What $1000 Will Get You In Sought After Bourbon! - Bourbon Hunting Lexington, KY
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- We hit the road with $1000 in our pocket on the hunt for some sought after bottles! Where will our travels take us, and more importantly, what will we bring home?
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more of these bourbon hunting videos, please! This was fun. Hunting is one of the funest parts of the hobby.
Can't agree more. Love these type of videos.
Don't take this the wrong way or anything but.. I tend to enjoy the drinking the most.
Most fun*
I visited a Total Wine just outside Louisville while up there on my almost-perfect Kentucky distillery visit weekend. It was a treat for me, since I have nowhere even close to that kind of selection in a single store living in the alcohol wasteland of Alabama (Lord help me). After wandering around a bit, looking I'm sure like a couple of awestruck teenagers at a concert, we heard a guy ask if we were looking for anything in particular. He was one of the employees there and we struck up a conversation. He poured us a couple samples of some bourbons they were clearing out and we just had a ball sitting there talking whiskey history with him. As we turned to leave he said, "Hold on. I may have something special for you" and pulls out a couple bottles of Blantons. Now I know that doesn't seem like a big deal to you guys up there, but for us it was truly special; Blantons without a ridiculous secondary markup? Gold. Anywho, that one act of kindness put Total Wine on my fav stores list for life. I just need to find one closer... ;) Great show, lady and gent. Cheers,
That's a great story. Our TW's in MN filter all the allocated stuff out the back door into their own trunks while telling customers lies about never getting any in.
Same State problem😩. Both TW’s in Atlanta are worth the trip. Also if you get to SC, Columbia is good also…just remember SC does NOT sell liquor on Sunday.
Sarah: Should I go out with $1,000 and pick up a bunch of whiskey, whatever I can find?
Me: Yes.
Sarah: No.
Chad: No.
Me: …No.
I’ve been on TH-cam for over ten years. I’ve commented on maybe two videos. This is your best video of the year. More of this type of hunting content. So much fun going on the journey with you.
Thank you so much!! 🥃
I jus spent a $1000 dollars on whiskey only to find out a week afterwards my liver is shot. I'm goin' tomorrow for a second opinion. Wish me luck will ya?
Jeez, Benchmark Full Proof is available here in Indy for $19.99!!
When u have Patreon money, of course u should spend it! 😆😊😉
I watched this video and the one from Austin. hard seeing price differences between KY, TX and my home in CT. I have seen people here charging 140 for Blantons, 60 for BT, little book for well over 140.
It baffles me that Buffalo Trace and Baby Saz are on the “allocated” table.
That’s Sams Club bottles for me
@NoName99 NoFace88 I wouldn't say it's nothing special. It's pretty decent actually.
Everything Buffalo Trace puts out is overpriced due to demand and people not understanding there are better bourbons out there for less.
People are crazy these days. Baby Saz is almost always on the shelf here but BT is less common. I can’t believe people are paying $100 for Bookers. It was $40 for the longest. It didn’t magically get twice as good.
Seriously I can get buffalo trace for $32 off the shelf in GA
I was able to pick up the Blackened Rye the Lightning for $75 in Ohio a few weeks ago.
I have been hunting for Blantons since July I just turned 40 trying to find one to celebrate hard to find in Louisiana
In Pa, Buffalo Trace is a ghost... I would have taken one off the 1st stop table... but then again, pa is a butt head at the state owned liquor stores. A 1 hr trip to the neighbors fixes that.
Great video. People talk about hunting whiskey, but never really show what it looks like. Valuable content for people getting into the game.
I think the most I've spent on whiskey in one go is $250 (90 or 100 proof juice is the vast majority of my purchases, as I'm a relative noob still trying to determine my flavor wheelhouse) so the idea of spending $500 in one pop (good grief, forget $1,000) makes me positively queasy. Those tasting stations make absolutely green w/ jealousy.
Looking for an EHT and Calumet 16.
2:58 I saw a bottle of ultimo argumento tequila - super cool bottle that comes apart too. Neat.
Also, the $1000 is an investment into your business/channel. They may end up being featured in upcoming videos, or for research.
Big difference from someone
spending $1000 randomly on 10 bottles.
I loved this video. Keep up the work guys! Cheers! Drink more bourbon 👌🏻
It is crazy for me to know that Buffalo Trace could be allocated at Kentucky, whereas here in Costa Rica, central america i can get it anyday at around $20😅, why is that?
Watching this makes me despise the Va. ABC stores even more for their lack of selection and ridiculous drop emails.
