Man Cave Happy Hour
Welcome to Man Cave Happy Hour – Whiskey, Spirits, and the stories that go along with them.
Join Jamie, Matt, and August as they take you on a spirited journey through the world of fine drinks and fascinating conversations. Broadcasting live from top lounges, distilleries, and happy hours, they explore the best new spirits, uncover hidden gems, and dive into the stories behind the bottles.
From master distillers and cocktail experts to bartenders, foodies, and entrepreneurs, every episode is a toast to craftsmanship, creativity, and the love of a great drink. Whether you're a whiskey connoisseur or just love a good cocktail, pull up a chair, pour a glass, and enjoy the ride.
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Man Cave Happy Hour
What's in the Bag, Dad? Old Fitzgerald 7-Year: Heaven Hill's Latest Bourbon Treasure
Bourbon lovers, listen up! We're diving deep into a brand new release that's generating serious buzz - Heaven Hill's Old Fitzgerald 7-Year Bottled in Bond bourbon. Unlike its limited-edition decanter siblings, this new expression promises to be a regular shelf staple (if you're lucky enough to find it).
The episode kicks off with a Father's Day-themed New York Sour cocktail featuring Elijah Craig bourbon, fresh lemon juice, and a red wine float that sets the perfect tone for our whiskey adventure. As we crack open the fresh bottle of Old Fitzgerald, we explore the rich history behind both the brand (dating back to 1870) and the Bottled in Bond Act of 1897 that established bourbon's gold standard for quality and authenticity.
Our tasting reveals a robust, full-flavored bourbon with subtle cherry notes and a lingering finish that makes its 100-proof strength known without overwhelming the palate. At around $60 (when found at MSRP), we debate whether this bourbon represents excellent value in today's premium market and if it's worthy of gifting to the bourbon enthusiast in your life. The consensus? This is definitely a "marry" rather than just a "screw" in our bourbon relationship terminology.
Between sips, we share laughs over AI-generated photos transforming us into Rat Pack-style characters, discuss the challenges of finding popular bourbons as the Tigers baseball season heats up, and offer our best advice for securing limited releases (hint: make friends with your local liquor store owner).
Whether you're a seasoned bourbon collector or just beginning your whiskey journey, this episode offers valuable insights, entertaining stories, and practical tips for enjoying one of America's finest spirit traditions. Join us at the Man Cave Happy Hour, where every pour comes with a side of camaraderie and whiskey wisdom.
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August Gitschlag: 0:00
Every once in a while someone catches that reference and we do that. Number nine, number, number nine.
Jamie Flanagan: 0:07
I said hey.
Matt Fox: 0:10
Welcome to the man cave happy hour. I said hey, Welcome to the man cave happy hour. We're gonna drink a fine whiskey and smoke a really fine cigar.
Jamie Flanagan: 0:30
It is time for Happy Hour. It is the man Cave Happy Hour Whiskey, cigar, spirits, the stories that go along with it. I'm Jamie Flanagan.
Matt Fox: 0:37
This gentleman, sitting next to me in this amazing looking shirt. That's a lot of shirt.
August Gitschlag: 0:41
That's August Gitschlag ladies and gentlemen, the Lions fan over here. This is Matt Fox.
Jamie Flanagan: 0:47
Hey, I can dream Lots of pretty shirts on the side of the table.
August Gitschlag: 0:51
Sorry we're five minutes late, but it's Spencer's fault.
Jamie Flanagan: 0:54
Spencer's fault. I can blame it on August.
Spencer Burke: 0:56
He locked me out of the door.
Jamie Flanagan: 0:57
I don't even have a key to. Alright, so what's in the bag Dad. What is in the bag Dad. What's in the bag, dad, that? Was the title of the episode.
August Gitschlag: 1:09
Old.
Jamie Flanagan: 1:09
Fitzgerald. Old Fitzgerald has released a seven-year-aged, which is going to be, from all reports, readily available on shelves without much fuss or muss. Really, in the first month that it came out, the first month here that it came, came out. People are clamoring and and scooping them up as as they come out, but supposedly, supposedly, not a word. Um, this will be a regular shelf item. Uh, fitzgerald seven. Now the, the other one with the, the squat ear decanter, yes, your squat ear yep is uh in its again bottled and.
Matt Fox: 1:44
I was gonna say that's a bottle, didn't we have that?
August Gitschlag: 1:46
we did the tenure? Yeah, we had it with the boys from a and b right. Didn't they bring an old fitzgerald with?
Jamie Flanagan: 1:52
them. I don't know. We did our 100th episode. We got a. Tony sold us a bottle for the 100. I was back when the show stunk, but yep, yep agreed what'sed? What's in the bag?
Spencer Burke: 2:04
Dad, maybe a drink of good bourbon then?
Jamie Flanagan: 2:06
Oh yeah, what's in the bag, dad? So yeah, because it's Father's Day week and I'm going to start making a cocktail while we do this, so we're heading in. It's the week of Father's Day, so Matthew is an actual father. So Happy Father's Day, spencer is an actual father. Happy Father's Day, spencer is an actual father. Happy Father's.
Matt Fox: 2:24
Day.
Spencer Burke: 2:24
Actually, I have six children, one of them is biologically mine that's real Only the six you know of.
August Gitschlag: 2:32
Tonsils don't get pregnant, so I don't get a card.
Matt Fox: 2:34
I'm waiting for a knock on the front door.
August Gitschlag: 2:37
Hi, yeah, tonsils don't get pregnant, so I don't get a card.
Jamie Flanagan: 2:39
So yeah, I'm a stepdad. I got Colin. I love my boy.
August Gitschlag: 2:44
You are. I'm a godfather and my godchildren used to send me something.
Jamie Flanagan: 2:49
Spencer just had a really big dad year, really. And we got invited to the bar mitzvah. Thank you for inviting, colleen, it was a joy.
August Gitschlag: 3:01
I'm glad you were able to join us. I don't want to be part of your penis-chopping family anyway.
Jamie Flanagan: 3:06
Right, and that's what I thought I was going to like. All right, do we have to watch him do the circumcision? That'd be a little weird.
Spencer Burke: 3:11
No, it's because I got invited to have to get it done. It's for the guests only.
Jamie Flanagan: 3:17
That's going to be my next question. So you're glad he wasn't invited and he's yelling I don't want to be part of your penis chopping family. Anyway, you didn't invite me. My favorite cartman lines of all time, oh my god. So yeah, so uh. But yeah, we're gonna do a little welcome cocktail, happy father's day and inappropriate and thank you for uh including, including colleen and I in that. Um, I'm gonna make a couple welcome cocktails. Matt can, can you put ice in the tumblers for?
August Gitschlag: 3:47
me in our. I love it when I'm not the bartender. This happens so rarely.
Jamie Flanagan: 3:51
I'm usually always in charge of mixing up the stuff we're going to do the old Fitzgerald. We're going to do just a taste of the old Fitzgerald coming up, but I figured we'd do the welcome cocktail. Something else from Heaven Hill. Another To the welcome cocktail, something else from Heaven Hill. Another selection from Heaven Hill, one of my favorites. The Elijah Craig. I had somebody talk smack about the Elijah Craig. We were talking about your favorite bourbons. What?
Matt Fox: 4:10
do you like?
Jamie Flanagan: 4:10
They're full, ben, they're full, and they're like yeah, no, not so much on the Elijah.
August Gitschlag: 4:14
I mean, I'm the Elijah Craig Rye and I got my dad hooked on it. That's actually what I'm going to get my dad, my world, that stand by Elijah Craig.
Matt Fox: 4:22
They'll put that up against anything out there.
August Gitschlag: 4:25
I will Especially the price point it's great, it's from Heaven Hill.
Jamie Flanagan: 4:28
We're doing an Elijah Craig. We're going to do a New.
August Gitschlag: 4:34
York Sour.
Jamie Flanagan: 4:38
Instead of using simple syrup I use maple syrup Organic from Kroger. Yes, I'm going to do them two at a time.
August Gitschlag: 4:45
Can't you do four at a time In the tumbler? That's a lot of juice I've only done it every single fucking time I've made cocktails for you guys.
Matt Fox: 4:59
Just do it.
Jamie Flanagan: 4:59
There's four ounces of lemon over the ice. There it is.
Matt Fox: 5:03
Now I've got to do mine. I'm doing all four.
Jamie Flanagan: 5:04
Now I got to do math. I'm doing all four. I peer pressured me. I was told there'd be no math. He peer pressured me into it.
Spencer Burke: 5:12
You have iced tumblers no pressure. Everyone's watching you. Let's keep on your foot.
Matt Fox: 5:16
Two, three, you can stay there.
