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Bourbon Pursuit

152 - How Bourbon Used To Be and Adapting To a New Market with Guthrie McKay of Toddy's Liquors

Bourbon Pursuit

Bourbon Pursuit

Arts, Food, Hobbies, Leisure

4.8928 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2018

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

You know when people say "I miss the good 'ol days"? Guthrie McKay is one of them. He has seen the bourbon renaissance flourish as he's been nestled in a small little liquor store in downtown Bardstown called Toddy's Liquors. Toddy's has almost become a stop on its own as people visit the Kentucky Bourbon Trail. Listen as Guthrie tells stories of taking customers to visit Booker and Parker, his run in with Bill Thomas, and how the current boom has made him adapt business. Show Notes: Talk about the store. How did you get into the liquor business? Why didn't you name it after yourself? Talk about Bardstown 30 years ago and the bourbon scene and how it has changed Was there a premium brand back then? Did you have a hard time selling stuff like Booker's or Maker's Mark? Talk more about those early relationships with first entrants in the market? I'm sure you aren't sending people to the Beam's house any longer Is your store becoming another stop on the bourbon trail? What's your most annoying Pappy story? Talk about your history with Bill Thomas How do you deal with distributor games now? Are you looking forward to seeing Bardstown grow with reinvestments into infrastructure for keeping bourbon booming? How do you deal with shelf space on craft brands? Are you major buyers on the bourbon trail or everyday consumers? So you don't feel bad about pricing above secondary? Are gift shops taking away from your bottom line? What can big distilleries do to help support you? Can Bardstown support any more business? Are there enough people? You've talked about lot of gripes, but tell us what are some of the positives Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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A guy said, well, I can get that Weller 107.

0:03.8

I get the Weller 102 for $100 on the internet.

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And I said, well, why are you talking to me for it?

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Go.

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Hey, everyone.

0:19.3

Welcome back to another brand new episode of Bourbon Pursuit.

0:22.6

And as usual, let's go through the news.

0:24.9

The Bourbon Affair is happening this week.

0:27.6

And if you're still on the fence about it, come and see us on Saturday morning at Higher Proof Expo.

0:33.0

There are still tickets available.

0:34.5

We're going to be the recording.

0:35.7

Those recordings aren't going to be the recording. Those recordings aren't about for a while. So go to k.y bourbonaffair.com and get your tickets and hopefully we'll

0:40.9

see you there. This past week, we chose a winner to help come with us to blend our private

0:47.5

blend of Makers 46. And that winner is Tyler True. We put this out for anybody that was

0:54.0

pledging over $10 or more per month on Patreon.

0:57.3

You had a sign up. We ran it. And so we had quite a lot of people that were able to hopefully make the trip.

1:03.0

So that's going to be happening later this month in June of where we're going and doing our own private blend of Makers 46.

1:09.8

And those are only going to be available to Patreon supporters and also congrats to all of our winner from all of

1:16.2

our winners from May's giveaway which was a barrel that's with two R's and two

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L's that theme giveaway you know today's episode features something our fans always

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like to hear from and that's the retailer side. If you've

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ever been to Bardstown and gone to the Bourbon Trail, you may have seen this little yellow

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