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Official PCF Whisk(e)y Thread (62 Viewers)

Littleluck55 said:
Each horse is stamped with a letter. If you blow up my pic, you’ll see the S by its hoof. There are 8 different letters spelling out B-L-A-N-T-O-N-S. And the legs are in different positions representing each stride of the horse coming down the backstretch.
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Ok, at first I just wanted a bunch of them. But NOW I have an actual reason to collect them. Not to mention it would make a bad ass card cap if the cork were sawed off (or game pieces). Cool!
 
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Littleluck55 said:
I am working on a small project and I need 11 horses from the Blanton’s bottle. Doesn’t matter the letter, just need the horses. I know they sell them at the distillery but it will be awhile before I can make it there.

Anyone have any extra’s laying around from a dead bottle?

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Nothing personal and no offense but I love this:
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Big Jilm said:
Ok, at first I just wanted a bunch of them. But NOW I have an actual reason to collect them. Not to mention it would make a bad ass card cap if the cork were sawed off (or game pieces). Cool!
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If you get all the letters you can send them in to have them mounted on a stave and sent back to you to display. The marketing is brilliant and gets people obsessed with hunting all the letters.

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FDLmold said:
I'd pay retail for a Pappy 15 or 20. I just want to try some. If I never get to, so be it, but in my income bracket I'll never pay secondary prices for any bourbon. I'm perfectly happy with Wild Turkey 101 and Rare Breed.
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Maybe try trading samples with other members. Pappy is gonna be tough, but there's lots of other great bourbons out there. When you see a good bottle, buy it and offer to trade with others. Good luck.
 
Klobberer said:
Maybe try trading samples with other members. Pappy is gonna be tough, but there's lots of other great bourbons out there. When you see a good bottle, buy it and offer to trade with others. Good luck.
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Yeah those don't show up around me. No Stagg, Blood Oath, EH Taylor, Mckenna, Weller, Fitzgerald, etc... Hell, I can't even find a not-Makers-Mark wheated bourbon to try. (I may have overlooked Larceny a time or two) I can buy $100 bourbons, but I just figure there's a reason Kentucky Owl and some of his friends are ALWAYS available. I've been pimping my local store and asking about behind the counter stuff. I got offered an Angels Envy Rye, so that was a start. Apparently August is when the seasonal bottlings start showing up so I'll just keep at it.
 
FDLmold said:
Yeah those don't show up around me. No Stagg, Blood Oath, EH Taylor, Mckenna, Weller, Fitzgerald, etc... Hell, I can't even find a not-Makers-Mark wheated bourbon to try. (I may have overlooked Larceny a time or two) I can buy $100 bourbons, but I just figure there's a reason Kentucky Owl and some of his friends are ALWAYS available. I've been pimping my local store and asking about behind the counter stuff. I got offered an Angels Envy Rye, so that was a start. Apparently August is when the seasonal bottlings start showing up so I'll just keep at it.
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I can get Blood Oath Pact VI for 109, but haven't heard anything great about it. I have a Kentucky Owl Batch 3 and it's great if you dig rye.
 
I have had good luck with ryes after the neck pour, and as long as I am not eating peanuts. My palate is getting finicky as I age.
 
What’s the issue with neck pours? I’ve never heard that term until recently. Isn’t the liquid mixing up inside the bottle?
 
Some folks claim that the whiskey opens up after a little air gets to it. I actually think the first sip straight from the neck immediately after popping the cork is the best sip there is!
 
My last two ryes, I hated the first pours. And this was before I had even heard the concept of neck pours. I went back and tried them again, delicious. Can’t explain it.
 
Oxidation can certainly change a whiskey, for the better usually to a point, but it can also cause a whiskey to fade.
 
Highli99 said:
What’s the issue with neck pours? I’ve never heard that term until recently. Isn’t the liquid mixing up inside the bottle?
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Yes but there’s so little air in the neck that it doesn’t have much effect. When you get to the half way point of the bottle there is a lot more air in the bottle to interact with the remaining liquid.
 
Are whiskies bottled in nitrogenous atmospheres? Does anybody know? If they are, then they are oxygen-free until they are opened (like potato chips), at which point the "oxidation" and "oxygenation" of the liquor begins.
 
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One of our liquor stores had 2 of these left. I decided to snag one without knowing much about it. Anyone ever try Chapter 4?

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I don’t get the pricing on the MM cask strength. It is MM regular, just a little higher proof, for double the cost? Hey MM, I can do math!
 

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