May 20, 2025 • 57 mins
Bourbon groups, societies, and clubs across the globe have become the driving force behind whiskey's surging popularity, creating communities that offer education, camaraderie, and exclusive experiences. From Facebook groups with thousands of members to elite membership clubs offering barrel picks, these organizations have transformed whiskey appreciation from a solitary pursuit into a vibrant social experience.
• Facebook groups help connect whiskey enthusiasts worldwide and have tripled in number since the bourbon boom began
• Local clubs offer regular meetups, tastings, educational events with distillery representatives, and charity fundraisers
• Premium membership clubs like Old Carter Social Club and Crystal Glen Cairn Club provide exclusive bottles and experiences
• Groups often organize barrel picks, giving members access to unique expressions not available to the general public
• Whiskey communities are notably more welcoming and accessible than many other hobbyist groups
• International whiskey societies in places like India demonstrate the global reach of the phenomenon
• The Scotchy Bourbon Boys community has grown to 2,000 vetted members across all 50 states and 135+ countries
• For newcomers to whiskey, joining a local group is the best way to learn and build connections
Join us tomorrow night at the Blue Wolf Tavern where the Steel Valley Bourbon Association is hosting a special Smoke Wagon tasting for charity, benefiting "One Time for the Kids." Tickets are $55, and a few seats are still available.
The whiskey revolution isn't happening in distilleries—it's happening in Facebook groups, local meetups, and exclusive clubs around the world. As bourbon's popularity has exploded, the communities surrounding it have become the true catalyst for its unprecedented growth and cultural significance.
Across the globe, from Cincinnati to Bangalore, whiskey enthusiasts are forming tight-knit communities centered around their shared passion. Some exist purely in the digital realm, with thousands of members exchanging knowledge and experiences online. Others maintain strong local identities with regular tastings, educational events, and charitable fundraisers. The most exclusive clubs offer members rare bottles, private lockers, and even opportunities to participate in the distillation process.
What makes these whiskey communities truly special is their remarkable openness and accessibility. Unlike many hobby groups plagued by gatekeeping, bourbon enthusiasts have cultivated a welcoming culture where newcomers find mentors, friendships form quickly, and experiences are shared generously. As one enthusiast put it, "When it came to the bourbon industry, the doors are open. The people are fantastic."
The impact of these communities extends beyond social connections—they're transforming how whiskey is produced, marketed, and consumed. Many groups coordinate barrel picks, giving members access to unique expressions and providing valuable feedback to distilleries. Brands increasingly partner with these clubs for special releases and educational sessions, creating a symbiotic relationship that benefits everyone involved.
Whether you're a seasoned collector or just beginning your whiskey journey, finding your tribe is perhaps the most valuable step you can take. These communities offer education, camaraderie, and opportunities to sample expressi
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Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yeah, all right, welcome back to another podcast
of the Scotchy Bourbon Boys Tinyhere tonight.
Here for all your bourbon andwhiskey needs.
Tonight we're going to betalking about the group society
and clubs throughout the UnitedStates and then also throughout
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the world, the popularity.
We're going to get into it alittle bit About what it's meant
to the whiskey, what I wouldsay the whiskey.
We got to come up with a namefor what this is the whiskey jet
pack or whatever.
Whiskey has become so popularacross, especially the bourbon
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boom.
It's been spectacular, so thegroups spectacular.
So the groups, the societiesand the clubs.
I really feel, with the adventof the internet, have really,
really been why this has beensuch a cool thing.
I mean, it even explains someof the big things that have been
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happening in India, australia,all the different places and
whatnot.
But remember, we'rewwwscotchiebourbonboyscom for
all things Scotchie Bourbon BoysAlso, as far as that goes,
we've got our great t-shirts forsale if you're interested in
that, and then also our ScotchieBourbon Boys Glen Karens and
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there's also our crystal glennkaren club, which I'm going to
be ordering some of those to dothat again.
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But you know, tonight we'regoing to talk about the groups
and then also I've got a specialbarrel bottle breakdown with
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the old louisville barrel bottlebreakdown.
Tonight, courtesy of walkercyrus, we are going to be
breaking down the russell'sreserve 15.
Oh yes, I did it.
It's like john rips is sippingon a russell's reserve private,
private barrel selection eightyear.
But we're gonna, I'm going tobe breaking down this 15 years
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Russell Reserve.
I just wanted to do it.
It's something to do Now.
Real quick note tomorrow nightat the.
I don't know why I can'tremember I should have had it
all up and everything, and Idon't know why I can't remember
I should have had it all up andeverything and I don't.
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But I think I actually cancheck it out on here.
Let's just see Nine, one, nine.
Okay, here we go.
We got that, but let's, that'son the.
Let's see about this.
It should be right there.
Yes, tomorrow night the steelvalley bourbon association is
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doing a special tasting of theirsmoke wagon and for charity.
It is.
The charity is one time for thekids, so we're going to be
raising money for that.
There's 50 seats, $55 each.
We're pretty close to full, butI think there's a few tickets
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left.
It's 6 pm at the Blue WolfTavern.
If you're in that area, ifyou're in that area, you want to
check it out.
And that is interesting.
What just happened?
That should have been rightthere, okay, yeah, if you're in
that area, check it out and, uh,come by and see me.
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So it should be fun, all right,yeah, we're just tasting and,
uh, it should just be a goodthing for to get to taste some
barrel picks up there and havesome food and do it for a good
cause.
So that's you know, frankCarbon of the Steel Valley
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Bourbon Association, steelvalley, bourbon association.
Uh, if you want to, you cancontact him to find out about
tickets, or I am pretty sureyou're not going to be turned
away at the door if you show up.
All right, there we go.
We got that under control sothat I sure as the sunrise sets.
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Besides, I need to reduceinventory.
All right, here we go.
Bourbon groups we're going togo back to that same thing.
Bourbon groups I have a thoughton bourbon groups before we
actually start.
When you think about it.
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Bourbon groups what have theymeant when I first got into this
and formed the Scotchy BourbonBoys?
So the Scotchy Bourbon Boys isa group.
We podcast, okay, so you likeGuinness?
Someone asked me Cocktail for aRussian lady.
Yeah, katie, I can make manycocktails.
I can make many cocktails.
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But getting back to groups andwhere they were initially, and
what Facebook, in my opinion,and other social media platforms
have done is allowed peoplefrom across the country and the
world to form groups.
Our group is centered aroundthe podcast.
We do meet from time to timelocally and we get together in
different places.
So the main part of the podcastgroup is a select few of fans,
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along with the four or five ofus who travel around to
different distilleries.
So at any given time, let'sjust say walker, um has been
with us, randy has been with us,jamie has we've done stuff.
Um, I've actually stopped offon my way back from Wisconsin
and saw John in Chicago, sowe're and Leland Wright, who's
part of our group, on tonight heis in Columbus, but we've never
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, ever got together.
But we're working on someevents so we all can get
together from time to time andtalk about whiskey and our
passion, our love, and then alsotalk about how to make the
podcast better and that type ofthing.
So we've got the ScotchyBourbon Boys group.
There's a Facebook page, theScotchy Bourbon Boys group, my
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personal page all linked to theScotchy Bourbon Boys, and then
there's the podcast also that wedo Now, in 2019, when I first
started, there were groups, butthere weren't at nowhere near as
many as there are now, when theones that I belong to, the ones
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I belong to the most, I just,every single week, I can go on
and be a part of more and moreand more and more and more
groups.
There are groups associated withdifferent bourbons.
For instance, buffalo Trace.
There's a group for what doesBuffalo Trace have today?
So there's some strictly onlinegroups.
And then there are groups thatare local that you can find, for
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instance, the GreaterCincinnati Whiskey Association.
So you got got in, you know, sothat one is for Cincinnati in
the Kentucky.
It has Cincinnati and Kentuckymembers.
There's the Central OhioBourbon, the Central Ohio
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Bourbon Association, there's theWisco Bourbon Co, there's
Wisconsin Bourbon Club and sonow some of the clubs exist and
they get together and havemeetings and they do barrel
picks and that type of thing.
Then some of the clubs gettogethers, do tastings.
Now there are, you know,societies, whiskey societies.
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Now that is something that'sbeen around for a long time the
whiskey society, for a long time, the Whiskey Society.
So I've been asked to talk atdifferent bourbon clubs.
