Speyburn, Murray & Mcdavid, World Whiskey Society, Barrel

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Dan: Episode 223 of the Library Pub Cast as always being recorded, 90th and Fort. Only a few times did we not record the location we are currently sitting at, but a mere feet away.
Matt: Once.
Dan: Was it once?

Matt: Just once.
Dan: I might’ve talked him into it twice, but-
Matt: You got that 360 mic and we tried it and it wasn’t so hot-
Dan: Didn’t work.
Matt: … and Mark felt really out of place sitting at a table.
Mark: Yeah, that was weird. I do remember that.
Dan: Yeah. That didn’t work. I think you’re right, man. It lasted one time. Now, every other episode we have sat at the bar.
Matt: In the same seats, pretty much.
Dan: Yep. There’s no change in seats around here.
Matt: No. Oh, God, no.
Dan: No. I think I swapped with you one time when you were working the computer.
Matt: That’s very true.
Dan: So I guess we’re just a bunch of liars.
Matt: Yep.
Dan: Might as well run for office now.
Joe: Isn’t that interesting?
Matt: Dickheads.
Dan: Bunch of fake news.
Matt: I am so going to be the next president.
Dan: Joining us on the podcast, special guest, nice guy, Joe. He was a guy that came in to do his job and we’re like, “Hey, you’re joining us on your podcast.”
Joe: Hey, how’s it going? Thanks for having me guys. Love it here.
Dan: Joe, what house do you work for again?
Joe: Quail Distributing.
Dan: Quail?
Joe: Yeah.
Dan: You are the reason why we started the Barrel Pick program again. You kicked off the ever popular Barrel Pick that I still have two bottles sitting in my collection.
Matt: Good for you.
Dan: One of them will never… It’ll get drank.
Matt: Eventually.
Joe: It’ll get drank. Come on.
Dan: Dude, and it’s one of those… Again, I go back to it every four or five, six months, and I drink it. I’m like, “God, I forgot how good this was.”
Matt: That’s why I hate store picks.
Dan: I have to forget how good it is, otherwise, I’m going to drink those two bottles in no time, so good job on that.
Matt: That’s why I hate store picks.
Joe: Sounds like you’re a patient man.
Dan: Yeah.
Joe: A man of willpower.
Dan: Definitely not.
Matt: You finish a bottle and you can’t get another one. It’s like, “Son of a bitch,” and store picks are usually pretty good.
Dan: Yeah, that’s the bad part of it. So thank you for that. He is currently in here working on doing another Barrel Pick.
Matt: Maybe.
Dan: So I’m in favor of it. If it’s anywhere close to the last one, let’s do it. Guys-
Matt: I haven’t looked at what they are.
Dan: Guys, weekends Huskers, unfortunately-
Matt: They tried.
Dan: … according to the social medias are back to being a horrible team that nobody likes anymore.
Matt: They’re terrible people.
Dan: Hate them.
Matt: Get out of Lincoln.
Dan: I can’t believe how quickly that turned.
Matt: Just real fast.
Chris: It’s just ridiculous.
Dan: I mean, my God, 15 years of having struggles and two really good games, and then a third one that, honestly, not bad.
Matt: They won.
Dan: I honestly think they played better than Kansas City did.
Matt: They won.
Dan: Yeah.
Matt: I mean really, at the end of the game, isn’t that all that matters that you have more points than the other team?
Dan: Yes, it is John Madden. Boom. Listen, all we got to do is have more points at the end of the game.
Matt: More points.
Dan: We’re going to win this thing.
Matt: More points and less penalties.
Dan: I haven’t heard John Madden in far too long. My Madden impression is not nearly as good as-
Matt: You are no Frank Caliendo.
Dan: Thank you, but yeah, Husker loss, unfortunately. Hawkeyes won against Minnesota, took home some hog trophy, which I love being from the Midwest. I love being from Iowa. Sometimes you just can’t quite get out of the stereotype.
Matt: Yeah, no.
Chris: Nope.
Dan: Let’s have two Midwest teams play for a trophy. What should we make it? Let’s make it a hog.
Matt: Is it the Silver Sow Award?
Dan: I think it is. God.
Joe: Nice work.
Dan: Jesus. Then when I drive around Council Bluffs, I’m like, “Seriously, couldn’t have one tooth?”
Matt: You should get a pig hood emblem for your Tesla.
Dan: I should.
Matt: Since Iowa won.
Dan: Yeah.
Matt: You could have your own Silver Sow and we’ll all start calling you Les.
Dan: Chiefs won last night.
Matt: That’ll do, pig.
Dan: It was a rough game last night.
Matt: They didn’t look very good.
Dan: All right. You watched it?
Matt: Most of it.
Dan: Chris, did you get to watch it?
Chris: I watched the last quarter.
Dan: Okay.
Chris: I don’t want to talk about it.
Dan: Something looked off with Mahomes, and Kelce looked irate the entire game.
Chris: They’re pissed because they’re getting known that they’re on the Diddy list.
Dan: What?
Chris: Yeah, they’ve been to Diddy’s parties like 30 times.
Matt: Are they on the Diddy list?
Dan: Yeah. We’re back on this.
Matt: Oh, no.
Dan: Jesus Christ.
Chris: What, you don’t think that that would fuck them up a little bit?
Dan: No.
Chris: Play off.
Matt: Maybe he had baby oil on his hand.
Chris: Maybe he did.
Dan: First off, I would venture to say there has been well over a million people that have been on a Diddy list in the last-
Matt: Whoa.
Dan: … what, 40-
Chris: A million people?
Dan: … 50 years of him throwing-
Chris: A million people?
Dan: … all these huge parties.
Matt: Oh, no, he didn’t get popular until the mid to late ’90s.
Chris: He didn’t really become a billionaire until-
Matt: 10 years ago?
Chris: Yeah.
Dan: You can’t have a party until you’re a billionaire?
Matt: Do know how expensive-
Chris: Well, I’m just saying that’s to get to the billionaire thing.
Dan: Just because I go to a… I’ve been to Hell’s Angels parties. You know what I’ve never done? Killed anybody or peddled drugs. Just because you go to a party doesn’t mean anything.
Matt: You’re missing out, buddy.
Dan: So anyways, back to the conversation.
Chris: So you’re defending it. Got it.
Matt: Oh, geez.
Dan: I’m saying that for how many years have we heard about Epstein lists, and there’s nothing.
Chris: But there is something with this. But there is.
Dan: I know, and that was the same argument you made with the-
Matt: There’s a lot of baby oil.
Dan: … Epstein List. “Oh, I’ve seen it. I’ve seen it. I’ve seen the Epstein list. I’ve never it.”
Chris: I’ve never seen the Epstein list. I’ve never said that I saw it.
Matt: I’ve seen alleged Epstein lists.
Chris: I said that I’ve seen lists.
Matt: I don’t know.
Chris: No, I’m just saying, “Dude”-
Dan: All right, so back to the football.
Chris: … “if they are in the news, negative light, you don’t think that would affect how they played?”
Dan: No. I think they looked sick. They’ve played like shit for three games and managed to win.
Matt: Fair.
Dan: I think they both looked like they were sick. Travis Kelce, I don’t know what, but every time they looked at him he looked-
Chris: Sad.
Dan: … like he was off in his own little area.
Joe: A very sad billionaire.
Matt: Maybe he and Taylor are fighting.
Joe: Very sad billionaire.
Dan: Could be.
Matt: I think him and Taylor are fighting.
Joe: Was she at the game? Did they show her? I didn’t see if they showed her.
Dan: Well, it was in Atlanta, so no, she didn’t go.
Chris: Love can change a man.
Matt: Oh, it does. Definitely.
Joe: It can.
Dan: He had two or three catches.
Matt: Accurate.
Chris: They really tried to start feeding him. I mean, that offense does go through him multiple times when they’re playing shitty and they start throwing it to Travis Kelce, the offense starts picking it up. It didn’t happen last night.
Joe: Yeah, three and 0, though. Just like the Steelers on top.
Chris: I know.
Joe: Right?
Matt: Right now.
Joe: Chris loves to talk about the Steelers.
Chris: I love talking about the Steelers.
Joe: Fuck the Steelers.
Dan: Your Bangles play Monday night
Chris: Play tonight, yep.
Dan: Against?
Chris: Oh, my God. Who are we playing?
Joe: Jacksonville Jaguars.
Chris: No, it’s-
Joe: I don’t know who.
Chris: 49ers?
Joe: No.
Dan: No. The 49ers lost yesterday.
Joe: Yeah.
