Podcast Transcription
| Dan: | Episode 237 on a very frosty morning in Omaha, Nebraska. The cold temperatures have finally hit. I was okay with thirties and forties, but we were going to have to deal with subzero temperatures eventually, and I guess we’re getting there. |
| Although, I guess there’s a heatwave later this week. So, by the time this publishes, we’re going to be back into this thirties. | |
| Matt: | Yay. |
| Dan: | Regular season for the NFL has wrapped up. Coaching firings have begun. Yeah. Packers lost a nail-biter to the Bears for the first time in, like, what? 15 games. |
| Matt: | Something like that. It was silly. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | Absolutely silly. Chiefs threw their game. |
| Dan: | Yeah. They did the NFL a favor. |
| Matt: | Oh, threw it. Threw it right in the garbage can. |
| Dan: | Yeah. Although, I didn’t quite realize that had the Chiefs won that game, and the Jets lost- |
| Chris: | Jets won. |
| Dan: | Oh, yeah. |
| Matt: | The Jets beat Miami. |
| Dan: | Miami needed to win, which that didn’t happen too. So, Miami, obviously, threw that game. |
| Chris: | No. Miami tried to win, because they … Actually, it was really funny, because they threw up the score for the Broncos and Chiefs game at that stadium. And then they’re playing the Jets. So, in hoping that the Dolphins players would see that, and they would be like, “Ah,” because they needed the Broncos to lose, or tie, if the Bengals would have lost against Pittsburgh, but, yeah. It’s interesting. |
| Dan: | Miami? |
| Chris: | Yeah. If they would have won- |
| Dan: | Miami’s in. |
| Chris: | If they would have won, and Broncos would have lost. |
| Dan: | Well, what I was getting at was that a Cincinnati Bengals, Buffalo Bills matchup would have been fun to watch. |
| Chris: | It would have been Cincinnati Bengals, and, yeah, Buffalo Bills. Yeah. It would have been good. |
| Dan: | That’d have been fun. Now it’s Denver- |
| Chris: | Versus Cinci. |
| Dan: | Nail-biter on the Packers game, though, and any word on Jordan Love as of Monday morning when we record? |
| Matt: | Not that I have heard, but I haven’t really looked. He screwed up his elbow. |
| Dan: | Yeah. Something to do with it … It, like, tore a tendon. There was something where he couldn’t grip the ball. |
| Matt: | Yeah. Evan was over-speculating, and- |
| Dan: | Evan was also keeping his phone handy for being called into that game. |
| Matt: | There was a chance, because the backup backup came in, and played three plays, and hurt himself too. |
| Dan: | He got hurt. Yeah. Evan was going around The Pub on Sunday asking people if they were going to go up to Green Bay and play. |
| Matt: | He asked me. And I said- |
| Dan: | He asked Dan Whaley his eligibility, and that’s when Dan informed him, “Well, it’s pro. I don’t need eligibility.” |
| Matt: | It’s true. |
| Dan: | Anyways, Matt, how was your weekend? |
| Matt: | It was pretty uneventful. It was nice. |
| Dan: | Are you done with all the holiday stuff? Christmases? |
| Matt: | Yes. Thank God. |
| Dan: | Yeah? |
| Matt: | Worked Friday. Saturday, I left the house long enough to go get lunch, and then I went right back home, watched some TV, watched some movies. |
| Dan: | It was a really good weekend to just hibernate. |
| Matt: | Yeah. Just do nothing. That was all, and then yesterday, I came up here, caught the end of the Green Bay game. I did not have a taco. |
| Dan: | You didn’t? |
| Matt: | No. I did not. |
| Dan: | I was almost going to go back for seconds, and get tortilla chips and taco meat. |
| Matt: | That’d have been good. |
| Dan: | I decided to- |
| Matt: | Some nacho action? |
| Dan: | I decided to not be a total pig. |
| Matt: | When I finally decided I wanted a taco, the meat was gone. |
| Dan: | Oh, really? |
| Matt: | So, I just had another piece of pizza. |
| Dan: | Yeah. There wasn’t enough meat, which was surprising- |
| Matt: | Yeah. I had- |
| Dan: | … because, usually, we have leftovers of stuff. |
| Matt: | Yes. I had fun at the gift exchange, the whit elephant thing. |
| Dan: | What’d you get? |
| Matt: | I wound up with a ring toss game, and a card game that is called These Cards Will Get You Drunk. |
| Dan: | Nice. |
| Matt: | So, I think Troy was the big winner with the autographed Buster Douglas boxing glove. |
| Dan: | Yes. He was. |
| Matt: | I was a little disappointed. |
| Dan: | Miller brought that. |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | And he even let it slip that his gift was probably over the maximum. |
| Matt: | eBay, it’s on for $65 right now. |
| Dan: | Wow. Now I thought there was something … Like, is Buster Douglas an actual boxer? |
| Matt: | Yeah. He was the first guy ever to knock out Mike Tyson. |
| Dan: | Okay. |
| Matt: | In Japan I think. |
| Dan: | Okay. That could be something. |
