Macallan, Oban, Leopold Bros, Evan Williams

Podcast Transcription

Dan: Episode 218 of the Library Pub Cast being recorded now with power, but still no regular internet.
Matt: No internet. So weird. So weird.
Dan: So this is the post horrific storm that rolled through the Omaha area the last day of July.
Matt: Post-apocalyptic.

Chris: What was it? Tornado, flooding, hurricane category 2, to ratio.
Matt: It’s been a busy couple months.
Chris: This is one crazy storm.
Dan: We got-
Chris: Omadome failed miserably.
Dan: We got a shitload of water dumped on us in about half hour, 45 minutes. Omaha Epley airfield was recording wind gusts, sustained winds at 90 miles an hour. And that is… Jesus, it was insane. Everybody’s got stories of… I sat in my front looking out my front door watching this thing roll up, literally roll up my street. And one of the trees that was to the west of my house and the wind was coming from the west to the east, I bet it was bent 45 degrees. Then I went into my back of my house, took a look out the backyard and one of my giant trees in my backyard that stands at least 150, 175 yards tall.
Chris: 300 foot?
Mark: I doubt a lot that it was 150 yards tall.
Dan: Yeah, you’re actually right, because I was walking it.
Mark: Maybe 150 feet.
Matt: Unless you got real big feet.
Dan: I bet it was at least… No, you’re right.
Chris: A football field.
Dan: Yeah, it was feet. It was feet.
Chris: Because that’s a big football field.
Matt: Dan the builder.
Chris: That’s a big tree in the backyard.
Matt: That’s a huge tree.
Dan: Matt, you’ve been to my house, so you know.
Matt: Yes.
Dan: That tree that sat on the Omaha side of my landscaping.
Matt: Yeah.
Dan: A giant-ass tree.
Matt: It was a big tree.
Dan: Perfectly over right between the garden and the garage.
Matt: Did it break off or did the root ball come up with it?
Dan: Came up with it.
Matt: Wow. That blows my mind.
Dan: It was a perfectly healthy tree standing proud-
Matt: Strong.
Dan: For what I’d been able to count on the rings at least 40 years.
Matt: You should get a lumber mill to come get it and make it into board [inaudible 00:02:19].
Dan: Make my brother actually came and got it yesterday. That was the reason why I wasn’t able to be at the pub yesterday is because he came up with his trailer and Graciously saved me the time of splitting it and stacking it to sell it on Facebook Marketplace. And he’s like, “I’ll take it.” And I’m like, “Please, please come get it.”
Matt: A hundred dollars.
Dan: Yeah, no, he just took it. He brought me a bag of apples though from his apple tree.
Matt: Oh. Well, that’s a nice trade.
Dan: I thought that was a good trade.
Matt: You’re going to make a pie?
Dan: Yeah.
Matt: And then have sex with it?
Mark: You realize how many people are going to be selling firewood this fall?
Dan: I know.
Mark: I’d be like, “Really, we’ll bring it over.”
Dan: Yep.
Matt: [inaudible 00:02:53].
Dan: Yeah, I thought about that too, but I was going to give it a shot because I always try to sell something. Matt, how was your weekend?
Matt: It was pretty good. I watched the Crawford fight on Saturday.
Chris: Who won?
Matt: Crawford. I think it should have been a draw because it was not a good fight.
Dan: No?
Matt: And it didn’t get over until one in the morning.
Chris: Yeah, that’s what I heard. People were just like, “Dude, knock him out already.”
Matt: They had all the undercard stuff and then they presented some chic with a trophy for, I don’t know, best head wrap or something. I don’t know.
Dan: What, was Knoxville Raceway in charge of the order of events?
Matt: It was something. And then there was a four or five song Eminem show before the Crawford fight.
Dan: Jesus Christ.
Matt: Yeah. It was a little long-winded.
Dan: I guess…
Matt: It was a lot.
Dan: People paid for the pay-per-view needed to get their money’s worth, so they got to see an Eminem concert and a 12-round fight.
Matt: Which the Eminem show was pretty good.
Dan: Have you ever paid for one of those fights that lasts like… Basically, did you ever pay-per-view a Mike Tyson fight?
Matt: We bought the Tyson, Spinks fight.
Chris: The last time I ever did it was, and I did it with friends in high school, was the Holyfield, Tyson fight when the ear-biting thing. I was like, “Never again. Never again.”
Dan: That went a while though. That went four or five rounds.
Matt: Four rounds, I think.
Chris: Was it?
Dan: There was one of them that I think it lasted 47 seconds.
Matt: We did the Tyson, Spinx fight. Sphinx? Spinks fight.
Dan: Is that what happened to its nose?
Matt: That is. And I believe it was-
Dan: Nobody got that joke and I think Matt got it.
Matt: I believe it was 91 seconds and Tyson knocked him out with a punch to the chest.
Dan: Yeah. I can imagine. You’re not paying $35, $40 for that pay-per-view. That was like a $150 pay-per-view.
Matt: I think back then it was like a $30 or $40.
Dan: Oh, really?
Matt: But I mean we’re talking-
Dan: Back then. Now, that’s like 150 bucks.
Matt: We’re talking like 1990 and then my dad was like, “No. Never. Never again.”
Dan: So I don’t know if maybe they’re trying to do something like that. They were trying to create a bunch of stuff ahead of time.
Matt: I hope so.
Dan: I don’t know.
Matt: The aerial view was neat.
Dan: Where was it at?
Matt: In LA, at a soccer stadium.
Dan: Okay, so locally it got done at 11:00 because LA’s two hours?
Matt: No, it got done about 1:00 here.
Dan: Yeah, but I would say locally for them.
Chris: Locally in LA.
Matt: For them, yes.
Dan: In LA. Okay, all right.
Matt: Yeah, which 11:00 is great. Let’s start the undercard fights at 4:00 next time, or maybe just cut one out.
Dan: Yeah. Who knows?
