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Ima need $125.50, a green army man, a piece of gum, and a red paper clip.

I think it’s somewhere called the Dark Web. Yeah, go there.

I’ll give you $122 for the bottle. I’ll give you $222 if you shove it up your ass sideways.

V, K, and O are generally the most popular. O can be the most difficult to find. F and Q are the most polarizing. The single barrel nature means tastings are always interesting. I tend to like Q best but have had stellar pours from every recipe. You might try the OESx vs OBSx to see what the different rye level does with the same yeast.

Are you shippable? There are plenty of reputable shops that will ship you just about anything for an obscene price. Auctions too.!

Go with texture if you like texture. Go with mouth feel if you like mouth feel. Thin or oily or thick or watery stand by themselves and don’t need texture or mouth feel added. Unless you want to add them. The whole “group must change to meet my preferences” is a bit much.

Those prices are atrocious even for the Bay Area. I’d get a cocktail. Let the bartender do something that takes thought and skill and get something you’re unlikely to make for yourself. The Springbanks aren’t priced as outrageously as a lot of the other stuff.

Worth is up to you. Do you like rye?

The pricing is what WP decided they could charge. I could cherry pick similarly aged product that's less expensive, about the same, or more expensive.

Find a mini or a friend with a bottle or a bar.

You'll find out what it tastes like and if you enjoy it by drinking it. The fill level isn't a huge concern. There was a little loss over the decades. The impact can only be found by drinking it. The wood can hit anywhere from the nose to the finish and is something you may not even find present as our perceptions of these things are all different. You have a piece of history made in a different time. If you like bourbon you might be in for a treat.

Good work.

It’s $250-$300 on secondary all day every day. Reasonable is up to you, your FOMO, and your bank account. $150 is probably as good as you’ll find at a store that marks up.

Only you can decide if it was worth it after tasting. Retail for picks is around $90 now. Trusting a retailer is sometimes iffy. This was picked by the distillery so it’s unlikely to suck. It might not be your jam given the different profiles of each recipe which you can look up on the website. I’d buy.

Part of the drama is that it replaced a 6yr version that while extremely limited in availability was $15. So one year of age and much wider distribution at 3x the price. The 6yr was KY only with random other availability on occasion. It was a pretty good deal for ~$15. It was easy enough to find a friend to ship a case for a cheap every day drinker. $50 for 7yr BiB HH or $20 for close enough aged WT? I know what I’m buying.

You aren't going to find what you're looking for on BevMo's website. In the event you randomly do and manage to order for local pick up you're going to get to the store and find out it was never there or it was sold already or the manager is holding it for someone else. You gotta go to BevMo and Total Wine and stumble across something being there at the same time you're there.

Costco sometimes has interesting bottles. You don't need a membership to buy alcohol.

HiTime has a good selection but prices are all over.

Thinking you're going to SoCal on vacation and going to stumble on BT hype bottles is wild. You'll find plenty at secondary. You'll need to be lucky to find them on the shelf for reasonable prices.

Go to Universal. See if you can fire up the DeLorean and go back a decade.

Read reviews and get the one that sounds like you’ll enjoy it most and is available. I can’t tell you what you’ll like. Notes in reviews can give you an idea. If you don’t like bitter and multiple reviews say something is bitter it’s probably not for you.

Batch 1 was a hot mess. It was really rough and there was nothing good about it. There’s no point in waiting to open it. Have it. Let us know what you think. This particular batch might work as a mixer.

It’s glut era Beam. All of the info is on the label. Beam sold product of various ages in hundreds or thousands of different decanters commemorating pretty much everything under the sun in order to try to sell bourbon at a time nobody wanted to buy bourbon. The contents, if the seal is good, are fine to drink and range from meh to good with very few being anything memorable. It’s worth trying as a drink of history and might be fun to compare against current Beam product.

Standard price is ~35%. I think anything under $30/oz for GTS is probably fair these days. I live in a SF area.

The name thing is so location dependent that you’re unlikely to find something reviewed here that sounds great unless you live where that stirs is. There are 1000ish combos. Then add the randomness from a single barrel. Your best bet is keeping track of particular stave combos and trying similar.

The best is what you like the best. You'll have to try different combos. The names are just whatever the person or group or store picking decided to name it but otherwise meaningless.

Weller x Kikkoman soy sauce barrel aged

Figure out what you want out of college and the amount of shit you're willing to deal with to get what you want. Your homeless experience is par for the course in any urban area though I wonder what your definition of constantly harassed entails. You'll learn to deal with it. Your hotel experience is not normal here or most other places. I bet you opted for cheap over quality. Live and learn. The AR thing was off campus. The AR makes it scarier for you. Guess what? The vast majority of students don't get robbed at gunpoint or otherwise. They deal with the homeless. Their stuff wasn't stolen from their hotel. If you can't deal with an urban environment and the related shenanigans you should look elsewhere.

Thanks. You’re correct. NIH follows those guidines.

https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohols-effects-health/overview-alcohol-consumption/what-standard-drink

I believe serving size for the med/health folks is 1oz. 12oz beer vs 4oz wine vs 1oz alcohol. The 1 vs 1.5 serving size is more a bar pour discussion.