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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 127 - Elijah Craig Barrel Proof C925
A trusted favorite doesn’t always hit the same—and that’s exactly why we poured Elijah Craig Barrel Proof C925 and talked through what’s changing in bourbon right now. We start with the big headline: Jim Beam plans to halt production at its main distillery for 2026. Instead of doom, we see a rational move in a market correcting after years of explosive demand. Tariffs, softer export lanes, and a small but real drop in U.S. alcohol consumption—especially among younger adults—are nudging distillers to manage inventory, not abandon bourbon.
From there, we get curious about how supply cycles and consumer trends shape what’s in your glass. Bourbon survived the mid-century slump, roared back in the 90s, and now sits firmly in the premium spirits tier alongside vodka, tequila, gin and rum. That foundation matters. Diversified portfolios, global distribution, and deeper brand equity make a collapse unlikely. What’s more probable? Easier finds on the shelf, more balanced pricing, and a steady stream of aged releases as warehouses remain full.
Then we taste. C925 arrives at 129 proof with a rare single-digit age statement for the line— 9 yrs, 1 month. On the nose we find vanilla-forward sweetness with a touch of apple and restrained oak. The palate is syrupy with raisin and cinnamon heat, more punch than depth, and a finish that reads younger than past batches. It’s not a bad pour—just a reminder that proof and age need balance. At $70 to $90, it’s still a solid value, but if you’re new to Elijah Craig Barrel Proof, consider waiting for the next A-batch, which often brings a bit more age and complexity.
We wrap with practical buying advice, some banter about Dry January, and a preview of our top whiskies list. If you love bourbon’s craft and culture, this conversation gives you a clear lens on market shifts and a grounded take on a hyped bottle. Enjoy the listen, then tell us your C925 rating and whether you’re seeing fuller shelves where you shop. If you’re into honest reviews and smart insights, follow, share, and leave a quick rating so more whiskey fans can find the show.
That's a big beginning. I didn't realize it went on so long.
SPEAKER_01:I'm waiting for it. I'm waiting for it.
SPEAKER_02:Get away from it.
SPEAKER_01:That open. Love them, leave them. Here it comes. You know what? I want to repeat that line right now, but it's just not gonna sound as good and it's gonna sound a lot more. Guy Tuggy Bourbon Brothers.
SPEAKER_02:How are you, Tony? I'm doing well. This is uh little throwback from the early 2000s. Some old school Jay-Z. Hello listeners. Do you like Jay-Z?
SPEAKER_01:Uh he's Brooklyn. Has he gotten in any trouble? I feel like everybody around him has been in some trouble. Is he on the list? Oh, I don't know how he's not. He went uh he went to the island list?
SPEAKER_02:Oh, I'm sure. He's got he's definitely got baby lotion on his hands. Baby oil on his hands.
SPEAKER_01:Jesus. Baby lotion. Baby oil. Oh, baby oil. Oh man, that's funny. Anyway, Jay-Z, love him or leave him.
SPEAKER_02:Talk about somebody that's made a lot of money on music.
SPEAKER_01:Speaking of love them or leave 'em, let's get into our whiskey. Because I went on uh I was gonna say spring break. I went on uh Christmas break, between Christmas and New Year's this year. And uh I usually bring some booze with me just because I want to have something in the room or something to you know taste, or maybe I'm being cheap because the hotel booze is too expensive. Sometimes you don't duty free it? That wasn't really the case. Well, no, because I want to bring real good stuff. Oh, I don't want to just have like Jack Daniels from Duty Free. Anyway, you can find good stuff at Duty Free. So it depends on where you're going, I guess. I brought this bottle, and then we'll go get into other stuff, but I just want to bring up the bottle first. Uh I brought the Elijah Craig uh this year's version, which is the C925C, which is the third bottle of the year, nine being September 25 being 2025. And it never disappoints. That's why it was brought on a vacation, put in some luggage, checked luggage, and got all the way to where I was and opened it. And I'm like, this shit's hot. So today, Tony walks into the whiskey department and says, Hey, I got something. And I go, uh oh, I forgot to tell you. I don't know. I'm gonna try it again. I'm gonna start over. I'm not on vacation anymore. We're doing it. We're doing it. We're gonna try this Elijah Craig barrel proof. So, but before we do that, we were gonna talk about some stuff. One thing being, how many text messages have you gotten about Jim Beam? Jim Beam closing, not closing, not, but just stopping, and they're gonna stop some production, um, you know, stop distilling a little bit, Jim Beam being a mega, mega, many, many millions of barrels producer. Um, but if they are that big, that means they make a lot because they sell a lot. So why, Tony, has Jim Beam put out that they are gonna stop? Is it slow down or is it stop?
