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Bourbon Groups: The Rise of Whiskey Communities
Bourbon groups, societies, and clubs across the globe have become the driving force behind whiskey's surging popularity, creating communities that offer education, camaraderie, and exclusive experiences. From Facebook groups with thousands of members to elite membership clubs offering barrel picks, these organizations have transformed whiskey appreciation from a solitary pursuit into a vibrant social experience.
• Facebook groups help connect whiskey enthusiasts worldwide and have tripled in number since the bourbon boom began
• Local clubs offer regular meetups, tastings, educational events with distillery representatives, and charity fundraisers
• Premium membership clubs like Old Carter Social Club and Crystal Glen Cairn Club provide exclusive bottles and experiences
• Groups often organize barrel picks, giving members access to unique expressions not available to the general public
• Whiskey communities are notably more welcoming and accessible than many other hobbyist groups
• International whiskey societies in places like India demonstrate the global reach of the phenomenon
• The Scotchy Bourbon Boys community has grown to 2,000 vetted members across all 50 states and 135+ countries
• For newcomers to whiskey, joining a local group is the best way to learn and build connections
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The whiskey revolution isn't happening in distilleries—it's happening in Facebook groups, local meetups, and exclusive clubs around the world. As bourbon's popularity has exploded, the communities surrounding it have become the true catalyst for its unprecedented growth and cultural significance.
Across the globe, from Cincinnati to Bangalore, whiskey enthusiasts are forming tight-knit communities centered around their shared passion. Some exist purely in the digital realm, with thousands of members exchanging knowledge and experiences online. Others maintain strong local identities with regular tastings, educational events, and charitable fundraisers. The most exclusive clubs offer members rare bottles, private lockers, and even opportunities to participate in the distillation process.
What makes these whiskey communities truly special is their remarkable openness and accessibility. Unlike many hobby groups plagued by gatekeeping, bourbon enthusiasts have cultivated a welcoming culture where newcomers find mentors, friendships form quickly, and experiences are shared generously. As one enthusiast put it, "When it came to the bourbon industry, the doors are open. The people are fantastic."
The impact of these communities extends beyond social connections—they're transforming how whiskey is produced, marketed, and consumed. Many groups coordinate barrel picks, giving members access to unique expressions and providing valuable feedback to distilleries. Brands increasingly partner with these clubs for special releases and educational sessions, creating a symbiotic relationship that benefits everyone involved.
Whether you're a seasoned collector or just beginning your whiskey journey, finding your tribe is perhaps the most valuable step you can take. These communities offer education, camaraderie, and opportunities to sample ex
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Speaker 1:Yeah, all right, welcome back to another podcast of the Scotchy Bourbon Boys Tiny here tonight. Here for all your bourbon and whiskey needs. Tonight we're going to be talking about the group society and clubs throughout the United States and then also throughout the world, the popularity. We're going to get into it a little bit About what it's meant to the whiskey, what I would say the whiskey. We got to come up with a name for what this is the whiskey jet pack or whatever. Whiskey has become so popular across, especially the bourbon boom. It's been spectacular, so the groups spectacular. So the groups, the societies and the clubs. I really feel, with the advent of the internet, have really, really been why this has been such a cool thing. I mean, it even explains some of the big things that have been happening in India, australia, all the different places and whatnot. But remember, we're wwwscotchiebourbonboyscom for all things Scotchie Bourbon Boys Also, as far as that goes, we've got our great t-shirts for sale if you're interested in that, and then also our Scotchie Bourbon Boys Glen Karens and there's also our crystal glenn karen club, which I'm going to be ordering some of those to do that again. But uh, no matter what, what you want to do is you want to listen or watch, however you do it with, whether it's facebook, youtube, instagram or x or on apple, iheart, spotify, on the, you know, anywhere there's an audio podcast. We're on it and no matter what, no matter what way you're listening and no matter what way you're watching, make sure you like, comment, subscribe, leave good feedback. Listen, like, comment, subscribe and leave good feedback. We really appreciate everything Right now on YouTube, google, anybody going there, you can go. You search the Scotchie Burbitt invoice, give us a five-star rating. That would be great to get a five-star rating Everybody who's out there. There's also an Apple five-star rating. Leave a comment, leave what you like about the podcast. It helps out. It helps out immensely. But you know, tonight we're going to talk about the groups and then also I've got a special barrel bottle breakdown with the old louisville barrel bottle breakdown. Tonight, courtesy of walker cyrus, we are going to be breaking down the russell's reserve 15. Oh yes, I did it. It's like john rips is sipping on a russell's reserve private, private barrel selection eight year. But we're gonna, I'm going to be breaking down this 15 years Russell Reserve. I just wanted to do it. It's something to do Now.