So throughout the state I gothere, we do usually do a live
podcast or a Facebook livechecking in from the places that
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we are, like if we're with aclub and they're doing some sort
of tasting.
We've been with northeastbourbon association, uh,
northeast ohio bourbonassociation, and then we were
also central ohio bourbon and Imean.
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So I've got to meet a lot ofthe admins and that type of
things and we go around to thedifferent clubs but the
different clubs also when theywhen they have these groups and
they have these meetings, theysome some have monthly meetings
and when they have the monthlymeetings they get the
distributors or the people fromthe distilleries to come up and
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talk Some for instance, ct justwas with a group that brought
Bernie Lubbers up.
A lot of times the groups bringthe featured people up and they
do a charity type thing.
So like I'm going to be at forcharity, I'm going to be at the
Steel Valley Whiskey BourbonAssociates Association, the
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Steel Valley Bourbon Association, up in Youngstown for that.
So they, a lot of the groups,do try and do a lot of good.
They raise money for charitiesand then they also get together
taste different bourbons, talkabout it, and then a lot of
groups will do barrel picks.
They do the barrel picksthrough the state and then the
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members have first access atthose barrel picks.
So a lot of groups CT belongsto a group that does massive
amount of barrel picks We'vedone barrel picks also.
We've done it with Elijah Craig, we've done barrel pick with
Knob Creek and so you know we'vehad different, so we've had
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different picks.
They've been highly successful.
It's very difficult to dobecause of the process to do
them, but that's a big part offorming groups Now I have.
Then there's the elite clubs andgroups.
For instance, the ScotchyBourbon Boys has the Crystal
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Glen Cairn Club.
The Crystal Glen Cairn offeredUm, it's been offered two
memberships a year and right nowwe have four people who have
bought the memberships.
It comes with barrel picks, acrystal Glen Karen t-shirts, the
Crystal Glen Karen.
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If you're a really good friendof the podcast that's been on
for instance Stacy Pritchardwho's on tonight, she has one.
Then there's also GregSchneider has one.
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So if you've been on thepodcast many times, there's a
good chance that you've got andyou're a friend, that you've got
one of these Scotchy BourbonBoys Crystal Glen Karen right
here.
Ryan Lang I gave him he's partof it, owner of Middle West
Spirits, but he gave me hisMiddle West Spirits Crystal Glen
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to promote his brand.
So this club is exquisite.
Once a year I get together withthe club.
I've been trying to do it, butnow that we've got, I believe,
five people in it plus anybodywho's got a Glen, that's
received it as a friend and I'mgonna try and do a tasting at my
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house.
Try and get everybody to comedown.
See if I can get a bunch ofpeople to come and do it, and
we'll do some exquisite uhtastings.
So that's the key to thiscrystal glen karen club.
You've got the crystal glenkaren, you've gotten the barrel
picks uh, that's really kind ofcool.
But then you're part of a clubthat you've joined and it's now
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your.
Every year you can come to oneof the events.
Now another club the old cartersocial club.
Now the old carter social club.
Now the Old Carter Social Clubis with Old Carter.
You pay a membership fee.
It's very, very elite.
And then you get offeredspecial bottles throughout the
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year for purchase.
You don't have to buy thebottles but everybody has
lockers.
They can put them in, they cancome pick them up.
But if they purchase one, theypay for it.
It gets put in their locker.
Pick it up whenever you want to.
When you're at the social clubyou can go from.
You know, drink from the locker, you know sip from the locker.
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So that's a really cool thing.
Now there's also the DistillersClub here in Canton, ohio, and
there's a lot of them, not inCanton but in here.
Gervasi Spirits has just donethe Distillers Club.
It's $300 to join and it's fourevents throughout the year.
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And this year we picked themash bill.
This next June 6th meeting onFriday June 6th we are going to
cook and the mash bill and thenput it and get it fermenting and
then the next one will bedistilling and then the final
one will be bottling and it'sthe.
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You get to do that with thedistiller at Gervasi on their
hybrid pot still, column still,and Shea Pridemore did it.
You got a bottle, one of theirbarrel picks for joining.
You got a specific tastingglass and a T-shirt.
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So those are the kind of thingsthat clubs have and there's so
many different places.
So Caroline Gosh says the clubshe hosts is a tasting group.
They have two to three events amonth.
Class is 25 to 35 for four tosix.
Three to four.
We have distribution anddistillery reps as guests.
We also have events that arethemed with decoration, games
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and prizes.
I mean three to a month.
Two to three events a month.
That was.
That's crazy.
The way time goes, carolyn.
That is nuts, but anyways,sounds great.
It sounds like I need to get upby you.
Carolyn's group is up north ofus, so sounds like a lot of fun.
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My my thing is is, if I gosomeplace, like uh going to
youngstone, I always have tobasically, uh, people want to do
um, want you to try and taste alot, because we taste so much
on the podcast you could haveoffered a lot of stuff to taste
and you really got to watch it,especially like like on tomorrow
night with the tasting, andthen I got to drive 50 minutes
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home.
So those are a lot of things Idon't like to have very much the
way under the legal limit ofalcohol in my system when I
leave.
So those are the kind of thingsthat you got to do.
When you do this, you're notyou're leading a taste, that you
might be leading the tasting,but you're not doing a lot of
tasting.
You're kind of doing tonguedipping.
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So that's kind of cool.
But the Facebooks we covered theFacebook groups.
I mean Facebook groups aregreat because you can be a part
of the group.
You get all the updates,especially here.
I love our group.
We're over 2, 2000.
I can't believe it.
Um, we, it's 2000 vetted people.
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We don't just let anybody inthere.
We try and keep out the scammersand that's one of the things.
If you do belong to a group onFacebook, you have to watch out
people who who spam the site,telling you either to go to
another group or to buy this.
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This is a great place to go tobuy your whiskey, because when
they're spamming like that, thatis usually scamming.
Spamming equals scamming.
So anybody out there if youbelong to a group and somebody's
in there trying to sell in theScotchy Bourbon Boys group, it's
spectacularly straight up.
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It says no selling when theyagree to be in the group, do you
agree to no selling?
And then on the bottom, theyhave to.
It's reiterated.
That's two of my rules.
You cannot sell in the groupPeople try.
If they're in, they're kickedout immediately.
So that's inviting people, thattype of thing.
So that part of the group iskind of cool.
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But to have 2,000 people fromaround the world initially, when
we started this, the podcastand you've got the original, I
think it's 13, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,10, 11, 12, 13 states where
people joined the ScotchyBourbon Boys.
Since then we are in all 50states Plus we are in over 135
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countries that people listen tothe podcast.
So very, very exciting.
Now Tim Dance says he's themember.
He's based on the meetingformats.
Yes, you can.
It's great that when you bringin people for instance, we've
done tastings at the Barrel Roomwith Penelope.
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We've done tastings withChicken Cock with Greg Schneider
we brought them in.
We haven't done that latelybecause of the fact that the
podcast has been pretty intense.
Plus, we're just getting intothe tasting season.
But I'm thinking, if we do thisScotchy Bourbon Boys Crystal
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Glen Caring Club, when we dothat, what's going to happen
there is we're going to be ableto bring some people in that are
in it that will be able toanswer questions, your questions
, about distilling.
I believe that it will be aneducational night and a very fun
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night and the way to get in isto have one of these Crystal
Glen Cairns.
Anybody who has one will beallowed to be in if they have
one and they'll be invited.
So I'm thinking sometime inJuly.
We've got a lot of busy stuffgoing on Now.
One of the other things that Iwanted to talk about is it's not
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just, you know, united Statesthat does this.
Okay, so groups All right,let's see, I'm going to hit that
one.
Okay, let's do that one Allright.
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In India, several organizationsand clubs cater to whiskey
enthusiasts, including bourbonaficionados.
Two notable examples are thedram club and the single malt
amateur club.
The dram club is based in muabi, aims to make whiskey
accessible and enjoyable for all, offering events, master
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classes and even a deliveryservice for single malts and
whiskeys.
They also have an app withcity-wise, priceless and
personalized recommendations.
Now the Single Malt AmateurClub based in Bangalore, smac.
Bangalore SMAC is a long timestanding club for single malt
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enthusiasts, offering acommunity for sharing
experiences and knowledge.
