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The “Chitucky Bourbon Brothers” podcast, hosted by Mike Nielsen and Tony Meyers, serves as a delightful exploration of bourbon and whiskey culture, offering insightful reviews and discussions about various bourbons and whiskeys. The hosts share their passion for sipping “brown water,” a colloquial term for bourbon and whiskey, and aim to blend music with their love for these beverages, creating an engaging auditory experience for listeners. The podcast not only provides detailed reviews of different bourbons and whiskeys but also promotes a relaxed atmosphere where enthusiasts can enjoy the nuances of their favorite drinks alongside music that complements the experience.
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Episode 109 - Larceny Barrel Proof A125
Can a song from a classic movie and a fine bourbon be the perfect pairing for an unforgettable podcast of nostalgia and laughter? Join us as the Geto Boys' song "Damn it feels great to be gangsta" brings us back the classic movie, "Office Space," reminiscing about the iconic scenes that made us all dream of smashing a malfunctioning printer to bits. As we chuckle over the antics of Michael Bolton and Peter’s million-dollar fantasies, we set the stage for a spirited adventure to Costco, where an unexpected treasure, Larceny Barrel Proof A125, awaits. This find leads us on a flavorful journey through the storied past of John E. Fitzgerald, the legendary treasury agent with a taste for fine bourbon, setting the backdrop for a tantalizing tasting experience.
Pour yourself a glass and listen in as we explore wheated bourbons, with this Larceny expression putting others on notice thanks to its unique mash bill of 68% corn, 20% wheat, and 12% barley. With vanilla and caramel notes delighting our palates, we playfully attempt to enhance an old-fashioned with our amateur mixology skills. As we sip on this 6–8-year aged bourbon, we celebrate its versatility for any occasion and marvel at the contemporary allure of the A125 release. Whether you're a bourbon enthusiast or you just want to be a gangsta, this episode promises a blend of humor, nostalgia, and whiskey appreciation that will leave you both entertained and informed.
Damn, it feels good to be a gangster. Damn, it feels good to be a gangster If you don't like this beat.
Speaker 2:I don't think you can be a friend of mine, like it's just it just is so great.
Speaker 3:Do you remember the first time you heard it?
Speaker 2:Not before Office Space, the movie. That was it. Yeah, you watch that movie and you're like and I think they play it a few times like when they're breaking the computer. Breaking the printer or the copier or the printer or whatever the hell. It is Fax machines, whatever An all-in-one. Remember those. Hey, I got a printer and a fax and a telephone and you're like I got the coolest thing ever and then it breaks and you have nothing.
Speaker 3:Such a great movie there's about that movie. There's probably about three or four parts of that movie that are just hysterical. They might be some of the fast, the best, most funniest parts of any movie.
Speaker 2:We haven't gone through them, but I'm guessing a couple of them. I could probably name your three, but is one when they're sitting in the guy's apartment drinking?
Speaker 3:the beer. Oh yeah, hey, well, hey, what would you do if you won a million bucks? Such a great movie I'll tell you what I do two chicks at the same time, jesus man is that all you do. Well, yeah, that's, that's what I do. He goes well, oh my god did you watch it last night?
Speaker 3:no, he's like what would you do? He goes nothing. I would do nothing. And then that guy, the construction worker, the neighbor, goes man, you don't need a million dollars, do nothing. My cousin he's broke as shit he does nothing shot talking about brothers mike and tony.
Speaker 2:Oh, the fucking ghetto boys. That's who that is. Uh, they don't have many other good songs, but as long as you have that one that's all that matters.
Speaker 3:They had more than when I was looking this up. They have like five albums.
Speaker 2:But one good song. That's all it takes. So it's 2025, and Mr Tony went to Costco today I think it was a family run. He said they were out of their paper products.
Speaker 1:It's a good place to buy those.
Speaker 2:Every family Costco runner knows that feeling. You've got to really load the car. You're going to run out of space.
Speaker 3:The paper products take all the room in the cart when he was there.
Speaker 2:he came out of there and he goes hey, I noticed that they had larceny there, and larceny they have in a big, huge handle size of the not barrel proof. But then they switched the label. I did a double take and it's the barrel proof and it was on sale. It's a $65 bottle on sale for $56.99. What a deal, what a deal. So he comes running to the Whiskey House and is like, hey, look what I got. I go, oh, let's do a podcast. Here we are. So we've done larceny in the past. As you guys uh will know or remember or find out for the first time now is that it's a heaven hill product and the bottle, uh, they switched again. All a lot of labeling. Uh, this one, the a125. So january of 25, uh just released in february, just just hot off. The presses couldn't even find any information about it because no one's tried it yet. We're trying it first, I think it literally came out this week.