| Matt: | You would think if it was going to be worth something, it’d already be worth something. |
| Dan: | I thought it was an autograph by a guy that had a name similar to the boxer that knocked out Mike Tyson, but it was the actual guy. |
| Matt: | Buster Diglas. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | No. It was real deal. |
| Dan: | Nice. |
| Matt: | So, yeah. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | There was some good presents in the white elephant exchange. |
| Dan: | I got a snow globe with Copper’s picture. |
| Matt: | What a great gift. |
| Dan: | I was not giving that gift up, and it now will reside on the shelf of memories at The Library Pub. |
| Matt: | Nice. Up by topless Evan? |
| Dan: | Yup. It was going to go in my office for Taylor Computers and Repair, but it was strongly encouraged that it stay here. |
| Matt: | Well, the picture he had in there was, like, 30 years old. |
| Dan: | Yeah. Literally. When I opened it, I thought it was a picture of me, and I’m like, “How the fuck did he pull that off?” |
| Matt: | You never know with Steve. |
| Dan: | Yeah. You never know. He’s a magician. |
| Matt: | He’s a tricky Ricky. Yeah. |
| Dan: | After Sunday- |
| Matt: | Fun weekend? |
| Dan: | Yeah. Good. Mark? |
| Kevin: | All right. Cool. |
| Mark: | I yelled at Tom for making fun of the way I speak. Saturday was- |
| Dan: | Did you call him Wee Wall? |
| Mark: | … horrible, because of the snowmageddon that wasn’t. |
| Dan: | Right. |
| Mark: | Had a great day right up until about 5:30, and then nothing after that. |
| Dan: | Yeah? |
| Matt: | It was cold Saturday, though. |
| Dan: | I was thinking about this a lot over the weekend, and about the impact that that Wednesday forecast of massive amounts of snow hitting the Omaha metro area on Saturday- |
| Chris: | I just can’t believe people there still believe that. |
| Dan: | Social media is perfect for freaking people out about bad weather. Now there was plenty of forecasts Thursday, Friday, and Saturday morning that said, “It’s all going south. We’re not getting anything.” |
| But nobody wants to listen to that. They want this massive snowstorm to hit, and they probably wanted an excuse to stay home. | |
| Matt: | Well, duh. |
| Chris: | Like, here’s the thing is I understand that. I understand that part of it, but why do you need eggs? Like, why do you need eggs? |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Chris: | And toilet paper. This isn’t a government shutdown. It’s a storm that’s going to be cleared by Sunday. |
| Mark: | Worst case scenario, you’re stuck at home for- |
| Chris: | 24 hours. |
| Mark: | … 16 hours. |
| Dan: | When I was in high school, my first job was working at the Hy-Vee in Red Oak. And every major storm, it was the same thing. We would get flooded back then in the late ’90s, early 2000s, and it’s got to be leftover from when there was a big snowstorm like this, and you’d be locked in for days, because they didn’t have the technology, or the manpower, or the ability to clear the streets. And now- |
| Dan: | In 1972, there was a 16 inch snowstorm, and we were snowed in for, like, four days. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Mark: | The way they- |
| Dan: | And that’s what everyone’s worried about now. |
| Matt: | I’m not. |
| Mark: | I live in Papillion. One snowflake, they’ve got a plow in front of my house waiting. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Mark: | They say, “Thank you for your $8000 in taxes for this year. We’ll make sure your roads are clean.” |
| Dan: | Yeah. Crazy. So, Saturday was horrible. Sunday better? |
| Mark: | Sunday night was slow, but it always is. |
| Dan: | Yeah. It can be. Anything else? Creighton. Sorry. I forgot that they lost when I brought that up. |
| Mark: | Lost on Friday to Marquette, play tonight I believe. |
| Matt: | Yeah. Creighton really struggled on Friday. |
| Dan: | Man, they’re not having a good year. Are they having a good year? |
| Mark: | Well, they beat the number one team in the country. |
| Matt: | They had a good game. |
| Dan: | Yeah. They had a good game. |
| Matt: | A good game. |
| Mark: | But the Big East is down all the way around. |
| Dan: | Okay. |
| Chris: | They beat UCLA. Right? No. Who did they play? No. That was- |
| Matt: | They beat Kansas. |
| Chris: | … Nebraska. Well, right. But didn’t they- |
| Dan: | Yeah. Nebraska beat UCLA. |
| Chris: | That’s what it was. |
| Dan: | Nebraska beat UCLA. |
| Chris: | Who did Creighton … Didn’t Creighton win? Yeah. Who’d they beat? |
| Mark: | Kansas. |
| Chris: | Yeah, but this weekend. |
| Matt: | Nobody. |
| Mark: | Nobody. |
| Dan: | No. They lost. [inaudible 00:08:53]. |
| Mark: | They lost to Marquette. |
| Matt: | Which they played them close most of the game, four ish points. |