August Gitschlag: 5:20
Now you get to listen to Jamie do math. That's more enthralling.
Matt Fox: 5:24
His school year is over. He don't have to math anymore.
August Gitschlag: 5:27
He wasn't a math anyway, he's a journalism and English teacher.
Matt Fox: 5:30
That's why he's never math. He's never mathed.
August Gitschlag: 5:34
All right. Get that syrup nice and warm so it's not runny.
Matt Fox: 5:37
I got between 200 and 300 students this year.
Jamie Flanagan: 5:42
No, actually I'm down. We just got a new schedule. So my, I didn't know. We're actually I'm down, we, we just got a new schedule. So my schedule's up until this year. Last nine years I always had like 200 kids. It was crazy.
August Gitschlag: 5:50
All right, so it's uh it's like elon musk yep one part, 200 kids if you're following along at home and you wanted to do family, you wanted to do um a new york sour.
Jamie Flanagan: 6:01
It's uh, one ounce of fresh squeezed lemon juice. Uh, three quarters an ounce of your squeezed lemon juice. Three quarters an ounce of your simple syrup or in this case a maple syrup is going to be four ounces or two ounces of the bourbon, but I'm doing four of them.
August Gitschlag: 6:16
So Jim, jim has got four drinks you know all my years of bartending and knowing what my counts were and knowing which glasses and how many ounces were coming out of the port tops, and all that. Now that it's been like five years since I've actually had the bartend bartend, I go back to using the jigger again. I like using the jigger. I used to have a countdown. Now I don't have port tops at home you know, so I don't really know my routine, you know, and they're not regulated anymore.
August Gitschlag: 6:40
Right, right. So I knew exactly what to count, so it wasn't too strong a drink.
Jamie Flanagan: 6:43
The trick is because it has juice in it, matt. What do we do when something's got juice?
Matt Fox: 6:49
in it. Yeah, stir that Shake shake shake no you stir it, you shake it, you shake it.
Spencer Burke: 6:53
I'm just messing with you.
Jamie Flanagan: 6:53
You're not going to bruise the lemon juice yeah, when you get the juices you're supposed to.
August Gitschlag: 6:58
Look, shake it did I was yeah, I was, I've only done it. Every single show we've ever done. I make them all at once.
Jamie Flanagan: 7:06
Where's the tips, tips, tips, tips, tips, tips, tips, tips? The nice thing about the new york sour, though it calls for egg whites too, but I'm not doing the egg, you can do it you can do it with or without the egg whites, but when you take the, lemon juice.
August Gitschlag: 7:17
Now I don't even want this goddamn cocktail without the egg whites. What the fuck you know? You just told me, and it up, I would have stolen an egg on the way here.
Spencer Burke: 7:24
It gets a little frothy when you shake it up, it's the Kroger version.
Jamie Flanagan: 7:28
It's the Kroger version.
August Gitschlag: 7:29
It is the.
Jamie Flanagan: 7:29
Kroger version.
August Gitschlag: 7:30
Actually I'm all the ingredients. It's a Southfield sour not a New York sour.
Spencer Burke: 7:35
It's a Midwest New York sour.
Jamie Flanagan: 7:44
There, you could.
August Gitschlag: 7:45
Yeah, go, garcon, you're so cat. Yeah, hustle over there, buddy, so you get to sit on the end.
Jamie Flanagan: 7:49
Paper towels wouldn't be. I got a little bit of paper towel here, that's what.
August Gitschlag: 7:52
I usually bring a whole roll of paper towel to clean up my mess, because I'm the one shaking everything.
Matt Fox: 7:55
And I don't have the sticky seat?
August Gitschlag: 7:57
Well, not yet. I do have to look at you the whole meeting the whole podcast.
Spencer Burke: 7:59
That could change, all right, thanks, Thanks, man.
August Gitschlag: 8:07
Right now I do not have the sticky seat.
Jamie Flanagan: 8:09
Is that?
Matt Fox: 8:09
the right one.
Jamie Flanagan: 8:10
That's close enough.
Matt Fox: 8:11
Close enough. I said stir. I'm just kidding, because you have to be very gentle with the wine float how you pour it on, which is why you need a spoon to do so. Correct, correct. This is very bourbon-y.
August Gitschlag: 8:29
That's how we like it the red wine float is throwing me a little bit. I'm kind of looking forward to that.
Matt Fox: 8:34
Actually, it's going to surprise you. You're going to love it?
August Gitschlag: 8:37
You do this often. Do you float red wine on your cocktails often?
Matt Fox: 8:40
I've done this drink before.
Spencer Burke: 8:41
He just floats a lot of things. Today happens to be red wine I do this.
Matt Fox: 8:43
That's my daily job man, I float.
Jamie Flanagan: 8:45
Spencer, grab the camera.
Matt Fox: 8:47
Float through life. That one.
Jamie Flanagan: 8:48
it kind of tilted down Grab it, tilt it. So I'm going to take the spoon. You take the back of the spoon. It's got the bar spoon and the stir spoon.
August Gitschlag: 9:06
And that helps diffuse it so it floats better when, when you do it that way.
Matt Fox: 9:09
Yeah, take that spoon up a little bit sticky seat. Yeah, tilt that spoon up. That does look pretty though, yeah, so all right, it just kind of disperses the wine evenly.
Jamie Flanagan: 9:13
Yeah, it doesn't splash all right, you can put the camera back to looking at us and our pretty, pretty faces, all right. So this is our uh, welcome cocktail. I was was saving the circumcised joke until we got the drinks. But all right, all right, take one down, pass it around, foxy.
Matt Fox: 9:32
Thank you.
August Gitschlag: 9:33
Thank you to our glassware sponsor.
Matt Fox: 9:35
Firebird Tavern. Yes, thank you, fellas.
August Gitschlag: 9:40
We still owe them a visit. We got to go to the Troy location. Yeah, I've been there a couple times. I'd have to talk to them.
Jamie Flanagan: 9:45
So, august, here's my question for you, because a lot of times when I do a cocktail, it's like, oh, this would be great for a bridal shower.
August Gitschlag: 9:52
Because it's too sweet or whatever. That's just my favorite default joke on cocktails, yes, but all right.
Jamie Flanagan: 10:01
So, gentlemen, cheers Well, play. That was going to be my question. Is this baby shower-ish to you?
August Gitschlag: 10:06
a lot of times when we get these, the cocktails that are lemon juice heavy usually go that route with me. Red wine just dries us right out, though.
Spencer Burke: 10:16
You can just make whatever drink, you float, whatever color is the reveal too.
Jamie Flanagan: 10:21
Oh, the blue blue. You got a blue wine. Where's the blue food? Blue the blue, you got a blue wine. Where's the blue food?
Matt Fox: 10:27
Where's the blue food? It's called cassow Blue carousel.
August Gitschlag: 10:30
Blue carousel or Pink Whitney, you know. Okay, this is not a bad cocktail.
Jamie Flanagan: 10:36
I like the New York sour. Actually, I think it went a little bourbon heavy on it.
August Gitschlag: 10:40
It's only missing some egg white.
Spencer Burke: 10:41
I like it better with the bourbon heavy. I mean, it's only missing some egg white. I like it better with the bourbon heavy.
Matt Fox: 10:44
I don't know if I've never had it with the egg white because it's raw, I just don't trust myself.
August Gitschlag: 10:48
You don't raw dog your cocktails. It freaks me out.
Matt Fox: 10:50
I'll finger bang my eyes when raw dog.
August Gitschlag: 10:55
How did you ever pick my dad Finger banging your eyes and raw dog in your cocktails?
Jamie Flanagan: 11:00
It freaks me out. So, yeah, I don't do it, and I think I might have hit the maple syrup a little harder than I normally do that's way above 40 cocktails.
Spencer Burke: 11:08
Yeah, slow down on that syrup buddy Not to drive you home, hitting that bottle hard.
Matt Fox: 11:14
Hitting that maple syrup hard, did any of you fellows, catch any of the Tony Awards last night.
August Gitschlag: 11:19
Only the Hamilton. Just the Hamilton which is all I really think you needed to see, because it was amazing yes, it was, and it made me want to go see Hamilton again, which I guess is coming back to the Fisher.
Matt Fox: 11:29
Don't call to come back. Well, Leslie Odom is going to reprise his role as Aaron Burr for the next number of weeks. Cool.
Jamie Flanagan: 11:37
That's wonderful.
Matt Fox: 11:38
Yeah, it is, he's great, just saying.
Spencer Burke: 11:41
How many years ago was it?
Jamie Flanagan: 11:46
Hamilton was a monster, like most of our founding fathers. Hamilton was a monster, you're not wrong, like most of the fathers. They were all like raging a-holes and kind of monsters. Per was actually in that story. Per was actually more, except for shooting him. Yeah, really a hero. Yeah, basically, you know, I mean he was just like he was just militarily on it and just anyway.