Matt: Yeah. They did. Well, they have nobody playing for them right now.
Dan: They have Brock Purdy playing for them.
Matt: That’s about it.
Joe: Oh, my God.
Dan: They had like a three touchdown lead at one point in time.
Matt: Yeah. No, they shit the bed, which I get in trouble for.
Dan: Commanders.
Joe: Yeah, jeez. Why I didn’t know that?
Dan: The Commanders? Who are those guys?
Joe: Washington.
Matt: The Redskins.
Dan: Oh, they have a better record than the Bengals right now.
Chris: They do. The Bangles have a record.
Matt: They’ve struggled. Green Bay won yesterday.
Dan: Yeah, good game for Green Bay.
Matt: That was nice with their Malik, whatever his last name is, backup to the backup.
Dan: Tua did not play yesterday.
Joe: Willis?
Matt: Tua needs to retire.
Dan: Were the Dolphins off?
Matt: No, I think they played yesterday.
Chris: Didn’t they play Thursday?
Joe: Dolphins got killed by the Seahawks, I think.
Matt: Yeah. Tua just needs to retire.
Dan: Yeah. Mr. Concussion?
Matt: Oh, man.
Dan: Oh, they did get killed.
Joe: Oh, wow. Yeah, they got murdered.
Dan: 24 to three.
Matt: Well, they brought Dan Marino back.
Dan: Who has three less concussions than Tua.
Matt: He wouldn’t take the Isotoners off.
Dan: Yeah.
Joe: Oh, yeah, and the Jaguars play the Bills, too, tonight. Okay, doubleheader.
Chris: Lois Einhorn, too.
Matt: Laces out, Dan.
Dan: Any day we can get a nice mature reference is a good day.
Matt: Ace, do you have any more of the bubblegum?
Dan: No, Dan and I’d appreciate if you’d stay out of my personal life.
Joe: So Lois Einhorn, speaking of-
Matt: Mr. Winke.
Joe: There was a gal on Jeopardy a few months back that looked exactly like her. I couldn’t stop saying, “Finkle Einhorn.”
Matt: Finkle Einhorn, Finkle, Finkle, Finkle, Einhorn, Finkle, Finkle.
Chris: But I asked you a few questions.
Dan: Apparently, that was all improv.
Chris: Do you have any breath mints?
Matt: Not surprising.
Chris: Perhaps some Binaca?
Dan: Dodgers, do they win the World Series yet?
Mark: No.
Dan: Okay. Regular season still going on?
Mark: It is.
Dan: Playoffs coming?
Mark: Six games left.
Dan: Six games left? I heard Detroit just like a half a game out. They won yesterday, and the only reason why I bring it up is because Kevin’s a Detroit Tigers fan.
Mark: Or paying.
Matt: Paying.
Dan: He was in a very good mood yesterday after he decided to not golf in the rain and cold.
Matt: It wasn’t raining, did not rain.
Dan: He said when he got up at 5:30, it was raining and cold and he decided he would play another day.
Matt: It was not. I did not get dripped on once during the golf extravaganza.
Dan: He said it was cold and rainy.
Matt: I was chilly.
Dan: He didn’t want to have a puddle in his pocket.
Matt: I don’t need one in my pocket.
Dan: Green Bay won. Detroit won. He was having a good day.
Matt: It was a good sports day yesterday for us fans.
Dan: Yeah. All right, we ready to move on?
Matt: Sure.
Dan: Try Anything else? Oh.
Matt: No.
Dan: We did bring this up yesterday at the pub, so we’ve probably out talked it, but can we just discuss for a moment the fact that a country’s intelligence agency was able to get explosive-
Matt: That shit is bonkers, man.
Dan: … pagers into the hands of their enemies, and then-
Chris: It’s like six months ago, too.
Matt: Yeah.
Chris: It was like so long ago.
Dan: … and then set them off.
Mark: Yep.
Joe: What? I didn’t hear anything about this.
Chris: And then the radios that blew up, too.
Dan: Hamas or Hezbollah? I always get them confused.
Mark: Hezbollah.
Dan: Hezbollah?
Matt: Hezbollah, yep.
Dan: Israeli intelligence apparently put-
Chris: Infiltrated.
Dan: … pagers into the hands of Hezbollah members, and then sometime last week, Thursday or Friday, sent a code to the pagers and exploded them.
Chris: Like 5,000.
Dan: I don’t know how-
Mark: No. It’s even better than that. They first hit one button that paged everybody. So they took the pager out to look at the page and three seconds later they then blew up.
Matt: Yeah.
Joe: That’s pretty nifty.
Chris: What will they do next?
Mark: If I am a member of Hezbollah, I’m thinking Greece sounds like a nice place.
Chris: I’m going back to the can and string method of communicating back when we were kids house.
Mark: Just use a tree house phone.
Chris: Yeah, a tree house phone.
Dan: Man, I mean the level of-
Chris: Didn’t the radios blew up, too?
Dan: I don’t know about radios.
Chris: Did I hear that from you? The next day.
Mark: The next day, their radio phones all blow up.
Dan: Really? I heard that the leaders of Hezbollah had sent a message down to everybody, said, “Our phones are possibly infiltrated by Israeli intelligence. Get rid of your phones and everybody go to pagers.”
Joe: Go to your pager.
Mark: Well, when Israel found out that Hezbollah… They found out how to infiltrate Hezbollah’s cell phones. So then Israeli intelligence got word to them through nefarious meetings-
Dan: Leaked it.
Mark: Leaked it. So they all threw away their phones because Israel knew that there was a shipment of these pagers that exploded were coming.
Dan: I don’t mean to laugh, but this is the kind of stuff that I don’t want to know is possible.
Matt: It’s genius.
Dan: It’s a good prank. My God.
Matt: It’s a good prank.
Dan: Oh, oh my God.
Mark: One of the famous stories about the Mossad, which is their secret police, is when in 1972, the PLO killed like a dozen Israeli athletes at the Munich games, and Mossad came out and said, “We will hunt each of you down and kill you.” The last one died 26 years later, but they found him.
Dan: Yeah.
Matt: That’s persistence.
Dan: It’s the same thing as the… I don’t know what the group was, but the Jewish people that got together and they hunted Nazis, and when the World Court wouldn’t do anything with them, they found them. They tried them in their own court and they killed them.
Chris: Whatever works.
Dan: There’s a movie about it. Jessica Chastain stars in it.
Matt: It’s not the League of Magnificent Gentlemen.
Dan: It is not that.
Matt: Is it called Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right?
Dan: Should have been. That was the subtitle. By the way, as of updating on a Wikipedia page, 42 people were killed, including 12 children. 3,500 people were injured in the pager attacks.
Matt: Pager attacks.
Dan: When I heard about that, I was like, “You’re freaking kidding.” I mean, that’s insane. Just that they were able to do that, but we’re sitting here on our phones.
Chris: I don’t know anybody with a pager.
Dan: Dude, I-
Matt: I know a couple doctors.
Dan: Until they said that there was C-4 in all of the pagers, I was like, “Well, they could easily do that to a phone.” If you can hack into a phone and then overload it and do something to where the battery explodes, you can cause some damage, but the fact that they were able to get pagers with C-4 into the hands of all these people.
Matt: I’m impressed they could find that many pagers.
Dan: And then when does the recall come out to the people that aren’t a part of Hezbollah, but got themselves a C-4 loaded pager.
Joe: Oh, man.
Matt: They probably would’ve blown up. I’m guessing they were on the group text or group page.
Dan: It’s crazy to me. All right, so-
Matt: Do you think they had a guy that was just like, “Okay, 167-4918”? Okay, I got Bill. 167″… Did he page all these people individually?
Joe: Yeah.
Dan: The guy that had-
Matt: It had to have been a group text.
Dan: That guy that had 867-5409 thought he was so cool until that moment.
Matt: I’m the coolest.
Dan: That didn’t work out. Yes. We’re going to make fun of this.
Kevin: Yep.
Mark: They were using those pages for almost six months.
Dan: Really?
Mark: Yeah. Israel was just waiting for the appropriate time to go, “Button.”
Dan: Wow.
Kevin: They’re waiting for a slow day.
Chris: That’s amazing.
Dan: Jesus. All right. Let’s get to drinking some whiskey. Mark, once again, you are starting us off with an incredibly fruity scotch.
Mark: Well, this is a Murray and McDavid, which-
Matt: No.
Mark: No?