Matt: Not the chick fights though.
Dan: Mark, how was your weekend?
Mark: Crappy.
Dan: Oh, slow here? Dodgers lose?
Mark: We were cash-only and about half the business was gone, because people walk up to the door and see cash-only, turn around and walk away because they don’t have any cash.
Dan: Yeah. Damn.
Matt: I know Friday night I had multiple people say they just ran down to the bank. So it was also people didn’t have power. You had people worried about looters. We had some people walking down our street when I got home from work, so I made sure to stand out there for a little while. But yeah, the place was a mess.
Dan: Did you have your bazooka with you or did you leave that?
Matt: I just went inside and grabbed my pistol.
Dan: Okay.
Chris: I had my dog sitting out front with me, that little tiny dog. She was great. She was on a leash.
Matt: Watch out neighborhood looters.
Chris: That was Friday, but I also was having a massive bonfire in my driveway and might’ve drank a 12-pack of beer.
Matt: Might of. I think he lost count.
Chris: Well, Matt Bellamy brought over this pickle vodka shit.
Matt: Gross.
Chris: Nu-uh dude, it is so good. If you like pickle, there is no hint of alcohol in this thing, so it’s just like, all right, let’s tip it back.
Mark: You’re drinking vinegar with dill in it.
Matt: What is the deal with pickle stuff right now?
Chris: I don’t know. It’s so good.
Dan: Guys, I’ve been ahead of the trend.
Chris: I’ve always loved pickles always.
Dan: Pickle is delicious.
Chris: Pickle is delicious.
Matt: I’m a big fan of pickles, like real pickles like the ones I got from you. They were delicious. A touch salty but fantastic.
Chris: Pickle tickle.
Dan: Yeah.
Matt: I like them salty.
Dan: I had to cut them down a little bit.
Matt: I like them salty.
Dan: I redid that recipe and I think I got a lot better because I actually followed the instructions on the amount of pickling salt.
Matt: My jar is gone.
Dan: The pickles themselves were really good. Like you said, a tad salty. The brine. Did you drink the brine?
Matt: Very salty? No, I did not. Actually. I put zucchini in there.
Dan: Oh, nice. I’ve been drinking the brine over the last couple of days to add some electrolytes back when I’m outside working in the yard.
Matt: Man. Yeah.
Dan: That’ll pucker you up. But yeah, pickle is the hot thing right now. Pickle and peach for flavored anything.
Matt: So weird.
Dan: Yeah. When you get that pickle flavoring right, it is really freaking good, but far too many liquor companies just over pickle it and kill you.
Matt: Pickle.
Chris: Pickle. Pickle.
Matt: Pickle.
Chris: Pickle dickle.
Dan: Mark, anything else to add for your weekend? How did the Dodgers do?
Mark: I don’t know what the final score was last night, but they were one and one with the A’s through yesterday.
Dan: Yeah.
Mark: I fell asleep in the 9th inning. The Dodgers were ahead.
Dan: Damn. A terrible time to fall asleep.
Matt: The A’s are halfway decent this year.
Mark: They are.
Matt: They were horrible last year and they’re decent this year.
Dan: They’ve been horrible for about 99% of their existence.
Matt: Well, Ricky Henderson played for them. That was awesome.
Dan: Yeah.
Mark: They did win the World Series.
Dan: Yep. That factors into the 1% that they were decent. Yeah. Literally, being an A’s fan is a very, very difficult thing to do.
Mark: I was watching the games and they’re in Oakland, and there was more Dodger blue than A green, substantially more, like they were doing Dodger’s cheers.
Dan: I did want to bring up one thing that I think this podcast absolutely needs to have a conversation about and bring it to light to anybody that listens to us, and that is something that Chris is fielding for our company, the proposed tax increase for liquor sales in the state of Nebraska. Governor Palin, to offset his proposed property tax decrease, which hey, cool, that’s awesome, would like to tack on a 247% tax increase on gallonage of liquor sold in the state of Nebraska. So essentially what we have kind roughly factored in is that most bar wells across the state will have to double their price.
Matt: Yeah, it’s outrageous.
Dan: Because a $4, $5 bottle of Mr. Boston’s vodka will now be a $9 bottle. And bars don’t have the profit area to say, “We’ll take that increase. That’s okay.”
Matt: We’ll just eat it.
Dan: “We’re not going to pass that on to our customers.” No, they’re definitely going to pass it on to the customers, and your $6, $7 well drink will now be probably $9.
Matt: Probably $9, $10.
Chris: It’s absolutely ridiculous.
Matt: Maybe a little more.
Dan: So while I live in the state of Iowa, this affects me very little, property tax-wise.
Matt: Except for your job.
Chris: Property tax-wise.
Dan: Financial wise, it’s going to hurt a lot, because if this goes through, it’s going to absolutely murder bars and restaurants for alcohol sales, and murder restaurants period. Because Mark, you make a living off of selling alcohol.
Mark: Yes.
Dan: Most restaurants make up their food margins that are very, very tiny off of their alcohol margins, which are slightly better. That’s all going to go away. Am I [inaudible 00:10:50] rattling here?
Mark: A little but not much.
Dan: Yeah. Do you think this is a tactic to… Anybody else want to chime in? Does anybody, you think this is a tactic to get a 100% tax increase? He’s come to the table and he said, “I’m going to do a 247% tax increase.” We’re all going to cause a big fuss and he’s going to come back and say, “Okay, how about 100%?” And we’ll be like, “Oh, okay, that’s fine.”
Mark: No, I think he wants 250. Yeah, I think that [inaudible 00:11:19].
Chris: Everything that’s involved in it is pretty insane too.
Mark: The reason they aim at alcohol is no one wants to argue for alcohol and against the good of mankind.
Chris: Makes sense. Yeah. Especially in this state, for sure.
Mark: For sure. When I started smoking, cigarettes cost 23 cents a pack, maybe 28.