August Gitschlag: 12:07
So, but anyway, uh, it was cool to see the original broadway cast. Even king the king george comes out and just goes yeah, who was, I thought even better in mind. Hunter, yeah, but a great show that never that. Would that stop too soon? A netflix series that never didn't?
Matt Fox: 12:22
they needed. They needed a third season for that the.
August Gitschlag: 12:24
They needed a third season.
Matt Fox: 12:25
Yes.
August Gitschlag: 12:25
Remember Mindhunter, the start. It was at the origination of the FBI profiling.
Jamie Flanagan: 12:30
Those were good. The thing was the casting of the serial killer.
August Gitschlag: 12:35
Perfect. How did they find these killer, killers.
Matt Fox: 12:40
You put them side by side, the interviews that were actually done against the Mindhunter.
Jamie Flanagan: 12:44
TV show. You put them side by side, the interviews that were actually done against the Mindhunter TV show.
Matt Fox: 12:46
You put them side by side.
Jamie Flanagan: 12:47
It's spot on Creepy.
Matt Fox: 12:48
Wild.
Spencer Burke: 12:48
Creepy, the smelling of the shoes and everything is just wild. I'm surprised I didn't see this. I'm surprised my wife didn't watch this, because she loves to watch Dateline. She loves Mindhunter, anything with like serial killers.
August Gitschlag: 12:56
She'll love it, and it's all based on true stories. So, like all, the murders really happened and the two characters figuring it out really aren't necessarily true, but everything else is and the murderers are cast.
Jamie Flanagan: 13:10
But, and it's like how they develop the whole psychology behind the unsub and just all that, the whole yeah.
August Gitschlag: 13:19
Just how to. And then the invention of profiling and the guy's kid becomes a weirdo. It's just brilliant. And then Jonathan Goff goes and teabags Keanu Reeves during one of his other stints during the Tony Awards last night. Well, that's also one of the reasons that they say that he didn't do another season was because he went to Hamilton. Yeah, on Broadway he just wanted to sing. I want to sing. No singing, no singing. Everybody wanted to sing I want to sing.
Matt Fox: 13:45
No, no, no singing no singing everyone everybody no singing.
August Gitschlag: 13:50
I remember when hamilton came out on disney plus, yeah, we had a party at our house. It was just after covid. Yeah, put the big screen up in the backyard and we had like a viewing party. Yeah, we did powdered wig. Yes, we dressed up in our little costumes and introduced the movie, and I caught one of my friends crying during one of the scenes.
Spencer Burke: 14:11
Oh, it wasn't you dressing up. It was the scene no.
Matt Fox: 14:14
Oh, man, they didn't cry.
August Gitschlag: 14:15
when he cried, I cried as I put the costume on.
Matt Fox: 14:18
But what am I doing?
August Gitschlag: 14:21
Like I do every time I dress as Eliza.
Matt Fox: 14:26
He cried because he couldn't take the outfit off, that's right. What about?
Jamie Flanagan: 14:28
peggy, yeah, we make. We make fun of the uh shores theater. There's a movie theater in st claire shores that has kind of ran its course and well it's now.
August Gitschlag: 14:36
It's not what dave hard knows. He's turning it into a supper club.
Jamie Flanagan: 14:38
Yeah yeah, but when it was in it, when it was in its uh, last legs, I remember uh, our running joke was just like oh well, you know in the third reel. Uh, the people find the popcorn counter, come out and act it out, because they're missing some of the reels.
Spencer Burke: 14:53
That place is from a bygone era, man the woods theater.
Jamie Flanagan: 14:56
Actually, if that if that was true. I would actually go there because that would probably be freaking hilarious the theater on, crash it in east point with the eastwood theater.
August Gitschlag: 15:04
Yeah, something like that east town or something. Eastwood theater was one of the old ones, one of the last independent ones. The woods in gross point. Remember going there as a kid, yeah, that's where my aunt and I met remember that, remember that time remember remember that time back when I thought that quicksand was gonna be a bigger part of my life. That was Every movie had someone dying in quicksand.
Jamie Flanagan: 15:28
All right, this is delicious.
Matt Fox: 15:30
I only brought up the Hamilton Tony Awards because we're drinking a New York Sour Just to bring it all the way back.
August Gitschlag: 15:34
There we go and close the loop Fox. There you go. I didn't know the loop there.
Jamie Flanagan: 15:41
That's good. Matt, can you dig up a little information?
Matt Fox: 15:44
for us on the.
Jamie Flanagan: 15:46
Heaven Hill, seven-year Old Fitzgerald, bottled and Bond, kentucky, straight Bourbon, both Bottled and Bond, my bourbon can be straight, I like my bourbon straight, but my friends can be any way they choose. It is Pride Month, absolutely so that is not facetious. Ginnip's got that t-shirt.
August Gitschlag: 16:06
I didn't make it to Pride. I appreciate it. I didn't make it to Motor City Pride this year.
Jamie Flanagan: 16:09
No, I didn't. I had a great time at Ferndale.
August Gitschlag: 16:12
Pride. But I was tied up all weekend, not tied up at Pride, not literally. You know what I mean.
Jamie Flanagan: 16:17
Pride takes a wild turn for August.
August Gitschlag: 16:20
I was at the Governor's Ball on Saturday, the Michigan Legacy Dinner Governor's Ball.
Spencer Burke: 16:26
After Ferndale Pride he got tied up.
August Gitschlag: 16:28
He never got untied since then. That's right, that's right, so I went.
Matt Fox: 16:31
Breaking. Bourbon hasn't done this one yet.
August Gitschlag: 16:33
Then on Sunday well, actually it started on Saturday morning, but on Sunday I just spent the day playing bocce ball with my nephew, who I introduced the game to, and that's all he wants to do now is play bocce ball. So he was rolling lawn bowling all over.
Jamie Flanagan: 16:44
Cinque Shores yesterday and you're like boy. Let me tell you a little bit about feather bowling.
August Gitschlag: 16:49
Well, that was the next one. You take them in like night. They're in Chicago.
Jamie Flanagan: 16:54
If you like the bocce ball, let me tell you something about the feather bowling yeah. All right, so we're going to pour the Old Fitzgerald while Matt.
August Gitschlag: 17:11
I'd really rather be sitting across from her.
Spencer Burke: 17:13
I guarantee you would have. She would have been on time. You wouldn't have locked her out. No, I would not have locked her out on purpose.
Jamie Flanagan: 17:20
But since you're the guest, it's a fresh crack. So hold that close to the microphone and pop that top for us.
Spencer Burke: 17:27
And after you do that hold it close to the mic. I'm going to make sure.
Jamie Flanagan: 17:30
August is watching as I pop the cork, bring it right in the mic there.
August Gitschlag: 17:32
There you go. I love the fresh cracks Now I do have a sticky seat.
Jamie Flanagan: 17:39
Fresh cracks, fresh cracks All right, matt. What do we got so?
Matt Fox: 17:45
Old Fitzgerald, how long back do you think this?
Jamie Flanagan: 17:46
brand goes it's a who-eated. How far back, hmm.
August Gitschlag: 17:51
Is this one of those that died in like 1910 and then they brought it back in 1895?
Spencer Burke: 17:56
because there was an old. There was an old old fitzgerald prior to well there was ever a new young.
Matt Fox: 18:01
There was young fitzgerald, young fitzgerald, young fits so old fits really started, dating back to 1870 oh, okay, all right, a long time all right, some civil war shit yeah, but uh, this is the seven year expression. It is bottled in bond. So, as all know, bottled in bond means 100 proof.
August Gitschlag: 18:18
Yep, that's locked in a for how many years Bottled in bond you have to be locked in that Four years? It's four years under the government sticker Minimum four years.
Matt Fox: 18:27
Minimum four years Government sticker Yep. So they you know the color on it. Just looking at the bottle, it looks like a dark copper. Oh, it ain't lacking in color.
August Gitschlag: 18:37
That's for sure it is. It's colorful, it is.
Jamie Flanagan: 18:40
It's gorgeous. It's got a rich bourbon color. For sure, there's no bubbles in there, so we're good so far Tiny bubbles.
Spencer Burke: 18:47
That's a good neck pour too.
August Gitschlag: 18:49
Let's see so an 18 high neck pour Where'd you get this?
Jamie Flanagan: 18:56
guy. He's pulling out neck poor terms. We've never talked about neck poor. We've never talked about neck poor.
August Gitschlag: 19:00
I know.
Matt Fox: 19:01
So let's talk about the bottled bond, cause we have spoken towards it.
