050 - How Liquor Barn Manages Inventory and Allocated Bourbon with Ray Perryman, Spirits Manager

Bourbon Pursuit

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🗓️ 3 June 2016

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Ray Perryman (@LBSpringHurst), Spirits Manager at Liquor Barn (@LiquorBarn) in Louisville, shares an insider view to carrying over 400 bourbon and whiskeys, how to deal with the allocated ones, and keeping transparency. Show Notes: We open up a Van Winkle Rye 13 Year to start the show Ray, I know you're a beer guy but do you enjoy the brown water? How did you get into bourbon? What is Liquor Barn for all those outside of Louisville? What's the day in the life of a spirits manager? You came into the Springhurst location and you said it was in dire need of a shakeup. What have you done to increase interest? Talk about the Tasting Bar How do you all deal with releasing rare bourbons Talk about Flat Boat Bourbon

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0:00.0	we'll pour one of these and we'll just kind of get recorded.
0:03.6	I mean, that sounds like that.
0:04.7	Yeah, absolutely.
0:07.8	Damn.
0:09.6	You're passing over for me.
0:10.5	Let me show you to do that.
0:12.7	What the liquor guy.
0:15.8	That one got in there.
0:18.2	There you go.
0:18.8	We primed it for you. I had a lot of experience doing. And we primed it for you.
0:20.8	I had a lot of experience
0:22.8	doing this.
0:23.6	We primed it for you.
0:25.6	I'll do the honors.
0:26.8	Please search your bottle.
0:27.9	I'll never open another room's bottle. Hey everyone, it's Kenny here, and I've always said the best way to try a whole bunch of whiskeys is going to a whiskey festival.
0:49.6	And the best touring whiskey festival outside of Kentucky, it's got to be Whiskey Riot.
0:54.0	And they're now operating events across New York, Florida, Texas, and Oklahoma for 2025.
0:59.8	Attendees can look forward to trying over 200 different types of whiskey,
1:03.2	meeting brand experts, founders, distillers, and more like-minded enthusiasts such as yourself.
1:08.6	These are seriously fun events, and heck, we're going to be there too, so make sure you check
1:12.5	out the pursuit booth.
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