| Chris: | Yeah. That’s what I thought. |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Chris: | I went downstairs and they were winning- |
| Matt: | Yeah. That was seven- |
| Chris: | … at halftime, or something like that. |
| Matt: | Seven minutes left, I made the call up here at the bar, it was time for Creighton to shit their pants, and they dropped a big fat load, emptied the whole stocking out at once. Just blah, blah. |
| Mark: | The problem Creighton has is they lost their point scorer named Pop Isaacs. |
| Dan: | Oh, is he out? Is he injured, or did he- |
| Mark: | Surgery on his hip. Out for the season. |
| Dan: | Ugh. |
| Matt: | Yup. That’s been a few weeks now, though. |
| Mark: | And that’s how long they’ve been playing bad. |
| Matt: | So, yeah. Like, the last good game I saw Creighton have was Kansas. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | And they looked great, and they beat the piss out of Kansas. |
| Dan: | They did. Chris, how was your weekend? |
| Chris: | It was good. Let’s see, Friday, what did I do Friday? I don’t remember what I did Friday, and it wasn’t anything of consequence. Saturday was just preparing for the Bengals game. That was really it. |
| Matt: | And snowmageddon. |
| Chris: | And snowmageddon. |
| Matt: | Just boarding up the windows. |
| Chris: | I had a two heater night in the garage. |
| Matt: | Oh, I bet. |
| Chris: | It got 75, 73 degrees. I brought it- |
| Matt: | You’re out there in shorts. |
| Chris: | It was, dude. It was perfect. I put up an extra blanket on the side of the tarp. Drew walked in, and he’s like, “Holy shit. What the hell?” And just started taking off all of his … Because it was warm. That was a fun game. That was a fun game. We did everything possible to get to the playoffs, but the Chiefs are cowards. |
| Matt: | I can’t believe they threw that game. And it was obvious. |
| Chris: | [inaudible 00:10:38]. |
| Dan: | They didn’t throw the game. |
| Chris: | They threw the game. |
| Matt: | Shit. |
| Dan: | They did what is league tradition, and when you have- |
| Chris: | Dan, it’s okay. It’s okay. You don’t need to make excuses. |
| Matt: | It’s still throwing the game. |
| Dan: | What did you do on Sunday? |
| Chris: | It was smart. It was smart. |
| Dan: | What’d you do on Sunday? |
| Chris: | I went to church, and played Golf With Friends, with Howie, and just did nothing. Waited to find out. |
| Dan: | Golf? |
| Chris: | Golf With Friends. It’s a game. |
| Dan: | Oh. |
| Chris: | On Xbox. |
| Dan: | Oh, okay. |
| Matt: | Yeah. Okay. |
| Chris: | Yeah. It was fun. |
| Matt: | I play Golf With Friends when it’s warm out. |
| Chris: | Yup. |
| Matt: | At the golf course. |
| Dan: | I was like, “It’s one of the coldest days that we’ve had all season, and you’re golfing with friends.” |
| Chris: | No. Golf. Yeah. It’s definitely a video game- |
| Dan: | Evan even didn’t want to do that. |
| Matt: | I don’t like to golf when it’s cold. |
| Dan: | I didn’t really have an eventful weekend. I fixed a bunch of computers, cleaned the house. I definitely donated … I think we donated, like, nine totes of stuff to the Goodwill. |
| Matt: | Jesus. |
| Dan: | That were just sitting around the house. Like, Sarah kept … I was like, “Let’s just take a trip to the Goodwill, and just get rid of some stuff.” Sarah kept bringing all these totes, and I’m like, “Holy shit. I didn’t even realize all this stuff was laying around.” |
| Matt: | This was, like, clothes, or- |
| Dan: | Clothes, and- |
| Matt: | … house goods? |
| Dan: | Yeah. Her mom gave her all of her, her sister, and her brother’s baby clothes. |
| Matt: | Oh, God. |
| Dan: | Like, years ago. And Sarah’s been like, “I don’t want these. They’re from the ’70s …” Well, not the ’70s. They’re from the ’80s. |
| Mark: | Oh my God. |
| Dan: | Well, I was joking, I was like, “It’s probably got asbestos in it.” Because everything back then had asbestos in it. So, we just donated a bunch of that, pillows, blankets. For some reason, we had 15 blankets laying around, even though, we only use two- |
| Matt: | Two. Yeah. Maybe one for Piper. |
| Dan: | Yeah. So, we did a big donation to the Goodwill, and then made up some steaks on Saturday night. |
| Matt: | Nice. |
| Dan: | I’ve been craving steak so bad. But I went cheap. |
| Matt: | Sirloins? |
| Dan: | They were rib eyes, but they were real thin. I like the thicker rib eyes that you can give a nice sear to. |
| Matt: | Oh, yeah. |
| Dan: | Medium-rare. Nice pink in the middle. These, you put them on the cast iron, and they’re- |
| Matt: | Put them on, flip them over, take them out. |
| Dan: | … brown the whole way through. |
| Matt: | Oh, well. What can you do? |
| Dan: | Yeah. Then I bartended on Sunday, and had a good day on Sunday, and six weeks in a row. Six weeks. |
| Matt: | Some would call that a streak. |