One of the mentions on Man'sWorld India said that they are
the most active association ofsingle malt lovers in India and
have been featured in WhiskeyAdvocate's top whiskey clubs.
They also conduct an annualpoll to rank the best Indian
single malts.
So Whiskey Advocate, while nota club, whiskey Advocate is a
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prominent resource for whiskeyenthusiasts, including those in
India, with articles andrankings of both Indian and
international whiskeys.
So it's really kind of cool umthe the clubs.
And it's fun because the dramclub, I believe, is not only its
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own club Yep, you just hit itand you can be part of it.
It talks about all thedifferent whiskey experiences,
and whiskey in India is huge, soI like to usually think a lot
less international when it comesto clubs and and uh societies.
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Now, the societies there's alot of them in kentucky, because
that's the.
When it comes to bourbonsociety that, um, um.
So walker's trying to tell me,let's see, the general platform
is still whiskey.
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No Whiskey, I say service andmalts, let's see, I went there
Exclusive, immersive togetherExperiences, india's most
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vibrant and whiskey computer.
Yeah, don't, I'm not thegreatest when it comes to to
having uh, uh, middle eastern oreastern uh language.
I barely am able to even speakum english, let alone uh, come
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up with all the different.
So, let's see, there's just somany different ones out there.
It's kind of cool.
I mean, honestly, the differentuh strong whiskey is the best.
Merrick is like he likes jackdaniels and it's peace man.
He likes the.
Obviously he likes whiskey weedalso along with good whiskey,
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which is kind of a cool thing ifthat's what tricks your trigger
.
Then we also have the ScotchMalt Whiskey Society.
I mean, you're talking aboutScotland.
Whiskey Advocate really is adriver of all the different
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great large clubs going on.
You've got that going on thereand then here, I believe, uh,
bourbon groups.
So you know, uh, yeah, firstthing, all right.
So one of them are here in allin, in just little canton ohio.
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There's the canton bourbon boys, there's the scotchy bourbon
boys, so we, and then you know,cleveland bourbon club, the
bourbon club, the bourbonoutfitters uh, facebook group.
Bourbon lovers uh, privategroup, let's see, so there's
many groups in Ohio.
We have so many different ones.
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Okay, all right, that's becauselet's go back to Safari.
We have Northeast Ohio, centralOhio, all the different clubs
throughout and they do a reallygood job up here.
And one of the things that ifyou're not in a club, you really
should get into a club likewalker.
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When you go out to arizona, youshould be right away getting
into a bourbon or whiskey clubout there.
It's a great way to meet people, bourbon people, from what I
everything.
Why I love the clubs and I lovewhiskey is because whiskey and
bourbon people are usually downto earth, super awesome people.
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I find that I've had, I've beenin a lot of different uh, uh,
what would you say?
Social groups of like.
Uh, when, as a fine artist, Ijoined a lot of art groups, I
did a lot of gallery-type stuff.
I also was part of the FirstFriday here for about 25, it
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would be two years.
I was part of the First Friday,every first Friday of the month
, displaying my artwork andgetting to know the people in
the art community and the artcommunity.
Once again, my friends were myfriends, good people.
But there was also a lot ofpolitics, a lot of gate opening
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type stuff that you had to knowthe right people to get through
the right gates to be able to doit.
But when it came to the bourbonindustry, the doors are open.
The people are fantastic.
You spend time with them.
You spend quality time eitherin their establishments or even
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in their houses.
One of the things that theFrankfurt Bourbon Club meets and
I've met great people therethey offer when I come down to
stay at their houses.
You're not always taking uppeople on it, but the offer's
there.
It's kind of cool.
Now there are some bourbonclubs that actually have brick
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and mortar and that's reallykind of a cool thing too.
We've got two of them here inCanton.
I'm trying to.
You know I've got grandkids andkids and whatnot.
So I try and do as much as Ican here in Ohio with but with
the podcast um, we got, we gotsomeone from Brazil.
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We've got people from let's seewhere Merrick was from.
Can I see that John Edwards ison?
That's cool.
Um, we got someone like I saiduh, robinson, rob.
We got someone, like I said,robinson from Brazil.
Kind of cool.
Welcome to the podcast.
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So the groups are really whatwould you say?
The groups that are there inthe podcast and the podcast
groups.
For instance, cleveland on theRocks, it's got its own group.
The people there do whatever upin Cleveland with Matt and
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we've combined our people.
So when we meet and gettogether we've had tastings,
we've been up there, had events,so it's really kind of a way to
get to know people that havethe love of bourbon and whiskey
and they know how they'reresponsible.
You have a good time, thingsdon't get out of hand, you just
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really have.
It's just a really good.
Uh, what would you say?
Social friendship group?
I mean, it's just, it's.
It's the definition of livinglife good, it's entertaining,
you have good times.
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So, the Scotchy Bourbon Boysthis past we have our annual bus
tour, we have our Christmasparty and then we also had a
tasting in last year and we'llprobably have the Crystal Glen
Caring Club this year andanother bourbon tasting and with
you know, with that it's just Igot to do the tastings for the
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group because I just have somuch whiskey I like to share it.
It's no, if I don't do thetastings, nobody's going to
drink this.
I've tasted most of everythingI have and you know that's just
how.
That's how it's going.
So the groups also.
In my opinion, with the adventof facebook, this is when you
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look at the bourbon boom, thereal bourbon boom it coincides
with facebook.
People at first first wereselling whiskey on Facebook till
Facebook cracked down on it,and there still is.
Everybody was cracking downbecause it's illegal to sell.
But that was the first thingwhen everybody started talking
and they were talking andselling and doing this and what,
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and then the crackdown happenedand then everybody was
belonging to the groups.
Everybody started doing it morelegally as far as getting their
barrel picks to their membersand that type of thing.
So it's really kind of cool andI really think the societies
have always been there.
The clubs probably have tripledsince the bourbon boom and the
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bourbon groups it's insane.
It's across the whole world, sothere's thousands upon
thousands of bourbon groups.
So the first thing I do, ifyou're getting into bourbon, the
first thing I do is find abourbon group near you and start
meeting people and sharing yourwhiskey and bourbon experiences
.
That's just how bourbon groupsyou know the importance of
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bourbon groups coming up.
Now I do believe I have 109.
All right, let's see.
Let's just see.
I have the groups OHLQ, I mean,on the OHLQ website.
They actually have on thewebsite.
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They have a thing that wasApril of 18 of 20.
I need to get on the website ofthe OHLQ Spirit Societies in
Ohio the Whiskey Girls of ErieShores, central Ohio Whiskey
Society, ohio Rum Society,bourbon Women and Whiskey Women
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Fisher Wine and Spirits ProofSocial Club formed by the Grand
MBA Ohio State University.
Bourbon Club of North CentralOhio.
Even the state of Ohiorecognizes the importance of the
bourbon clubs and so they'rehuge and they are 100% behind
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this power whiskey comeback andthen also, as they say, the
whiskey boom.
100% is through the groups and100% you have to.
If you haven't yet, you need tojoin our group.
Our group is the ScotchyBourbon Boys.
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You can find that page onFacebook and also the group.
But the group is vetted and weare 2,000 strong and when you
join our group you're probably agood chance not going to get
spammed.
Now, my Jeffrey Mueller.
I try and vet the most as I can, but I have 5,000 friends now
(35:54):
and 52,000, 53,000, 52,000followers, so I can't vet that
the same way.
But if anybody spams it, I seeit, delete it and block that
person almost immediately.
So it's a little bit differentexperience if you join the
Scotchy Bourbon Boys.
But any group that I shared totonight and I mentioned already
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is a good group to join.
I, I, I belong to, many, manyto, and we appreciate everybody
who allows us to um promotewhiskey within their groups.
Um, that's what we do.
We were, that's what we'reabout.
All right, so anyways, ifanybody has any, they're
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available and what you make ofthem, yeah, if anybody has any
questions, throw it up there onFacebook or YouTube about groups
.
I am going to start thissurprise bourbon bottle
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breakdown, the Old LouisvilleBourbon Bottle Breakdown,
brought to you by the OldLouisville Whiskey Company in
Louisville, kentucky.
Old Louisville Amin does agreat job down there.
He basically books byappointment, but if you're in
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the Louisville area, oldLouisville Whiskey Company is a
must stop.
Fantastic, he doesn't sellanything under seven years, so
all of his whiskey is sevenyears or older.