Awesome video. Very cool to see you going through multiple stores in KY and seeing what's on your shelves compared to here. Lots of nice finds and I think you did great. Cheers Chad and Sara!
I love your videos. Your doing a great job and your knowledge of the whiskey that you're reviewing is great. I'm an old man who has been tasting whiskey for over 45 years. I have a small collection. I only give advice to a select group of friends. Keep up your great work.
Need to visit Kentucky, never see any of those bottles
"On the Hunt with Chad and Sara". (you can use that if you like) Looks like you had fun and you picked up some good ones. Just a FYI, you may find the Benchmark Bottled in Bond a bit more tasty than the full proof. Those all would be fun to do side by side. "Nice for the price" is my motto. and on a last note: Beautiful eyes Sara. And yes, you are a handsome lad Chad. (poetry) Cheers!
You have a good one Chad. My wife would leave me if i came home with a thousand dollars of bourbon. Lol
great idea for a video. think y’all are the first to do it
Thanks!
I'm moving to Kentucky...
Excited to hear about that Calumet 16! Still crazy to me how most of the bourbon on that one-per table was (at one time) budget, average whisky, no one ever hunted
It can be an expensive habit. There are so many good bottles out there without paying for unicorns. I really enjoy hunting for bourbons. Right now, I am on pain medication and cannot drink alcohol, that sucks.
Dry month here too :/
Great video, I am going to be going on a business trip soon and could drive a few hours to do some picking/touring in Kentucky. I love this video, but what area would you recommend, and do you think that the availability on a Friday would be there or should I spend that extra day to get to Saturday morning like in the video? I am planning on being around Louisville/Bardstown area mostly.
Thank you! Availability on a Friday vs Saturday mainly depends on when the store gets their trucks. Example; if a store gets their (insert any distillery) truck on Friday mornings, you would have the best chance of snagging something when they are unloading the truck, but most locals will have already memorized when their favorite distilleries get delivered. So in that scenario it's really a craps shoot on when the trucks come in for the store you're visiting.
For the big box stores, they may decide to put out some things they've been holding back (like Total Wine did in the video), and I would say that is more likely to happen on a Saturday than a Friday.
As for areas, both Louisville and Bardstown are equally picked over, you really just have to luck out with stock hitting the shelves when you get there. There's just too many people in KY looking for the same things. If you want some vintage pours by the ounce, I would check out Franklin Ave. Liquors, Justins' House of Bourbon (also go here for buying bottles), and Neat Bourbon Bar - all in Louisville. For Bardstown, check out Bardstown Bourbon Company for pours (and food), Keystone Liquors and Toddy's Liquors for bottles.
Happy Hunting!
😫1000$...🤦🏿♀️...This is why I'm now drinking mostly aged rums instead...lolol
Bought 10 bottles today in 3 stores. Spent under $500 but I spent more than you did for my Bookers.
Good hunting!
No wonder I can’t find anything good at my local stores… you all are store-hopping my go-to spots and picking my stores clean! 😉
First time caller,
Long time listener...
Fun Video Chad and Sara,
I love you guys!!
Wow, you know you could've just got 60 bottles of Old Tub?
Haha yep! What where’s the fun on that?
Still looking for Elmer T Lee
I have found bourbon zen. I have my daily drinking favorites that are easy on the wallet. Gone are my days of hunting and spending lots on whiskey.
Yea, me too. Its not even fun anymore. Between priced and lower quality im kind of over this hobby...
Great show, and I thought y'all did a great job! You have an advantage there in KY. We visited the bourbon trail in late Feb this year, and my mantra was to not buy anything I couldn't get in CA. That left mostly distillery specials which was fine...except for Heaven Hill - they had nothing (miffed)! Good tasting but what a disappointment. Wish they would all save something aside for tasting tours, like Buffalo Trace did. Anyway, as for me on that table, I would have picked the EH Taylor, Blood Oath, or OKI - none of those make it out to CA very often. Like Kris says below, we don't have those tasting areas like in your Liquor Barn out here in CA - wow! Cheers!
That was a great video. I've often wondered what Bourbon shopping would be like in KY. I love Bourbon shopping in the US (I'm from Canada)! So much variety, but I've only made it to Indiana and Binny's in IL. So jealous to see OGD at Costco.
Benchmark Top Floor is a no brainer.
