New Year’s Special 2025

December 29, 2025

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Adam is out sick, so Paul and Jerry host a New Year’s special tasting the limited Barrel New Year 2026 and recapping their favorite pours, cigars, and beard products of the year. They highlight standout bottles (Sealbach's, Pursuit, Heaven Hill, Tenth Mountain), cigar pairings (Penelope Cigar Sessions, J.C. Newman, Monte de Leon), and indie beard brands and scents.

The episode also features stories from guest interviews, local festival finds, behind-the-scenes picks for 2026 guests, and a notorious Jeppson’s Malort sign-off to close out the year.

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WEBVTT 00:00:11.444 --> 00:00:16.844 You're listening to Bourbon Beards and Belvederes, the podcast where whiskey, 00:00:17.244 --> 00:00:21.544 cigars, and beard products aren't just a hobby. They're a lifestyle. 00:00:22.144 --> 00:00:26.264 Hosted by Adam, Paul, and Jerry, three guys with real experience, 00:00:26.724 --> 00:00:29.464 full beards, and even fuller glasses. 00:00:29.984 --> 00:00:34.464 Each episode serves up thoughtful tastings, laid-back cigar talk, 00:00:34.584 --> 00:00:41.224 and honest takes on beard gear and beyond, from top-shelf pours to everyday essentials. 00:00:41.444 --> 00:00:46.064 This is the place where conversations flow as smooth as the whiskey. 00:00:46.404 --> 00:00:50.784 So, pour a glass, light one up, and enjoy the ride. 00:00:51.044 --> 00:00:54.644 This is Bourbon, Beards, and Belvederes. 00:01:06.804 --> 00:01:10.984 Welcome to Bourbon, Beards, and Belvederes. I'm Jerry. And I'm Paul. 00:01:11.564 --> 00:01:16.624 And Adam is out sick tonight, but me and Paul are coming to you with our New Year's special. 00:01:17.044 --> 00:01:22.164 So we got a great pour to talk about, and then we got some two pretty damn good 00:01:22.164 --> 00:01:25.464 cigars to talk about, and then a couple other things to just shoot the shit about. 00:01:25.664 --> 00:01:29.904 So do you got a palate warmer with you, or are you just going straight into our pour? 00:01:30.344 --> 00:01:31.804 I'm just going straight into the pour. 00:01:33.284 --> 00:01:38.524 Looking forward to talking about this one. It's the bottle I picked up for the theme of the show. 00:01:38.864 --> 00:01:42.884 I actually couldn't find it. I had to jump around to a couple different stores 00:01:42.884 --> 00:01:47.524 to find it, which kind of was surprising, but I guess it's not considered technically 00:01:47.524 --> 00:01:52.604 allocated, but once a year it released, so a little bit harder to find, I guess. 00:01:53.384 --> 00:01:57.244 I want to say I paid about $95, $92, something like that. 00:01:58.607 --> 00:02:02.767 Well worth it, though. I was just telling Jerry before we started recording, 00:02:02.807 --> 00:02:07.687 I sent out a couple samples and gave the guys samples, but I've had a few pours 00:02:07.687 --> 00:02:11.107 out of this in the last month or so since I've had it, about halfway done with 00:02:11.107 --> 00:02:12.887 the bottle. It's a great sipper. 00:02:13.307 --> 00:02:16.247 It is the Barrel New Year, 2026. 00:02:17.007 --> 00:02:21.947 Perfect for this show as we're rounding out the end of another year. 00:02:22.327 --> 00:02:26.287 This one is annual limited edition blend by Barrel Crafts Beer. 00:02:26.287 --> 00:02:29.907 It's coming in at 55.158 BDV. 00:02:30.387 --> 00:02:37.327 It is a blend of, looks like seven whiskeys, ranging from five to 16 years. 00:02:37.867 --> 00:02:44.847 They are blended sourced bourbons from Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, which are the normals. 00:02:45.007 --> 00:02:49.887 But then they also have some liquid from Wyoming, Maryland, New York, and Ohio. 00:02:50.587 --> 00:02:54.747 So yeah, seven sources of bourbon to go into this one. 00:02:55.687 --> 00:02:58.967 According to ai we're supposed to expect notes of ripe peaches 00:02:58.967 --> 00:03:02.607 rainier cherries tart apple meyer lemon 00:03:02.607 --> 00:03:05.667 very specific on the actual fruit actual 00:03:05.667 --> 00:03:13.287 fruit pumpkin bread clove maple honey and cinnamon i get some of that on the 00:03:13.287 --> 00:03:17.627 nose i get definitely get some of that peach like stone fruit style in there 00:03:17.627 --> 00:03:21.567 a little bit of cherry i don't know if it's the right type of cherry or not 00:03:21.567 --> 00:03:23.767 just I just get like a basic cherry, 00:03:24.367 --> 00:03:29.587 yeah that apple comes out for me too and it's definitely like a tart apple yeah 00:03:29.587 --> 00:03:33.627 that's definitely a fruity nose oh yeah definitely a little bit of honey in there, 00:03:34.547 --> 00:03:41.087 that's so good though I mean the fruit carries through super sweet the honey the maple. 00:03:43.250 --> 00:03:48.370 Not too drying. Got a great mouthfeel. Perfect proofs. Took 110. 00:03:48.810 --> 00:03:53.690 I mean, this is fantastic. I mean, barrel rarely does something I don't like, 00:03:53.810 --> 00:03:57.350 but this is a special one. I really, really like this one. 00:03:58.130 --> 00:04:00.550 Yeah. Yeah, all those free notes come through. 00:04:02.390 --> 00:04:06.650 Finish, you got a little bit of that, like the cinnamon red hot starting to come through. 00:04:07.490 --> 00:04:12.130 Then it just fades to like a sweet cinnamon to me and just lingers for a while. 00:04:12.130 --> 00:04:15.530 But it's a nice overall sweet pour. That's a good one. 00:04:15.890 --> 00:04:20.230 I think I've had, I think this will be the third or fourth barrel new year that 00:04:20.230 --> 00:04:23.210 I've had. And they've all been pretty fantastic. 00:04:24.310 --> 00:04:27.870 Yeah, this is definitely a good one. I love how it just goes. 00:04:28.390 --> 00:04:33.610 I've sipped it like three times now. Then it goes from fruit to sweet, 00:04:33.790 --> 00:04:39.890 like a sugary maple, brown sugar sweetness to spicy cinnamon, you know, type. 00:04:40.050 --> 00:04:44.690 It's just boom, boom, boom. You just go through, The three steps each time doesn't 00:04:44.690 --> 00:04:47.930 really change at all, which is, I mean, which is great. 00:04:48.230 --> 00:04:51.170 And I did see here, if you guys want some more information on it, 00:04:51.490 --> 00:04:54.030 get into the geekness of it on the back of the bottle. 00:04:54.470 --> 00:04:58.210 The Indiana blends are 5, 6, 8, 11, and 13-year-old whiskeys. 00:04:58.510 --> 00:05:01.350 The Kentucky are 5, 6, and 10-year-old whiskey. 00:05:02.130 --> 00:05:06.710 Tennessee is 8, 10, and 16-year-old. Wyoming is 9 and 13-year-old. 00:05:07.330 --> 00:05:11.590 Maryland is 7 and 8-year-old. New York is 5-year-old. And Ohio is 5-year-old. 00:05:12.130 --> 00:05:15.750 So that's where you get the 5 to 16 with the oldest coming from Tennessee and 00:05:15.750 --> 00:05:17.330 the youngest coming from New York and Ohio. 00:05:17.690 --> 00:05:22.750 The Derod Mashville, once the blend was done, was calculated to be 74% corn, 00:05:23.110 --> 00:05:28.550 21% rye, 4% malted barley, and 1% wheat. 00:05:29.954 --> 00:05:33.714 Yeah, that 1% wheat definitely changes the old profile there. 00:05:38.174 --> 00:05:41.734 Throw that in there because that ended up being the blend once they calculated it. 00:05:42.294 --> 00:05:46.454 One of those whiskeys probably from Wyoming had a tiny bit of wheat in it. 00:05:46.954 --> 00:05:52.314 Well, so obviously Indiana's MGP or Rossin Squibb, whatever you want to call it. 00:05:52.914 --> 00:05:56.694 Tennessee's Dickel. Wyoming I've seen is from Wyoming whiskey. 00:05:57.094 --> 00:06:00.694 Yeah. being that old 13 year old Kentucky, 00:06:01.414 --> 00:06:04.934 they say is undisclosed and without knowing the match bill the actual Kentucky 00:06:04.934 --> 00:06:10.194 one it's kind of hard to find out Maryland says it's undisclosed what was the 00:06:10.194 --> 00:06:15.554 age of the Maryland one 7 and 8 at Sagamore it has to be yeah New York is 5, 00:06:16.274 --> 00:06:18.274 and I think, 00:06:19.294 --> 00:06:23.574 this could be wrong but I'm pretty sure Beryl has worked with, 00:06:24.114 --> 00:06:29.634 Finger Lakes Distillery out of new york so if i was to guess that's what i would 00:06:29.634 --> 00:06:30.814 guess the new york one would be, 00:06:31.354 --> 00:06:40.054 and then ohio five years in ohio shit what's what's that distillery out there that used to, 00:06:41.054 --> 00:06:45.994 distill for horse soldier that's that's probably where that one's coming from 00:06:45.994 --> 00:06:49.894 because i they did a lot of like contract and source distilling out of ohio 00:06:49.894 --> 00:06:54.934 so if i was to guess it's that I'm middle West is old enough to be it. Right. 00:06:55.774 --> 00:06:59.754 Are they out of Ohio? I think middle West is out of Ohio. Yeah. I could be too. 00:07:00.414 --> 00:07:04.834 I'm just trying to think of Ohio distilleries that could be old enough to, uh. 00:07:06.089 --> 00:07:10.409 Yeah, that's the only one I can kind of think of. I'm sure we're missing probably one. 00:07:11.129 --> 00:07:16.009 There's a few out there, but they got to be old enough to be at least five years 00:07:16.009 --> 00:07:18.929 old and old enough to be able to give 00:07:18.929 --> 00:07:23.209 out a couple barrels or have enough production to do a couple barrels. 00:07:24.129 --> 00:07:29.089 Yeah, so whatever it is, it's good enough that they want it to. I like that one. 00:07:29.469 --> 00:07:34.509 Yeah. I like how it's all fruitiness, and then that spice kicks in at the end 00:07:34.509 --> 00:07:37.529 and finishes with more sweetness. It's a good one. 00:07:38.369 --> 00:07:42.109 Yeah, I really like this one. I'm glad I was able to get it. 00:07:42.349 --> 00:07:45.169 Like I said, it kind of fits our theme to wrap up another great year. 00:07:45.289 --> 00:07:49.649 And this probably, I shouldn't say probably, I think this definitely would make 00:07:49.649 --> 00:07:54.849 my top list of the year, even though it's the most recent one on my mind. 00:07:55.009 --> 00:07:58.509 But this one's pretty damn good. And I think that's what we're going to kind 00:07:58.509 --> 00:08:02.629 of talk about today is some of our favorite pours and cigars and beer products 00:08:02.629 --> 00:08:08.389 that we've had sampled on the show throughout the last 12 or so months. 00:08:08.889 --> 00:08:13.729 We've had some good ones and we've had mostly good ones, to be honest. 00:08:13.729 --> 00:08:19.089 I mean, we, yeah, we haven't really experienced, well, the pores that we send 00:08:19.089 --> 00:08:24.309 out, we, we basically know what they are, unless we're trying to mess with each 00:08:24.309 --> 00:08:26.629 other with the malort or eggnog or something like that. 00:08:27.169 --> 00:08:30.729 Beard products, obviously we don't test them out really before we send them 00:08:30.729 --> 00:08:35.989 out to each other, but at least we pay attention to the ingredients and as long 00:08:35.989 --> 00:08:40.349 as it's decent ingredients, you know, the oil itself isn't going to be bad for the most part. 00:08:41.702 --> 00:08:46.122 Cigars are another one. We rarely test them out beforehand. If we do send them 00:08:46.122 --> 00:08:51.322 out and we've had them before, it's typically we smoke them ourselves outside of the show. 00:08:51.882 --> 00:08:55.202 So it's not like we're testing them and just only getting good stuff on here. 00:08:55.302 --> 00:08:59.882 It's just we've gotten lucky and we're not really looking to get bad shit on 00:08:59.882 --> 00:09:02.462 here. We have to drink them or smoke them. 00:09:03.642 --> 00:09:06.602 Yeah, a lot of the pours we share are bottles that we just... 00:09:07.162 --> 00:09:10.662 This one I specifically bought for the theme 00:09:10.662 --> 00:09:14.162 of the show being a new year's themed uh 00:09:14.162 --> 00:09:17.022 bottle but most of the time it's just let's grabbing bottles that we're 00:09:17.022 --> 00:09:21.902 we come across and deciding oh this is great let's let me share this with some 00:09:21.902 --> 00:09:26.342 buddies and then we talk about on the show so we do have that one episode that 00:09:26.342 --> 00:09:32.362 we've talked about since almost day one for bad pours the the total wine shootout 00:09:32.362 --> 00:09:36.802 with their total wine exclusive bottles yeah. 00:09:38.282 --> 00:09:42.582 The sourced and certified or whatever they're called yeah that'll 00:09:42.582 --> 00:09:46.062 that'll be a fun one to talk about but probably not 00:09:46.062 --> 00:09:49.902 a good one uh on the palate but i 00:09:49.902 --> 00:09:55.262 i definitely think that that will be a good one to definitely do so yeah so 00:09:55.262 --> 00:10:00.222 i guess i'll start with one of my favorite pours of the since we're drinking 00:10:00.222 --> 00:10:06.802 the the barrel so one of my favorites that i'm hoping is not well i i hope it's 00:10:06.802 --> 00:10:08.502 on pause, but I'm hoping he didn't pick this one, 00:10:08.802 --> 00:10:13.202 was the EJ Curley single barrel I sent out. I think that was season one. 00:10:13.902 --> 00:10:17.922 That one I picked up a couple of years back when I was in Kentucky with Adam 00:10:17.922 --> 00:10:19.462 and a couple of our buddies. 00:10:19.882 --> 00:10:23.902 I met the owner, but I was too drunk after doing about five distillery tours 00:10:23.902 --> 00:10:26.902 to actually realize who I was talking to, but tried it at the bar, 00:10:27.022 --> 00:10:27.902 ended up picking up a bottle. 00:10:28.482 --> 00:10:33.602 I thought it was great. I'm pretty sure it's rumored to come from Wild Turkey 00:10:33.602 --> 00:10:36.782 some off-brand wild turkey or off-profile wild turkey. 00:10:38.317 --> 00:10:41.497 I sent samples to the guys, and I had like three pours left, 00:10:41.557 --> 00:10:45.737 so I had to hide that for myself to make sure I had a pour on the show. 00:10:45.897 --> 00:10:48.197 But that one was one that stood out. 00:10:48.497 --> 00:10:53.417 And unfortunately, I can't get it here in Florida, but I can get it on Sealbox. 00:10:53.597 --> 00:10:59.717 I'm just trying to get past all the holiday shipping stuff that's taking forever 00:10:59.717 --> 00:11:01.997 for stuff to ship before I grab another one. 00:11:02.917 --> 00:11:07.557 Yeah, that was definitely a good one. One that stood out to me when I was trying 00:11:07.557 --> 00:11:10.797 to think back. And looking around at some of these bottles I have in front of me. 00:11:10.937 --> 00:11:14.797 And I think I sent you guys two samples at the beginning of the year. 00:11:14.797 --> 00:11:18.157 I want to say it was a while back from the Pursuit series. 00:11:19.437 --> 00:11:24.757 I went to a tasting at a local liquor store. And they had a couple of them on the counter to taste. 00:11:24.857 --> 00:11:26.317 And the one that stuck out to me 00:11:26.317 --> 00:11:30.877 was Pursuit 68, which was the Maryland Straight Rye. I had that one too. 00:11:32.457 --> 00:11:37.557 I think I still have one sip left of that one. 00:11:38.117 --> 00:11:43.357 That was a good one I kind of just kept it so I remembered that it was number 00:11:43.357 --> 00:11:47.977 68 That way if I did somehow come across it I wouldn't remember it but I know 00:11:47.977 --> 00:11:49.977 that's not going to happen They're probably all gone by now. 00:11:51.794 --> 00:11:54.514 That one was a fantastic bore. Yeah. 00:11:54.754 --> 00:11:59.434 I sent out, I want to say I sent out the 68 and the 69 or the 68 and the 70. 00:11:59.594 --> 00:12:01.414 I feel like there was two. There was two. 00:12:01.754 --> 00:12:05.574 I know one of them, the 68 was definitely the Maryland one because I remember 00:12:05.574 --> 00:12:10.114 that being like fruit forward, just super. I think the notes on the bottle were 00:12:10.114 --> 00:12:11.794 like shortcake rhubarb or something. 00:12:12.374 --> 00:12:17.374 The other one was like the Andesman. Yeah, it is the Andesman. I can't remember. 00:12:17.954 --> 00:12:21.174 That was either 69 or 70 or maybe 67. 