Very similar to what MarkCarter does with Old Carter.
Very similar to what MarkCarter does with old Carter.
So that brings us to the bourbonbottle breakdown rating system.
(37:50):
It consists of four differentcategories.
One is nose or aroma, two isbody, three is taste and four is
finish.
Each category has an assignedamount of knocks.
The nose and the body can getup to four knocks, and the taste
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and the finish can get up tofive.
But if you like an exceptionalcategory, exceptionally, you can
add an extra to one category, aba-da-ba for a total of 19 out
of 18 for a perfect bourbon.
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19 out of 18 for a perfectbourbon.
So here we go with the oldLouisville Whiskey Company's
barrel bottle breakdown ofRussell's Reserve, 15-year-old,
courtesy of Walker Cyrus, who isthere right now.
Thank you so much, walker.
I covet this bottle.
(39:00):
It's fantastic.
It's been open for a little bit, walker, let's just go over a
little bit of a story about this.
Walker, when he got this and wesaw each other, probably I would
say it was I want to sayFebruary.
Was it February?
(39:21):
Yes, I believe so.
No, say February.
Was it February?
Yes, I believe so.
No, not February.
It was March when we did theJack Daniels thing, we came down
I saw Walker and he broughtthis bottle for us, for me to
taste, and then said that heneeded it or whatever.
(39:41):
But now that he's moving heknows how much I love this
bottle and, uh, it was verygenerous to um, let me obtain
this.
And I opened this.
And the nose from a distance isso, oh my God, now the 15, I
felt when I first opened it.
(40:03):
This is a little bit.
It was a little bit oaky.
But when I saw him the nexttime and Walker was brought the
bottle and surprised me, it nowhas really opened up.
So tonight I'm tasting in myScotchy Bourbon Boys, glen Karen
(40:23):
.
If anybody's interested, justcontact me.
I can get that for you.
All right, put a little bit inthere in my Glen.
We'll put that up there next tothat in my Glen.
(40:44):
We'll put that up there next tothat.
Now, one of the things that'sgreat about these Glen Cairns is
, uh, the tulip shape with thebottom.
You don't have to heat up, youhold it there.
You look at your whiskey Uh,you can tell viscosity on the
glass.
Uh, ct loves to take it and dospinning.
I am not a spinner.
But well, maybe I am.
(41:04):
Look at that, I got it going.
Wow, that's the first time Ithink I ever got a really good
spin.
All right, so the nose isfantastic and if you put the
glint on the side and you canroll it on with the right amount
, you can't overfill it, but youcan roll it on the actual,
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which coats the whole glass.
Come on back here and then whenyou hold it up, you can see
what the legs do.
This particular one isbasically wow, long, thick legs.
It doesn't take long for thatto drop in.
Beautiful.
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It's weird.
It's sticking to other partsand doing some, but what it did
on the inside of the glass isit's just got big, long, the
full length, dropping back downinto the pool of sunshine as the
whiskey.
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What was I forget?
Jeff Schwartz is the whiskeyadvocate.
I think he's a whiskey advocate.
Yep, he does a nice piece.
He critiques bourbons, alongwith Michael Veach on the
Scotchy Bourbon Boys.
But so the viscosity on this ofcoating the glass tells you
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that it's going to have a prettygood body.
Now I've had a little bit of theOld Forrester 117 series, so
that's good.
So this won't have a palateshock, but the nose is caramel.
There's a little bit of the Imean, what is it?
There's cherry too.
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Caramel and and cherry.
Oh my god, is that good?
Both nostrils are workingtonight.
That's one of the first timesI've had both.
You have a dominant nostril alot of times, but right now it's
both nostrils and that nose isfan-freaking-tastic.
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That nose is fantastic.
Now, the proof on this is barrelstrength, but it's non-chill
filtered.
This was a 2024 release.
(43:42):
Where is the proof?
I don't know why I don't haveany glasses tonight.
I should have a pair.
Nope, empty, empty.
I'm trying to find out.
Nope, let's see what our proofis.
Let's see what our proof is 100.
(44:18):
I want to say 117, one 17.2.
All right, let's just.
Can I get it in some betterlight?
Let's see, oh, I could do this.
Oh, we'll do it.
No, that's too far.
(44:39):
Nope, you're not going to.
Let me do that All right.
We won't do it.
No, that's too far.
Nope, you're not going to.
Let me do that All right.
Uh, we won't do it.
I want to say it's crazy.
Come on, I usually have that'snuts.
(45:04):
Uh, let's see, what about alight?
Well, let's just get into somebetter light right here.
I'm gonna see, check that out.
I really 117.2.
(45:24):
I'll go with that.
It's just so dumb.
Very good, it definitely has abig body.
So that was it, walker, youguys and Randy.
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It was 117.2.
Just the wow Big caramel finish.
Wow, that is delicious.
Thank you, walker.
Um, all right, there's twoareas I could give this.
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There's two areas of, but up, up, and I might pull that out.
Because pull that out?
Because all I want to do issmell this.
There's a root beer, there's asometimes a little root beer,
there's some cherry and caramel,along with a little bit of char
(46:33):
, the perfect amount of ethanol,like.
I could smell this all day.
I could just smell this.
It's right up there with myfavorite thing.
All right, so we're going to gowith the nose, which you can
(46:54):
give up to four.
I am going to give it a four.
I am going to give it a four.
One, two, three, four With a,with a ba-dup-up Five, five out
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of four.
That nose is fantastic.
The body five out of four.
That nose is fantastic.
The body it goes everywherecheeks, under the tongue, top of
the tongue, mouth, full, fully.
It starts off with the, thetaste, his caramel and vanilla
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at the front palate and thenwhen you hit the back palate,
you get a nice oaky char flavorbut then the great hug
throughout with a nice littlepepper spice, but the vanilla
and the caramel and the littlebit maybe cherry in the back
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left-hand part of my tongue.
I have to give the body a four.
One, two, three, four.
So we're looking at four, nine,whatever?
Now the taste, with the vanillaup front and the caramel, it's
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taste is five out of five.
This one one, two, three, four,five.
So we're looking at five out offive on the taste.
(49:05):
So we're now coming to thefinish.
Look at the, the legs in thatglass.
It's like God.
They're just so long and drippy, just right there.
(49:27):
There it is.
You can see them.
All right, I'm going to givethat friend's share.
Lord knows share, lord knows.
(50:15):
The finish is caramel and thena little bit of oak.
Yeah, it's a five.
One, two, three, four, five,five out of.
So that's a 19 out of 18.
That's a perfect whiskey.
I.
I was thinking I was going togive it the finish, but the
finish is a five, fantastic, 117proof.
Um, I, I think if you like alittle bit of oak and char on
your whiskey, a little bit ofpepper spice, but you also want
the flavor to come through, thisis the epitome of a really,
(50:38):
really a well-aged bourbon, Iwould say, compared to pappy,
pappy van winkle, 15 year, whichis fantastic, but pappy van
winkle doesn't have the spice,nor does it have uh.
It doesn't have the spice andit doesn't have, uh, the little
(50:58):
bit of the barrel and charUsually.
Usually I love Pappy Van Winkle, 15 year.
I love the caramel.
It's just so rich.
But this is more of a whiskeyand aged whiskey lovers Whiskey.
This is something that I wouldlove to smoke.
If you to smoke a cigar with, Iwill smoke a cigar with it.
(51:22):
But this is something that yousave to share with people.
And thank you so much, walker,for that perfect bottle.
It was not a 19 out of 18 whenyou first crack it.
So if anybody has this bottle,I would strongly suggest
cracking it and let it sip for awhile, because what happened to
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it over the last couple monthsis spectacular.
So there we are on the Russell's15.
I love the Russell's 13.
Actually, I'm going to put in alittle bit of 13 in my glass
and see what the difference is.
Russell's 13, the first one wascaramelly.
(52:04):
It doesn't have that dusty inthere.
Now let's see what Russell's 13does.
I just love these.
I was able to get this on myown, so I was very happy about
that.
All right, let's see.
(52:26):
Let's see.
Not, as there's a lot morecaramel vanilla on the nose.
That's like a caramel apple Notas perfect, but that's really
(52:56):
good.
I love Russell's 13 and 15.
Some of my the Russell Russell13 first batch was phenomenal,
but that would make sense.
Both are very good.