Speyburn Arranta

Matt: This is the Speyburn.
Mark: Oh, this is Speyburn?
Dan: So he slipped back to last week’s episode.
Matt: Well, we’re doing a Murray McDavid.
Dan: Oh, that’s like five Murray McDavids, and I’m okay with that.
Mark: This is Speyburn Abanta.
Chris: Arranta.
Mark: Arranta, sorry. Which means to boldly go or something.
Chris: Where no man has gone before, Star Trek. Make it so, number two.
Matt: Number one.
Chris: Sorry. Number one, sorry.
Matt: Make it so number two. We can’t find number one.
Chris: Sorry. Go ahead, continue. Captain Picard’s favorite scotch.
Dan: The best episodes was when Q was on there and Patrick Stewart was getting so irritated at him.
Matt: He hates Q.
Dan: He does hate Q.
Dan: But somehow an omnipotent being-
Chris: Can die.
Dan: … Captain Picard can give him one hell of a tongue-lashing and put him in his place. Mark, you better save us.
Mark: Banana.
Matt: Are you making fun of Dan?
Mark: Not very good. Real thin, drinks a little hot.
Matt: It is-
Mark: Not a lot of palette on it.
Matt: It is 92 proof.
Mark: Ah.
Matt: This one is a USA exclusive. It’s in first fill ex-bourbon barrels.
Mark: There’s something you don’t see very often.
Chris: Dan, there you go.
Dan: Mm-hmm. Mark-
Mark: Me not drinking a scotch.
Dan: … passing on a scotch. Scotch words. Joe?
Joe: Vanilla toffee.
Dan: You were playing with it with your nose.
Joe: I tasted it. I am spitting today.
Dan: Okay.
Mark: The vanilla and toffee this was aged-
Matt: Oh, man.
Mark: … in an ex-bourbon barrel.
Dan: Sorry.
Mark: So the vanilla and toffee is coming from the bourbon barrels.
Matt: I don’t hate this, but it is quite bourbony.
Dan: Yeah.
Mark: To me, it’s too bourbony.
Chris: It’s candy. It’s like candy sweet, like artificial candy sweet.
Matt: Yeah. I like this. It is a little warm for what you would expect a single malt scotch to be, but I like it.
Dan: Really?
Matt: I could drink this.
Joe: Yeah.
Mark: Dan’s not working this afternoon.
Dan: I may not be working tomorrow either.
Matt: I feel like shit. No, I don’t think this one’s bad at all, and it’s not expensive. I don’t know the price off the top of my head, but I know it’s not expensive because none of the Speyburn stuff is.
Mark: Retail’s about 40 bucks.
Matt: I would say it’s probably $9.
Dan: Oh, did you mention a little peatiness?
Mark: A little smoke-
Dan: Right in the middle.
Mark: Not much peed, but there’s some smoke in it.
Dan: Yeah. I don’t tell the difference, though. I don’t know what to say. Fuck peat.

Murray & McDavid Mystery Malt

Mark: Now the Murray and McDavid.
Dan: Okay. Do you have anything on Murray McDavid that we haven’t talked about?
Mark: This particular whiskey was distilled on the Isle of Mole.
Dan: Who?
Mark: Mole.
Chris: I have a mole? Sorry.
Matt: Mole, mole, mole, mole, mole, mole.
Mark: Well, with a little bit of research, I’m going to guess that this is a Tobermory because Tobermory is one of the only distilleries on the Isle of Mole, and it is the largest one. Finished in the ex-bourbon.
Dan: Mystery Malt? Thank you, sir.
Chris: Thanks.
Matt: You don’t want any?
Joe: I’ll take a little bit.
Matt: Well, maybe just a nip.
Dan: For anybody that can’t visually confirm it, Joe is absolutely spitting today. Any of his bosses that happen to be wondering, he is not drinking.
Joe: Yeah.
Matt: Joe’s a spitter.
Joe: Although it is the antidote to road rage, as I like to call Scotch whiskey, right?
Dan: Me no likey.
Matt: You don’t like?
Mark: Way smoke forward on the nose.
Matt: Ooh.
Dan: Oh, no.
Matt: This one’s pretty hot, too.
Dan: Oh, Mark.
Matt: 56.7%.
Dan: I didn’t pick it out. Matt did. We’re blaming you.
Matt: Sorry.
Dan: No, that’s okay. We’re blaming him.
Matt: This one’s a nine-year finished in cobalt bourbon casks out of Chicago.
Joe: Whoa.
Chris: It’s very-
Dan: Mark and Chris-
Matt: It’s like someone punched him.
Chris: It’s very medical.
Dan: No. I’m kicking it back.
Mark: Very, very medicinal.
Dan: I played the [inaudible 00:20:07]-
Mark: But not a good… As in like Band Aids.
Joe: Lots of band aids.
Mark: Chris didn’t like it, either. That’s way, way too much hot.
Chris: So I know I’ve been saying that I’ve been liking Scotch a lot lately. That’s not one that I’m-
Dan: Hey Brett, come drink this.
Matt: Yeah. This is really Band-Aidey.
Chris: Well, I think we’re-
Mark: I did not like that.
Chris: No.
Mark: So it’s unanimous?
Dan: There is no redeeming quality there.
Matt: Finishes long.
Dan: I couldn’t even drink that to get drunk.
Mark: I couldn’t drink enough of it to get drunk because I would throw up.
Dan: Yeah.
Matt: You could mix it with Coke.
Dan: I’m even entirely sure I’d do that to Coke.
Matt: Have a scotch and Coca-Cola.
Dan: I wouldn’t do that to either Cokes.
Matt: Because if you’re doing it with booger sugar, you’re never getting drunk. That’s just the way it works. That’s just the way it works.
Dan: That’s just the way it is.
Matt: Wow. I apologize. Nowhere on the label does it say, “This sucks.”
Dan: No. Matt-
Matt: There’s a cute dog on the label.
Dan: It’s not your fault.
Matt: That’s redeeming
Dan: Matt-
Matt: A little Scotty.
Dan: It’s not your fault.
Matt: It’s very cute.
Dan: It’s not your fault.
Matt: Did anyone get salted fudge?
Mark: No.
Matt: Or sweet mango on the palate?
Dan: I got dick on the tongue.
Matt: What about charcoal?
Mark: Yes.
Dan: No.
Matt: Because that’s in their tasting notes, charcoal.
Mark: I had some charcoal.
Dan: I couldn’t get past the Neosporin-soaked Band-Aid.
Matt: I don’t think I’ve ever tasted Neosporin. They say you’re supposed to use just Vaseline.
Dan: Really?
Kevin: Well, hello Teddy.
Dan: Teddy being an ankle licker?
Matt: No. He was chewing on my shoelace.
Dan: Oh, I got the privilege of taking last week off and working very little for Johnson Brothers, unfortunately.
Chris: Really?
Dan: I did, yeah. I didn’t answer text messages. I didn’t respond to emails. I fixed a couple of things, but for the most part I just-
Chris: How did that turn out?
Dan: … sat at home and cut up a tree.
Chris: How did that work out?
Dan: Turns out I am every bit of 42 years old, and I literally got to a point Wednesday night when I couldn’t feel my lower half of my body, so I just laid down, and then I got up Thursday morning-
Matt: Is it because your hands weren’t-
Dan: … to go and keep working on it and my body wouldn’t move. So I just sat on the couch until 1:00 in the afternoon when I finally got up and did something.
Chris: Somebody run your territory?
Matt: That sounds fantastic, effectively?
Dan: No, I did it.
Chris: Okay.
Dan: I’m not going to trust them.
Chris: Okay.
Dan: I message everybody. I put in orders. I got text messages and emails with orders, and I did that as much.
Chris: That’s what I was wondering.
Dan: Yeah, no, I know better. Man. Yeah, if anybody needs any firewood, God, that tree produces a lot of fricking firewood. Sheesh.
Joe: Yeah. I got plenty of locust tree firewood in my backyard right now.
Dan: That’s the tough thing is somebody goes, “You’re going to try to sell firewood on social media after we just had a big storm that knocked over a ton of trees?” And I think it might’ve actually been you, Mark.
Mark: It was.
Dan: I was like, “I’m going to give it a shot.” I’m just asking people to come by with a truck and donate some money to the Alzheimer’s Association. I got three people that say they’re going to come. We’ll see.
Joe: Did you split your logs with an ax?
Dan: No. I did that two years ago and we will never do that again, probably. It turns out my brother has a log splitter, so he brought it up and I borrowed his.
Joe: Yeah?
Matt: It makes things way easier.
Joe: It makes you feel like a man, though.
Dan: I told him splitting, yeah, absolutely.
Joe: Yeah.
Matt: I can pee standing up. I always feel like a man.
Mark: I can’t stand up.
Matt: Sort of.
Mark: Yeah, it’s getting bad when you go into the bathroom, and you walk in. You put your walker around the toilet, so you don’t fall down.
Dan: I’ll remember that. I just watched or listened to… One of the podcasts that I listened to did a short podcast episode on… I can’t pronounce the word, but apparently it is a movement in Germany that is now spreading across the world to sit to pee. There’s a lot of health benefits to it.
Joe: Oh, absolutely.
Dan: Not to mention, you don’t miss, and that’s a big issue with people. I mean, have you ever walked into a men’s bathroom? There’s a lot of guys in this world that could sit to pee and we’d get along a lot better.
Matt: That’s why I always like the trough system.
Dan: Yes.
Matt: Not for pooping.
Chris: No. Yeah. Definitely, your back would get totally wet.
Matt: Totally. That’d be uncomfortable at like a winter football game.
Chris: What is that? What movie was that where-
Matt: Where the old lady sits in the urinal?
Chris: Yeah. Isn’t that one of the-
Matt: That is Traffic School.
Chris: Was it? Or was it one of the Naked and-
Matt: With Bill Murray’s brother.
Chris: Was it?
Matt: Which they may have done it in the Baked Gun, too.
Chris: Naked guns is what I’m-
Joe: What’s the proof on that?
Chris: Why is my back wet?
Mark: Well, there’s all kinds of benefits-
Dan: Yeah.
Mark: … from sitting down and peeing.
Dan: It’s crazy.
Mark: Yeah.
Dan: Yeah. I’ve been a big fan of sitting down and pooping for a very long time.
Matt: There is 59.5.
Joe: That would explain a lot.
Dan: Are you already moving forward?
Matt: Yeah.
Chris: Oh, that’s a cool label.
Dan: That is kind of cool.
Chris: Can I have those guns that are on the front? That’s cool.
Dan: I just want to warn everybody.
Chris: They come off?
Dan: If there’s going to be a lot of references to-
Matt: Tombstone.
Dan: Tombstone-
Matt: Or Gunsmoke, maybe the Big Valley.
Dan: Matt, will you be my Huckleberry?