00:12:21.174 --> 00:12:24.074 It was either 67 or 70 it was one off from 00:12:24.074 --> 00:12:27.014 yeah i don't think pursuit has even updated their 00:12:27.014 --> 00:12:29.854 website yet past like series 58 or something 00:12:29.854 --> 00:12:32.514 so you're gonna have to trust google to look at 00:12:32.514 --> 00:12:35.414 those but i know 68 was the freak bomb one that 00:12:35.414 --> 00:12:38.254 we all liked a lot and then you know kind 00:12:38.254 --> 00:12:41.074 of runner up to what i sent out was that andy's myth one 00:12:41.074 --> 00:12:43.774 i don't i think adam didn't really like that one too much but me 00:12:43.774 --> 00:12:46.974 and you liked it a lot now i'm a big fan of the 00:12:46.974 --> 00:12:50.854 chocolate mint combo coming through on a whiskey so you 00:12:50.854 --> 00:12:53.694 know most of the pursuit stuff is pretty damn good but those 00:12:53.694 --> 00:12:56.874 were two very good ones that especially that 00:12:56.874 --> 00:12:59.674 68 that stuck out to me so that was definitely 00:12:59.674 --> 00:13:03.294 one of the ones that topped my list for the year yeah i think that's one of 00:13:03.294 --> 00:13:09.214 the reasons that i started leaning more towards rye is i like i like finding 00:13:09.214 --> 00:13:14.434 mint in the in the pores i don't want it overpowering but i want it there along 00:13:14.434 --> 00:13:18.314 with some other things which i started finding out and that one was a good one. 00:13:18.874 --> 00:13:22.254 I just had pursuit united episode or two 00:13:22.254 --> 00:13:27.354 episodes is what i wrote down i couldn't remember which one was which i 00:13:27.354 --> 00:13:30.894 remember one was that maryland the other one was that andy's mint but i couldn't 00:13:30.894 --> 00:13:36.434 remember which number was each one but yeah both those were were fantastic and 00:13:36.434 --> 00:13:43.194 then keeping along with the rye the the dad's hat single barrel from from take 00:13:43.194 --> 00:13:46.594 i think that was on our super Bowl episode at the beginning of the year. 00:13:47.986 --> 00:13:51.826 Or it was one of the side-by-side episodes. I just had it up. 00:13:52.166 --> 00:13:56.486 But that one was another one. I got a bunch of like peach and stone fruit with 00:13:56.486 --> 00:13:57.966 a little bit of that mintiness in there. 00:13:58.726 --> 00:14:01.626 A little bit of that floral rye. Where was that one? 00:14:02.966 --> 00:14:07.206 Is that her? Yeah, that was our Super Bowl episode that we put up against the 00:14:07.206 --> 00:14:11.166 planners with Ozark whiskey, which was another great one. Okay. 00:14:11.866 --> 00:14:15.046 Both those had similar profiles. obviously 00:14:15.046 --> 00:14:18.666 one being a rye one being a an american 00:14:18.666 --> 00:14:21.846 whiskey or ozark whiskey the dad's 00:14:21.846 --> 00:14:24.906 hat had like i said the stone fruit 00:14:24.906 --> 00:14:29.586 with a little bit of that rye spice a little bit of that mintiness that planters 00:14:29.586 --> 00:14:32.526 to me was like a little bit grapey a 00:14:32.526 --> 00:14:35.366 little bit stone fruitish it almost 00:14:35.366 --> 00:14:38.026 reminded me of like what you would think a summer pool would be 00:14:38.026 --> 00:14:41.626 like there was freshness throughout it fresh floral 00:14:41.626 --> 00:14:46.206 not like that earthy floral that you get from some rise it was like that freshness 00:14:46.206 --> 00:14:51.766 bright fruit bright citrusy notes in that one so both those that episode was 00:14:51.766 --> 00:14:56.386 that was a fun episode to drink i'll say i don't remember i'd have to look on 00:14:56.386 --> 00:14:59.506 the notes to see what else we had on that show, 00:15:00.266 --> 00:15:06.446 oh we smoked the rocky patel vintage 2020 or 2003 cameroon which was a fantastic smoke. 00:15:08.394 --> 00:15:12.334 It was a great episode. Yeah. Yeah, no, it definitely was. 00:15:12.454 --> 00:15:18.374 And I, I'm looking back over the list, just trying to see what other ones jump 00:15:18.374 --> 00:15:23.114 out to me earlier today. And I remember, I don't remember much about this one, 00:15:23.234 --> 00:15:26.494 except I remember I really like it. And I was looking around to see if I still had the bottle. 00:15:26.574 --> 00:15:29.134 Cause I'm pretty sure I sent you guys samples and I couldn't find it. 00:15:29.174 --> 00:15:30.314 So I must've finished it. 00:15:30.414 --> 00:15:33.174 So that tells you I must've liked it, but it was the seal box, 00:15:33.354 --> 00:15:35.474 eight year old single barrel. I had that too. 00:15:35.634 --> 00:15:37.834 That might, I was looking through the list. 00:15:38.394 --> 00:15:45.474 And putting it together, that Sealbox 8-year could be top five for the pours 00:15:45.474 --> 00:15:46.634 we had on this show for me. 00:15:48.014 --> 00:15:51.734 I remember all of us really liking it. I remember being blown away by it because 00:15:51.734 --> 00:15:57.274 I think I got it in one of those Sealbox case deals where you buy three, get three type of deal. 00:15:57.554 --> 00:16:01.054 And I remember really, really liking it and sending it to you guys. 00:16:01.134 --> 00:16:02.714 And I'm pretty sure everybody really liked it. 00:16:02.814 --> 00:16:07.794 But I was trying to remember what we liked about it and some tasting notes. 00:16:07.794 --> 00:16:11.014 And I just for the life of me I couldn't I just remember everybody really liking 00:16:11.014 --> 00:16:14.774 it and I remember being blown away by it and I just yeah it's one of those where 00:16:14.774 --> 00:16:16.974 I remember loving it but I don't remember why, 00:16:18.694 --> 00:16:24.794 let's see if I have any notes on no or at least not on my phone. 00:16:26.534 --> 00:16:29.254 Yeah we gotta do a better job of keeping notes of why we like it so we don't 00:16:29.254 --> 00:16:34.054 have to go back and listen but yeah I put that one down too I remember liking 00:16:34.054 --> 00:16:38.434 that one a lot and then again And most of the stuff Sealbox puts out under their 00:16:38.434 --> 00:16:40.174 own label has been pretty good. 00:16:40.454 --> 00:16:44.794 Some of their finish stuff, they do some Amberana stuff. They do some honey stuff. 00:16:45.214 --> 00:16:48.994 Titter Miss, obviously, with everybody. I'm not a big honey finish fan, 00:16:49.254 --> 00:16:55.794 but just their normal 8, 10, 9 years, the single barrels they put out, 00:16:55.894 --> 00:16:57.354 they're all pretty fantastic. 00:16:58.514 --> 00:17:05.434 Our whiskey society did, I think, a 10-year single barrel that was pretty phenomenal, too. 00:17:07.899 --> 00:17:10.879 Yeah no that definitely definitely a 00:17:10.879 --> 00:17:13.959 good one look forward to you know future 00:17:13.959 --> 00:17:17.859 blends of theirs as they you know get some older stuff going as well but steel 00:17:17.859 --> 00:17:21.139 box yeah you can't go wrong if they're picking a single barrel it's usually 00:17:21.139 --> 00:17:26.419 going to be pretty fantastic yeah they got some uh some good stock for what 00:17:26.419 --> 00:17:33.819 they they have here we go oh why my camera keeps auto focusing off not me. 00:17:35.679 --> 00:17:42.959 One of my probably this might be in my top 5 for this year in general, 00:17:43.759 --> 00:17:48.539 I know it wasn't you liked it but I don't think it was that high on your list 00:17:48.539 --> 00:17:52.339 was the already won sister cities the French Oak and Mizunara finish, 00:17:54.019 --> 00:17:57.899 I think that proof point at 101 proof was 00:17:57.899 --> 00:18:01.679 like the perfect spot it had the perfect amount 00:18:01.679 --> 00:18:04.779 of french oak influence with a little 00:18:04.779 --> 00:18:08.239 bit of that mizanara sandalwood notes that 00:18:08.239 --> 00:18:12.199 you typically get off and i think it blended really well together that one i 00:18:12.199 --> 00:18:16.419 was a big fan of i've already picked up a backup and probably gonna have to 00:18:16.419 --> 00:18:20.979 go pick up another backup for what are they like 65 bucks 60 bucks something 00:18:20.979 --> 00:18:25.199 like that yep they're supposed to be a limited release i I don't know how many 00:18:25.199 --> 00:18:27.959 is limited, but I know Barry, 00:18:28.239 --> 00:18:30.139 when I was at RD1 this summer, 00:18:30.599 --> 00:18:33.519 he said only, there was only select states that were getting them. 00:18:34.319 --> 00:18:36.359 Florida was one of them, which I was happy to hear. 00:18:37.279 --> 00:18:41.279 And yeah, that was, that's a fantastic, if I could pick that up every day, 00:18:41.399 --> 00:18:43.039 that would be a daily pour for me. 00:18:43.159 --> 00:18:47.779 But from the sounds of it, it might only be a limited release sort of deal. 00:18:47.899 --> 00:18:52.839 I'm hoping it's not, but my guess it is just because of Mizunara not being the 00:18:52.839 --> 00:18:57.599 cheapest wood out there or the easiest to get a hold of, but hopefully they'll 00:18:57.599 --> 00:19:00.219 be able to find some more and keep that going because... 00:19:02.066 --> 00:19:05.126 Drink that all day every day if it was widely available 00:19:05.126 --> 00:19:08.286 yeah I wasn't as high of a fan of it as you 00:19:08.286 --> 00:19:11.466 were I remember it being good and I actually just tasted 00:19:11.466 --> 00:19:14.286 it again like within the last month because already 00:19:14.286 --> 00:19:17.686 one finally got distribution to Maryland and so 00:19:17.686 --> 00:19:20.486 I did a tasting just walked in and 00:19:20.486 --> 00:19:23.446 already one happened to have a little setup that tasted through 00:19:23.446 --> 00:19:27.066 I think four of the products and that was one of them that's like 00:19:27.066 --> 00:19:29.966 now being sold at least limitedly in in maryland 00:19:29.966 --> 00:19:32.766 but i ended up out of that tasting i ended up going 00:19:32.766 --> 00:19:36.046 home with the maple finished that's a good one which is 00:19:36.046 --> 00:19:38.706 awesome i mean it's it's its own thing it's a 00:19:38.706 --> 00:19:41.726 more of a dessert bourbon type of feel i put 00:19:41.726 --> 00:19:45.466 borderline on flavor because the influence of 00:19:45.466 --> 00:19:48.766 that maple barrel is so strong that it's it's borderline 00:19:48.766 --> 00:19:52.206 on a flavored whiskey even though it's not but it's fantastic really 00:19:52.206 --> 00:19:55.426 good it's heavy on that that maple 00:19:55.426 --> 00:19:59.186 and and like there is no like pecan 00:19:59.186 --> 00:20:01.926 wood on there but i get a lot of 00:20:01.926 --> 00:20:04.966 like almost like one of those maple pecan candies with 00:20:04.966 --> 00:20:08.186 it yep that's one we just said we had 00:20:08.186 --> 00:20:11.246 a secret santa for another little bourbon club 00:20:11.246 --> 00:20:14.206 we're in and that's one of the samples i sent to buddy 00:20:14.206 --> 00:20:17.606 of ours mike and that was one of his tasting notes was pecan yeah. 00:20:17.606 --> 00:20:20.486 And tasting it blind even though there's no 00:20:20.486 --> 00:20:23.886 nothing in there should give you a pecan really but that wood 00:20:23.886 --> 00:20:26.746 maple barrel influence definitely puts out 00:20:26.746 --> 00:20:32.926 some delicious sweet you know perfect notes for this time of year you know gives 00:20:32.926 --> 00:20:37.786 you that winter time whiskey vibe so i definitely like that one even though 00:20:37.786 --> 00:20:40.386 i don't think we've had it on the show i think i sent you guys samples you might 00:20:40.386 --> 00:20:44.206 even have a bottle so we have that here short soon but that. 00:20:45.196 --> 00:20:49.916 Good one but another one for me that we had this right in the beginning of the 00:20:49.916 --> 00:20:53.096 year looking back at the notes because i had it written down but i looked back 00:20:53.096 --> 00:20:56.436 it might have been one of the first ones we had of the year was the box to 1928 00:20:56.436 --> 00:21:01.516 yeah um which is a very kind of unique and blend of, 00:21:02.156 --> 00:21:08.276 rye whiskey apple brandy and armagnac so it's its own category essentially but 00:21:08.276 --> 00:21:14.176 i just remember that That one being just so like, just like apple custard pie, 00:21:14.556 --> 00:21:18.376 you know, just, just so unique, so different. 00:21:18.996 --> 00:21:23.896 I've had a couple of the different things from vodka, none of the crazy expensive 00:21:23.896 --> 00:21:27.756 ones, but some of the, you know, the more reasonably priced ones. 00:21:27.856 --> 00:21:32.416 Cause they got some ones that have such old, old vintages of Armagnac and stuff 00:21:32.416 --> 00:21:36.056 that they're finding that the prices are just, you know, they're not crazy. 00:21:36.056 --> 00:21:39.896 They're just very expensive, but they're priced for what is in them. 00:21:40.296 --> 00:21:44.776 I haven't had a chance to try the big ones yet, but a couple of the more attainable 00:21:44.776 --> 00:21:48.036 bottles I've had, and I'm loving everything they've done. 00:21:48.136 --> 00:21:53.796 I think this might have been the first bottle I had of anything from vodka and 00:21:53.796 --> 00:21:55.116 sent the guys some samples. 00:21:55.316 --> 00:21:59.816 And I really liked it. I really liked it, and I still have a little bit upstairs. 00:22:00.096 --> 00:22:03.496 I think I got into it like a month ago, dug it out of the back of the cabinet, 00:22:03.516 --> 00:22:06.356 and was like, wow, I forgot all about this one. is really good. 00:22:07.296 --> 00:22:13.216 I sampled it at one of our weekly bottle shares here and it was probably one 00:22:13.216 --> 00:22:17.756 of the first pours I had that day just because I kind of knew what it was. 00:22:18.116 --> 00:22:21.556 Didn't want to kind of kill my palate with a bunch of whiskey or rum and then 00:22:21.556 --> 00:22:23.676 go to that one since I figured it'd be a little bit lighter. 00:22:24.056 --> 00:22:29.116 I remember really liking it and then I saw when you sent the sample it confirmed 00:22:29.116 --> 00:22:30.816 that I did like it. That was a fantastic one. 00:22:31.236 --> 00:22:33.956 Like I said, it's just a different beast. It's just. 00:22:35.555 --> 00:22:39.035 Different category, so it's kind of hard to kind of throw it in, 00:22:39.215 --> 00:22:42.755 but at the same time, like, as long as you're like open-minded to what you're 00:22:42.755 --> 00:22:47.575 drinking, you don't have to have bourbon or you don't have to have wine or rum or whatever. 00:22:48.315 --> 00:22:52.955 You're open-minded what you drank, this would fit in perfectly with whatever. 00:22:53.235 --> 00:22:56.675 Like it's, it was a, a damn good pour, that's for sure. 00:22:58.439 --> 00:23:03.619 Keeping in line with basically off profile the copper and the king's butcher 00:23:03.619 --> 00:23:10.299 town brandy the 125 proof just regular brandy that one they started distributing 00:23:10.299 --> 00:23:15.319 it here it's supposed to be like a 55 65 dollar bottle i think for some reason 00:23:15.319 --> 00:23:17.539 the stores around here were selling it for 14 bucks. 00:23:18.319 --> 00:23:23.579 I think i picked both you guys up a bottle of that i picked up three or four for myself, 00:23:24.099 --> 00:23:29.439 i figured pick up four for myself it costs slightly more than buying one bottle 00:23:29.439 --> 00:23:36.079 when i did in kentucky but that one you get that sweet it's it's a nice little bridge between, 00:23:36.599 --> 00:23:41.399 like the rum sweetness and the the bourbon sweetness you get that little grape 00:23:41.399 --> 00:23:45.359 sweetness in there and then the 125 proof definitely helps pull it back down 00:23:45.359 --> 00:23:47.059 from being overly sweet and, 00:23:47.579 --> 00:23:50.619 brings in a little bit of spice with the the bourbon barrels 00:23:50.619 --> 00:23:53.799 and i think they do like part bourbon barrels some 00:23:53.799 --> 00:23:57.079 new barrels and it helps bring some spices 00:23:57.079 --> 00:24:00.139 into it it was that that's one that i love just 00:24:00.139 --> 00:24:03.859 going towards just don't know what i want to drink sometimes 00:24:03.859 --> 00:24:06.759 bourbon and rye might be a little bit too much rum 00:24:06.759 --> 00:24:09.459 might be a little bit too sweet i don't want to get 00:24:09.459 --> 00:24:12.199 all crazy with tequila so that's one that i'll pull 00:24:12.199 --> 00:24:15.019 out quite often no that was a good one 00:24:15.019 --> 00:24:17.719 and you stealing those bottles for us was 00:24:17.719 --> 00:24:20.839 fantastic as well pretty sure they i don't i 00:24:20.839 --> 00:24:23.579 looked the other day on their on the app they 00:24:23.579 --> 00:24:26.719 i couldn't find the the butcher town but 00:24:26.719 --> 00:24:32.679 they still had that apple brandy for like 13 bucks but next time i stop at that 00:24:32.679 --> 00:24:35.959 store they have some i'm probably just gonna grab another bottle or two just 00:24:35.959 --> 00:24:42.759 20 30 bucks for these 225 proof brandies that should be 56 58 bucks somewhere 00:24:42.759 --> 00:24:44.899 in there yeah i don't know how that. 00:24:46.367 --> 00:24:49.047 Every once in a while, everybody gets lucky and comes across something that 00:24:49.047 --> 00:24:50.887 is priced where it shouldn't be. 00:24:51.587 --> 00:24:55.007 I've got some, some finds that I've came across and been like, 00:24:55.067 --> 00:24:57.187 Ooh, let me get this through the counter as quickly as I can. 00:24:57.787 --> 00:25:00.527 And the thing is I asked him, I was like, is this like after, 00:25:00.687 --> 00:25:04.487 obviously after I picked up a couple bottles for myself, I asked him, 00:25:04.567 --> 00:25:06.207 I was like, so what's the deal with the price on this? 00:25:06.287 --> 00:25:09.067 I thought it was supposed to be that I got a distributor sent it in. 00:25:09.187 --> 00:25:12.087 It's, I was like, Oh, so is it supposed to be like basically asking, 00:25:12.267 --> 00:25:15.107 are you got, are distributors getting to you for cheap? so you guys could see 00:25:15.107 --> 00:25:16.227 if it works in the market. 