August Gitschlag: 19:03
I had a decent neck. Yeah Four. I'm looking right at you, neck deficient.
Jamie Flanagan: 19:08
Turkey, turkey, neck chicken four ne Gobble Gobble Four Necks.
August Gitschlag: 19:10
What yes, sorry?
Jamie Flanagan: 19:12
Go ahead, matt Fox, tell us about the Blues. One more New York, tell us about the Blues I'll be necking, all right.
August Gitschlag: 19:21
Pride.
Jamie Flanagan: 19:21
Month. We're doing the show naked for Pride Month, yeah.
Matt Fox: 19:23
All right so.
Jamie Flanagan: 19:25
Don't tempt me with a good time.
Matt Fox: 19:27
So, on March 3rd of 1897, the Bottled and bond act was signed into law, and which is one of the favorite american whiskey traditions. Yes, that was born the reason why anyone want to share people were selling shit.
August Gitschlag: 19:42
Yeah, the government had to step in and lock it up so it's really rigorous.
Matt Fox: 19:48
Standards were set for the whiskey authenticity and it's been a sign of quality ever since.
Spencer Burke: 19:53
That was just whiskey, not necessarily bourbon.
Jamie Flanagan: 19:55
Right, it was just whiskey, yeah, so to be labeled a bottled and bond it has to be it's monitored throughout its lifetime.
Matt Fox: 20:03
It's got to be in the American oak barrels for at least four years. Oh wait, does that have to be?
Spencer Burke: 20:07
American oak, or does that have?
Jamie Flanagan: 20:08
to be new oak New American oak New American oak New.
August Gitschlag: 20:12
American oak. But nothing else is bottled and bond.
Jamie Flanagan: 20:14
Never at dusk.
Matt Fox: 20:16
But there are seven things that says it must be distilled at the same distillery. It has to consist of the same spirits and class of materials every single time, product of one distilling season which can run from January to June or July to December. Fourth, one is stored at least four years we talked about that in wooden containers. But new American oak, new American oak Reduced in proof by pure water only.
Jamie Flanagan: 20:42
I've lost Agua. No, exactly 100 proof.
Spencer Burke: 20:46
So you're saying bottle and bond has to be in American oak, whereas bourbon could just be in new oak?
Jamie Flanagan: 20:50
No, no, no, no, american oak, it's American.
Spencer Burke: 20:52
No, no it oak, no, no, no, no. American oak it's American. No, no, it's new American. Bourbon is Bourbon.
Jamie Flanagan: 20:55
New American oak Bourbon doesn't have to be American oak. I don't know if you want to look that up. I don't have enough time in the night. I don't think you know what country you're sitting in mister.
August Gitschlag: 21:06
It's just new oak barrel. But the government stepped up just to do this with whiskey you look at a charter oak.
Spencer Burke: 21:12
Uh, you have all different ones in mongolian french, but it's still bourbon is it?
Jamie Flanagan: 21:17
wow, is it though is it really really? Is it? I beat you, I beat you.
August Gitschlag: 21:27
I wonder why they didn't do this they didn't do this at any other spirit. They did not do the bottle there's no locked up federal guidelines on gin or on vodka or on rum, but there is on whiskey. Well, um, my voice sounds extra deep today.
Jamie Flanagan: 21:42
I'm not even pushing it. It's all men in here, men, men, men, men, men. I'm going to try to talk a little.
August Gitschlag: 21:50
I'm not sure You're going to have a sticky seat too, aren't you? I am yeah.
Jamie Flanagan: 21:54
To? No, I'm not sure. I'm not sure You're going to have a sticky seat too, aren't you? Yeah, but I mean there's the. You have to be, I mean to be champagne, you got to be from.
August Gitschlag: 22:00
you know champagne To be cognac, you got to be from cognac. This is what the Fed stepped in to protect the product.
Matt Fox: 22:05
Bourbon has to be.
Jamie Flanagan: 22:05
American, because it's that good.
Matt Fox: 22:10
And people were destroying it In new, in spite of what. He's driving that in there.
Jamie Flanagan: 22:13
He's driving that train If there was only a device somewhere that had all the information available to man at our fingertips to figure out the answer to that fucking question. I'm 99% sure that bourbon needs to be an American oak new American oak barrels.
Matt Fox: 22:31
New American oak? Yeah, it's new oak, you can char it. However, you want New American oak, you can char it. It's new oak, you can char it however, you want New American oak.
Jamie Flanagan: 22:37
I'm 99% sure.
Matt Fox: 22:38
You can score it, char it however you want on the inside.
Spencer Burke: 22:42
American white oak barrels While legally defined bourbon must be aged in new charred American white oak. It's possible to finish bourbon in other types of oak barrels.
Jamie Flanagan: 22:51
Yes, you can finish it, but you have to start it in. I had to get off track Jameson's triple triple Okay Is that like a Tim Hortons thing? Yeah, it's triple distilled and then triple finish. There's three different it's a sherry cask, an oak cask, a cherry cask and then a chestnut cask, that's a lot of moving of liquid. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so it's triple-triple.
August Gitschlag: 23:19
Never heard of it.
Spencer Burke: 23:19
It was creamy.
Jamie Flanagan: 23:20
Jameson's creamy it was creamy, it was good.
Spencer Burke: 23:22
Yeah.
Jamie Flanagan: 23:22
I want to do a Jameson's flight, so that's one thing we'll do. We'll do a Jameson's flight. All right, irish on, because I got the black barrel, so I have the anyway but we're at. Old Fitzgerald, and we still have a triple distilled is a decent.
August Gitschlag: 23:38
it's not even that expensive, the triple distilled. The triple, it's like a $35 bottle $32, $35.
Jamie Flanagan: 23:45
Yeah, I'll do that.
August Gitschlag: 23:46
I'll buy it.
Spencer Burke: 23:46
Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's the seven year going?
Jamie Flanagan: 23:49
for this fella? I don't know.
Spencer Burke: 23:52
It's bouncing around.
Matt Fox: 23:54
I this fella, I don't know it's bouncing around. I'll tell you we got to pour that fella, this bottle, the seven year based on, maybe, where you get it from, it's going to be over $100.
Jamie Flanagan: 24:03
No, no, no, no. The Michigan manufactured retail price, the MSRP or whatever? No one does that shit, no yeah, yeah, yeah.
August Gitschlag: 24:12
You found the right guy, you got a good guy you know the guy. Everybody has to have a guy. If we've not taught you anything in this program, Get a guy, get a guy.
Jamie Flanagan: 24:20
Get a guy, find a guy.
August Gitschlag: 24:22
Stick to the same liquor store every time you go. Buy cigarettes and lottery tickets. Develop a relationship.
Spencer Burke: 24:31
Even if you're a guy Get a hold of this stuff If you're a lady get a couple, get a few.
Jamie Flanagan: 24:38
I'm 90% sure it's right around $59. The shelf price.
Spencer Burke: 24:43
I paid $10.
Jamie Flanagan: 24:45
This just came out. This is weeks old. This has only been available for a couple weeks here.
Jamie Flanagan: 24:51
Man, everywhere I'm looking online there's $63 there right, I'll look at the lara that is hey lara uh but yeah, so I got it. I got this from big tony I went into big tony and he got three cases right and so 18 bottles. He got three cases and I had. I was going in because I was stocking the Podcast your Voice bar here at the Palatial Podcast your Voice studios, where you too could launch a podcast of your own.
August Gitschlag: 25:22
What the hell am I looking at, it's a summer. Why wouldn't you want to launch a podcast?
Jamie Flanagan: 25:26
So I actually saw someone in another state post it for like $48 or something, because the taxes are different in every state.
Spencer Burke: 25:35
Um, so somebody had a post-it, like they had a kaza pick you could tell at costco because it was the orange genius, and then they don't tax on it.
August Gitschlag: 25:41
Next friend, it was the orange, the orange, uh next friend in cincinnati, go across the border grab me a bottle from uh liquor town or whatever they call it over there so but again, like tony had it marked up to, it was 59.
Jamie Flanagan: 25:54
He had it up to 69. And August was like pour the fucking shit.
Spencer Burke: 26:01
So, but Tony had it marked up.
August Gitschlag: 26:02
You got the bottle and the glasses.
Jamie Flanagan: 26:03
Yeah, hey, there you go, earn your, keep buddy, do me.
August Gitschlag: 26:07
Do me. I knew there was a reason I let you in the door.
Jamie Flanagan: 26:09
Yeah, there it is.
August Gitschlag: 26:12
Now, we're not. He's free pouring he. Yeah, there it is. Now we're not. He's free pouring he's not using the jigger.