World Whiskey Society Wyatt Earp

Matt: This is from our friends at the World Whiskey Society. This is Wyatt Bourbon Barrel Proof. It’s 100% malted barley and 59.5%. 100% malted barley.
Dan: Did I get a sweetness?
Chris: Yeah, I’m getting a candied sweetness on this.
Dan: Yeah.
Mark: Little bit of water. Helps a lot.
Kevin: Yeah.
Dan: Does it? That is really good.
Joe: Matt what’s this one? I had two pours.
Dan: I think that’s probably the peated.
Joe: Okay. Well, I’m on three.
Matt: Yeah, this is the… I like this.
Kevin: Well, it looks like I’m going to deliver.
Dan: Is there a metronome going back there?
Matt: It’s the floor drain glugging.
Dan: Oh.
Kevin: So we can get it out tomorrow.
Mark: That’s much better than the last one.
Dan: Yeah, that is-
Matt: Yeah.
Dan: That’s everything you want a whiskey be.
Mark: That’s hard to do. It’s a pretty low bar.
Matt: It’s true.
Dan: I think that’s a lot of what you want whiskey to be. It’s got a nice burn to it. It’s got a lot of complexity with the flavor profile.
Matt: Neat bottle.
Dan: And it develops really nicely on the tongue.
Matt: Cool cork.
Chris: That’s good.
Dan: What is that a bottle?
Matt: It’s a six-shooter cork.
Kevin: Oh! Oops, sorry.
Matt: This is about $110
Chris: Yeah. It’s a sweet bottle.
Matt: … MSRP. Yeah, the World Whiskey Society does the Wyatt Earp and the Doc Holiday Bourbons.
Joe: Chris, try that.
Dan: I’d let James buy me a bottle of that.
Matt: Whiskey, not bourbon. Sorry.
Joe: So it’s World Whiskey Group?
Matt: World Whiskey Society. See, these are the same guys that do the unicorn-
Joe: That’s weird.
Matt: … topper bottles. It is very sweet, but it’s 100% malted barley.
Chris: It’s not even the sweet. There’s something else that I’ve never tasted on a whiskey before.
Dan: Yeah, I might need another pour of that.
Mark: We have plenty of whiskey to taste today, Dan.
Dan: Nice. Mark, It wasn’t about that. It was about diagnosing the complexity that was on my tongue.
Chris: Now, I get cocoa powder from that with the water in it.
Mark: Once you water it down a little bit, you get a lot more-
Chris: That dry cocoa, baking cocoa.
Matt: There’s kind of a weird sweetness. Really?
Chris: Yeah. Try it.
Dan: Is that s’more popcorn still here?
Kevin: No.
Dan: Okay. I was going to have-
Matt: That stuff’s so good.
Dan: I was getting up like, “God, no, not the s’more.”
Matt: I ate a handful of everything that was open over there yesterday.
Dan: I know. That was my problem, too. The salted caramel was really good.
Chris: Yeah. It’s much different with water in it.
Matt: Oh. It kind of takes that funky metal out of there, which not bad funky, but different.
Chris: Yeah, like that heat metal. Heat metal, I guess, is-
Dan: So did you talk about the topper?
Matt: Yeah. It’s a six-shooter cylinder.
Chris: It’s so cool.
Dan: Yeah.
Chris: That’s a cool, freaking bottle.
Dan: And it’s improved.
Chris: I’m wondering about like, “Hey, we’re going to throw some guns on here.” Because they already created the label, and like, “Let’s just stick it right here.” It’s just in a weird spot.
Matt: We’ll just stick it right in the middle of the words.
Chris: Yeah. It’s over words.
Dan: It’s over some of the details.
Chris: It’s like, “Duh.”
Matt: Does it say what caliber those bullets are? Because Wyatt Earp carried a .45, I believe.
Dan: .45.
Mark: Those are not .45s.
Dan: Through the ashes of another life.
Matt: Who’s got good eyes?
Chris: Here.
Matt: Yeah. There’s writing on them. I just can’t tell what.
Chris: Whiskey.
Matt: That’s what it says?
Chris: Wyatt Earp Whiskey. It says Wyatt Earp whiskey and those look like .22s.
Matt: Oh, yeah.
Joe: I was going to say .22s. Yeah.
Dan: Let’s just say they’re .45s.
Chris: They’re not, but-
Dan: One of my favorite stories is never let the truth get in the way of a good story. One of my favorite quotes.
Matt: That’s fair. Whose whiskey’s that over there?
Dan: That’s Brett’s. I’m making him drink the rest of-
Matt: Okay, that’s fair.
Dan: I’m not making him.
Matt: Learning experience.
Dan: I’m not offering it to him.
Matt: Don’t drink whiskey from Dan.
Chris: It’s not like breakfast notes, man. I don’t know that’s why my head is going that way, but like-
Matt: I get like bread.
Dan: So is this just the regular Wyatt Earp version from the World Whiskey Society or is this a special Wyatt Earp?
Matt: I think this is just their second release.
Dan: Okay. That’s good.
Mark: Are they a bottler?
Matt: Yes. They’re kind of like a barrel or a Chieftains.
Mark: Okay. That is different.
Dan: That is really different. That is really good. Can you get more of that, Mark?
Mark: I don’t know. I don’t even know where I got it.
Matt: I would guess we could.
Dan: Matt, if you can’t, I’ll-
Matt: I mean it’s allocated, but-
Dan: Oh, is it?
Matt: … I’m guessing a lot of people aren’t going to take their allocations.
Dan: In Clark?
Chris: It’s Sylvan, Oklahoma. Did you see that?
Matt: I did not.
Dan: It’d be better if it was distilled at the Okay Corral.
Matt: It’s still there in Tombstone, Arizona.
Chris: Bottled by World Whiskey Society Company out of Pendergrass, Georgia. Distilled in Oklahoma.
Matt: Interesting.
Dan: You almost want a bottle that just-
Matt: It looks nice on a shelf.
Dan: It’s just how cool bottle is. Yeah.
Matt: Which the Doc Holliday one has a-
Dan: A black lung on it?
Matt: I think it’s… Yeah. You open it and it goes, “Tuberculosis.”
Dan: You open it and it starts coughing.
Matt: But I believe it’s got the-
Dan: We were mimicking it. Mark was actually coughing. But if you can get another bottle of that, I know I would at least take one. I’m betting James would take one, also.
Matt: James?
Dan: He hasn’t added to his collection in a while and I think that bottle absolutely needs to be in his collection.
Matt: Don’t point it at anyone.
Chris: No.
Dan: Yeah.
Matt: Those could be loaded.
Mark: Let’s skip the Eagle Rare until next week, and let’s do the-
Chris: Is it going to be around the next week?
Mark: … samples.
Dan: That’s not going to be around next week.
Mark: No.
Matt: No. That’ll be gone by… That’s the state pick.
Chris: Yeah, that’s going to be gone. It’s going to be gone.
Dan: Well, dammit. I wanted to try it. Fuck.
Mark: It’s okay.
Chris: It’s all right.
Mark: I’ll hide it for a week.
Chris: It’s okay. It’s okay. Make that money.
Dan: You’re no fun sometimes.
Mark: And Matt, I think used to be the only one that knows what they are until we taste each one.
Matt: Oh?