Speaker 2:I think so too. There is a key on it. Tony and I are like. I remember we did this before. What's the key? The key is Larceny is named after John E Fitzgerald. He was a treasury agent who used his keys to Kentucky Bourbon warehouses to steal Treasury agents. Stealing Sounds like 2025.
Speaker 3:Premium barrels to bottle them under his, they just take money now Digress Under his brand, old Fitzgerald.
Speaker 2:So Old Fitzgerald started Digress Under his brand, old Fitzgerald. So Old Fitzgerald started. So that's why, larceny, he was stealing the barrels. So that's the story. Heaven Hill brand Again. This is coming in at 125 proof. It's also called A125 for January of 25. And it is the Larceny straight bourbon whiskey weeded bourbon mash bill. I believe they are all a weeded bourbon mash bill. I believe they are all they are weeded mash bill. But now you know, for the people that don't know, they are pointing more things out on the label. So we've covered a lot already. But guess what the website says, the label, which does look different. It shows some different detail if you put it under a black light.
Speaker 2:I know I cannot wait to try this I said man tony, who didn't have a black light 20 years ago, he goes, he goes. I still got one at home and I'm like, oh my god, of course you do?
Speaker 3:I've got a whole box of like and I think your quote was, we got really cool stuff at home don't don't. I got all kinds. I got like a whole party room dude.
Speaker 2:So then tony's gonna break out his black light. So we haven't gotten there yet. But also the back of the label has a little QR code that is hidden in there and if you scan it it takes you to their website and there's a video playing. It's not the barrel proof, which is the good stuff, but there's a cool video that plays and pretty much makes you want to drink Larceny. So that's my 411 on Larceny. So that's my.
Speaker 3:They're definitely going after the new generation that that video was kind of cool, like if you, if you go to the new larceny website or probably just larceny website now in general, their new commercial was kind of cool. It was really. It was all young people. Obviously, there's a piano plan and it's all about their new. There's this new campaign. So I guess when they opened, when they started this new bottle back in the fall, they obviously had a whole new ad campaign and everything and it's called Seize Tonight. So I think in the commercial it actually even says that Seize Tonight.
Speaker 2:It's crazy that this is year over year, last few years. This is one first place and stuff Either the one of the three times it comes out during the year, and now they're like creating a campaign behind it which it sells itself. It doesn't need a campaign, but all right, so seize, the night is the campaign. Yeah, and does that mean get drunk?
Speaker 3:no, I mean like drink too much larceny. It's centered around an idea that the most memorable moments happen when you let your, when you let curiosity get the best of yourself and you take a little risk. Deep. I'm down with that. Deep I like it, though that's kind of like what entrepreneurs do, right You've got to take a little risk, no reward. Yeah, yeah, we were just talking about a dance hall. You've got to have the risk.
Speaker 2:We were talking about a buddy in Michigan. Yeah, he is starting a dance hall line, dancing lessons, stuff like that, and I can't believe he's getting it to pay for itself already. It's unbelievable, and he might get, might get some grant money from the state of Michigan. Uh, it's, it's pretty awesome. But we were saying like, hey, when you uh, you gotta, you gotta get out there and prove yourself. And the entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well. So I guess that's cool larceny.
Speaker 2:I think they're still trying to say like drink a bunch of our whiskey, but yeah I mean it's the new bottle is definitely a little it.
Speaker 3:They're going after the, the. I guess you know just the history of john e fitzgerald. I mean they're really trying. I mean, if you look at the bottom of it it says like stolen by, because you know that's because the keys that you were talking about before, where he'd steal all the good whiskey and then when he had to dump it out it'd be light because he already took a bunch of bottles of what he really liked, um, you know. So they're definitely going after it. One thing I did.
Speaker 3:They're playing up the story, for sure and I you even mentioned it the first time you saw it is how big they put weeder weeded on there and that's you, don't? You're starting to see that a little more often, I feel like, especially with Weller and Maker's Mark. I mean, Larceny is really one of Heaven Hill's big weeded stuff.
Speaker 2:I mean they don't do a lot of weeded and people are starting to know that you go back five, ten years people, whether their bourbon was a weeded bourbon or not, with that fourth ingredient, they didn't really sorry. Third instead of the other third, which is rye, they didn't really care. But now they're putting it right on there to say hey, if you're someone that likes weeders, you should try this.