| Dan: | I got home last night exhausted. We turned on the first Dune. |
| Matt: | Never seen it. |
| Dan: | Started watching that. I keep calling it the original. It’s the one that- |
| Matt: | I’ve never seen any of them. |
| Dan: | It’s so good. And we watched the second Dune I think Saturday night. So, we did it backwards. But the point of the story was after I got done watching it, I was in that point where I was like, “I could probably go in the bedroom, and lay there for an hour, and fall asleep,” but I needed to go downstairs and work on computers. |
| Matt: | Three in the morning happened? |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | Oh, man. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | I woke up this morning and the original Twilight Zone movie from 1983 was on with John Lithgow and a lot of big names. [inaudible 00:13:50]. |
| Chris: | So, the episode where they go in to the little girl’s house where she doesn’t have a mouth. That still freaks me out, dude. That still freaks me out, that episode. |
| Matt: | But this was the movie. So, it’s like, four, episodes. |
| Chris: | Yeah. It’s four episodes. Isn’t that one of them, though? |
| Matt: | I don’t know. |
| Chris: | I feel like that’s one of them. |
| Matt: | I woke up, and it was the John Lithgow on the airplane with the little- |
| Chris: | The plane with the gremlin. |
| Matt: | … gremlin out on the wing, and he’s freaking out, and then Dan Akroyd pops up at the end. |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | “Let’s listen to some music.” |
| Chris: | Dude, he was really … John Lithgow was really good. Like, you really believed- |
| Dan: | Is he gone? Did he die? |
| Chris: | No. He’s still alive. |
| Matt: | Oh, he’s a great actor. |
| Chris: | Dude, you believed that he freaking was seeing gremlins out there, like, the way that he was acting in that. |
| Matt: | “Did we lose engine one? Tell me. Did we lose engine one?” |
| Dan: | Yeah. I like John Lithgow. He’s a really good actor. |
| Mark: | Hey, Dan. |
| Dan: | Hey, Mark. |
| Mark: | Sitting next to me I have some very good scotch. |
| Dan: | Well, let’s get it in my mouth. |
| Matt: | Wow. |
| Mark: | I’ll put it in your mouth. |
| Dan: | That a boy. He’s frisky finally. |
| Matt: | Just tee it up for him. |
| Dan: | I’ve been teeing it up for weeks, and he hasn’t taken advantage of it. |
| Matt: | Ha. |
| Dan: | Well? |
GlenAllachie 35
| Matt: | Mark, what do you want to do first? |
| Mark: | Sorry? The short one. |
| Dan: | I was just telling somebody about this today. |
| Mark: | This is a GlenAllachie 35. |
| Dan: | Thank you for doing this one first, by the way. I want a very pure palette. |
| Mark: | This whisky was distilled on June 7th, 1989. |
| Dan: | This whisky is older than my girlfriend. |
| Mark: | Aged in … Dan, are you ready? |
| Dan: | Yes, sir. |
| Mark: | Pedro Ximénez- |
| Dan: | Oh, he’s on it today. |
| Mark: | … Hogshead, and this is how proud they are of this, I have the website up, they give me the Hogshead numbers. So, if you want to know if it was Hogshead 5896, 5897, and 5898. |
| Dan: | $100 a pour? |
| Matt: | $125 an ounce. |
| Mark: | All-in, it was $1597, my cost. |
| Chris: | How much was it again? |
| Mark: | 1597 |
| Dan: | Was there a split case fee on there, or was it a single bottle? |
| Mark: | It got drop shipped here from GlenAllachie. |
| Dan: | Ooh. |
| Mark: | Now the seller got their commission, but it never even went through their warehouse. |
| Dan: | Really? See, I thought there was a state law where it had to sit at the distributor’s warehouse for a certain amount of time. |
| Mark: | No. I think the paperwork has to go through the warehouse. |
| Dan: | Okay. |
| Mark: | Because I don’t think that … What’s the new liquor store? |
| Dan: | Total Wine. |
| Mark: | I don’t think Total Wine goes and picks up their own shit from- |
| Dan: | Nope. They pay for delivery. |
| Mark: | But I don’t think it all comes through there. I think Total Wine, because a lot of the stuff in Total Wine is their custom label stuff. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Mark: | So, I would assume they have a warehouse somewhere, and they ship it to this store. But the paperwork goes through the- |
| Dan: | Yeah. Chris, any insight on this? |
| Chris: | Nope. |
| Dan: | Do you know of any laws? Because TJ was telling me that there’s … We’ve done some rush stuff where there was a case of their IPA cans that TJ brought … It was on a Friday delivery, TJ brought it up Friday morning, and this could be beer, but he brought it up Friday morning. He had to sit in the warehouse I think he said for, like, 10 minutes, and then he could hand the paperwork to the receiving person who could then process it, and then he drove it out to my client for me. |
| Matt: | Which sitting in one of the warehouse for 10 minutes is not hard to do. |