SPEAKER_02:They are going to stop production at their um main distillery for the entire year of 2026. When this popped up, I don't remember when, sometime in the mid-end of December. And I've I got quite a few text messages immediately being like, whoa, what's going on? And my initial, you know, smart ash reply was, oh, this would be great. Maybe I can start getting some stuff for better pricing if people aren't buying everything. I can find some of this allocated bourbon that I want. Not necessarily from Jim Deam Beam, but just in general. But since then, I've done a little research just to figure out, you know, why, what's what's happened. It's it's more like, you know, there's a lot of reasons why. And and you know, it's depending on what you read and who you look at and who you listen to, it's all mixed, it's a mixed bag of stuff. Some people say it's market forces, some people say it's tariffs, others say it's just the consumer behavior changing. And all of it is not positive for Jim Beam. Um, and honestly, their their biggest portion has to probably be with that tariff. That second thing I said, because uh Jim Beam sells so much to Canada. That's what I from my little bit of research, I realized that almost 10% of their bourbon go went to Canada. And uh, since the tariffs and with the Canadians not being happy of us trying to have them become a state, they have cut way back on their uh Jim Beam. And I I think that there's a direct correlation.
SPEAKER_01:And I I answer this question quite a bit, and that's that's where I thought where we where this was gonna go. Because everyone's assuming, all right, not assuming, people are hearing and about the fact that they're we might be in what they call a glut era, which is you know, uh times were really good and now times are pulling back. And um, is that true? Yes, I think 100% that is true.
SPEAKER_02:I don't think I'd use the word glut, but pulling back, I a thousand percent agree with you.
SPEAKER_01:But I think what people think is um that uh I think some people take it as far as like, okay, wit whiskey's going down, whiskey's going away. I think what a few factors you talked about, one which is um less adults drinking, that could change things by you know, consumption of whiskey um and other spirits by a couple percent. Tariffs could change things, just one company uh not shipping off to uh doing uh certain certain exports that could change things by 10%. You know, a certain I think certain people, yeah, is at times people are gonna get into different spirits um and different trends, uh, and that's going to lead to, you know, if all of a sudden a lot less people aren't sitting at a podcast and sipping whiskey like we are, but like are just having less Manhattans and old fashions and things that include whiskey, and then bars are buying less. That's who's really drinking a lot of the booze, like an actual establishment. It's not me and you, it's not someone buying one bottle at a liquor store and taking it home. So I think there's a so many factors here, but I think the main assumption is that whiskey's in trouble and it's going so far down, and we're gonna have distillers close.
SPEAKER_02:I think you're right. I think it the market's just correcting itself. I think you went from this bourbon boom of the 2000s through COVID, where everybody sat home and for some reason the brown liquor, everybody wanted it. I mean, I you and I both know ever the 2010s were tough to find bourbon. That's when everything went blew up, and then all the way until COVID, and then unfortunately, since Clove COVID stopped, everybody slowed down. And you know, that what I've read is that the U.S. adults are that they're drinking less alcohol, like just overall, not just bourbon, but they're down almost six percent all alcohol in just the last two years. So that's just slows the demand. I don't know. I think that you know what you go look at the kid, the younger guy, younger people now, they don't they don't drink as much as I felt like we do. I don't know if it's the I don't know.
SPEAKER_01:Why'd you have the little giggle in there? Do you and I do and I drink too much? Well, that you know, oh I don't know if that's you still couldn't give me a straight answer.
SPEAKER_02:No, the answer's no, very quickly. No, no, no, absolutely not. Um, but no, I think that's just a slower demand. I think this is just purely economics, and unfortunately, you're gonna have such an oversupply because I mean the bourbon was good for 15 years. I mean, look at all the new places that popped up. I mean, how many go to the liquor store and look at the bourbon aisle? It used to be like half of one aisle. Now it's like three aisles or two aisles long, depending on where you go. It is remarkable how many different brands there are and how many different school numbers that all these different distilleries have. Um, but uh one thing I believe is that bourbon's not going away. It's not going to be a glut. There's way too many people that like this, that that drink this. I just think we're a little bit in an over oversupply right now.