Speaker 1:Real quick note tomorrow night at the. I don't know why I can't remember I should have had it all up and everything, and I don't know why I can't remember I should have had it all up and everything and I don't. But I think I actually can check it out on here. Let's just see Nine, one, nine. Okay, here we go. We got that, but let's, that's on the. Let's see about this. It should be right there.
Speaker 1:Yes, tomorrow night the steel valley bourbon association is doing a special tasting of their smoke wagon and for charity. It is. The charity is one time for the kids, so we're going to be raising money for that. There's 50 seats, $55 each. We're pretty close to full, but I think there's a few tickets left.
Speaker 1:It's 6 pm at the Blue Wolf Tavern. If you're in that area, if you're in that area, you want to check it out. And that is interesting. What just happened? That should have been right there, okay, yeah, if you're in that area, check it out and, uh, come by and see me. So it should be fun, all right, yeah, we're just tasting and, uh, it should just be a good thing for to get to taste some barrel picks up there and have some food and do it for a good cause. So that's you know, frank Carbon of the Steel Valley Bourbon Association, steel valley, bourbon association. Uh, if you want to, you can contact him to find out about tickets, or I am pretty sure you're not going to be turned away at the door if you show up. All right, there we go. We got that under control so that I sure as the sunrise sets. Besides, I need to reduce inventory. All right, here we go. Bourbon groups we're going to go back to that same thing.
Speaker 1:Bourbon groups I have a thought on bourbon groups before we actually start. When you think about it. Bourbon groups what have they meant when I first got into this and formed the Scotchy Bourbon Boys? So the Scotchy Bourbon Boys is a group. We podcast, okay, so you like Guinness? Someone asked me Cocktail for a Russian lady. Yeah, katie, I can make many cocktails. I can make many cocktails.
Speaker 1:But getting back to groups and where they were initially, and what Facebook, in my opinion, and other social media platforms have done is allowed people from across the country and the world to form groups. Our group is centered around the podcast. We do meet from time to time locally and we get together in different places. So the main part of the podcast group is a select few of fans, along with the four or five of us who travel around to different distilleries. So at any given time, let's just say walker, um has been with us, randy has been with us, jamie has we've done stuff. Um, I've actually stopped off on my way back from Wisconsin and saw John in Chicago, so we're and Leland Wright, who's part of our group, on tonight he is in Columbus, but we've never, ever got together. But we're working on some events so we all can get together from time to time and talk about whiskey and our passion, our love, and then also talk about how to make the podcast better and that type of thing. So we've got the Scotchy Bourbon Boys group. There's a Facebook page, the Scotchy Bourbon Boys group, my personal page all linked to the Scotchy Bourbon Boys, and then there's the podcast also that we do Now, in 2019, when I first started, there were groups, but there weren't at nowhere near as many as there are now, when the ones that I belong to, the ones I belong to the most, I just, every single week, I can go on and be a part of more and more and more and more and more groups.