Jamie Flanagan: 26:16
No, we're not measuring this you don't free pour that, no, this is someone else's bottle you just pour it. Hey, wait, it's mine Point winner so, but yeah. So some places are selling it way above and almost into the secondary pricing. Matt, those are the ones you're finding I'm probably yeah, secondary pricing matt. Those are the ones you're. You're fine, I'm probably yeah, uh, but thank you, sir, and uh, thank you sir. May I have another? I'll be saying that in a minute. Did you, why'd you short me with this? Why?
Matt Fox: 26:42
this is yours, oh, okay, you shorted yourself.
Jamie Flanagan: 26:44
Yes, you shorted himself on a work night because it's a work night it is a work night.
Spencer Burke: 26:48
It's supposed to be yours.
Jamie Flanagan: 26:49
You took the wrong one I was getting greedy, I wanted to pour all, pour we already noticed it has all the color of a bottled and bond. It does.
August Gitschlag: 27:00
It's kind of guaranteed.
Matt Fox: 27:01
It's definitely hanging on to the glass, the legs of it.
Jamie Flanagan: 27:07
And then the aroma is nice. Bourbon is very bourbon-y. I'm not getting anything. Crazy, crazy, crazy.
August Gitschlag: 27:14
What's the ethanol cornflakes? Like I'm not getting anything, like crazy, crazy, crazy.
Matt Fox: 27:17
I'm not getting. What's the ethanol cornflakes? Yeah, I'm not getting. That. I'm not getting. You're not getting ethanol cornflakes, graham cracker.
Jamie Flanagan: 27:23
Nothing, nothing crazy, it's just my favorite judgmental phrase of 2025.
August Gitschlag: 27:28
Tastes like ethanol cornflakes.
Jamie Flanagan: 27:30
Oh my God, that was great Little Parmesan, pretzel stick.
August Gitschlag: 27:36
You know, I felt that right up the middle of my tongue.
Jamie Flanagan: 27:43
Oh yeah, and I say that as I sit next to Matt Fox yes, Right up the middle of my tongue.
Matt Fox: 27:49
Yes, Wow, I'll tell you what that is.
August Gitschlag: 27:51
A bottled and bond. It tastes all of 100 proof. It doesn't feel like 100 proof it does to me. It does not to me well, agree to disagree, fox, you're fine everyone's different. He had them chili fritos your shit's numb also I'm going to do a second sip judge. I didn't second sip judge it, I just went my first one like right up. No, I never feel it on that front tip of my tongue the way I did this one and we've drank some heavy duty shit in here and a hundred a hundred.
August Gitschlag: 28:24
Nothing compared to some of the things we've done some hundreds that didn't taste like anything that just went right down the hatch.
Jamie Flanagan: 28:28
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah but I mean we've done a hundred, and I also didn't.
August Gitschlag: 28:32
I only had like a half of a pregame cocktail, so I don't know if it's me.
Matt Fox: 28:35
I don't know if it's something I'm just used to, but it's kind of feeling like a 90 proof to me.
August Gitschlag: 28:40
Oh, you can tell the difference between 10 fucking proof.
Jamie Flanagan: 28:45
Oh, it's like I've had. His mouth is very.
Matt Fox: 28:47
It's like I've had a lot of 90. I've had a lot of hundred.
Jamie Flanagan: 28:55
We've had a lot of buck 30 proof. He's my favorite Marvel character.
Spencer Burke: 28:56
Captain Teflon.
August Gitschlag: 28:57
I can drink anything.
Jamie Flanagan: 28:58
Teflon tongue.
August Gitschlag: 29:00
What was that movie? The Novocaine of Whiskey Drinkers.
Matt Fox: 29:04
You know what? I'll actually take that as a compliment.
August Gitschlag: 29:08
I don't feel pain.
Jamie Flanagan: 29:10
I like where these insults are going.
Matt Fox: 29:11
Keep it coming gentlemen, I'll take it. It's actually a very easy sipper for 100 proof for me. What about it Spence? I agree there's a ton of flavor. It's very easy.
Jamie Flanagan: 29:24
There's a lot of flavor On the front side.
Spencer Burke: 29:26
When you taste it, it's very mellow. You only taste the proof as the finish of the drink. You taste a little bit, but it's not mellow, it's not bland, it's got a nice flavor to it.
Matt Fox: 29:38
It's rich, it's got a rich flavor to it.
August Gitschlag: 29:43
I agree, it's a very robust bourbon. I don't want to trust you. I thought he sounded just fine. I thought he sounded just fine, I want him closer.
Jamie Flanagan: 29:49
I know you do Good night everybody. Hey-oh, hey-oh, do good night everybody hello, hello, all right.
August Gitschlag: 30:00
Uh, I was getting the third sip. I was getting like almost a cherry. Yeah, I'm with you it's. It's honestly a fruity, but not the tartness of the cherry. No, not tart, but just. Uh, I'm with you on the cherry, yeah, yeah this is a cardamom.
Matt Fox: 30:12
It's a full flavored bourbon it is and it's not in a bad way. This is something that you'd want to really mess around with.
August Gitschlag: 30:21
Do I want to put a clean rock in this?
Matt Fox: 30:24
No, don't open it up. Enjoy it the way it is right now. Did they say what?
Jamie Flanagan: 30:27
char level oh.
Matt Fox: 30:28
I think, Matt.
August Gitschlag: 30:29
Was there anything?
Matt Fox: 30:29
about the char. Was there anything about the char level? Nothing about char level on here. Google, google. What is the char?
Jamie Flanagan: 30:34
level. Spencer's phone doesn't work. I'm waiting for it.
Spencer Burke: 30:39
Hey Siri, he looked it up already. I was on the.
Matt Fox: 30:44
Heaven Hill Distillery website.
Jamie Flanagan: 30:44
Get me a drink she's giving me directions to a coffee house. Give me a drink, there's a coffee house okay.
Spencer Burke: 30:54
Okay, jamie, you've had too much to drink.
Jamie Flanagan: 30:56
Get some coffee yeah, yeah, hey, siri, are you trying to tell me something?
August Gitschlag: 31:03
all right, so so they char the bottled and bond.
Matt Fox: 31:07
Seven year old Fitzgerald.
Jamie Flanagan: 31:09
Yeah.
Matt Fox: 31:09
Yep, their char level is a level three. Okay, okay, that's a new oak barrels.
Jamie Flanagan: 31:14
New American oak barrels.
Matt Fox: 31:15
It says new oak barrels, Jamie Fuck.
Jamie Flanagan: 31:20
Fuck you.
Spencer Burke: 31:21
Old Fitzgerald.
Jamie Flanagan: 31:22
And your oak barrels from whatever random place you want to get your oak barrels from.
Matt Fox: 31:28
So that's the AI overview.
Jamie Flanagan: 31:32
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, place you want to get your oak barrels from, so that that's the ai overview.
Matt Fox: 31:34
Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, that's what lugel is uh speaking of ai generated shit yeah, oh my god.
Jamie Flanagan: 31:38
So, jamie, we should post those yes, you should.
Matt Fox: 31:41
Jamie sent us. Uh, august. I pictured today spence and there was a picture that was taken of the three of us when we were at the Detroit shipping company for that was the Metro Times bourbon tasting whiskey in the winter this past winter and he took that picture of the three of us and he asked Google AI to make it into like a rat pack picture of the three of us. This man right here, August, look exactly like Michael Buble. There it is Jamieie. Who did you look?
Jamie Flanagan: 32:16
like I look like mr magoo or something. And who are you matt? I actually look like my father I'm like how am I really that old?
Matt Fox: 32:25
I'm like ironically, I just saw you at the shipping company right right, you were there, for yeah, we were there for another party, but that picture that was generated.
Jamie Flanagan: 32:35
It's wild telling you bra it was like did. I just use bra in a sentence you did you just called everybody a piece of women's underwear. I teach high school.
Matt Fox: 32:48
Jack Black one of his first movies that's a quick reference, yeah yeah, did you just call me a pair of women's underwear yes, I did.
Spencer Burke: 32:59
Yes, you have a problem with that bro?
Jamie Flanagan: 33:03
no, that picture, that that picture was crazy.
Matt Fox: 33:05
It was great right right in the middle of a work day. That comes across my phone.
August Gitschlag: 33:09
I'm like my first day back to work in uh in a week after being at uh, clerks gone mild convention. How was muskegon?
Matt Fox: 33:17
you worked really hard, didn't you?
August Gitschlag: 33:18
no, well, for how many hours? All of them, all the hours. I'll tell you what muskegon is a in the municipal world, like the reason we took the convention there is they. This is nerd alert nerd alert.
Matt Fox: 33:32
That's fine. We've been nerding out all day, they're on the cover of the michigan municipal league.