Speaker 3:And these are big. I feel like these are 20% wheat. I feel like it's like a 68, 20, 12 or something like that. I think is what the normal mash bill is. I assume the barrel proof is the same Funny.
Speaker 2:you should ask Tony.
Speaker 3:What is it for?
Speaker 2:sure, last year's A124 was a 68% corn, 20 wheat exactly on the nose what you said and a 12 barley.
Speaker 3:I think that's their normal, that's what all larceny is. I think that's just their, that's their mash pill, that's it. And this is a higher proof, because this is a barrel proof, yeah 125. I don't know if you said that, but that's coming in.
Speaker 2:The 8-124 also came out very quote spice forward, and most would be surprised if they ever top that spice level in the future. It wasn't for everybody. I think it did well, uh, we drank it, I'm not mistaken. We liked it, if I'm not mistaken. Uh, because it still had a good uh sweetness backbone to it after. After that spice got through to you. So, uh, if you got without further ado, I think it's time to take a sip of this we're going pretty blind here because, uh, it came out a couple days ago.
Speaker 2:Some websites were I'm sitting here looking around some websites were like updating every 15 minutes, that it's like the rob report.
Speaker 3:Like literally, when we started this it was like 17 minutes ago. I was like 17 minutes ago. What the hell happened 17 minutes ago? It smells great.
Speaker 2:Not a crazy high-proof spice, so that's not coming through, but it's not lacking spice.
Speaker 3:Very vanilla, caramel-forward toasted. This is a classic, classic bourbon smell.
Speaker 2:Are you getting any spice? Like a rye, is the or is the wheat? Um, just in the way of smelling, I know that there's no rye in it, but are you getting?
Speaker 3:I think it's the more of the higher alcohol that you're getting where this is the spice the um.
Speaker 2:They do a lot of malt in these, so it has kind of a malty I don't know the orange thing.
Speaker 3:did you thing? Was it like orange peel, is that?
Speaker 2:what you were talking about. I was saying when we tried it before it had a burnt orange peel and I asked Tony. I said, do you know how to do that? And he immediately knew what I was talking about, which is when you're making an old-fashioned and you put the orange peel on the rim. If you dip the orange peel in the booze, you can light the orange peel on fire and you can create a different burnt flavor and Tony's like, yeah, it makes it way better.
Speaker 2:I haven't been able to do it, but last time I tried I burned myself.
Speaker 3:I keep burning my fingers. Poor guy, I've tried. It makes a.
Speaker 2:How many times have you tried it and how many times have you burned yourself? Just once.
Speaker 3:I've only got it to actually change the composition once out of at least a half dozen to ten times I can I try it. I can't get it to light I can see your family.
Speaker 2:It's friday night. All of a sudden you're peeling oranges and it's like oh, stand back, dad's dad's trying the orange peel project. You're like, no, I'm just making an old-fashioned, but yes, I'm gonna all going to All right, let's taste this.
Speaker 3:It's so true because, yeah, whatever, I have no problem burning myself. Actually, my wife loves when I make old-fashioned. I actually have a really good old-fashioned mix, I think, in order. I would love to try to add that to it.
Speaker 2:That is true, tony has a really great old-fashioned. I do not, but I have been steering towards Manhattans lately. Oh right, oh man, this is excellent, big word, excellent. Little heat on that at first and then it really levels off. It's like top of your mouth right, yeah, but a little all over the place, but a kind of bright fruit with like a creamy vanilla and it's kind of like a sweetness with a very dessert-like and I think that orange peel is in there. I don't know about the burnt, I'm not getting anything burnt at all, definitely.
Speaker 3:I mean this is, I would say it's got. There might be a little orange in there. I'm getting a little orange. I'm trying to pick something else out because it's so boring to say the same things it's caramel, it's vanilla, it's oaky. Yeah, obviously I don't know if we said how old this was, but they won't give us a true age, they're just saying six to eight year.
Speaker 2:For six to eight year. I mean it's right back to the strength of the Heaven Hill brand. I mean someone else gives you a six-ish year, six, seven, eight, and it's like can be not that great at all. This has man, it's got legs for this could be a daily, this could be a specialty, this could be 56 bucks.
Speaker 3:I'm going to have to go pick out another one. I'm going to go back tomorrow.
Speaker 2:Case of it.
Speaker 3:Limit one.