Speaker 1:There are groups associated with different bourbons. For instance, buffalo Trace. There's a group for what does Buffalo Trace have today? So there's some strictly online groups. And then there are groups that are local that you can find, for instance, the Greater Cincinnati Whiskey Association. So you got got in, you know, so that one is for Cincinnati in the Kentucky. It has Cincinnati and Kentucky members. There's the Central Ohio Bourbon, the Central Ohio Bourbon Association, there's the Wisco Bourbon Co, there's Wisconsin Bourbon Club and so now some of the clubs exist and they get together and have meetings and they do barrel picks and that type of thing. Then some of the clubs get togethers, do tastings. Now there are, you know, societies, whiskey societies. Now that is something that's been around for a long time the whiskey society, for a long time, the Whiskey Society.
Speaker 1:So I've been asked to talk at different bourbon clubs. So throughout the state I go there, we do usually do a live podcast or a Facebook live checking in from the places that we are, like if we're with a club and they're doing some sort of tasting. We've been with northeast bourbon association, uh, northeast ohio bourbon association, and then we were also central ohio bourbon and I mean. So I've got to meet a lot of the admins and that type of things and we go around to the different clubs but the different clubs also when they when they have these groups and they have these meetings, they some some have monthly meetings and when they have the monthly meetings they get the distributors or the people from the distilleries to come up and talk Some for instance, ct just was with a group that brought Bernie Lubbers up.
Speaker 1:A lot of times the groups bring the featured people up and they do a charity type thing. So like I'm going to be at for charity, I'm going to be at the Steel Valley Whiskey Bourbon Associates Association, the Steel Valley Bourbon Association, up in Youngstown for that. So they, a lot of the groups, do try and do a lot of good. They raise money for charities and then they also get together taste different bourbons, talk about it, and then a lot of groups will do barrel picks. They do the barrel picks through the state and then the members have first access at those barrel picks. So a lot of groups CT belongs to a group that does massive amount of barrel picks We've done barrel picks also. We've done it with Elijah Craig, we've done barrel pick with Knob Creek and so you know we've had different, so we've had different picks. They've been highly successful. It's very difficult to do because of the process to do them, but that's a big part of forming groups Now I have.
Speaker 1:Then there's the elite clubs and groups. For instance, the Scotchy Bourbon Boys has the Crystal Glen Cairn Club. The Crystal Glen Cairn offered Um, it's been offered two memberships a year and right now we have four people who have bought the memberships. It comes with barrel picks, a crystal Glen Karen t-shirts, the Crystal Glen Karen. If you're a really good friend of the podcast that's been on for instance Stacy Pritchard who's on tonight, she has one. Then there's also Greg Schneider has one. So if you've been on the podcast many times, there's a good chance that you've got and you're a friend, that you've got one of these Scotchy Bourbon Boys Crystal Glen Karen right here. Ryan Lang I gave him he's part of it, owner of Middle West Spirits, but he gave me his Middle West Spirits Crystal Glen to promote his brand. So this club is exquisite.
Speaker 1:Once a year I get together with the club. I've been trying to do it, but now that we've got, I believe, five people in it plus anybody who's got a Glen, that's received it as a friend and I'm gonna try and do a tasting at my house. Try and get everybody to come down. See if I can get a bunch of people to come and do it, and we'll do some exquisite uh tastings. So that's the key to this crystal glen karen club. You've got the crystal glen karen, you've gotten the barrel picks uh, that's really kind of cool. But then you're part of a club that you've joined and it's now your. Every year you can come to one of the events. Now another club the old carter social club. Now the old carter social club. Now the Old Carter Social Club is with Old Carter.
Speaker 1:You pay a membership fee. It's very, very elite. And then you get offered special bottles throughout the year for purchase. You don't have to buy the bottles but everybody has lockers. They can put them in, they can come pick them up. But if they purchase one, they pay for it. It gets put in their locker. Pick it up whenever you want to. When you're at the social club you can go from. You know, drink from the locker, you know sip from the locker. So that's a really cool thing.
