@@OrdinaryDude67 Indeed they do. The meeting locations I go to luckily are full of good people whose 1oz Wednesdays _also_ often turn into 5 or 6oz Wednesdays. We have a good time. We are talking about bars, right?
I always say im not the biggest buff trace fan, but everytime i have a buff trace product, its really damn good, especially since i refuse to pay secondary n wait til i get it for msrp, or a $5-10 mark up. Also, when i think about what bottles i really really want to try to find, most of them are BT products.
Seven years old, second grade, ride your bike down to the city pool after Memorial Day... hanging out all day maybe get a hot dog after a couple hours of swimming but you're going to get a frozen Charleston Chew. Yup. That's summer time as a kid. Swim for four to six hours and bike home for supper. Good times. Now we drink.
Yea, there's way too many good bottles out there to pay crazy secondary prices. Or even the crazy msrp on the tons of fomo hype "limited edition/special releases" that are decent at best and still 100-250$.
I just blind picked our solera bottle blend as my fav out of that and Stagg (all top quality Buffalo Trace barrel proof in the solera). Love the blend!
Need to start mixing rando shit together and score it. I find myself mixing pours lately to help get rid of bottles that are "meh" and findings ways to make them better. Have definitely found some amazing combos!
Isnt it disappointing that theres so many "meh at best" bottles now? Especially when they cost 100-250$ msrp. Its like they know that there's so many ppl w more money than sense that will pay these ridiculous fomo hype prices just to have the bottle of their shelves for their buddies to see, or post on social media that they got one n how much it cost. Its like everything is a limited edition, special release, and cost more every time a new release comes out. Really is gettin ridiculous. I was able to score a couple blantons last night, from total wine nonetheless. Even they are getting $80 now. I just got a store pick blantonsa few weeks ago from local liquor store for $65. The dude at total wine said, ya thats what we used to get for them, thats what they were last time we got them. They just went up. Just like everything else. Total wine used to be the cheapest/best prices around. The last couple months ive noticed they are starting to be more expensive than everywhere else. There's a couple bottles they sell cheaper than most places, but not many at all. Especially since everything there used to be cheaper than everywhere else. Also, their store picks are shit compared to everywhere else. Like they dont even send someone out to sample/pick the barrels. They just call and say, hey, send us a couple barrels and label them as store picks. Then the distillery/ndp's send the ones that they know arent as good as others, or even as good as their regular release barrels.
Lol also I feel your pain because I've done the same and this year smartened up put together a batch of 25 random blends but kept track of what was in them five out of the 25 came out great and I was able to recreate them in full bottle versions even gifted one. CHEERS!
Man your rating system is TOUGH! I like it though. Hearing your description of it, I thought for sure you were going above 9.0. When you go above 9.0, I onow thats a true must try! Great content as always Matt
Seven years? I thought we were friends... or at least had this TH-cam vicarious whiskey relationship thing... this makes me question everything... can open--worms everywhere! Wait a minute, you're trying to teach us that relationships can't simply be one-sided, and that we need to invest in things that matter. You're a whiskey-tasting, wisdom-dropping sage of a man! I wish you seven years of incredibly interesting whiskey tasting... more than seven really.
“Just pollinated by a bee that drug his ass through some honey”. How do you come up with this stuff? Too funny. Thanks for making me laugh before I “drug myself to work this morning”. Keep it up!
Ya for real right!?! I cant even get my hands on one bottle of stagg! Nevermind 4 different bottles of stagg! He couldnt have been anymore correct when he said it was something unobtainable because its so good lol
Good stuff as usual! When I get down to less than a full pour on some of my Jr bottles it’ll be tempting to blend. Who am I kidding? Will I ever leave less than a pour behind? 🤔
Always fun to blend the ends and create a new experience but before you do maybe take out a little sample to compare future batches. Well that's what I enjoy doing hence why I don't have much open bottles that are almost empty .even though I wouldn't mind a wide selection of open bottles to just be able to select and try.but cheers mate
@Whiskey with E my brother and i create infinity bottles by doing blinds, or when we try a bunch of dif bourbons, sometimes we wont finish a full pour, usually the first pour from the bottle, and we put them in an infinity bottle. We actually have an infinity bottle thats almost full, prob 60-70 dif bourbons in it. We tried it a few times and every time we try it, its always absolutely amazing. Havent tried it ina while. I actually took it out last night to put a little in it n asked him if he wanted to try it, but we already had quite a few pours n still had a few new bottles to try so didnt end up tryin it
Stagg is one of my unicorns. It doesn't help that I live in DFW and the last drop each store apparently only got one case. One. I have only ever seen one bottle in real life and of course it was $300.