| Dan: | Right. Right. [inaudible 00:18:25]. |
| Matt: | It comes in a really nice box. |
| Dan: | It comes in a beautiful box that they could have dropped the price by probably $200. |
| Matt: | Oh, yeah. This is solid wood. It comes with a fun little book. |
| Dan: | I had to have Dan Whaley read it, because it’s in cursive. |
| Matt: | Because it’s cursive. |
| Dan: | Yeah. And I got through the first most of the line, but then after that, I couldn’t suss out one of the words. |
| Matt: | We did sit here on New Year’s with a 21 year old, and had her try to write different cursive letters on New Year’s, which that was fun. The Q was the toughest one. |
| Dan: | That is a tough one, because of the- |
| Matt: | It’s like a weird two. |
| Dan: | Yeah. Mark, anything else on this? |
| Mark: | It’s good. Oh, and it was also aged in Pedro Ximénez, and then finished in rum, and virgin oak casks. A load of cinnamon on the palette. |
| Dan: | Holy shit. Sorry. I didn’t expect this. Mark, did you want to continue? |
| Mark: | No. Go ahead. What? |
| Dan: | My curiosity was I’ve always known that in Kentucky, the angel’s share, the amount of volume that is lost per year is right around 7%. |
| Matt: | To evaporation. Yeah. |
| Dan: | Correct. Which is huge. A 55 gallon barrel, you’re losing 7% every year. |
| Matt: | Every year. |
| Dan: | In Scotland, a 20 year spirit will lose approximately 40% volume. |
| Chris: | Jeez. |
| Matt: | Over the course of the years. |
| Dan: | Over the course of the years. Correct. |
| Matt: | They lose- |
| Dan: | Which it’s diminishing amounts. |
| Matt: | … 3.5% to 6%. |
| Dan: | Yeah. You’re right on. This says typically 2% to 5%. So, you’re right on. Again, I felt the need to correct you, even though, you were pretty much right on. |
| Matt: | That’s fine. |
| Dan: | I’m working on that for this year. |
| Matt: | Is that your New Year’s resolution? |
| Dan: | It’s one of my couple. Yeah. I got some things I got to work on. |
| Chris: | What else? What else? What else are you working on, Dan? |
| Dan: | I’m trying to be less vindictive. |
| Matt: | So, less of a smart-ass? |
| Dan: | No. No. I’m definitely not trying to be less of a smart-ass. I’m just trying to be less vindictive. When somebody does something that I don’t like, I need to stop and analyze it, and decide, “Is it worth my emotional state to get them back?” |
| Matt: | To get them back. |
| Dan: | In one way, or another. |
| Matt: | To shoot them. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Chris: | It’s not worth it. |
| Dan: | It’s not. Absolutely. So, I just have to … Sometimes- |
| Mark: | That is so good. |
| Dan: | All right. So, anyways, 40% loss over 20 years. And this is a 35. Hey, Kev. |
| Chris: | Cool. |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | This is really fucking good. Now here’s the issue. |
| Chris: | Yup. This is being set aside. |
| Dan: | The issue that a lot of people are going to run into is $125 is a lot. |
| Mark: | Yes. |
| Dan: | I’m not saying you’re overcharging. I think you’re spot on. Because it’s a 700 ml bottle. You’re going to get, what? 23 pours out of it. 22? |
| Mark: | Well, now 21. |
| Dan: | So, on a $1600 bottle, you’ve got to make your money back, and there’s not a lot of profit on $125. And it’s going to sit on the shelf for probably a year. |
| Mark: | Oh, more than that. |
| Dan: | Maybe a couple. The way it’s going right now. |
| Mark: | Kev. |
| Kevin: | [inaudible 00:22:26]. |
Balvenie Cask & Character 19 Years Old
| Dan: | All right. So, scotch number two. |
| Matt: | Oh, we don’t have to jump right to it. We can enjoy this first one for a second. |
| Chris: | I’m sitting there- |
| Dan: | I’m taking Chris’ turn. I’m going to enjoy it at the end. |
| Chris: | Yeah. It’s probably at the end. We’re going to see how Balvenie goes against it, because I feel like I’m going to set that one aside too. |
| Dan: | You’d think after 237 episodes I’d figure out how to spell some of these scotches. |
| Matt: | Nah. |
| Mark: | B-A-L-V-E-I [inaudible 00:23:05] I-E. |
| Dan: | Oh. Oh. |
| Matt: | V-E-N-I-E. B-A-L-V-E-N-I-E. |
| Dan: | I believe it was- |
| Chris: | My balls are veiny. Oh, wait. |
| Matt: | That’s not going to help you spell it. Just when you’re- |
| Chris: | Nothing? Nothing? |
| Matt: | Just when you get your brain. |
| Chris: | [inaudible 00:23:34]. Nothing? Nothing? Come on. Nobody said it except for me? |
| Matt: | No. |
| Dan: | Oh, a 19 year. |
| Matt: | I don’t know what to say. |
| Dan: | A revelation of cask and characters. |
| Mark: | This is a one and done in their cask and character line. It is the first spirit from the new head distiller, Dave Stewart. It is Oloroso sherry. |
| Dan: | For some reason, I was expecting more of a nose. Is that crazy of me? Because the older stuff is usually more timid. Right? |
