Which Weller Bourbon Is The BEST? We Blinded Them ALL!
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Just picked up a 12 the other day. It’s a good trader. Full proof is the only one I really care for. Advice for newbie’s try before you buy or you’ll end up with a bunch of stuff you don’t care for.
My favorite is 107
Same. The Full Proof is awesome.
I actually like the 12 a decent amount. But full proof is in my top 5 or maybe 3 bourbons
Shhhh, let the taters go for them all and then tell us how special each one is. lol
FYI: If you want all of these Wellers all located in one place, Vegas airport has them all…..for Vegas airport prices too 😂
✅️ Noted
Six Bourbons, and the one thing that stands out to me is that for some reason Kurt doesn't like sausage dipped in syrup.
I live in PA Weller is allocated for raffle only, I got a bottle of full proof in the spring lottery for $44 plus shipping
I love how Trenton says this tastes like the stairs going down to a basement, and Kurt just keeps rolling with his tasting notes like that is just a regular old thing to pick up in a bourbon.
Every blind I've done WFP always wins for me. Just so much flavor. Appreciate the show gentleman #cheers 🥃🥃
Excited to try more of these! Happy Birthday Trenton! 🎉
I've been waiting for this blind lineup for a long time. 👍👍👍
Great video boys! Love the line up….Happy Birthday Trenton!!! Cheers to 27 years…
I personally like Weller 12 a lot. But I also really like the full proof as well. Not a big fan of CYPB or single barrel. And definitely don't care for special reserve. But we all have different tastes and it's all good. Bourbon is just a fun thing, and a good sip of any bourbon is always great.
As always love the content and how the two of you interact with each other😂 Well done!!
Happy birthday Trenton!🎉 Interesting turn out on the line up. Thanks for helping make my decision on the 12.
My first time watching your channel. Absolutely love it!
Love the lineup. Happy Birthday, Trenton!
I love the "Library Book" flavor/aroma description. I have tasted that but never been able to define it.
Now I want pancakes for breakfast! Happy birthday, Trenton. I’ve heard the newer bottles of CYPB are better than the older ones. I have one from 2023 I’m going to open this weekend. Really looking forward to that now! Great video as always, gents.
Thank you guys that was very informative!
Perfect timing on this one for me. I go to Japan next month 😀. Love the hibiki line and nikka from the barrel. Hoping to try some more sruff while I'm there.
I've tried all of those. For sure the CYPB and the Single Barrels are different than the ones I've tried but I always go back to the OWA 107. Although the 12 is pretty fantastic too.
Great show, love the lineup. I need to add the Single Barrel and I will have them all.
Happy Birthday Trenton, have a blessed day!!!!🎉
That is a dream line up! All that weller! I have 107 and sr...didn't like the 107 at first but now very much do. I hope to find bottles of full proof and the alphabet bottle. Thanks for the review!
Great review. I’ve tasted them myself except CYPB as well. Now I will definitely have to find a bar with it and try.
Outstanding as always guys! So awesome to all of these Weller's in a blind. I can only find the Special Reserve around me and it didn't impress me for the cost. Thank you and keep up the great work. And HBD to Trenton!
Happy birthday Trenton! I own the SR, Antique 107, and 12 and enjoy them all. Last January I was at Neat whiskey bar in Buffalo, NY and did a flight of Old Rip 10, Lot B, CYPB, and the 12 year. My order of preference was Lot B, CYPB, Old Rip, and 12. When I enjoy the 12 most is when I don't drink it with the others in one sitting. In context with the others it is really "woody" but by itself I enjoy it. Same with Woodford Double Oak.
Lol I grew up down the street from Neat. My family owned the liquor store down the street, wild horse, at north French and transit. Neat's a nice bar
Cheers and Happy B-Day Trenton!!!
I recently got a bottle of 107 but I am saving it for an upcoming special occasion. Can’t wait to taste it.
Happy Birthday Trenton!
Mine is tomorrow, Oct 7th.
Hope you had a great one!