August Gitschlag: 33:36
All the time they they what they've done with a deteriorated, dead downtown and turned it into something as everybody fled up the water coasts and they got away from the fact that you know they had, like, cement factories and paper mills on their waterfront. Right, okay, wow, well, like, just like detroit did, an entire factory in a cement factory. So, anyway, right on the fact that they had cement factories and paper mills on their waterfront, oh, wow, just like Detroit did.
Matt Fox: 33:53
They had a tire factory and a cement factory Right on the water. Yep, there it is. Oh, there it is. Look at that, oh my God Now.
August Gitschlag: 33:56
I look like Alec Baldwin. I'm sorry From here.
Jamie Flanagan: 33:59
I look like Alec Baldwin from here. All right, so this is almost like Sanders from KFC.
Matt Fox: 34:05
Oh, you'll eat my chicken Eat Pants. Oh, now you look like Colonel Sanders.
August Gitschlag: 34:10
Yeah that's what I said.
Spencer Burke: 34:12
He looks like KFC Colonel Sanders. Oh, you'll eat my chicken, oh, and you look like Walter White. Like you're making meth. With some hair.
August Gitschlag: 34:18
yeah, the hairline, but I look like I love my hair. It's perfect. It's fucking amazing. I look like Alec. You look really young there.
Matt Fox: 34:27
If you go to the video for the episode, you'll see the picture.
Jamie Flanagan: 34:31
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, jamie, you're very Leslie Nielsen-ish, let's just say yeah, we'll post these on our socials.
August Gitschlag: 34:38
I don't know how Jamie got so short and Matt got so tall.
Jamie Flanagan: 34:45
Right it's. I don't know where that all came from.
Matt Fox: 34:50
I was just how. So you just said, hey, generate a photo from this picture. I want that tux, though it looks really good on me.
Jamie Flanagan: 34:57
Yeah, I did, I was like I like an image.
August Gitschlag: 35:00
Shall we create this photo in real life soon? We should.
Spencer Burke: 35:03
Your next man Cave happy hour needs to be in these outfits. We have to do a summer time Velvet Wearing a tuxedo in these outfits, not in the summertime.
August Gitschlag: 35:09
Not wearing a tuxedo when you're in the summer? Next winner.
Jamie Flanagan: 35:11
Velvet tuxedos.
Spencer Burke: 35:13
I don't want to have a velour tuxedo jacket. It only needs to be from the top up.
Matt Fox: 35:16
That's true. That's what I wore this past weekend.
August Gitschlag: 35:20
For the funeral. Yeah, that's a suit, that's not a tuxedo.
Matt Fox: 35:24
That's a tuxedo, absolutely, your lapel's a tuxedo, but mine is not. Well, it's because I have class and style.
August Gitschlag: 35:36
Yeah, my ai version I'm I'm not gonna, I'm alec fucking baldwin. That's why my voice went like this thanks for sharing that, jim. We'll post that, we'll post that picture on our page too.
Matt Fox: 35:45
That should be our new cover photo.
Spencer Burke: 35:46
Just saying I of course I'm wearing a suit. It's after seven. What am I a?
August Gitschlag: 35:50
farmer, so I was playing.
Jamie Flanagan: 35:54
It was Leonardo and then Chet GTP. Yeah, there's more, there's more shenanigans, but I felt like it was my nose made me look like Mr Magoo.
August Gitschlag: 36:05
I was going to say that this podcast went off the rails, but it really doesn't have any rails to go on.
Spencer Burke: 36:09
No, Magoo, I was going to say that this podcast went off the rails, but it really doesn't have any rails to go on. No, Mr.
Jamie Flanagan: 36:14
Magoo, that was Colonel Sanders, 100% Colonel.
Spencer Burke: 36:17
Sanders, my drunk nose. There was no Magoo there.
August Gitschlag: 36:18
Colonel Sanders.
Matt Fox: 36:24
Breaking Bad and Dirty Rock. They are making a new Naked Gun movie right Dirty Rock or Dirty Rock.
Jamie Flanagan: 36:31
New Naked Gun movie right Dirty Rock or 30 Rock. Yeah, new Naked Gun movie. A new Naked Gun movie I'm in. Is Jamie in it? Yeah, did you see him? Oh, leslie Nielsen, he's the naked part.
Spencer Burke: 36:39
Was that the premiere? The poster.
Jamie Flanagan: 36:40
That was.
Spencer Burke: 36:43
What roles are the two of you going to play in the movie?
August Gitschlag: 36:51
Not OJ. Um, not oj. Oh, I'm the. I'm obviously the lead. It doesn't fit. I'm the sweating pilot in the back.
Jamie Flanagan: 36:53
Oh, my god, yeah right, oh you would, you would be good, you would be good, absolutely you would be you could play that nervous nelly in the best way, yeah no, they. And then in the end a hero, a hero but they do pay homage to you are my hero.
Matt Fox: 37:06
Yeah, and they pay homage to leslie nielsen on all the other characters in the uh in the movie.
August Gitschlag: 37:12
I'm also mixing airplane and naked gun together, so I don't know if you knew that Surely you can't be serious.
Jamie Flanagan: 37:19
Roger Roger, roger Roger, victor, victor I was waiting for the egg.
August Gitschlag: 37:23
Excuse me, stewardess, I speak jive. Oh God, that didn't age well.
Jamie Flanagan: 37:28
I was waiting for the egg, right. Oh god, that didn't age. Well, I was waiting for the egg, all right, and who right?
Matt Fox: 37:30
right, right. And who spoke jive? Who was the?
Jamie Flanagan: 37:33
lady that spoke jive mrs cleaver exactly, mrs cleaver.
Matt Fox: 37:36
Yeah, exactly, and every time june cleaver every time they would pan to the jet flying. It was a propeller plane, not a jet plane sure, there you go.
Spencer Burke: 37:46
We got an episode find a drink that they had in different movies from different ohas.
August Gitschlag: 37:49
Oh we did that shit. We'll do it again. I'll do it again. We'll do it again.
Jamie Flanagan: 37:53
I feel a French 75. Oh, you know, you're going to get it.
August Gitschlag: 37:56
You're going to get it. The greatest cocktail. They call it a champagne cocktail Casablanca which is my favorite movie of all time, and I made champagne cocktails, which is I love it. All right. So to recap and Matt.
Jamie Flanagan: 38:11
What do we know about the old Fitzgerald?
Matt Fox: 38:12
It is what it's a bottled and bond seven year Gesundheit, aged for seven years in new Oak barrels.
August Gitschlag: 38:22
The bag can be used as a driver head cover. I like that. I like that All right.
Jamie Flanagan: 38:26
So in our opinion on it, August, what's your opinion?
Spencer Burke: 38:29
You got a small driver that I do bag Alright. So in our opinion on it, August, what's your opinion on the? You got a small driver, then I do Screw screw.
August Gitschlag: 38:33
Hey, it's not the size of your driver, it's how you use it, how you swang it.
Matt Fox: 38:37
This is a three wood cover.
Jamie Flanagan: 38:39
Okay, fine, I don't have a three driver Trying desperately to grab a sound bite. Nobody's playing with the group. August, your summation on the old fits it's screw mary kill, screw mary kill screw I'm not gonna marry it.
August Gitschlag: 38:52
I'm not gonna kill it. It has a lot of flavor. I really like that about it, but I'm also I'm a ride drinker, so it's kind of why I like this okay, it's got a whole bunch going on.
Jamie Flanagan: 39:01
It's not right.
August Gitschlag: 39:02
But it's a weedy, but I want to compare it to another bottle and bond Because. I feel, like that's the brotherhood, that's fraternity, it's got to roll in, I think. Because we drink all this other stuff, like that Angel's Empty over there is going to taste completely different and I'm going to love it.
Matt Fox: 39:20
But this is going to kick you in the truck nuts a little bit better.
Jamie Flanagan: 39:24
Yeah, you know, I like it. It does, I would actually marry this. Yeah.
Matt Fox: 39:28
Reason being is because I wouldn't drink it.
Spencer Burke: 39:30
Because you don't want to die alone. Well, true, hold on, but would you stay married to this one?
Jamie Flanagan: 39:35
Yes, I would.
Matt Fox: 39:36
So the thing is yeah, but it would take me a while to get through it, because I would only pull it out for special occasions, because it's different.
Spencer Burke: 39:42
So you'd put her aside for after a while, yeah.
Jamie Flanagan: 39:44
So, yeah, spencer, this, the, uh, this is an ounce at a time drinker. Yeah, our rating really is, you know, at at 60 bucks when because it's supposed to be 60 bucks on the shelf regularly, right, and then, like you know, most stores are going to jack it up, maybe five, maybe ten bucks at kroger and meyer, if it's there, it'll be at the 59.99. If you can get it, yeah, absolutely. But well, you're gonna open it up a little bit.