Dan: Yeah.
Mark: Now they’re 8.
Matt: Dollars.
Mark: Because when someone says-
Dan: That’s an important distinction.
Mark: When someone says, “I want to put another tax on cigarettes,” no one, no one comes out and says, “Oh no, don’t.” And they say, “Well, it’s because we want to get people to quit smoking.” No, it’s not. You don’t want people to quit smoking because you want that money. That’s why you add 30, 40 cents a throw once or twice a year.
Dan: Yeah, that’s what I’m kind of surprised about this proposal is that it’s going to add a shitload of tax right off the bat. It’s not a steady increase.
Mark: No. Well, and the thing is there are-
Chris: Because Nebraska’s so broke. That’s the thing that blows my mind because we weren’t broke. We weren’t broke. I don’t understand why we’re broke now. I don’t know where all that money went, because we weren’t broke 4, even 5, 6, 7 years ago. We were actually very healthy state-wise, money, and I don’t know why it’s gone.
Dan: Yeah.
Mark: Well, we’re in the same position because Nebraska’s required to run a balanced budget.
Chris: Yeah.
Mark: We can’t deficit spend. That being said, they just keep raising taxes.
Dan: That’s 100% the reason… Well, 75%. The reason why I still live in Iowa is because I don’t want to pay property taxes and wheel taxes and road taxes and registration fees. It’s expensive, way more expensive to live in Nebraska than it is in Iowa. We just went through this for years. Nebraska finally approved gambling in the state of Nebraska because for decades, you walk over to any of the casinos in Iowa, and I think the stat was like 60% to 70% of the license plates were Nebraska plates. That’s all Nebraska money going over to Iowa for gambling, and Nebraska finally realized it, did something about it, and now there’s going to be casinos opening up over the next two years. And this is going to be completely reversing that. Everybody’s just going to drive over to Iowa, buy their alcohol and then drive back, especially if you live in the first, what, probably hundred blocks of Omaha?
Matt: I’d say probably up to 72nd, 90th street, something like that.
Dan: I would even say 680 would probably be a cut. If I’m living on a 120th and I can save half the money driving over to Iowa to pick up a couple of bottles of booze, drive back, yeah.
Mark: No, that’s when you drive over and you buy whatever you drink by the case.
Dan: Right. Yeah. So Iowa sales are going to do great.
Matt: Then you don’t have to make the trip. Maybe our governor’s got a thing with Iowa’s governor where he gets a kickback on alcohol sales and gambling revenue.
Dan: Maybe. I don’t know, it’s a crazy thing. It’s stealing from Peter to pay Paul, which I mean… I don’t know. At that point in time…
Matt: They’re both dicks anyways.
Dan: Yeah. Why not just leave it? I don’t know. So this is something that you can find it on… A lot of bars and restaurants around town are starting to get active with it. They’ll have QR scanners around town where you can scan it, go to a website, send a message, let the people in power know that you don’t want to approve of this tax increase.
Matt: Let’s throw the tea. In the water.
Dan: Yeah, rebel.
Matt: Rebel.
Dan: You messed with my booze.
Matt: Yeah.
Dan: God-damn regulators.
Chris: That’s right.
Matt: [inaudible 00:15:03].
Dan: [inaudible 00:15:03]. All right, we got anything else? Looks like I’ve got a very sexy bottle of whiskey in front of me.
Matt: Got some scotch right there that’s pretty outstanding.
Dan: Looks very rare. Oh, my God. Ooh.
Matt: That’s what the label says.
Chris: And from a cask.
Dan: You know what? I’m getting a little bit of that Cabernet cask again right at the end of the nose.
Chris: Not only does this wizard specialize in scotch, but he looks at astronomy as well.
Dan: Oh, he does seem like an astrologist.
Chris: Doesn’t he?
Dan: Mark, anytime you want to chime in?
Chris: What are we drinking?

Macallan Rare Cask 2023

Mark: Macallan Rare Cask 2023.
Chris: 2023.
Dan: I was waiting for that and it happened. Thank you.
Chris: What?
Dan: 2023.
Chris: 23. All right. Yes. Thank you. Good.
Dan: Barbara Walters.
Chris: Barbara Walters. Baba-Wawa 2023.
Dan: We didn’t get to do the 2020 because we were all busy with COVID so we got to do it for the rest of the month.
Chris: 2023.
Mark: A non-age statement. Initially aged in bourbon and then aged in cherry. We’re doing this because I drank some yesterday and it’s really, really good.
Chris: That’s a great reason.
Dan: That’s an absolutely perfect reason. That’s a message I can get behind.
Matt: I’d rather hear that than we’re going to drink this because it sucks.
Dan: Yeah.
Chris: Holy crap.
Matt: Yep.
Mark: It’s really good
Chris: Man, that’s like candy.
Mark: It’s a pleasant but light nose.
Chris: Gosh dang it.
Matt: I know you don’t want to like it.
Dan: I almost spilled mine.
Mark: Why?
Chris: No, I do.
Matt: You don’t want to support the big boys.
Chris: No, that’s not it. I’m just over bourbon now and now it’s like, I just can’t believe that I’m like, “Oh, I’ll have some scotch. What kind of scotch you got? What kind of scotch you got?”
Dan: Mark, did you come once or twice there?
Mark: Twice.
Dan: Okay.
Matt: That was fast.
Dan: With this stuff, it’s very doable.
Matt: It is excellent, very candy-ish.
Dan: Tell me more about Macallan Rare Cask.
Chris: Tell me more. Tell me more. [inaudible 00:17:19].
Mark: Macallan releases a rare cask once a year, and generally what they do is they go through and find casks of what they think is exceptional Macallan and they bottle that. So the reason there’s no age statement is because some of the barrels might be 10 years old and some of the barrels might be 25 years old, but under the rules you have to put the youngest barrel as its age, so they opt to not put an agent on it and let the flavor stand by itself, which it does.