I really like hearing about different parts of the country and what is and isn't available. Here in Alberta our shelves are full of special reserve, $40 CAD, which is like $27 USD. But I have never seen a single other of the wellers here ever, and pretty well have lost hope to try them.
Wow what a great price! Weller Special Reserve is usually $50 USD at the very cheapest, but typically $70 to $80 USD here in California.
Full Proof is $200 at most places here.
🎉Happy 27th Birthday Trenton🎉 Find a great bottle and enjoy! Thanks for a great show. I love watching you two!
My father ran two of the largest retail liquor chains in Corpus Christi and Fort Worth Texas over a 50 year period beginning in 1950. WL Weller was the best selling bourbon in Fort Worth. It was reasonably priced and readily available as was Weller 107. The liquor business has changed a lot. Distillers and owners like Sazerac limit production and supply to drive prices up.
How do the distilleries benefit from scarcity if they're still coming from distributors at the same price? It's not like Buffalo trace sees any profits that scalpers make on Weller or pappy or eh taylor. If a $50-100 bottle is flying off of shelves you'd want to keep it stocked and make it accessible to more people so you sell more. Seems to me like this is just after effects of covid limiting production and not expecting the bourbon boom. After all, whisky production is limited by time. They can't just fire up another production line or start working overtime when demand rises. It's going to take years to recover from a massive increase in demand.
@@Futureguitarist15it’s much more expensive to make weller than Fireball. Broadly, sazerac requires stores/distributors to sell some quantity of the cheap stuff with ultra high margin to gain the right to purchase those weller/whiskey bottles. This is how they can increase net margin via products like rain, fireball, Wheatley, etc. and simultaneously have a net decrease in production cost across the product portfolio. This is why total wine gets way more pappy than anyone else, for example.
I enjoyed the weller special reserve when I had that. Havent seen any of the others.
Kurt you don't have to explain or apologize that your palette is different etc.... you do it too much and too often. If some don't agree with you they'll usually say something anyway. I love what you guys do. Keep it going.
Happy Birthday Sir!!!!
So far the only Weller I have is the Special Reserve and it’s probably my favorite out of everything I have at the moment. I’ve been wanting to get my hands on some others.
Kurt you definitely have to try syrup on breakfast sausage, so good. Also something that you’d probably never think to try but it’s oddly delicious, open face biscuit topped with hash browns over easy egg bacon and covered with white gravy.
OKAY I finally figured it out! I could never figure out how you and Trent could be tasting all the different flavors when your bourbon level in the glass didn't hardly move?? I would taste bourbons and almost never get definitive different flavors! So I tried taking baby sips like you and Trent trying to make it last as long as possible, WHAT A DIFFERENCE I actually started tasting different flavors not sure what they all are yet but butterscotch, maple syrup, orange and coffee seem to be big I HAVE NOT tasted fruity pebbles yet! the size of the sip made all the difference!
Happy Birthday, Trenton! 🎉
I think they are all excellent with Weller 12 and cypb my favorites
Happy Birthday Trent!🎉
Hey, fellas! I appreciate you putting W12 last. Now, I might be able to actually find one! Keep up the great content!
Happy birthday Trenton!!
Happy birthday Trent! Great show! Cheers!
Happy Birthday Trenton !!! Cheers to you.🥃
For the rye blind I highly recommend Wild Turkey RB Rye. Soooo good.
Happy Birthday Trenton! 🎉
Antique 107 is my all time favorite bourbon. It’s just a REALLY special bottle.
Hands down is the best of the entire lineup! CYPB and SB don't even need to exist, it's marketing hype for taters!
Happy Birthday, Trenton!
I have the 12 and have never really cared for it but it is the one everyone always wants to try. Picked up a few SR last week just stumbling on them sitting on the shelf. Decent but not worth hunting. The 107 is my fav that I have tried so far but never owned one.
I just picked up a Weller 12 and it’s a grape/vanilla cream bomb. Smells just like grape nerds
Where do you guys find this stuff? I’ve only ever found wellers special
Happy Birthday Trenton!!!