Thats better than around here, or online. Ive never seen a stagg for $300. Ive maybe seen 1 or 2 , and they were $900-1000+. Nvm the ridiculous prices online retailers are sellin them for. I typically avoid anything thats more than $10-20 above msrp, but if i seen a stagg for $300, i jus might grab it
I can't even find Stagg to TASTE it in my area, let alone buy a bottle. The ***ONE TIME*** I actually saw a bottle was a year ago and they wanted 300 bucks for it. Le sigh.
Same here, except ive never even seen one for 300. If i did, id prob get it. I think ive seen 1 or 2 for 900-1000+. Nvm the crazy prices online retailers are gettin for them.
For some reason my 1 oz Wednesdays always turn into 5 or 6 oz
They have meetings for that. 😉
This is supposed to be a trust tree Bill.
@@OrdinaryDude67 Indeed they do. The meeting locations I go to luckily are full of good people whose 1oz Wednesdays _also_ often turn into 5 or 6oz Wednesdays. We have a good time.
We are talking about bars, right?
@@FakingANerve darn right we are!
@@The_Babbling_Brooks th-cam.com/video/Ph9I-qPQ6FU/w-d-xo.html
Another classic video from the best bourbon vlogger!
Always make my day when I watch your stuff! Thank u
Hilarious that you said this was unobtainable midway, you couldn’t have been more correct! 😂
Right!?! Even if it was jus one stagg he would have been right. Nvm 4 of them blended
My blender is at it again! Congrats on your blend!!!!
That’s a Great Win! Really enjoyed watching and what great scenery! As far as I know it is a distillery only release. Cheers🥃
Matt, love your videos. I definitely trust your palate. Always look to your reviews to decide whether to go through with a purchase. Thanks!
I had a Stagg Jr recently that had been opened for quite a while. While I'm generally not the biggest BT fan, it was freaking incredible
I always say im not the biggest buff trace fan, but everytime i have a buff trace product, its really damn good, especially since i refuse to pay secondary n wait til i get it for msrp, or a $5-10 mark up. Also, when i think about what bottles i really really want to try to find, most of them are BT products.
I’m pretty new to this but won a stagg jr in a PA lottery and it’s prob my fav I’ve tried so far. So good
Big Stagg fan. Usually love them immediately. Didn’t love 18 on first crack but let it open up for a month or so and it was magical.
I always say the same thing. I don't like a lot of buffalo trace stuff unless it's over 100 proof
I had a GTS 2020 and Stagg Jr b12 and 13 were far better.
Thanks for another highly entertaining video
Haha, the Stuff & Whiskey Josh burn at the end had me 🤣
Seven years old, second grade, ride your bike down to the city pool after Memorial Day... hanging out all day maybe get a hot dog after a couple hours of swimming but you're going to get a frozen Charleston Chew. Yup. That's summer time as a kid. Swim for four to six hours and bike home for supper. Good times. Now we drink.
I concur, frozen Charleston chews are fantastic and the world needs to know!
Love how you do your blinds it helps me not buy all the trendy BS and stick with the Staples!
Yea, there's way too many good bottles out there to pay crazy secondary prices. Or even the crazy msrp on the tons of fomo hype "limited edition/special releases" that are decent at best and still 100-250$.
@@jacksmith2315 you make my bourbon hunting a lot easier and a lot less stressful 😀
Matt’s best blend.
Fun stuff!
Awesome video, Matt!
I just blind picked our solera bottle blend as my fav out of that and Stagg (all top quality Buffalo Trace barrel proof in the solera). Love the blend!
I avoided the bad luck! 😅 LOL at the Stuff & Whiskey ref
An enjoyable 1oz Wednesday as always 👍
Need to start mixing rando shit together and score it. I find myself mixing pours lately to help get rid of bottles that are "meh" and findings ways to make them better. Have definitely found some amazing combos!