Chris: This is so good.
Mark: Fruit candy.
Chris: It’s like mouthwatering though. You inhale with your mouth open, like your mouth waters.
Mark: I did not inhale.
Matt: Mouth breathers.
Dan: Yeah.
Matt: So good.
Dan: After watching Stranger Things, I’d never heard the term mouth breather before, but now I go around in my everyday life and I look at people, even people I like friends of mine. I’m like-
Matt: Mouth breather.
Chris: I have a deviated septum. Thank you very much.
Dan: You are not a mouth breather. Is he?
Chris: No. No. No.
Dan: You spend more time with him.
Matt: Well, I mean yes, he breathes out of his mouth.
Chris: I do sometimes.
Matt: We all do.
Dan: Yeah. I’m actually thinking about one particular person, but I’m definitely not going to call them out because they’re a friend of mine, but-
Matt: Well, it’d make them sad.
Dan: Mouth breathers are mouth aghast all the time, completely mouth wide open.
Matt: I look at mouth breathers as just idiots.
Dan: Yeah.
Matt: I’ll have people that I run across in my everyday life that I’m like, “Yeah, mouth breather.”
Dan: And I think that’s the whole thing with the mouth breathers is that… I don’t know why they do it, but it’s like Johnny Long Jaw Bottom or whatever from-
Matt: Long jaw bottom.
Dan: From Family Guy. [inaudible 00:19:20].
Mark: This is really good whiskey.
Dan: This is absolutely…
Chris: Did you put that there for me?
Mark: No.
Chris: Okay.
Dan: Dare I say-
Chris: Yeah, how much?
Dan: Perfect?
Mark: Just north of $400.
Dan: An ounce?
Matt: It’s about $45 for a full pour, $28 for a half.
Dan: Would you put this in a perfect whiskey category?
Mark: No.
Dan: Does it fuck?
Mark: It does fuck.
Matt: Oh, it goes first.
Dan: If dick tasted like this…
Mark: I’d think about it.
Matt: If I get to keep the rest of the bottle, maybe.
Dan: All right, so that was Macallan Rare Cask 2023. Is anybody watching the Olympics?
Chris: Nope. Haven’t had power.
Mark: Yes.
Dan: That’s a good excuse.
Matt: [inaudible 00:20:13] a little bit.
Mark: Yes because I have a generator. I was the one glowing light amongst the entire dark neighborhood.
Chris: And now he’s hated by everybody.
Dan: More.
Matt: Everybody.
Mark: But I don’t care.
Matt: He doesn’t care. Mark, you could have charged like 10 bucks a head and just ran extension cords out the garage.
Chris: You could have.
Dan: That’s right. I forgot, what was it? Was it last year or two years ago there was a big storm that rolled through and Omaha was without power for a while?
Chris: It’s 2021. Yeah.
Dan: Mark.
Mark: What?
Matt: What?
Dan: Welcome to the podcast.
Mark: Thank you.
Dan: Was it a year or two ago that we had that big storm roll through and you were without power for a while and decided to get a generator?
Mark: I did not decide to get a generator.
Dan: I was giving you credit. You wear the paints in the family.
Mark: No, I don’t.
Matt: I mean he has pants.
Dan: Sometimes.
Matt: Mo got them for him, but he has pants.
Chris: That’s why he wears shorts all the time because she never lets them wear the pants.
Dan: They’re parachute pants.
Matt: They’re orange and they’re fleece-lined. They’re way too hot for this time of year.
Dan: All right, quit dodging the question. A year, two years ago, three years ago? Do you remember when it was you guys got the generator?
Mark: I seriously… Well, the generator went live last year.
Dan: That was a part of the conversation. When did you guys order it?
Mark: Like four years ago.
Dan: Okay, so there was a big storm that rolled through. Mark decided he’s not going to deal with being without power again.
Matt: Someone did.
Dan: So he ordered a generator. It promptly arrived and then it took him two and a half years to get it connected.
Mark: To get it installed and running. Yes.
Matt: Correctly. Yeah.
Dan: But it worked this week so…
Mark: It did.
Matt: That’s all that matters.
Mark: I was sitting in my living room, the storm was coming in behind me. I sit facing east in my house. And the lights just barely flickered and can’t hear it. It’s quiet. I actually sent Mo outside after the storm went through to the side of the house to tell me if it was actually running.
Chris: It runs on natural gas, right?
Mark: Yeah. On a separate line.
Chris: That’s what I thought. Yeah.
Mark: It takes too much gas to tap into your house gas, so you have to run a separate line from the street all the way up.
Chris: They have a tri-fuel one out they’re pushing now that’s uses three different types of fuel, which is pretty sweet.
Dan: If your natural gas goes down you can use propane or you could use gasoline.
Matt: Yeah, yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
Matt: Yep.
Chris: Yep.
Matt: I just had a little teeny tiny one that all we had plugged into it was a couple phones and the refrigerator.
Mark: My entire house is wired into the generator, so it truly is like nothing happened.
Dan: Yeah, nice. I had the inevitable… And as soon as the power went out and I started seeing people around… Well I didn’t have any power go out at my house, but I started seeing people around town having so much power outage issues. I just waited for the inevitable. “How’s that electric car treat you now that the power’s out?”
Matt: It’s fine.
Dan: And I replied to somebody, “Probably the same thing that your electric pump is working with trying to get gas for your gasoline car.” Electricity powers gas pumps too. Now gas pumps do have the ability of going 15 blocks down the road where there is power and I didn’t have any issues. There was a Tesla group community going on of people that were without power for still almost a week later. And we were all just banding together and saying, “Come over and charge at our house.”
Matt: Now, can you charge one car off of another car?
Dan: Uh-uh. There is pirating software that you can do it.
Matt: Like a jumpstart?
Dan: Yeah. There’s pirating software that you can do it, but as soon as Tesla detects it, your warranty is void.
Matt: Ah.