“That tastes like the stairs down to the basement” will now be my new slogan for Weller 12
I have never seen a special reserve or antique 107 in a store near me. The full proof and 12 year are always around between $200 and $300. Last week I walked into a store that had Single barrel, CYPB and EH Taylor barrel proof for $300 each. Lot of money but I thought I'd never see them again so bought all three. Next day went in a store that had them for $200 each. So now I have two of each but the average cost is now $250 before tax. This is NJ where the Sopranos had nothing on liquor store owners. Happy birthday Kurt.
Can sell one of each and get the others basically paid for lol
Happy Birthday, we share the same birthday! Great videos guys! Cheers! 🥃
Happy Birthday to the both of us! Cheers! :)
You’ve gotta try pancakes eggs and sausage with syrup drizzled over all of it! So yum yummy
Happy Birthday, what a better day to celebrate 🎉. Have yourself a great day. Sip all for me. Can’t find a lot of High end Wellers around here…😊
Great lineup taste through!
Should have done the birthday bourbon blind on the birthday. Love the videos.
Wow. Antique did well in a recent blind flight.
Great blind! Makers Mark blind would be great to see as well
Happy birthday! It's my birthday too. Maybe I'll have to do a weller blind to celebrate 🎉🎉🎉
Happy Birthday, Trenton 🎉
Happy Birthday Trenton!
@Rebecca I needed that little "there's still hope" speech. My 11 year old son seems like there's little hope right now! 😭😭
Only have the SR and have not opened it I gave one to my son in law and he said it is okay. I’m going to give the few bottles I have away to friends. I’m really not a low proof guy. And I have BT if I feel like having something low proof. And Happy Bday to you young man 🎊🎉🥃🥃
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TRENTON!!!🎉🎉
Absolutely u dip sausage in syrup. And im with Trenton on this one the sausage pancake on a stick are fantastic
TRENTON!!!! Happy birthday!!! Many more!!!
Happy Bday Trenton!!
Happy Birthday!🎂 The 107 was 👎 took me three years to finish the bottle.
KURT!!! TRENTON!!! This was awesome!!! I got my hands on some Special Reserve, so I was def interested in where this placed!!! I really enjoy that bottle!!! CHEERS family!!!
Happy birthday Trenton!
A lot of good videos. I would seeing not as many blind best can be long. Like seeing a little more different bourbons. Showing more best bourbons again under 40.00. Infinity bottles was great to learn made 4 an they are so good
The Weller single barrel is my favorite of that lineup, but obviously it depends on the single barrel
Great blind. Happy Birthday and since Weller is no where near my neck of the woods. I'll have a pour of SLB NULU.🥃 Cheers 🇺🇲
Can’t wait for this one!!!
"I did really good." 😂 Happy birthday, Trenton! 🎉🥃
Happy Birthday Trenton🎂🎉🎉
I just picked up the antique ($115) and special reserve ($75). I have high hopes. I had to buy them on line. No chance of ever finding these bottles on Maui…Aloha🌴
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You never know. Last year I grabbed a Blanton for retail at Temura’s Fine Wine in Lahaina.
@@clayspence4160 Tamura’s is temporarily closed in Lahaina. I’m not sure if it burned down with the rest of the town. Tamura’s is the best place to find bourbon on the islands.
Ah. I hope it can come back. I’m truly heartbroken for your island with all the destruction there. God Bless.
Good review. So do you finish off the samples or pour em back in the bottle?
Thanks for this blind. It narrows down the Wellers I would pay the extra dough for.
Great show! Just got the 12 year and the full proof.
Happy birthday Trenton!! 🎂🥳 Cheers! 🥃
Happy Birthday 🎂🎁🎈 Keep up the good videos
Finally found the SiB to complete my collection. Now for me to do a blind. LOL
Happy Birthday Trent.
Full Proof is exquisite and 107 is great. Can’t ever find bottles but my favorite bar gets both 😉
Kurt: Remember when I sent you those flowers?
Rebecca (without missing a beat): That was 20 years ago.
😂😂😂
Rebecca is my spirit twin!