Speaker 2:Costco regulars pop over and get one before it goes. I'm going to go over tomorrow and get another one, but Tony and I love a good proof. This is not light. This is not light. No, and I would say in that way it's not a daily drinker. We like kind of full-bodied stuff usually. I like rye usually and I like how the rye is coming through on this even though there's no rye in it, meaning a little spice level. And again, for being as young as it is, so great. The regular Larceny bottle is 92 proof. The regular Larceny bottle is 92 proof. And if you think this might be a little too much, maybe pick up both, because Costco has the big handle and that's great for making cocktails and everything else.
Speaker 2:So maybe this is not your everyday drinker, but, man, it's coming through, definitely better than last year's A1.
Speaker 3:I think that there's. Is it an espresso that I'm maybe getting in this? I'm trying to pick something else out. Is it like an espresso or a dark chocolate?
Speaker 2:or something that's in this Dark, not milk. If I was picking a chocolate, I don't know.
Speaker 3:Something besides that orange peel.
Speaker 2:Because that sweetness of milk chocolate's not there and then I don't know. There's something in there, there's just something. A coffee note is a tough note At least it is for me but it does have that strength behind it, like a little cup of espresso would Something. Which I love.
Speaker 3:I don't know. I like it. It's something I'm just trying to pick something other than the vanilla and the. You know, I do like how it opens up with the fruit, the vanilla, it continues through. I feel like it's towards the end. It starts changing a little bit and you're going to get a little bit of that orange, or maybe it's a chocolate or I don't know. I don't know about expresso, but maybe it's. I don't know. There's something in there at the end. That's just I can't get my words on it, but it's very good.
Speaker 2:Hmm, um, give it a, give it a rating, all right.
Speaker 3:Oh, sorry, sorry Uh do all of it Shareable. I love weeders, especially with my favorite of the basic maker's mark. I've always been a big fan of the sweetness of weeders and I feel like this doesn't disappoint Influence. I'm a huge Heaven Hill fan and there's only positive things to say. Price is fantastic at $56, even at $65, and I think a lot of places will sell it for 70 or 75. And I still would buy it. I think this is a. These are these. These are one of the three bottles that heaven home makes every year that, if you can, if you see one, you should pick it up, no matter what, just pick it up your neighborhood at the corner liquor store.
Speaker 2:That's what they're going to do. They're only going to get some money. They're not Costco. 75 or 80 probably wouldn't be a guess. A ripoff place would be 99 99. Um, but still, uh, when they run out and they're gone, you'll, you'll still. I would still be fine paying that question for you. Yes, heaven Hill also has their Elijah Craig barrel proof. Um, similar, but different, correct Cause it's not a weeder. Very, so do you. I tend to like those more.
Speaker 3:You not so much. I would say I like the Larceny more and you like the Elijah Craig more, and the reason for me is that I know you like the spice of a little bit of rye and the Elijah Craig has rye in it. It not only has rye, but it's probably a 15% to 20% rye. Right, I don't know it off the top of my head, but that's what I would guess. Very similar mash bills. They come out twice a year, three times, three times. Sorry, yeah, Three times a year, and they come out the same time. They're. They're labeled the same, the A, B, C, you know, January.
Speaker 3:May so they come out similar. They I think they're literally bottled just a few weeks apart from each other, so the elijah craigs have been out for a few weeks, so you could probably find those, those msrp, for like 10 bucks more, if my memory's correct and a lot of times those end up at closer to 100 yeah, I would say
Speaker 2:10 bucks, more plus, yeah, you know, some markup and whatever those are I think I buy those usually at like that 89.99 range all right. So am I sharing this? Um, yeah, I'm kind of sharing it from the perspective of the third letter, which is price, and I feel like whenever I get something at a deep discount, I just want, I do want to share it. Um, influence heaven Hill, come on yo. Yeah, that's great. Um, so, hitting all there, um, I'll go with a rating of, hmm, high threes, um, um, 3.9.
Speaker 3:Ooh, wow, we're going to tenths now. It's a new year.
Speaker 2:It's a new year I was like this is going to be boring. I needed to spice it up.
Speaker 3:No, pun intended, it's a new year.
Speaker 2:I was like what's going to do that? Oh, tony's going to love tenths.
Speaker 3:No, I'm giving this a straight four.
Speaker 2:That was where I was from the beginning, and I also knew you were going to do that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, this was a straight, easy four to me, 3.9. I kind of like that. We don't do a lot of tenths, we usually do everything in eighths, but I guess you know three and seven eighths, which is 8. Was it .875? And .9 is pretty close, we'll let that fly.
