Originally Posted by
exerda
Did I say before that I really like Larceny bourbon? I took a bottle a while back and put some used vanilla beans in it... maybe 3 total beans split in half which had been sitting in my sugar bin for a while to infuse the sugar. Very, very tasty in the Larceny bourbon (which is a great bourbon on its own IMHO).
Sounds delicious.. I infuse a bottle every fall with apples and cinnamon which turns out quite nicely...
Originally Posted by
exerda
My most-local ABC store claimed (and I take this with a huge grain of salt) that Buffalo Trace is going to start becoming an "allocated" product, meaning that each store will get only a limited amount of it and thus it will be hard to find.
This was in response to someone asking about Pappy (LOL), and the manager said, "Even Buffalo Trace is about to be a lot more rare on our shelves," and went on to explain the allocation bit.
I find it hard to believe that a minimally-aged, large-distillery, entry-level (if very tasty) bourbon will become so limited that VA ABC stores ration it out.
Ahh the dread allocated word... nearly everything has become allocated...
Sazerac rye, Elmer T Lee, Pogue, Rock Hill Farms, Old Weller Antique.. basically it seems that the demand is so high that they've taken to allocating almost everything... but this is the first I've heard of for Buffalo Trace.... by creating scarcity they are making everything worse....
thank god I probably have enough whiskey to last me till I die....
FDW