Speaker 1:Now there's also the Distillers Club here in Canton, ohio, and there's a lot of them, not in Canton but in here. Gervasi Spirits has just done the Distillers Club. It's $300 to join and it's four events throughout the year. And this year we picked the mash bill. This next June 6th meeting on Friday June 6th we are going to cook and the mash bill and then put it and get it fermenting and then the next one will be distilling and then the final one will be bottling and it's the. You get to do that with the distiller at Gervasi on their hybrid pot still, column still, and Shea Pridemore did it. You got a bottle, one of their barrel picks for joining. You got a specific tasting glass and a T-shirt. So those are the kind of things that clubs have and there's so many different places.
Speaker 1:So Caroline Gosh says the club she hosts is a tasting group. They have two to three events a month. Class is 25 to 35 for four to six. Three to four. We have distribution and distillery reps as guests. We also have events that are themed with decoration, games and prizes. I mean three to a month. Two to three events a month. That was. That's crazy. The way time goes, carolyn. That is nuts, but anyways, sounds great. It sounds like I need to get up by you. Carolyn's group is up north of us, so sounds like a lot of fun.
Speaker 1:My my thing is is, if I go someplace, like uh going to youngstone, I always have to basically, uh, people want to do um, want you to try and taste a lot, because we taste so much on the podcast you could have offered a lot of stuff to taste and you really got to watch it, especially like like on tomorrow night with the tasting, and then I got to drive 50 minutes home. So those are a lot of things I don't like to have very much the way under the legal limit of alcohol in my system when I leave. So those are the kind of things that you got to do. When you do this, you're not you're leading a taste, that you might be leading the tasting, but you're not doing a lot of tasting. You're kind of doing tongue dipping. So that's kind of cool.
Speaker 1:But the Facebooks we covered the Facebook groups. I mean Facebook groups are great because you can be a part of the group. You get all the updates, especially here. I love our group. We're over 2, 2000. I can't believe it. Um, we, it's 2000 vetted people. We don't just let anybody in there.
Speaker 1:We try and keep out the scammers and that's one of the things. If you do belong to a group on Facebook, you have to watch out people who who spam the site, telling you either to go to another group or to buy this. This is a great place to go to buy your whiskey, because when they're spamming like that, that is usually scamming. Spamming equals scamming. So anybody out there if you belong to a group and somebody's in there trying to sell in the Scotchy Bourbon Boys group, it's spectacularly straight up. It says no selling when they agree to be in the group, do you agree to no selling? And then on the bottom, they have to. It's reiterated. That's two of my rules. You cannot sell in the group People try. If they're in, they're kicked out immediately. So that's inviting people, that type of thing. So that part of the group is kind of cool.
Speaker 1:But to have 2,000 people from around the world initially, when we started this, the podcast and you've got the original, I think it's 13, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 states where people joined the Scotchy Bourbon Boys. Since then we are in all 50 states Plus we are in over 135 countries that people listen to the podcast. So very, very exciting. Now Tim Dance says he's the member. He's based on the meeting formats. Yes, you can. It's great that when you bring in people for instance, we've done tastings at the Barrel Room with Penelope. We've done tastings with Chicken Cock with Greg Schneider we brought them in. We haven't done that lately because of the fact that the podcast has been pretty intense. Plus, we're just getting into the tasting season.
Speaker 1:But I'm thinking, if we do this Scotchy Bourbon Boys Crystal Glen Caring Club, when we do that, what's going to happen there is we're going to be able to bring some people in that are in it that will be able to answer questions, your questions, about distilling. I believe that it will be an educational night and a very fun night and the way to get in is to have one of these Crystal Glen Cairns. Anybody who has one will be allowed to be in if they have one and they'll be invited. So I'm thinking sometime in July. We've got a lot of busy stuff going on Now. One of the other things that I wanted to talk about is it's not just, you know, united States that does this. Okay, so groups All right, let's see, I'm going to hit that one. Okay, let's do that one All right.
