretty good whiskey... I concur. Sure not the best, but dang good for the buck. I was sipping the 82 proofer last night and very much enjoying it. Sipping? Nah, I was chugging from bottle. and the 100 proofer even better. I like the 100 better than some stuff costing twice or thrice more. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markandrex Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 I was up in Louisville today and decided to take the backroads home. I stopped in a few store with nothing to mention. Pay dirt on the third. Out the door for $100 cash. 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FasterHorses Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 1 hour ago, markandrex said: I was up in Louisville today and decided to take the backroads home. I stopped in a few store with nothing to mention. Pay dirt on the third. Out the door for $100 cash. Dang good find on the BiB! One of the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.B. Babington Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 1 hour ago, markandrex said: I was up in Louisville today and decided to take the backroads home. I stopped in a few store with nothing to mention. Pay dirt on the third. Out the door for $100 cash. still looks like a lotta dust on the bottle shoulders. You haven't hit it yet, or dust so thick it'll take more go 'rounds to get it all off. Well in earnest, dust maybe not that thick on a bottle, but when you have a thousand bottles, that's a lot of dust. Great catch. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flahute Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 8 hours ago, Skinsfan1311 said: If you ever have the chance, I can highly recommend the Brown-Forman Cooperage tour. It's really cool and one of the highlights on our last Kentucky trip. Yes to this. Amazing tour. When they set those barrel insides on fire you FEEL it even though you are standing back. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinsfan1311 Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 10 hours ago, flahute said: Yes to this. Amazing tour. When they set those barrel insides on fire you FEEL it even though you are standing back. Watching the Coopers put together the barrels. I forget the # of staves, to make a barrel, but it's always the same # and they seem to know which ones to grab, from the different piles, to put them together. It's amazing. Agreed on the fire. Even from a distance, you could really feel the heat. It was a great tour. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokinjoe Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 This is entirely off topic, but if you want to go on a great tour, tour a steel mill with an electric arc furnace. The melt shop is a massive thunderstorm, volcano, and earthquake controlled inside a building. Be ready when they stick those electrodes in the scrap, particularly if it’s wet. Kapowee!!!! The 8th Wonder of the World… 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaryT Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 Picked up some EW 1783 Small Batch (thanks @PaulO for recommending that!) The 10 yr EW 1783 was one of the first dusties I ever bought, and honestly I wasn't a huge fan (had a lot of mint going on, and just wasn't in my wheelhouse at the time - although in hindsight, this is when OWA and ETL were plentiful). This doesn't remind me of that, but cracked it tonight and a pretty nice little sipper for $20. Need to bump this up against EW BIB for kicks. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flahute Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 12 hours ago, smokinjoe said: This is entirely off topic, but if you want to go on a great tour, tour a steel mill with an electric arc furnace. The melt shop is a massive thunderstorm, volcano, and earthquake controlled inside a building. Be ready when they stick those electrodes in the scrap, particularly if it’s wet. Kapowee!!!! The 8th Wonder of the World… I now want to do this more than anything else. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishnbowljoe Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 It be Wednesday! Shopping day, and yes I did. The bad news: I passed on a SAOS Sarah bottle. The good news: It turned into a Wheater Wednesday. I ended up buying a couple of bottles of MM dipped by my gal at MM. That made me feel a little better about passing on the SAOS. Finding a Weller SR made me forget all about it. Biba! Joe 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JT3NSB Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 10 hours ago, fishnbowljoe said: It be Wednesday! Shopping day, and yes I did. The bad news: I passed on a SAOS Sarah bottle. The good news: It turned into a Wheater Wednesday. I ended up buying a couple of bottles of MM dipped by my gal at MM. That made me feel a little better about passing on the SAOS. Finding a Weller SR made me forget all about it. Biba! Joe Mellow Corn for the win!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemonman Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 11 hours ago, fishnbowljoe said: It be Wednesday! Shopping day, and yes I did. The bad news: I passed on a SAOS Sarah bottle. The good news: It turned into a Wheater Wednesday. I ended up buying a couple of bottles of MM dipped by my gal at MM. That made me feel a little better about passing on the SAOS. Finding a Weller SR made me forget all about it. Biba! Joe Did you get the cherries, too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishnbowljoe Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 23 minutes ago, lemonman said: Did you get the cherries, too? Yes I did. Not sure what we’re gonna do with ‘em this time though. Binny’s had the same deal before Xmas. We used the cherries on deserts for our holiday get together.. Biba! Joe 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richdel Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 Funny you passed on a Sarah bottle of SAOS, I did the same on a store selection of SAOS with a Sarah signature today. But only because I found a couple of bottles that interested me more. A store pick BT, a store pick Knob Creek 120. A Heaven Hill BiB 7 year that is unavailable to me in Delaware and surrounding states (at least to my knowledge), and finally a ECBP A122. A really great LS for all to make note of when down on the Treasure Coast of Florida, specifically Vero Beach. Great selection, and an owner who is knowledgeable. Pricing is not bad, for me, some higher and some lower then I am used to. But no gouging!!! It was a pleasure to purchase there, especially after finding a number of places who wanted first-born for some bourbons (Normans in St Pete Beach!!!!). Mawk's in Vero Beach. I may go back today and pickup another KC store selection, or the earlier mentioned SAOS store select, or a Woodinville that I have been unable to find in Delaware and have read good things about. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markandrex Posted March 11, 2022 Share Posted March 11, 2022 I was up seeing a friend in Ohio yesterday. We went by a couple of LS and found these. I think around $60 for the 3. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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