Blanton's Gold and Four Fun Blanton's Facts you didn't know

Tonight, we pour the iconic and shiny Blanton’s Gold — the single barrel bourbon with a golden horsey topper and velvety mouthfeel to match.

We chat about:

• 🐎 The difference between Blanton’s Gold, Green & Original

• 🧈 Flavour notes of butter pecan, vanilla, sticky date & nutty crust

• 🍰 Pairing memories featuring cheesecake shop “damaged stock”

• 📚 Four fun facts about Blanton’s Gold that Dave just learned

• 🇦🇺 Why some Blanton’s bottles are green for Australia

This episode is for bourbon fans, dessert lovers, and those who secretly collect the horse toppers.

🟠 Keywords: Blanton’s Gold, Blanton’s Single Barrel, pecan pie, dessert bourbon, bourbon podcast, Aussie bourbon lovers, Buffalo Trace

 

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Blanton's Gold 03:12 Exploring the Unique Characteristics of Blanton's Gold and Facts #1 and #2 06:03 The Fascinating History of Warehouse H Fact #3 08:52 Fun Facts About Colonel Blanton and Fact #4

Episode Transcript

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Incredible flavours, even better stories.

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One Pour, 10 Minuts.
Aussie bourbon lovers, sharingbourbon with Australia.
Good pop.Really good pop.
What are you drinking that, David?
Tonight is a Blantons Gold.
Blantons is that bottlewith the horsey topper.
But this horsey topper is gold.I know.

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It's super fancy.
Show the nice peopleon the YouTube channel.
There you go.Have a look at that.
Gold.
So you know how you collect them andyou put them on the stave or whatever?
Well, this one is.Yeah.
This one's a little Ounderneath the back foot.
Yeah.
Blantons Gold.Cheers.
Now go on, ask the question that you wantto ask because-What makes a Blanton's

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gold different to the regular Blantons?
Do you remember what makes a Blantonsgreen different to a regular Blantons?
It's like a single barrel?No, no.
All Blantons are a single barrel.Yeah.
That's like the thing.Yeah, that's what Blantons is.
But I don't know what makesa gold one different to it.
No, do you remember what the green one is?Do you know why it's green?
Yeah, the green one is Australian.

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The Australian one, andit's 40 %, 80 proof.
A normal Blantons is-About 90 something.
93 proof.Yeah.
Okay, it's great.So the gold- Before we get into it.
Yeah, what are you getting?
See if you can tell from the flavours.
That'd be sad.
Caramel Oh, yummy.Oh, yummy.

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Vanillary.
Peacans.
Butter, buttery.Buttery goodness.
Very buttery.Buttery, desserty, like a crumbly crust.
I was sitting in my kitchen table at homeas a kid eating sticky hair
pudding with lots of sauce.
Oh, my goodness.That smells delicious.
And that mouthfeel is veryvelvety and delicious and good.

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Oh, yeah.
My sister used to work at the cheesecakeshop, which is a cheesecake shop.
It's one of those companies.
It's named as it is.
But she used to bring homewhat was called damaged stocks.
If they dropped a cheesecake or ifsomething happened to something, they put
a red sticker on it and you get it cheaperbecause no one's going to
take that to a birthday party.

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This reminds you of cheesecake?
No, they had a product called a pecan pie.
But a pecan is a flavour of ice cream.
I suppose this wouldbe a bit butter pecan.
But a pecan pie.You definitely get that.
I can see the nutty-I need there to be a cheesecake shop open
right now that I can go and get a pecanpie and eat it because the crust
on that freaking thing was so good.

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Would go really good with this.
It was good.
If you're going to drink a Blunt andGold, I recommend it with a pecan pie.
I'd go sticky day.
I mean, this is pretty delicious.
I've got four things I need to tell youabout that I learned today, four
different things that are new.New things?
I woke up this morning and I didn't knowthese four things about Blanc's
Gold, and I want to tell you.There you go.
They say you learn somethingnew every day, Dave.

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I learned four things.Well, now I'm going to learn four.
The first one is about what makes BlatonsGold different because I had to Google it
because I knew it was more expensivebecause I bought- That's a fact.
I bought Blatons Gold as a giftfor- I already knew that fact.
Our friend Cain.Yeah.
We've also been giving it as a gift.For his birthday.
I think he turned 21 recently.
I got him I got in a Blaine's Gold, and Iknew it was considerably more

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expensive than normal Blaine's.
But I didn't know whatthe actual difference was.
So I googled it.Okay.
Tell us.Difference number one.
It's actually one and two, because thefirst part of it is that
it was made for Japan.
The first Blant's Gold was made for Japan.As in they made it gold?
And it was the secondonly expression of Blant.
So Blant's existed normally, the one thatyou know with the beige

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label, handwritten thing.
It's all still the same thing, singlebarrel You know, I'm going
to say I did this thing.Yeah, they put the little like, which?
Rickhouse number 3.Yeah.
Warehouse H.
It's not a Rickhouse numberthree, it's Rick number 3.
So it's like- Oh, sorry, Rick.Yeah, it's what Rick is on.
And then when it's dumpedand all that stuff.
Yeah, they do all that.Yes.
But the other thing, so that's one.

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And then number two is that.
It tells you the barrelnumber and everything.
A 103 proof instead of 93 proof.
So it is 10 % or 5 %, 10 proof higher.Higher than a regular.
So it's a richer Theoretically, richerflavour, less water, all that stuff
that they add to make a thing.So that's the difference.
Which doesn't seem-That's two differences.
Yeah, it goes.But it doesn't seem that exciting.

