Episode Thirty Two

May 18, 2026

Episode Transcript

Hosts Adam, Paul, and Jerry stage a country-music celebrity whiskey shootout, tasting four bottles from artists like Chris Stapleton, Dierks Bentley, Eric Church, Riley Green, and Alan Jackson.

They compare proofs, mash bills, distilleries, and tasting notes, rank their favorites (Gypsy and Silver Belly rise to the top), and discuss price, provenance, and the growing quality of celebrity spirits.

The episode also features laid-back cigar talk, listener community notes, and a call to support veterans, first responders, and local charities.

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WEBVTT 00:00:11.406 --> 00:00:14.346 You're listening to bourbon beards and 00:00:14.346 --> 00:00:17.806 velveteers the podcast where whiskey cigars 00:00:17.806 --> 00:00:23.586 and beard products aren't just a hobby they're a lifestyle hosted by adam paul 00:00:23.586 --> 00:00:29.446 and jerry three guys with real experience full beards and even fuller glasses 00:00:29.446 --> 00:00:34.446 each episode serves up thoughtful tastings laid-back cigar talk, 00:00:34.586 --> 00:00:38.046 and honest takes on beard gear and beyond. 00:00:38.546 --> 00:00:43.686 From top-shelf pours to everyday essentials, this is the place where conversations 00:00:43.686 --> 00:00:46.046 flow as smooth as the whiskey. 00:00:46.366 --> 00:00:50.766 So, pour a glass, light one up, and enjoy the ride. 00:00:50.926 --> 00:00:54.626 This is Bourbon Beards and Belvederes. 00:01:07.306 --> 00:01:11.126 Welcome to Bourbon Beards and Belvedeers. I'm Adam. And I'm Paul. And I'm Jerry. 00:01:11.566 --> 00:01:18.446 And today we've got a shootout. This is a country music celebrity whiskey style shootout. 00:01:19.226 --> 00:01:22.206 We've got four whiskeys here that we're going to be talking about. 00:01:22.646 --> 00:01:29.486 I'll let Paul and Jerry tell you all about that because these samples did not come from me. 00:01:29.826 --> 00:01:33.186 But as always, we're going to start with our palate warmer. Usually I hand it 00:01:33.186 --> 00:01:35.986 off to one of these two guys But I'm going to go ahead and start it off this time 00:01:36.406 --> 00:01:40.946 I went a little higher We're going in order of proof by the way On these samples 00:01:40.946 --> 00:01:45.526 I went a little higher proof to start out But it is still in the spirit of the 00:01:45.526 --> 00:01:52.166 country music star The celebrity whiskey shootout This is a little bit of traveler, 00:01:52.706 --> 00:01:59.626 Full proof whiskey This is 125 proof Comes to us from 121 proof I'm sorry 121 00:01:59.626 --> 00:02:05.306 proof comes to us from one Chris Stapleton by way of Sazerac. 00:02:06.340 --> 00:02:09.640 Or more on the nose, Buffalo Trace Distillery. 00:02:10.080 --> 00:02:13.600 Let's see Harlan Wheatley's signature on the back as well as Chris Stapleton's. 00:02:13.980 --> 00:02:18.040 That's not really a signature. It's more just a couple cursive letters, but there it is. 00:02:18.780 --> 00:02:21.800 Regular Traveler. I don't even know what the proof is. 80 proof, 00:02:21.920 --> 00:02:23.280 90 proof. It's all right. 00:02:23.820 --> 00:02:27.580 This is a little better. I'm not going to lie. I actually enjoyed this. 00:02:27.720 --> 00:02:30.500 Don't care too much for the standard Traveler. 00:02:30.900 --> 00:02:33.780 So start a little higher proof and then take it back down in a moment. 00:02:33.900 --> 00:02:38.620 Jerry, what do you got? I went with a Bardstown single barrel pick that I helped 00:02:38.620 --> 00:02:40.540 select this past last summer. 00:02:41.320 --> 00:02:48.280 Rickhouse E floor one, 109 proof. There's their 60, 36, four, just regular. 00:02:48.780 --> 00:02:54.340 And that light, there we go. Just that standard single barrel that they do. This one's fantastic. 00:02:54.860 --> 00:02:58.460 It's a fun experience. We got to do it in the, what do you call it, room deck, 00:02:58.580 --> 00:03:01.200 the antique library or whatever do they 00:03:01.200 --> 00:03:04.160 call it with all the old school bottles all the 00:03:04.160 --> 00:03:07.280 old dusty bottles they got on the shelves and everything it's 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:10.420 cool experience king of the 00:03:10.420 --> 00:03:13.120 castle king of the castle my name is jerry i got to 00:03:13.120 --> 00:03:15.880 pick a button that's what that's what it felt like when we were there because 00:03:15.880 --> 00:03:18.680 we got to go back in that room and they toured us everywhere and then 00:03:18.680 --> 00:03:21.340 we got to eat lunch and everything and then we got to do 00:03:21.340 --> 00:03:24.100 a tour and yeah i'm a i'm a 00:03:24.100 --> 00:03:27.220 firm believer that the experience that you got when you 00:03:27.220 --> 00:03:30.620 went to do the pick at maker's mark this 00:03:30.620 --> 00:03:34.540 one never this one's very similar i i didn't 00:03:34.540 --> 00:03:37.500 get to do either one of them or i i should word that and 00:03:37.500 --> 00:03:42.580 i should word that differently i never got to do either one of those but i did 00:03:42.580 --> 00:03:46.900 take a tour of makers while jerry was doing his pick and i gotta say because 00:03:46.900 --> 00:03:50.220 i got to see the room where jerry did the pick that is a pretty badass experience 00:03:50.220 --> 00:03:55.140 get to sit in an awesome room with a big-ass table in a cave. Pretty awesome. 00:03:56.200 --> 00:04:00.320 Paul, what do you got? I was trying to fit the music theme, too, 00:04:00.540 --> 00:04:03.180 because Adam started us off that way. 00:04:03.320 --> 00:04:07.320 So now I'm looking around to see what I got. Closest I can come up with is some new riff. Yeah. 00:04:08.780 --> 00:04:13.200 That kind of fits. This is the winter whiskey from last year. It's fantastic. 00:04:13.580 --> 00:04:17.140 We've all had it. It's delicious. It is very delicious. 00:04:17.500 --> 00:04:21.560 I remember the first time I ever had New Rift, that was at the suggestion of 00:04:21.560 --> 00:04:24.140 the blue-collar guys. I didn't like it. 00:04:24.780 --> 00:04:28.280 And everything I've had since then has been incredible. I don't know if they 00:04:28.280 --> 00:04:31.680 were sourcing it and just that particular barrel because I think it was a single barrel. 00:04:31.940 --> 00:04:35.260 That particular barrel wasn't really all that great, but New Rift, 00:04:35.400 --> 00:04:40.920 that's some good stuff right there. So, all right, well, let's get down to it. 00:04:41.160 --> 00:04:46.360 So, Jerry, I'm guessing that you, Paul, did you send out row 94? 00:04:46.660 --> 00:04:51.780 Paul sent out 94 Gypsy and Silver Belly. I sent out Duck Club. Okay. 00:04:52.300 --> 00:04:56.260 Also, to go along with this, Paul came up with the idea last time we were recording. 00:04:57.080 --> 00:05:00.080 So you have no idea who any of these celebrities are, do you, 00:05:00.220 --> 00:05:01.980 Adam? I don't have a damn clue. 00:05:02.900 --> 00:05:07.400 So the idea is to play a little snippet of one of their songs and see if you 00:05:07.400 --> 00:05:12.860 could figure out who it is there's a there's a 50 50 chance i'm going to be 00:05:12.860 --> 00:05:15.420 able to get that so how are we going to do it we're going to do it before or 00:05:15.420 --> 00:05:18.760 after we drink i'll do it right now okay let's have it. 00:05:35.922 --> 00:05:41.562 Becky was a beauty from South Alabama Her daddy had a heart like a nine, 00:05:43.822 --> 00:05:47.002 That's Dierks Bentley There you go, 00:05:47.602 --> 00:05:54.742 So I'm sure both hands You have Shazam open up over there or something It doesn't 00:05:54.742 --> 00:05:59.062 work with headphones on man They can't pick that shit up You'll. 00:06:00.622 --> 00:06:04.322 You'll probably get three of the four of these Okay Okay, well, 00:06:04.562 --> 00:06:08.362 the chances of me knowing a newer country artist... 00:06:08.362 --> 00:06:11.302 You'll at least get one more. Okay. I'll say that. 00:06:11.822 --> 00:06:15.102 I just noticed that big stripe of gray right there. Sorry, I'm... 00:06:15.762 --> 00:06:22.902 Look at this shit. God. All right. Yeah, so this is Row 94, Dirk Bentley's brand, 00:06:23.062 --> 00:06:24.122 whiskey, whatever you want to call it. 00:06:24.502 --> 00:06:30.462 And the name Row 94 points to Music Row and 1994, which is the year he moved to Nashville. 00:06:30.942 --> 00:06:34.462 Green River Distillate, 70, 21, 9. 