274 - What is Sourced Whiskey?

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🗓️ 8 October 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

What is sourced whiskey? It can mean a lot of different things and many of us bourbon geeks feel some do it better than others. There is contract distillation and there is outright buying barrels, but it’s what you are doing with the bourbon that makes the story. We evaluate some of the most iconic brands that built their legacy off of sourcing and then look at today’s market to see who is doing something special versus simply slapping a label on a bottle. Show Notes: This week’s Above the Char with Fred Minnick talks about barrel finishes. How do you know when something is sourced? How do you source whiskey? What brands are sourced? What about pricing sourced whiskey? What kind of influence has sourced whiskey had on the industry? What is more respectable, starting a brand sourced and then transitioning to your own distillate or starting with your own distillate? What about contract distilling? What are the primary places to source from? Support this Podcast on Patreon

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0:00.0	That whole thing was based on tourism.
0:02.6	And I really do think that like, you know, tourism is for forever changed, at least for five years, which is forever in whiskey.
0:09.7	Yeah, exactly.
0:20.0	This is episode 274 of Bourbon Pursuit, the podcast featuring news, reviews, and interviews,
0:26.4	with people making the bourbon whiskey industry happen.
0:29.4	Before we start today's podcast talking about sourced whiskey, here's your weekly
0:32.6	bourbon news update.
0:34.5	On Friday, October 9th of 2020, the world's largest private whiskey collection ever
0:39.8	will go up for auction. Only going by the name of Pat, Pat's overall whiskey collection
0:44.9	consists of over 9,000 bottles of bourbon and American whiskey, along with 2,000 miniatures,
0:50.5	with many rare bottling such as Old Fitzgeralds from the Van Winkle era, almost 100 bottles of
0:55.9	Jack Daniels including the Sinatra Century, Old Number 7 inaugural, and the gold medal series,
1:01.8	and noteworthy collections of very old St. Nick, Willett Family Estates, and rare mictors,
1:06.7	and nearly every bottle of the Buffalo Trace Experimental Series to the coveted 1974 Van Winkle
1:13.0	Exports. Bidding will open on Friday, October 9th, and will end on Monday, October 19th.
1:19.0	More details about how to register for the auction are available right now at whiskey auctioneer.com.
1:25.7	Now, moving on to Bourbon Release News. For the first time ever, Angel's envy
1:29.8	cash strength will hit the shelves at all 50 states. It's the only time each year that the brand releases
1:35.6	its flagship port wine barrel finished bourbon at any other proof than its classic 86.6. And this
1:42.0	year's release will be 120.6 proof. About 17,400 bottles of this 20-20
1:48.3	cash strength expression will hit shelves across the country starting on November 1st,
1:52.7	and limited amount will be available at Angels Envy downtown distillery in Louisville,
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