Matt Fox: 40:06
So uh, spencer speaking, it's a screw, mary kill is a, uh screw is you'll, you know, screw around, you'll going to open it up a little bit.
Jamie Flanagan: 40:08
So, spencer speaking, it's a screw, mary. Kill is a screw, is you'll. You know, screw around, you'll get it. If it's out and about Mary, you'll buy it, take it home. Kill is dead to me. I'll never do it again, so screw.
August Gitschlag: 40:21
Mary, more fun with celebrities, but we'll do it with bourbon.
Jamie Flanagan: 40:23
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Okay.
August Gitschlag: 40:31
Mr.
Jamie Flanagan: 40:31
okay, mr bagoo well, okay, I got a, I got a piece, I got a, a piece he's spent is thinking about it actually you never gave your I, I haven't, I haven't went for you, I was going last, I already. I like sloppy seconds you did.
Spencer Burke: 40:44
I'm going like you asked me originally did I?
Jamie Flanagan: 40:46
yeah, yeah, but the screw mary kill. Did you? Did you say screw mary kill? No, I did not. All right, fair play, all right. So which one? Uh, you'll do it out and about you, buy one, take it home or never again oh, definitely not never again.
Spencer Burke: 40:59
I would do this one again.
Jamie Flanagan: 41:00
Um, I would do this out and about, yeah I'm glad I bought a bottle and I'm glad I got it on the shelf. Yeah when this when this goes empty at home, will I buy another one.
Spencer Burke: 41:11
I would Maybe. Maybe, no, for that price point I would go out and buy one right now.
Jamie Flanagan: 41:15
Yeah, yeah, I have to taste this, because it's fun Knowing the price.
Spencer Burke: 41:19
if you can get the state minimum, I would go out and buy that. To have that fit If someone's going to say here's $100, 44? No, you tell me $60. Father's Day is coming $60.
August Gitschlag: 41:32
I will buy this all day long.
Jamie Flanagan: 41:34
We can do a Fitz side by side, because I still have, you still have the other Fitzgerald. There's a little bit left in it.
Matt Fox: 41:40
I nurse them Once they get nice bottles, I take them home. You have the.
Jamie Flanagan: 41:43
Edmund at home, yep so I.
August Gitschlag: 41:47
I got you. Why did it take so long to do that fucking joke? The Edmund Fitzgerald.
Jamie Flanagan: 41:53
It's only a 12 minute song, so but uh, we could do a little side by side on this.
August Gitschlag: 41:57
That might be an incredibly overrated song.
Jamie Flanagan: 41:59
Yes, I said it, many so. So everybody's pouring a second one, so you're all marrying it, you lying fuckers.
Spencer Burke: 42:11
I already said I didn't lie, I didn't. I would say, oh, you're trying it with the ice.
Jamie Flanagan: 42:14
I said I would keep it opening it up I legitimately fucked it here's spencer spencer's like I'll keep drinking it as long as it's yours no, I'll go buy.
Spencer Burke: 42:21
If you know what, if you, I'll go buy another bottle but here's the thing spencer is like super generous.
Jamie Flanagan: 42:25
Like I've been to his house, he's like you want to try this, you want to try this. He's like throwing like these crazy expensive bourbons at me. I'm like, dude, pump the brakes a, um, I don't know if colleen wants to drive home and b I'm already a little wrecked. He's like spence got a nice collection at home and he's very generous, so I I appreciate that. So actually, pork, pour up, drink up, and we'll call you an? U, do you want?
Spencer Burke: 42:47
me to pour that out for you. Speaking of that for the next time, mary Dowling.
Jamie Flanagan: 42:52
Oh, he's got a bottle of Mary Dowling. Who, yep, who.
Spencer Burke: 42:56
It's a woman, it doesn't really matter who Mary Dowling it's.
Jamie Flanagan: 42:59
Pride Month. We don't have to be nice to women.
Spencer Burke: 43:03
It's not like women's month or something the version and I got the bottle of that, so, mary, Dowling there's like a little bourbon history thing on it too, because she's like instrumental in the birth of bourbon. The first female. Yeah, they used it during the birthing or something, I don't know.
Jamie Flanagan: 43:20
It was something like that. It was weird.
Matt Fox: 43:23
No, I've never heard of that brand Mary Dowling. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Spencer Burke: 43:28
We'll get into the history the information about it, the aesthetics.
Jamie Flanagan: 43:33
She's a notable figure in bourbon history and lore and there's a bourbon named after her and I believe the company that's doing it is female based, if I'm not mistaken. If not, that's what I'm saying and let's just go with it.
Spencer Burke: 43:49
I won't say anything else about it until we drink and the Tony. Award goes to hopefully it's better than the WNBA.
Jamie Flanagan: 43:55
I won't tell you how wrong you are, jamie until we do that next time. Oh mercy sakes a lot. This was a tasty treat, so August, when you threw a little ice in it and opened it up with a little bit of dash of oil.
August Gitschlag: 44:09
I opened it up, I think I just kind of calmed it down a little bit from my own taste buds, okay, and I do enjoy it.
Jamie Flanagan: 44:15
Any different flavors or anything coming across?
Matt Fox: 44:18
Yeah, Come on, it opens up those oils.
Jamie Flanagan: 44:20
Any English leather saddle.
August Gitschlag: 44:21
I'll tell you what I still literally have a tongue burn from the first sip.
Jamie Flanagan: 44:25
Oh really, first sip.
Spencer Burke: 44:26
Oh really, it's just, it's fried the middle of my mouth, right right up the middle. Do you have a cut on your tongue because? I don't I don't get any of that in the tongue well, you're an experienced alcoholic. I'm not okay, hold on, hold on, I think, my liver's feeling it my pancreas wants to disagree with you but bourbon connoisseur
Matt Fox: 44:44
that's it.
August Gitschlag: 44:45
I think the words you're looking for is yeah, yeah, yeah, one of my favorite I was dating a girl who was working at an Irish bar and they had Irish nachos on the menu and the guy at the table was like, what makes them Irish nachos? She goes, well, they're made by real alcoholics in the kitchen, Not?
Matt Fox: 45:07
even Irish dudes.
August Gitschlag: 45:08
So good, they're just drunks, just drunks.
Matt Fox: 45:10
That's perfect. I thought there were potatoes on the nachos.
Spencer Burke: 45:15
So, matt, your second pour what's your thoughts?
Matt Fox: 45:18
Oh, this is just continuing to open up.
Spencer Burke: 45:20
It's still strong.
Matt Fox: 45:21
It's still sitting on the back of your throat. It's just, it's a nice warmth that's sitting back there.
August Gitschlag: 45:27
It is a full flavored robust bourbon. I mean I get it and that's what I'm sitting back there it's hanging. It is a full flavored robust, it's hanging on bourbon. I mean I, I get it and that's, that's what people are looking for.
Jamie Flanagan: 45:34
I highly recommend this for that it's great, yeah, yeah, yeah, the crazy bourbon people. I want, I want stag junior, triple you drink this over what you were saying.
August Gitschlag: 45:44
Yeah, I agree, I agree with those blends.
Spencer Burke: 45:46
What I like about it?
Matt Fox: 45:47
it doesn't dissipate really quickly no, it, it doesn't, it's just hanging on Because a lot of them that go there all of a sudden it's gone, I'm like no, you're still tasting it.
Spencer Burke: 45:55
Not that it's a bad taste, it's a good taste and you have it in your mouth for a long time, I don't care what the liquor reps say If you mix this one, with ginger ale or something.
August Gitschlag: 46:04
Be mad at you. Please do not do that they want you to consume your liquor any way you want to consume it.
Spencer Burke: 46:12
That is true. If that's the way you enjoy it, that's the way you enjoy it, but I would not recommend that.
Jamie Flanagan: 46:16
Well, here's the thing. That's why I went and I bought the Elijah Craig for our welcome cocktail, because I wanted something else from Heaven Hill, because I wasn't going to mix eight ounces of this into a cocktail. Because either A or B. I'd hate it and I don't want to have to buy another bottle ever. I can't remember the last time and be able to have some on the shelf, but I like it and I want to keep it around, so I'm glad. So say you loved it but if you put it in that, mix.
Spencer Burke: 46:45
Would you be able to tell the difference in Elijah Craig and Ultra Stero? I would actually say yes. I would say yes. I would say this would be the proof.
Jamie Flanagan: 46:53
It would have been a little bit, not a ton.
Spencer Burke: 46:54
It's just a fuller flavor, just a little bit, a little bit more of a bite. But with the lemon, the sour, it would have cut it so much it wouldn't taste as much, it still would have had to say First, it's an old-fashioned.