94 proof 00:06:34.462 --> 00:06:37.882 four years old so yeah green river 00:06:37.882 --> 00:06:40.942 94 i mean it's it's 00:06:40.942 --> 00:06:45.022 what i expect green river that's for damn sure it's a bourbon yeah 00:06:45.022 --> 00:06:50.442 i could use a little more proof on this but as far as celebrity whiskeys go 00:06:50.442 --> 00:06:57.362 that's that's not bad they have come out with a if it's not cast strength it's 00:06:57.362 --> 00:07:01.942 higher proof i don't remember after paul sent these out so there is one out 00:07:01.942 --> 00:07:04.042 there okay all right well, 00:07:05.002 --> 00:07:12.002 oh it's a little musty yeah it's got a yeah there's an oaky musty kind of nose 00:07:12.002 --> 00:07:16.042 to it yeah along with along with that there's like this green apple in there 00:07:16.042 --> 00:07:20.762 yeah i'm getting it's like musty and green apple that's fantastic on the nose, 00:07:21.753 --> 00:07:26.293 But there's no ethanol whatsoever. No. No. No, it's very light. 00:07:27.733 --> 00:07:31.033 Excuse me. The musty carries over on the palate. Mm-hmm. 00:07:31.913 --> 00:07:37.673 So it is like apple, maybe a little cherry. There's a sweetness in there. 00:07:37.993 --> 00:07:42.053 And then it's real dry on the end. For 94, it's very dry. 00:07:43.233 --> 00:07:48.553 Yeah, there's definitely that cherry note in there. It gets sweet and viscous 00:07:48.553 --> 00:07:51.653 there for a second, and then it dries out real quick. 00:07:52.413 --> 00:07:55.853 Yeah i don't get i don't get the cherry i get i definitely 00:07:55.853 --> 00:08:00.133 get green apple especially when i burped i was gonna say green apple came through 00:08:00.133 --> 00:08:05.733 on the end like on the finish real big yeah i i took a big gulp of water which 00:08:05.733 --> 00:08:08.933 caused me to swallow some air so when i burped it back up all i got was green 00:08:08.933 --> 00:08:14.973 apple right in the back of my mouth but that musty that musty is still there i like that a lot. 00:08:15.847 --> 00:08:20.607 Yeah, that's really good for a sub-100 proofer. All on board with the trend 00:08:20.607 --> 00:08:25.287 of these new, air quotes, celebrity whiskeys, actually getting good whiskey 00:08:25.287 --> 00:08:27.087 from real distilleries. 00:08:27.487 --> 00:08:31.107 Like, you know, four, three, four years ago, it was all crap from, 00:08:31.107 --> 00:08:36.947 you know, no offense here, Florida and California and wherever they could get 00:08:36.947 --> 00:08:41.427 the cheapest swill from and slap their name on it and try to sell bottles. 00:08:41.427 --> 00:08:44.387 Now it seems like even across 00:08:44.387 --> 00:08:47.667 spirits and other spirits as well it seems 00:08:47.667 --> 00:08:51.927 like you know a celebrity is not going to put their name on something unless 00:08:51.927 --> 00:08:57.267 they know it's a good product and i i like that shift that we're seeing in this 00:08:57.267 --> 00:09:01.967 whole celebrity whiskey game because before it used to be like celebrity whiskey 00:09:01.967 --> 00:09:05.487 now now it's like oh i'd like to try that because i know i'm from green river 00:09:05.487 --> 00:09:07.267 or it comes from Jim Beam, 00:09:07.427 --> 00:09:11.127 or it comes from some of these other major bars down. 00:09:11.287 --> 00:09:14.347 As we get through these other samples, we're going to be hitting on some big 00:09:14.347 --> 00:09:19.547 distilleries, and even if you're getting their worst stuff, it still is pretty damn good. 00:09:20.607 --> 00:09:25.347 I forgot to put the hat on earlier. Oh, that's necessary. And I'm looking at 00:09:25.347 --> 00:09:27.547 it. Headphones do not fit over it whatsoever. 00:09:28.427 --> 00:09:31.527 I'm looking at it right now. I can go to Total Wine and get it for $37. 00:09:32.067 --> 00:09:35.107 So $37, 94 proof. Yeah. 00:09:35.487 --> 00:09:41.707 You know, good whiskey from a good distillery that I use that term objectively. 00:09:41.707 --> 00:09:43.927 It's a distillery that we all like. Yeah. 00:09:45.547 --> 00:09:49.487 And I'm willing to bet that, you know, you got guys like Dierks Bentley and 00:09:49.487 --> 00:09:52.867 Chris Stapleton that actually drink whiskey. 00:09:53.467 --> 00:09:57.007 So they, they, you know, they know a thing or two about good whiskey and they've 00:09:57.007 --> 00:09:59.907 got all the money in the world and access to decent whiskey. 00:10:01.087 --> 00:10:05.047 So I'm not surprised. Yeah. If you're. 00:10:06.215 --> 00:10:10.455 I think with Dierks Bentley, him, like many others, he owns, 00:10:10.615 --> 00:10:12.335 doesn't he own a bar on Whiskey Row? 00:10:12.575 --> 00:10:16.935 So if you're going to put this, you know, as the staple in your bar, 00:10:17.195 --> 00:10:18.975 you don't want shit whiskey. 00:10:19.255 --> 00:10:22.795 So you're going to have to go and get it from somebody, you know, so you can be proud of it. 00:10:22.975 --> 00:10:29.915 It's not like you're just sticking, you know, your name to a bottle like Darius Rucker did. 00:10:30.395 --> 00:10:33.135 Just being some of the worst shit on earth. 00:10:33.935 --> 00:10:37.295 You're actually, you know, putting your name behind this brand and behind this 00:10:37.295 --> 00:10:40.115 bottle and then featuring it at your bar, your restaurant, that kind of thing, 00:10:40.215 --> 00:10:44.775 which is a lot, like I said, even across spirits into tequilas and vodkas and 00:10:44.775 --> 00:10:45.915 things like that, even a vodka. 00:10:46.195 --> 00:10:50.315 I don't know how you could determine a good or bad vodka, but I see that a lot 00:10:50.315 --> 00:10:53.915 with more celebrities with these brands that they're putting out there. 00:10:54.095 --> 00:10:57.795 If you do some digging are actually coming from, you know, some of the better sources. 00:10:58.095 --> 00:11:01.195 So I'm very pleased to see that shift 00:11:01.195 --> 00:11:04.935 in this celebrity whiskey and celebrity and if 00:11:04.935 --> 00:11:07.875 you watch any interviews or anything that he's done 00:11:07.875 --> 00:11:11.815 on or for row 94 he was 00:11:11.815 --> 00:11:16.215 the one actually in there he was trying all the barrels throughout the years 00:11:16.215 --> 00:11:22.035 and waiting for it testing it out and along with the other ones here too obviously 00:11:22.035 --> 00:11:25.935 the 94 proof he had a reason for the name he had a reason for it wasn't just 00:11:25.935 --> 00:11:30.095 a distillery hey here's it at 80 proof or Here's that 90 proof. 00:11:30.455 --> 00:11:33.335 This is what you get. He actually had a reason for it. So. 00:11:34.203 --> 00:11:38.303 Like Paul said, it's always nice seeing these celebrities actually getting dirty 00:11:38.303 --> 00:11:41.603 with the whiskey versus just paying money to get their name put on it. 00:11:42.103 --> 00:11:52.583 Yeah, and in the spirit of celebrity spirits, there are a fuck ton of celebrity tequilas. 00:11:52.763 --> 00:11:56.383 I'm just looking at a list right now. So Casamigos, that's George Clooney. 00:11:57.063 --> 00:12:01.123 Terramana, that's The Rock. 818 Tequila. Kendall Jenner. 00:12:01.583 --> 00:12:04.423 Sincoro, that's Michael Jordan. santo is sammy 00:12:04.423 --> 00:12:07.163 hagar and guy fieri unfortunately you haven't named 00:12:07.163 --> 00:12:10.083 the good tequila yet though so the game has a 00:12:10.083 --> 00:12:14.843 little bit of catching up to do well some i've not i've not had most of these 00:12:14.843 --> 00:12:20.703 so grand coromino that's kevin hart dos ombros that's brian cranston and aaron 00:12:20.703 --> 00:12:27.903 paul fleca azul that's mark walberg pantalones that's matchy mcconaughey and 00:12:27.903 --> 00:12:29.743 casa del sol that's evil angoria. 00:12:30.523 --> 00:12:33.683 I i will say that i've got a bottle of casamigos upstairs 00:12:33.683 --> 00:12:36.723 that i actually enjoy so i can't 00:12:36.723 --> 00:12:40.443 i can't hate on everything on that list i don't i've not tried most of those 00:12:40.443 --> 00:12:44.643 but that casamigos is pretty good i got i will say that the one that i bought 00:12:44.643 --> 00:12:48.383 is if you like vanilla i mean because that's what it tastes like to me is that 00:12:48.383 --> 00:12:52.303 somebody puts some vanilla extract and some bad tequila i did not get that at 00:12:52.303 --> 00:12:55.203 all i'm gonna have to try some when i go upstairs and see if i get it if i do 00:12:55.203 --> 00:12:56.423 i'm I didn't own it for you. 00:12:56.643 --> 00:12:59.463 You might have. I was going to say, if I had to pour it down the drain, 00:12:59.603 --> 00:13:02.843 I'm going to be pissed off at you because I paid $55 for that fucking bottle. 