Speaker 1:In India, several organizations and clubs cater to whiskey enthusiasts, including bourbon aficionados. Two notable examples are the dram club and the single malt amateur club. The dram club is based in muabi, aims to make whiskey accessible and enjoyable for all, offering events, master classes and even a delivery service for single malts and whiskeys. They also have an app with city-wise, priceless and personalized recommendations. Now the Single Malt Amateur Club based in Bangalore, smac. Bangalore SMAC is a long time standing club for single malt enthusiasts, offering a community for sharing experiences and knowledge. One of the mentions on Man's World India said that they are the most active association of single malt lovers in India and have been featured in Whiskey Advocate's top whiskey clubs. They also conduct an annual poll to rank the best Indian single malts. So Whiskey Advocate, while not a club, whiskey Advocate is a prominent resource for whiskey enthusiasts, including those in India, with articles and rankings of both Indian and international whiskeys.
Speaker 1:So it's really kind of cool um the the clubs. And it's fun because the dram club, I believe, is not only its own club Yep, you just hit it and you can be part of it. It talks about all the different whiskey experiences, and whiskey in India is huge, so I like to usually think a lot less international when it comes to clubs and and uh societies. Now, the societies there's a lot of them in kentucky, because that's the. When it comes to bourbon society that, um, um. So walker's trying to tell me, let's see, the general platform is still whiskey. No Whiskey, I say service and malts, let's see, I went there Exclusive, immersive together Experiences, india's most vibrant and whiskey computer. Yeah, don't, I'm not the greatest when it comes to to having uh, uh, middle eastern or eastern uh language. I barely am able to even speak um english, let alone uh, come up with all the different. So, let's see, there's just so many different ones out there. It's kind of cool. I mean, honestly, the different uh strong whiskey is the best. Merrick is like he likes jack daniels and it's peace man. He likes the. Obviously he likes whiskey weed also along with good whiskey, which is kind of a cool thing if that's what tricks your trigger. Then we also have the Scotch Malt Whiskey Society. I mean, you're talking about Scotland.
Speaker 1:Whiskey Advocate really is a driver of all the different great large clubs going on. You've got that going on there and then here, I believe, uh, bourbon groups. So you know, uh, yeah, first thing, all right. So one of them are here in all in, in just little canton ohio. There's the canton bourbon boys, there's the scotchy bourbon boys, so we, and then you know, cleveland bourbon club, the bourbon club, the bourbon outfitters uh, facebook group. Bourbon lovers uh, private group, let's see, so there's many groups in Ohio. We have so many different ones. Okay, all right, that's because let's go back to Safari. We have Northeast Ohio, central Ohio, all the different clubs throughout and they do a really good job up here.
Speaker 1:And one of the things that if you're not in a club, you really should get into a club like walker. When you go out to arizona, you should be right away getting into a bourbon or whiskey club out there. It's a great way to meet people, bourbon people, from what I everything. Why I love the clubs and I love whiskey is because whiskey and bourbon people are usually down to earth, super awesome people.
Speaker 1:I find that I've had, I've been in a lot of different uh, uh, what would you say? Social groups of like. Uh, when, as a fine artist, I joined a lot of art groups, I did a lot of gallery-type stuff. I also was part of the First Friday here for about 25, it would be two years. I was part of the First Friday, every first Friday of the month, displaying my artwork and getting to know the people in the art community and the art community. Once again, my friends were my friends, good people. But there was also a lot of politics, a lot of gate opening type stuff that you had to know the right people to get through the right gates to be able to do it. But when it came to the bourbon industry, the doors are open.
Speaker 1:The people are fantastic. You spend time with them. You spend quality time either in their establishments or even in their houses. One of the things that the Frankfurt Bourbon Club meets and I've met great people there they offer when I come down to stay at their houses. You're not always taking up people on it, but the offer's there. It's kind of cool. Now there are some bourbon clubs that actually have brick and mortar and that's really kind of a cool thing too. We've got two of them here in Canton. I'm trying to. You know I've got grandkids and kids and whatnot. So I try and do as much as I can here in Ohio with but with the podcast um, we got, we got someone from Brazil. We've got people from let's see where Merrick was from. Can I see that John Edwards is on? That's cool. Um, we got someone like I said uh, robinson, rob. We got someone, like I said, robinson from Brazil. Kind of cool. Welcome to the podcast.