(53:16):
All right, guys, we are going towrap it up for now on our audio
.
I am going to finish this off.
People on Facebook and onYouTube, you can stick around a
little bit longer.
I'm going to be on like I tryto be on like 15, 15 minutes.
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Afterwards invite some peopleto come on with us.
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of the Scotchy Bourbon Boys Tinyhere tonight.
Here for all your bourbon andwhiskey needs.
Tonight we're going to betalking about the group society
and clubs throughout the UnitedStates and then also throughout
(02:36):
the world, the popularity.
We're going to get into it alittle bit About what it's meant
to the whiskey, what I wouldsay the whiskey.
We got to come up with a namefor what this is the whiskey jet
pack or whatever.
Whiskey has become so popularacross, especially the bourbon
(02:57):
boom.
It's been spectacular, so thegroups spectacular.
So the groups, the societiesand the clubs.
I really feel, with the adventof the internet, have really,
really been why this has beensuch a cool thing.
I mean, it even explains someof the big things that have been
(03:18):
happening in India, australia,all the different places and
whatnot.
But remember, we'rewwwscotchiebourbonboyscom for
all things Scotchie Bourbon BoysAlso, as far as that goes,
we've got our great t-shirts forsale if you're interested in
that, and then also our ScotchieBourbon Boys Glen Karens and
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there's also our crystal glennkaren club, which I'm going to
be ordering some of those to dothat again.
But uh, no matter what, whatyou want to do is you want to
listen or watch, however you doit with, whether it's facebook,
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It helps out.
It helps out immensely.
But you know, tonight we'regoing to talk about the groups
and then also I've got a specialbarrel bottle breakdown with
(05:05):
the old louisville barrel bottlebreakdown.
Tonight, courtesy of walkercyrus, we are going to be
breaking down the russell'sreserve 15.
Oh yes, I did it.
It's like john rips is sippingon a russell's reserve private,
private barrel selection eightyear.
But we're gonna, I'm going tobe breaking down this 15 years
(05:28):
Russell Reserve.
I just wanted to do it.
It's something to do Now.
Real quick note tomorrow nightat the.
I don't know why I can'tremember I should have had it
all up and everything, and Idon't know why I can't remember
I should have had it all up andeverything and I don't.
(05:49):
But I think I actually cancheck it out on here.
Let's just see Nine, one, nine.
Okay, here we go.
We got that, but let's, that'son the.
Let's see about this.
It should be right there.
Yes, tomorrow night the steelvalley bourbon association is
(06:10):
doing a special tasting of theirsmoke wagon and for charity.
It is.
The charity is one time for thekids, so we're going to be
raising money for that.
There's 50 seats, $55 each.
We're pretty close to full, butI think there's a few tickets
(06:32):
left.
It's 6 pm at the Blue WolfTavern.
If you're in that area, ifyou're in that area, you want to
check it out.
And that is interesting.
What just happened?
That should have been rightthere, okay, yeah, if you're in
that area, check it out and, uh,come by and see me.
(06:54):
So it should be fun, all right,yeah, we're just tasting and,
uh, it should just be a goodthing for to get to taste some
barrel picks up there and havesome food and do it for a good
cause.
So that's you know, frankCarbon of the Steel Valley
(07:21):
Bourbon Association, steelvalley, bourbon association.
Uh, if you want to, you cancontact him to find out about
tickets, or I am pretty sureyou're not going to be turned
away at the door if you show up.
All right, there we go.
We got that under control sothat I sure as the sunrise sets.
(07:41):
Besides, I need to reduceinventory.
All right, here we go.
Bourbon groups we're going togo back to that same thing.
Bourbon groups I have a thoughton bourbon groups before we
actually start.
When you think about it.
(08:02):
Bourbon groups what have theymeant when I first got into this
and formed the Scotchy BourbonBoys?
So the Scotchy Bourbon Boys isa group.
We podcast, okay, so you likeGuinness?
Someone asked me Cocktail for aRussian lady.
Yeah, katie, I can make manycocktails.
I can make many cocktails.
(08:47):
But getting back to groups andwhere they were initially, and
what Facebook, in my opinion,and other social media platforms
have done is allowed peoplefrom across the country and the
world to form groups.
Our group is centered aroundthe podcast.
We do meet from time to timelocally and we get together in
different places.
So the main part of the podcastgroup is a select few of fans,
(09:10):
along with the four or five ofus who travel around to
different distilleries.
So at any given time, let'sjust say walker, um has been
with us, randy has been with us,jamie has we've done stuff.
Um, I've actually stopped offon my way back from Wisconsin
and saw John in Chicago, sowe're and Leland Wright, who's
part of our group, on tonight heis in Columbus, but we've never
(09:34):
, ever got together.
But we're working on someevents so we all can get
together from time to time andtalk about whiskey and our
passion, our love, and then alsotalk about how to make the
podcast better and that type ofthing.
So we've got the ScotchyBourbon Boys group.
There's a Facebook page, theScotchy Bourbon Boys group, my
(09:56):
personal page all linked to theScotchy Bourbon Boys, and then
there's the podcast also that wedo Now, in 2019, when I first
started, there were groups, butthere weren't at nowhere near as
many as there are now, when theones that I belong to, the ones
(10:19):
I belong to the most, I just,every single week, I can go on
and be a part of more and moreand more and more and more
groups.
There are groups associated withdifferent bourbons.
For instance, buffalo Trace.
There's a group for what doesBuffalo Trace have today?
So there's some strictly onlinegroups.
And then there are groups thatare local that you can find, for
(10:46):
instance, the GreaterCincinnati Whiskey Association.
So you got got in, you know, sothat one is for Cincinnati in
the Kentucky.
It has Cincinnati and Kentuckymembers.
There's the Central OhioBourbon, the Central Ohio
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Bourbon Association, there's theWisco Bourbon Co, there's
Wisconsin Bourbon Club and sonow some of the clubs exist and
they get together and havemeetings and they do barrel
picks and that type of thing.
Then some of the clubs gettogethers, do tastings.
Now there are, you know,societies, whiskey societies.
(11:38):
Now that is something that'sbeen around for a long time the
whiskey society, for a long time, the Whiskey Society.
So I've been asked to talk atdifferent bourbon clubs.
So throughout the state I gothere, we do usually do a live
podcast or a Facebook livechecking in from the places that
(12:02):
we are, like if we're with aclub and they're doing some sort
of tasting.
We've been with northeastbourbon association, uh,
northeast ohio bourbonassociation, and then we were
also central ohio bourbon and Imean.
(12:23):
So I've got to meet a lot ofthe admins and that type of
things and we go around to thedifferent clubs but the
different clubs also when theywhen they have these groups and
they have these meetings, theysome some have monthly meetings
and when they have the monthlymeetings they get the
distributors or the people fromthe distilleries to come up and
(12:45):
talk Some for instance, ct justwas with a group that brought
Bernie Lubbers up.
A lot of times the groups bringthe featured people up and they
do a charity type thing.
So like I'm going to be at forcharity, I'm going to be at the
Steel Valley Whiskey BourbonAssociates Association, the
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Steel Valley Bourbon Association, up in Youngstown for that.
So they, a lot of the groups,do try and do a lot of good.
They raise money for charitiesand then they also get together
taste different bourbons, talkabout it, and then a lot of
groups will do barrel picks.
They do the barrel picksthrough the state and then the
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members have first access atthose barrel picks.
So a lot of groups CT belongsto a group that does massive
amount of barrel picks We'vedone barrel picks also.
We've done it with Elijah Craig, we've done barrel pick with
Knob Creek and so you know we'vehad different, so we've had
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different picks.
They've been highly successful.
It's very difficult to dobecause of the process to do
them, but that's a big part offorming groups Now I have.
Then there's the elite clubs andgroups.
For instance, the ScotchyBourbon Boys has the Crystal
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Glen Cairn Club.
The Crystal Glen Cairn offeredUm, it's been offered two
memberships a year and right nowwe have four people who have
bought the memberships.
It comes with barrel picks, acrystal Glen Karen t-shirts, the
Crystal Glen Karen.
(14:38):
If you're a really good friendof the podcast that's been on
for instance Stacy Pritchardwho's on tonight, she has one.
Then there's also GregSchneider has one.
(15:06):
So if you've been on thepodcast many times, there's a
good chance that you've got andyou're a friend, that you've got
one of these Scotchy BourbonBoys Crystal Glen Karen right
here.