00:13:04.663 --> 00:13:09.883 But anyway, so let's move on. Yeah, this is going to be a tough one to beat at 94 proof. 00:13:10.063 --> 00:13:15.003 It's still pretty damn good, so I'm ready to move on. Okay, Jerry, cue the music. 00:13:32.178 --> 00:13:34.198 Floss and cut off jeans. Eric Church. 00:13:37.038 --> 00:13:43.038 Oh, I am blurry. Oh, you're blurry. I can fix that. That didn't work. 00:13:43.878 --> 00:13:47.058 You can't fix that, apparently. There you go. 00:13:48.018 --> 00:13:52.558 Why didn't you pick Jack Daniels by Eric Church for this one snippet there? 00:13:52.738 --> 00:13:54.278 Because we're not drinking Jack Daniels. 00:13:56.398 --> 00:14:00.678 And I'm pretty sure this is Kentucky whiskey. Yeah, no, Eric Church was affiliated 00:14:00.678 --> 00:14:02.098 with Jack Daniels for a while. 00:14:02.178 --> 00:14:04.198 Famously always drinking it 00:14:04.198 --> 00:14:10.278 on stage but now he's got his own um his own brand and it's called gypsy, 00:14:11.018 --> 00:14:18.398 and i like the nose on this yeah holy shit i sent this out so on the back of 00:14:18.398 --> 00:14:24.618 the bottle wow it's a so this is the gypsy explorer there's several different 00:14:24.618 --> 00:14:26.158 offerings that they put out, 00:14:26.918 --> 00:14:30.038 he's uh trying to 00:14:30.038 --> 00:14:32.998 i'm just looking at the bottle here on my phone 00:14:32.998 --> 00:14:35.758 so they got the explanation of the whiskey and 00:14:35.758 --> 00:14:40.438 wood on the back kind of like who did that with the different the penelope do 00:14:40.438 --> 00:14:44.458 that with the different like flavor profile thing on the back arc yeah the architect 00:14:44.458 --> 00:14:47.698 yeah little wheel kind of like kind of like that's a picture of it but it's 00:14:47.698 --> 00:14:52.118 kind of got yeah you know the different profile real real quick before we move 00:14:52.118 --> 00:14:55.318 on with the dirk dirks bentley he has one drunk on a plane, 00:14:55.778 --> 00:15:00.298 I was going to pick that one And so those are the minis that they have in there 00:15:00.298 --> 00:15:02.178 And it's not coming through There 00:15:02.178 --> 00:15:05.278 it goes Yeah I see it It says Kentucky whiskey on a Jack Daniels bottle, 00:15:05.838 --> 00:15:07.898 Ha Ha Ha. 00:15:10.159 --> 00:15:12.959 I just had to throw that out there before I forgot about it. 00:15:13.599 --> 00:15:19.439 So this is a 66 corn, 30 rye, 4 malted barley flavor profile. 00:15:19.439 --> 00:15:20.799 I'll just throw it out there. 00:15:21.139 --> 00:15:29.479 It's light dried fruit, medium leather, medium plus vanilla, and medium plus oak. 00:15:30.079 --> 00:15:36.299 And this was distilled in Kentucky and Indiana. So MGP and unknown. 00:15:36.919 --> 00:15:41.179 Yeah, from what I saw, it's a low-ride bourbon from Kentucky. 00:15:41.739 --> 00:15:47.259 And then probably the 95.5 from Indiana. It says high-ride bourbon in Indiana. 00:15:47.859 --> 00:15:50.259 So probably the 60, 36, 4, whatever. 00:15:52.806 --> 00:15:57.926 I like that nose a lot. Yeah, it's real good. Oh, man. That's fruity. 00:15:59.226 --> 00:16:02.366 There's some berry in there. There's some citrus in there. 00:16:03.846 --> 00:16:07.206 There's some leather in there. There's some vanilla. 00:16:07.606 --> 00:16:12.246 I'm showing you guys pictures of it on my phone because I don't have this bottle 00:16:12.246 --> 00:16:14.026 at the market. That'll see what I thought of. 00:16:15.726 --> 00:16:20.526 Was this the one that is finished? I don't know if you said that or not, but... 00:16:21.206 --> 00:16:24.126 No, I don't believe this was finished. Wow. 00:16:24.906 --> 00:16:29.866 All they talk about is the oak. Finished with French oak from the forest of 00:16:29.866 --> 00:16:34.306 Tron Case for its spiciness and leather notes. 00:16:34.526 --> 00:16:39.126 And white oak from Appalachia for added sweetness, richness, and viscosity. 00:16:39.666 --> 00:16:41.906 So French oak and American oak. Yep. 00:16:42.766 --> 00:16:46.366 That is... Wow, there's a burst of sweetness. 00:16:47.026 --> 00:16:49.946 And then it gives way to all those wonderful bourbon 00:16:49.946 --> 00:16:53.106 characteristics that you want and there's some fruitiness there's 00:16:53.106 --> 00:16:56.026 some oak and leather and brown sugar and 00:16:56.026 --> 00:16:58.946 wow that is really good yeah this 00:16:58.946 --> 00:17:01.606 is one of those you set it down and you get 00:17:01.606 --> 00:17:04.546 the finish right back to it right back 00:17:04.546 --> 00:17:10.066 to it it goes quick this is i haven't had this in a while because i sent you 00:17:10.066 --> 00:17:14.526 guys these samples a while a little while ago and i forgot how good this was 00:17:14.526 --> 00:17:19.146 row 94 was hard to beat but i think it just got beat what's the proof on it 00:17:19.146 --> 00:17:22.626 or yeah what's proof jerry do you have that 103 103. 00:17:24.554 --> 00:17:27.994 It does not drink like 103. That's for damn sure. No. 00:17:29.314 --> 00:17:33.874 There's a little spice punch. Excuse me. Spice punch. Yep. 00:17:34.394 --> 00:17:37.794 There's a little spice punch that dissipates quickly. 00:17:38.794 --> 00:17:43.454 And it's not like ethanol heat. It's just spice from the rye. 00:17:43.614 --> 00:17:47.894 But it's, wow, that's very complex. Very, very good. Very good. 00:17:47.974 --> 00:17:50.214 It is not a dry finish either. Nope. 00:17:50.854 --> 00:17:57.534 I get a punch of like fruit sweetness on the on the finish and you get all that nice like, 00:17:58.334 --> 00:18:03.554 spice and sweetness from the french oak and american oak basically get the the 00:18:03.554 --> 00:18:07.094 best of both them and you get to leave out a lot of the bad stuff that comes 00:18:07.094 --> 00:18:11.074 with them because i like french oak but a lot of times you get a lot of tannic 00:18:11.074 --> 00:18:15.214 from it and then the american oak for me kind It has a little bit of, 00:18:15.254 --> 00:18:17.814 I guess it's, it's tannic too. 00:18:17.934 --> 00:18:21.474 It's just a different tannic profile, but I'm not getting any of that from this. 00:18:22.214 --> 00:18:28.374 Yeah. The, the, the French oak, at least for me, tends to have more of a bitter tannic quality to it. 00:18:28.694 --> 00:18:32.774 The French or the American for me has more, I guess it's kind of like a sour. 00:18:33.414 --> 00:18:37.494 I don't know. It's hard to explain on my end, but yeah, this is really good. 00:18:38.294 --> 00:18:42.674 Yeah. This is going to cost you a little bit more. This one right around the $70 mark. 00:18:44.440 --> 00:18:49.260 They have, I'm looking at their website, they have a Tribune blend, 00:18:49.440 --> 00:18:50.800 which is a double barrel bourbon. 00:18:51.440 --> 00:18:56.960 This Explorer and a couple of legacy batches out there that are six, seven years old. 00:18:57.080 --> 00:19:01.480 And one is called the Declaration, which is a unique blend of Tennessee bourbon, 00:19:01.600 --> 00:19:05.540 Canadian rye, Indiana single malt. That sounds interesting. 00:19:05.960 --> 00:19:07.260 It does sound interesting. 00:19:08.380 --> 00:19:11.340 So I'm going to have to look for a couple of different expressions of this. 00:19:11.560 --> 00:19:16.180 But yeah, I picked this one up. I think I've pulled the trigger on this one. 00:19:16.660 --> 00:19:23.060 $70 for untasted celebrity whiskey is normally the amount that I go in for. 00:19:23.240 --> 00:19:26.860 But I think I just grabbed it to fit the theme. Because I think I already had 00:19:26.860 --> 00:19:28.320 the Row 94 and the Silver Belly. 00:19:28.420 --> 00:19:32.760 And I figured we'd need one more to do a country music artist shootout. 00:19:32.860 --> 00:19:36.440 And I'm glad that I did. Because this is pretty fantastic. 00:19:37.260 --> 00:19:38.820 Yeah, I agree. 