Speaker 1:So the groups are really what would you say? The groups that are there in the podcast and the podcast groups. For instance, cleveland on the Rocks, it's got its own group. The people there do whatever up in Cleveland with Matt and we've combined our people. So when we meet and get together we've had tastings, we've been up there, had events, so it's really kind of a way to get to know people that have the love of bourbon and whiskey and they know how they're responsible.
Speaker 1:You have a good time, things don't get out of hand, you just really have. It's just a really good. Uh, what would you say? Social friendship group? I mean, it's just, it's. It's the definition of living life good, it's entertaining, you have good times. So, the Scotchy Bourbon Boys this past we have our annual bus tour, we have our Christmas party and then we also had a tasting in last year and we'll probably have the Crystal Glen Caring Club this year and another bourbon tasting and with you know, with that it's just I got to do the tastings for the group because I just have so much whiskey I like to share it. It's no, if I don't do the tastings, nobody's going to drink this. I've tasted most of everything I have and you know that's just how. That's how it's going. So the groups also.
Speaker 1:In my opinion, with the advent of facebook, this is when you look at the bourbon boom, the real bourbon boom it coincides with facebook. People at first first were selling whiskey on Facebook till Facebook cracked down on it, and there still is. Everybody was cracking down because it's illegal to sell. But that was the first thing when everybody started talking and they were talking and selling and doing this and what, and then the crackdown happened and then everybody was belonging to the groups. Everybody started doing it more legally as far as getting their barrel picks to their members and that type of thing. So it's really kind of cool and I really think the societies have always been there. The clubs probably have tripled since the bourbon boom and the bourbon groups it's insane. It's across the whole world, so there's thousands upon thousands of bourbon groups.
Speaker 1:So the first thing I do, if you're getting into bourbon, the first thing I do is find a bourbon group near you and start meeting people and sharing your whiskey and bourbon experiences. That's just how bourbon groups you know the importance of bourbon groups coming up. Now I do believe I have 109. All right, let's see. Let's just see. I have the groups OHLQ, I mean, on the OHLQ website. They actually have on the website. They have a thing that was April of 18 of 20. I need to get on the website of the OHLQ Spirit Societies in Ohio the Whiskey Girls of Erie Shores, central Ohio Whiskey Society, ohio Rum Society, bourbon Women and Whiskey Women Fisher Wine and Spirits Proof Social Club formed by the Grand MBA Ohio State University. Bourbon Club of North Central Ohio.
Speaker 1:Even the state of Ohio recognizes the importance of the bourbon clubs and so they're huge and they are 100% behind this power whiskey comeback and then also, as they say, the whiskey boom. 100% is through the groups and 100% you have to. If you haven't yet, you need to join our group. Our group is the Scotchy Bourbon Boys. You can find that page on Facebook and also the group. But the group is vetted and we are 2,000 strong and when you join our group you're probably a good chance not going to get spammed. Now, my Jeffrey Mueller. I try and vet the most as I can, but I have 5,000 friends now and 52,000, 53,000, 52,000 followers, so I can't vet that the same way. But if anybody spams it, I see it, delete it and block that person almost immediately. So it's a little bit different experience if you join the Scotchy Bourbon Boys. But any group that I shared to tonight and I mentioned already is a good group to join. I, I, I belong to, many, many to, and we appreciate everybody who allows us to um promote whiskey within their groups. Um, that's what we do. We were, that's what we're about. All right, so anyways, if anybody has any, they're available and what you make of them, yeah, if anybody has any questions, throw it up there on Facebook or YouTube about groups.