Barrel Bourbon Select Tasting

Dan: So now we’re going to switch it up. We were going to do the Eagle Rare State Barrel Select.
Chris: Yeah.
Dan: Sure?
Chris: That sounds good.
Mark: It works?
Chris: That’s the right letters.
Matt: That’s what it is.
Dan: Our description from where we distribute it just said, “Eagle Rare SBS.” We assume it means-
Kevin: State Barrel Select.
Dan: … State Barrel Select or select barrels.
Matt: There’s a sticker on the side.
Dan: I’m blanking. I don’t know.
Chris: Yeah, let’s see what the sticker says.
Mark: Basically, what we think it is that Eagle Rare sent-
Matt: We’re all wrong. It says NSS Nebraska state selection.
Chris: Oh.
Matt: Now, the sticker says Nebraska on-premise state selection.
Dan: Oh, so it was only available for on-premise?
Matt: I guess.
Dan: Well, that would explain why so many clients got it.
Chris: Makes sense.
Dan: So every once in a while, these barrels like Buffalo Trace, Blanton’s, Eagle Rare. Mark got a barrel pick of Buffalo Trace a couple of months ago. Didn’t last long. A lot of clients are waiting for the-
Matt: Yes.
Dan: … Eagle Rare one to come out, and we must’ve only got one barrel of it. So instead of them deciding the top client got it, they just divvied up the bottles amongst all the on-premise accounts that qualified for it, and we were going to try it today, but Mark said, “No.”
Matt: I want to try the barrels.
Chris: We can try them both.
Dan: We could do it all, Mark.
Matt: You can do it.
Dan: Yeah.
Matt: Wow. They used a lot of electrical tape on this bottle.
Dan: I like that. That’s nice. It’s very-
Chris: Electric tapey?
Matt: It’s very electric.
Chris: Actually, it’s not electric because-
Dan: It’s non-conductive?
Chris: Yeah.
Dan: Yeah. By the way, complete insider baseball, but Chris and I had a co-worker return to work this week named Ben, who was diagnosed with an incredibly rare and an incredibly aggressive form of brain cancer. The motherfucker beat it.
Chris: Was it brain cancer?
Dan: I thought it was brain cancer.
Chris: I don’t think it was brain. It was like a lymphonic-
Mark: Wow. That’s incredible.
Dan: It is an incredibly aggressive form of cancer. I thought it was brain, but-
Chris: No. I think it was a lymphatic type.
Dan: I know that when they were talking about it, prognosis was not great, but the son of a bitch fricking beat it. I just thought that was something we should talk about because we oftentimes talk too much about people losing their battle to cancer. Motherfucker kicked its ass. That’s awesome.
Chris: Yep. He’s awesome.
Dan: He’s a great dude, too.
Chris: Yeah.
Dan: He comes up to the Library Pub every once in a while. He got really drunk one night here and hit on Sarah.
Matt: Ben supports his Sazerac products-
Dan: Yes, he does.
Matt: … with Fireball.
Dan: Now, he’s Gallo.
Chris: With the Fireball.
Dan: Yeah.
Chris: Yep. That’s Ben.
Matt: Ben’s a nice guy.
Chris: Ben’s awesome, a huge Buffalo Bills fan.
Matt: I know. No one’s perfect.
Dan: The Bills are playing-
Chris: Tonight.
Dan: … who today?
Chris: There’s two games.
Dan: Yeah. It was this week or next week?
Chris: I don’t know who they’re playing. I don’t know who they’re playing tonight. Should be an easy win for them. They got a good team.
Mark: Tonight’s Jacksonville.
Chris: That’s what it is.
Dan: Next week is the Ravens.
Chris: How about like 53-year-old Andy Dalton ripping it up?
Kevin: He looked good.
Mark: Yeah. Is he the top quarterback fantasy?
Chris: I don’t know, man, but I know he’s not 53 years old, but he might be 50.
Matt: He’s 36.
Dan: I heard-
Matt: We actually looked it up yesterday, while we were watching the game.
Joe: Is he 36?
Dan: I actually heard Dan Whaley when he looked up at the TV and he goes, “Andy Dalton could go fuck himself.” I was like, “Dude, whoa.”
Chris: I don’t feel the same. As a hardcore Bengal fan, I do not feel the same. We fucked that guy. We fired him on his birthday. We cut him on his birthday, man. He did so much for us. Yeah. He couldn’t win in the playoffs, but you don’t fire the dude on his birthday. Come on.
Matt: He looked fantastic yesterday.
Dan: Did he?
Matt: For Carolina, yeah.
Chris: That kind of makes me happy.
Mark: Yeah. They killed the Raiders after the Raiders beat the Ravens.
Chris: Well, they came back.
Dan: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. They came back.
Matt: He was just threading the needle.
Mark: Good bourbon.
Dan: All right. Way to kill a great conversation going on.
Joe: Yeah.
Chris: We were having fun.
Dan: Jesus.
Mark: You could have joined in.
Dan: Always about Mark.
Mark: You like Redheads.
Joe: Usually the ones with boobs, though.
Chris: Yeah.
Dan: Well, he might.
Chris: Well, he’s got nipples.
Matt: It’s true. Can you milk me, Greg?
Chris: Can you milk me, Greg?
Matt: I have nipples.
Chris: I forgot. What is that from? What is that from?
Matt: Meet the Fockers.
Mark: Meet the Fockers.
Chris: Thank you.
Mark: Robert De Niro saying, “Can you milk me, Greg?”
Matt: I have nipples.
Dan: Oh, my God, but next weekend’s game, the Bills and the Ravens is going to be… Actually, I don’t think that’s going to be a great game at all. Bills should just steamroll them.
Chris: Ravens looked good this week.
Dan: Because the Ravens, they’re terrible.
Chris: Yeah. No, they looked good this week. They looked like the old-
Dan: They almost lost that game.
Chris: This week?
Dan: Yeah.
Chris: No.
Dan: To Dallas?
Chris: Look at the score.
Dan: They won by three.
Chris: No, no. Unless they came back because they were up by-
Dan: Yes.
Mark: The Ravens were killing the Cowboys. They were up 28 to six, and then the Cowboys came back.
Chris: Oh, I turned it off. Really?
Matt: Yeah.
Mark: Yeah. And made it like a three-point game.
Chris: Dang.
Mark: Yeah.
Chris: Dang.
Mark: Yep.
Chris: Okay. I guess they do suck.
Mark: But the Ravens did lose to the Raiders the week before, I believe.
Dan: They did.
Joe: Yeah.
Matt: They did. The Raiders-
Mark: Which was amazing.
Matt: If they just give it to Minshew.
Chris: Minshew’s hot and cold.
Matt: He’s horrible.
Chris: He’s hot and cold.
Matt: He’s terrible.
Chris: He’s hot and cold. He’s kind like the WF.
Matt: He was born in Chile. Yeah.
Mark: He’s like a wrestler personality. Isn’t he?
Chris: He’s got such a great mustache.
Mark: Yeah.
Dan: So I just want to come back to the co-worker that beat cancer. There was an email that sent out to the entire group and now everyone is replying all. One of the people in the company said, “Welcome back, buddy. You’re a bigger miracle than the Bill’s winning a ring.”
Matt: Wow.
Kevin: Who said that? Dan Ogden?
Chris: Nice, Dan.
Matt: That’s great. Wow.
Chris: I was going to point something like that, but yeah.
Matt: Too late.
Chris: That’s awesome.
Matt: Dan beat you.
Chris: He did. Good work, Dan.
Dan: Wow.
Chris: You and your faux hog.
Dan: All right, so-
Chris: This is good whiskey.
Dan: Barrel option number one.
Chris: Wow.
Kevin: This is how I get people out of the way.
Matt: This is 122.
Mark: I might need to hear.
Chris: Wow. Really?
Matt: 122.84.
Mark: That’s good. Yum.
Chris: I don’t think I’ve ever heard Mark say anything that is over 104.
Matt: It drinks very light.
Chris: Yeah, that’s dangerous.
Dan: Again, that is a complete testament that you cannot judge a bottle on its proof.
Chris: Can’t judge a book by its cover, either.
Dan: I know. I was kind of playing on that.
Joe: Pretty good.
Matt: I do like this.
Chris: Where’s this bottle at? Which one is this bottle?
Matt: It’s the little guy down here. I don’t know if I’m allowed to tell you guys yet or not.
Mark: You can now. We all tried it.