Dan: It’s too hard on the car’s equipment to push power out that far, that fast.
Matt: That’s fair.
Dan: Is it Ford that has the truck that comes-
Chris: Ford has the truck. Yeah.
Dan: That comes with a generator that you can then power-
Chris: Power your house. Yeah.
Dan: Yeah.
Matt: That’s pretty sweet.
Dan: It’s a very, very small amount that you’d be able to connect your house to it and run that way, which would be nice if Tesla’s did that, but right now they’re more concerned about battery life than you having power for a couple extra days.
Matt: That’s fair.

Master Oban

Dan: All right, so that was Macallan Rare Cask 23. Now we’ve got our good old friend, Master Oban.
Matt: 2023.
Dan: Master Oban. What’d I say?
Chris: Master Oban.
Matt: Just 23. I just don’t want anyone getting confused with an age statement.
Dan: Thank you. Good call. Thank you.
Matt: Because that really might only be 12 years old.
Dan: I have had a serious problem lately in the last probably six months.
Chris: Yes, you have.
Dan: I really thought I said something but something totally different came out of my mouth.
Matt: That’s what common law marriage does for you.
Dan: Oh. Yeah, but this is happening outside of that relationship too.
Matt: Oh. Well, maybe get off the drugs.
Chris: Yeah.
Dan: Shut your [inaudible 00:25:07] mouth. That’s how I manage my pain.
Matt: I like how you censored yourself.
Chris: I don’t know that I like this one. I’m just going to throw that out there.
Dan: It’s a bit more harsh. It’s going to be tough.
Chris: I’m going to give this a flum rating as a 3.72.
Dan: Maybe we should have started with this rather than following the Macallan with this.
Matt: No way. Fresh palette.
Mark: The fresh palette for the Macallan.
Dan: Yeah, that’s true.
Matt: This is Oban Distiller’s Edition released in 2017. Yeah.
Dan: Oh, I should probably type that out, huh?
Mark: That is good whiskey.
Chris: It’s okay.
Mark: The finish is the best part.
Chris: I don’t know.
Mark: There’s a bit of smoke in the front end and you get some throat chest heat, but the finish on it I think is very…
Chris: Smoky?
Mark: Marzipan, cookie.
Dan: Oh. I was reading the label and it says distilled date and bottled date and I thought it said distilled in 2023 and bottled in 2017.
Chris: I’m a time traveler.
Dan: And my pea brain said [inaudible 00:26:28].
Chris: Alarm.
Dan: Does not compute.
Chris: Error. Error.
Dan: And then I read that it says 2003 or as the older generation would say 20 aught 3.
Matt: Aught 3.
Chris: I have never heard anybody say that.
Mark: My grandfather before he died, was born in aught 8.
Dan: Yep.
Matt: I like this stuff.
Mark: I do too.
Dan: I think it’s good. I think in a scale of 1 to Macallan, Macallan being 10, I think it’s a 6.
Matt: I’d give this probably a little higher than that.
Mark: What are we charging for a drink?
Matt: $14 I think, is what it says.
Dan: Yep. $14 for a full pour.
Mark: Probably when we bought it, which has been a long time ago, it was probably 100 bucks a bottle.
Matt: See, I think this has got just the right amount of char, smokiness, because you get it and then it kind of slowly fades away.
Chris: Sorry.
Matt: Got to have his fucking coffee.
Dan: Apparently right in the middle of the God-damn podcast.
Chris: Yep.
Matt: But it does. The smoke hits you and it is a good smoke.
Dan: I don’t detect any of the smoke.
Matt: I got a lot of it. It went really sweet, then it got really smoky and then it kind of went back to kind of the sweet, marzipan-y, sugary…
Dan: I’m definitely getting the char and the sugariness. This is a complex bourbon. Or sorry, scotch. Really. I like this.
Matt: I do like this.
Dan: I think this is pretty good. Still, did you drink all yours?
Chris: Yeah.
Dan: Oh.
Matt: So you didn’t hate it.
Chris: No, I didn’t hate it, but I will up my rating to a 4.67 because it does have a really nice kind of aftertaste. It’s still going. I don’t know. Something about the smoke. I didn’t like it.
Matt: It’s very campfire-y.
Chris: Yeah. Here’s a question for you guys to ponder.
Matt: Oh, God.
Mark: It’s Monday. I don’t ponder on Monday.
Matt: 7%.
Chris: 7%. Can a ghost and zombie come from the same person?
Dan: I would… Oof.
Matt: I would assume yes.
Chris: Right. Can you imagine? Can you imagine? This is the funny images I want to put in. Like a lawyer is now a ghost and he’s watching his zombie self stumble around and he’s just like, “Come on, Derek, get it together. Get it together.”
Matt: “Jesus, Derek.”
Chris: “Come on. We were a lawyer.”
Matt: “You can never go to court like that.”
Chris: So I don’t know. It’s just a thought. It’s just a thought.
Dan: That’s an interesting thought though.
Mark: No, no it really isn’t because neither ghosts nor zombies exists.
Dan: Well [inaudible 00:29:19].
Chris: Do we know we’re not? Yeah. Do we know that they don’t?
Matt: I think there’s ghosts. I’m pretty sure there’s not zombies.
Dan: There is actual reports of zombies in Jamaica.
Chris: Yeah.
Dan: Not like mass social media.
Chris: Right by the beach. [inaudible 00:29:32].
Dan: There’s witchcraft.
Chris: [inaudible 00:29:36].
Dan: There’s witchcraft that somebody was possessed.
Matt: It’s Voodoo.
Chris: Yeah.
Dan: There you go. Voodoo, black magic.
Matt: That’s racist.
Dan: Yeah, but it’s in a black book.
Mark: That old black magic has me-
Chris: Oh. This is…
Dan: What’s racist is that the book, it doesn’t belong on the bookshelf with the rest of the white books.
Matt: At least not by Shell Silverstein.