00:19:40.040 --> 00:19:43.120 Did you uh do you have the the price 00:19:43.120 --> 00:19:46.820 for the row 94 do you remember that one 36 bucks 00:19:46.820 --> 00:19:50.080 35 bucks something like that i think it was 37 here 00:19:50.080 --> 00:19:52.980 in lexington yeah i don't recall 00:19:52.980 --> 00:19:56.200 but it's it's right around that it's sub 40 definitely 00:19:56.200 --> 00:19:59.540 with sub 40 yeah it looks like 35 36 00:19:59.540 --> 00:20:03.040 ish and then full proof not 00:20:03.040 --> 00:20:07.240 around here but from what i'm seeing is about 60 ish 00:20:07.240 --> 00:20:10.640 i'd like to try that full proof i have not 120 00:20:10.640 --> 00:20:13.380 agree yeah that would be both these are 00:20:13.380 --> 00:20:16.100 really good yeah who'd have 00:20:16.100 --> 00:20:20.140 thunk it three years ago that we'd be having a celebrity whiskey shootout and 00:20:20.140 --> 00:20:26.020 so far the first two are fantastic right that shit happened in 2023 or 2024 00:20:26.020 --> 00:20:31.960 before that makes me excited about these last two so let's let's move on Jerry. 00:20:31.960 --> 00:20:35.900 Tell us what we're getting ready to drink sir I actually cue the music. 00:21:21.844 --> 00:21:25.964 This is the one that I wouldn't have gotten. This is the one I'm not going to get. 00:21:27.164 --> 00:21:31.444 And I have just one that Paul said he wouldn't have gotten. I know the artist. 00:21:31.664 --> 00:21:33.264 I wouldn't have pulled this. I'm not. 00:21:35.104 --> 00:21:39.264 He's newer. Free like 2022 country. I'm all over it. 00:21:39.444 --> 00:21:43.844 But this newer stuff I'm a little vague on. So this guy, two, 00:21:44.304 --> 00:21:45.924 maybe three. That's probably three years ago now. 00:21:46.304 --> 00:21:51.324 He was an opener for, was it Luke Bryan maybe? 00:21:51.844 --> 00:21:57.064 He was an opener for a concert at where I work. A year and a half later, he's headlining. 00:21:57.244 --> 00:22:00.824 So he shot up at like overnight. It's Riley Green. 00:22:01.684 --> 00:22:05.464 So. Got me. No idea who the fuck that is. 00:22:05.764 --> 00:22:10.624 So he came out with Duck Club bourbon. He's got two different. 00:22:11.524 --> 00:22:16.624 There we go. It's a cool little bottle. Nice little shotgun shell case there. 00:22:16.784 --> 00:22:19.084 This one is the high brass. It's the 00:22:19.084 --> 00:22:24.884 110 proof. He also has a 94 proof or something like that, I think it is. 00:22:25.104 --> 00:22:29.924 But this one is 81.5% five-year from Claremont. 00:22:30.964 --> 00:22:34.764 67 corn, 23 rye, and 10 malted barley. 00:22:35.104 --> 00:22:38.004 There's only one distillery in that area that we all know about. 00:22:38.064 --> 00:22:44.784 So it's got to be some kind of weird blend that the Beams did or some kind of something they did. 00:22:44.784 --> 00:22:48.124 And at 18.5% 8-year from 00:22:48.124 --> 00:22:55.824 Bardstown which is 75-15-10 and I did some research the only distillery in Bardstown 00:22:55.824 --> 00:23:02.624 that has a 75-15-10 is Bardstown bourbon so it's most likely a blend of Beam 00:23:02.624 --> 00:23:06.104 and Bardstown which is music to my fucking hands, 00:23:06.904 --> 00:23:15.104 I have yet to have this and this is 40 bucks off Sealbox and what was it Hmm. 00:23:16.218 --> 00:23:20.958 Yeah, it's just a whole brand over his lifestyle of outdoors men, 00:23:21.138 --> 00:23:22.738 waterfowl, and hunting lifestyle. 00:23:23.078 --> 00:23:28.038 It's a cool bottle. It really is. It's a great bottle. Great little way to hold it. 00:23:28.438 --> 00:23:33.638 Nice little cork that I had to glue the top on because it fell off because of 00:23:33.638 --> 00:23:35.238 the glue. It didn't stick earlier. 00:23:36.238 --> 00:23:41.218 Kind of like throwback art on the bottle, too. It kind of reminds me of old 00:23:41.218 --> 00:23:43.598 wild turkey bottles, decanter. 00:23:43.718 --> 00:23:47.898 Yeah, I could see that. The nose is great. 00:23:48.918 --> 00:23:50.878 I get apple and I get gram. 00:23:52.623 --> 00:23:57.043 I get like a cinnamon apple and on the palate. 00:23:57.903 --> 00:24:02.203 I do too, but there's an astringency on the sides of my tongue that I'm not 00:24:02.203 --> 00:24:05.003 much a fan of. On both sides of my tongue. 00:24:05.963 --> 00:24:10.283 I don't know how much bean would be in here. I'm not getting any peanut. 00:24:11.643 --> 00:24:15.823 Claremont is 81 and a half percent. I thought I got it on the nose, 00:24:15.963 --> 00:24:19.443 but I don't think I think I was just in my head because I'm expecting it. 00:24:19.663 --> 00:24:22.483 I definitely don't get it on the palate. No, I don't get it. 00:24:22.623 --> 00:24:25.083 At all. I don't really get a shame. 00:24:25.863 --> 00:24:29.303 Yeah, it is a shame. I don't get anything off-putting. 00:24:29.663 --> 00:24:34.163 Kind of like a musty cherry, kind of, is what I'm getting. Which I like. 00:24:34.863 --> 00:24:38.783 Yeah, it's another drier-type finish. Oh, it's dry. 00:24:40.143 --> 00:24:43.183 There's some sweet notes in there. There's some spice in there. 00:24:44.103 --> 00:24:51.223 If I, like, do the chew or smack my tongue, I definitely get big-time berry. 00:24:51.223 --> 00:24:57.823 Like different kind of like mixed berries i don't know what it is but i get a big time red fruit. 00:24:59.083 --> 00:25:01.863 But yeah no i'm gypsy beats 00:25:01.863 --> 00:25:04.663 this one to my disney product would be 00:25:04.663 --> 00:25:07.403 my favorite but gypsy's in the lead for me at least 00:25:07.403 --> 00:25:10.643 so far in this horse race same i don't 00:25:10.643 --> 00:25:13.643 hate this duck club no i 00:25:13.643 --> 00:25:17.403 really like it i really like it but it's i i wouldn't 00:25:17.403 --> 00:25:20.403 say i really like it i don't hate it do you 00:25:20.403 --> 00:25:24.343 think you like it more than row 94 or less than row 94 i'll 00:25:24.343 --> 00:25:27.223 have to try them side by side again after we get through this last 00:25:27.223 --> 00:25:32.043 one that's what i'm i'm not sure i know gypsy's better than both of them so 00:25:32.043 --> 00:25:38.143 far for sure but i'm not sure i'm gonna have to go back for sure let's let's 00:25:38.143 --> 00:25:41.623 go ahead and get through this last one so we can get to that comparison paul 00:25:41.623 --> 00:25:44.703 what are we uh yeah jerry go ahead and cue that music. 00:26:29.047 --> 00:26:32.427 Any number of his greatest hits, and I'm so glad you took Gucci Gucci. 00:26:32.667 --> 00:26:36.947 So, full disclosure, I knew who this one was going to be because I knew that 00:26:36.947 --> 00:26:39.007 he had this whiskey. That's clearly Alan Jackson. 00:26:39.447 --> 00:26:45.867 One of the greatest regrets of my life, I was in Nashville. I was hanging out with this girl. 00:26:46.407 --> 00:26:50.587 I got a buddy that lives down there that I always stay with, and she knew him too. 00:26:50.927 --> 00:26:56.027 So we were hanging out waiting for him to get off work, and we were going to go hang out with him. 00:26:56.027 --> 00:27:01.587 And while I was walking on the street, I saw them setting up a stage in the middle of Broadway, 00:27:02.327 --> 00:27:05.447 and it turned out that Alan Jackson was putting on a free concert 00:27:05.447 --> 00:27:08.227 right in the middle of Broadway in downtown Nashville that I 00:27:08.227 --> 00:27:11.047 did not stick around for that and I could 00:27:11.047 --> 00:27:14.427 have gone to see George Jones right before he died and that 00:27:14.427 --> 00:27:17.287 was free also and I didn't do that 00:27:17.287 --> 00:27:20.607 either to at least two of 00:27:20.607 --> 00:27:23.387 the greatest country music regrets of my 00:27:23.387 --> 00:27:26.067 life but regardless of that like i 00:27:26.067 --> 00:27:29.027 said i did know who this was gonna be i am excited 00:27:29.027 --> 00:27:33.227 about this one and i really hope it doesn't suck because alan jackson's been 00:27:33.227 --> 00:27:37.427 around long enough to know what a good whiskey is so hopefully he's got this 00:27:37.427 --> 00:27:42.967 got this right side note the only time i saw george jones i saw him in salisbury 00:27:42.967 --> 00:27:47.287 maryland and he comes out on stage and he says, 00:27:47.447 --> 00:27:49.547 Good evening, Pittsburgh. 00:27:53.207 --> 00:27:54.767 Fantastic. I love you. 00:27:56.801 --> 00:28:00.521 Well, while we're talking about it, RIP to the great David Allen Coe. 00:28:00.821 --> 00:28:05.001 Absolutely. I've seen David Allen Coe eight times. He was one of my favorite 00:28:05.001 --> 00:28:09.981 artists when I was in my outlaw country phase and college era. 00:28:10.701 --> 00:28:12.081 Yeah. You know, 00:28:14.881 --> 00:28:21.381 between 83 and 95, I listened to exclusively country music, and then a big life-changing 00:28:21.381 --> 00:28:26.701 event happened in 95, and it steered me away from country music strictly because of the sentimental, 00:28:27.321 --> 00:28:30.841 aspect of it and i couldn't handle it when i started to come back around to 00:28:30.841 --> 00:28:35.261 country music was right around the time that the outlaw country thing was starting to kick off again, 00:28:35.761 --> 00:28:40.061 and i gotta say there's some there's some really good country artists out there 00:28:40.061 --> 00:28:44.401 in the world right now they're not mainstream i i still can't listen to fucking 00:28:44.401 --> 00:28:47.521 mainstream country but i'll uh i'll, 00:28:48.150 --> 00:28:53.530 on Spotify and put in Tyler Childress radio. He's kind of mainstream-ish. 00:28:53.610 --> 00:28:56.670 He's about the most mainstream of the artists on that station. 