00:25:16.487 --> 00:25:18.787 They said, who knows? That's just the price they told us. 00:25:19.367 --> 00:25:22.087 So I don't know if that was just them trying to get it in the market, 00:25:22.327 --> 00:25:26.287 selling it cheap or what, but I definitely made out. 00:25:26.447 --> 00:25:29.847 Like I said, I picked up four or five bottles, got some bottles for you guys, 00:25:30.307 --> 00:25:34.727 picked up a couple of the Apple brandy bottles, which I don't know if we had those on the show yet. 00:25:35.107 --> 00:25:38.187 I think that's that one right there, right? Yep. 00:25:38.507 --> 00:25:42.167 The 104, 107 proof somewhere around there. Or is it 90? 00:25:42.427 --> 00:25:45.667 This is the 92 proof. I don't know if this is one that you... 00:25:45.667 --> 00:25:48.567 Yeah, the one... Yeah, I liked it. 00:25:48.867 --> 00:25:54.727 The 107 was the... Or the 110, whatever proof that was, was the bottle of Europe, which is fantastic. 00:25:57.547 --> 00:26:00.287 Their brandies are great well i only 00:26:00.287 --> 00:26:03.227 have two more on my list i mean like i said we could 00:26:03.227 --> 00:26:06.287 go on and on about all the ones that oh yeah we've had 00:26:06.287 --> 00:26:09.667 but i definitely have the the 10th mountain sip society bottle 00:26:09.667 --> 00:26:12.927 which was just a great a great 00:26:12.927 --> 00:26:16.487 pick by 10th mountain for um for 00:26:16.487 --> 00:26:19.307 a group called sip society and you know if it's 00:26:19.307 --> 00:26:21.747 not on your list jerry i'll let you talk about it anyway because you picked 00:26:21.747 --> 00:26:26.827 it yeah yeah we've talked about it quite often on here it's part of the giveaway 00:26:26.827 --> 00:26:29.747 that we're we've been trying to give it away for the last like year and a half 00:26:29.747 --> 00:26:37.567 but apparently no one wants it yeah so brian doer from 10th mountain sent nine different samples, 00:26:38.127 --> 00:26:48.727 to i think it was five or seven of us and what they do is they distill a batch and from that. 00:26:49.367 --> 00:26:52.667 However many distillations or whatever is their 00:26:52.667 --> 00:26:55.947 batch they'll split it up between three different like barrel 00:26:55.947 --> 00:26:59.327 sort of deals so you have they'll keep one cash strength which is 00:26:59.327 --> 00:27:02.187 roughly about 115 proof they'll keep one at 00:27:02.187 --> 00:27:11.987 one so 100 proof or 105 proof and then they they proof one down to i think 94 00:27:11.987 --> 00:27:17.387 or 92 is their standard offering so basically throughout the that their aging 00:27:17.387 --> 00:27:21.887 time They'll test it and proof it down in the barrel and let it age at that proof. 00:27:22.067 --> 00:27:26.387 So we had basically three different distillation batches at three different 00:27:26.387 --> 00:27:28.847 proofs for a total of nine samples. 00:27:29.427 --> 00:27:33.827 And each one was completely different. There was one that me and one other person 00:27:33.827 --> 00:27:37.247 really liked, but we both said that this would not sell. 00:27:37.387 --> 00:27:43.227 It almost reminded me of a rum. It was floral. It had some esters in it. 00:27:45.368 --> 00:27:49.128 Honestly remind me of a rum mixed with a whiskey and 00:27:49.128 --> 00:27:52.048 we both told brian like whenever that gets sold 00:27:52.048 --> 00:27:55.008 if it doesn't get put into a batch let us know because 00:27:55.008 --> 00:27:58.228 i will buy a bottle for wherever that's from it was 00:27:58.228 --> 00:28:01.408 just that unique but the whole whole pig 00:28:01.408 --> 00:28:04.188 experience was cool it started out nice and 00:28:04.188 --> 00:28:07.348 calm and slow but when you're trying to go through nine samples 00:28:07.348 --> 00:28:10.588 and somewhat of a decent time 00:28:10.588 --> 00:28:13.648 doesn't work so towards the end we started rushing through 00:28:13.648 --> 00:28:16.748 but we definitely once we narrowed it 00:28:16.748 --> 00:28:20.168 down to the final two or three we definitely took our time trying to figure 00:28:20.168 --> 00:28:25.388 it out and they landed on two and this one we figured it would be a little bit 00:28:25.388 --> 00:28:30.848 more palette friendly which i feel like it is the other one had more of like 00:28:30.848 --> 00:28:36.268 darker notes which fit my palette a lot more but it Definitely doesn't hit everybody's. 00:28:36.408 --> 00:28:41.448 So this one is definitely more palate friendly to the majority of whiskey drinkers. 00:28:41.548 --> 00:28:46.088 And it's great experience, great distillery, great people at that distillery. 00:28:46.388 --> 00:28:51.268 And then the group of us that picked it was just a fantastic group of people. 00:28:51.448 --> 00:28:57.008 Like we argued, tried to get different bottles or barrels, but in the end, 00:28:57.108 --> 00:28:59.108 we all kind of chose the one. 00:28:59.208 --> 00:29:01.848 And it was pretty damn good if I say so myself. 00:29:03.751 --> 00:29:08.151 It definitely was a very, very good pick and make great product there. 00:29:08.371 --> 00:29:12.071 So it's hard to pick something bad, but that was a special one. Really liked that pick. 00:29:12.751 --> 00:29:19.351 Yeah. And then my last one, I don't think we really reviewed it on the show yet. 00:29:19.511 --> 00:29:22.351 We just kind of drank it. It was the Penelope Cigar Sessions. 00:29:22.811 --> 00:29:26.391 That's my last one too, and I'm drinking it right now. I don't think we officially 00:29:26.391 --> 00:29:29.931 did like a review on it, except for just kind of talking. I know I had it when 00:29:29.931 --> 00:29:32.831 we had Sin and Josh from Distant Cigars on. 00:29:33.291 --> 00:29:37.371 And then I think all three of us had it when we had Lee from Stolen Thrones 00:29:37.371 --> 00:29:43.631 on, but I don't think we did like an actual like episode with a review, which we do have coming. 00:29:44.271 --> 00:29:47.911 I think we got to figure out how we want to do it, but we're going to do like a two part. 00:29:48.151 --> 00:29:50.771 I don't know if we're going to do a two part episode or just do two episodes 00:29:50.771 --> 00:29:52.571 and then combine them into one with editing. 00:29:54.944 --> 00:29:58.784 A Dissident vs. Stolen Thrones with the Penelope Cigar Session. 00:29:58.864 --> 00:30:03.184 See which cigar we like better with this bottle. 00:30:04.224 --> 00:30:07.804 Sin said the... Which one did you send out? The Plasmatic? 00:30:08.484 --> 00:30:11.724 I think the Plasmatic is the one I sent out that we have not smoked yet. 00:30:11.904 --> 00:30:16.024 She said that the Plasmatic or Heretic and I think we're going to go with the 00:30:16.024 --> 00:30:18.964 Plasmatic with that one because that's the one she recommended. 00:30:19.844 --> 00:30:28.464 And then Lee said either the Crook or the Three Kingdoms, which I have the Three 00:30:28.464 --> 00:30:31.364 Kingdoms ready to send out to you guys, so we'll probably do that one. 00:30:31.604 --> 00:30:35.884 I've had that one before. That's a fantastic cigar. I smoked a Crook when we 00:30:35.884 --> 00:30:38.444 were talking to Lee. That's another fantastic cigar. 00:30:38.924 --> 00:30:42.684 Makes me want to grab more of his because I've had two. 00:30:43.064 --> 00:30:47.004 Actually, I'm almost done with the cigar I have now, so if I decide to park 00:30:47.004 --> 00:30:50.444 up another one, I might do the fifth-year anniversary Crook. 00:30:50.444 --> 00:30:53.344 But i want to try definitely smoke more of his cigars because 00:30:53.344 --> 00:30:56.324 the two that i've had have been fantastic same thing 00:30:56.324 --> 00:30:59.584 with this and i've tried multiple of theirs and they're fantastic 00:30:59.584 --> 00:31:02.564 i think though we'll be talking 00:31:02.564 --> 00:31:06.004 about those guys here in a minute when we start talking about some cigars but 00:31:06.004 --> 00:31:09.104 yeah you mentioned liensin and we mentioned 00:31:09.104 --> 00:31:12.484 them about this bottle because they were the ones that penelope collaborated 00:31:12.484 --> 00:31:15.724 with to select this blend for this 00:31:15.724 --> 00:31:18.984 cigar series and they did a fantastic job this looks 00:31:18.984 --> 00:31:22.784 that i'm drinking it right now and i remember getting sugar cookie big time 00:31:22.784 --> 00:31:27.384 off of it before which is awesome i'm getting grape notes you know today i remember 00:31:27.384 --> 00:31:33.384 getting the grape notes like i mean it's just such a unique whiskey and it goes 00:31:33.384 --> 00:31:38.084 so well with this wonderful cigar that i'm smoking which we'll talk about here in a minute. 00:31:40.336 --> 00:31:43.496 My notes now grape bubble gum was 00:31:43.496 --> 00:31:46.336 one of the notes that came out for me and then 00:31:46.336 --> 00:31:49.396 some some orange and and lighter peach 00:31:49.396 --> 00:31:52.436 notes yeah while i 00:31:52.436 --> 00:31:55.416 like it by itself if it 00:31:55.416 --> 00:31:58.556 wasn't for a cigar i don't know if it would be on this list for 00:31:58.556 --> 00:32:01.456 me like it's good but i think there's other bottles 00:32:01.456 --> 00:32:06.456 that are just as good if not better but you throw a cigar with that bottle and 00:32:06.456 --> 00:32:11.196 it's probably one of the best models to put with a cigar yeah i i still think 00:32:11.196 --> 00:32:15.496 it probably makes my top you know five to eight for the year just looking back 00:32:15.496 --> 00:32:19.456 over the list but with the cigar it's in the top two yeah, 00:32:20.016 --> 00:32:24.676 it's going to be hard for me to yeah with the cigar it changes it draft well 00:32:24.676 --> 00:32:29.576 i say drastically but it's in a good way like it's it's yeah it just it brings 00:32:29.576 --> 00:32:33.696 a finish to it yeah yeah it's a perfect pairing and the cigar i'm smoking right 00:32:33.696 --> 00:32:35.156 now with some of the notes that i'm getting, 00:32:36.156 --> 00:32:42.356 it's such a compliment it's fantastic this is definitely an excellent bottle 00:32:42.356 --> 00:32:47.396 if you get such a gorgeous looking bottle does such a great job on their labels 00:32:47.396 --> 00:32:48.476 and their color schemes but. 00:32:50.050 --> 00:32:52.890 Great looking bottle as well so if you get a chance to pick 00:32:52.890 --> 00:32:56.010 up the you know cigar series cigar 00:32:56.010 --> 00:33:02.010 sessions i should say chapter one grab that just grabbed even if you don't smoke 00:33:02.010 --> 00:33:05.570 like i said this is it's great on its own with the unique you know sweetness 00:33:05.570 --> 00:33:09.850 and fruity notes you get on it but especially if you enjoy scars this is this 00:33:09.850 --> 00:33:13.130 is perfect parry yeah they they both said like a. 00:33:13.710 --> 00:33:16.470 Medium cigar goes with it which i could i 00:33:16.470 --> 00:33:19.210 could see but you get some of these maduros and 00:33:19.210 --> 00:33:22.750 a little bit medium plus maybe full minus 00:33:22.750 --> 00:33:26.310 somewhere in that range with a little bit of like those chocolatey 00:33:26.310 --> 00:33:29.270 cocoa notes a little bit of spice to 00:33:29.270 --> 00:33:32.550 it too goes great with those like peach 00:33:32.550 --> 00:33:35.710 and and grape bubblegum notes kind of 00:33:35.710 --> 00:33:39.390 helps bring each other back down to to one 00:33:39.390 --> 00:33:42.530 nice pairing it's it's fantastic 00:33:42.530 --> 00:33:45.210 pairing with those that being said what are you 00:33:45.210 --> 00:33:48.290 smoking so i'm smoking one that we didn't have 00:33:48.290 --> 00:33:51.550 on the show that i remember but 00:33:51.550 --> 00:33:54.330 we've had this brand on the show many times yeah 00:33:54.330 --> 00:33:57.810 but i just was digging through the humidor because we decided you know since 00:33:57.810 --> 00:34:01.350 adam was sick and he wasn't going to be here we'll just grab whatever we want 00:34:01.350 --> 00:34:03.990 we're not going to smoke the same thing and talk about let's just grab so i 00:34:03.990 --> 00:34:07.590 went for i just kind of dug around looking for a good one you know kind of wanted 00:34:07.590 --> 00:34:14.250 something special for the last show of the year and so i went with the the jc newman angel Cuesta, 00:34:14.630 --> 00:34:19.670 which we've had a bunch of stuff from J.C. Newman on the show before. 00:34:20.310 --> 00:34:24.110 We've had, you know, the guys from J.C. Newman on the show, they had, 00:34:24.270 --> 00:34:25.850 they were nice enough to send us some stuff. 00:34:26.010 --> 00:34:29.110 We've smoked a lot of their cigars and every one of them has been fantastic. 00:34:29.330 --> 00:34:34.210 Now, this is one, I believe, I think the first time that. 00:34:35.223 --> 00:34:40.043 It was now when we went to J.C. Newman. I think the Angel Cuesta, 00:34:40.263 --> 00:34:43.223 because it wasn't like a Cuesta May or something that came out first. 00:34:43.283 --> 00:34:44.703 If I recall, I'd have to look back. 00:34:44.803 --> 00:34:47.903 But I want to say in this line, I hadn't had the Angel Cuesta. 00:34:48.143 --> 00:34:53.883 We went, Jerry, you and I went. We had that Raisin Forward one that we had. 00:34:56.063 --> 00:34:58.903 We'll talk about that soon because that's on my list of fun ones. 00:34:58.923 --> 00:34:59.883 I know we smoked that one. 00:35:00.123 --> 00:35:04.583 But I don't think I smoked it with you. Yeah, I think you smoked it the next day. 00:35:04.583 --> 00:35:07.403 Yeah i bought i bought one or two of 00:35:07.403 --> 00:35:10.283 them at the factory when i think you went back to buy more 00:35:10.283 --> 00:35:13.083 didn't you i did because i went to a like a 00:35:13.083 --> 00:35:20.323 really cool like a rooftop cigar bar in ybor city that my last night there and 00:35:20.323 --> 00:35:24.983 i smoked some i forget what i smoked and then you know i was enjoying the vibe 00:35:24.983 --> 00:35:29.403 that live live music and i was just sitting there by myself just you know doom 00:35:29.403 --> 00:35:32.043 scrolling on my phone smoking a cigar, drinking an old-fashioned, 00:35:32.223 --> 00:35:35.923 and wanted to grab a second cigar, and I knew I had a couple of these back in 00:35:35.923 --> 00:35:37.023 the hotel, but I was like, ah, 00:35:37.363 --> 00:35:40.403 I'm here, you know, it's a local cigar, I can almost see the factory from here, 00:35:40.423 --> 00:35:41.423 where I'm sitting on this rooftop, 00:35:41.623 --> 00:35:45.463 let's, let me get one of these, and really remember enjoying that second cigar 00:35:45.463 --> 00:35:50.083 of the night at that cigar bar, and I think that was the first time I had that 00:35:50.083 --> 00:35:53.443 one, and I think I brought three of them home, and I think this is my last one. 00:35:55.019 --> 00:36:00.519 Enjoyed this cigar a lot i want to say it was like 18 bucks or so from the factory 00:36:00.519 --> 00:36:05.039 somewhere yeah i want to say somewhere in that range 18 to 20 bucks you know 00:36:05.039 --> 00:36:10.319 the normal price for a really good cigar without getting crazy yeah i think 00:36:10.319 --> 00:36:13.359 it's a they i think they call it a factory only, 00:36:14.599 --> 00:36:21.339 but with the handful of cigar bars around there or cigar lounges around i think 00:36:21.339 --> 00:36:23.639 they get it exclusively too. 00:36:24.139 --> 00:36:27.799 I know for a fact I got this one at the cigar bar because I think that's why 00:36:27.799 --> 00:36:31.719 I went back the next morning and grabbed two more because I knew this was a 00:36:31.719 --> 00:36:38.159 factory only or I didn't know if I could get it through the mail once I got home or whatever. 00:36:39.259 --> 00:36:42.799 I wanted to make sure I had a couple of them. I really like it. 00:36:43.139 --> 00:36:50.519 It kind of starts out a little peppery and sweet but then quickly evolves into just woodsy, 00:36:51.279 --> 00:36:56.219 burnt toast I keep thinking like burnt pepper I don't know what that is but 00:36:56.219 --> 00:37:00.039 it's not like a white pepper not like black pepper it's kind of like I don't 00:37:00.039 --> 00:37:03.699 know if you throw pepper in a saucepan or something I don't know it's just a 00:37:03.699 --> 00:37:07.619 weird note that I'm getting it has like this dark peppery note that's really 00:37:07.619 --> 00:37:11.239 nice but yeah it's overwhelmingly like woodsy burnt bread. 00:37:13.222 --> 00:37:17.222 A lot of notes that I like finding in a cigar. With this Penelope, 00:37:17.462 --> 00:37:25.362 that sweet, fruity profile on the Penelope, they're just a beautiful pairing. 