Ryan Lang I gave him he's partof it, owner of Middle West
Spirits, but he gave me hisMiddle West Spirits Crystal Glen
(15:30):
to promote his brand.
So this club is exquisite.
Once a year I get together withthe club.
I've been trying to do it, butnow that we've got, I believe,
five people in it plus anybodywho's got a Glen, that's
received it as a friend and I'mgonna try and do a tasting at my
(15:51):
house.
Try and get everybody to comedown.
See if I can get a bunch ofpeople to come and do it, and
we'll do some exquisite uhtastings.
So that's the key to thiscrystal glen karen club.
You've got the crystal glenkaren, you've gotten the barrel
picks uh, that's really kind ofcool.
But then you're part of a clubthat you've joined and it's now
(16:15):
your.
Every year you can come to oneof the events.
Now another club the old cartersocial club.
Now the old carter social club.
Now the Old Carter Social Clubis with Old Carter.
You pay a membership fee.
It's very, very elite.
And then you get offeredspecial bottles throughout the
(16:37):
year for purchase.
You don't have to buy thebottles but everybody has
lockers.
They can put them in, they cancome pick them up.
But if they purchase one, theypay for it.
It gets put in their locker.
Pick it up whenever you want to.
When you're at the social clubyou can go from.
You know, drink from the locker, you know sip from the locker.
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So that's a really cool thing.
Now there's also the DistillersClub here in Canton, ohio, and
there's a lot of them, not inCanton but in here.
Gervasi Spirits has just donethe Distillers Club.
It's $300 to join and it's fourevents throughout the year.
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And this year we picked themash bill.
This next June 6th meeting onFriday June 6th we are going to
cook and the mash bill and thenput it and get it fermenting and
then the next one will bedistilling and then the final
one will be bottling and it'sthe.
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You get to do that with thedistiller at Gervasi on their
hybrid pot still, column still,and Shea Pridemore did it.
You got a bottle, one of theirbarrel picks for joining.
You got a specific tastingglass and a T-shirt.
(18:02):
So those are the kind of thingsthat clubs have and there's so
many different places.
So Caroline Gosh says the clubshe hosts is a tasting group.
They have two to three events amonth.
Class is 25 to 35 for four tosix.
Three to four.
We have distribution anddistillery reps as guests.
We also have events that arethemed with decoration, games
(18:26):
and prizes.
I mean three to a month.
Two to three events a month.
That was.
That's crazy.
The way time goes, carolyn.
That is nuts, but anyways,sounds great.
It sounds like I need to get upby you.
Carolyn's group is up north ofus, so sounds like a lot of fun.
(18:50):
My my thing is is, if I gosomeplace, like uh going to
youngstone, I always have tobasically, uh, people want to do
um, want you to try and taste alot, because we taste so much
on the podcast you could haveoffered a lot of stuff to taste
and you really got to watch it,especially like like on tomorrow
night with the tasting, andthen I got to drive 50 minutes
(19:13):
home.
So those are a lot of things Idon't like to have very much the
way under the legal limit ofalcohol in my system when I
leave.
So those are the kind of thingsthat you got to do.
When you do this, you're notyou're leading a taste, that you
might be leading the tasting,but you're not doing a lot of
tasting.
You're kind of doing tonguedipping.
(19:34):
So that's kind of cool.
But the Facebooks we covered theFacebook groups.
I mean Facebook groups aregreat because you can be a part
of the group.
You get all the updates,especially here.
I love our group.
We're over 2, 2000.
I can't believe it.
Um, we, it's 2000 vetted people.
(19:54):
We don't just let anybody inthere.
We try and keep out the scammersand that's one of the things.
If you do belong to a group onFacebook, you have to watch out
people who who spam the site,telling you either to go to
another group or to buy this.
(20:15):
This is a great place to go tobuy your whiskey, because when
they're spamming like that, thatis usually scamming.
Spamming equals scamming.
So anybody out there if youbelong to a group and somebody's
in there trying to sell in theScotchy Bourbon Boys group, it's
spectacularly straight up.
(20:35):
It says no selling when theyagree to be in the group, do you
agree to no selling?
And then on the bottom, theyhave to.
It's reiterated.
That's two of my rules.
You cannot sell in the groupPeople try.
If they're in, they're kickedout immediately.
So that's inviting people, thattype of thing.
So that part of the group iskind of cool.
(21:13):
But to have 2,000 people fromaround the world initially, when
we started this, the podcastand you've got the original, I
think it's 13, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,10, 11, 12, 13 states where
people joined the ScotchyBourbon Boys.
Since then we are in all 50states Plus we are in over 135
(21:36):
countries that people listen tothe podcast.
So very, very exciting.
Now Tim Dance says he's themember.
He's based on the meetingformats.
Yes, you can.
It's great that when you bringin people for instance, we've
done tastings at the Barrel Roomwith Penelope.
(21:57):
We've done tastings withChicken Cock with Greg Schneider
we brought them in.
We haven't done that latelybecause of the fact that the
podcast has been pretty intense.
Plus, we're just getting intothe tasting season.
But I'm thinking, if we do thisScotchy Bourbon Boys Crystal
(22:24):
Glen Caring Club, when we dothat, what's going to happen
there is we're going to be ableto bring some people in that are
in it that will be able toanswer questions, your questions
, about distilling.
I believe that it will be aneducational night and a very fun
(22:44):
night and the way to get in isto have one of these Crystal
Glen Cairns.
Anybody who has one will beallowed to be in if they have
one and they'll be invited.
So I'm thinking sometime inJuly.
We've got a lot of busy stuffgoing on Now.
One of the other things that Iwanted to talk about is it's not
(23:06):
just, you know, united Statesthat does this.
Okay, so groups All right,let's see, I'm going to hit that
one.
Okay, let's do that one Allright.
(23:26):
In India, several organizationsand clubs cater to whiskey
enthusiasts, including bourbonaficionados.
Two notable examples are thedram club and the single malt
amateur club.
The dram club is based in muabi, aims to make whiskey
accessible and enjoyable for all, offering events, master
(23:49):
classes and even a deliveryservice for single malts and
whiskeys.
They also have an app withcity-wise, priceless and
personalized recommendations.
Now the Single Malt AmateurClub based in Bangalore, smac.
Bangalore SMAC is a long timestanding club for single malt
(24:18):
enthusiasts, offering acommunity for sharing
experiences and knowledge.
One of the mentions on Man'sWorld India said that they are
the most active association ofsingle malt lovers in India and
have been featured in WhiskeyAdvocate's top whiskey clubs.
They also conduct an annualpoll to rank the best Indian
single malts.
So Whiskey Advocate, while nota club, whiskey Advocate is a
(24:44):
prominent resource for whiskeyenthusiasts, including those in
India, with articles andrankings of both Indian and
international whiskeys.
So it's really kind of cool umthe the clubs.
And it's fun because the dramclub, I believe, is not only its
(25:08):
own club Yep, you just hit itand you can be part of it.
It talks about all thedifferent whiskey experiences,
and whiskey in India is huge, soI like to usually think a lot
less international when it comesto clubs and and uh societies.
(25:30):
Now, the societies there's alot of them in kentucky, because
that's the.
When it comes to bourbonsociety that, um, um.
So walker's trying to tell me,let's see, the general platform
is still whiskey.
(25:50):
No Whiskey, I say service andmalts, let's see, I went there
Exclusive, immersive togetherExperiences, india's most
(26:14):
vibrant and whiskey computer.
Yeah, don't, I'm not thegreatest when it comes to to
having uh, uh, middle eastern oreastern uh language.
I barely am able to even speakum english, let alone uh, come
(26:38):
up with all the different.
So, let's see, there's just somany different ones out there.
It's kind of cool.
I mean, honestly, the differentuh strong whiskey is the best.
Merrick is like he likes jackdaniels and it's peace man.
He likes the.
Obviously he likes whiskey weedalso along with good whiskey,
(27:01):
which is kind of a cool thing ifthat's what tricks your trigger
.
Then we also have the ScotchMalt Whiskey Society.
I mean, you're talking aboutScotland.
Whiskey Advocate really is adriver of all the different
(27:22):
great large clubs going on.
You've got that going on thereand then here, I believe, uh,
bourbon groups.