00:28:56.990 --> 00:29:01.790 There's a lot of really good country artists out there that aren't really all that widely known. 00:29:01.930 --> 00:29:05.050 Although there is one right now. He's huge. 00:29:05.230 --> 00:29:10.190 I got to see him at the venue where I work when he was coming up. 00:29:10.510 --> 00:29:17.410 He actually sang the National Anthem for the... Which conference are the Seahawks in? AFC? 00:29:18.150 --> 00:29:25.090 NFC North. NFC. Okay. So he got to do the national anthem for the NFC. West. 00:29:25.390 --> 00:29:28.890 Sorry. Either way. Either way. Yeah. The region doesn't matter because he did 00:29:28.890 --> 00:29:34.790 the national anthem for the NFC championship game this past year. His name is Zach Topp. 00:29:35.270 --> 00:29:38.450 Oh, Zach Topp's fantastic. Yeah. He's great. He's great. 00:29:38.670 --> 00:29:39.970 Now, it's funny because he sings 00:29:39.970 --> 00:29:44.830 with that country twang, but he's from fucking Seattle, so it's fake. 00:29:45.070 --> 00:29:48.730 You know, kind of like Jody Messina. is she was Canadian, but she had that real deep twang. 00:29:48.790 --> 00:29:54.490 It wasn't real, but the guy can write a song and it sounds like the country 00:29:54.490 --> 00:29:56.670 music I was listening to pre 1995. 00:29:57.270 --> 00:30:01.790 And I really appreciate that. I think it's great, but there's a lot of the outlaw 00:30:01.790 --> 00:30:05.130 country folks that are, they're coming up and they're, they're really good. 00:30:05.330 --> 00:30:10.530 So, you know, check those guys out. We are doing a special shootout specifically 00:30:10.530 --> 00:30:14.090 because the country musical wars will be coming out right around the time of 00:30:14.090 --> 00:30:15.930 release this episode, so... 00:30:16.570 --> 00:30:19.570 It behooves us to go ahead and talk about some of that but back to this whiskey 00:30:19.570 --> 00:30:23.290 well um just have to interrupt probably 00:30:23.290 --> 00:30:26.510 none of those good outlaw style country 00:30:26.510 --> 00:30:31.210 music artists will win any awards so no i don't 00:30:31.210 --> 00:30:34.790 think they're worried about it though to be honest with you uh you know 00:30:34.790 --> 00:30:37.690 they're doing their thing and yeah no i agree when i 00:30:37.690 --> 00:30:41.070 when i put on spotify or yeah it's usually 00:30:41.070 --> 00:30:44.730 stapleton or Tyler Childers mix hit 00:30:44.730 --> 00:30:47.630 go and usually everything that I want to hear comes up 00:30:47.630 --> 00:30:52.950 with that and that's right but yeah this one is this one is a seal box pick 00:30:52.950 --> 00:30:59.070 just FYI 64 I'm looking at my seal box receipt this was a fantastic receipt 00:30:59.070 --> 00:31:02.990 this was one of those buy three get three I just have a screenshot of my receipt 00:31:02.990 --> 00:31:06.050 I got a seal box eight year reserve, 00:31:06.610 --> 00:31:09.610 private reserve I got a starlight double oaked. 00:31:11.980 --> 00:31:16.060 Chattanooga Experimental, the pre-Prohibition style, the Tamworth Crab Trapper, 00:31:16.600 --> 00:31:20.400 the Tamworth Deer Slayer, Smoke Eye Hill, and this one. 00:31:20.740 --> 00:31:23.460 All for sub $300 for six bottles. 00:31:23.960 --> 00:31:27.500 Yeah, those case deals are fantastic. Case deals on Sealbox. 00:31:27.640 --> 00:31:30.780 If you get them quick before the good stuff starts selling out, 00:31:31.020 --> 00:31:35.300 man, that's a hell of a receipt. I'd buy that again right now if it was available. 00:31:35.740 --> 00:31:40.120 Or, you know, if you live in a state where you can actually buy from Sealbox, motherfuckers. 00:31:40.620 --> 00:31:45.000 You fucking Sealbox bastards. Kentucky. Fuck you, Kentucky. But still. 00:31:45.360 --> 00:31:49.960 Yeah, so I don't think we've said what it is yet or the proof. 00:31:50.700 --> 00:31:55.500 So this is, I got the picture of the bottle again because I drank it all. 00:31:56.960 --> 00:32:02.980 This I sent you guys a while ago. This is Silver Belly by Alan Jackson. 115 proof. 00:32:03.760 --> 00:32:06.680 It's five years. It's still on Sealbox right now. 00:32:06.820 --> 00:32:12.840 It's five years, six months, 115 proof. Tennessee Mashville of 80-10-10. 00:32:13.360 --> 00:32:19.980 And it says on the back of the bottle that's hand-selected by Sir Alan Jackson himself. 00:32:20.440 --> 00:32:26.340 And it's $84.99. And in a little quick little side note, his daughter, 00:32:26.840 --> 00:32:32.380 Maddie Jackson, is the master blender for Silver Belly. Very cool. 00:32:32.820 --> 00:32:37.620 So she blends it, he picks it. Nice little small family. 00:32:40.140 --> 00:32:43.340 Okay okay so you said 00:32:43.340 --> 00:32:46.480 80 10 10 let's see if i can which is 00:32:46.480 --> 00:32:53.580 a weird bashful yeah it is let me see if i can nope it is not listed on here 00:32:53.580 --> 00:32:58.080 at all so i don't know that would be dickle probably because george dickle is 00:32:58.080 --> 00:33:03.620 not listed on this website that i'm looking at for their map i found a website just has. 00:33:05.102 --> 00:33:07.842 Oh, no, it does have George Dickel on here. That's 84-8. Yeah, 00:33:07.922 --> 00:33:11.942 it's Tennessee Distilling Group. Hmm. I don't have any idea who that is. 00:33:12.842 --> 00:33:14.482 That's all right. I don't know a lot of things. 00:33:15.782 --> 00:33:19.542 I don't know much about them, but I think they're kind of like a very, 00:33:19.682 --> 00:33:22.442 very, very small MGP of Tennessee. 00:33:23.022 --> 00:33:26.902 They just distill for people. They might have their own little brands, 00:33:27.042 --> 00:33:31.122 but they distill for a lot more than... Yeah, I know the contract is still. 00:33:31.202 --> 00:33:34.642 I don't know if any of our brands, if they do. I don't know if they do, 00:33:34.722 --> 00:33:37.542 but they do contract. Three Chords, I think, uses them. 00:33:38.262 --> 00:33:44.702 There's a few companies that use Riverset Rye before they went Green River Distill. 00:33:44.782 --> 00:33:47.662 It used to be Tennessee Distilling. Okay. 00:33:48.802 --> 00:33:53.302 Well, I do like the nose. There's a little bit of bubble gum on there. 00:33:53.482 --> 00:33:57.602 There's a little bit of brown sugar, some citrus. 00:33:58.302 --> 00:34:04.082 I dig that. Okay. Let's see how the pallet feels. For 115 proof, 00:34:04.242 --> 00:34:05.282 the nose is pretty faint. 00:34:05.902 --> 00:34:12.742 For the pallet's faint as well, too. It's not 115 proof. I think that's a miscreant. Wow. 00:34:14.382 --> 00:34:21.642 Okay, so now we have to do another setup because I need to test shit. 00:34:22.002 --> 00:34:23.502 I might like that better than Gypsy. 00:34:23.982 --> 00:34:29.802 I think we're in the same boat. I think row 94 and Duck Club and my brain is tied. 00:34:30.282 --> 00:34:35.662 And gypsy i think is ahead of this one but i'm not sure but i know this one's 00:34:35.662 --> 00:34:41.662 better than duck club and row 94 yeah i need to do gypsy and row 94 and then 00:34:41.662 --> 00:34:43.002 do silver belly and gypsy, 00:34:43.662 --> 00:34:49.242 because i'm i'm i'm pretty sure that i like the j i know i like gypsy more than 00:34:49.242 --> 00:34:52.902 row 94 but i got to be sure but i'm pretty sure i like the silver belly just 00:34:52.902 --> 00:34:57.662 i think it's just edging out the gypsy I just went back to the row 94 and the gypsy. 00:34:58.642 --> 00:35:04.562 The gypsy has like a lemon lime note on the nose and it is pouring by Paul right now. 00:35:05.885 --> 00:35:09.285 I was just going to say, if you can hear that, tell me. I'll mute because it 00:35:09.285 --> 00:35:11.925 sounds like something's throwing marbles at my shed right now. 00:35:12.305 --> 00:35:16.185 I know. We can hear it. It sounds like popcorn popping over here in one of those. 