Armagnac

Matt: Okay. This one is the Armagnac Finish.
Mark: Can someone tell me what Armagnac is?
Chris: That sounds like the noise I make when I vomit.
Dan: Armagnac!
Chris: It’s just the arm of the yak, man.
Matt: You think it’d be way more earthy if it was yak arm finished.
Chris: Yeah, yak arm.
Dan: Let’s see.
Chris: Armagnac is just like a cognac, right?
Dan: What is Armagnac? It is a type of brandy that is produced in the Armagnac region of France.
Matt: Well, that sounds fancy.
Dan: All right.
Chris: See, French people with their hairy armpits.
Matt: They put on a pretty good Olympic.
Dan: I realize we’re one of four right now, but that is definitely on the top of my list.
Chris: Okay. I’m not going to finish this if we got more that are coming.
Dan: Yeah, we got three more.
Chris: Oh, jeez.
Joe: Three more.
Chris: That’s good. I like that.
Joe: It’s really good.
Chris: The heat is a half-life, though. The more that I drink it, the more it’s hot.
Dan: Really?
Chris: Yeah.
Joe: So it builds?
Chris: It builds, yeah.
Mark: It gets warm around the second and third sip.
Chris: Yeah, which I don’t mind.
Mark: No, I didn’t either. It’s still good.
Chris: All right, set that one aside.
Dan: Yeah, I’m going to put mine right here so I don’t grab it by mistake.
Chris: Okay.
Dan: Matt is unwinding the 38 feet of electrical tape that was put on there to make it legal.
Matt: I feel like I’m trying to drink Schminckel Tin.
Mark: So Joe, can you tell us anything else about Barrel other than the blender is weird?
Matt: Jesus.
Joe: I did not hear you. Sorry.
Mark: Can you tell us anything else about Barrel other than the blender is a little odd?
Joe: Odd?
Matt: What can you tell us about Barrel?
Joe: Oh, okay.
Mark: He was here. Nice guy, but he was odd.
Joe: I don’t know if I’ve met him. I don’t know if I’ve met him. Oh, the sales rep?
Kevin: Yeah.
Joe: Got it. Okay. Yeah, so Barrel, I believe, they just had their 10-year anniversary. I think they were founded in 2013. Yeah, 2013. Yeah. Master Blenders out of Louisville, Kentucky, and they’ve won all kinds of awards. I mean, you’ll find their bottles in all kinds of top 10 bottles of the year list, Forbes Magazine, Golf Digest, Whiskey Advocate. They do good work and we’ve sold a lot of their juice. So I think that in the year 2021, I believe we sold over 40 private barrels here in the State of Nebraska of their stuff, so they were definitely hot then, and they’re still doing very well for themselves now. They’ve got a lower price tier bourbon that does really well for us right now called the Foundation. I highly recommend that. You can find that on the shelf for about 54.99.
Dan: And the Library Pub has got to have the largest selection of Barrel bourbons, right?
Joe: Yeah, they do. Yeah. If you want Barrel, please come to the Library. We have a lot of them.
Mark: That’s good, but it’s not as good as the first one. It’s a little cinnamony.
Dan: I’m counting 42 bottles of Barrel bourbon up there.
Matt: At least.
Dan: I probably missed a few.
Mark: 42 different barrels.
Dan: Yeah. There’s a couple of them.
Matt: There’s a 36 back over here, so 43.
Dan: So 43.
Joe: Mark, I’m incredibly grateful for your business. Thank you.
Matt: I like this.
Mark: I like it. I just don’t think it’s as good as the first one.

Tokaji Barrel

Matt: Oh, this is the Tokaji Barrel finished.
Chris: This is the second one?
Matt: Yeah.
Chris: I don’t like it.
Matt: Which Tokaji is a sweet wine from Tokaj, Hegyalja. The basis of this wine are handpicked, dried, and noble rotten berries. After selecting, those dry berries are processed into Assue’s dough, so I don’t know if they make bread out of it or cookies or…
Chris: It’s very cinnamony, like you said.
Matt: But it’s like a sweet table wine.
Joe: That’s Hungarian then, right? Tokaji? Is that right?
Matt: It is Hungarian from the Tokaj Wine Region in Slovakia.
Chris: I like the first one better. I can’t say that I don’t like this one. That was not my favorite.
Mark: It’s just the first one was better.
Dan: Yeah, that first one really set the bar.
Chris: What I really want to say would be a total insult, and I don’t want to do that, but it’s like Fireball has more whiskey in it. If I’m comparing this to Fireball on the cinnamon content, it would be like Fireball has more whiskey taste than cinnamon taste. That’s kind of where I’m going. That’s where my brain went first, right when I tasted it was like, “Oh, cinnamon. Oh, Fireball. Oh, ooh.”
Dan: I think this is a good bourbon.
Chris: No offense.
Dan: I think this is a good bourbon, one that should be up on the shelf. I don’t know if it’d be a great Barrel Select.
Chris: Yeah.
Mark: And in case we didn’t already mention it, we’re sampling all finished whiskeys here from Barrel for the… Yep.
Dan: And not whiskeys from Finland.
Mark: There you go.
Matt: Each barrel has a little bit more tape on it.
Dan: Are they getting larger?
Matt: Okay, this one is 122.74. These are all pretty warm. Barrel doesn’t really mess around.
Chris: What was the last one?
Matt: It was 122.62.
Chris: Oh, definitely didn’t taste like that at all.
Dan: Can I see it?
Chris: I would’ve guessed 90.
Matt: These have drank well below what they are.
Chris: Yeah.
Dan: Are these available in… Could we buy the Tokaji barrel?
Joe: No. This-
Dan: Bottle or is this exclusive to the Barrel Pick program?
Joe: These are all just private barrel options. Yeah, so whoever winds up with any of these will be special.
Matt: Do they have a nationwide, like a Tokaji release?
Joe: No.
Matt: No?
Joe: No, not that I’m aware of.
Matt: I wouldn’t think so.
Joe: No.
Matt: It’s a very different finish.
Joe: Yeah. For Barrel’s core, the Seagrass is their rye. They’ve got the Dovetail, which does very well for us. They also have the Vantage. The Armida is definitely one of Mark’s favorites, although we do have trouble getting that one in from time to time.
Mark: Yes, and it is one of my favorites.
Joe: Thank you very much. Yeah, and then they release a new batch. They’re on Batch 36 right now as a company.
Matt: And Batch 36 has been very popular.
Joe: Yeah.
Matt: Our bottle is about half gone.
Dan: Yeah, it’s about 60% gone.
Matt: Yeah, a little over half gone.
Dan: That’s it back there on the back bar.
Joe: So for over the last 11 years, they’ve done 36 batches that they release nationally, worldwide, I believe.
Chris: It’s kind of an acidic nose, which is not a bad thing. It just makes your mouth water.
Matt: Super fruity.
Chris: Ooh.
Matt: Any guesses on what this is finished in?
Joe: That’s yummy.
Chris: Some sort of wine barrel.
Matt: Did you just pull that one out of the air?
Mark: Thank you, Captain Obvious.
Joe: No, but I-
Dan: I do kind of get a little bit of a Cabernet bitters.
Joe: Like a cab. I was going to say like a dark red wine cab Malbec.
Chris: PX.
Joe: You think it’s a Sherry PX?
Chris: Maybe.
Matt: Do you think it’s a Sherry PX? Do you?
Chris: I don’t think it is, but he’s probably the guy that sells it.
Joe: I might have peeked at the labels.