| Chris: | This is, like, salty. There’s, like, a brininess to it on my nose. |
| Dan: | I get a salty caramel on the GlenAllachie. |
| Chris: | Really? Yeah. This is a salinity, like, a salinity almost. |
| Matt: | I get a rickhouse funk. |
| Chris: | Yeah? |
| Dan: | That’s an interesting description. |
| Matt: | Like, the way a rickhouse smells. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | I get that on the nose. |
| Dan: | Pretty spot-on. But not bad. |
| Chris: | That was very light. |
| Matt: | Which Balvenie, I don’t think they put anything bad out except for their peat wheat that they put out, like, once every four, or five years. |
| Dan: | Damn it. |
| Mark: | As all sherry finish scotches, it’s very fruity. |
| Matt: | I get a bread, like, a bready … That’s pretty good. |
| Chris: | Yeah. There is that rickhouse funk, but there is an earthiness, like, dirt, salinity, something. I know that I’m probably saying the wrong thing here, but that’s what my nose is getting. |
| Matt: | I think that Balvenie is a really easy drinker. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Mark: | And it’s way cheaper. |
| Dan: | $45 an ounce? |
| Matt: | Yes. Yeah. The bottle’s way cheaper than the GlenAllachie, but it’s still not a cheap bottle. |
| Dan: | Nope. It’s a Balvenie. |
| Mark: | I think it’s just shy of $400, our cost. |
| Matt: | Something like that. |
| Dan: | All right. Two for two. Good way to start the season, Mark. By the way, I’m just reading through ESPN, apparently, Rex Ryan is the leading candidate for the Jets’ head coaching job. |
| Chris: | What? Didn’t he already have that job? Yeah. Wasn’t he the coach of them? I feel like he was the coach of them. Wow. I wonder how him and Aaron Rodgers, if Aaron … Oh. |
| Matt: | Aaron Rodgers is leaving. |
| Dan: | The headline was, “If I’m the head coach of the Jets, I’m ending Aaron Rodgers’ country club.” |
| Matt: | Sweet. I can dig it. |
| Chris: | Oh, Rex Ryan. |
| Matt: | And I’m not mad at him for it. Someone needs to knock him back down a peg. |
| Dan: | He had the season I expect out of a guy who sat for a season. |
| Matt: | Terrible. |
| Dan: | I think even Peyton Manning had a tough … It wasn’t this bad, but he had a tough reentry after his season off. Tom Brady had a tough- |
| Matt: | Yeah, but Peyton Manning broke his neck. |
| Dan: | He just tore it. |
| Matt: | “I just tore my neck.” |
| Dan: | That giant fucking neck of his. |
| Matt: | It’s carrying that big-ass head. |
| Dan: | Give me more. |
| Matt: | Nice, easy drinker. I will, for $45, I’ll give you an ounce. |
| Dan: | Thank you. I’ll get back to you on that. Matt? |
| Matt: | Dan. |
Heaven Hill Grain to Glass Straight Bourbon
| Dan: | Heaven Hill. |
| Matt: | This is the newest Heaven Hill’s that we’ve gotten. This is from their Grain to Glass Series, which I screwed up, and put it in the computer as grain to table. I fixed it. |
| Dan: | Oh, this is their … Sorry. Tell me what it is before I ask you. |
| Matt: | Which the Grain to Glass is they go through, and they select certain grains for each respective release, which we’ve got the wheated, which the bottle is almost gone, we’ve got the straight bourbon, and we’ve got a rye. |
| Dan: | Duggard was definitely enjoying the wheated yesterday. |
| Matt: | The wheated is really nice. |
| Dan: | And this is the straight bourbon? |
| Matt: | This is the straight bourbon. It’s aged six years in rickhouse W3, and they used a special strain of corn called Beck’s 6158. And it’s all done on property at Heaven Hill. |
| Dan: | What rickhouse was it again? W- |
| Matt: | W3. |
| Dan: | Do you think there’s anybody, anybody in this world that would utilize that information? Like, to say, “I had that Heaven Hill Grain to Glass out of rickhouse W3, and then I had this other one out of W3, and it just ages things a little bit different.” |
| Chris: | Yes. |
| Dan: | Yeah? |
| Matt: | Probably. There’s some dorks out there that do shit like that. |
| Dan: | Just checking. |
| Chris: | 100%. |
| Dan: | Okay. |
| Chris: | 100%. |
| Dan: | Okay. |
| Chris: | There’s people that get- |
| Dan: | I was undecided. |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | I asked the committee. |
| Chris: | Yup. |
| Dan: | I believe you. |
| Chris: | I feel like passions like that can get real nerdy. |
| Matt: | Oh, yeah. |
| Chris: | Real, real nerdy. |
| Matt: | Well, it’s- |
| Chris: | “What temperature was it when they did it?” |
| Matt: | It’s like people- |
| Chris: | “What was the temperature outside?” |
| Mark: | “What level of the rickhouse was it on? Was it at the top, or the bottom? What month?” |
| Chris: | “And what day? Because if it was even, that’s different.” |
| Dan: | I would love to have that much time in my life to dedicate that much time to something. |