Isnt it disappointing that theres so many "meh at best" bottles now? Especially when they cost 100-250$ msrp. Its like they know that there's so many ppl w more money than sense that will pay these ridiculous fomo hype prices just to have the bottle of their shelves for their buddies to see, or post on social media that they got one n how much it cost. Its like everything is a limited edition, special release, and cost more every time a new release comes out. Really is gettin ridiculous. I was able to score a couple blantons last night, from total wine nonetheless. Even they are getting $80 now. I just got a store pick blantonsa few weeks ago from local liquor store for $65. The dude at total wine said, ya thats what we used to get for them, thats what they were last time we got them. They just went up. Just like everything else. Total wine used to be the cheapest/best prices around. The last couple months ive noticed they are starting to be more expensive than everywhere else. There's a couple bottles they sell cheaper than most places, but not many at all. Especially since everything there used to be cheaper than everywhere else. Also, their store picks are shit compared to everywhere else. Like they dont even send someone out to sample/pick the barrels. They just call and say, hey, send us a couple barrels and label them as store picks. Then the distillery/ndp's send the ones that they know arent as good as others, or even as good as their regular release barrels.
Here's my comment! Love your content!
Lol also I feel your pain because I've done the same and this year smartened up put together a batch of 25 random blends but kept track of what was in them five out of the 25 came out great and I was able to recreate them in full bottle versions even gifted one. CHEERS!
Love your stuff and trying to avoid 7 years of bad luck.
Always do a smell test on a potential clean glass 😁🥃
Love the videos.
Also, Dan Shook sighting at 0:32
I ❤ my Jr Batch 16. You nailed the Producer. 😆
Man your rating system is TOUGH! I like it though. Hearing your description of it, I thought for sure you were going above 9.0. When you go above 9.0, I onow thats a true must try! Great content as always Matt
That sounds like an awesome 1oz Wednesday experience.. I may be a little jealous over here.. 😂
I wish I could actually get my hands on more than one Stagg at a time to actually be able to try a blend like this.
I wish i could get my hands on any stagg period...wo paying more than 5x msrp
@@jacksmith2315
5x msrp is a bargain. I only see it for over 10x.
I love mixing shtuff together! If I ever find another Stagg I'd love to mix it the batch 18 I have
makes me want to try stagg
I was kinda hoping it was Makers Mark. 😂
awesome stuff
😂!!! Come on out to Jersey, I have enough left that we can try and recreate this!!! Love ya dude! 😉👍
Send me the deets, ill be there asap. Ive never had or even come across any stagg for a remotely reasonable price
Lookin good bro!
There is a Stagg Jr batch 18?
Love you Matty. Keep being you, you awesome SOB!!
great show. love watching people enjoy something i cannot attain. but matt makes it okay. there, that’s my comment
I too am waiting for you to find the Mr. Sam Tribute sample. :)
Frozen Charleston Chews are fantastic. Break them into pieces by hitting on the side of a table. Oh, Stagg Jr pretty good too. 🥃
Still waiting to try some Stagg. Hopefully soon lol.
Ya, seriously. Ive given up hope that ill ever come across one for msrp, or even double. Usually 5-10x msrp
I can’t help that it goes quick when it is on the shelf or that it’s $350-$399 at five different liquor stores in my area(northeast)
That should have been a sample stashed away in the bunker Matt. LOL!!!!!
I want the barrel pick of JD.. do I just join Patron and be able to buy it or what...?
I hope one day to acquire a GTS! 🙈
Commenting! I feel like I'm finally getting some good luck, don't need to turn that around!
Blending at its finest and it cannot be duplicated, at least not perfectly.
Infinity bottle os Staggs, damn. The Herd. El Herdo Mistako. Cheers.
Thank you
Love it! All of it!
Seven years? I thought we were friends... or at least had this TH-cam vicarious whiskey relationship thing... this makes me question everything... can open--worms everywhere! Wait a minute, you're trying to teach us that relationships can't simply be one-sided, and that we need to invest in things that matter. You're a whiskey-tasting, wisdom-dropping sage of a man! I wish you seven years of incredibly interesting whiskey tasting... more than seven really.
“Just pollinated by a bee that drug his ass through some honey”. How do you come up with this stuff? Too funny. Thanks for making me laugh before I “drug myself to work this morning”. Keep it up!
This may be the best yet 😂
Nailed it. Was definitely a Stagg.