00:35:16.245 --> 00:35:18.725 I'll try to mute it again when I'm not talking. 00:35:19.385 --> 00:35:24.045 But yeah, Gypsy now has like a lemon lime, kind of like with that syrup that 00:35:24.045 --> 00:35:28.085 you would put in like carbonated water to make your own Sprite or whatever. 00:35:28.625 --> 00:35:30.185 That's on the nose and that is fantastic. 00:35:30.905 --> 00:35:34.985 Who the fuck is making their own Sprite? Well, you know, what is that? 00:35:35.605 --> 00:35:40.185 The guy from Alligator Hunters, Grease. He put pine needles in. 00:35:40.605 --> 00:35:43.445 Yeah, it's fantastic. Google that. Yeah. 00:35:43.965 --> 00:35:47.505 No, what's that? Soda stream or whatever that you put water in a canister and 00:35:47.505 --> 00:35:50.065 you put CO2 into the water and then you... 00:35:51.045 --> 00:35:53.765 Paul might blow away like he did for the St. Paddy's Day episode. 00:35:56.345 --> 00:36:02.045 Let's see here. All right. So row 94. I feel good. I mean, it's good. 00:36:03.145 --> 00:36:07.065 Especially for what? The nose is just not there. especially for like 30 something 00:36:07.065 --> 00:36:12.785 bucks sure there's just but there's no nose to it at all it's i mean it's it's 00:36:12.785 --> 00:36:18.765 so faint for uh if you're wanting to fill up a lot well not fill up but, 00:36:19.305 --> 00:36:23.645 if you're wanting to go two or three fingers in a ross glass and not get fucked 00:36:23.645 --> 00:36:29.065 up this is a great whiskey for that no question i mean that's uh you know some 00:36:29.065 --> 00:36:30.925 of these others these higher proofs They're sippers. 00:36:31.105 --> 00:36:36.025 This is, it'd be a good mixer, I'm sure, because it's so faint. 00:36:36.405 --> 00:36:41.185 It would be real easy to mask all the flavors and everything else behind your 00:36:41.185 --> 00:36:43.445 Coke or whatever you're going to mix it with. 00:36:43.925 --> 00:36:48.185 But, yeah, I don't even need to drink the Gypsy. Row 94 is out. 00:36:48.565 --> 00:36:50.185 Row 94 and Nut Club are both out. 00:36:50.885 --> 00:36:55.585 Gypsy, for me, has a better nose over 94, but I like the palate of Row 94 over Gypsy. 00:36:56.405 --> 00:37:02.185 I do not. I do not. And I'll tell you why. First of all, well, the gypsy. 00:37:03.607 --> 00:37:07.627 I don't like to be dried out, first of all, and Gypsy doesn't do that. 00:37:07.747 --> 00:37:12.367 Second, the Gypsy is just flat out more complex. That sweet, 00:37:12.427 --> 00:37:15.467 it gives way to the fruit because it's not even a fruity sweetness. 00:37:15.467 --> 00:37:19.647 It's just a sugary sweetness, which normally I wouldn't care for, 00:37:19.767 --> 00:37:21.267 but I'm actually enjoying it with this. 00:37:21.667 --> 00:37:25.407 It dissipates, gives way to those fruits, those leathers, those brown sugars, 00:37:25.547 --> 00:37:29.467 the vanillas, all the things that you're looking for that come from the alcohol 00:37:29.467 --> 00:37:31.087 interacting with the wood itself. 00:37:31.787 --> 00:37:35.407 Gypsy is more in line with what i would consider to be the 00:37:35.407 --> 00:37:38.607 definition of a bourbon if that makes i mean row 00:37:38.607 --> 00:37:41.467 94 isn't missing out on anything for it 00:37:41.467 --> 00:37:44.227 to be in line with the definition of bourbon it's 00:37:44.227 --> 00:37:49.527 just that this gypsy is so much more in line with what i'm looking for so what 00:37:49.527 --> 00:37:54.107 i think it is for me i'm notoriously not a big fan of double dope like i do 00:37:54.107 --> 00:37:58.527 like the occasional like french oak finishes and whatnot and that's what i'm 00:37:58.527 --> 00:38:01.507 getting on the end is that like double doke. 00:38:01.607 --> 00:38:04.067 I don't want like mustiness, I guess it is. 00:38:04.627 --> 00:38:08.967 But it does have a nose that destroys 94. 00:38:09.687 --> 00:38:11.887 Well, for sure, I will agree with that 100%. 00:38:12.827 --> 00:38:17.847 I just think that the palate works a little better for me than the 94. 00:38:18.747 --> 00:38:23.967 So now with that said, it's time to go to the silver belly and then back to 00:38:23.967 --> 00:38:29.947 the gypsy. Paul, I know that you've got a stovetop popcorn situation going on over there, but... 00:38:32.262 --> 00:38:34.042 I can barely hear you. I'm doing my. 00:38:39.802 --> 00:38:46.762 So I'm doing duck club and silver belly. Now silver belly has some like nuttiness on the nose. 00:38:47.582 --> 00:38:51.682 I do not need to get duck club involved in this again. I know that that's the 00:38:51.682 --> 00:38:56.962 one that I liked the least out of all four of these, but I might could pick 00:38:56.962 --> 00:39:00.302 up a little bit of nuttiness on the nose with that silver belly, 00:39:00.322 --> 00:39:02.062 but I do not get that on the palate. 00:39:03.802 --> 00:39:06.482 Now it's been said a time or two that i am a bit of 00:39:06.482 --> 00:39:09.482 a proof for and that 110 and above is 00:39:09.482 --> 00:39:14.842 really in my wheelhouse the silver belly at 115 i feel like it's in the right 00:39:14.842 --> 00:39:21.662 sweet spot for that i'm still getting some of those bubble gum and fruit notes 00:39:21.662 --> 00:39:27.462 i definitely get that bubble gum on the palette now that I'm going back to it. 00:39:28.222 --> 00:39:32.442 It's Silver Belly? Yeah, it's the double bubble. 00:39:32.822 --> 00:39:39.422 You know, the chalky shit on the outside and the blue and yellow wrapper, pink gum. 00:39:39.622 --> 00:39:41.282 It's fantastic. It's so good. 00:39:42.660 --> 00:39:47.100 I'm right there with you. It's that powdery bubble gum. Yeah. 00:39:48.000 --> 00:39:52.260 Yeah. I'm right there with you guys. That club is it's good, 00:39:52.400 --> 00:39:55.260 but it's definitely fourth out of this, out of these. 00:39:56.180 --> 00:40:00.620 And Paul's putting up number four and agreeing since he's in a fucking tornado. 00:40:03.680 --> 00:40:07.440 All right. Now I got off. Now I've gone back to the gypsy. 00:40:08.060 --> 00:40:11.660 Yeah so everything i've 00:40:11.660 --> 00:40:14.660 described i'm getting from gypsy i'm getting it still and i 00:40:14.660 --> 00:40:18.140 went straight from the 115 silver belly down to 00:40:18.140 --> 00:40:21.640 the what is the gypsy the 10106 1010 00:40:21.640 --> 00:40:25.780 103 103 okay so the 00:40:25.780 --> 00:40:30.200 gypsy drinks a little bit hotter than the silver belly does even at a low fruit 00:40:30.200 --> 00:40:35.580 point yeah it does which but it's also higher rye yeah that's what i was gonna 00:40:35.580 --> 00:40:42.280 say because of the rye and I was going to say that that's something that I like because I like rye. 00:40:42.560 --> 00:40:47.140 So I like a rye mash built for my bourbon. I like rye whiskey. 00:40:47.800 --> 00:40:51.520 I'm still going to give it to Gypsy. So Gypsy, Silver Belly, 00:40:51.620 --> 00:40:54.260 Row 94, Duck Club. That's my order. 00:40:55.587 --> 00:40:59.327 Me and Paul figure this out. What are you smoking over there, Adam? I am smoking. 00:40:59.327 --> 00:41:04.627 Uh, so this is a, I don't know where any of the tobacco comes from, 00:41:04.627 --> 00:41:10.247 but this is a paper wrapper and filter and they call this a Marlboro red. 00:41:10.427 --> 00:41:11.667 I wasn't even made attention. 00:41:12.827 --> 00:41:14.887 I just saw smoke up and I looked up. 00:41:16.587 --> 00:41:22.227 Yeah. I, I forgot to grab a cigar before I sat down and it didn't even cross my mind until you asked. 00:41:22.667 --> 00:41:26.907 It's also nine 30 at night. And, you know, we got started a little later than 00:41:26.907 --> 00:41:31.607 intended, so I don't want to be here all night long, as I'm sure you guys don't either. 00:41:31.867 --> 00:41:39.347 I've worked two jobs today and dealt with some unruly parents and some even more unruly children. 00:41:39.647 --> 00:41:46.007 And I cut my yard and worked on my pool, so I'm just flat exhausted and currently 00:41:46.007 --> 00:41:47.267 dealing with a gout flare-up. 00:41:47.447 --> 00:41:50.247 So I'll just go ahead and throw that in there for good measure. 00:41:50.427 --> 00:41:55.587 I'm just going to throw this out. I got an ironclad Sulu Is it going to come through? 00:41:55.787 --> 00:42:02.747 Not at all There it is So our buddy's over at the Cigar Dudes This is Randy's brand. 