| Matt: | The mash bill on this is 35% rye, 52% corn, and 13% malted barley. |
| Chris: | Holy sweet. I was not prepared for that. |
| Matt: | $70 to $80 a bottle. |
| Chris: | I like that cork. |
| Dan: | That’s a good price on the bottle. |
| Matt: | Which I’m a big fan of the Heaven Hills stuff just in general. |
| Chris: | Very acidic. Man, that makes my water mouth. |
| Dan: | Yeah. It almost makes his tight tongue. |
| Chris: | My mouth water this that … |
| Matt: | Lots of cherry. It’s old-fashion-y. |
| Dan: | That’s what I’m getting. Very cherry- |
| Matt: | I like this. |
| Dan: | This is really good. |
| Chris: | It’s very not in a bad way, because it’s condensed with flavor, but it’s very thin. It has a very light viscous- |
| Matt: | Viscosity? |
| Chris: | … mouth feel. |
| Matt: | But, no. I’m a big fan of all the Heaven Hills stuff. I wish it was more readily available. |
| Dan: | Quite a bit of this bottle left. Like you said, the wheated is disappearing quickly. |
| Matt: | And I don’t think the rye has even been opened yet. |
| Dan: | No? I’m going to try that rye next then. I’m on a rye kick lately. So, maybe after lunch. |
| Matt: | There you go. |
| Dan: | Heaven Hill, Grain to Glass- |
| Matt: | Grain to Glass. |
| Dan: | … straight bourbon. This was out of, again, the W3 rickhouse, in case you were keeping track on your charts at home. |
| Matt: | And it’s Beck’s corn 6158 si the special corn they used. |
| Dan: | That was Matt’s whisky. Now for our unopened treasure of the week. This is a bottle sitting around Library Pub that could have just gotten in, it could have been sitting there for years, and we’ve decided to open up, give it a shot, and see what we think. |
| Matt: | So, this one has not been sitting here for years. This one I just got last week. But I’ve been wanting to try this since I went to Mexico in 2021. I saw this in the Cancun airport. |
| Dan: | Normally, I’d like to make a joke about this, but their stuff past their factory production stuff is actually good. |
| Chris: | The Jamo. |
Jameson Triple Triple
| Matt: | So, this is the Jameson Triple Triple, which all the Jameson stuff goes through a triple distilling process. Excuse me. So, that’s not very exciting. |
| Dan: | I think is that this? |
| Matt: | Yes. |
| Dan: | Okay. Thank you. |
| Matt: | The exciting part of this is that they triple age it also. |
| Dan: | Oh. |
| Matt: | It’s 40% 80 proof. Runs about $40 a bottle. They do the second aging in bourbon casks, sherry casks, and chestnut casks. |
| Mark: | Roasting on an open fire. |
| Chris: | Jack Frost nipping at your nose. |
| Matt: | That was beautiful. |
| Dan: | Very light. Flavor profile-wise, all day long, all show long, it’s just been a little bit more tampered with each one, and this was … I’m not saying it’s bad, I’m not saying I don’t like it. I’m saying just very light. |
| Matt: | If someone told me this was Jameson, I’d call them a liar. |
| Chris: | I would agree. |
| Matt: | But it is- |
| Chris: | That’s so light. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | This is another one that can get you in trouble, because it’s not an expensive bottle, it tastes good. |
| Chris: | Agree with the extra smooth. I don’t agree with layers of flavor that they have on the bottle. Layers. I got one layer. |
| Dan: | There’s not a lot to it. |
| Matt: | I think the chestnut finish adds something funky that I don’t think I’ve ever tried before. |
| Dan: | Has anybody here roasted chestnuts on an open fire? |
| Matt: | No. |
| Mark: | No. |
| Chris: | That second sip was interesting. |
| Dan: | Mark, I expected you would have from your childhood. I want to try it. Apparently, they’re really fricking good. |
| Matt: | Chestnuts? |
| Dan: | Yeah. But they’re difficult, because they tend to pop. |
| Matt: | “Hell no, bitch. You’ve got a dick in your mouth.” |
| Dan: | I’m not sure where that came from. |
| Chris: | [inaudible 00:34:39]. |
| Matt: | Both nuts are on your chest. |
| Mark: | Matt, you’re right. Put on a movie, sit down with that on the side table, you’re not making it to the end of the movie. |
| Matt: | No. You’re probably falling asleep, or- |
| Dan: | What’s the proof? |
| Matt: | 40%. It’s a 40/80. |
| Mark: | “I don’t remember how it ended.” |
| Dan: | “I remember how I woke up, though.” |
| Matt: | This is $8 a full pour. |
| Dan: | Damn, Jameson Triple Triple. |
| Matt: | Which I saw it in the Cancun airport, and I wanted to buy it, but I didn’t want to dick with customs trying to bring stuff through. So, I didn’t pick one up. I’m glad it comes here now. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | I think it’s pretty flavorful. You’ve still got to remember, it’s Jameson. |
| Dan: | Right. It’s pretty good stuff for Jameson. I don’t know. I think that’s pretty good stuff for Irish whisky. |
| Matt: | I like it. |
