History of the Tater

[jvd99]

This article attempts to explain the term tater and tries to give credit (or blame) SB for it in the first paragraph. Kind of a silly article, but since SB was implicated, I thought it post-worthy

 

https://vinepair.com/articles/bourbon-tater-timeline/

[flahute]

This is a great article.

 

A couple of things it misses: "Poor Man's Pappy" as Blake Riber referred to it was actually invented right here. We know it as the SB blend. It was meant to recreate Weller Centennial which had just been discontinued. 10 yrs, 100 proof.  When you look at the recipe you see how it makes sense. Nothing to do with Pappy.

 

Also, @wadewood is a long time member here. Haven't seen him in a long time so we'll see if this tag gets to him.

[MM818]

That was a good read. While I think the article hit a lot of milestones I do question some of the timelines and whether anyone tatered over Nashville Bourbon Company.
 

Blantons went crazy before the pandemic. 
 

And, I love a good neck pour argument! 

[smokinjoe]

I’ve always enjoyed reading Aaron Goldfarb’s material.  This article included.  Very fun read.  
 

The discussion that may have originated the term “tater” is somewhere in the bowels of SB.  The wording that Goldfarb uses, like “potatoes”, including the mystery person, suggests to me that he has read it.  Goldfarb always researches his articles well, and I find them thoughtful, while also entertaining.  Missed the Poor Man’s Pappy, though.  As Steve says, that indeed was a quest to replicate Weller Centennial through  the SB Blend, but the other guy recognized the cache of using Pappy in the name.  Tater.  

Just kidding.  I’ve been on SB for over 20 years, and I will submit that every serious bourbon enthusiast on this board has been a “tater” to some degree during their journey.  I think that many of us simply think that our taterism had a more pure and noble cause to it.  We were the OGs, so to speak.  Blazers of trails, man!  Dusty Hunters!  In stores where you risked your life for the chance to find an ND OGD.  Blood hounds of paths to stores or connections for BTAC, BTEC, ORVW, Pappy, 4R/PHC/WT Tribute, and every other limited or special release.  I sure as hell know that I was a tater!  Still am to a degree.  My pulse rate is still capable of clicking up a beat, or two, when I see something noteworthy on a liquor store shelf…