Speaker 2:I'm glad because I didn't want to break out a calculator.
Speaker 3:I'm glad we're going to let. I'm changing it on the spreadsheet to 3.875 because you can't just mess that up.
Speaker 2:As they say, guys, everyone loves a good deal and you don't even have to clip a coupon. All you got to do is have your little membership at Costco. They have good deals at Sam's. So if you're a Sam's person, not Costco, I'm fine with that. I'm not usually fine with Walmart because they don't have good whiskey there ever.
Speaker 2:Actually, as far as discount goes, maybe they do. Maybe in other states they do, but not in the Illinois, Indiana, Michigan territory. So anyway, Larceny is, we both really liked it. If you have enough time, get over to Costco and get yourself one.
Speaker 3:Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2:Maybe get your paper products, while you're there, your yogurts.
Speaker 1:Yeah, some chips. Snacks.
Speaker 3:Chips Coca-Cola Coca-Cola's.
Speaker 1:Waters, maybe a pair of pants.
Speaker 3:Yeah, actually they had some nice looking pants, so I looked at them, but they didn't have my length. I need 34 length. They didn't have them. I was pissed.
Speaker 2:We have a lot of SIPP members and friends that you know I'm starting to think they're buying too much clothing at Costco and yes, there is too much. I'm not saying you need to be, you know, a stylist or you know, have some heightened level this go off on a man but it's. It's not the best looking stuff.
Speaker 3:It's just pretty sure the sweater you're wearing right now is not something they have.
Speaker 2:It's your it's your comfortable leisure clothing. But you know it just checks all the American boxes. You go to your kid's basketball game. You look around and you're like everyone here.
Speaker 3:Do you know what I saw there today? You're going to die. Guess what? I saw a 75-inch TV for Just guess. I actually saw it and started laughing in Cup Drive. No, not low, but it was $600. $600 for a 75-inch TV that's, remarkably, hilariously cheap.
Speaker 2:We're to the point where, if you've got a TV in the bedroom or wherever it is in your house and you lose the remote in the cushions, it's cheaper to buy a TV. Yeah, you might as well just take the TV off the wall and throw it away. Dude, it's unbelievable If it's a smaller one, because the smaller one's like 40 inches, like $120.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it is like and you're getting a great tv. You're getting the best of the best tv that came out, you know, five plus years ago. You're not getting all the bells and whistles, but anyway go get yourself a tv at costco as well and pick up yourself a bottle of larceny uh let's go out and just I just I just I just hit pause before and we're just, we're just kind of using back in.
Speaker 3:It's just been it play. I just hit pause before and we're just kind of oozing back in. It's just been a gettable.
Speaker 2:I mean, I just know some listeners and a lot of friends where just you hear this and you just want to keep it playing. Well, don't make them go find it, let's just have it play for them right now.
Speaker 3:Just let it ride.
Speaker 2:Maybe a good, you know, 30, 40 minutes. Do you remember the?
Speaker 3:jump to conclusion Matt.
Speaker 2:I have no idea what you're talking about From Office Space.
Speaker 3:That's part of the movie. Yeah, the jump to conclusion. Matt, remember one of the bobs that got, or not the bob? The guy that got fired and he got hit by the car? Anyway, never mind, you watch the movie. Go watch the movie the Red Stapler. Mind you watch the movie. Go watch the movie the red stapler. Yeah, that guy is pina colada. Poor guy. Oh, it's so funny. Poor guy, lumber did her that's not the line.
Speaker 2:It doesn't work. When you say, did her lumber fucked her? Yeah, that's the way to say it. She's been around. She's been around like a record. Thanks for taking a listen. We're having some fun here today drinking some larceny and listening to the ghetto boys. Peace out.
Speaker 1:Damn, it feels good to be a gangster. A real gangsta ass nigga knows the play. The real gangsta ass niggas get the fly. Some of the bitches ask real gangsta ass nigga knows the play the real gangsta ass niggas get the fly. Some of the bitches ask that gangsta ass nigga, little shit. The bitches look at gangsta ass niggas like a stop sign and play the role of Little Miss Sweet. But catch the bitch all alone, get the digit, take her out and end up hitting her ass with a meat. Cause gangsta ass niggas be the game players and everything's quiet in the clique. Cause gangsta ass niggas be the game players and everything's quiet in the clique. A gangsta ass nigga pulls the trigger and his partner's in the posse ain't telling no shit.