00:37:26.382 --> 00:37:32.142 I think I smoked that one on the Mizanara shootout that we did. 00:37:34.102 --> 00:37:37.242 Which went well with those pours, 00:37:37.262 --> 00:37:41.362 since Mizanara typically gives out that woody, sandalwood-type note. 00:37:41.362 --> 00:37:46.622 That one being a little bit of a lighter cigar with those woodsy toasty notes 00:37:46.622 --> 00:37:48.042 I think went well with all those. 00:37:48.782 --> 00:37:51.642 Mizanara 4s I myself am 00:37:51.642 --> 00:37:55.402 finishing up a from Lure's Cigars 00:37:55.402 --> 00:37:58.122 right there now I'm gonna 00:37:58.122 --> 00:38:01.402 get all this one's their the brownie 00:38:01.402 --> 00:38:04.522 trout their little trout yeah brownie 00:38:04.522 --> 00:38:07.622 trout little trout it's an old Nicaraguan blend 00:38:07.622 --> 00:38:11.102 let me pull up the notes that I just had yeah the 00:38:11.102 --> 00:38:14.602 wrappers nicaragua and maduro binders from esteli the 00:38:14.602 --> 00:38:17.842 fillers esteli condega and jalapa 00:38:17.842 --> 00:38:21.482 it's a 5x52 box press i've had 00:38:21.482 --> 00:38:25.002 i think this is a second cigar from lure they make 00:38:25.002 --> 00:38:28.022 great stuff when i was at the ybor city cigar festival 00:38:28.022 --> 00:38:30.842 i met the guy and was talking 00:38:30.842 --> 00:38:34.262 to him about possibly coming on the show and we 00:38:34.262 --> 00:38:37.162 were talking for a little bit i was like if because i just put 00:38:37.162 --> 00:38:40.602 an order in through it was either toro cigars or 00:38:40.602 --> 00:38:43.222 cigar vault oakdale one of 00:38:43.222 --> 00:38:46.102 those and it came in like two days before 00:38:46.102 --> 00:38:48.762 i left and i told him i was like if i 00:38:48.762 --> 00:38:52.142 knew i you were going to be here if i actually paid attention to avengers list 00:38:52.142 --> 00:38:55.902 probably would have just waited and just picked them up from you but he's he 00:38:55.902 --> 00:38:59.362 told me just smoke them if i like them let them know and he'll come on the show 00:38:59.362 --> 00:39:04.902 so that's definitely in the works for 2026 along with a bunch of other guests 00:39:04.902 --> 00:39:06.902 that we're trying to get on, but... 00:39:08.613 --> 00:39:12.293 Smoked one of these Lure Cigars. Definitely find them. I think it was Cigar 00:39:12.293 --> 00:39:14.473 Vault Oakdale is where I grabbed them, if I remember correctly. 00:39:15.013 --> 00:39:17.333 Definitely go there, check them out. I think they're all like $10, $12. 00:39:18.033 --> 00:39:21.573 Right on that good range, and they're fantastic smokes. 00:39:23.133 --> 00:39:28.293 That being said, you want to talk about some of our favorite cigars? Yeah, absolutely. 00:39:29.053 --> 00:39:32.373 I got it. Just keeping with the J.C. 00:39:32.493 --> 00:39:36.773 Newman theme for me, the other one I had in my hand about an hour ago to smoke 00:39:36.773 --> 00:39:40.733 today before I realized I had one of these Angel Quests left, 00:39:40.733 --> 00:39:44.193 and I grabbed that one over the other one, but it's another J.C. 00:39:44.293 --> 00:39:45.913 Newman cigarster, Perla Del Mar. 00:39:48.007 --> 00:39:50.927 Which one the maduro yeah it 00:39:50.927 --> 00:39:53.667 was the uh maduro yeah the maduro is 00:39:53.667 --> 00:39:56.607 the one i grabbed because i think i think he's i 00:39:56.607 --> 00:39:59.627 think we had a like a sample pack of the pearl hill 00:39:59.627 --> 00:40:07.647 motors he had maduro the i think habano and the shade which is like a connecticut 00:40:07.647 --> 00:40:13.267 i think yeah i think i'm i don't think i have any i think it was only the maduro 00:40:13.267 --> 00:40:17.767 that had left because i really like these cigars They were nice enough to send us some of them. 00:40:18.067 --> 00:40:22.887 We picked up a few more, like we said, when Jerry and I visited the factory a couple months ago. 00:40:23.587 --> 00:40:27.907 Great cigars, same price point, I want to say, in that $15 to $18 range. 00:40:28.727 --> 00:40:31.887 I think those might be closer to the $10. 00:40:32.327 --> 00:40:37.927 I think they're more the cheaper cigars. Yeah, I remember. 00:40:39.307 --> 00:40:45.227 I say cheaper because they might be cheap in price, but they definitely aren't in quality and smoke. 00:40:45.907 --> 00:40:49.247 Yeah i think they had that in the little gift 00:40:49.247 --> 00:40:52.047 shop they had or in their humidor gift shop whatever you call it 00:40:52.047 --> 00:40:55.047 i think they had like you buy 10 and you get a free box like 00:40:55.047 --> 00:41:00.167 wouldn't take home box and i needed something to put the scars in for the plane 00:41:00.167 --> 00:41:03.187 so i was like well i mean i know i'm at least gonna get a handful might as well 00:41:03.187 --> 00:41:06.407 get 10 so i just started grabbing sticks i wasn't really looking at prices at 00:41:06.407 --> 00:41:10.907 that point so uh but yeah no definitely it's like it's just like going to a 00:41:10.907 --> 00:41:14.987 distillery like it's one of those things you're at the place you don't really care about price, 00:41:15.147 --> 00:41:18.087 you know, they're not going to jack you up in price too much. 00:41:18.587 --> 00:41:23.547 You got to expect that you might be able to find this bottle or this cigar a 00:41:23.547 --> 00:41:27.767 little bit cheaper somewhere, but you're there. You're the whole experience. 00:41:27.967 --> 00:41:30.807 Like it's, you're not thinking about prices at that point. 00:41:32.289 --> 00:41:36.849 And just thinking back, even the different varieties, I just remember getting 00:41:36.849 --> 00:41:39.849 a lot of, you know, like same kind of J.C. 00:41:39.929 --> 00:41:41.489 Newman, the woodsy cedar notes. 00:41:41.869 --> 00:41:45.729 I want to say with the Perla del Mar Maduro's, I remember getting cocoa notes 00:41:45.729 --> 00:41:49.389 off of them. Yeah, I remember getting a lot of like chocolatey notes off that one. 00:41:49.809 --> 00:41:55.189 Yeah, so definitely one where I was kind of digging through today to see what 00:41:55.189 --> 00:41:58.209 I wanted to smoke tonight and saw that one. and it made me think, 00:41:58.349 --> 00:42:01.349 they look back over our list of what we actually had on the show because I know 00:42:01.349 --> 00:42:04.649 we didn't have the Angel Cuesta actually on the show as a reviewed cigar. 00:42:05.029 --> 00:42:09.249 Yeah. So the Pearl of Amar definitely makes my list of some of the highlighted 00:42:09.249 --> 00:42:10.729 ones that I'm going to talk about tonight. 00:42:10.909 --> 00:42:13.609 And that's, like I said, just another good cigar from J.C. Newman. 00:42:14.689 --> 00:42:19.949 Yeah. Before I go on with this Lure cigar, I know it's called Brown E. 00:42:20.069 --> 00:42:21.529 Trout, like Brown E. Trout. 00:42:22.209 --> 00:42:25.349 It just hit me. Like I was getting like these cocoa notes, chocolate notes, 00:42:25.549 --> 00:42:30.629 but it reminds me of like you make some brownies, you kind of overcook them 00:42:30.629 --> 00:42:32.809 a little bit or the edge of it is a little burnt. 00:42:33.209 --> 00:42:35.409 Like you get a little bit of that burnt like chocolate. 00:42:35.929 --> 00:42:38.329 That's what this tastes like. Like that burnt. 00:42:39.221 --> 00:42:42.121 Corner that's the best that's the best brownie is 00:42:42.121 --> 00:42:45.241 the corner everybody knows that i was getting like toasty notes and chocolate 00:42:45.241 --> 00:42:48.181 notes throughout along with some other stuff like there's a 00:42:48.181 --> 00:42:51.001 good amount of spice in this one which i was not expecting which i i 00:42:51.001 --> 00:42:54.341 like a lot of red pepper in the back of the throat but it 00:42:54.341 --> 00:42:57.661 just hit me like it was it that last puff was that 00:42:57.661 --> 00:43:00.481 corner piece of the brownie that burnt corner piece 00:43:00.481 --> 00:43:03.181 of the brownie that's the best part when you take like the 00:43:03.181 --> 00:43:06.101 old crappy pan that you have ever that nine by 00:43:06.101 --> 00:43:08.941 13 or whatever it's either that corner piece or that 00:43:08.941 --> 00:43:11.681 middle piece that's still half cooked that's what 00:43:11.681 --> 00:43:14.741 i was gonna say you get that old shitty pan you got like the supermarket that 00:43:14.741 --> 00:43:17.781 does not cook evenly and it crisps those corners so 00:43:17.781 --> 00:43:21.061 good i could take a knife and just take that one inch picture frame out of that 00:43:21.061 --> 00:43:25.041 pan and just eat that corner that whole side corner section that would be my 00:43:25.041 --> 00:43:30.921 choice that's basically what this is giving off but i'll stick with the jc newman 00:43:30.921 --> 00:43:34.941 even though it's not a jc newman but you could get them at their factory, West Tampa. 00:43:35.141 --> 00:43:39.741 I had the circle of life and the attic series on my notes. 00:43:41.292 --> 00:43:44.292 Fantastic cigars like i said they're not they're not 00:43:44.292 --> 00:43:47.452 jc newman but they are the only 00:43:47.452 --> 00:43:50.472 non-jc newman cigars you can get at jc 00:43:50.472 --> 00:43:54.052 newman we had a rick on i don't 00:43:54.052 --> 00:43:56.832 know if it might have been this year yeah it was because 00:43:56.832 --> 00:44:00.512 we did the circle of life with him right after it got released he's 00:44:00.512 --> 00:44:03.352 fantastic dude i try to when we were down 00:44:03.352 --> 00:44:06.252 down in the area i try to get a hold of him to see if we go meet 00:44:06.252 --> 00:44:08.972 up with him but i think he was out of town at that time or just 00:44:08.972 --> 00:44:11.932 getting back into town one of the two but yeah same thing 00:44:11.932 --> 00:44:14.712 a lot of at least with the circle of life a 00:44:14.712 --> 00:44:17.572 lot of cocoa and and chocolate and spice notes 00:44:17.572 --> 00:44:20.712 to it the attic i have 00:44:20.712 --> 00:44:24.252 it written down that i liked it a lot i don't remember i don't 00:44:24.252 --> 00:44:29.612 have notes on it so i can't remember exactly why i liked it but i do remember 00:44:29.612 --> 00:44:34.952 liking it a lot and looking on the multiple websites that i buy cigars from 00:44:34.952 --> 00:44:40.612 it is that attic series is is favorited or saved or whatever the different websites 00:44:40.612 --> 00:44:43.932 is so basically next time I order from them, 00:44:44.392 --> 00:44:46.352 or want to do a big cigar order which I'm. 00:44:47.172 --> 00:44:50.512 Trying to dial back real quick just like with whiskey trying to pull it down 00:44:50.512 --> 00:44:55.212 to a handful of brands or different cigars that I really like instead of just 00:44:55.212 --> 00:44:57.572 buying a bunch of random stuff because I don't need, 00:44:58.252 --> 00:45:03.572 500 bottles of whiskey and booze and then 300 cigars I'll never smoke and drink 00:45:03.572 --> 00:45:06.432 through them all so I'm trying to narrow it down before I do some big orders 00:45:06.432 --> 00:45:10.272 but I do remember like in that attic series and then the. 00:45:11.952 --> 00:45:15.532 Beliche Boulevard I think it was I think that was another good one I know that 00:45:15.532 --> 00:45:19.492 one didn't hit as well for me but it was still up there with a solid cigar. 00:45:21.442 --> 00:45:26.062 And I guess for the ones I've written down, I'll finish off the J.C. 00:45:26.142 --> 00:45:30.722 Newman fanboy show with the last one on my list from J.C. 00:45:31.022 --> 00:45:33.402 Newman, which was kind of a surprise one. 00:45:34.722 --> 00:45:38.802 It's one that we found at the factory when we were there a couple months ago. 00:45:39.422 --> 00:45:43.422 It's a weird one, and I forget. I should have looked it up, but I forget what it's called. 00:45:43.622 --> 00:45:47.262 But they were telling us because they're odd-shaped cigars. They're just that 00:45:47.262 --> 00:45:49.362 each one of them in the box was a different shape. 00:45:49.362 --> 00:45:52.702 And they were telling us how they make them essentially once they roll them 00:45:52.702 --> 00:45:53.622 and they're kind of still wet, 00:45:54.082 --> 00:45:56.942 they bundle them with some twine in 00:45:56.942 --> 00:46:03.242 a bundle of however many 20 or 25 and the shape that they're bundled in makes 00:46:03.242 --> 00:46:06.802 it so some of them were like I bought one that I sent to Adam which was almost 00:46:06.802 --> 00:46:10.842 like a perfect triangle it was like and that was the weirdest one and I know 00:46:10.842 --> 00:46:14.402 he hates like box press and stuff so I was like oh yeah that's that's a weird 00:46:14.402 --> 00:46:15.522 one I'm sending to his ass, 00:46:16.022 --> 00:46:20.822 and mine was like an oval at the foot And then it was like this weird, 00:46:21.042 --> 00:46:23.242 I mean, there's no continuity of sheet. 00:46:23.502 --> 00:46:26.542 They're kind of squeezed together in the bundle. And it's some, 00:46:27.042 --> 00:46:31.322 they were telling us about it. It's like how they used to do them. You know, it's like how. 00:46:32.902 --> 00:46:37.302 Like the grandfather before the factory started as he was picking leaves in 00:46:37.302 --> 00:46:42.142 the field and doing his own cigars, he would just kind of roll them in and wrap them in. 00:46:42.282 --> 00:46:49.802 And it's called the, uh, Yagua. I don't know, but I guess those Yagua leaves 00:46:49.802 --> 00:46:53.342 or whatever, he would wrap it in to kind of keep it humidified and just kind of store it in his bag. 00:46:53.462 --> 00:46:55.762 And once it got fine, he just pulled out. 00:46:55.882 --> 00:46:59.902 He didn't care if they were perfect, perfectly rolled or whatever. So I remember mine, 00:46:59.902 --> 00:47:03.922 the foot of it was like triangular and 00:47:03.922 --> 00:47:07.022 then it got oval roundest in the middle and then the 00:47:07.022 --> 00:47:10.822 the end of it or the foot was triangular 00:47:10.822 --> 00:47:13.822 and then got round towards 00:47:13.822 --> 00:47:17.602 the middle and then the the cap was almost hexagonal 00:47:17.602 --> 00:47:20.422 yeah i mean yeah it was weird yeah just 00:47:20.422 --> 00:47:23.502 imagine taking 20 to 25 like somewhat wet 00:47:23.502 --> 00:47:26.182 fresh rolled dark mashing them and mashing 00:47:26.182 --> 00:47:29.642 them and wrapping them in leaves and twine to just 00:47:29.642 --> 00:47:32.422 kind of as a carrying method or a storage method to get 00:47:32.422 --> 00:47:35.342 them wherever you're going and so it kind of presses and 00:47:35.342 --> 00:47:38.422 takes the shape of kind of where whatever void 00:47:38.422 --> 00:47:43.882 in that circle of cigars is available and so they're really odd looking cigars 00:47:43.882 --> 00:47:51.102 but raisin bomb just unique raisin bomb cigar i mean it was i was we we went 00:47:51.102 --> 00:47:55.742 straight from the factory to then we go i think we went to a like We had a brewery, 00:47:55.782 --> 00:47:56.942 and then we went to a cigar bar. 00:47:57.162 --> 00:48:02.742 Yeah, we went to a brewery, and then we went to, was it Copper Tail Brewery? I think it is, in Tampa. 00:48:03.082 --> 00:48:08.922 And then we went to Corona Cigar Bar and the J.C. Newman Lounge or something. 00:48:09.002 --> 00:48:09.742 I don't remember exactly. 00:48:10.002 --> 00:48:12.002 It's the Corona Cigar Bar that J.C. 00:48:12.282 --> 00:48:16.402 Newman, literally right around the corner from J.C. Newman, that they all do a bunch of stuff at. 00:48:16.762 --> 00:48:20.742 But yeah, I remember we both looked at each other after the first couple puffs, 00:48:20.782 --> 00:48:23.482 which was like, that just feels like I'm eating a box of raisins. 00:48:24.082 --> 00:48:30.282 Yeah, it was amazing. unique and like in an awesome way like getting overwhelming 00:48:30.282 --> 00:48:36.642 raisin notes off a cigar is really interesting and you know very pleasant I really enjoyed it. 00:48:38.070 --> 00:48:42.750 I should have went back and grabbed some more of those. You might be able to pick those up online. 00:48:43.330 --> 00:48:47.390 Yeah, no, I think I looked and I couldn't at the time, but I think it was available 00:48:47.390 --> 00:48:51.830 too, so I'll have to circle back to that because those are maybe not everyday 00:48:51.830 --> 00:48:56.410 smokers, but those are definitely interesting ones. They're fun ones to have in the humidor. 00:48:56.870 --> 00:49:00.430 Yeah, especially, you know, you got somebody coming over and wants to, 00:49:00.430 --> 00:49:05.950 you know, hand them a cigar that's you know, triangle to oval is where they're 00:49:05.950 --> 00:49:07.610 like, what the hell is this? Did you make this yourself? 00:49:08.070 --> 00:49:10.050 You know, it's kind of one of those that kind of looks like, 00:49:10.050 --> 00:49:14.310 but fantastic cigar. Yeah. And I want to say they were on the, like the eight. 00:49:14.450 --> 00:49:17.050 I was going to say they're probably, I think they're like eight, nine bucks. 00:49:17.550 --> 00:49:23.350 Yeah. Sounds a great buy. Yeah. It kind of falls in that same category as the vodka. 