Dan: If zombies and ghosts lived, were a real thing, I would assume that there would be a ghost haunting its zombies body, its zombie body.
Matt: God, that just sounds exhausting.
Dan: Right?
Matt: Haunting a zombie.
Dan: Yeah.
Matt: It’s not going to do anything.
Chris: You just left half your leg over there, Derek. God dang it.
Dan: It’s our leg Derek.
Matt: Fucking Derek.

Leopold Brothers

Dan: All right, moving on. Matt. Ooh, this is-
Chris: You used to be such a great lawyer.
Dan: This is a different one.
Matt: This is…
Dan: Why’d you pick lawyer?
Matt: This is a bottle that has been sticking half off a shelf for about a week now and it made me notice it, so I figured we’d try it. It is the Leopold Brothers. It’s the oldest one they’ve put out so far. It’s an 8-year. It’s cask strength, 55%, 110 proof, 65% corn, 20% barley, 15% rye.
Chris: They’re Colorado, right? Leopold Brothers?
Matt: I didn’t even look at that part.
Dan: Ooh.
Chris: Dill?
Dan: Yeah.
Chris: Tons. It’s all I can smell.
Matt: Well, it’s funny you say that because they do their secondary aging in a three-chambered rye barrel, which means it has three spots where the whiskey goes.
Dan: Okay.
Matt: And they also do all their aging in a dirt floor rick-house.
Dan: I bet that gets dusty on a windy day.
Matt: Probably. They probably squirt it down with some water.
Chris: It is Denver, Colorado.
Matt: It was very…
Dan: Oh, yeah.
Matt: Kept catching my eye so I figured we’d try it.
Dan: I have it stuck in my head. This is a bourbon?
Matt: It is a bourbon.
Dan: And
Chris: It has Wi-Fi.
Dan: Oh, nice.
Matt: Shit. It’s one step up of us.
Chris: It has Wi-Fi.
Matt: Weird.
Dan: It is a bourbon, finished in rye barrels.
Matt: That’s got to be a security tag.
Chris: Is it a security tag or is it like a Bluetooth? Let’s turn it on. Press it. Press it. See if it turns on the light. Nope.
Dan: Nope.
Chris: Nope. It’s definitely a security.
Matt: It’s definitely a security tag.
Dan: So it’s a bourbon finished in rye.
Matt: It’s a bourbon finished in rye barrels.
Dan: Okay, because I definitely get that rye punch.
Matt: I like this. Kind of cinnamony. The rye kind of jumps out towards the end.
Chris: That’s weird.
Matt: This is good.
Chris: In a good way. Yeah.
Speaker 5: [inaudible 00:32:32].
Dan: Unexpected.
Chris: This is better than the last. Gosh. Yep. Leopold, they always do good stuff though. How long have they been here? They’ve only been in Nebraska I feel like just a few years, right?
Matt: Is this a J Bros product?
Chris: It’s not. I think it’s a Good Guy Joe probably, I’m assuming. Right?
Dan: Nice Guy Joe.
Chris: Nice Guy Joe, whatever.
Matt: That wouldn’t surprise me. I like this kind of cherry…
Chris: It’s so much dill.
Matt: See and I don’t get any dill.
Chris: I do. Man.
Dan: Only on the nose.
Chris: Only on the nose.
Dan: I don’t get it on the tongue.
Chris: I don’t get any on the tongue.
Matt: Here, let me snort it again.
Dan: Maybe do a little bit of a Richard hooter-tooter. Hello. How are you doing?
Chris: Maybe do it a little bit farther away.
Dan: What’s your name?
Matt: Hello. I’d like to smell the dill.
Chris: A little bit farther away.
Dan: Mark’s not a fan.
Chris: Oh, yeah.
Matt: Yeah. I get it in the afterthought of the vapor.
Dan: Oh, you do? I get it right on the tip.
Matt: Oh.
Chris: I don’t get it when I stick my nose down it when I am doing the Richard hooter-tooter-tooter-shooter. I don’t get it when I stick it way… Hello. Nope, no dill but a little bit out.
Matt: I do get it when I hold it away from my face a little bit. Hold the hooter-tooter away.
Dan: You always got to hold the hooter-tooter away.
Matt: But hell, for 11 bucks a pour.
Dan: That’s doable.
Matt: Yeah.
Dan: Man.
Matt: About 50 to 60 bucks a bottle. That’s what I saw.
Chris: It’s very, very dark. Very, very dark.
Dan: Yeah.
Matt: I think that probably comes from the rye barrels.
Chris: Good times, good times, good times.
Matt: I like that. All right, Leopold Brothers.
Chris: It was good.
Dan: Leopold Brothers. Good stuff.
Chris: That would be a distillery that I would like to go and see, honestly. Leopold, this is pretty good.
Dan: All right. So far we’ve had Macallan Rare Cask 2023.
Matt: 2020.
Dan: Oban Distillers Edition. And then we just had the Leopold Brothers 8-Year Cask Strength. Those are rye finished. Those are our three bourbons we’ve had so far. Matt is pouring out bourbon number four. And while he’s doing that, I’m going to allow him a little bit of time.
Mark: They’re not all bourbons. They’re whiskeys.
Dan: Thank you.
Matt: That’s fair.
Dan: To let everybody know that I went and saw a Deadpool And Wolverine on-
Chris: It was amazing, wasn’t it?
Matt: Jealous.
Dan: Thursday night. Yeah. So don’t jump to conclusions. I’m going to say that this is the third-best Deadpool movie in the series.
Matt: Oh, man.
Dan: But that’s like saying that’s the 12th hottest Playboy Playmate of the Year.
Chris: Fair.
Dan: Nobody’s kicking it out of bed, and you would stumble over yourself to have a shot at the 12th hottest.
Chris: It’s not better than the second one?