So you know, uh, yeah, firstthing, all right.
So one of them are here in allin, in just little canton ohio.
(27:44):
There's the canton bourbon boys, there's the scotchy bourbon
boys, so we, and then you know,cleveland bourbon club, the
bourbon club, the bourbonoutfitters uh, facebook group.
Bourbon lovers uh, privategroup, let's see, so there's
many groups in Ohio.
We have so many different ones.
(28:05):
Okay, all right, that's becauselet's go back to Safari.
We have Northeast Ohio, centralOhio, all the different clubs
throughout and they do a reallygood job up here.
And one of the things that ifyou're not in a club, you really
should get into a club likewalker.
(28:25):
When you go out to arizona, youshould be right away getting
into a bourbon or whiskey clubout there.
It's a great way to meet people, bourbon people, from what I
everything.
Why I love the clubs and I lovewhiskey is because whiskey and
bourbon people are usually downto earth, super awesome people.
(28:46):
I find that I've had, I've beenin a lot of different uh, uh,
what would you say?
Social groups of like.
Uh, when, as a fine artist, Ijoined a lot of art groups, I
did a lot of gallery-type stuff.
I also was part of the FirstFriday here for about 25, it
(29:15):
would be two years.
I was part of the First Friday,every first Friday of the month
, displaying my artwork andgetting to know the people in
the art community and the artcommunity.
Once again, my friends were myfriends, good people.
But there was also a lot ofpolitics, a lot of gate opening
(29:39):
type stuff that you had to knowthe right people to get through
the right gates to be able to doit.
But when it came to the bourbonindustry, the doors are open.
The people are fantastic.
You spend time with them.
You spend quality time eitherin their establishments or even
(29:59):
in their houses.
One of the things that theFrankfurt Bourbon Club meets and
I've met great people therethey offer when I come down to
stay at their houses.
You're not always taking uppeople on it, but the offer's
there.
It's kind of cool.
Now there are some bourbonclubs that actually have brick
(30:24):
and mortar and that's reallykind of a cool thing too.
We've got two of them here inCanton.
I'm trying to.
You know I've got grandkids andkids and whatnot.
So I try and do as much as Ican here in Ohio with but with
the podcast um, we got, we gotsomeone from Brazil.
(30:45):
We've got people from let's seewhere Merrick was from.
Can I see that John Edwards ison?
That's cool.
Um, we got someone like I saiduh, robinson, rob.
We got someone, like I said,robinson from Brazil.
Kind of cool.
Welcome to the podcast.
(31:05):
So the groups are really whatwould you say?
The groups that are there inthe podcast and the podcast
groups.
For instance, cleveland on theRocks, it's got its own group.
The people there do whatever upin Cleveland with Matt and
(31:25):
we've combined our people.
So when we meet and gettogether we've had tastings,
we've been up there, had events,so it's really kind of a way to
get to know people that havethe love of bourbon and whiskey
and they know how they'reresponsible.
You have a good time, thingsdon't get out of hand, you just
(31:47):
really have.
It's just a really good.
Uh, what would you say?
Social friendship group?
I mean, it's just, it's.
It's the definition of livinglife good, it's entertaining,
you have good times.
(32:08):
So, the Scotchy Bourbon Boysthis past we have our annual bus
tour, we have our Christmasparty and then we also had a
tasting in last year and we'llprobably have the Crystal Glen
Caring Club this year andanother bourbon tasting and with
you know, with that it's just Igot to do the tastings for the
(32:33):
group because I just have somuch whiskey I like to share it.
It's no, if I don't do thetastings, nobody's going to
drink this.
I've tasted most of everythingI have and you know that's just
how.
That's how it's going.
So the groups also.
In my opinion, with the adventof facebook, this is when you
(32:53):
look at the bourbon boom, thereal bourbon boom it coincides
with facebook.
People at first first wereselling whiskey on Facebook till
Facebook cracked down on it,and there still is.
Everybody was cracking downbecause it's illegal to sell.
But that was the first thingwhen everybody started talking
and they were talking andselling and doing this and what,
(33:14):
and then the crackdown happenedand then everybody was
belonging to the groups.
Everybody started doing it morelegally as far as getting their
barrel picks to their membersand that type of thing.
So it's really kind of cool andI really think the societies
have always been there.
The clubs probably have tripledsince the bourbon boom and the
(33:38):
bourbon groups it's insane.
It's across the whole world, sothere's thousands upon
thousands of bourbon groups.
So the first thing I do, ifyou're getting into bourbon, the
first thing I do is find abourbon group near you and start
meeting people and sharing yourwhiskey and bourbon experiences
.
That's just how bourbon groupsyou know the importance of
(34:01):
bourbon groups coming up.
Now I do believe I have 109.
All right, let's see.
Let's just see.
I have the groups OHLQ, I mean,on the OHLQ website.
They actually have on thewebsite.
(34:21):
They have a thing that wasApril of 18 of 20.
I need to get on the website ofthe OHLQ Spirit Societies in
Ohio the Whiskey Girls of ErieShores, central Ohio Whiskey
Society, ohio Rum Society,bourbon Women and Whiskey Women
(34:44):
Fisher Wine and Spirits ProofSocial Club formed by the Grand
MBA Ohio State University.
Bourbon Club of North CentralOhio.
Even the state of Ohiorecognizes the importance of the
bourbon clubs and so they'rehuge and they are 100% behind
(35:09):
this power whiskey comeback andthen also, as they say, the
whiskey boom.
100% is through the groups and100% you have to.
If you haven't yet, you need tojoin our group.
Our group is the ScotchyBourbon Boys.
(35:32):
You can find that page onFacebook and also the group.
But the group is vetted and weare 2,000 strong and when you
join our group you're probably agood chance not going to get
spammed.
Now, my Jeffrey Mueller.
I try and vet the most as I can, but I have 5,000 friends now
(35:54):
and 52,000, 53,000, 52,000followers, so I can't vet that
the same way.
But if anybody spams it, I seeit, delete it and block that
person almost immediately.
So it's a little bit differentexperience if you join the
Scotchy Bourbon Boys.
But any group that I shared totonight and I mentioned already
(36:18):
is a good group to join.
I, I, I belong to, many, manyto, and we appreciate everybody
who allows us to um promotewhiskey within their groups.
Um, that's what we do.
We were, that's what we'reabout.
All right, so anyways, ifanybody has any, they're
(36:41):
available and what you make ofthem, yeah, if anybody has any
questions, throw it up there onFacebook or YouTube about groups
.
I am going to start thissurprise bourbon bottle
(37:03):
breakdown, the Old LouisvilleBourbon Bottle Breakdown,
brought to you by the OldLouisville Whiskey Company in
Louisville, kentucky.
Old Louisville Amin does agreat job down there.
He basically books byappointment, but if you're in
(37:25):
the Louisville area, oldLouisville Whiskey Company is a
must stop.
Fantastic, he doesn't sellanything under seven years, so
all of his whiskey is sevenyears or older.
Very similar to what MarkCarter does with Old Carter.
Very similar to what MarkCarter does with old Carter.
So that brings us to the bourbonbottle breakdown rating system.
(37:50):
It consists of four differentcategories.
One is nose or aroma, two isbody, three is taste and four is
finish.
Each category has an assignedamount of knocks.
The nose and the body can getup to four knocks, and the taste
(38:19):
and the finish can get up tofive.
But if you like an exceptionalcategory, exceptionally, you can
add an extra to one category, aba-da-ba for a total of 19 out
of 18 for a perfect bourbon.
(38:39):
19 out of 18 for a perfectbourbon.
So here we go with the oldLouisville Whiskey Company's
barrel bottle breakdown ofRussell's Reserve, 15-year-old,
courtesy of Walker Cyrus, who isthere right now.
Thank you so much, walker.
I covet this bottle.
(39:00):
It's fantastic.
It's been open for a little bit, walker, let's just go over a
little bit of a story about this.
Walker, when he got this and wesaw each other, probably I would
say it was I want to sayFebruary.
Was it February?
(39:21):
Yes, I believe so.
No, say February.
Was it February?
Yes, I believe so.
No, not February.
It was March when we did theJack Daniels thing, we came down
I saw Walker and he broughtthis bottle for us, for me to
taste, and then said that heneeded it or whatever.
(39:41):
But now that he's moving heknows how much I love this
bottle and, uh, it was verygenerous to um, let me obtain
this.