00:42:04.307 --> 00:42:07.627 So He just released these out It is fantastic, 00:42:08.487 --> 00:42:13.887 If I get a box out to you guys soon And I still have these available I will 00:42:13.887 --> 00:42:19.287 get you guys some If not I'll definitely see him in October At the TPA event 00:42:19.287 --> 00:42:20.967 And I'm grabbing more if he has some there, 00:42:22.288 --> 00:42:25.828 All right. Paul was attempting to show us what he's got there, 00:42:25.968 --> 00:42:28.628 and I can't make it out because it's silver lettering. 00:42:29.448 --> 00:42:32.528 Yeah, I can't read backwards in Shiny. I'm too stupid for that. 00:42:33.328 --> 00:42:38.068 It's a Camacho something. Yeah, I can see Camacho. Is it good? At least. 00:42:38.988 --> 00:42:41.268 Oh, okay. Popcorn maker right now. 00:42:42.428 --> 00:42:43.648 But it's a good cigar. 00:42:44.868 --> 00:42:48.468 Hopefully that rain stops for you here pretty soon, buddy, because I know you 00:42:48.468 --> 00:42:52.168 don't want to have to run out in that shit, and I'm sure you don't want to sit there all night either. 00:42:52.288 --> 00:42:58.068 Oh, it's coming through the seams in this shitty-ass shit. I'm getting wet a little bit right now. 00:42:59.148 --> 00:43:02.888 All right, well, let's hear your guys' judgments so that we can go ahead and 00:43:02.888 --> 00:43:06.028 get Paul out of that water hazard. 00:43:06.968 --> 00:43:09.828 Oh, yeah, he ain't doing too good up there. 00:43:14.868 --> 00:43:20.108 All right. I think I have mine. What do you got? 00:43:20.948 --> 00:43:26.588 Almost complete opposite years so Duck Club's number four Gypsy number three. 00:43:28.761 --> 00:43:31.781 Row 94 and then silver belly 00:43:31.781 --> 00:43:36.421 i think rounds it out as number one i think okay i 00:43:36.421 --> 00:43:39.561 if you if we put in the i don't 00:43:39.561 --> 00:43:42.601 want to say full proof row 94 because that's 120 00:43:42.601 --> 00:43:45.441 versus all these but if row 94 is 100 00:43:45.441 --> 00:43:48.301 proof or 105 make it somewhat 00:43:48.301 --> 00:43:51.001 closer i think it'd be a little bit i think it might jump it 00:43:51.001 --> 00:43:54.281 but i think since it doesn't really it 94 00:43:54.281 --> 00:43:57.361 is a good proof but it's not something i typically pull for 00:43:57.361 --> 00:44:00.661 and then uh the silver belly like we 00:44:00.661 --> 00:44:03.501 said it doesn't drink 115 to me it drinks closer to 00:44:03.501 --> 00:44:07.621 100 105 which is my wheelhouse and 00:44:07.621 --> 00:44:10.561 i think it's got good flavor the duck club's 00:44:10.561 --> 00:44:13.321 good it just i don't know falls flat compared to the rest 00:44:13.321 --> 00:44:16.681 of these the gypsy it kind of has some weird finishing 00:44:16.681 --> 00:44:19.721 for me and i think it's because of the the french 00:44:19.721 --> 00:44:22.581 oak and american oak row 94 i like 00:44:22.581 --> 00:44:26.141 a lot it just needs a little bit more proof and i think this silver 00:44:26.141 --> 00:44:29.021 belly i think just takes it with the the proof the spice the 00:44:29.021 --> 00:44:32.141 flavor the nose right on 00:44:32.141 --> 00:44:34.941 well paul what you got buddy i know it's uh loud over there 00:44:34.941 --> 00:44:38.741 but give it a shot all right yell at me if it's loud but it's actually not that 00:44:38.741 --> 00:44:43.841 bad now i got a break in the action i think but yeah for and coming in in the 00:44:43.841 --> 00:44:48.961 tail end is duck club which surprised me i thought i'd like the gym theme but 00:44:48.961 --> 00:44:53.081 who knows maybe there's some fucking kid in Claremont and making whiskey in 00:44:53.081 --> 00:44:54.541 his basement. That's what this is. 00:44:55.421 --> 00:45:01.361 That's what I want to think because No, it's got to be one of their random like 00:45:01.361 --> 00:45:06.721 experimentals for Little Book or something like that that they didn't like and they sold it off. 00:45:07.041 --> 00:45:10.421 Yeah, that's fourth for me. It's good. It's not great. 00:45:11.181 --> 00:45:16.041 Row 94 is third for me. I have grief would be fantastic. 00:45:16.701 --> 00:45:21.521 Gypsy is number two and yeah, the Silver Belly for me is the winner. 00:45:22.061 --> 00:45:25.641 I really like that. I like the fruity bubblegum notes and... 00:45:28.122 --> 00:45:31.162 That but all all four of me really really 00:45:31.162 --> 00:45:34.322 good to be honest i mean i'm not disappointed 00:45:34.322 --> 00:45:37.842 in any of the ones no i no i 00:45:37.842 --> 00:45:44.182 will gladly put all four of these in my my collection absolutely i'm definitely 00:45:44.182 --> 00:45:49.562 if i gotta see if i could get 90 row 94 around here because for 30 bucks 35 00:45:49.562 --> 00:45:53.582 bucks whatever it is definitely i know i could get silver belly off seal box 00:45:53.582 --> 00:45:56.182 gypsy i think started hitting around here, 00:45:56.762 --> 00:46:02.462 end of last year early this year I just don't know which of the offerings I 00:46:02.462 --> 00:46:06.882 think it was the Explorer but I'm not 100% sure and then Duck Club I got off 00:46:06.882 --> 00:46:09.582 of Sealbox which is out of stock now they had a. 00:46:11.170 --> 00:46:16.530 Pre-sale that I did. And this Duck Club, I'm not mad at it for $35 or whatever 00:46:16.530 --> 00:46:20.010 it was for $110 proof. I'm not mad at that at all. 00:46:21.070 --> 00:46:25.470 But yeah, I would gladly have any of these in the collection, 00:46:25.470 --> 00:46:26.870 and I'm definitely going to be looking for them. 00:46:27.490 --> 00:46:34.050 Yeah, absolutely. So I think did all three of us have Gypsy and Silver Valley in the top two? 00:46:34.510 --> 00:46:37.070 Yeah, I did. No, I had Gypsy number three. 00:46:37.710 --> 00:46:39.590 Okay, so you had what? Row 94? 00:46:40.290 --> 00:46:43.830 All right, well, as more celebrity 00:46:43.830 --> 00:46:47.230 country because we we neglected traveler 00:46:47.230 --> 00:46:51.270 which is like probably the biggest country music 00:46:51.270 --> 00:46:54.610 celebrity whiskey out there right now you 00:46:54.610 --> 00:46:59.050 all you all neglected traveler i started with traveler you started with but 00:46:59.050 --> 00:47:06.290 i think we might need to revisit and have uh you know another one with a couple 00:47:06.290 --> 00:47:11.930 of these thrown in there so so real quick you got traveler You got Silverbelly, 00:47:12.050 --> 00:47:18.030 you have Wolfmoon with Jason Aldean John Rich's Redneck Riviera, 00:47:18.830 --> 00:47:24.110 Which I completely forgot about And Old Camp Whiskey, Florida Georgia Line If 00:47:24.110 --> 00:47:26.610 you want to go that new age, shitty country, 00:47:27.390 --> 00:47:30.470 There's a bunch out there, whether they're good or not is a different story 00:47:30.470 --> 00:47:35.750 Yeah, I'd like to try the Jason Aldean one He's a true patriot, 00:47:36.050 --> 00:47:40.750 and I'd like to see what he has But the other two you named are swell Yep. 00:47:41.859 --> 00:47:45.279 Son kenny chesney has a rum which 00:47:45.279 --> 00:47:48.719 makes sense george straight as is his tequila 00:47:48.719 --> 00:47:51.819 bullshit bullshit oh yeah 00:47:51.819 --> 00:47:54.659 the darius rucker backstage pass or whatever 00:47:54.659 --> 00:47:57.319 the hell it was called one of the worst things i've ever 00:47:57.319 --> 00:48:00.699 done in my entire life so i i 00:48:00.699 --> 00:48:03.379 made mention of that before that's i mean 00:48:03.379 --> 00:48:10.599 yeah that that's up there with tire fire uh and lord like that some bullshit 00:48:10.599 --> 00:48:15.439 that you just put your name to and you don't even taste it evidently and that's 00:48:15.439 --> 00:48:19.179 the kind of shit that happened a couple years ago with celebrity whiskeys and 00:48:19.179 --> 00:48:21.539 like I said this show I think, 00:48:22.079 --> 00:48:26.579 highlights that that's not happening anymore I think these guys are taking a 00:48:26.579 --> 00:48:31.859 little bit of responsibility to make sure at least what they're putting their name to is going to taste, 00:48:32.439 --> 00:48:35.379 decent or decent plus to good, 00:48:36.259 --> 00:48:40.639 so I think something we're going to have to do later on is Row 94 Full Proof 00:48:40.639 --> 00:48:42.939 versus travel or foolproof. 00:48:43.479 --> 00:48:49.839 I'm all about that, yes. You go to row94.whiskey.com you can buy from their website. 00:48:50.419 --> 00:48:52.339 I'm sure it depends on where you're living. 00:48:53.399 --> 00:48:56.679 I was thinking it was going to be like $20, $25 shipping like everything. 