Speaker 1:I am going to start this surprise bourbon bottle breakdown, the Old Louisville Bourbon Bottle Breakdown, brought to you by the Old Louisville Whiskey Company in Louisville, kentucky. Old Louisville Amin does a great job down there. He basically books by appointment, but if you're in the Louisville area, old Louisville Whiskey Company is a must stop. Fantastic, he doesn't sell anything under seven years, so all of his whiskey is seven years or older. Very similar to what Mark Carter does with Old Carter. Very similar to what Mark Carter does with old Carter.
Speaker 1:So that brings us to the bourbon bottle breakdown rating system. It consists of four different categories. One is nose or aroma, two is body, three is taste and four is finish. Each category has an assigned amount of knocks. The nose and the body can get up to four knocks, and the taste and the finish can get up to five. But if you like an exceptional category, exceptionally, you can add an extra to one category, a ba-da-ba for a total of 19 out of 18 for a perfect bourbon. 19 out of 18 for a perfect bourbon.
Speaker 1:So here we go with the old Louisville Whiskey Company's barrel bottle breakdown of Russell's Reserve, 15-year-old, courtesy of Walker Cyrus, who is there right now. Thank you so much, walker. I covet this bottle. It's fantastic. It's been open for a little bit, walker, let's just go over a little bit of a story about this.
Speaker 1:Walker, when he got this and we saw each other, probably I would say it was I want to say February. Was it February? Yes, I believe so. No, say February. Was it February? Yes, I believe so. No, not February. It was March when we did the Jack Daniels thing, we came down I saw Walker and he brought this bottle for us, for me to taste, and then said that he needed it or whatever. But now that he's moving he knows how much I love this bottle and, uh, it was very generous to um, let me obtain this. And I opened this. And the nose from a distance is so, oh my God, now the 15, I felt when I first opened it. This is a little bit. It was a little bit oaky. But when I saw him the next time and Walker was brought the bottle and surprised me, it now has really opened up.
Speaker 1:So tonight I'm tasting in my Scotchy Bourbon Boys, glen Karen. If anybody's interested, just contact me. I can get that for you. All right, put a little bit in there in my Glen. We'll put that up there next to that in my Glen. We'll put that up there next to that.
Speaker 1:Now, one of the things that's great about these Glen Cairns is, uh, the tulip shape with the bottom. You don't have to heat up, you hold it there. You look at your whiskey Uh, you can tell viscosity on the glass. Uh, ct loves to take it and do spinning. I am not a spinner. But well, maybe I am. Look at that, I got it going. Wow, that's the first time I think I ever got a really good spin.
Speaker 1:All right, so the nose is fantastic and if you put the glint on the side and you can roll it on with the right amount, you can't overfill it, but you can roll it on the actual, which coats the whole glass. Come on back here and then when you hold it up, you can see what the legs do. This particular one is basically wow, long, thick legs. It doesn't take long for that to drop in. Beautiful. It's weird. It's sticking to other parts and doing some, but what it did on the inside of the glass is it's just got big, long, the full length, dropping back down into the pool of sunshine as the whiskey.
Speaker 1:What was I forget? Jeff Schwartz is the whiskey advocate. I think he's a whiskey advocate. Yep, he does a nice piece. He critiques bourbons, along with Michael Veach on the Scotchy Bourbon Boys. But so the viscosity on this of coating the glass tells you that it's going to have a pretty good body.
Speaker 1:Now I've had a little bit of the Old Forrester 117 series, so that's good. So this won't have a palate shock, but the nose is caramel. There's a little bit of the I mean, what is it? There's cherry too. Caramel and and cherry. Oh my god, is that good? Both nostrils are working tonight. That's one of the first times I've had both. You have a dominant nostril a lot of times, but right now it's both nostrils and that nose is fan-freaking-tastic. That nose is fantastic.
Speaker 1:Now, the proof on this is barrel strength, but it's non-chill filtered. This was a 2024 release. Where is the proof? I don't know why I don't have any glasses tonight. I should have a pair. Nope, empty, empty. I'm trying to find out. Nope, let's see what our proof is. Let's see what our proof is 100.
