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Bert Orange

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  1. I know many of you will be tempted to test the ice on ponds and lakes, but REMEMBER, it’s not safe to drive your BMW on it unless it’s AT LEAST 9” thick.
  2. Couple of the wheated C barrel WFEs that slide in above 135 proof are dreamy. I’m not a proof whore but I respect good bourbon (and rye) at any proof.
  3. A) this sucks man _ sorry. B) I just hit 21k on my 2017 and I’m sufficiently freaked out.
  4. I don’t need a supercharged V8 Raptor. But I think I need one.
  5. Good news is 2021 Handy’s are still $20
  6. Mashbills sync with: Barton (guessing 1792) Brown-Forman (guessing Old Forrester) Beam (Guess Knob Creek) in that order
  7. Mashbills sync with: Barton Brown-Forman Beam in that order
  8. It isn’t bourbon, but damn if Hop-based whiskey isn’t fucking amazing. Like drinking weed.
  9. So damn avoidable. Wrong person took the call for a mentally unstable person. And probably didn’t need to use deadly force. Sigh https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1254297
  10. If the chilies are dried, zero chance it will introduce moisture which is the only thing that can contaminate honey. Otherwise same infinite shelf life.
  11. I think Al did a better job picking than Specs (probably lucky too).
  12. I did. It’s good. It has the BF profile but lacks depth, balance and the finish of the older OFBB and KOK. But it is a perfectly acceptable high proof BF drinker for the price.
  13. About 4-5 of these on the shelf at TW San Felipe in Houston if anyone is searching.
  14. Chicken...egg. The flippers are there because there is demand for certain product in excess of supply (not In general - plenty of that around - bottle specific). Even if all 100 allocated bottles were on shelves for JQP to buy, there are more than 100 JQPs that want it. So the imbalance already exists. Flippers know this and take advantage of the market dynamic for gain. As Bill said, they provide a service and secondary buyers pay for that service (if they so choose). The flipper does not prevent anyone from acquiring that bottle at retail by the same means. Also the fact that most of these never see the shelf anyway is another dynamic at play. Most stores offer these to individuals that patronize their stores in volume significant to attain these allocations. So unless you are a big money spender, or want to wait in line overnight, you’ll never see them. Blame the stores? The secondary market exists such that anyone can get access to the limited bottles. It isn’t going away for so long as this imbalance exists. And as I said, my purchase of a Pappy bottle from 2009 on January 2, 2020 does not change in any way the pricing of a bottle of Blantons today. Just doesn’t. Consumer behavior is what changes anything and everything. Simply stop buying allocated items and buy what is readily available on the shelf. Plenty of bourbon out there. Or stop drinking bourbon and try rum. Trying to lay blame at the feet of a secondary buyer is hogwash. Under the above board only model - where there is no secondary market - then the 100 bottles of Pappy Van Staggtons would go to whoever was lucky enough to be in the store that day to grab as much as he/she wished for his/her personal consumption. And I guess the 1000, 10,000, 100,000 other people wanting that allocated bottle would just never get to drink one. All of which assumes the wholesalers wouldn’t jack the price and/or Retailers wouldn’t jack the price and/or the stores wouldn’t still play the hide the bottle game for their best customers.
  15. I apparently got little value from my BS in Economics at UT. So perhaps someone with a PHD in Economics can better educate me on how the law of supply and demand is somehow being fucked by the secondary market and, further, how my purchasing of a bottle (or 20) on the secondary market somehow fucks over someone that wanted to buy that at retail (seeing as most of those bottles were sold in the store 5-25 years ago) I’ll hang up and listen to the experts.
  16. This. They don’t manage for a year or two. They manage for 10+ year terms. Especially since the shit they make takes so damn long to get to market. They’re aren’t Nostradamus. They have no idea where the market for bourbon will be in a decade. Just ask the dudes making bourbon in the 70s/80s. Also, topical.....
  17. I’m a descendent if Abraham. I have at least 127 years.
  18. I hope to live long enough to drink every ounce of the bourbon I have. And I don’t give a flying fuck what you think about my ownership of said bottles.
  19. As the father of two girls, I can’t even imagine what you are going through. But I’m sure it sucks on a level hard to comprehend. As much as we are a group of inestimable assholes, we are a family of inestimable assholes. Pulling for you and your family man.
  20. So our offensive game plan will be the Sam-ble Scramble? When he’s not handing it off to RJ/BR?
  21. Man EHT Rye is 120 secondary. That was damn near 100 after tax!
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