00:49:23.830 --> 00:49:28.950 Like it's, as long as you're open-minded to smoke something that's not a box 00:49:28.950 --> 00:49:34.170 press or, or perfectly round and know that you're not going to get like the, 00:49:34.170 --> 00:49:37.630 the typical like tobacco notes from it. 00:49:37.630 --> 00:49:42.250 The chocolate, the spices, there was a little spice in it, but just at least 00:49:42.250 --> 00:49:46.070 the two times, I might still have one now that I think about it, 00:49:46.170 --> 00:49:47.390 because I think I picked up, no, 00:49:47.730 --> 00:49:50.630 I only picked up two, and I smoked one then, and we smoked one on the show, 00:49:50.770 --> 00:49:55.330 both times, the second time wasn't heavy raisin, but the raisin was still there. 00:49:56.767 --> 00:50:00.267 But, yeah, that was definitely a fun experience with that one. 00:50:01.407 --> 00:50:06.987 And I'm just going to throw a bunch out here just because. So you got the, excuse me. 00:50:07.487 --> 00:50:12.707 Ooh, the Monte de Leon, Charlie Mike was up there. I was talking to him at the 00:50:12.707 --> 00:50:17.847 Ybor Cigar Festival, picked up another one of those and a few others from him. 00:50:18.327 --> 00:50:23.867 I mentioned the Stolen Thrones Crook of the Crown, which wasn't on the show. 00:50:24.407 --> 00:50:29.127 It was just one I smoked when Lee was there, which we'll have to get on the 00:50:29.127 --> 00:50:31.927 show eventually. And so we could all review it. That was a fantastic one. 00:50:32.567 --> 00:50:37.267 The Silent Hero Cigar Blend 88 was a fantastic smoke. 00:50:37.747 --> 00:50:43.087 And then the Fin... Well, I got to throw Dissan out there just because those are fantastic cigars. 00:50:43.227 --> 00:50:45.947 Another one that we haven't reviewed or we've just kind of talked about. 00:50:46.167 --> 00:50:52.747 But the last one was the Hayes Gray, the Patriot. That Patriot cigar was fantastic. 00:50:54.886 --> 00:50:59.126 No, you pretty much killed my list there. I figured we would probably be pretty 00:50:59.126 --> 00:51:02.546 close. Yeah. I mean, you hit on the same ones. 00:51:03.266 --> 00:51:06.566 The Monte de Leon was a fantastic, the Crook of the Crown. 00:51:07.706 --> 00:51:13.146 That's right. You were able to get one of those. Yeah, I drove to a cigar bar 00:51:13.146 --> 00:51:17.446 kind of in my area, but a little out of the way to grab that for the show when 00:51:17.446 --> 00:51:19.966 we found out he was going to be nice enough to join us. 00:51:20.046 --> 00:51:23.266 So I did smoke that Crook of the Crown on that show, and it's fantastic. 00:51:24.386 --> 00:51:27.086 And this is it i think i've smoked the i know we 00:51:27.086 --> 00:51:29.866 have the plasmatics smoke together that i sent out but 00:51:29.866 --> 00:51:33.006 i want to say i've smoked the rant the rave 00:51:33.006 --> 00:51:38.766 the block and the soapbox in like the last two months yeah we kind of that block 00:51:38.766 --> 00:51:44.426 was fantastic all of but yeah the block i think i think it was the block and 00:51:44.426 --> 00:51:51.686 the the rant i think i like the most but all of them the rain was good i like I like the soapbox. 00:51:52.066 --> 00:51:55.946 Definitely a more spicier profile than the others. 00:51:56.826 --> 00:52:01.646 But yeah, they're all fantastic. And it helped. 00:52:02.186 --> 00:52:07.206 It's definitely part of the rating or being a fan of it. 00:52:07.426 --> 00:52:13.946 But Sin and Josh and Lee and Carlos and Bryce from all these brands, 00:52:14.146 --> 00:52:18.886 they're fantastic people that I don't remember how long the Silent Heroes Cigars, 00:52:19.506 --> 00:52:22.426 episode was, but I'm pretty sure that was like a two and a half hour episode. 00:52:22.586 --> 00:52:24.586 The Dissident was close to three. 00:52:24.886 --> 00:52:28.426 The Monte de Leon Veteran Day special was close to three. 00:52:28.966 --> 00:52:32.126 De Lee was two and a half, close to three. They. 00:52:33.902 --> 00:52:38.682 Had no issue. And we, at least whether before we started recording or when I 00:52:38.682 --> 00:52:41.842 was talking to him, trying to get him on, I told him, Hey, do you need to leave early? 00:52:42.042 --> 00:52:45.942 If you have a deadline or like a dead stop that you got to leave by, 00:52:46.022 --> 00:52:47.302 just let us know. We'll wrap it up. 00:52:47.602 --> 00:52:50.622 They're like, no, we'll just go. And two and a half, three hours later, 00:52:50.702 --> 00:52:53.722 they're still, we're still sitting around smoking and shoot shit with them. 00:52:53.882 --> 00:52:57.602 So fantastic people, which like I said, 00:52:57.862 --> 00:53:03.662 isn't the main part of liking these cigars, but it definitely helps when these, 00:53:03.902 --> 00:53:06.602 owners are not only willing to sit 00:53:06.602 --> 00:53:10.262 down and talk to you but are great people in general yeah 00:53:10.262 --> 00:53:13.902 no you you have a respect for them and for 00:53:13.902 --> 00:53:18.962 what they do especially when they explain what they put into you know the brand 00:53:18.962 --> 00:53:23.982 and the making of the scarf and stuff and i think you get kind of like you know 00:53:23.982 --> 00:53:29.302 a subliminal respect for the brand after you kind of learn the you know how 00:53:29.302 --> 00:53:30.902 much effort and And Blood, 00:53:31.062 --> 00:53:34.062 Sweat, and Tears goes into making some of these brands. 00:53:34.262 --> 00:53:38.522 And so, you know, that's when they, like, we tend to talk, and J.C. 00:53:38.562 --> 00:53:41.382 Newman's another one, you know, they came from the show in the beginning for 00:53:41.382 --> 00:53:44.602 us, and were nice enough to send us some stuff and sat with us for hours and 00:53:44.602 --> 00:53:50.462 talked, and, you know, that's how you make, you know, that's how you make loyal, you know. 00:53:51.520 --> 00:53:54.620 Of a brand type of deal or fans of a brand is when you 00:53:54.620 --> 00:53:57.340 know when when you get when you're transparent when you're out 00:53:57.340 --> 00:54:00.600 there you know you're willing to spend your time to 00:54:00.600 --> 00:54:03.540 some little guys like us that just love the product 00:54:03.540 --> 00:54:08.080 and you know going away from those interactions i feel like we end up loving 00:54:08.080 --> 00:54:11.540 the product even more and then we buy more and we find more that we like and 00:54:11.540 --> 00:54:18.640 it's you know definitely become fans of those brands yeah jc newman that was 00:54:18.640 --> 00:54:22.900 kind of just like a um And I think I reached out to him after recording an episode. 00:54:23.220 --> 00:54:25.900 I was just like, ah, let me just see. Like, they're a big brand. 00:54:26.200 --> 00:54:30.280 I don't really, I honestly didn't have too big of high hopes to get them on 00:54:30.280 --> 00:54:31.480 just because they're a huge company. 00:54:32.320 --> 00:54:35.680 And it's more or less just the three of them. You have Eric, Bobby, and Drew. 00:54:35.980 --> 00:54:39.960 They got other, obviously, workers with them. But you got those three that are 00:54:39.960 --> 00:54:42.280 basically heading this whole huge company. 00:54:42.440 --> 00:54:48.300 So I honestly wasn't expecting Bobby, the executive vice president, 00:54:48.460 --> 00:54:50.720 to be like, yeah, I'll come on. I'll, I'll come hang out with you guys. 00:54:50.840 --> 00:54:53.760 I'll, if anything, once Drew said that, 00:54:54.080 --> 00:54:58.540 cause Drew was down to come on, but he said he would only do it during the work 00:54:58.540 --> 00:55:04.480 day that I know for the three of us, it'd be hard to kind of find four people 00:55:04.480 --> 00:55:08.880 that have a work day off or that can't do a couple hours during the work day. 00:55:09.120 --> 00:55:11.660 But he's like, yeah, my, my uncle Bobby will do it. 00:55:12.140 --> 00:55:15.460 Okay. That was just kind of like a, let's see where this happens. 00:55:15.580 --> 00:55:18.540 And if it happens, it happens. And next thing you know, we're talking to them 00:55:18.540 --> 00:55:22.960 and I was like, oh, well, most of the time these companies, they don't care 00:55:22.960 --> 00:55:25.160 if they're a huge company like J.C. 00:55:25.260 --> 00:55:29.380 Newman or a smaller company like Lee and Stolen Thrones or Dissident. 00:55:29.540 --> 00:55:32.980 They just want to talk about their brand and their cigars. Yeah. 00:55:33.893 --> 00:55:37.613 All the guests that we've had over the last, what has it been, 00:55:37.753 --> 00:55:41.053 three years now? Close to it. If not longer. 00:55:41.593 --> 00:55:46.493 That'd been fantastic. Awesome. Like, there hasn't been one guest that I would not invite back on. 00:55:47.173 --> 00:55:50.893 Shit. When I was at the Ybor Cigar Festival, obviously, J.C. 00:55:50.953 --> 00:55:52.673 Newman being there, they had a tent. 00:55:53.073 --> 00:55:56.213 And I saw Bobby, so I kind of just waited around and was talking to him. 00:55:56.313 --> 00:56:00.713 And obviously, he didn't recognize me. But as soon as I mentioned the podcast 00:56:00.713 --> 00:56:04.813 and whatever, and we started talking, he immediately remembered. 00:56:04.953 --> 00:56:07.013 We started shooting the shit there for a couple of minutes. 00:56:07.173 --> 00:56:10.953 And I just basically said, thank you. Like, thanks for everything. 00:56:11.113 --> 00:56:12.913 Thanks for all the cigars. You didn't have to do that. 00:56:13.113 --> 00:56:16.753 Thanks for joining us. You honestly could have just told us to fuck off. 00:56:17.633 --> 00:56:20.893 But you took your time out, hung out with us for a couple hours, 00:56:21.053 --> 00:56:25.333 sent us a bunch of fantastic cigars. and might not really mean much, 00:56:25.453 --> 00:56:29.573 but it definitely, or might not seem like it means much, but definitely does. 00:56:29.813 --> 00:56:35.853 If I wasn't a fan before, I definitely am now, which I've always loved J.C. Newman's cigars. 00:56:37.269 --> 00:56:40.069 Exactly so those were some good 00:56:40.069 --> 00:56:43.009 ones i mean we've had like i said we've had many other 00:56:43.009 --> 00:56:46.629 good ones on this year but those are the kind of the ones that stuck out 00:56:46.629 --> 00:56:49.489 to me that i want to remember that i remembered and 00:56:49.489 --> 00:56:52.409 then i like i said i glanced back over our little show list 00:56:52.409 --> 00:56:56.909 to see if anything else popped out to me and it was kind of more insane those 00:56:56.909 --> 00:57:01.349 were the ones that uh that i remember that i definitely want to smoke more of 00:57:01.349 --> 00:57:06.009 to smoke more of the those cigars and some other offerings that they have because 00:57:06.009 --> 00:57:10.029 i know you know what they're doing this is good quality and good stuff so, 00:57:11.049 --> 00:57:13.989 yeah that's off to those brands one thing before we 00:57:13.989 --> 00:57:17.089 move on i think we're gonna talk about some beer products here in a minute but i'm 00:57:17.089 --> 00:57:20.489 just crossing off things on my list a couple whiskeys i 00:57:20.489 --> 00:57:23.489 forgot to mention where the heaven hill grain to glass bourbon and rye that 00:57:23.489 --> 00:57:28.129 rye was fantastic oh i mean that was definitely on my list and i skipped over 00:57:28.129 --> 00:57:32.109 it when we were kind of moving on to talk about cigars but both the bourbon 00:57:32.109 --> 00:57:36.289 and the rider i was incredible and the bourbon so So the Heaven Hill grain-to-glass 00:57:36.289 --> 00:57:39.369 series from this past year was incredible. 00:57:39.629 --> 00:57:44.009 If you can still find them anywhere, I think they're $80. 00:57:44.449 --> 00:57:46.769 If you can find them for $120 and under, I recommend getting them. 00:57:47.409 --> 00:57:50.709 Both of those were fantastic. That rye was fantastic, though. 00:57:50.869 --> 00:57:54.789 So didn't want to move on without throwing that out there because that definitely 00:57:54.789 --> 00:57:58.569 makes my list for some of the special pours we've had this year. 00:57:59.089 --> 00:58:03.809 Yeah, that $120-something-proof rye was fantastic. 00:58:04.949 --> 00:58:09.829 So, but, um, kind of moving on to deer products. 00:58:10.049 --> 00:58:14.009 We've had a bunch on this year. I think we're looking at our list right now. 00:58:14.129 --> 00:58:17.069 We kind of started the year with going with some big brands. 00:58:17.349 --> 00:58:20.969 I think we made a point to kind of do that because we were going with a lot 00:58:20.969 --> 00:58:24.089 of smaller brands that we were finding on social media and stuff that we want 00:58:24.089 --> 00:58:26.449 to try out that we not necessarily have heard of, 00:58:26.609 --> 00:58:29.949 but we started out with a couple of good ones with wild willies, 00:58:30.049 --> 00:58:33.289 copper times and Cremo, which are the ones you can find in the supermarket, which, 00:58:33.609 --> 00:58:37.669 you know, I always kind of looked over those, especially when we started this podcast. 00:58:37.669 --> 00:58:40.049 We had a couple ones from supermarkets that were crap. 00:58:41.581 --> 00:58:44.381 Tend to find out those the big box store 00:58:44.381 --> 00:58:47.221 ones kind of might skimp and use some different 00:58:47.221 --> 00:58:50.081 ingredients that probably i don't want anywhere near my face 00:58:50.081 --> 00:58:53.121 but we found a couple big brand ones that we 00:58:53.121 --> 00:58:55.901 did like so not not saying we 00:58:55.901 --> 00:58:59.001 like them over some of the other ones we'll talk about but they have 00:58:59.001 --> 00:59:02.301 their place they're good they're good price they're widely available 00:59:02.301 --> 00:59:06.081 and again amazon walmart go on vacation suitcase 00:59:06.081 --> 00:59:09.401 gets lost you forget your beard product whatever those are 00:59:09.401 --> 00:59:12.181 great ones you can run out to cvs or food store and 00:59:12.181 --> 00:59:15.501 and pick them up so it was good to uh to highlight 00:59:15.501 --> 00:59:21.561 a couple of those like gigantic brands everyone can find nationwide but just 00:59:21.561 --> 00:59:26.981 going off the first one that stood out to me this year and we were we had him 00:59:26.981 --> 00:59:31.141 on the show too is baines blends yeah jerry can probably speak to that because 00:59:31.141 --> 00:59:33.261 i think you hung out with him here recently yeah. 00:59:34.721 --> 00:59:40.921 He was also at the Ybor Cigar Festival, so between him and Monte de Leon Cigars 00:59:40.921 --> 00:59:45.321 was basically the driving factor. 00:59:45.461 --> 00:59:50.341 Me driving two and a half, almost three hours to this cigar festival, 00:59:50.361 --> 00:59:51.881 just so I could hang out with them. 00:59:52.321 --> 00:59:56.661 Monte de Leon's somewhat local to me. I've met him before. If you've listened 00:59:56.661 --> 00:59:57.761 to the episode, you knew. 00:59:58.841 --> 01:00:01.881 But Bain Blends didn't know until, 01:00:02.501 --> 01:00:05.521 a few months before we had them on like just heard 01:00:05.521 --> 01:00:10.421 about them I don't even remember where I heard about them but the idea of the 01:00:10.421 --> 01:00:16.101 herb infused oils and what not I thought was pretty cool grabbed a sample of 01:00:16.101 --> 01:00:19.481 it and of course the one well I didn't grab a sample it was a full bottle but 01:00:19.481 --> 01:00:25.261 sent you guys samples but of course the one bottle I picked up he says is probably the most, 01:00:26.421 --> 01:00:31.681 herb forward scent that he has with that lemon bourbon. 01:00:33.165 --> 01:00:37.285 Profile that I picked up. I've since picked up, let's see, I got one, 01:00:37.385 --> 01:00:40.605 two, three, I probably have five or six different scents from him now, 01:00:40.625 --> 01:00:46.005 but as I said, he was at the Ybor City Cigar Festival, hung out with him a good 01:00:46.005 --> 01:00:47.965 portion of the time, especially when it started raining. 01:00:48.105 --> 01:00:51.225 I sat underneath his tent, helped try to bring some people into him, 01:00:52.125 --> 01:00:56.585 met some people walking around that had beards and told him about the tent to go check him out. 01:00:57.045 --> 01:01:02.405 But yeah, he's definitely on the the top list of this year. Definitely on my 01:01:02.405 --> 01:01:04.965 top list of all time for beard oils. 01:01:05.565 --> 01:01:10.265 And not just beard oils. His beard shampoo and conditioner is fantastic. 01:01:10.265 --> 01:01:13.665 It's the one I'm currently using. That's fantastic. 01:01:14.725 --> 01:01:18.505 His hand creams, the eczema hand cream is phenomenal. 01:01:18.745 --> 01:01:21.785 I'm pretty sure both of you guys have picked it up too. That's my favorite product 01:01:21.785 --> 01:01:24.005 from him. I use that on my hand. 01:01:24.205 --> 01:01:27.265 It's great wintertime if you get cracked hands, cracked feet, 01:01:27.565 --> 01:01:28.665 you know, any kind of skin issues. 