Speaker 1:I want to say 117, one 17.2. All right, let's just. Can I get it in some better light? Let's see, oh, I could do this. Oh, we'll do it. No, that's too far. Nope, you're not going to. Let me do that All right. We won't do it. No, that's too far. Nope, you're not going to. Let me do that All right. Uh, we won't do it. I want to say it's crazy. Come on, I usually have that's nuts. Uh, let's see, what about a light? Well, let's just get into some better light right here. I'm gonna see, check that out. I really 117.2. I'll go with that. It's just so dumb. Very good, it definitely has a big body. So that was it, walker, you guys and Randy. It was 117.2. Just the wow Big caramel finish. Wow, that is delicious. Thank you, walker. Um, all right, there's two areas I could give this.
Speaker 1:There's two areas of, but up, up, and I might pull that out. Because pull that out? Because all I want to do is smell this. There's a root beer, there's a sometimes a little root beer, there's some cherry and caramel, along with a little bit of char, the perfect amount of ethanol, like. I could smell this all day. I could just smell this. It's right up there with my favorite thing.
Speaker 1:All right, so we're going to go with the nose, which you can give up to four. I am going to give it a four. I am going to give it a four. One, two, three, four With a, with a ba-dup-up Five, five out of four. That nose is fantastic. The body five out of four. That nose is fantastic.
Speaker 1:The body it goes everywhere cheeks, under the tongue, top of the tongue, mouth, full, fully. It starts off with the, the taste, his caramel and vanilla at the front palate and then when you hit the back palate, you get a nice oaky char flavor but then the great hug throughout with a nice little pepper spice, but the vanilla and the caramel and the little bit maybe cherry in the back left-hand part of my tongue. I have to give the body a four. One, two, three, four. So we're looking at four, nine, whatever? Now the taste, with the vanilla up front and the caramel, it's taste is five out of five. This one one, two, three, four, five. So we're looking at five out of five on the taste. So we're now coming to the finish. Look at the, the legs in that glass. It's like God. They're just so long and drippy, just right there. There it is. You can see them. All right, I'm going to give that friend's share. Lord knows share, lord knows. The finish is caramel and then a little bit of oak. Yeah, it's a five. One, two, three, four, five, five out of. So that's a 19 out of 18. That's a perfect whiskey. I. I was thinking I was going to give it the finish, but the finish is a five, fantastic, 117 proof.
Speaker 1:Um, I, I think if you like a little bit of oak and char on your whiskey, a little bit of pepper spice, but you also want the flavor to come through, this is the epitome of a really, really a well-aged bourbon, I would say, compared to pappy, pappy van winkle, 15 year, which is fantastic, but pappy van winkle doesn't have the spice, nor does it have uh. It doesn't have the spice and it doesn't have, uh, the little bit of the barrel and char Usually. Usually I love Pappy Van Winkle, 15 year. I love the caramel. It's just so rich. But this is more of a whiskey and aged whiskey lovers Whiskey. This is something that I would love to smoke. If you to smoke a cigar with, I will smoke a cigar with it. But this is something that you save to share with people. And thank you so much, walker, for that perfect bottle. It was not a 19 out of 18 when you first crack it. So if anybody has this bottle, I would strongly suggest cracking it and let it sip for a while, because what happened to it over the last couple months is spectacular.
Speaker 1:So there we are on the Russell's 15. I love the Russell's 13. Actually, I'm going to put in a little bit of 13 in my glass and see what the difference is. Russell's 13, the first one was caramelly. It doesn't have that dusty in there. Now let's see what Russell's 13 does. I just love these. I was able to get this on my own, so I was very happy about that. All right, let's see. Let's see. Not, as there's a lot more caramel vanilla on the nose. That's like a caramel apple Not as perfect, but that's really good. I love Russell's 13 and 15. Some of my the Russell Russell 13 first batch was phenomenal, but that would make sense. Both are very good.
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