SPEAKER_01:And I just listened to uh an interview um of some uh he was actually kind of a well, it was it was an interview done in Kentucky, and the point they made, which I loved, which was okay, whiskey's been around since, let's just go with like uh in America, since the 1800s. When did whiskey start to slow? It was more or less the 50s and the 60s and into the 70s. So they had a uh a period where whiskey and definitely uh bourbon whiskey uh almost went away. Literally, distillers were closed. You drove through, they said the hills of Kentucky and places like Old Taylor uh just literally boarded up and closed their doors. How that is different. So then then it came back 80s into 90s. So now we're let's call it uh from mid-90s to now uh 25, 30 years back. So we've had a whole nother cycle of it. But what they said had has happened in the last 25 years is that bourbon whiskey has become finally a premium liquor or a premium spirit, meaning vodka is a premium spirit, tequila. Some would say isn't isn't yet. Um, it's still kind of new. Uh, rums and gins and things like that. So it's never gonna go to where places they might do the stop or the slowing of production, but we're not gonna ever get to the point of shutting doors andor possibly going away. So I thought that would that was a really good like where is this heading? Yeah, could have a dip further of another 10, 20, 30, 50 percent, and that would be a huge change from where we were over the last 25 years, but uh bourbon whiskey is here to stay.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, I agree, and I and I just looked up something quick while you were talking there, the the vodka explosion. So, what people don't realize is that in like 1950, there were only 40,000 cases of vodka sold in the year in the country, 40,000 in 1950. By 19, by 1976, it was 4.4 million. So those alcohol drinkers just shifted, and I just don't see anything new coming out that's gonna shift that many people away from bourbon. I think you're always gonna have your bourbon people, and I think honestly, one of the good things about all these barrels being being distilled and sitting in the world. You're gonna have a lot more to drink. Well, that's for sure, but I think you're gonna have a lot more special old releases, and we might actually be able to get our hands on some of them. Yeah, because people are gonna keep them. These big companies aren't going under, they're so divested now. Most of these big conglomerates own whiskies and they own um tequila's and they own vodkas and they own different other uh alcohol, alcoholic drinks to where they can, they're just that's a bottom line game. They're just figuring out which one to put more resources into right now.
SPEAKER_01:So, listeners, I hope that was boring, probably. I I hope what we just covered answered a question that either you had or you've been asked by someone who is a fellow whiskey drinker or someone that isn't saying, Oh, you're still drinking whiskey? What like why? I didn't I thought people were getting away from well, some people were getting away from drinking altogether, as Tony said, six percent of adults, or uh, you know, everyone else is just putting hate on whiskey. If if that's the case, then there's more for us to drink. But uh, like I said, I don't I don't think that's uh maybe we have a further correction, but I don't think that's the case. What else did you have to talk about? Was that we're just going into the bottle then?
SPEAKER_02:Well, we can go into the bottle. I was always gonna make some jokes about you know how long your dry January lasted. Because you know what, you know how I don't think that's a real thing.
SPEAKER_01:Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_02:Well, I did you make it till January 2nd?
SPEAKER_01:Uh no, New Year's Day. Um I had a drink because I was still on vacation, I had a drink at 11 o'clock. That's good, dude. 11 o'clock on a vacation. Sometimes a friend of mine does what's called breakfast rum. All right, everyone stop right now and listen. Breakfast rum is orange juice and malibu, which is coconut rum. It is pretty sweet, but the sweet with the kind of like citrus of the orange juice, it is pour a glass of that over some ice. It is spectacular. It's a brand new thing. I didn't drink it. It's called breakfast rum. So for brunch, I didn't have yeah, it's a good brunch drink. It's sort of like a mimosa, which I don't know.
SPEAKER_02:New Year's Day with all the football and everything. I could see getting started. I I I lasted maybe two or three hours longer than that.
SPEAKER_01:But the best thing about you is that dry January actually almost like angers you. I hate it. Yeah, so stupid. Tony's response every time is it's not a real thing. It's not a real thing.
SPEAKER_02:So I sent it out to all of my bourbon dorks on one of my text messages. I wrote, I sent this text out that was like, in the next few days, people are gonna ask you if you're gonna participate in dry January. Make sure you look at them square in the eye and tell them to fuck off. Public service announcement right there.
SPEAKER_01:All right. We're good. Oh my god. Yeah. So uh it is January still, it is still early January, and uh we're drinking here, so we're not gonna do it. Elijah Craig. You know, if you do, uh, you know, kudos to you. Enjoy your January or you know, fight through it, and we'll see you on February 1st. Elijah Craig, barrel proof. Not a real thing. C C925.