01:01:28.665 --> 01:01:33.765 It's good for eczema psoriasis like whatever kind of skin issue you have it's 01:01:33.765 --> 01:01:38.105 great i get dry skin patch on my head sometimes in the winter time i've been 01:01:38.105 --> 01:01:39.665 rubbing it on my head you know. 01:01:41.159 --> 01:01:43.379 Knuckles in the wintertime. I've rubbed it on my feet. I mean, 01:01:43.499 --> 01:01:46.199 it's just great. It's like this beer. It's like this, just, it's like this. 01:01:46.359 --> 01:01:50.619 It kind of feels like a beer butter kind of consistency. 01:01:50.819 --> 01:01:53.919 Maybe a mix between a butter and a liquid butter. Cause it's kind of a little 01:01:53.919 --> 01:01:57.459 bit looser than a butter, at least in my house where, you know, 01:01:57.779 --> 01:02:01.059 temperature based wise, I'm sure it changes, but it's great. 01:02:01.179 --> 01:02:05.539 So kind of like a Vaseline consistency, I guess, but it rubs in great. It's not greasy. 01:02:05.719 --> 01:02:08.679 It's not oily. Once you rub it into your hands or wherever you're going to rub it, 01:02:08.679 --> 01:02:11.999 it's i mean i love it because that's his like beard salve 01:02:11.999 --> 01:02:16.739 or something or not that hand salve hand salve yeah but you can put it on wherever 01:02:16.739 --> 01:02:20.999 i mean you got dry elbows you got dry feet i mean it's just it's all natural 01:02:20.999 --> 01:02:26.339 ingredients and it's awesome i love that stuff what i bought it like what we 01:02:26.339 --> 01:02:30.119 have in one like a month two months ago and it's a pretty decent sized container, 01:02:30.739 --> 01:02:33.739 and i'm ready to buy another one my wife usually on 01:02:33.739 --> 01:02:36.899 her hands her hands are packed up in the summer i mean when he's 01:02:36.899 --> 01:02:39.779 been rubbing on her hands it's a great product that's 01:02:39.779 --> 01:02:43.099 my favorite that's probably my favorite product even though 01:02:43.099 --> 01:02:46.919 it's not really a beard product yeah probably my favorite product that we've 01:02:46.919 --> 01:02:51.799 had from a beard company this year is that it's it's fantastic and you don't 01:02:51.799 --> 01:02:58.279 need much of it and it is so if you're used to regular hand hand creams or eczema 01:02:58.279 --> 01:03:00.819 creams or anything like that. 01:03:01.019 --> 01:03:06.939 It is oil-based, so it does take slightly longer than the typical cortisone 01:03:06.939 --> 01:03:08.099 creams and stuff like that. 01:03:08.779 --> 01:03:15.139 But once it absorbs in, I got nothing but great things to say about it. 01:03:15.539 --> 01:03:21.819 You don't need much of it because it is like an oil-based. It does spread through the hands very easily. 01:03:22.199 --> 01:03:26.079 Yeah, I probably have half a jar left, but it's just me using it. 01:03:28.223 --> 01:03:33.723 With you and your wife and your kid and Adam and his wife and his kids all using 01:03:33.723 --> 01:03:36.743 it, obviously it's going to go by a little bit quicker than just using it by yourself. 01:03:36.923 --> 01:03:42.643 But yeah, that's a fantastic thing. His deodorant I've been using basically 01:03:42.643 --> 01:03:47.643 exclusively for the last three or four months, just kind of trying something 01:03:47.643 --> 01:03:49.463 different out. And it's fantastic. 01:03:49.763 --> 01:03:54.243 I think he mentioned it when he was on, if you're coming from like the big box store, 01:03:54.403 --> 01:03:57.883 whether it's like the Old Spice or something like that obviously 01:03:57.883 --> 01:04:00.963 your body's going to go through like a detox so you might have to 01:04:00.963 --> 01:04:04.203 apply it a little bit more but once your body kind of figures it's 01:04:04.203 --> 01:04:06.943 figures itself out like the one 01:04:06.943 --> 01:04:10.543 i have i'll put it on in the more in the morning wake up the next morning and 01:04:10.543 --> 01:04:15.243 i can still kind of smell it and like not the bad smell but like the actual 01:04:15.243 --> 01:04:18.463 scent profile and everything in there it definitely lasts once your body kind 01:04:18.463 --> 01:04:24.343 of gets accustomed to not all those aluminums and whatever else that the big box stores have. 01:04:25.143 --> 01:04:28.943 And then he also has those retinol creams and all that other stuff, 01:04:28.943 --> 01:04:34.143 which I have no idea what they are, what they do, how to use them. So I don't use them. 01:04:36.773 --> 01:04:42.333 Swear by him, but definitely his hand creams and a beard products and deodorant 01:04:42.333 --> 01:04:45.133 and beard wash and conditioner. 01:04:45.993 --> 01:04:50.333 Yeah. Fantastic company. Great guy. Yeah, he's, like I said, 01:04:50.473 --> 01:04:51.553 definitely on top of my list. 01:04:52.233 --> 01:04:54.093 The beard apothecary is another one. 01:04:54.833 --> 01:04:58.793 John and Tanya, great people. They sat with us for close to three hours, 01:04:58.933 --> 01:04:59.893 I think, or at least John did. 01:05:00.233 --> 01:05:03.573 Tanya had to dip out early because I think she had a flight in the morning, 01:05:03.573 --> 01:05:06.593 but another company with great beard oils the 01:05:06.593 --> 01:05:09.733 scent profiles were great once i make room on 01:05:09.733 --> 01:05:12.693 my little shelf that i have for my beard oils 01:05:12.693 --> 01:05:15.453 definitely grab more of them i still have the 01:05:15.453 --> 01:05:18.513 what scent is that sirens i don't 01:05:18.513 --> 01:05:21.433 remember the scent profile name something sirens or siren 01:05:21.433 --> 01:05:24.473 something i still have a little bit of that oil and a 01:05:24.473 --> 01:05:29.333 lot of the balm left the balm definitely goes a long way that but that's another 01:05:29.333 --> 01:05:34.493 great company with their oils they just released their well the time this this 01:05:34.493 --> 01:05:38.753 comes out I don't know if it'll still be up but they for Christmas they released 01:05:38.753 --> 01:05:42.393 their Christmas sense which sounds fantastic if you haven't looked at them yet all. 01:05:43.905 --> 01:05:48.325 And I'll have to definitely check those out. I know this is the time of year 01:05:48.325 --> 01:05:55.325 I saw that there's a lot of Christmas scents coming out, which tend to be some of my favorite scents. 01:05:55.905 --> 01:05:59.365 It's hit or miss for me. I like some of those spicy... 01:06:00.345 --> 01:06:07.285 Oh, I like those spicy Christmas scents, but I don't like the Christmas tree 01:06:07.285 --> 01:06:09.945 scents, the pine, the fir needles. I don't like those. 01:06:10.425 --> 01:06:13.125 Yeah, no, not a big fan of those, which everybody has those, 01:06:13.125 --> 01:06:17.705 but i like a lot of the you know the the different ones the peppermint ones 01:06:17.705 --> 01:06:22.205 even there was one i remember we did was like a cranberry ice or something it 01:06:22.205 --> 01:06:25.925 was like you know i forget when we did that but that was you know some good 01:06:25.925 --> 01:06:28.665 yeah you get those little bit of fruity minty, 01:06:29.125 --> 01:06:35.785 icy notes or smelling sense those are the ones i like the ones that like you walk like, 01:06:36.485 --> 01:06:40.005 walk into your grandmother's house or someone's grandmother's house on christmas 01:06:40.005 --> 01:06:45.385 day and you get all those like toasty fruity cranberry little bit of minty notes 01:06:45.385 --> 01:06:46.725 those are the ones i like now, 01:06:47.945 --> 01:06:53.345 i know some people like those those fur the the pine needles and all that stuff 01:06:53.345 --> 01:06:55.505 i'm not a fan of those but the other ones i am. 01:06:57.386 --> 01:07:00.366 Another one for me was and i'm 01:07:00.366 --> 01:07:03.186 pretty sure i have it right because 01:07:03.186 --> 01:07:06.026 the scent is what i remembered for this one and i was digging back 01:07:06.026 --> 01:07:08.706 through and i was trying to find out to make sure i was 01:07:08.706 --> 01:07:12.026 correct but i'm almost positive it was 01:07:12.026 --> 01:07:15.026 my favorite scent of the year i think thinking back and it 01:07:15.026 --> 01:07:18.366 came from beach bum beards i believe and it 01:07:18.366 --> 01:07:22.306 was the root beer scented oil pretty sure 01:07:22.306 --> 01:07:25.046 it came from beach but i remember i had 01:07:25.046 --> 01:07:28.846 a root beer scented oil that smelled 01:07:28.846 --> 01:07:32.446 like those little root beer barrels yeah those 01:07:32.446 --> 01:07:35.426 old school root beer barrel candies and i 01:07:35.426 --> 01:07:38.646 couldn't remember if it was from them or from sunshine 01:07:38.646 --> 01:07:41.706 state and i was trying to do some research it wasn't sunshine 01:07:41.706 --> 01:07:45.406 sunshine had i sent you guys that black pumpkin okay 01:07:45.406 --> 01:07:48.346 that i remember like that a lot so i think it might have been from beach 01:07:48.346 --> 01:07:51.726 bum beards that root beer oil really 01:07:51.726 --> 01:07:54.786 liked that went through that real quick it was just a 01:07:54.786 --> 01:07:57.706 very different scent root beer is you know a 01:07:57.706 --> 01:08:00.926 normal scent but not necessarily for beer 01:08:00.926 --> 01:08:03.766 products and i really liked it love root beer love 01:08:03.766 --> 01:08:06.686 that scent and it was definitely overwhelming root beer 01:08:06.686 --> 01:08:09.786 barrel hard candy which was nice kind 01:08:09.786 --> 01:08:12.766 of nostalgic brought back you know some areas of those you 01:08:12.766 --> 01:08:15.646 know eating those when i was a little kid you know at the grandparents house things 01:08:15.646 --> 01:08:20.506 like that that was that was definitely one that 99% sure came from beach bum 01:08:20.506 --> 01:08:24.786 beards and i really like that scent so that's probably my favorite scent of. 01:08:24.786 --> 01:08:29.666 The year yeah i'm looking at the list now if i was to guess it was either beach 01:08:29.666 --> 01:08:33.126 bum or you sent out the elegant elegant sasquatch. 01:08:33.666 --> 01:08:37.606 My guess would be one of those two and it might have been elegant sasquatch 01:08:37.606 --> 01:08:41.306 because if i sent them out i would have kept that for myself so shout out to 01:08:41.306 --> 01:08:46.106 both of them i remember liking both brands so whichever one I here I I sent 01:08:46.106 --> 01:08:48.846 out the I sent out the beach bum. 01:08:50.297 --> 01:08:53.597 And as much as I like the root beer candies and I like root beer as a drink 01:08:53.597 --> 01:08:58.457 itself, I'm not a big fan of the smell of it in my beard. And I know you do. 01:08:58.597 --> 01:09:01.917 So if it did come in Beach Bum, I'll probably would have sent you that one. 01:09:02.057 --> 01:09:04.157 So, but yeah, both those elegant was on mine. 01:09:04.337 --> 01:09:07.357 I forgot about the Beach Bum Beach Bum. I liked a lot. 01:09:07.737 --> 01:09:12.977 The only thing about them was a lot of their scent profiles have that like spring 01:09:12.977 --> 01:09:14.957 break style smell to them. 01:09:14.957 --> 01:09:18.297 The uh like the pina colada style 01:09:18.297 --> 01:09:22.117 like coconut which i'm not a fan of but 01:09:22.117 --> 01:09:25.077 the oils themselves i remember liking but 01:09:25.077 --> 01:09:27.857 the sense was a little off for 01:09:27.857 --> 01:09:31.077 me and then the other well we mentioned 01:09:31.077 --> 01:09:33.897 sunshine state grooming i sent 01:09:33.897 --> 01:09:37.357 out the black pumpkin which is a 01:09:37.357 --> 01:09:40.157 a i say in a good way but a 01:09:40.157 --> 01:09:43.277 weird scent like you you think pumpkin you think 01:09:43.277 --> 01:09:46.157 of like pumpkin pie or pumpkin spice and it's not it's 01:09:46.157 --> 01:09:49.797 it's like a dark pumpkin oud scent that one 01:09:49.797 --> 01:09:52.657 is great which i've been in contact with him 01:09:52.657 --> 01:09:55.537 try to get him on he just started a new job 01:09:55.537 --> 01:09:58.317 recently so he's trying to figure all that out i 01:09:58.317 --> 01:10:01.437 told him once he figures that out we'll talk some 01:10:01.437 --> 01:10:04.837 more but the other one i 01:10:04.837 --> 01:10:08.277 just had it another one that i've talked to and we're getting 01:10:08.277 --> 01:10:11.077 him on we just gotta figure out dates again too 01:10:11.077 --> 01:10:13.777 is bearded that is all the one we had 01:10:13.777 --> 01:10:16.897 on the the veterans day special sent out 01:10:16.897 --> 01:10:19.597 the final flight which is the one i think we. 01:10:19.597 --> 01:10:26.577 All liked and then the which is i think tobacco what was that scent i think 01:10:26.577 --> 01:10:33.497 it was like tobacco cherry steel and like maple and stuff like that and then 01:10:33.497 --> 01:10:37.117 the the other one i think was bourbon and brass, which was like. 01:10:38.189 --> 01:10:43.329 Sounds whiskey and like spent brass like a little bit of smokiness a little bit of like that, 01:10:43.989 --> 01:10:49.389 metallic note both those were fantastic but that that final flight was that 01:10:49.389 --> 01:10:54.389 one could be up there in the running for my favorite scent of the year looking 01:10:54.389 --> 01:10:59.249 back the the one i just picked well one of the ones i just picked up from bane 01:10:59.249 --> 01:11:02.609 blends is his tobacco and vanilla oud i think it's called 01:11:03.029 --> 01:11:06.829 that one might be my favorite but we didn't have it on the show of 01:11:06.829 --> 01:11:09.889 the ones we had on the show that black pumpkin from sunshine state 01:11:09.889 --> 01:11:14.389 and the final flight from bearded 01:11:14.389 --> 01:11:17.209 that is all those might be trying to think back but 01:11:17.209 --> 01:11:21.489 those are definitely top five for me for scent profiles yeah 01:11:21.489 --> 01:11:25.449 and i got one more that was probably my second favorite 01:11:25.449 --> 01:11:31.409 scent profile which was another weird one which was from mf beards which was 01:11:31.409 --> 01:11:37.149 the apple salt one so at the time of this is going to put out we haven't released 01:11:37.149 --> 01:11:42.929 that episode yet so we recorded an episode the company was mf beards it'll get. 01:11:43.489 --> 01:11:46.829 I've been in work with they're probably 01:11:46.829 --> 01:11:49.649 going to come on at the end of february and then 01:11:49.649 --> 01:11:52.869 i'll drop that other episode and we'll keep another banked 01:11:52.869 --> 01:11:55.689 episode just to have but i'll drop that one before they come 01:11:55.689 --> 01:12:00.949 on or after figure it out but yeah so you hear us talking and trying to be like 01:12:00.949 --> 01:12:04.449 i don't remember hearing it because you didn't hasn't been released yet but 01:12:04.449 --> 01:12:10.769 yeah that i actually have the mf beards bourbon and honey or buzzed i think 01:12:10.769 --> 01:12:14.429 it's called in right now it's one of those where, 01:12:14.929 --> 01:12:19.149 i love the taste of honey but i don't like the smell of it it has like that 01:12:19.149 --> 01:12:20.929 like dirty earthiness to it. 01:12:22.328 --> 01:12:25.648 Same time like you mix it with that that whiskey they have in that 01:12:25.648 --> 01:12:28.368 honey smell sticks around for a little bit 01:12:28.368 --> 01:12:31.848 and then just becomes like a like a sweet like 01:12:31.848 --> 01:12:35.068 woody note in the beard which might not 01:12:35.068 --> 01:12:38.448 be my favorite but at the same time it's it's good it's something different 01:12:38.448 --> 01:12:44.248 to to break up the like the cologne sense and the the typical sense that i use 01:12:44.248 --> 01:12:48.068 so it's a little different but yeah that that buzzed i think it's called is 01:12:48.068 --> 01:12:52.868 what i have in today yeah no the one i was talking about That was the applesauced. 01:12:52.968 --> 01:12:55.108 Yeah. Supposedly an apple cinnamon blend. 01:12:55.408 --> 01:12:59.748 Which that's exactly what it smells like. And it smells like you rubbed applesauce 01:12:59.748 --> 01:13:01.188 into your beard. It's awesome. 01:13:01.528 --> 01:13:05.888 Yeah. In the greatest way. It is. It's awesome. It's such a unique, 01:13:05.908 --> 01:13:09.488 you know, I mean. It's the best foodie scent. 01:13:09.808 --> 01:13:12.788 Yeah. If you want to call it a foodie scent, that's the best foodie scent out there. 01:13:13.068 --> 01:13:15.708 Yeah. It's because it doesn't smell like apples and cinnamon. 01:13:15.868 --> 01:13:17.408 It smells like applesauce. 01:13:17.608 --> 01:13:20.688 Apple cinnamon sauce. Cinnamon applesauce. When you get those little Mott's 01:13:20.688 --> 01:13:23.928 cups with cinnamon already mixed in the applesauce and you peel that off, 01:13:24.248 --> 01:13:26.968 peel that little foil label off, that's what it smells like. 01:13:27.068 --> 01:13:32.208 It smells like, yeah, you just drunkenly ate a Mott's cinnamon applesauce at 01:13:32.208 --> 01:13:35.508 night and got it all over your beard and you woke up in the morning and it smells fantastic. 