August Gitschlag: 47:04
You're 100% right. Putting the lemon juice in there destroys every purpose of why you're buying a bottle like this.
Spencer Burke: 47:11
Correct. So if you be able to tell the difference, more.
August Gitschlag: 47:15
It depends on who's making it.
Spencer Burke: 47:16
If you have, someone that knew what they were doing.
August Gitschlag: 47:20
In old-fashioned, I always get rise, I agree, I always go with Templeton.
Jamie Flanagan: 47:27
He's a turkey boy too. I love my gobble-gobble.
Spencer Burke: 47:30
Not the neck Wild turkey.
Matt Fox: 47:34
That's my house, the 101?
Jamie Flanagan: 47:36
The 101's a party.
August Gitschlag: 47:39
It really is, is in my mouth, party in my mouth and no, I, I, that's the name of my. This is, uh, this is a gift worthy bottle of bourbon yes, yes, yes yes it's so like.
Spencer Burke: 47:51
That's a good way to put it like blantons.
August Gitschlag: 47:54
Right there's like the crazy happy little bag that oh, and they're not using the bag to cheat you into buying it either.
Jamie Flanagan: 48:00
It's good juice. No, but it's like every third. It's only three of the bottles, in the case, that are in the bag.
Spencer Burke: 48:06
Not every bottle has a bag.
Jamie Flanagan: 48:08
Nope. Yeah, when you're going to the party store.
August Gitschlag: 48:11
I gotta go see Tony to get this. I gotta get this from Tony.
Jamie Flanagan: 48:24
He was out while he and I were standing there like I said, he got three cases and I went in. I really I just went in to buy like a bunch of stuff for the podcast, your voice studio bar and uh, as we were there, I was like, oh, that came out, cool, you got that. He's like, yeah, I'm all, maybe I'll grab one of those. He's like you better grab one now, because they're going, because I just posted this. He goes, I'm not shit, he posted.
Jamie Flanagan: 48:37
It yep and then it's and then it was like, it was like damn it, tony the 20 minutes we were standing there it was like zip, zip, zip, zip and then people were coming in. It's like, oh, I'm gonna, I want to grab one for my friend and tony's like what your friend, who never comes in here and buys anything, get out of here, maybe I?
August Gitschlag: 48:54
should go to my hidden secret. Get out of here, go to my secret liquor store and see if they have them.
Matt Fox: 49:00
No but this is supposed to be. I got a guy.
Jamie Flanagan: 49:03
This is supposed to be regularly available on the show, yeah, and you know I was like no, no, don't do it. I'm like, dude, just sell them. As the people are coming out, I go just sell it.
August Gitschlag: 49:22
And he was like insistent. He's like, no, no, I got one. I'm like, no, sell it. He's like, no, I got one. I'm like, uh, no, that's on my mind, it's added to the tab, it's on my mind, let's, let's, let's, get this out of the way now. It's on my mind, let's establish this now. Yeah, it's gonna get into the universe. Summertime yes, you have time off. Oh, I'm off, I don't have time today's my first day off of school.
Jamie Flanagan: 49:34
Neither do I. That's why I don't have pants on.
August Gitschlag: 49:35
I have vacation scheduled, but we need to schedule a Thursday night podcast where I can take the fucking morning off. Friday morning, the Friday morning off Because I get a lot of comp time with the A&B Liquor guys. Again, it's been a year, it's been over a year. But we need to get drivers. We have to have Uber numbers discounts.
Jamie Flanagan: 49:57
Do we want to get drivers? We have to have Uber numbers discounts. Do we want to do it here or do we want to do it at A&B?
August Gitschlag: 50:02
Liquor. If they have space for us, I would love to do it on site. Why didn't you talk about this two weeks ago before?
Matt Fox: 50:09
I made my schedule for the rest of the summer.
August Gitschlag: 50:11
Just because I think of things that you don't think of.
Spencer Burke: 50:13
You made your schedule for the whole summer right. The only thing I think of is boobs and drinking. That means you plan too far ahead.
Matt Fox: 50:19
That means I'm organized.
Jamie Flanagan: 50:21
Hi honey, all right, oh, when you're sober, well, let us know. Let us know, shut up, you got some PTO, take a Friday PTO, or we?
August Gitschlag: 50:30
do a Sunday afternoon one?
Matt Fox: 50:32
My leader knows what I do.
August Gitschlag: 50:33
But that was in the summertime. I don't want to do that Friday night.
Matt Fox: 50:36
What about June 20th, that's a Friday, june 19th. By the way, june 19th is the baseball game, baseball game You're coming, oh yeah, if anybody's down at the Tiger Stadium for June 19th.
Jamie Flanagan: 50:49
Get yourself a cheap ticket. June 19th it's going to be a nightmare.
August Gitschlag: 50:53
Pirates are playing the Pirates. As of now, skeens is supposed to pitch, if the scheduling goes right. It's going to be fun, funny and silly, it's going to be a day game. We have only two Thursday day games this year. They're always on Wednesdays.
Spencer Burke: 51:07
It's a Thursday day game.
August Gitschlag: 51:08
We're just buying the cheapest tickets. We're going right up to the Pepsi porch Uniting as men, men, men, men men.
Jamie Flanagan: 51:15
Everybody listening.
August Gitschlag: 51:20
I'm supposed to join men, men, men, men, all right, anybody. Yeah, everybody listening, and catherine too. But now you just sold out the game you had it. I know well, these games are selling out anyway now. Yeah, thank god I got those tickets early right, yeah, I got that.
Jamie Flanagan: 51:28
We had the best record in baseball. I got that $17 ticket.
Spencer Burke: 51:31
I'm like hell, yeah, yeah this is what I'm talking about. Father's day, I go. Let's go to the tigers game. Looked it up there are no tickets on.
Jamie Flanagan: 51:38
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, nope, standing room only $200. Yeah.
Spencer Burke: 51:42
My wife's like oh, any available? I go no, what do you mean? Nothing's available, Nothing's available.
August Gitschlag: 51:48
Well, unless you go second or wherever you want to get it, I'll tell you what have. And the same problem the Mets have is they put those expensive freaking seats right behind home plate and no one's ever sitting in them, because they're always up in the bar and it's the same ticket. They have the access to the Tiger Club and, unless it's a playoff game, they ain't sitting there. But they're paid for the seats.
Jamie Flanagan: 52:11
And there's all those empty seats and it looks like hell, but it's not a problem for them it looks terrible. It looks terrible. The visiting team is right there too, but the problem is great for them.
Spencer Burke: 52:18
They sold the tickets.
August Gitschlag: 52:19
Right, it's just a bad visual for first place teams. You know what they need to do.
Spencer Burke: 52:23
They need to buy a second seat so they can get a seat filler.
August Gitschlag: 52:26
I get it.
Spencer Burke: 52:27
Sure. So just like the Oscars.
August Gitschlag: 52:31
Give it to the Detroit Public Schools students. Let Is it standing room or seat filler.
Spencer Burke: 52:34
You get a seat filler, your seat filler. If the ticker roll comes up, you go back to standing room.
Jamie Flanagan: 52:39
That would be a good thing. Pitch it. Let's go pitch it. I'm going to go pitch it.
Spencer Burke: 52:42
I'd like that you and I can pitch that. Pitch it to a baseball team.
Jamie Flanagan: 52:45
August. I'm pitching if you're catching.
August Gitschlag: 52:48
Oh, we know that Good night everybody Tons.
Matt Fox: 52:50
Neither does Jamie, I think he looks so old in that picture.
Spencer Burke: 52:54
Yeah, Freaking worn out.
Matt Fox: 53:08
Isn't Magoo blind too? Is it, mr Magoo blind? Close to it.
August Gitschlag: 53:11
This is where we edit, mr Magoo is close to blind, not legally blind.
Matt Fox: 53:16
What am I feeling? What is that?
Jamie Flanagan: 53:20
I'm blind, adjacent Wait hold on.
August Gitschlag: 53:22
This is why we bring Spence here for his Magoo trip.
Jamie Flanagan: 53:26
All right, gentlemen, that was fun.
Matt Fox: 53:29
Did you use that loosely Happy Monday? No, happy Monday.
Jamie Flanagan: 53:33
Cheers you people. I love the Karens and the sounds. Oh, it's a great sound Like subscribe.
August Gitschlag: 53:41
You beat me to it.
Matt Fox: 53:43
All that fun stuff.
Jamie Flanagan: 53:44
That's Matt Fox.
Matt Fox: 53:46
That's Jamie Flanagan Spencer's here, and that's August.
Spencer Burke: 53:52
With the hot shirt on Good looking across the street. See you next time.
August Gitschlag: 53:58
Thanks everyone.