00:48:56.859 --> 00:48:58.679 They have $9.99 shipping right now. 00:48:58.959 --> 00:49:05.299 So $59.99 for foolproof, $10 shipping, it's $76 for the foolproof whiskey. 00:49:05.759 --> 00:49:09.799 I love a company that knows how to pirate ship. Wow. 00:49:11.790 --> 00:49:14.970 I don't know what the discount is, but you have a $10 shipping discount. 00:49:15.950 --> 00:49:21.470 And row 94 does not ship directly to consumers in Tennessee. So I think we're good. 00:49:24.030 --> 00:49:28.010 But yeah, I think we're going to have to do 94 foolproof, traveler foolproof 00:49:28.010 --> 00:49:30.770 and then see if there's any other one. 00:49:31.510 --> 00:49:33.470 Shit, we could throw the silver belly back in it. 00:49:34.930 --> 00:49:38.010 Yeah, this one was a pick, so let's get a... 00:49:38.010 --> 00:49:40.950 It's still on seal box. and what'd 00:49:40.950 --> 00:49:44.070 you say it costs now though 74 was 00:49:44.070 --> 00:49:47.870 it sounds a bit too good it was 64.99 when 00:49:47.870 --> 00:49:54.610 i bought it yeah 64.99 all right well then buy it go buy it it's fantastic for 00:49:54.610 --> 00:50:01.330 65 bucks that ain't showing them yeah 65 bucks they say it has a nose of heavy 00:50:01.330 --> 00:50:05.230 grenadine jammy red fruits with rich caramels creaminess, 00:50:05.390 --> 00:50:07.210 shortbread, and milk chocolate continuing. 00:50:07.710 --> 00:50:11.890 The pour is creamy and balanced, raspberry chip ice cream, raisins, 00:50:12.050 --> 00:50:15.070 date, bread pudding, vanilla icing, a touch of oakiness. 00:50:15.230 --> 00:50:18.630 The finish is long, creamy, and semi-sweet chocolate, barrel char, 00:50:18.810 --> 00:50:20.870 and perfumed fruity tannins. 00:50:21.490 --> 00:50:25.350 Would they hire that bitch from I-West to do their fucking tasting notes now? 00:50:25.530 --> 00:50:30.330 Nah, this is Blake from Sealbox doing his own shit. Good lord. 00:50:31.030 --> 00:50:36.670 That's some I-West tasting notes right there. I mean, He ain't far off, but good. Come on. 00:50:37.230 --> 00:50:40.770 Like, I could see where he's coming from with those notes, but I don't know 00:50:40.770 --> 00:50:44.070 if I'm coming up with those. No. 00:50:45.030 --> 00:50:46.470 Those are outlandish. 00:50:49.286 --> 00:50:51.966 Fantastic whiskey all four of these love them 00:50:51.966 --> 00:50:55.466 it kind of kind of twisted my 00:50:55.466 --> 00:51:00.066 mind because i thought for sure i did i had all three of them that i sent you 00:51:00.066 --> 00:51:03.926 and you sent me the duck club i thought i'd like the duck club more because 00:51:03.926 --> 00:51:08.126 i'm just so and and i thought that would be my number one i didn't try it until 00:51:08.126 --> 00:51:13.706 we did this show it's been sitting there in the sample box i wanted to try it 00:51:13.706 --> 00:51:15.366 but i was waiting i was waiting i was waiting. 00:51:16.969 --> 00:51:20.209 Disappointing so when i this is obviously you 00:51:20.209 --> 00:51:23.249 sent the other three out so i had this one and by itself 00:51:23.249 --> 00:51:26.109 without anything else it's i like it a 00:51:26.109 --> 00:51:29.429 lot but once you start putting other pours next to it you start 00:51:29.429 --> 00:51:33.009 i don't want to call it flaws but you start seeing the different 00:51:33.009 --> 00:51:36.349 parts of it and you're like oh oh it's missing this it's missing this and then 00:51:36.349 --> 00:51:40.769 it kind of fell to the back burner but that being said you come home from work 00:51:40.769 --> 00:51:45.169 you want to pour real quick you grab this for 35 bucks it works but then you 00:51:45.169 --> 00:51:49.769 start putting Gypsy or Silverbelly next to it and it's just like oh, 00:51:50.409 --> 00:51:53.169 it's missing something well you said it's still 00:51:53.169 --> 00:51:56.189 in Claremont we still don't know it's Jim B so that's not Sully 00:51:56.189 --> 00:51:59.889 the good name of Jim B it could 00:51:59.889 --> 00:52:05.269 be some fucking random dude named like you know Michael Claremont that lives 00:52:05.269 --> 00:52:11.929 in Kentucky that just has his own fucking bathtub fucking shine so let's Let's 00:52:11.929 --> 00:52:16.469 leave the good name of the Beam family out of this. 00:52:16.749 --> 00:52:24.229 Is there any part of Claremont, Kentucky that is outside of Jim Beam? 00:52:27.049 --> 00:52:30.649 There is more to it, yes. I'm told there's a food truck or something. 00:52:30.909 --> 00:52:33.889 There's just a lot of stuff. Yeah, there's a food truck that drives through. 00:52:34.709 --> 00:52:38.349 Who knows? Shit. That's not Sully, the good name of Jim Beam. 00:52:38.589 --> 00:52:42.409 That is a business plan right there. a traveling distiller, 00:52:43.689 --> 00:52:51.509 yeah it is not 100% illegal whatsoever but as I recall Steve Tickle tried something 00:52:51.509 --> 00:52:57.049 like that I was just thinking of that that Tickle did the the bus thing like 00:52:57.049 --> 00:52:59.929 yeah the traveling still, 00:53:00.749 --> 00:53:06.189 the mobile home with the coming out of the water tank oh no he did he did that 00:53:06.189 --> 00:53:10.869 but he had a he had a tiny bus that he put a still in the back of the bus Yep. 00:53:11.049 --> 00:53:13.069 And the engine heated it. 00:53:13.329 --> 00:53:16.429 Didn't Josh do it too with the trailer? Yeah. 00:53:18.085 --> 00:53:20.805 Yeah, he did. You're right. He had a trailer with a still in it. 00:53:20.865 --> 00:53:21.805 I forgot about that, too. 00:53:22.765 --> 00:53:29.085 If all of any of that shit was real, it'd be incredible. It's 100% real. Damn it. Just like WWE. 00:53:31.165 --> 00:53:34.825 Yeah, something like that. It's real entertaining is what it is. 00:53:34.925 --> 00:53:36.485 It's real to me. Real entertaining. 00:53:38.259 --> 00:53:41.579 All right, guys. Well, I think that brings us to the end of another episode 00:53:41.579 --> 00:53:43.799 of Bourbon, Beards, and Belvederes. 00:53:44.419 --> 00:53:49.319 Just like always, we want to encourage you to support your local veterans, 00:53:49.599 --> 00:53:55.599 active duty members, first responders, firefighters, LEOs, and anybody else in that line of work. 00:53:55.739 --> 00:53:59.879 Nurses, doctors, all the folks who are on the front lines of taking care of us. 00:54:00.779 --> 00:54:04.019 They're out there giving everything for us. The least we can do is give a little 00:54:04.019 --> 00:54:07.719 bit to them. So we encourage you to find your favorite charity, 00:54:08.159 --> 00:54:12.179 especially for veterans, and give when you can, what you can. 00:54:12.519 --> 00:54:14.939 I know they appreciate it. We appreciate it as well. 00:54:15.999 --> 00:54:17.379 Also want to encourage you to 00:54:17.379 --> 00:54:20.799 come together as a community and support the children in your community. 00:54:21.039 --> 00:54:24.299 Every day I wake up and look at the internet, the news, whatever. 00:54:24.499 --> 00:54:27.479 There's something more and more heinous than the day before. 00:54:27.479 --> 00:54:30.619 We need to start some old west 00:54:30.619 --> 00:54:33.459 justice and take care of these pieces of shit 00:54:33.459 --> 00:54:38.019 that are doing these horrible things to children and make it make it you know 00:54:38.019 --> 00:54:42.759 make that justice visible put it out there on tv on all the channels and you 00:54:42.759 --> 00:54:47.199 know but eventually they'll fucking stop or they won't we'll just keep on fucking 00:54:47.199 --> 00:54:50.979 doing it but one way or another you know we got to do what we can do, 00:54:51.519 --> 00:54:55.779 and in that note i think there needs to be some accountability for this epstein 00:54:55.779 --> 00:54:59.059 bullshit These motherfuckers need to shit or get off the pot No, 00:54:59.259 --> 00:55:03.199 fuck that, they need to shit Release the files, I don't care who's in it I don't 00:55:03.199 --> 00:55:06.059 care if, you know, I voted for Donald Trump Three fucking times, 00:55:06.599 --> 00:55:10.039 I don't care if he's in it, let's get his ass too I don't give a fuck, 00:55:10.639 --> 00:55:13.959 But let's stop fucking around with that Go ahead and get that foot out there, 00:55:14.619 --> 00:55:18.419 As always, we encourage you to enjoy Your spirits and your cigars, 00:55:19.279 --> 00:55:22.719 Responsibly, and until next week, cheers Cheers guys Cheers. 00:55:26.259 --> 00:55:28.419 We'll be right back. 00:56:13.926 --> 00:56:19.666 By Adam Bolden, Paul Rousseau, and Jerry Ullman. 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