Kentucky has become a miss 355 days out of the year. If you know the right days you can score big time but that info is highly protected
was in Louisville and it seemed like every Indian owned store were major price gougers anything somewhat allocated was all priced just as high as 2ndary prices was real discouraging.
best to skip all those and stick to liqupr barn and total wine and grocery chains
Just got back home from Kentucky. Hit about 10 stores and only left with a few bottles of Weller SR. Saw a Blanton's for $140...nope. Saw a Weller 107...can't remember the price..80 or so, but you also had to buy a store pick. Wasn't interested. Wish I would've seen this video while down there.
Cool video but $1000 for 10 bottles? Ok. I'd rather have 20 $50avg bottles I think.
Each hunt is different. The next one we do may bring home more bottles for less money, but in this one we were really just looking for “sought after” bottles, which is subjective, of course, but typically sought after bottles can be a little more pricey.
@@ItsBourbonNight I think you have some great options for making this a series. Your 10 bottles is understandable with an already well established collection. Totally different for someone starting to build a collection, could be a good video to do. "What would you buy with $1000 to start your bourbon collection?". Keep it up! Thanks for the content!
Good news in Oregon. The prices of bottles is regulated by the state so you won't have price variability. Bookers is $89.95 at every store you will visit.
2016 Bardstown trip…..
2 cases of Heaven Hill BIB 6 year
2 cases of Old Fitz BIB screw tops. 624 dollars (w Tax) in bardstown. This video at 650.00 makes me sad….. Anyone have a Time Machine?
(Btw the wife thought it was ridiculous that I brought back so much….)
I know my Lexington liquor stores when I see them! I don't know if y'all live nearby but I hope y'all had fun in my hometown
Love the video
Great score!
I’m from Shelbyville and found a Weller SR 1.75 for 41 dollars. Shelbyville mini hunt??
I can't believe the regular Smoke Wagon is so expensive there. It's $10 less in the Denver burbs. I felt so ripped off by the Calumet 16 (and Sam Houston 15). I honestly don't get the appeal of bourbons over 12 years old. They just taste like [expensive] musty mildew.
Man, hunting is so much more fun in a non-control state. Stupid PA....
Anyways, I really didn't love Blood Oath 7, but do love my Woodford batch proof from 2019, so I would have made that swap (unless I knew the 8 was truly great). And I would have done just the Calumet 16 and saved the money for something else. When you're on a budget, it's hard to justify 2 calumets.
TH-cam must be making you good money to waste $1000. After watching you vids I have come to the realization that you are primarily pretty production and little value for "hunters".
Hey guys. I'm up in Louisville and rarely find the goodies that you guys found. Seems like I need to start bourbon hunting out your way. Maybe I can go with you guys next time. 😁
yeah the Indian owned stores were horrible when I went last weekend
Hunting for Emerald Giant Cask strength and ECBP C922.
Can't wait to bourbon hunt on my vacation in july, you'd be surprised how limited our selection in just across the Mississippi River in Missouri. I had never heard of Benchmark before you guys!
Kroger Wine and Spirits in Kentucky is the best! Coming from Indiana, I love walking into those Kroger locations.
Someone give me $1000 so I can do this type of... research... 🖖😎🥃
I need that video of Blackend double barrel Madeira and rum casket ASAP.... Cheers 🥃
We didn’t know about Total Wine putting rare ones out on Saturday mornings. We have been looking for Blood Oath for a while. After watching this video, my brother went to Total Wine in Houston this morning and found it. We are super excited.
Very timely and helpful video. Making my first trip to Lexington and Louisville in just a couple weeks… with a similar budget that I’m sure to blow.
Benchmark Full Proof 🔥💯
If you include gas you must’ve spent 2k…….LOL
Im curious if the saturday morning allocated table is common across america. Im from canada and in the Province of BC we have TWO allocation days a year. One in spring, one in fall and thats basically it. Whats on the shelf is basically there year round and the selection isn't very good for bourbon/rye.
Thanks for the info!!
Love the bourbon hunting videos! Wish Virginia had tasting bars! Great video! This helps us so much with our Kentucky trip in September! Cheers🥃
having done 3 bourbon trips to Kentucky on various occasions, was surprised that many allocated things were still not available or places that had them were very much overcharging, so try to know the value of anything you're looking for.
The people at Liiquor Barn seem to be the most personable, and the tastings there are a great place to geek out.
Maker's Mark is a must stop, and Yellowstone (passion project of Steven Beam) was really cool. Old Forester is the place to schedule to go if you are into woodworking or want to see barrels made and toasted/flamed.
If you walk out of Old Forester and turn right, the restaurant on the corner has something like 1800 whiskeys on the menu.