20 years or not, Rebecca did remember. Once again, Kurt proves his male-ness! Thanks buddy!! 😂
So far ive tried antique and 12 yr and just didnt care for the 12 yr either. It was super oaky and not in a good way. Like you guys said, almost like treated lumber. I wouldnt be upset if someone poured it for me and id maybe snag a bottle at msrp because i do get in the mood for an oaky bourbon every now and then but I'm certainly not going to hunt or pay hundreds for it. Antique 107 was much more fitting for my pallet and its easily my favorite smelling whisky. Smells like a fresh buttered cherry cheese danish to me.
Sausage in syrup is AWESOME!
Happy Bday T!!!
Happy birthday Trenton and go Colts!
Happy Bday Trenton!
They should consolidate this 6 bottle lineup into 3 bottles, so people might have a better chance to snag them. I’ve tasted or owned most of these, IMO, they’re not any better than Maker’s Mark 46 cask strength, which I actually prefer over Weller Antique 107
I definitely agree here sir. The WFP is the only one I would say I gotta have.
I like the Makers Cask Strength as a replacement for 107. Makers tends to be a bit more dependent on the batch as some are much better than others. The worst store pick I ever had was of the 107 though.
I find makers better as the proof goes up - cheers !
I had Maker's Cask Strength and was excited. Then, it tasted so bitter I almost gagged. Called Maker's and apparently the pond water (they use a pond apparently) on that lot was off. The number should have ideally been "under 2". Anything "above 5" they couldn't bottle. The guy asked me for a ton of numbers off the bottle on the bottom, then the front and then said, "9.3, so wow, please let us send you coupons for another bottle, a hat, a shirt, etc" haha. Very nice people. The problem is, it was like if you puked off a certain drink and can't touch it again. It killed me for Maker's. Ugh.
Happy Birthday, Trenton! :-)
Happy birthday Trenton 🥳
Interesting blind. Looking forward to the Rye blind next week! :) And to some pancakes and sausage tomorrow morning. :)
I look forward to a time when the prices of these come back to Earth... I stood in line at a Bourbon drop, paid $90 for a Weller 12 (best option available when I got to the front) and was completely underwhelmed. I'd rather find store picks of other products than chase these hype bottles. Great show again!
No bourbon is worth standing in line for, paying secondary, or paying gouged prices for. There's so many good options that are readily available on the shelf at every price point. After months of looking for Buffalo Trace and finding it at a retail $26... it was nice pour, no doubt. But I preferred my Old Forester 86 which waits there on the shelf for me every time, and certainly didn't hold a candle to OF 1910 which I frequently saw Buffalo Trace the same price as.
@@Guy_GuyGuy Got a Buffalo Trace and found it just worse than the Wild Turkey 101 that I always have on my shelf. I mean, it was fine, but it was mild flavor and kind of watery imo.
@@Mrbigdaddymanamale WT101 is best compared to the bottled in bond whiskies, for me Buffalo Trace is the best of the entry level brands a notch below like Jim Beam, regular Jack, Early Times Black, nothing above this category. That's all that it's made as.
@@ChristopherNeeme Perhaps its fair to grade based on proof. However, I can get wt101 for 23.00 or old forester 86 for 18.00 and the buffalo trace is 35.00. The value just isn't there imo.
Happy birthday, Trenton !!!!! I remember (Member-berries) being 27 ... 25 years ago ! lol
Great video gents!
Kurt, usually Trenton throwing out the poor food takes, but my man, sausage with syrup is absolutely delicious. So is bacon
Happy birthday Trenton 🎉
I suspect that on these blind test it may not be truly accurate. It seems to me that your palate will be affected rather quickly.
I say that because on the 9-29 live episode that had E.T. B&B beating out W.T. RB. I did a comparison myself as I have both.
Disclaimer: “ I realize that taste is subjective”
And even though Early Times B&B is really good, it was not on the level of the rare breed.
I will be picking up the Weller 107 Saturday, so will be good to compare the three.
Want to say thank you to Kurt and Trenton and the SLB team for the fantastic content you post. Your content has turned me on to unbelievably wonderful bourbons I may not of ever tried.