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I didn’t even notice this sticker until I was putting it away. I suppose the store owner and friends had some fun touring the distillery and drinking from a particular barrel and all that jazz. You younger kids might not recognize that phrase “all that jazz”. Look it up. While you’re at it you should look up “razzle dazzle” because I think I could have used either antique phrase to make the same point.

@CalvinAndHobo said:

@silvermouse said:
Why do people buy high and sell low? Greed and fear?

Going to move this conversation over here out of respect for the meme people. But I've always been fascinated by bitcoin, and the concept of inflation proof money. I've never actually put my money where my mouth is though, so I couldn't tell you why people do that. It is funny though how Jim Cramer is just wrong about everything all the time. He has his own reverse ETF that someone made, where you can invest in it, and it picks the opposite of whatever he says. It's very profitable so far from what I understand.

Coyote in the back yard, likely one of last year's pups.

Looking after a rack of ribs on the grill.

Lit the garage furnace, today.

@Bob_Luken said:

I went back to the place that has the Blantons deal occasionally when they have it in stock. You buy Blantons or another premium Buffalo trace product and they force you to buy a $20 worth of cheaper Buffalo trace product together to get the $75 Blantons price. So I got the Eagle rare combined with the benchmark old #8. I didn’t overthink it too much. The guy behind the counter said the benchmark was the same as the green label buffalo trace only it was it was aged four years instead of six. maybe it won’t suck. the Glenlivet 12 double oak is in my opinion a decent every day scotch. I got 1 full Liter for $66.99 before tax.

Mash bills are the same for a lot of their products. What makes them so different is the combination of different yeast strains and varying aging times. Most of the stuff on the bottom shelf is made by a label on the top shelf. With a company like Buffalo Trace that likes to allocate so many things, a lot of the lower tiered stuff is simply runoff after they’ve filled their bottling quota of the primary label.