Ruby Port

Matt: Okay. This is a ruby port finish.
Joe: Oh?
Matt: So good call on the dark wine.
Joe: Ruby Tuesday?
Matt: Ruby Tuesday? What?
Dan: Yeah.
Matt: They have baby back ribs, don’t they?
Dan: That’s Chili’s.
Matt: I know, but the jingle sucks.
Chris: They should never have gotten rid of that jingle.
Dan: They even have a song about it.
Chris: This is good.
Mark: It is.
Joe: That’s fantastic. Yummy.
Dan: Ruby Port Barrel. Okay.
Matt: And again, it drinks nowhere near 122.74. Nowhere near that.
Dan: I’m thinking this is second for me.
Matt: Still like the first one the most?
Dan: Yeah.
Matt: The Armagnac?
Dan: Yeah. I’m going to give the Armagnac another taste at the end here, but so far, that’s number one for me.
Chris: That’s really good. It’s going to be close between this one and the Armagnac.
Joe: For a guy that sells booze in the state of Nebraska here, I only have a few Armagnac fans, but man, do they love it.
Dan: Yeah, they do.
Chris: Absolutely, for sure.
Joe: They are very passionate about it.
Chris: Yep.
Joe: Yeah.
Dan: While Matt is rolling off the electrical tape from our final sample of Barrel Select options, don’t forget the next Whiskey Wednesday coming up October 2nd. That’s one week from the day this publishes. Starting at 7:00, $50 per ticket, 90th and Fort at the Library Pub, Omaha’s largest whiskey bar. You’re going to be able to get a 10-year, a 12-year-old world, 12-year bespoke, a 15-year, and an 18-year. Again, that is a Whistle Pig vertical for $50. I heard a couple of people talking about they’re going to try to come out to it.
Mark: Are you going to say you’re coming and then not come?
Dan: I think I might actually be able to because I’m not entirely sure I’m doing a recording session that night.
Mark: Don’t you have a… Don’t we have something?
Dan: October 2nd?
Mark: War Horse.
Dan: Yep. We have a GSM, or not a GSM.
Mark: Yeah, we do. Yeah.
Dan: We have a Gallo thing.
Mark: Yeah, we have a Gallo thing at War Horse.
Dan: So I might just say, “Screw it,” and not go home, and just come out here for the tasting then because-
Chris: All right. What do we got?
Dan: Yeah, that’s a 3:30 to 5:30 deal, so I could just go grab some dinner, come out here, and do the tasting.
Chris: Can get some dinner there. You mean second dinner?
Dan: Where’s it at?
Chris: War Horse Casino.
Dan: Oh, War Horse. I thought you were talking about Horse Soldier for some reason. It was like a Horse Soldier deal.
Chris: Well, I mean there’s horse for both of them.
Matt: That’d be at Tac 88.
Dan: All right, our final one. Did we get a proof on it?
Matt: This is-
Joe: 122 point something.
Matt: … 121.98. Womp, womp, womp, womp.
Dan: You’re off by two-tenths.
Matt: Joe, do we know what the age statement on these are? These are all around six year?
Joe: I do not have that information.
Matt: Okay. I was just curious. I like this one.
Dan: Oh, shit. I definitely got a new number two.
Joe: It seems like most of their blends, though, will incorporate even 10, 12-year along with some younger stuff.
Matt: The one we did was a 14-year, but a lot of the ones I see that they’ve put out are six to eight-year.
Dan: It’s got a nice sweetness on the finish.
Matt: Any guesses what it is?
Dan: Am I going to get verbally assaulted if I say anything?
Matt: Ooh. Ooh.
Joe: Maybe.
Matt: That’s fair.
Dan: He’s looking at me like, “You might get physically assaulted, too.”
Matt: Well, just don’t go by him.
Dan: Pin me in the bathroom.
Joe: I don’t know. Maybe some white wine, but I could be completely wrong, but I also feel like this is aged in a super certain wood type, but I don’t know what it is.
Dan: I feel like it’s got some Scotch qualities to it that makes me feel like it might be finished in Menez barrels.
Chris: Or like Mizuno or something like-
Dan: Mizunar?
Chris: … Mizunara or whatever.
Matt: Mizuno.
Chris: Really? Really?
Dan: Not the football club company.
Matt: Nope.
Dan: Pedro Menez.
Matt: Dan got it.
Dan: I got it!
Chris: Nice, Dan.
Matt: Good job, Dan.
Joe: I knew there was one in there.
Dan: Thanks for helping me get that, Joe.
Chris: It’s between one and three for me. That’s it.
Dan: Oh, yeah?
Chris: Yeah, one and three.
Dan: I think three’s-
Chris: This is a three for me.
Dan: I think three is good.
Chris: This is a solid three.
Dan: But again, to be a barrel pick, I think it’s got to have some uniqueness to it, and I think the third one we tasted is a really good bourbon. I just don’t know if it’s Barrel Select capable.
Chris: One, the viscosity on the mouth is like a ton. It’s like thick, like syrup.
Dan: For which one? Sorry?
Chris: Number one, for me.
Dan: Yeah.
Matt: I think if I was going to pick one, I’d probably go with the Armagnac.
Joe: That was number one, yes.
Matt: I think it’s delicious. I do like the ruby red.
Dan: It’s got a brown sugarness to it. I’m back to brown.
Joe: Yeah, that ruby red is so good, though.
Matt: I do like the ruby red, but I think the Armagnac would be my pick.
Mark: It is tough. Way to go, Joe. Thanks for making it hard on us today.
Joe: Thanks for trying these, guys.
Matt: Could you give us one really good sample and three really shitty samples? And this one’s Mellow Corn. This one’s Joe Morgan. Well, I know I don’t want that one.
Chris: All right. Let’s revisit the ones that I don’t like.
Joe: My palate’s not great, but I think overall with the nose and the palate finish, I think number one’s probably my favorite.
Dan: Mark?
Chris: Number two’s out. Number two’s out.
Dan: What are you thinking?
Mark: I’m thinking one or three.
Chris: Two’s out, completely out.
Dan: I get a little saltiness on four, all of a sudden.
Matt: It could just be leftovers from last night.
Dan: No, I moved it up to two with my ranking.
Matt: Oh, got it.
Joe: Nice one, Matt. I caught that.
Matt: Joe’s the only one that heard that.
Dan: I didn’t hear you. Sorry.
Matt: You said you got a little saltiness. I said, “That could just be left over from last night.”
Dan: True.
Joe: Dude.
Dan: By the way, anybody see the uproar of the Salty Dog in Council Bluffs on social media?
Matt: No. What happened at Salty Dog?
Dan: Man. So a guy goes in there with his service dog.
Chris: God, there’s so much freaking conspiracy theories behind this.
Dan: The manager’s like, “You can’t have a service dog in here.”
Chris: No, no.
Dan: “You can’t have a dog in here.”
Chris: No, no, no.
Dan: Oh? Sorry, Chris. Go ahead.
Chris: That is not what she said.
Dan: Go ahead, Chris.
Chris: She asked the two questions that you’re allowed to ask by state law.
Matt: Is that a service dog?
Chris: Is that a service dog?
Matt: What service does it provide?
Chris: What service does it provide? And he couldn’t answer. He was like, “Oh, so what if it was just a service dog?” He tried instantly. It’s already been pushed under the rug, so I don’t want to add to any of this, but yeah, it was a very big miscommunication. He did not get kicked out. He left on his own accord.
Matt: It’s a very touchy subject.
Chris: Yeah.
Matt: Service dogs.
Dan: So he basically went to social media and told some fibs?
Chris: No.
Dan: Manipulated the truth?
Chris: Yeah. Told it from his point of view, but there’s always two sides to every story.
Dan: Yeah.
Matt: Well, there’s three.
Chris: Yeah, it’s fair.
Matt: It was his side, her side, and then the truth.
Dan: Then the truth.
Chris: Yeah.
Mark: Where was this at?
Dan: The Salty Dog in Council Bluffs.
Chris: Salty Dog in Council Bluffs.
Dan: It’s on South 24th Street.
Chris: But man, people were giving both sides death threats.
Joe: Wow.
Chris: Seriously, like death threats.
Matt: I got that once was a song that played on our jukebox. I had people saying they were going to beat me with a pipe.
Dan: Yeah.
Joe: That’s tough.
Dan: I know.
Chris: It goes to show that when you get so far on the left and so far on the right, you guys are no different.
Dan: I paid that guy a lot of money and he never came through on it, so thanks.
Matt: I’m pretty sure I wasn’t too worried about any of these people.
Dan: Apparently not. He took my money and didn’t beat you.
Matt: Little nerds.
Mark: What song?
Matt: It was a Steel Panther song.
Dan: You didn’t even play it.
Matt: I didn’t. All I did was turn the jukebox on.
Mark: The girl from Oklahoma?
Matt: No, this is about a woman with a glandular problem.
Mark: Oh.
Matt: She’s fat.
Dan: So Steel Panther is a band that does these kind of really [inaudible] songs.
Chris: NC-17 would be very easy to say.
Dan: Jesus. That wasn’t me that farted.
Chris: If this was the early ‘90s or late ‘80s, they would be the… Oh, God, who’s the rap group that does-
Dan: 2 Live Crew.
Matt: Oh, like 2 Live Crew?
Chris: Yeah.
Matt: 2 Live Crew of the rock and roll world?
Chris: Yeah. It is 2 Live Crew of the rock and roll.
Mark: It’s comical, like glam rock.
Matt: They do. Yeah, it’s like Motley Crew doing silly shit, which I mean, they have such great hits as Eating Ain’t Cheating, It Ain’t Gonna Suck Itself, Fat Girl.
Dan: They were on The Hangover 1? That was them, right?
Matt: I don’t know.
Chris: No, that was the Dan Band, I think.
Dan: Was it?
