I've been able to secure a couple bottles of W.L. Weller 12 year old bourbon. Has to be the hardest to find $27 bourbon in existence. I've enjoyed the WLW 12 in restaurants and bars before but it will be nice to have a ready supply of "Baby Pappy" at home now.

Do any of you bourbon fiends on this thread regularly flip bourbon? It seems like there is a fairly robust secondary market for a lot of bourbons and anyone with access to sought-after bourbons at retail pricing can fairly easily triple their money by reselling on ebay or Craigslist.

Any bourbon flippers out there? Any reason I shouldn't consider buying for resale? (Obviously I would always hold back a bottle or two for my personal stock)


[Edited to add]
Should have read further up this thread for previous discussion on W.L. Weller 12. It does NOT grow on trees here in Texas. It's difficult, but far from impossible, to find here in DFW. Many liquor stores are sold out of it, others do have a few bottles left but keep it in the back and only sell it on request, one bottle at a time.

I have never tried Old Weller Antique. Should I? There is actually a liquor store here in DFW that has 1.5L bottles and bottles of the OWA just sitting around gathering dust.

How does the OWA compare to the WLW12?


Must be the very VERY UNofficial bourbon of Flyertalk. I've been to practically every Flyertalk Horse and Bourbon DO and don't remember ever hearing anything special about Elijah Craig 12, let alone drinking it. Is Elijah Craig now a Heaven Hill product? I know it's a venerable brand.

Hopefully some of the bourbon fiends on this thread will join us at the next FT Horse & Bourbon DO in Kentucky (in April during the Keeneland spring meet, exact dates TBD).