What Bourbon Did You Pass On 2025?

[PaulO]

Oh, I almost forgot to mention, the other day I saw Willett Pot Still multiple bottles on the shelf 750ml and 1.75L (the big bong bottle ).  The family sise was over $100, I think $110 or so.  I don't really care.  It's just the novelty of seeing unusual stuff.  I must have beat the taters to the store that day.  They can have it all.  Meanwhile keep their paws off my JW Dant and OF Rye.

[Kepler]

Passed on CEHT Small Batch on the shelf at Total Wine yesterday for $65.  Just while I was in the bourbon aisle, there were 2 or 3 guys that picked it up at that elevated price.

 

I can't imagine paying $65 for non-age stated BT bourbon when regular NAS BT (with the same mash bill) is sitting right next to it for $25 with no limit.   That yellow cardboard tube must really cast a spell over those taters

[fishnbowljoe]

1 hour ago, Kepler said:

Passed on CEHT Small Batch on the shelf at Total Wine yesterday for $65.  Just while I was in the bourbon aisle, there were 2 or 3 guys that picked it up at that elevated price.

 

I can't imagine paying $65 for non-age stated BT bourbon when regular NAS BT (with the same mash bill) is sitting right next to it for $25 with no limit.   That yellow cardboard tube must really cast a spell over those taters

Well, at least it’s 100 proof and a minimum of 4 years old. The price around here had been $47.00 for quite a while. It recently went up to $53.00. FWIW, the tubes are empty. I’m saving them for a friend.

 

 

[rzelinka]

7 hours ago, fishnbowljoe said:

Well, at least it’s 100 proof and a minimum of 4 years old. The price around here had been $47.00 for quite a while. It recently went up to $53.00. FWIW, the tubes are empty. I’m saving them for a friend.

 

 

I was at my local Total Wine yesterday and noted a whole bunch of Small Batch Eh Taylor. Just out in the open, sitting on the shelf. Crazy.

 

 

[rzelinka]

7 hours ago, fishnbowljoe said:

Well, at least it’s 100 proof and a minimum of 4 years old. The price around here had been $47.00 for quite a while. It recently went up to $53.00. FWIW, the tubes are empty. I’m saving them for a friend.

 

 

If you were at the Total Wine in The Woodlands around 7 pm, then it’s entirely possible that we both were standing there at the same time noting the very same thing.

 

I was in the aisle maybe 15 minutes and there were six bottles when I got there and I grabbed the last one to donate for a gala fund raiser event.

 

I went back for the Old Forester Single Barrel Rye, but someone grabbed the last one.

[Kepler]

15 hours ago, fishnbowljoe said:

Well, at least it’s 100 proof and a minimum of 4 years old. The price around here had been $47.00 for quite a while. It recently went up to $53.00. FWIW, the tubes are empty. I’m saving them for a friend.

 

 

 

I have a bunch of them in my stash too but I'd never pay $65 for them. I think the most I've paid was $45ish and even that it doesn't make sense in comparison to regular BT.  I find that it tastes better than BT but not by THAT much.  I still have a certain love for CEHT SmB, but that love was built back when it was $33-35 while regular BT was $20-25.  The value is no longer there.

 

[Skinsfan1311]

 I was only re-stocking staples.

I passed on a lot...but these are the one's that I can remember the prices 

Bulleit BiB for $69.00

Stagg $299.00

WSR $149.00

KC12 $69.99

Blanton's $94.00

Thomas Handy Rye $599.00

1792 BiB $69.99

Booker's $99.99

MM101 $69.99 (not a typo), but the CS sitting next to it on the shelf is $49.99 

 

Some of those aren't too obscene, but I was only interested in picking up  Bulleit BiB &  KC12 and they are easy enough to find so there's no reason to overpay.

The one LS had 12 bottles of Stagg, and about the same of various Weller's.  

 

 

 

 

Edited 5 hours ago by Skinsfan1311