you know, six, seven years ago, chase down the antique collection and Pappy and all this stuff,

and that just doesn't happen anymore.

Well, probably even longer for that.

So, you know, I mean, is Kenny being a little bit of an old grouch here?

I think so.

Yeah. This is Bourbon Pursuit, the official podcast of Bourbon, bringing to you the best in news, reviews, and interviews with people making the bourbon whiskey industry happen, and I'm one of your host, Kenny Coleman.

Well, we're finally back. It's another Bourbon community roundtable, and this is the 64th edition,

and here's this week's hot topics. Sazirac has implemented near-field communication tags, or NFC tags, in this year's Thomas H. Handy. We talk about, is this the boost that the bourbon

market needed, or is this setting

a bourbon to be more of a collectible market? But we also take a look and think, well, who should

be taking the next step, or what distilleries should be really starting to take notice?

I also got into a scuffle on TikTok a few weeks ago because someone said, what non-allocated

bourbons are you hunting this year?

And I snarkily replied, well, if you're really hunting non-allocated bourbons, is that really a hunt?

So I asked the team, how do you really define hunting?

And lastly, let's talk about some of those 2022 predictions and what we might see this year.

But enjoy this week's episode, and now here's Fred Minnick with Above the Char. I'm Fred Minnick, and this is Above the Char. This question

comes from Mitch Middlestad, who writes me on fredminic.com, that's fredminic.com.

He asks, how do you attend a whiskey event or a whiskey festival event without getting hammered?

He says that people that go to Whiskey Fest often come back intoxicated, far more intoxicated than he ever wanted to be.

So I think that's a great question.

And this right here, folks, is what separates the professionals from the amateurs.

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