SPEAKER_02:Um Elijah Craig started 1986. That's why I was asking about some of that glut questions and stuff because this brand was actually started right towards the end of it, which is you know good timing for them. Yeah, it's kind of perfect.
SPEAKER_01:Um 78% corn, 12 malted barley, and 10 ryce. So corn heavy, 129 scorching proof points, 129 proof. Um, of course, Elijah Craig is made by uh probably my favorite brand, uh bourbon whiskey brand out of Kentucky, which is Heaven Hill. And this comes in at about 75 bucks. Um, I've seen it for$69.99, but then some places throw another 10 or 15 on that. So no matter what tax and 70 to 80 bucks, you're well under 100 bucks for this bottle.
SPEAKER_02:Yes, definitely. Elijah Craig, they consider him the father of bourbon. That's who the guy himself was. He's an old, old um Baptist preacher from the late late 1700s, actually. As crazy as that sounds. But uh yeah, he's he's credited with uh being the first age whiskey and charred oak barrels. So that's where that's where Elijah Craig comes from, and that's where he fits in the hierarchy slash the old family tree of bourbon. Elijah. Elijah, am I saying it wrong?
SPEAKER_01:I I don't know. I don't have I don't know anyone in my whole life that I've ever met that's named Elijah, but I have a weird feeling that someone from Kentucky has some friends named Elijah. Oh, I'm positive, but are you with school with any high school, college, no Elijah's? No, no Elijah's just kind of has just a Kentucky feel to it. Elijah.
SPEAKER_02:It's more preacherish, right?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, which makes sense. Baptists, southern, yeah, yeah. I just I don't I don't know, I do not know any Elijah's. I was going down a road. I thought you'd be like, oh yeah, I had a friend Elijah's. I unfortunately can't help but I had a little strike out there anyway. Elijah Craig, let's uh let's smell it. Uh the one main thing to talk about with this. Oh yeah. Again, back to my vacation. Wasn't a huge fan, it was a little hot, um, but we're starting over, is um like any of these uh barrel-proof Elijah Craig bottles that have been coming out for a while, three per year. This is the first, first, first ever with what they call a single digit age statement coming in uh around nine, is it nine and change? Nine year one month. Nine year, one month. So this baby for an Elijah Craig is a full year younger than anything else, maybe more than a full year younger than anything they've ever put out. The first batch of this year was a little under eleven years, and the B second batch um was uh near a 12-year statement. So this this is a young one. So again, cheers. Sorry, I wanted to say that because uh I think that's gonna have something to do with this.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I mean it's very classic bourbon smells. I think it's a apple-ish.
SPEAKER_01:That's a nice one. Um to me it's just kind of a um an oaky sugar. Um it's not like an overaged oak, because again, we're saying this is um it hits you though. Yeah, it's got a pungent, um strong um sugary, like kind of almost like over vanilla. Like I'm I'm almost like if you opened a bottle of vanilla extract when you're baking some cookies or a cake or whatever, like it's it's it's vanilla in your face.
SPEAKER_02:Oh yeah, for sure.
SPEAKER_01:Not in a bad way, but in a little bit of a boring way. It's not a good thing.
SPEAKER_02:I mean, I to me it's real classic.
SPEAKER_01:I like your pullout here, uh let's taste it. I like your pullout of apple. Yeah, I think it's just a little bit.
SPEAKER_02:I might give a little sweetness, but not not a lot.
SPEAKER_01:A little something there.
SPEAKER_02:Definitely syrupy.
SPEAKER_01:Hiccup? Yeah.
unknown:Okay.
SPEAKER_01:Sorry. Every time you do, I think it's gonna be. I do that a lot, actually. After you take a sip of something, you just automatically and they don't it doesn't continue? No, it's just oh when I hiccup once, I'm going to go.
SPEAKER_02:It's when I chew the it's when I chew the uh when I chew it sometimes, it just I don't know. Whatever. That's what it does.
SPEAKER_01:Alright, we didn't talk about anything. Sorry, sorry, listeners, sorry, Tony had a hiccup. I couldn't I couldn't get past it. Um kind of like a sticky, gooey uh raisin. Oh yeah. Which a raisin to me is kind of like a like a fruit past its prime. Like it's not like, oh, that tastes like a really great um soft fruit, like a cherry uh or a peach or or an apple. Like a raisin is kind of like you know how raisins taste. It's kind of like a dried out, kind of shrively, kind of gooey, but raisins are delicious.