01:13:35.688 --> 01:13:40.888 Yeah, that was my last one that I was keeping for last just because it hasn't been released yet. 01:13:40.968 --> 01:13:47.228 But yeah, that applesauce, it's a weird one because I love applesauce. 01:13:49.028 --> 01:13:51.948 Big foodie scent in the beard and that's 01:13:51.948 --> 01:13:54.748 definitely a foodie scent like paul said it's not like a 01:13:54.748 --> 01:13:57.488 typical like apple incense or like 01:13:57.488 --> 01:14:01.128 a dark apple fresh apple it is applesauce and 01:14:01.128 --> 01:14:07.148 when i do another order through them they did send us a shit ton of oil so it 01:14:07.148 --> 01:14:09.748 it's probably going to be a little while before i order from them just because 01:14:09.748 --> 01:14:14.328 of what they sent but that's probably going to be in the package when i order 01:14:14.328 --> 01:14:19.188 yeah no we'll have to have a full show with them around them because they were 01:14:19.188 --> 01:14:20.968 kind enough to send us a bunch of samples. 01:14:21.188 --> 01:14:24.388 I haven't even opened some of them. I've been the only one I, 01:14:24.468 --> 01:14:25.708 well, I've opened all of them. 01:14:25.788 --> 01:14:30.808 The only one I didn't try is the, the coffee one just cause I'm not a, 01:14:31.068 --> 01:14:32.848 it's another thing. I love coffee. 01:14:32.908 --> 01:14:35.768 I love the smell of coffee, but I don't want coffee smell in my beard all day. 01:14:37.659 --> 01:14:41.439 Especially if it's overwhelming coffee. I don't know if I've seen that example 01:14:41.439 --> 01:14:42.939 yet. I've used a couple of theirs. 01:14:43.939 --> 01:14:46.999 And, you know, the apple sauce is my favorite. Yeah. 01:14:47.299 --> 01:14:52.699 We'll have to. I know that they have an alpine snow or something. 01:14:53.019 --> 01:14:57.499 Alpine mist, which to me. Yeah. I like that one. Yeah. I like that one. 01:14:57.619 --> 01:14:59.739 And the other one's called the man, I think. 01:15:00.299 --> 01:15:06.719 The alpine mist is what. I think I said it when we were doing that episode. 01:15:06.719 --> 01:15:09.979 Of alpine mist is what febreze wanted 01:15:09.979 --> 01:15:13.799 their mountain spray to be like that 01:15:13.799 --> 01:15:16.459 that typical mountains i don't know 01:15:16.459 --> 01:15:19.559 what it's called mountain mist or mountains whatever febreze has 01:15:19.559 --> 01:15:22.419 like it smells decent but it has all these like 01:15:22.419 --> 01:15:25.259 obviously chemical notes like smell notes to 01:15:25.259 --> 01:15:28.699 it like just to kind of mask all the smell this mountain 01:15:28.699 --> 01:15:32.079 mist or mountain alpine mist 01:15:32.079 --> 01:15:35.339 whatever i can't remember what they called it that's what febreze 01:15:35.339 --> 01:15:38.039 wanted there that's what it should smell like it is just 01:15:38.039 --> 01:15:40.779 like a fresh air little bit of like 01:15:40.779 --> 01:15:46.959 sweetness in there it just smells like you're on a mountain on a spring day 01:15:46.959 --> 01:15:51.239 with all like the fresh air fresh flowers whatever that that one in the man 01:15:51.239 --> 01:15:57.339 are probably my favorites and then the applesauce is right there yep and i there's 01:15:57.339 --> 01:16:00.619 a cherry one too that I really like from them. 01:16:01.019 --> 01:16:05.379 So there'll be more to come from that brand. We're working through the samples 01:16:05.379 --> 01:16:06.839 that they were kind of asked of this. 01:16:06.999 --> 01:16:12.219 Once we get them scheduled, we'll have to make sure that we don't do beard oils 01:16:12.219 --> 01:16:17.179 for like a week before, two weeks before, and have a good two to three weeks 01:16:17.179 --> 01:16:19.739 of just trying all the scents. Yeah. 01:16:20.379 --> 01:16:24.399 Because I really like the scents are fantastic. And the oils themselves are 01:16:24.399 --> 01:16:26.879 great. Yeah, the oils are great. I wouldn't be talking about them. 01:16:28.576 --> 01:16:32.636 If I couldn't use them over and over again, like I did with the root beer one, 01:16:32.916 --> 01:16:35.736 if it made my face dry out or anything like that. 01:16:35.936 --> 01:16:39.876 So that just was a testament to the quality of the product. 01:16:40.436 --> 01:16:43.256 But I just pulled up their website too. 01:16:43.756 --> 01:16:47.456 It looks like they still got to buy one, get one from Black Friday going on. 01:16:47.596 --> 01:16:49.016 I think it's to the end of the year. 01:16:49.276 --> 01:16:52.616 So by the time this drops, I think you got like three days to use it. 01:16:53.296 --> 01:16:57.796 Yep. And if I remember correctly, it's on all their products. 01:16:57.796 --> 01:17:02.336 So if you want to buy their their shampoo their beard poo beard shampoo and 01:17:02.336 --> 01:17:06.096 a beard conditioner that's buy one get one if you want to buy two oils it's 01:17:06.096 --> 01:17:07.976 buy one get one they got colognes, 01:17:08.716 --> 01:17:14.756 butters balms if i remember correctly and i think their beard kits which is 01:17:14.756 --> 01:17:20.596 oil butter and balm are like 40 off 20 bucks off all bundles yeah like spend 01:17:20.596 --> 01:17:22.456 10 bucks or more you get free shipping, 01:17:23.256 --> 01:17:25.516 Those bundles are stupid price right now. 01:17:25.756 --> 01:17:28.816 So you get, I think they're like 25 bucks and you get an oil, 01:17:28.996 --> 01:17:30.656 butter, and a balm. It's crazy. 01:17:31.376 --> 01:17:35.296 Which I'm pretty sure their oils are like, are you on the website right now? 01:17:35.456 --> 01:17:39.156 I'm on the website. I'm on their promo page. What's their normal... 01:17:40.620 --> 01:17:43.400 Right now 14.99 is the normal price for 01:17:43.400 --> 01:17:46.180 the oil for 10 extra bucks you get a two 01:17:46.180 --> 01:17:50.040 ounce butter and a two ounce ball yeah for 24.99 01:17:50.040 --> 01:17:54.020 yeah it's insane yeah they great 01:17:54.020 --> 01:17:56.800 promos going on with them right now so definitely like i 01:17:56.800 --> 01:17:59.600 said more to come from them because yeah we're new fans of 01:17:59.600 --> 01:18:02.580 that company but i think we're gonna they're new in general i 01:18:02.580 --> 01:18:05.500 think they just popped on the scene within the last year 01:18:05.500 --> 01:18:08.580 yeah and that's beards.com so 01:18:08.580 --> 01:18:11.540 check those guys out because you'll be hearing us talk about them 01:18:11.540 --> 01:18:14.300 just from you know the quality of the product that 01:18:14.300 --> 01:18:17.620 we've tried and then the scent profiles which are awesome and 01:18:17.620 --> 01:18:21.980 like i said it probably looking into february when 01:18:21.980 --> 01:18:25.340 i was talking to him wasn't trying to get any guest 01:18:25.340 --> 01:18:29.200 on this time of year just because of thanksgiving christmas 01:18:29.200 --> 01:18:32.000 new years i know everyone does crazy things so it wasn't 01:18:32.000 --> 01:18:35.780 trying to get anybody there and then february or 01:18:35.780 --> 01:18:43.140 january i think he said middle of january they are they're sponsoring or doing 01:18:43.140 --> 01:18:47.580 something with a beard competition so all their all their times going into that 01:18:47.580 --> 01:18:52.240 which i was that's fine let's let's go for february and he says february works 01:18:52.240 --> 01:18:53.740 it's not the super bowl i go oh, 01:18:54.240 --> 01:18:57.300 We do a Super Bowl episode, so yeah, anytime. 01:18:57.980 --> 01:19:01.500 The Super Bowl, which I think is the first week in February anyway. 01:19:03.280 --> 01:19:07.640 Panthers-Bills, it'll be a good one. I don't know the way fucking Josh Allen 01:19:07.640 --> 01:19:09.680 played today. Might not be the Bills. 01:19:10.180 --> 01:19:14.500 Get me fucking six points on my fantasy team. That's just a wishful thing for 01:19:14.500 --> 01:19:17.040 Andy and Adam, but I don't think either one of us are going to be there. 01:19:17.380 --> 01:19:21.800 I think Josh Allen, I mean, he's in the running for MVP, but I don't think after 01:19:21.800 --> 01:19:26.120 today I think Stafford might have that one locked up. 01:19:26.300 --> 01:19:28.620 But yeah, no, it'll be an interesting end of the football season. 01:19:28.740 --> 01:19:31.800 But yeah, we won't be taking anybody's time up for the Super Bowl. 01:19:31.900 --> 01:19:34.620 We'll have an episode, I'm sure, like we always do. Yeah, we'll do an episode. 01:19:34.680 --> 01:19:38.040 And I was saying from Bourbons from the quarterback's hometown or something 01:19:38.040 --> 01:19:41.800 like that, but it'll be a fun one. But yeah, we're big fans. 01:19:43.700 --> 01:19:47.080 Bowl either but you know having those guys on it's going to be a treat really 01:19:47.080 --> 01:19:50.480 enjoying going through their products right now so yeah 01:19:50.480 --> 01:19:54.240 and i was thinking maybe we could do like a a live reaction to the super bowl 01:19:54.240 --> 01:19:57.660 at least for the first half or something all of us jump on like a whether it's 01:19:57.660 --> 01:20:03.680 youtube live or instagram live or something just first half yeah i agree i think 01:20:03.680 --> 01:20:06.800 that'll be good because realistically i don't think any of us have any skin 01:20:06.800 --> 01:20:08.620 in the game except maybe at now you, 01:20:10.140 --> 01:20:13.420 because Jacksonville actually, surprisingly, looks like the best odds to make 01:20:13.420 --> 01:20:14.600 the Super Bowl over the Bills. 01:20:15.540 --> 01:20:19.460 Well, they're up. It's on a commercial right now, but they're up right now in their game. 01:20:19.980 --> 01:20:24.400 I know, and they're playing, in my mind, the best team in the NFL. 01:20:24.620 --> 01:20:29.660 So we'll see if they knock off Denver right now. I mean, that's your path. 01:20:30.560 --> 01:20:33.680 I didn't think it would be. I thought it would be a close game, 01:20:33.720 --> 01:20:35.140 but I didn't think it would be like this right now. 01:20:37.965 --> 01:20:43.045 Interesting finish to this NFL season with a lot of the big teams pretty much 01:20:43.045 --> 01:20:48.985 just being the teams of the last couple years, like the Ravens and the Chiefs, just gone. 01:20:49.365 --> 01:20:52.945 Cowboys gone. A lot of the teams that are always there, they're already gone. 01:20:54.485 --> 01:20:58.465 It'll be an interesting finish. We'll definitely have to have some fun NFL content 01:20:58.465 --> 01:21:01.025 on lives and talking shit. 01:21:01.305 --> 01:21:06.525 Even if it's just the first half, just kind of get people on, 01:21:06.625 --> 01:21:10.245 shoot the shit, maybe We get some people to join us on the live just to shoot shit. 01:21:11.005 --> 01:21:13.785 Yep. That sounds fun. But I don't 01:21:13.785 --> 01:21:17.645 want to sign out before we thank all the guests that we've had on this. 01:21:17.825 --> 01:21:22.885 Not only this year, but the last two and a half years or whatever it's been. 01:21:23.025 --> 01:21:28.225 But this year we had Ricky from West Tampa, West Tampa Tobacco. 01:21:29.025 --> 01:21:32.085 Jay from Bourbon Baggers. I think that was the second time he was on. 01:21:32.785 --> 01:21:37.345 Second of many. We got to get him back on. which i am drinking my old fashions 01:21:37.345 --> 01:21:39.905 out of his little spinny glass right now there you go so 01:21:40.105 --> 01:21:43.005 if you're listening and you hear some like 01:21:43.005 --> 01:21:45.985 scratching sounds it's because i keep spinning my 01:21:45.985 --> 01:21:49.965 glass not realizing that's right next to my damn mic but 01:21:49.965 --> 01:21:52.965 yeah thanks those guys you got bryce from silent hero 01:21:52.965 --> 01:21:56.045 jacob from bane's blends tanya and 01:21:56.045 --> 01:21:59.285 john aldi from the beard apothecary sin and 01:21:59.285 --> 01:22:02.205 josh from distant cigars carlos from monte 01:22:02.205 --> 01:22:05.265 de leon cigars ryan from fire and flask which 01:22:05.265 --> 01:22:08.765 i don't know how we didn't mention him that was for 01:22:08.765 --> 01:22:12.065 being that was probably my 01:22:12.065 --> 01:22:19.565 surprise of the year that fire and flask being what a year old yeah no that 01:22:19.565 --> 01:22:23.765 there's no way we should not mention that like that i must have just skipped 01:22:23.765 --> 01:22:28.885 over that when i was going through the list but i was blown away by how good that liquid is. 01:22:29.005 --> 01:22:31.165 I mean, fire and flask to, I mean... 01:22:32.267 --> 01:22:35.727 For them such great things to come for them um and 01:22:35.727 --> 01:22:38.467 yeah that one year old coming out of 01:22:38.467 --> 01:22:41.467 five gallon barrels and you can't taste the 01:22:41.467 --> 01:22:45.647 the youth well you can see there's a little bit of youthfulness you could but 01:22:45.647 --> 01:22:49.467 you don't really taste the the small barrels you don't really taste a bunch 01:22:49.467 --> 01:22:54.567 of the other wrong camera oops i hit the wrong camera this damn camera i got 01:22:54.567 --> 01:23:00.047 to figure something out so it doesn't get all non-focused but yeah the one year 01:23:00.047 --> 01:23:01.147 old at five gallon barrel, 01:23:01.827 --> 01:23:05.207 i don't taste that typical five gallon 01:23:05.207 --> 01:23:08.327 small barrel in there there's a little bit of youthfulness but 01:23:08.327 --> 01:23:13.787 i think the way that they're blending it is is doing a lot because it's it's 01:23:13.787 --> 01:23:19.107 a great pour it's no it's a fantastic pour and yeah we deserve to talk about 01:23:19.107 --> 01:23:24.087 that one again because that i was blown away that was one that you know you 01:23:24.087 --> 01:23:26.567 know honestly that was one of the pours that we 01:23:26.687 --> 01:23:29.347 on that when you guys got them on i was like all 01:23:29.347 --> 01:23:32.147 right we'll see you know and i looked it up i 01:23:32.147 --> 01:23:35.167 was like yeah you know i was the same way yeah just 01:23:35.167 --> 01:23:39.247 looking at you know one year old you know brand new you know hoping it's good 01:23:39.247 --> 01:23:43.607 i you know hope we don't have to kind of eek our way through the episode saying 01:23:43.607 --> 01:23:47.607 we're looking for good things to come from you but no what they're doing right 01:23:47.607 --> 01:23:52.987 now is fantastic it's and it's just getting better it's award worthy right now and and. 01:23:53.800 --> 01:23:56.880 They're they're working with the second site which 01:23:56.880 --> 01:24:00.360 i still haven't had anything from them but if 01:24:00.360 --> 01:24:03.260 i come across them i'm definitely going to try some of their stuff and then obviously 01:24:03.260 --> 01:24:06.200 they're working with neely family which we all love and 01:24:06.200 --> 01:24:09.260 enjoy neely making some fantastic 01:24:09.260 --> 01:24:11.920 stuff over there yeah that's that's one thing 01:24:11.920 --> 01:24:14.860 we need to correct moving into the next year too is we haven't 01:24:14.860 --> 01:24:17.640 really highlighted too many neely products other than 01:24:17.640 --> 01:24:20.600 their absinthe which they're really not even to my mind 01:24:20.600 --> 01:24:23.600 known for they're more known for their bourbons and ryes 01:24:23.600 --> 01:24:26.440 but their absinthe is fantastic and that's the thing we talk about 01:24:26.440 --> 01:24:30.000 the most on this show we need to get either royce 01:24:30.000 --> 01:24:32.960 or becca on the show and and really highlight some 01:24:32.960 --> 01:24:36.120 of their products because you know they're i love 01:24:36.120 --> 01:24:39.020 everything i've ever had from neely and i've had a lot of stuff from 01:24:39.020 --> 01:24:41.740 neely and i need to get you guys more pours from 01:24:41.740 --> 01:24:45.400 them and we would need to talk about it reach out 01:24:45.400 --> 01:24:48.500 to them and we'll figure something out yeah and then 01:24:48.500 --> 01:24:51.380 the the last guest that we just basically had on 01:24:51.380 --> 01:24:54.620 was lee from stolen thrones which i have just not 01:24:54.620 --> 01:24:57.740 just but i i've lit up the fifth year anniversary crook 01:24:57.740 --> 01:25:04.220 which is just as good if not better than the regular crook just want a big shout 01:25:04.220 --> 01:25:08.260 out and thank you to all the guests from this past year and from all the guests 01:25:08.260 --> 01:25:13.760 obviously from the last two years or whatever we've been doing this all the 01:25:13.760 --> 01:25:15.460 guests have been fantastic great people. 