089 - Deep Dive into Bottled in Bond with Bernie Lubbers, Whiskey Ambassador for Heaven Hill

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4.9 • 866 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2017

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Bernie Lubbers, Whiskey Ambassador for Heaven Hill and also known as The Whiskey Professor, joins the show to talk about bottled-in-bond and what makes these bourbons “bricks of gold”. Show Notes: Talk about Bern’s Corner and how you arrange your bottles What has made you so fascinated with Bottled-in-Bond. Talk about the issue or necessity behind bottled-in-bond When people were diluting whiskey or using tobacco spit, were people still buying it? Why 100 proof and not 90 or 80? Is the bottled-in-bond act still a binding piece of legislation? So you can have bottled-in-bond of spirits other than bourbon? There is an interpretation for bottled-in-bond corn whiskey Why did Issac Wolfe Bernheim against the bottled-in-bond act? Talk about Colonel Taylor and his involvement Were there any palms that were greased to make this happen? After this bill passed, did it put brands out of business? What’s the importance of having bottled-in-bond today? What is the responsible for the resurgence of bottled-in-bond?

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0:00.0	So they can't list DSP KY1.
0:03.6	Right.
0:04.5	So they listed where this brand came from, which was DSP KY16.
0:11.1	But that's misleading to the consumer.
0:13.0	I was like, wait a second.
0:15.6	So now this brand says everything the same.
0:21.1	It's still 100 proof, but it doesn't say bottle and bond.
0:26.4	So I cause that not to happen.
0:37.3	We've gotten a lot of positive feedback on last week's episode, and we'll continue it again this week talking about nothing but Bottled and Bond.
0:44.9	March 3rd was the anniversary of the Bottled and Bond Act, so now it's officially 120 years old.
0:50.7	And I'm telling you what, everyone in here is going to be in for a treat.
0:53.9	So much so,
0:54.7	Bernie's going to make us look sort of like idiots at times because he caught us off guard
0:58.5	and it kind of felt like we were back in the classroom. It was an enjoyable time being back
1:02.7	at Burns Corner. In other news, back on episode 38, we had Turner Moore talk about the
1:07.7	Whiskey Obsession Festival. That's happening again in Sarasota, Florida,
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1:26.8	In fact, there is so much extra of footage from
1:29.2	this episode, there is almost an additional 45 minutes that you can only hear if you're
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