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USCATX

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  1. Very nice. Manual? Crazy frost emerald color?
  2. Batch 9 of the bourbon and Batches 1-2 of the rye are bangers. I’d buy them all day long at retail. When I cracked my ‘21 Handy and wasn’t instantly in love I poured a KO Batch 1 rye to compare and it absolutely smoked the Handy. It’s pretty much my benchmark of the Kentucky style mid/barely legal rye category. And now that Stagg Jr is at KO Bourbon retail prices on secondary I’m not sure batches 9 and 10 are a bad deal at retail.
  3. I loved last years Master’s Collection No 16 and also last year’s batch proof. Regular Woodford is fine and I’ve never had Double Oaked.
  4. No need for a fancy review on this one because I can convey my feelings in just five words. LOL, WTF, do not buy.
  5. This Still Austin cask strength is the best Texas bourbon I’ve had yet. Although it’s way more of a Kentucky profile than TX style, but it hides the youth well and has some great sweet caramel and lighter fruit notes. I’m not sure I’d pick it to drink neat over most of the rest of what I have open, but it made a great toddy and I threw it in a decanter for cocktail use.
  6. Nice find there. I like their 90 proof 12 year quite a bit and haven’t cracked the cask strength yet. The 90 is up there with some of the better MGP I’ve had, but not quite Boone County good.
  7. $100 extra to lick the boat.
  8. None of this makes any financial sense beyond being my childhood dreams come true. We will be up there all summer at some point in the future and this is all setup for then. The house will be on VRBO if you want to sample the dream. Nobody touches the boat, tho.
  9. Damn, really? I have one that isn’t open because of the same reason where I tried the cask strength and didn’t like it.
  10. Holy balls, they packed it all in that trip and absolutely killed it. Ocean Sports are badass and a surgeon in Juneau keeps one a dock over from our current boat. Not sure I’d pick fiberglass over aluminum for up there because we beach ours all the time without a care. For example, I had just ramped it up on this rocky beach to let my brothers in law out to shoot a Blacktail in this pic.
  11. Juneau, none of that overcrowded Anchorage (the Houston of Alaska) area nonsense. It’s mostly protected inside waters, but I’ll always be wanting to buy another boat.
  12. Boats, man. I just found out Ski Dock is no longer an MB dealer and said it would be a year and a half to get me a new cover for my Tomcat on Travis. I’m tempted to unload it and work on trying to get a new boat for our place in Alaska. Speaking of which, I’m trying to get a 29’-31’ boat up there and the dealers are saying 12-14 months build time for something like this. What a time to be alive.
  13. Opening Weller SiB is the biggest flex in bourbon right now. Everybody knows you passed up $800 to drink Special Reserve single barrel and that’s ballsy. CYPB is at least better and also cheaper.
  14. Correct, lowest is around $800.
  15. I did one recently for two W12 750, one W12 1l and a hundo. Had another one on the line for Weller SiB and a Blanton’s.
  16. Austin
  17. I don’t care for the rye. Found three at retail, traded for an open one and then traded two of mine away and will probably find a home for the last one. It has a weird oil based paint note that I don’t want. Just tried it again to double check for about the 5th time and I still can’t get down with it.
  18. I went back to Alaska for Christmas and got in one day of fishing on a balmy 12* day. No winter kings were killed, but I did get a fun picture of my downrigger clip skating across the ice and the frosty ass back deck. In the future I’ll probably stick to August but it was fun to give it a try.
  19. My last allocated pickup if the year was a THH so I had to crack it and take a flex shot with the unopened ones I have. I like it a ton, but it’s starting to feel like a let down on most of these bottles relative to the secondary value. I’ve had some very good MGP lately in the $100-$200 range that is probably as good. The NFC foil cap is kinda cool, tho.
  20. Anybody had the new Woodford Master’s Collection 5 malt? Grabbed one today because last year’s 16th edition was such a banger.
  21. You could also check out the Stowa Marine line. https://www.stowa.de/en/marine+original+arabic.htm
  22. You could get a lot of nice EHT for the price of a Warehouse C. Like an EHTBP 8, 9 and a nice EHT Single Barrel Pick. Only hype bottle I’ve been more disappointed by is Pappy 20. 18 Year Marriage is really good but I’d probably rather have a WLW and ‘21 OFBB than that 2500 bottle.
  23. Seems to be moving around 425 depending on proof and still sliding. Last year’s rye slid pretty steadily down to $265 over a long period of time so I wouldn’t be surprised to see this land at 350-375. Haven’t cracked mine because the rye was such a disappointment.
  24. I’ll do a WTMK BiB, CYPB and either an ER pick or OE7 for the Old Fitz 13 and ‘18 THH.
  25. We flew into Juneau yesterday to stay at our new place for the first time. It’s a crazy snowy white Christmas with a high of 25* and about 18” on the ground. The house is amazing and will be on the VRBO market shortly if anybody’s looking for a place to stay that doesn’t suck.
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