224 - 2019 Bottled-in-Bond Showdown

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🗓️ 24 October 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Bottled-in-Bond. It’s one of the revolutionary moments of American history, but has also become near and dear to many bourbon drinkers with good reason. We covered the in and outs of bottled-in-bond with Bernie Lubbers back on Episode 089 and it's part of our Bourbon 101 podcasts. Since we know why bottled-in-bond is important, it’s time to find out who Bourbon Pursuit is going to claim as the best bottled in bond bourbon in 2019! We blind sample our way through 12 heavy weight contenders and put them in the Bottled-in-Bond Showdown. Who is going to be crowned champion? Listen and find out. Show Notes: Elijah Craig Launching Kentucky Straight Rye Whiskey: https://www.instagram.com/p/B3wt1feHdlZ/ Amazon Gin: https://www.beveragedaily.com/Article/2019/10/21/Amazon-launches-its-own-spirits-brand-Tovess This week’s Above the Char with Fred Minnick talks about premium pricing. What is Bottled-in-Bond? Blind tasting of the following (in no particular order): Heaven Hill Bottled-in-Bond 7yr Henry McKenna Single Barrel Bottled-in-Bond George Dickel Bottled-in-Bond Old Bardstown Bottled-in-Bond Old Grand Dad Bottled-in-Bond 1792 Bottled-in-Bond Evan Williams Bottled-in-Bond Jim Beam Bottled-in-Bond JW Dant Bottled-in-Bond Early Times Bottled-in-Bond New Riff Bottled-in-Bond Wilderness Trail Bottled-in-Bond

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0:00.0	How fast can you go through like 15 bourbons?
0:03.0	I'd be done now if you weren't asking me so many questions.
0:15.3	Welcome back. It's episode 224 of Bourbon Pursuit.
0:19.8	I'm one of your host, Kenny, and here's your weekly
0:21.8	bourbon news roundup. Last Thursday, Heaven Hill announced Elijah Craig is launching their
0:26.9	Kentucky straight rye whiskey. This is made from Heaven Hill's only rye mash bill, which is 51%
0:32.6	rye, 35% corn, and 14% malted barley. the same mashville that you're going to see for
0:38.6	written house as well as Pikesville. With an SRP of only 2999, Elijah Craig, Kentucky
0:45.0	Strait, rye whiskey will first launch in limited markets of North Carolina, South Carolina,
0:50.4	Georgia, and Oregon in January of 2020.
0:54.3	Now, when you hear about a release like this,
0:56.2	we typically hear about most people,
0:58.5	especially in Kentucky, being kind of upset
1:00.8	about its lack of market penetration.
1:03.0	So we actually reached out to our contacts at Heaven Hill
1:05.6	to see what the response was.
1:07.4	And this was a decision by the brands
1:09.2	to focus on markets based on a variety of needs.
1:12.2	This could be from building a brand on premise, competitiveness in a particular market,
1:17.0	or to slow roll a product based on aged inventory. Now, for this release, there was no one single
1:22.6	reason, but you can read more about this post on Instagram with the link in our show notes.
1:28.3	Jim Murray's Whiskey Bible has announced that last week his top whiskey of 2020 was 1792
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