| Chris: | It’s better than regular Jameson. |
| Dan: | It definitely- |
| Matt: | Much. Now it’s not quite as good as the 18 year. |
| Dan: | What’s bottle cost compared to the two? Because Jameson’s, what? |
| Matt: | Right around the same I think. Jameson’s middle thirties. |
| Dan: | Okay. That’s higher than I was expecting. You would think with something in that tier, that it’d be in the twenties, but- |
| Matt: | They’re pretty close to the same cost I think. |
| Dan: | Well, that’s what I was going to say, I think a pour of Jameson around here is- |
| Matt: | 7 |
| Dan: | How much? |
| Matt: | 7 |
| Dan: | $7? Yeah. All right. |
| Matt: | I like this. |
| Dan: | Tonight’s publish day for The Library Pubcast. Is the DOW more vertical? Featuring the Portwood, the 14 year, the 15 year, the 18 year, and then the cigar malt. $45 to start. |
| Mark: | Whoever wants to do it. |
| Dan: | Yeah. Whoever wants to do it? That seems like the more logical way of doing it. |
| Mark: | Chris, you need to get me that Dalmore 18. You can’t forget. |
| Chris: | Thank you for reminding me, because it was on safety stock. We talked about that on Friday. |
| Dan: | We did. Yup. Because there was no reason why it should have been, but it was. |
| Chris: | I’ll bring it with me on Wednesday. |
| Matt: | Safety stock, does that have an armed guard standing in front a locker- |
| Dan: | No. It’s in an open room. It’s just a computer. |
| Matt: | Oh. |
| Dan: | It’s just a click on the button. |
| Matt: | It’d be way cooler, if it was, like, some little guy with a machine gun is like, “Hey. Get away from there.” |
| Dan: | It would be cool. |
| Matt: | “That’s safety stock. Get away.” |
| Dan: | Yeah. Well, Lloyd is his name. |
| Matt: | Lloyd Christmas? |
| Dan: | Not allowed to say. What is that from? Lloyd Christmas? |
| Matt: | Dumb and Dumber. |
| Dan: | Yeah. Was it Christmas? |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | Goddammit. Now I have to go back and watch- |
| Chris: | Samsonite. I was way off. |
| Matt: | Swanson. Swept. Slappy. Samsonite. |
| Chris: | Check the case. Samsonite. |
| Matt: | Just when I thought- |
| Chris: | [inaudible 00:37:48]. |
| Matt: | … you couldn’t do anything any dumber, you come along, and totally redeem yourself. |
| Chris: | That’s as good as money, sir. |
| Dan: | We landed on the moon. |
| Matt: | You’re probably going to want to hold onto that one. It’s for a sports car. |
| Dan: | That’s a big one. Oh my God. Mark, anything else? |
| Matt: | Our pets’ heads are falling off. |
| Dan: | Petey. |
| Matt: | Pretty bird. Pretty bird. |
| Dan: | Mark, anything else? |
| Mark: | I’ve never watched Dumb and Dumber. |
| Dan: | You own a bar. You see dumb and dumber every day. |
| Mark: | You’re right. |
| Matt: | They wanted to open a worm store called We’ve Got Worms. |
| Dan: | And, by the way, Dumb and Dumber 2- |
| Matt: | Horrible. |
| Dan: | No. I think it’s hilarious. |
| Chris: | You think it’s hilarious? Honestly, I think it was too dumb for me. |
| Dan: | Because of one scene, and I can’t remember the lead up to it. I think it was at the end of the movie when Lloyd is being described what his mom did to get pregnant, and he freaks out just like I would, “Nuh-uh. Not my mom. No.” That scene just resonated with me. |
| Matt: | Which they probably didn’t even need to make the third one. |
| Dan: | There’s no third. |
| Matt: | There is a third. |
| Dan: | Nope. There’s not. |
| Matt: | There are two different movies with Jim Carrey and Jeff Bridges in them. |
| Chris: | But there was the prequel one, which didn’t have- |
| Matt: | Which was horrible. |
| Chris: | … young. |
| Dan: | Oh, I forgot all about that. |
| Chris: | I didn’t think there was a third one- |
| Matt: | That is the third one. |
| Dan: | That’s the one he’s talking about. There’s Dumb and Dumber, there’s the prequel, and then there’s Dumb and Dumberer. |
| Chris: | I didn’t realize that Jim Carrey was in the- |
| Dan: | I don’t think he was in the- |
| Matt: | He wasn’t in the prequel. |
| Dan: | Matt said there was two- |
| Matt: | It was about them when they were younger. |
| Dan: | … with Jeff Bridges and- |
| Chris: | Got it. |
| Matt: | Yeah. The first and the third. |
| Chris: | I misheard. |
| Dan: | Kev, you got any tap takeovers coming? |
| Kevin: | Yes. The 16th. |
| Dan: | I had to think what month we were in. January 16th? |
| Kevin: | Yeah. Site One. |
| Dan: | And it is? |
| Kevin: | Site One. |
| Dan: | Site One? Ooh. |
| Kevin: | [inaudible 00:40:09]. |
| Dan: | Nice. We’re getting a barrel-aged- |
| Matt: | Which I like Site One. |
| Dan: | Yeah. They’re good stuff. Stop out to The Library Pub. Seven days a week. We’ll be open. |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | Probably. |
| Matt: | Unless snowmaggedon hits. |
| Dan: | Yeah. Matt, say bye. |
| Matt: | Bye. |
