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Official PCF Whisk(e)y Thread (82 Viewers)

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This is two lottery wins in a row. I'm on a roll!
 
gopherblue said:
Dammit...just heard that another one of my honey holes was sold to new owners. This is the third one. They laid off the staff (who were absolutely fantastic, and not just because they kept an eye out for unicorns for me), which is a real shame. I know the margins at liquor stores can be razor thin, but this is a real loss, and seems like a race to the bottom.

Let's pour one out for the store that sold me the following at MSRP:

Weller 12 (x 3)
Weller Full Proof (x 2)
MWND
Stagg Jr
Willett 6 Year Rye
Willett 8 Year Bourbon
Van Winkle 12 Year Lot B
...and many other bottles.

:(

Looks like my unicorn days are dwindling....
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And then, this email out of the blue, from one of my last remaining good spots:

"Do you want a Stagg Barrel Proof?"​

I mean, it would be rude not to, no?
 
BBNAGB II: Whiskey Boogaloo
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Update

Unfortunatly we have someone who can no longer participate, however that leaves us at an uneven number of cases.

We are currently at 62 bottles so we need to either drop 2 bottles to get to 60, or add 4 to get to 66.

Anyone want to pick up any extra bottles or drop bottles tpo get us to the proper number?
 
wolfpack said:
BBNAGB II: Whiskey Boogaloo
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Update

Unfortunatly we have someone who can no longer participate, however that leaves us at an uneven number of cases.

We are currently at 62 bottles so we need to either drop 2 bottles to get to 60, or add 4 to get to 66.

Anyone want to pick up any extra bottles or drop bottles tpo get us to the proper number?
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You can drop me from 12 to 10 bottles. I'm trying to cut down on my enebriation levels.
 
gopherblue said:
And to make it worse, the new owners lose the status the prior owners had with the distributors. Basically, they start all over with respect to getting allocated stuff. And even if they do get it, they have to pay through the nose to get it (or buy a ton of other stock), so they end up marking up the living daylights out of the allocated stuff. One of my stores went from $71 for Stagg Jr to $400. I mean, that's just dumb.
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It's stuff like this that kills what little desire I have to go after unicorns. Maybe I'm just too lazy. The time, effort, and luck required to get them locally just doesn't seem worth it.

There are so many lower demand but still fantastic bottles in the $50-100 range that I can buy from local and online retailers or the r/Bourbon list. I also have friends who occasionally score a few extra allocated bottles and are happy to share.

These arrived in the mail today, and I'm super excited to try them.

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Schmendr1ck said:
It's stuff like this that kills what little desire I have to go after unicorns. Maybe I'm just too lazy. The time, effort, and luck required to get them locally just doesn't seem worth it.

There are so many lower demand but still fantastic bottles in the $50-100 range that I can buy from local and online retailers or the r/Bourbon list. I also have friends who occasionally score a few extra allocated bottles and are happy to share.

These arrived in the mail today, and I'm super excited to try them.

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Everything I've had from Starlight has been great...
 
Schmendr1ck said:
It's stuff like this that kills what little desire I have to go after unicorns. Maybe I'm just too lazy. The time, effort, and luck required to get them locally just doesn't seem worth it.

There are so many lower demand but still fantastic bottles in the $50-100 range that I can buy from local and online retailers or the r/Bourbon list. I also have friends who occasionally score a few extra allocated bottles and are happy to share.

These arrived in the mail today, and I'm super excited to try them.

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have both of those, they are both bangers
 
DZPoker said:
Man…I’m not very refined in my palette yet. Not very good in the lingo. But god damn…I can at least identify that this was probably not gunna be good!!!
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Oh, I have no palate. I either like or dislike, but thought it would be better than hot garbage. Was i expecting a Parker’s heritage , hell no. Just something better than that.
 

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