SPEAKER_02:I mean, it's it's it's the same, you know, sugar, brown sugar, uh ice very syrupy. I get your raisin. I also get the cinnamon. I think a lot of that might is is gonna be in your I think we're tasting the proof, unfortunately, on some of that.
SPEAKER_01:So it's just I thought it was gonna come off a lot stronger, so it's better than what you remember. I remember. Again, I'm not comparing to that though.
SPEAKER_02:I'm so on on an island, you know, maybe bourbon's not the first thing.
SPEAKER_01:It was inside at night. I would not drink if you think I'm sitting in a chase by a pool, I would so I've seen pictures. I do not drink with not this trip, I guess. Unless it's on ice. Um it is, it just has a mouthfeel that's a little cinnamony syrup, which I'm gonna go and I'm gonna say it's got a little bit of a fireball to it.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, you got that much cinnamon, you're getting that much cinnamon, huh?
SPEAKER_01:But the cinnamon with the syrup, you know, where like like fireball is almost like a liqueur where it's like a low proof, so they like extra sugary syrup.
SPEAKER_02:I mean I personally think it's just it's it's lacking the aged the it's lacking the aged oak. It's it that richness depth, the layering that you get with aged oak. You know, this is just it's just the oak characteristic in this is not as prominent as I think most Elijah Craigs are.
SPEAKER_01:But isn't that crazy? And I kind of like I don't think it's bad. I mean I I mean I know but it's crazy that like I'm expecting it to be a standard another couple years for this matters so much. Like there's so many fucking good seven, eight, nine, and ten years. And we're saying, like, oh, the ones before this were 11 or 12, which you know that's two or three years, but it's crazy that two or three years would take an Elijah Craig from I mean, there's been some of these. Um, the B520, uh, so five years ago that came out was one of the best whiskeys I've ever tasted in my life. It was so fucking good.
SPEAKER_02:That's an old one too. I think that was in the 11 or 12 year. I can't remember though.
SPEAKER_01:So I don't know. It just um it has a way about it that uh is a little off-putting, a little too spicy, a little too syrupy, a little too hot, um, and not enough like I'm getting that, you know, perfect sugar or that perfect fruit um note that I really like. Um, but usually proof doesn't turn me off. Usually nine years doesn't turn me off. Usually anything Heaven Hill does is good. So I'm just kind of blown away.
SPEAKER_02:I think we're we're being a little bit harder on this because we expect so much out of these. I think that this is a very solid sip, and I think it's better as we know as it gets older because we've done it. Um, and maybe this one is just proof too high for being its age. Maybe they would have done better at 120 or 117 proof with the age, so that you don't get some of the, you know, you don't get some of the um youngness with the with the spice. Do you know what I mean? Um, but I don't know. I I feel like these to me have been some of my favorites year in and year out. And um I'm not saying you shouldn't drink this. I'm just saying I don't think I'm gonna chase this this C version.
SPEAKER_01:So I mean, based on everything you just said, it sounds like you're still on the Heaven Hill payroll. Like they're still I wish they're still mailing you bottles and keeping your family happy and vacations to Kentucky. That's what that sounded like to me.
SPEAKER_02:Did it? Well, I wish any of those were true.
SPEAKER_01:Uh yeah, no, it's just uh it's it's I agree with with the expectation part of what you said. I think uh a lot comes from that. I again went to the store, had a lot of options, grabbed this because I just thought it was the mail it in, phone it in. Easy easy, done. I'm gonna enjoy this no matter what. And when I got there, I was like, shit. It was average. I now I'm here, I can't get anything even close to as good as this, and I switched to rum. And I had a lot of rum on that vacation, whether it was mixed with dioxide.
SPEAKER_02:How much of that bottle came home?
SPEAKER_01:Of the Elijah?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, did you bring it home or did you leave it for the uh for the help?
SPEAKER_01:I brought it. You brought it up? I thought about bringing it or leaving it. Uh but I you know, maybe what if the house you brought an opened bottle home? That's ballsy.
unknown:Why?
SPEAKER_01:And your checked luggage? Yeah. I just wrapped it in a bunch of clothes and shit. Do you bring tape or anything to go around the outside? Tony, Tony, Tony. I'm a professional. I can I got I brought six bottles. Oh, I've seen your professional before.
SPEAKER_02:I've seen you put a whole bunch of bottles and then test it. It goes well sometimes, and sometimes it doesn't.