Me and my wife watch often and just have to ask. Any bourbon baby’s in the future ? Wish you both the best🙏🏼👊🏼
$129 for the Blood Oath? Currently going for $200 retail here in Michigan.
You can’t find Buffalo Trace in SW Ohio with a search warrant!! I’m also on the lookout for a bottle of Old Sergeant No. 8.
My head exploding seeing the Ironroot Harbinger sitting on the shelf at your Total Wine & More! Ugh, here in Texas where it’s made you never see it on the shelf.
Wow, I am not a spirit nut, but seeing that money fly out of your pocket for spirits is quote insane. What an expensive hobby/love.
For an episode, you should do a show on what you would stock in your cabinet for those without big pockets. Like a $100-$300 cabinet. Is it quantity vs quality or ect. What would you keep? Is variety better or two bottles better?
Even down here in Texas we can hunt some Texas whiskeys. Ironroot and be tough to find, for example.
OMG Just saw a $500ish bottle of 20 year old SeaGrass? Is this real and I have heard it is bourbon of the Gods. So I will take two bottles of that please! Umbasa.
Great video! You won't be disappointed when you get that Blackened rye
I do love bourbon hunting but that Sarah is incredibly beautiful. I had to say it. Keep up the videos guys. Thanks
What are your thoughts on Smoked Bourbons. Just purchased my kit.
There's no Total Wine in my town. It makes going into Los Angeles a much better experience to visit their locations. I can't say enough good about Total Wine. Come on Bevmo, step it up!
Also, I know it was the first store that you came across the "Pick One" table so you still had other stores to visit and not wanting to blow it all up front, but there where two of you. No thoughts on acting like you don't know each other and ringing them up separately? Seems anytime you come across allocated items you gotta max out.
Found the bookers 2022-02 at the Gray Lag Walmart for $60!
Being a huge WWII nerd, I would have bought that 82nd Airborne bottle for just the bottle lol.
The Calumet 16 straddles the line of too oaky for me. Most of the time it's just under it and I really enjoy it. I still see a lot of 15 and 14 that I should probably try too.
Great video do more of these. Interesting to see how it is in KY. Here in PA it’s vastly different
Johnny Walker has a $49,000 bottle of Whisky.
All were FANTASTIC PICS 👏 👌 🙌, DON'T FORGET TO SEND SOME MUCH NEEDED RAIN TO THE SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS AREA 😀 😊.
Watching videos like yours is torture for me. We live in Israel, where there is a very respectable selection of Scotch whisky but at the most ten or twelve kinds of bourbon and handful of rye whiskey.
You should do a hunting video from the perspective of someone new to bourbon. Their buying choices would be so much more different than yours. I would be interested to see what you guys come up with.
Really like your light fixtures in the background
For what it's worth, you'll never see Bookers in MD for under $100.
Absolutely loved this video. Was different compared to others. Also gives me a better idea of good bourbon and prices
Here in northwest Florida benchmark small batch and barrel proof are regular finds.
Moral of the story, Kentucky socks for liquor prices. People knock ohio sometimes but at least the prices are way more fair.
🎉🥃🎊. A drive to another town could cost $15 in fuel..😳Deal. Not surprised on how quickly $1,000 will go. 😂
That goes to show all it takes is for 10 bottles to equal a $1000 now try to to imagine how much money they've spent all all the bottles in their collection. I wouldn't be surprised if they got over 100k in bourbon lol
Great vid, this shows a few things. How much better selecrtion of allocated bourbon is in your area to mine. We all know how quickly bourbon bottles add up lol, but also why bourbon prices have risen. So many are hunting and willing to pay top dollar, so prices will not be going down. Paying over $100 for a bottle of bourbon seems insane, but I must admit I am guilty of it.
This was a great video! I often wonder how I can sell bottles that I bought and tried but don't care for. Does anyone know how to do such a thing? I only tried a sip of them.
This guy is the luckiest man on earth.
Found a bookers green label at Sams club for $38.99
I'm always looking for Elmer T Lee.
I’m hunting for Elijah Craig 18 year .
Here in California its weird what is readily available. Buffalo Trace is in every single store but Weller's and Booker's are rather rare
I’ve got the Calumet 16 and it is wonderful.
Top of my hunting list is Wild Turkey Masters Keep 17 and Russell’s 13.
Y'all must live in Lex? Just moved here a couple weeks ago!
Been out of the hunting game for awhile……is Buffalo Trace hard to get nowadays?