Dan: I don’t think it was better than the second one. I think there was times that it was a little too drawn out. The beginning storyline took a little bit too long to tell, but after that… Sarah absolutely loved it because huge into the Marvel universe and the TSA.
Matt: Ryan Reynolds is sexy.
Dan: And all of that. Oh, yeah. And all that stuff. But a lot of the notes, it was gruesome, it was vulgar, it was funny. It brought up new pop culture, which every one of those movies seems to do.
Matt: And there’s a Deadpool dog now.
Dan: There’s a Deadpool dog.
Matt: And a Deadpool chick.
Dan: I kept wondering if you know who the Deadpool chick is.
Matt: No.
Chris: I don’t want hear any of this.
Dan: Well, it doesn’t ruin the storyline.
Matt: I’m just curious who plays her.
Dan: One of the funny things is that the Deadpool movies are so popular that now I think actors are kind of wanting to do cameos in them, unnoted cameos, like the time that George Clooney was on South Park.
Matt: Brad Pitt.
Chris: Brad Pitt in-
Dan: And was just doing the cluck of the chicken.
Matt: He was the voice of the dog.
Dan: It was a chicken or a Turkey. He came in and voiced the [inaudible 00:36:23] on that South Park episode. And there was a lot of Deadpool’s as a part of the storyline.
Chris: Rob McElroy.
Dan: I don’t believe Rob was in it.
Chris: Yeah. Well, he’s not in the final version. He just tweeted it out and he’s like, “I can’t believe Ryan Reynolds did this to me.” But I think they’re holding a whole bunch back for the director’s cut, which he will be in, because he did. He filmed the whole scene.
Dan: The Miss Deadpool or Lady Deadpool was played by Blake Lively, Ryan’s wife.
Chris: Oh, that makes sense.
Matt: That’s fair.
Dan: Matthew McConaughey voiced one of the Deadpools. One of the players off of the team that Ryan Reynolds owns, that soccer team-
Matt: Oh, his soccer team? Yeah.
Dan: He came in and did one of the Deadpools.
Matt: That’s funny.
Dan: And there was a shitload of cameos. And I really like the storyline. If you are into the Marvel movies or the 20th Century Fox movies ahead of time, it’s kind of an interesting way that they did the storyline. So it is an awesome movie. It’s the last superhero movie series that I will go see. I don’t care about the Avengers anymore. I don’t want to see another Spider-Man remake, redo, reboot.
Matt: I’m kind of curious about the whole Dr. Doom thing.
Dan: I couldn’t care less about that. I’m so sick and tired of superhero movies, but I will go and see any Deadpool movie I can.
Matt: Yeah, but Robert Downey Junior is playing Dr. Doom and I like him.
Dan: New Mask, same task. And the Nerds went fucking ballistic. Yeah. So Deadpool definitely worth going and seeing. It was absolutely fantastic. I can’t wait for it to come out so I can, because it’s one of those movies that’s got a little bit of layers to it that I have to go back and watch a second or third time to catch all the stuff.
Matt: Like Napoleon Dynamite.
Dan: Yeah. Like Napoleon Dynamite, which unfortunately that entire conversation didn’t make the cut because my computer glitched.
Matt: Matrix.
Dan: That’s why you come and join us live.
Matt: Oh God, don’t say that.
Dan: That’s a good point, Matt have I stalled long enough?
Matt: Yes. Everything’s been poured and passed out.
Dan: Mark, have I stalled long enough? Would you like me to continue talking?
Mark: No.

Evan Williams 1783

Matt: This is the Evan Williams 1783. Runs to $20 to $40. Non-age statement, 78% corn, 12% barley, 10% rye. This is a reboot brand that Heaven Hill decided to start redoing in 2021.
Dan: Nice.
Matt: At least the 1783.
Dan: Is the 1783 the final, or do I need to add small batch to it? Is there a different 1783?
Matt: You can put small batch, but it’s… Allegedly, each batch is under 300 barrels. Now I don’t know if those are normal-sized barrels or if those are like house-sized barrels.
Dan: Yeah. Evan Williams, 1783 Small Batch. So far less punch on the mouth than the last one, which again, not a bad thing. The Leopold Brothers punch on the mouth, I like that rye punch so I’m not saying anything bad about that. This is just a little bit… I’m avoiding that S word that we’re not allowed to say.
Chris: Rob Thomas. Rob Santana.
Dan: Mm-hmm.
Chris: Got it.
Matt: For 20 bucks, I’m not mad at this. Even for $30, $35, I’m not mad at this.
Dan: Burt Carmel.
Matt: I get kind of a brown sugary…
Dan: Yep.
Matt: Touch of vanilla.
Chris: Chris is confused.
Matt: But yeah, for 20 or 30 bucks, this is going to get me in trouble.
Chris: There’s nothing on a mid-palette.
Matt: I just get kind of that cinnamon brown, sugary just kind of carries itself over it. You okay there?
Dan: Yeah. I just did something really stupid.
Chris: What’d you do?
Dan: That was Leopold Brothers that I was drinking.
Chris: And you just pulled it all in.
Matt: And you just said that it had less of a punch than itself.
Dan: Yep. Yep.
Matt: Interesting.
Dan: After I kind of let it sit for a little bit, I was like, “Wow, no, that does have a little bit more of a bite than, about the same as the Leopold Brothers.” I looked down and looked over and where you’d been setting the new glasses. That’s where the…
Matt: Oops.
Dan: Anyways, what are your guys’ thoughts?
Matt: 90 proof, so it’s not going to blow anything up too bad. Yeah. I really like this stuff. And for what the bottle cost is and what the drink pour is, I’d go with this a lot. This would be a great lake whiskey.
Dan: Well, let me try it for the first time now.
Matt: It’s probably going to punch way under its weight for you now.
Dan: All right. Now I go with creaminess. I get almost like a cream soda.
Matt: Mark didn’t hate it. He drank all of his.
Chris: And he doesn’t drink the bourbon usually.