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But also the price tag is different.
Yeah, well, it's high proof.
And it's got a fancy gold label.
Fancy gold label written on a gold pen.
I don't know if it's thisbottle, but it's jolly good.
It's really delicious.Okay.
It's very desserty.
You know, there's so many things that Ilove about bourbon, but one of the things

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that I really have liked aboutdrinking Blantons and all the other single
barrel expressions that have followedthereafter,
since Amatilla did this thing, isthat there's a real purity to drinking a
single barrel, knowingthat it's the thing.
Nothing else has happened to it.
They did this thing where they tookfour ingredients, three ingredients.

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Put it in a barrel.
Cooked it and distilled it and then stuckit in a wooden barrel and
left it there for bloody ages.
And then they put itpast these bits of cheese cloth, take the
chunky stuff out, and thenthey put it in a bottle.
And here it is in my glass now.
That's all they've done.
And how on Earth.

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This bloody good is confusing me.
I like the fact that when you get it froma single barrel, that
if you really love this particular bottle,that the next one might
not taste exactly the same.
You can go to Dan Mervies and not getanywhere near as good as
that or something better.Yeah.
I think I like that adventure about it.
But it does get sad when you find one likethis that is really

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particularly delicious.
Then you know that once thatbottle is gone, it's gone.
But do you think that's sad or do youthink that's- I think it's exciting, but I
do get a little bit sad when itgets close to the end of the bottle.
Okay.
Luckily, we just opened this one,so we're a long way from the end.
My other two facts are lessscientific and more story-based.
Tell us.Fact number three, Dave.
I think I'm going totell the next one as a...

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Okay, I know which one it is.
At the end of Prohibition...
No, no.
Let me begin with this one.
Warehouse H is very famousbecause everyone who loves Blantons and
all the memes about you got anyBlantons and all that stuff.
Blantons is so...
Everyone loves it.
And Whisky Noobs does these things wherehe does blind tastings, or

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he did them a while ago.
Blind tastings is, is it which one'sBlantons and is it better than Blantons?
Or which was using itthat's better than Blantons?
It's a huge thing.
It's much easier to gethere than it is in US.
Hugely easier to get in Australia.
You can walk into a lot of Dan Murphystores and other liquor stores here and
get a bottle of Blantons off the shelf.
The US, very hard to do.
And it's comically hard to do.

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Warehouse H, where Blans comes from, isvery unique because of the
way that it's made.
At the end of Prohibition,like at the end of COVID Here,
there was a shortage of stuff.
Prohibition was a big, tryingfor the bourbon industry.

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I mean, COVID was trying for everyindustry here, or the world over.
But at the end of Prohibition, everyoneneeded to make whiskey all of a sudden, or
the people who could still make whiskeywanted to make whiskey all of a sudden.
Everyone was like, We can do it now.Let's make lots.
Let's go.
So they all needed to gettheir operations back in order.
And one of those things is to build orrebuild rickhouses that have been torn

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down or used for other staff or whatever.
So there's a shortage of supplies.Correct.
So what's a rickhouse usually made from?
I would say wood.Yes.
Or there's some that are made from.
Is it stone?
Yeah, I think often blue stone and stufflike that, or bricks and stuff like that.
Something that keeps the cold in andthe heat in so it It's nice and hot.
I mean, effectively, it's justa big warehouse, isn't it?

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But the old ones out at WoodfordReserver, I think they're blue stone.
They're probably a different.Anyway, they look like blue stone.
But anyway, big old sheds.
Made of stone.Made of stone, made of wood.
I'm sure- But not warehouse H.
Warehouse H isn't the only one in thewhole world that's this, but
it is specifically made of...
Metal?It's made of metal.

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So it's like a tin shed.
And Colonel Blanton, Colonel Alfred B.
Blanton, saidthat he felt like it was creating the
most pleasant expressions of his bourbonbecause he feels like
it's almost the best…
Well, I mean, obviously the bourbon tastesthe best, but he figured that it was the

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closest it would get to being exposed tothe elements because in the afternoon, the
temperature in there reflected what theafternoon temperature outside was,
obviously, depending on the day.
If you've been in a tin shed, it gets veryhot on a hot afternoon and
very cold on a hot afternoon.But it cools quickly, right?
Yeah, it does.
So you get the fluctuations probably a bitIf it's cooling down the evening,
the shed will cool down quickly.
Whether a stone onewould hold that heat in.

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And Kentucky gets those huge fluctuations.
When it gets freezing cold or in a snow,it's going to probably get the extremes of
outside closer than a woodor stone Then frick-out.
The fact that matter?
Does made of metalhelp with this delicious flavour?
What?Please don't ask me.
I've got no idea.
But this is what he's saying.
Anyway, so there you go.Made of metal.

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Where has H?Four fascinating facts.
No, no.That's only three.
That's only three?I can't count.
Number four.Two sips and I can't count.
Colonel Alfred B.
Blanton's name has a hidden secret.
Colonel Alfred.
His middle name starts with a B,and his middle name.

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I've got to guess, haven't I?No, it was Bacon.
Bacon.
Colonel Alfred Bacon Blanton.Bacon.
Easily the finest middlename of all history.
Wow.
I'm really glad you didn't know that wasa name you could legally name
people before we had kids.
Our son Henry would have been Henry Bacon.Henry Bacon.
Oh, no.

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Wow.
Are you a little bit jealous of the facthe's got the name Bacon on his name deck?
I was going to say he's a bourbon.He's proud as well, though.
No, it's not bourbon.But Bacon and Bourbon go all together.
Well, I think I'd godessert with this one.
I think I'd just go more of that.That was so good.
Although if there's any cheesecake shop,I'm heading out to get me a pecan pie.

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I don't have very much time formy class, but let's still cheers.
Cheers.Here's to anyone whose name is Bacon.
To you out there, have anotherbourbon and a bacon and a pecan pie.
And some buttons.Thanks for listening.
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