And here I was all motivated to go find a bottle before the reveal 😂
Ya for real right!?! I cant even get my hands on one bottle of stagg! Nevermind 4 different bottles of stagg! He couldnt have been anymore correct when he said it was something unobtainable because its so good lol
I saw someone post your historical ratings in a comment a while back. Are these updated and available somewhere?
Link in the description
@@ADHDWhiskey Y'know, I actually _did_ look, and somehow missed the link. Thanks and cheers!
@@ADHDWhiskey If I sent you a sample of a stinky fart, would you review it? Lol 🤣
I don’t want 7 years of bad luck, so cheers Mr Porter
Me avoiding 7 years of bad luck
Good stuff as usual! When I get down to less than a full pour on some of my Jr bottles it’ll be tempting to blend. Who am I kidding? Will I ever leave less than a pour behind? 🤔
Always fun to blend the ends and create a new experience but before you do maybe take out a little sample to compare future batches. Well that's what I enjoy doing hence why I don't have much open bottles that are almost empty .even though I wouldn't mind a wide selection of open bottles to just be able to select and try.but cheers mate
@Whiskey with E my brother and i create infinity bottles by doing blinds, or when we try a bunch of dif bourbons, sometimes we wont finish a full pour, usually the first pour from the bottle, and we put them in an infinity bottle. We actually have an infinity bottle thats almost full, prob 60-70 dif bourbons in it. We tried it a few times and every time we try it, its always absolutely amazing. Havent tried it ina while. I actually took it out last night to put a little in it n asked him if he wanted to try it, but we already had quite a few pours n still had a few new bottles to try so didnt end up tryin it
Leaving a comment, per your request.
Stagg jr is my favorite whiskey.
Stagg is one of my unicorns. It doesn't help that I live in DFW and the last drop each store apparently only got one case. One. I have only ever seen one bottle in real life and of course it was $300.
Thats better than around here, or online. Ive never seen a stagg for $300. Ive maybe seen 1 or 2 , and they were $900-1000+. Nvm the ridiculous prices online retailers are sellin them for. I typically avoid anything thats more than $10-20 above msrp, but if i seen a stagg for $300, i jus might grab it
@@jacksmith2315 sorry I meant Stagg Jr.
I don’t want 7 yrs of bad luck or any bad luck. Comment made! I feel freer whew
Joke's on you, Porter: I was going to have bad luck anyway!
Hilarious word salad, and happy accident.... also what my parents used to write on my Christmas presents. Lol
No " merica " this week during the pour😢
No bad luck for me! 👍
You just sent me into a double dog dare loop thanks bro
Best out there .
Sounds delicious
Wish you seven years of good luck 🍀
Matt, you shouldn’t hide the bottle behind the box. That’s the first place you’ll look for it.
This is me leaving a comment, because you told me to.
No bad luck 4 me!
Ta-tas on a Terrier? Whoa, OOW venturing into uncharted territory...
Can anyone send samples?
So you were right.. unobtainable
Fun times
I can't even find Stagg to TASTE it in my area, let alone buy a bottle. The ***ONE TIME*** I actually saw a bottle was a year ago and they wanted 300 bucks for it.
Le sigh.
Same here, except ive never even seen one for 300. If i did, id prob get it. I think ive seen 1 or 2 for 900-1000+. Nvm the crazy prices online retailers are gettin for them.
🍾 “America”
Nothing associated with the Whiskey King could ever be bad. Unless it was. But this time, it’s not.
It was hard enough to find Charleston Chews to begin with, now you let the cat outta da bag…pigeon pellets!
Leaving a comment
I don't want bad luck
Hilarious! Cheers 🍻 to 7 years good luck 😉
Good luck
Thanks for ruining my night.. because now I know I’ll never try a legendary 8.9 pour. Sooo Disappointed!
Leaving a comment.
Here's my comment, that u made me do ............❤
Avoiding 7 years of bad luck
🍀 I did it for the luck. I need all I can get 😂
Good
My dude, if you've never watched your own videos at 2x speed, you have to try it some time.
I double god dare you to give everyone back their luck!
Its hard to think pf a comment for every gosh dang video
Nailed that son of a batch
I don't want 7 years of bad luck.... :)
I just don’t want 7 years of bad luck.
I can’t take any chances on my luck
No seven years of bad luck for me 🙂
And just like that the bourbon world went back to blended.
My unicorn😢