Matt: And I think Evan Williams-
Chris: And he didn’t drink the last bourbon. He didn’t the Leopold.
Matt: Super underrated.
Mark: No. I like that, especially the finish kind of a brown sugar, molasses.
Matt: Yeah. It’s kind of nice, sweet, easy.
Mark: Doesn’t burn.
Matt: Yeah. This-
Mark: Yeah, I can drink that.
Matt: This is a bottle that could easily get someone in trouble.
Mark: Well, any bottle can get someone in trouble.
Dan: And this one could easily, as Matt said.
Matt: Yeah, the Joe Morgan’s way tougher to let it get me in trouble because it’s, unless I got like a two-liter Sprite or 7-Up.
Dan: You’re probably 90%-
Mark: Orange Crush.
Dan: Along the way to being in trouble.
Matt: Diet Mountain Dew. I do like the Mountain Dew with whiskey.
Dan: I’m not entirely sure Diet Mountain Dew should ever come into an ingredient list.
Matt: You know Mountain Dew was made to mix with whiskey?
Dan: Really.
Mark: It was.
Matt: That was the reason why they developed it, is to mix with crappy whiskey.
Mark: It was actually made to mix with better whiskey, which is why they call it Mountain Dew, because Mountain Dew is what some people in the south call bootleg whiskey.
Dan: Really?
Mark: Yep.
Dan: Huh. Two little factoids I never knew.
Matt: There you go. It’s a good day for you now, Dan.
Mark: Matt and I are a wealth of absolutely useless information.
Matt: Completely useless knowledge.
Dan: Oh, I know. Three, four years coming here, I’m well aware. That’s why I like you guys.
Matt: That’s why I write in this.
Dan: Things we all need to know. All right, I think that’s going to do it for us today. We have a Pub Whiskey Wednesday coming up tonight, Wednesday, August 7th.
Matt: 7th.
Dan: As if you can’t tell that we record this in advance, I had to look at my calendar and add two days and then I had to make sure that I was calculating that correct.
Matt: The problem is you got to remember what the day is today.
Dan: I know. Well, I looked down and it said August 5th, and then I was like, “Wait, okay, so calendars work. Would it be the 6th or would it be the 7th? Two days adding to it. Is it technically two days because we’re less than two days away?”
Matt: Now, what time?
Dan: Yep.
Matt: Oh, God.
Dan: And that’s what the processing pause was all about. There’s also the Library Pub Golf Outing coming up this Wednesday.
Matt: Yeah.
Mark: No, Sunday.
Matt: Sunday.
Dan: God damn it. This Sunday. I wish I could blame this on the whiskey, but this has been happening a lot lately.
Matt: It’s the drugs.
Dan: Is there still spots open? I thought maybe it was sold out.
Matt: There are still some spots left. It’s $60. That gets you golf, a cart, a fun little goodie bag, food afterwards, which we’re doing burgers and dogs.
Dan: They’ll probably be warm.
Matt: They will most likely be warm. I’m going to set an alarm this year to remember to call Dan and tell him to start the food.
Dan: Oh, it’s going to be so funny, like six holes later you’re, “Why is my phone still vibrating?”
Matt: Son of a bitch. Why does this alarm keep going off? Throw me a beer.
Dan: If you want to get involved in the Pub Golf Outing, just come up to the library pub and purchase the last few remaining spots. And then if you want to get involved Wednesday night for our next tasting… Is Mo aware that we do a podcast from 11:00 to noon every Monday?
Mark: I’m not sure where area code 925 is.
Dan: Let’s find out. I’ll Google it.
Chris: Working 9:00 to 5:00.
Matt: That sounds a long ways away.
Chris: That’s where Dolly Parton lives.
Matt: So Nashville.
Chris: Yeah.
Matt: Pigeon forge, Tennessee.
Dan: Yeah.
Mark: They closed Dollywood.
Matt: Yeah, like an overnight thing.
Chris: No, I was totally wrong.
Dan: Northern California.
Matt: Oh.
Chris: Regions of Alameda and Contra Costa.
Mark: I don’t know anybody there.
Matt: That sounds expensive to live there.
Dan: Well, you could have if you’d answered the phone and had a nice conversation.
Mark: And they would ask me if they could come out and look at my roof.
Chris: Could have been Derek, the lawyer.
Matt: The zombie lawyer ghost.
Chris: Yes. The zombie lawyer ghost.
Dan: Join us on Wednesday. What’s the six whiskies that we’re going to try? Because they’re all… We don’t need to list all of them because they’re Japanese names, but what’s the distillery?
Matt: They’re Asian. Komagatake.
Mark: It is a vertical. They put out one and done every year and we have the last six years, so we’re going to run through those.
Matt: Komagatake.
Chris: Good job.
Dan: Love the [inaudible 00:45:27].
Matt: Komagatake.
Mark: [foreign language 00:45:28] Mister Roboto.
Matt: Komo, Komo.
Chris: Komo, Komo.
Dan: We want to just go ahead and say you’re welcome for getting that music earworm stuck in your head. How many people are going to be driving around singing [foreign language 00:45:48] Mister Roboto?
Chris: Three, not including us.
Matt: At least three.
Dan: Oh. Not including us?
Chris: Not including us.
Dan: Okay. As soon as I go to my next gas station and I have to order Jose Cuervo, I’ll be singing the Jose Cuervo song again like I have for the last four years.
Chris: I’m so glad I don’t like know that song. I’m just…
Matt: Crazy thing is that it’s a guy singing that song.
Dan: Is it?
Matt: Yeah.
Dan: Jose Cuervo, you are a friend of mine.
Matt: That’s a guy.
Chris: [inaudible 00:46:14]. Dude, I never had heard that song until you played it for me on the podcast.
Dan: I can’t believe that.
Chris: Yeah, it’s-
Dan: I can’t believe that. Well, with that being said, bye everybody.
Matt: Yeah. Fuck [inaudible 00:46:25].