Chris: Wasn’t it the Dan Band?
Matt: The Dan Band’s funny, too.
Chris: Isn’t he in all of those? Aren’t they in all of those?
Dan: I thought he was just in one, but he could have been in all three.
Chris: Where he drops the F-bomb in really beautiful songs. Just all of a sudden you’re like, “Did you just say fuck?”
Matt: Which I know he was in-
Joe: Yeah. That’s the Dan Band.
Matt: … Old School.
Joe: Yeah.
Chris: Was he?
Joe: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Matt: He played the birthday party for the kids.
Chris: Yeah, that was hilarious. Where’d you guys get this guy?
Joe: Yeah. Steel Panther got put on the map originally with that hit Let’s All Party Like Today’s the End of the World or something like that.
Matt: Well, and they were touring on Hairball. They were part of the Hairball tour.
Joe: They’re fun.
Matt: They are fun. Their songs are horrendously offensive and I find them hilarious. So I mean, how can you be mad about Girl From Oklahoma?
Chris: That song is hilarious.
Matt: Or a song called China Girl. David Bowie had one called China Girl. What’s everyone so mad about?
Dan: David Bowie?
Matt: Yeah. You know, his friends call him Dave.
Dan: Dave?
Mark: Do you think? His friends call him David.
Chris: I think they call him Vid.
Matt: Well, it’s kind of like Robert De Niro. All his friends call him Bob.
Dan: Bobby? It’s like I call-
Matt: Yeah, Bobby De Niro.
Chris: Call him Hugh.
Dan: Yeah.
Chris: He’s Hugh. He’s Hugh to me.
Dan: Matt loves it when we call him Hugh.
Chris: He loves it.
Matt: Fucking nerds. Tug boat.
Chris: Tug Boat James.
Dan: All right, back to the Barrel-
Chris: Powerful, but slow.
Dan: … Select. I think it’s unanimous, Armagnac.
Mark: Number one.
Joe: Number one?
Dan: Everyone says Armagnac needs to be-
Matt: I think the Armagnac.
Mark: The only issue I have is more from a business standpoint is people don’t know what Armagnac is. They understand what a Ruby Port is.
Dan: Taste that four again, guys.
Chris: Yeah, but I think, again, the history that we had with Barrel before, I don’t think it’s going to have a problem selling, and the fact that you sit on the backboard and you offer one-ounce pours as tasters for usually six, eight bucks, depending on the cost of the bottle. If anybody’s curious about it, they get a pour of it and it’s going to sell fast.
Mark: Chris, the problem is I could do all, but three. I think all of them are good, but three.
Chris: I agree.
Mark: Three was just too cinnamony, too bacon spicy.
Matt: The Ruby port? Because that was number three.
Chris: That was number two, number two, number two, you mean.
Mark: On number two, I’m sorry.
Chris: Number two, yeah.
Matt: Number two was the Hungarian Tokaj.
Dan: Yeah, the Tokaj. What was four?
Matt: Four is a Pedro Menez.
Dan: Pedro, that’s right.
Chris: Nope, you’re right. Number one’s good. I just smelled it again. It’s good. It’s good. We don’t have to have the conversation. You’re good.
Joe: It’s also-
Dan: Mark, buy it.
Joe: There’s also something to say about having something unique to the market. I don’t think there’s any other Armagnac.
Chris: No. I haven’t seen it.
Joe: … finished whiskeys out there.
Chris: Absolutely.
Joe: Then there are those people out there that are like, “Wow, Library Pub’s got an Armagnac finished private barrel.”
Matt: If they know what Armagnac is.
Joe: Yeah.
Matt: I mean, really that’s the big unknown is what people know.
Dan: Library Pub also still has an Old Scout, an Old Elk, sorry, a Smooth Ambler, an Old Elk, and a Jefferson Ocean barrel pick, and the Jefferson Ocean barrel pick is really good.
Matt: The bottles are going decently on the Ocean pick.
Dan: How much is the Jefferson Ocean? It’s like 150.
Matt: 105?
Dan: 105? Okay.
Chris: Now, if you add them all together, that’s some good whiskey, too.
Joe: Jefferson Ocean? I never heard of that.
Matt: If you just make a suicide.
Chris: I did suicide them.
Dan: Yeah. It was a good pick.
Chris: Try it.
Dan: Did you need to try a sample of it and spit it out?
Joe: Is that the distillery that’s owned… Is that a collaboration between Jefferson Airplane and Billy Ocean?
Chris: Oh, my God.
Dan: Possibly.
Chris: Get out of my dreams.
Dan: And into my car.
Matt: If that’s not like an abduction song, I don’t know what is.
Joe: Get in the back seat, baby.
Chris: Diddy does.
Joe: I sang some Billy Ocean Saturday night.
Matt: Diddy does. Don’t slip.
Dan: All right, we got anything else?
Chris: Yeah, suicide them.
Dan: Any more we can try?
Chris: Suicide them.
Matt: Holy shit.
Chris: I know, dude.
Dan: I drank them all. I can’t. I drank them all.
Matt: That’s actually kind of good.
Chris: It’s kind of good.
Dan: All right. Can Mark buy all four barrels and we just mix them together?
Matt: We’re just going to dump them all together.
Mark: Yeah. We just get one big barrel and dump it all in.
Matt: I’ll take them home and do it in the bathtub.
Dan: Yeah. Mark, we decided you’re buying all four of these and we’re just going to mix them.
Chris: Library Pub exclusive.
Dan: You’re going to have like 1,000 bottles to sell.
Chris: Suicide makes my armpit sweat.
Dan: That’ll make your armpit sweat.
Chris: You will? What are we going to do, some jumping jacks?
Dan: Don’t ask questions.
Chris: What are we going to do?
Dan: It just happens.
Matt: Yeah, fucking stupid.
Chris: It is good. Here. Let me try it.
Dan: Just try it. Thank you.
Chris: Obviously, they’re all different because we all drank different amounts.
Joe: I’ve got them all here.
Kevin: You have them all in one place.
Joe: All right. I’ll do it right now.
Dan: Joe is going to suicide them, which, by the way, this is a good time to mention suicide is not cool. This concludes the segment that is absolutely going to get deleted from the podcast because it got real dark.
Matt: No.
Mark: Now, are we going to leave?
Dan: Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Mark: Okay.
Dan: Just nobody mention what we talked about because then it makes it harder to edit it out.
Matt: If you’re feeling suicidal, call 1-800-BET-SOFF.
Dan: There you go. We never talked about anything dark and disturbing like that for the last seven-and-a-half minutes.
Matt: You’re not alone.
Dan: Joe, how did the mixing of the barrels go for you?
Joe: Tastes pretty good.
Dan: It is really good.
Joe: Yeah. We’re master blenders just like Barrel.
Dan: Right?
Matt: Yep.
Mark: It would only be $52,000.
Dan: See?
Chris: See, you’re optimistic.
Mark: Only?
Matt: Only.
Dan: Right?
Matt: That’s it. That’s it. Kevin, we’re working for free now.
Chris: How many bottles is that?
Dan: Now, what if I called Moe?
Chris: I think 700?
Dan: Can I call Moe and sell it to her?
Matt: Oh, God.
Chris: Eight, okay.
Dan: Mark, can I call Moe and sell it to her?
Mark: No.
Dan: I think he’s saying no because he thinks there’s a chance I might talk her into it.
Mark: I doubt it.
Matt: Well, that’s different.
Dan: That is different. By the way, Kevin is taking Teddy for a ride in the cart.
Mark: And Ted likes it more than Artie. Artie didn’t like it all.
Dan: No.
Matt: Artie didn’t like it at all.
Mark: Ted’s just kind of hanging out, hair flowing back.
Dan: In the wind?
Matt: Like the cover of a romance novel.
Dan: His chest’s not bare.
Matt: His super hairy chest.
Dan: All right, so again, we have the Whiskey Wednesday coming up, the Whistle Pig Vertical. 10-year, 12-year, 12-year bespoke, 15-year, 18-year coming up next Wednesday, October 2nd, $50 a ticket. We’re also going to be opening up early on Sunday, October 13th for the Jaguars and Bears playing in London on Sunday.
Matt: Why?
Dan: We’ll open up about 8:00 A.M.
Matt: Who cares about that game?
Chris: From London.
Dan: Because I’m excited to try Dan Whaley’s waffles.
Matt: His blue waffle?
Dan: That too. I’ve had that.
Matt: Whoa.
Dan: I have had that. So if you want to come up, if you’re a Bears fan, if you’re a Jags fan, or you just want a place to come and hang out and watch the football games, we’ll be open early on Sunday, October 13th. It’ll be a Facebook page event. Joe, thank you so much for joining us.
Joe: Thank you.
Dan: As always, you’re welcome to message me if there are parts of the podcast you’d like me to take out, so that way you don’t risk your current employment.
Joe: I don’t think I said anything too…
Dan: Well, it’s more about what we said.
Joe: I held back. Just kidding.
Dan: Joe, a nice guy. Joe known around town as Nice Guy Joe, working for Quail.
Joe: Quail.
Dan: Quail, sorry.
Joe: Flying high on the wings of the almighty Quail.
Dan: Thank you. Sorry.
Joe: Yes.
Dan: We’ll hopefully be getting a Barrel Select. That’s the worst thing about doing it, is you have to pause to talk about it being a Barrel Select, but if that’s the worst thing, things could be a lot worse.
Joe: You guys are great. Thank you.
Dan: Thanks, Joe.
Joe: Thank you for having me.
Matt: Thanks, Joe.
Dan: Matt, close this up.
Joe: Bye.
Matt: Bye. You didn’t like that?
Chris: Hasta la vista, baby.
Dan: Here’s the point when he’s going to jump in.
Matt: See you, everybody.
Chris: Goodbye, my love.
Mark: You’re early.