SPEAKER_01:I don't usually pack my luggage drunk, and on that trip, I just happen to be a little buzzed up, and I didn't pack my bottles very well. And yes, one of them ended smashed on smashed on the kitchen. They had that on video. You someone does. Oh, really? For sure. Oh, I don't have that.
SPEAKER_02:For sure. That's awesome. Um, anyway, let's give it a sip rating. You want to do it?
SPEAKER_01:Uh, sure. Um shareable. No. No. I'm gonna um I'm probably not gonna talk about this bottle ever again. Yeah. Um, unless someone asks me about it. And uh influence, I absolutely love this brand and this name that won't ever change or that won't change based on this bottle. And price is um um it's right there. It's it's a it's a perfect price point, I think, at 70 bucks.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I think if you're when you're in that 10 to 12 year juice, price for sure is right where it is. Impressions the same. I love Heaven Hill. Sip to me is different. I I would only sip this or share this with someone else if they wanted to taste the difference between this one and some of the ones that I consider to be really good to see if they can taste the difference. Uh, but I agree with you that this is this fell short for their uh this fell short for their barrel-proof line this year. What's your rating? I still think it's above average. I'd still give it a 275.
SPEAKER_01:Whoa!
SPEAKER_02:That's still pretty low for you. Give it a three, bro. Yeah, I probably should give it a three. I do like Elijah Craig a lot. Yeah, three. I'll give it a three.
SPEAKER_01:That was awesome. That's so great. Well, I'm gonna give it a two seven five. No, I'll I'll I'll do it. I'll go in the high twos. Yeah, two seven, two eight, something like that. Six, seven. Um, I but but for you, I would say yeah, it's a uh it's a three all day, which is not something uh anyone is probably running out to get.
SPEAKER_02:Uh and no, this is one that if you see up there for 80 bucks, if you've never had a barrel proof, I would tell you to wait for the A's. The A's will be out in February and they'll be in the same location that you saw these. But uh the this bottle probably hit most of the markets in October, November. And uh I've seen a lot of them around the holidays. I feel like a lot of stores keep uh some of these barrel proofs and things around for Christmas gifts where they can because I've seen some of the A, B's, and C's for this and Larceny out uh in the last two weeks.
SPEAKER_01:Well, the nice thing it being in January, and no, it's not about dry January, and no, it's not about you and I uh setting some silly, silly resolution or anything like that, or some goal, or something like that. Not gonna happen, but what we will do is very soon, and probably the next podcast, do our top whiskies of the year. Yeah, we should top whiskies of 25. Uh, I already have a few in my head. Most of them will probably be ones that we podcasted about because we did a lot of really good bottles that we really liked.
SPEAKER_02:I feel like we we drank more this year at restaurants.
SPEAKER_01:Like I remember why do you keep telling people that? I feel like we don't you and I don't drink very much. Oh, okay. Sorry. Remember when I was like I tried different bottles. Do we drink too much? And you were like, uh, I uh uh and I was like, no, the instant. No, but we tried different ones.
SPEAKER_02:We didn't wait for just bottles that we could get. We actually tried different ones at different restaurants and bars and stuff this year.
SPEAKER_01:We did. Uh which some of those might fall on there too. Should. Why not? You're super excited about whatever song you're about to play.
SPEAKER_02:I can already no no, I'm just just just gonna start us out with some coolio. We're gonna stay in the same way.
SPEAKER_01:Just that like little synthesizer, that little whatever, what instrument is that? Synthesizer. And your and your drum machine. Was this like top of the charts? It felt like it was for years. Probably never had to be like that. Uh can't remember the name of it, but it was also quite a big deal at the time. Coolio. For sure. What do you mean for sure? He is guys like Coolio have been known to not still be around 25-30 years later.
SPEAKER_02:Alright. Well, that's a fair statement, but alright, we'll crank it up.
SPEAKER_01:Uh Shituaki Bird Brothers, we take care of the whiskey so you can focus on with whom you share it. Elijah Craig Barrelproof C925. Do you like it? Did we like it? Eh.
SPEAKER_02:I mean, it get get one if you want one, but if not, come over and have some of ours because it's not gonna go away very fast.
SPEAKER_01:In Chicago, call us. We have it. Call us. We're ready. Peace out. Thanks for listening. Bye guys.
SPEAKER_00:I can never normal. I'm a space by the fact. Oh my god, beat damn with the hood. I'ma educated fool with money on my mind. Got my hand in my hand in a chain in my heart. I'm a good thing.
