230 - The /r/bourbon Community of Reddit with T8ke

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4.9 • 866 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

The online community is one of the biggest forces behind bourbon growth. This is where people go to learn more, ask questions, make connections, and find new and interesting bourbons to try. Reddit has been a platform for those conversations for a long long time. The popularity of the /r/bourbon subreddit has now eclipsed over 109,000 members and it’s continually growing. We sit down with T8ke, one of the moderators of the /r/bourbon subreddit, to get a glimpse into a moderator's daily life. We look into the type of content that gets upvotes, how the AMAs work, and how being anonymous plays a role vs Facebook where it’s your actual name and profile. Join the sub https://www.reddit.com/r/bourbon/. Show Notes: Whiskey Advocate Top 20: http://whiskyadvocate.com/top20/ This week’s Above the Char with Fred Minnick talks about whiskey marketing. Tell us how you got into bourbon? What led you to discover more? What type of content do you see on Reddit? Is there a newbie factor? Do people really like the reviews? Who is the typical person checking out these reviews? What does AMA stand for? What were the top AMAs? Tell us about the Reddit culture. Talk about the anonymous factor. Are there any issues since it is anonymous? Are there sales in the forums? What kind of growth are you seeing in the forum? What topics are popular? Why do so many people on Reddit hate Fred Minnick? Have bourbon posts ever been on the front page of Reddit? How much time do you spend moderating? How many posts do you get during release season? When people post do you have to approve it? Who has it worse, Facebook or Reddit mods?

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0:00.0	200 episodes in, I'd have it, you know, it's processed down, but we'll get it.
0:04.1	Man, I still don't got my shit together, so it's fine.
0:08.2	Sounds good.
0:18.0	Welcome back, everybody. It is episode 230 of Urban Pursuit. I'm Kenny, and I hope that you and everyone
0:24.9	out there had a great Thanksgiving, and now you're preparing for the holiday rush. I put my Visa
0:30.2	and my American Express card to work this past week, and I know that there were a lot of
0:35.2	bourbon Black Friday and some Cyber Monday deals out there, too.
0:39.1	So I hope you all got something good and you have something to sip on for the rest of the month leading into 2020.
0:45.7	Now, let's hit a little bit of the news.
0:48.6	Whiskey Advocate has released their top 20 whiskeys of 2019.
0:52.9	And I'm pleased to say that five of the top 10 are bourbon,
0:56.0	including Old Ezra 7-year, Woodford Reserve's Master Collection batch proof, the new Heaven Hill
1:02.4	Bottled & Bond 7-year, four rows of small batch select, and topping it off at the number one
1:08.4	spot, which is kind of surprising to a lot of people, is George
1:11.7	Dickle's Bottled and Bond. Now, we're big fans of Dickle over here, but it didn't win our
1:16.9	whiskey of the year, nor was it our favorite in the Bottled and Bond blind we did back on
1:21.6	episode 224. We're going to be releasing our results on December 26th for our end-of-the-year
1:27.1	podcast,
1:28.0	and you can get the link to Whiskey Advocates Top 20 within our show notes.
1:33.4	Forgate Whiskey Company is releasing a new expression in collaboration with Kelvin Coopridge
1:38.0	called Split Stave Bourbon.
1:40.4	The name comes from three different barrels that Kelvin deconstructed and built new casks.
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