And I opened this.
And the nose from a distance isso, oh my God, now the 15, I
felt when I first opened it.
(40:03):
This is a little bit.
It was a little bit oaky.
But when I saw him the nexttime and Walker was brought the
bottle and surprised me, it nowhas really opened up.
So tonight I'm tasting in myScotchy Bourbon Boys, glen Karen
(40:23):
.
If anybody's interested, justcontact me.
I can get that for you.
All right, put a little bit inthere in my Glen.
We'll put that up there next tothat in my Glen.
(40:44):
We'll put that up there next tothat.
Now, one of the things that'sgreat about these Glen Cairns is
, uh, the tulip shape with thebottom.
You don't have to heat up, youhold it there.
You look at your whiskey Uh,you can tell viscosity on the
glass.
Uh, ct loves to take it and dospinning.
I am not a spinner.
But well, maybe I am.
(41:04):
Look at that, I got it going.
Wow, that's the first time Ithink I ever got a really good
spin.
All right, so the nose isfantastic and if you put the
glint on the side and you canroll it on with the right amount
, you can't overfill it, but youcan roll it on the actual,
(41:29):
which coats the whole glass.
Come on back here and then whenyou hold it up, you can see
what the legs do.
This particular one isbasically wow, long, thick legs.
It doesn't take long for thatto drop in.
Beautiful.
(41:49):
It's weird.
It's sticking to other partsand doing some, but what it did
on the inside of the glass isit's just got big, long, the
full length, dropping back downinto the pool of sunshine as the
whiskey.
(42:11):
What was I forget?
Jeff Schwartz is the whiskeyadvocate.
I think he's a whiskey advocate.
Yep, he does a nice piece.
He critiques bourbons, alongwith Michael Veach on the
Scotchy Bourbon Boys.
But so the viscosity on this ofcoating the glass tells you
(42:32):
that it's going to have a prettygood body.
Now I've had a little bit of theOld Forrester 117 series, so
that's good.
So this won't have a palateshock, but the nose is caramel.
There's a little bit of the Imean, what is it?
There's cherry too.
(42:56):
Caramel and and cherry.
Oh my god, is that good?
Both nostrils are workingtonight.
That's one of the first timesI've had both.
You have a dominant nostril alot of times, but right now it's
both nostrils and that nose isfan-freaking-tastic.
(43:20):
That nose is fantastic.
Now, the proof on this is barrelstrength, but it's non-chill
filtered.
This was a 2024 release.
(43:42):
Where is the proof?
I don't know why I don't haveany glasses tonight.
I should have a pair.
Nope, empty, empty.
I'm trying to find out.
Nope, let's see what our proofis.
Let's see what our proof is 100.
(44:18):
I want to say 117, one 17.2.
All right, let's just.
Can I get it in some betterlight?
Let's see, oh, I could do this.
Oh, we'll do it.
No, that's too far.
(44:39):
Nope, you're not going to.
Let me do that All right.
We won't do it.
No, that's too far.
Nope, you're not going to.
Let me do that All right.
Uh, we won't do it.
I want to say it's crazy.
Come on, I usually have that'snuts.
(45:04):
Uh, let's see, what about alight?
Well, let's just get into somebetter light right here.
I'm gonna see, check that out.
I really 117.2.
(45:24):
I'll go with that.
It's just so dumb.
Very good, it definitely has abig body.
So that was it, walker, youguys and Randy.
(45:47):
It was 117.2.
Just the wow Big caramel finish.
Wow, that is delicious.
Thank you, walker.
Um, all right, there's twoareas I could give this.
(46:11):
There's two areas of, but up, up, and I might pull that out.
Because pull that out?
Because all I want to do issmell this.
There's a root beer, there's asometimes a little root beer,
there's some cherry and caramel,along with a little bit of char
(46:33):
, the perfect amount of ethanol,like.
I could smell this all day.
I could just smell this.
It's right up there with myfavorite thing.
All right, so we're going to gowith the nose, which you can
(46:54):
give up to four.
I am going to give it a four.
I am going to give it a four.
One, two, three, four With a,with a ba-dup-up Five, five out
(47:17):
of four.
That nose is fantastic.
The body five out of four.
That nose is fantastic.
The body it goes everywherecheeks, under the tongue, top of
the tongue, mouth, full, fully.
It starts off with the, thetaste, his caramel and vanilla
(47:55):
at the front palate and thenwhen you hit the back palate,
you get a nice oaky char flavorbut then the great hug
throughout with a nice littlepepper spice, but the vanilla
and the caramel and the littlebit maybe cherry in the back
(48:18):
left-hand part of my tongue.
I have to give the body a four.
One, two, three, four.
So we're looking at four, nine,whatever?
Now the taste, with the vanillaup front and the caramel, it's
(48:45):
taste is five out of five.
This one one, two, three, four,five.
So we're looking at five out offive on the taste.
(49:05):
So we're now coming to thefinish.
Look at the, the legs in thatglass.
It's like God.
They're just so long and drippy, just right there.
(49:27):
There it is.
You can see them.
All right, I'm going to givethat friend's share.
Lord knows share, lord knows.
(50:15):
The finish is caramel and thena little bit of oak.
Yeah, it's a five.
One, two, three, four, five,five out of.
So that's a 19 out of 18.
That's a perfect whiskey.
I.
I was thinking I was going togive it the finish, but the
finish is a five, fantastic, 117proof.
Um, I, I think if you like alittle bit of oak and char on
your whiskey, a little bit ofpepper spice, but you also want
the flavor to come through, thisis the epitome of a really,
(50:38):
really a well-aged bourbon, Iwould say, compared to pappy,
pappy van winkle, 15 year, whichis fantastic, but pappy van
winkle doesn't have the spice,nor does it have uh.
It doesn't have the spice andit doesn't have, uh, the little
(50:58):
bit of the barrel and charUsually.
Usually I love Pappy Van Winkle, 15 year.
I love the caramel.
It's just so rich.
But this is more of a whiskeyand aged whiskey lovers Whiskey.
This is something that I wouldlove to smoke.
If you to smoke a cigar with, Iwill smoke a cigar with it.
(51:22):
But this is something that yousave to share with people.
And thank you so much, walker,for that perfect bottle.
It was not a 19 out of 18 whenyou first crack it.
So if anybody has this bottle,I would strongly suggest
cracking it and let it sip for awhile, because what happened to
(51:44):
it over the last couple monthsis spectacular.
So there we are on the Russell's15.
I love the Russell's 13.
Actually, I'm going to put in alittle bit of 13 in my glass
and see what the difference is.
Russell's 13, the first one wascaramelly.
(52:04):
It doesn't have that dusty inthere.
Now let's see what Russell's 13does.
I just love these.
I was able to get this on myown, so I was very happy about
that.
All right, let's see.
(52:26):
Let's see.
Not, as there's a lot morecaramel vanilla on the nose.
That's like a caramel apple Notas perfect, but that's really
(52:56):
good.
I love Russell's 13 and 15.
Some of my the Russell Russell13 first batch was phenomenal,
but that would make sense.
Both are very good.
(53:16):
All right, guys, we are going towrap it up for now on our audio
.
I am going to finish this off.
People on Facebook and onYouTube, you can stick around a
little bit longer.
I'm going to be on like I tryto be on like 15, 15 minutes.
(53:39):
Afterwards invite some peopleto come on with us.
So we'll end this right now andthe way that we end it is
wwwscotchiebourbonboyscom Forall things Scotchie Bourbon Boys
t-shirts, glens, check us out.
There's bios and everything.
And also, remember, we're onFacebook, instagram, youtube and
(54:02):
X and also on all the majorpodcast audio formats of Apple.
I heart Spotify, deezer, I mean.
Wherever you listen, we'rethere.
But remember, whether youlisten or watch, make sure you
like, listen, comment, likelisten, comment, subscribe and
(54:25):
leave good feedback.
And remember good bourbonequals good times and good
friends.
Remember, drink responsibly anddon't drink and drive and live
your life uncut and unfiltered.
Little Steve-O is going to takeus out and, on a note on that,
(54:49):
I keep winning the melodychallenge on YouTube that Little
Steve-O will keep singing andtaking us out.
Thank you, steve, for doingthis for us.
Are we there?
Let's see if I can get it to go.
(55:13):
There we go.
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