01:25:17.710 --> 01:25:22.510 Had to say about any any of them or any of their products yeah it's been it's 01:25:22.510 --> 01:25:26.550 been a fun fun year fun two and a half years doing this whether people listen 01:25:26.550 --> 01:25:28.550 to it or not at least we get to, 01:25:29.750 --> 01:25:33.510 smoke and some great cigars drink some great whiskey 01:25:33.510 --> 01:25:36.730 or rum or spirits in 01:25:36.730 --> 01:25:39.950 general using some fine well finding some 01:25:39.950 --> 01:25:43.270 awesome beard products and then when we 01:25:43.270 --> 01:25:46.270 do get to talk to these people it's it's a fun time just 01:25:46.270 --> 01:25:49.690 hanging out with them for a couple hours yeah absolutely 01:25:49.690 --> 01:25:52.610 everybody that's been willing to come on and 01:25:52.610 --> 01:25:58.530 give us you know their time which we appreciate yeah we really appreciate that 01:25:58.530 --> 01:26:03.050 and welcome them all to come back and i'm hoping they enjoyed that hour or two 01:26:03.050 --> 01:26:07.550 that they spent with us as much as we did you know so moving forward hopefully 01:26:07.550 --> 01:26:10.470 find some new friends and keep the old ones yeah. 01:26:12.223 --> 01:26:16.223 I mentioned a few times, there's a couple new guests that I work on getting 01:26:16.223 --> 01:26:21.483 on and then I've also been trying to work on some older ones to bring back on 01:26:21.483 --> 01:26:27.103 just to kind of keep that relationship because I would love to get Matt from Bay Area back on. 01:26:27.903 --> 01:26:33.403 Just kind of shoot the shit. Yeah, OG of our show. He's willing to come on when 01:26:33.403 --> 01:26:35.043 we were just first getting started. 01:26:35.323 --> 01:26:37.623 I think he's been on two or three times. 01:26:38.083 --> 01:26:41.463 He sent us some products. We hung out with him and, 01:26:42.323 --> 01:26:44.983 watched the hockey game and had some dinner with him when we 01:26:44.983 --> 01:26:47.963 were down in Florida and just such a genuinely nice dude 01:26:47.963 --> 01:26:50.963 and everything he's doing he's doing the right way with 01:26:50.963 --> 01:26:54.423 his company and with his products so which yeah we 01:26:54.423 --> 01:26:58.383 didn't we didn't mention any of his because over the last year we haven't used 01:26:58.383 --> 01:27:03.683 any of his products but well on the show I've probably used one of his products 01:27:03.683 --> 01:27:08.963 at least once a week oh yeah but yeah fantastic dude Jay from bourbon baggers 01:27:08.963 --> 01:27:13.263 which we add on And we'd love to get him back on and talk about how he's been. 01:27:13.863 --> 01:27:17.423 He seems like he's been growing like crazy since the first time. 01:27:17.503 --> 01:27:20.363 That first time he reached out to us, like, hey, do you guys want to check this stuff out? 01:27:20.943 --> 01:27:24.803 And now he's got the whole website. He's got these glasses, a couple different 01:27:24.803 --> 01:27:27.523 types of baggers, good stuff there. 01:27:27.823 --> 01:27:32.323 But yeah, it's like I said, it's been a fun couple of years just hanging out 01:27:32.323 --> 01:27:35.863 with you guys and smoking, drinking, and hanging out with some cool people. 01:27:38.227 --> 01:27:40.987 But with any year there's the good and the 01:27:40.987 --> 01:27:43.907 bad we've had a little bit of bad here recently and 01:27:43.907 --> 01:27:46.787 so it's uh only fitting 01:27:46.787 --> 01:27:50.007 as we end end the year the right 01:27:50.007 --> 01:27:53.127 way with the bad i'm here 01:27:53.127 --> 01:27:56.247 you probably don't have it handy but i'll i'll be the sacrificial lamb 01:27:56.247 --> 01:27:59.167 if you want to wait like two seconds i'll run inside grab 01:27:59.167 --> 01:28:02.627 my last half ounce and let's do it because i don't see any 01:28:02.627 --> 01:28:05.547 way we can end this year without this 01:28:05.547 --> 01:28:08.487 christmas bottle it is a christmas bottle i mean 01:28:08.487 --> 01:28:13.807 it is it's green and red it's great for the holidays it's herbal in every way 01:28:13.807 --> 01:28:20.567 and it is absolute regurgitation in a bottle but we've we've done it before 01:28:20.567 --> 01:28:24.747 i think that's how we should end this show yeah if you give me two two seconds 01:28:24.747 --> 01:28:27.827 i'll edit the little dead space out unless you want to talk about whatever. 01:28:29.207 --> 01:28:33.167 I'll kind of talk through what we just did with this one if you guys listen 01:28:33.167 --> 01:28:36.147 to if you want to go grab yours listen to our. 01:28:37.227 --> 01:28:42.447 Previous episodes we've gotten into a little bit of this Jepson's Malort here 01:28:42.447 --> 01:28:46.547 lately I don't know how it came about or why it came about but, 01:28:47.590 --> 01:28:52.990 anyone doesn't know what Jepson's Mallort is, it's absolute trash in a bottle. 01:28:53.730 --> 01:28:57.830 And it's marketed as such. They know what they're selling and we know what we're buying. 01:28:58.230 --> 01:29:03.310 It's kind of a Chicago thing. If you ever go to Chicago and your buddies live 01:29:03.310 --> 01:29:04.430 there or something, you go to 01:29:04.430 --> 01:29:06.810 the bar with them, they're going to try to pour you up a shot of Mallort. 01:29:07.210 --> 01:29:10.850 So you've been warned now because some people have never heard of it before 01:29:10.850 --> 01:29:12.230 and they absolutely get tricked. 01:29:12.770 --> 01:29:17.170 But nobody likes this stuff. I don't care what anyone says. Nobody likes it. 01:29:17.590 --> 01:29:20.690 It is a gimmick, and it is awful. 01:29:21.130 --> 01:29:25.630 It is, the best way I can describe it is if somebody dumped, 01:29:25.630 --> 01:29:31.370 like, the wet lawn trimmings from a grass, like, from a lawnmower bag into a 01:29:31.370 --> 01:29:35.470 dumpster, and it rained, and you drunk the puddle underneath that dumpster. 01:29:35.930 --> 01:29:41.190 That is pretty much the tasting profile on this Jepson's Malort, 01:29:41.210 --> 01:29:44.410 and my mouth is already watering in a bad way, just thinking, yeah, I want this. 01:29:44.850 --> 01:29:47.250 But, we're gluttons for punishment. 01:29:47.710 --> 01:29:51.490 And we've talked about such good products that we've had this year, 01:29:51.690 --> 01:29:55.330 such fantastic pours, cigars, and beer products. 01:29:55.650 --> 01:30:01.730 I find it only fitting to take the good with the bad, and I poured way too much in this fucking glass. 01:30:04.090 --> 01:30:07.850 I was doing this out of a shot glass before for a reason. 01:30:08.070 --> 01:30:11.530 I didn't want to taint any of my glens, and I don't have a shot glass handy, 01:30:11.650 --> 01:30:14.490 and I did not realize how much I poured, so this is going to hurt. 01:30:14.490 --> 01:30:18.030 That is a damn near ounce right there. 01:30:18.210 --> 01:30:22.850 That's at least an ounce. Maybe an ounce and a half. I got maybe an ounce left. 01:30:23.410 --> 01:30:25.210 The little sample you sent. Yeah. 01:30:26.120 --> 01:30:29.300 Half ounce half ounce not an ounce half ounce we've said 01:30:29.300 --> 01:30:31.900 this before once again the nose is nothing i mean 01:30:31.900 --> 01:30:35.200 all i smell is i get that that grapefruit 01:30:35.200 --> 01:30:38.360 no yeah a little bit of grapefruit a little bit of herbalness nothing 01:30:38.360 --> 01:30:41.780 bad at all nothing that you would think that of what's 01:30:41.780 --> 01:30:47.200 to come um i also i'm more so get some cherry notes from the the last four i 01:30:47.200 --> 01:30:50.880 had which was four rows a single barrel so it's like it's tricking my senses 01:30:50.880 --> 01:30:54.660 into thinking that this might have some cherry on it but it does not that being 01:30:54.660 --> 01:30:59.160 said i did send one out sample of this to our buddy jason, 01:30:59.660 --> 01:31:02.820 with our secret santa and it was unlabeled 01:31:02.820 --> 01:31:05.660 i was not expecting him to drink it first but he 01:31:05.660 --> 01:31:09.340 drank it first i sent him an abc and 01:31:09.340 --> 01:31:12.040 then this one and then some other fours he went with this one 01:31:12.040 --> 01:31:15.100 first it was unlabeled that was his fault i 01:31:15.100 --> 01:31:17.960 didn't tell him to drink it first he was trying to be nice and 01:31:17.960 --> 01:31:21.180 say yeah it was all right he played it off well he didn't want to he didn't 01:31:21.180 --> 01:31:23.880 want to hurt your feelings and then once i told him what it was he was like 01:31:23.880 --> 01:31:28.360 all right it was bad but he goes honestly it wasn't as bad as i thought it would 01:31:28.360 --> 01:31:33.300 be he goes but it was still pretty bad which is the best compliment i've ever 01:31:33.300 --> 01:31:36.100 heard to this stuff it wasn't as bad as i thought it would be because. 01:31:37.480 --> 01:31:41.380 My usually the reaction i get is that is so much worse than i thought it would 01:31:41.380 --> 01:31:43.920 be even if i tell people this is the worst stuff you're ever going to taste 01:31:43.920 --> 01:31:47.780 most people like whatever i had bad crap before let me try that and they smell 01:31:47.780 --> 01:31:50.240 it and they're like it's not that bad i can have this and then, 01:31:50.240 --> 01:31:52.840 and then you drink it and then, 01:31:53.180 --> 01:31:55.600 yeah, you regret it for a long time. 01:31:55.740 --> 01:31:59.080 But yeah, if you want to really see us getting into this, check out our, 01:31:59.220 --> 01:32:00.380 it was a Christmas episode, right? 01:32:00.760 --> 01:32:05.380 The last episode. Yeah. I even mixed this with eggnog, which was one of the 01:32:05.380 --> 01:32:08.880 worst decisions I've ever made because that just made the. 01:32:10.662 --> 01:32:15.202 Profile just stick to my palate coat my palate with a little bit of eggnog that 01:32:15.202 --> 01:32:21.702 was in it so my lord eggnog is is very bad very evil don't do don't do that take it from me, 01:32:22.462 --> 01:32:26.222 so with that being said i guess we can sign out and then punish ourselves one 01:32:26.222 --> 01:32:31.422 last time you want to sign it up yeah well thanks guys for another awesome season 01:32:31.422 --> 01:32:35.802 of uh or not season year i should say because we're still kind of in the middle 01:32:35.802 --> 01:32:38.162 season of bourbon beards and Belvedeers. 01:32:38.302 --> 01:32:42.542 You can find us on all our socials at Bourbon Beards and Belvedeers including 01:32:42.542 --> 01:32:45.222 what's TikTok one that's all fucked up. 01:32:45.422 --> 01:32:50.402 So you got B-U-R-B-N Beards Belvedeers on TikTok. 01:32:50.982 --> 01:33:02.542 You got at Bourbon Beards and Belvedeers pod on YouTube and Facebook and Instagram 01:33:02.542 --> 01:33:04.702 is Bourbon Beards and Belvedeers. 01:33:05.822 --> 01:33:10.282 There'll be a link on there should 01:33:10.282 --> 01:33:13.542 be links on whether it's youtube or whatever podcast 01:33:13.542 --> 01:33:17.322 platform if not you also have beacons.ai forward 01:33:17.322 --> 01:33:20.182 slash bourbon beards and belvedeers which will give you all the 01:33:20.182 --> 01:33:23.522 links the websites i started a well 01:33:23.522 --> 01:33:26.342 we first started i started up like a little app that 01:33:26.342 --> 01:33:30.002 kept what we were drinking with what we're smoking and the beard product that 01:33:30.002 --> 01:33:35.282 we use for episode but i haven't updated that since episode like 40 and i think 01:33:35.282 --> 01:33:41.482 we're on like episode like 110 right now so that might not get updated uh but 01:33:41.482 --> 01:33:43.602 but yeah that is all the the links there so. 01:33:45.808 --> 01:33:50.008 You're already struggling to get your words out because you know what's coming. Oh, I do. 01:33:52.888 --> 01:33:57.168 So cheers, guys. Thanks for listening and stick with us. More good things to come. 01:33:57.328 --> 01:34:00.188 We got some good stuff lined up that we're going to do in this coming year. 01:34:00.348 --> 01:34:05.348 It's good pours, great cigars, and awesome guests lined up that we're looking forward to. 01:34:05.548 --> 01:34:10.008 And reach out to us if you want to join us, whether you have a product to talk 01:34:10.008 --> 01:34:11.348 about or if you just want to hang out. 01:34:11.348 --> 01:34:15.048 I mean we're more than that's something else 01:34:15.048 --> 01:34:18.208 i've been thinking about just doing like the community people 01:34:18.208 --> 01:34:21.348 are shooting fireworks off already i don't know if you guys are hearing it getting more 01:34:21.348 --> 01:34:25.808 of like community people out here like just the just 01:34:25.808 --> 01:34:28.968 the guys on instagram that follow us and that we 01:34:28.968 --> 01:34:32.228 follow and stuff like that just get them on here shoot the shit we'll drink 01:34:32.228 --> 01:34:36.308 some cigar or drink some whiskey smoke some cigars if you got beards and you 01:34:36.308 --> 01:34:40.288 want to use some beard products we'll we'll get you some of those too but yeah 01:34:40.288 --> 01:34:43.588 getting just that can be the whiskey and cigar community down here would be 01:34:43.588 --> 01:34:46.768 kind of cool to be a little different absolutely, 01:34:48.048 --> 01:34:49.368 so enough beating around the 01:34:49.368 --> 01:34:55.868 bush i think we're procrastinating at this point cheers to uh 2025 cheers. 01:35:01.003 --> 01:35:07.463 See in my face just went all flush red oh it's in the back of my throat it's so, 01:35:08.683 --> 01:35:14.863 disgustingly herbal there's no other it's like the worst herbal notes and i can't even, 01:35:15.703 --> 01:35:25.663 god that's so bad god oh i gotta look back over my notes to remember the good stuff we had, 01:35:26.683 --> 01:35:34.383 fucking terrible oh my god well no thanks jepson's yeah again ruined a great 01:35:34.383 --> 01:35:39.383 episode that being said i think we all well you both have a bottle i gotta grab 01:35:39.383 --> 01:35:44.463 a bottle and i think every special episode whether it's new year's christmas 01:35:44.463 --> 01:35:46.543 our thanksgiving specials, 01:35:47.103 --> 01:35:50.963 whatever super bowl i think we gotta do it i think it's gotta be a a thing, 01:35:52.403 --> 01:36:01.143 oh yeah no i don't think i'm trying not to chase it just oh i had to which didn't 01:36:01.143 --> 01:36:04.303 help i got my old-fashioned still still didn't help the. 01:36:06.306 --> 01:36:11.046 Need to get into a habit of um maybe sending a pour of this out as a sign off 01:36:11.046 --> 01:36:18.526 to some of our guests too just get an honest reaction from some unsuspecting 01:36:18.526 --> 01:36:21.926 oh that would have been i'm just trying to think of the guests that we had on 01:36:21.926 --> 01:36:24.866 we send that to john aldi with beard apothegarian, 01:36:25.326 --> 01:36:28.106 he might have thrown it like out his garage or wherever 01:36:28.106 --> 01:36:31.046 he does his stuff from he probably would have been pissed off that 01:36:31.046 --> 01:36:34.006 would have been a great one that's what i'm thinking we can get some good reactions 01:36:34.006 --> 01:36:36.906 because usually when we're done recording with some of our guests we're 01:36:36.906 --> 01:36:40.506 all feeling pretty pretty loose so if 01:36:40.506 --> 01:36:43.606 uh if we can catch somebody off guard like some of these chicago natives 01:36:43.606 --> 01:36:46.326 do with people that come into their town and serve them 01:36:46.326 --> 01:36:50.926 up the shot without anyone knowing what it is because surprisingly there's a 01:36:50.926 --> 01:36:54.426 lot of people who don't know what this is i just i feel like we're we're in 01:36:54.426 --> 01:36:58.766 this world where it's a thing you know but some people we might get in the cigar 01:36:58.766 --> 01:37:03.606 world or the beard care world that have never heard of this that might be that's 01:37:03.606 --> 01:37:04.626 going to be our goal for this year. 01:37:06.506 --> 01:37:11.486 So if we have you on this show if we have you as a guest whether you're a beard 01:37:11.486 --> 01:37:16.706 product company cigar company, whiskey company or just in the community and 01:37:16.706 --> 01:37:19.146 we send you a pour, it is not going to be Malor, 01:37:19.966 --> 01:37:23.286 that being said, thanks guys for listening to another episode, 01:37:24.666 --> 01:37:28.086 I got to sign off quick because this shit is just stuck in my mouth again, 01:37:29.166 --> 01:37:34.506 good episode, it was fun great great products up until this bullshit but until 01:37:34.506 --> 01:37:40.926 well you say until next year yeah happy new year happy new year's everybody cheers cheers. 01:38:30.316 --> 01:38:34.056 And Belvedere is produced by Adam Bolden, Paul Rousseau, and Jerry Ullman. 01:38:34.356 --> 01:38:38.636 Edited by Jerry Ullman. Music by Ryan Johnson. You can find all of our links 01:38:38.636 --> 01:38:44.216 on our website at bourbonbeardsandbelvedere.com and at beacons.ai forward slash 01:38:44.216 --> 01:38:45.456 bourbonbeardsandbelvedere. 01:38:45.596 --> 01:38:49.076 As always, enjoy your bourbon and cigars responsibly. Cheers.

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