Best & worst Bourbon?
Jan 8, 2016, 5:06 pm
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A bit off topic perhaps but here in Fairbanks, Alaska you can regularly get a bottle of Bookers for $47.00 + tax. Not everywhere, mind you, but if you go to the Walmart liquor store you can. Everyday pricing, too. I've never seen this tasty bourbon regularly priced so low anywhere else in the country - though I've yet to look for bourbon in Kentucky. Last week, the little convenience store 5 miles up the road had a 750ml bottle of Woodford Reserve Double Oaked priced at $25.00! Not everything is super expensive in Alaska...
Jan 8, 2016, 5:21 pm
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As for prices, I find Maryland is cheaper than DC, FWIW, but it depends on the store and the item.
Jan 9, 2016, 12:07 pm
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Come to D.C. I just saw a bottle at Washington Wine & Liquor on 1200 E St NW. I saw an awful lot of bourbon bottles. Seemed like at least 80 different brands/types. Including large 1.75 liter sizes of Buffalo Trace. Sazerac Rye. Diamond Edition Wild Turkey (never heard of that), Blantons, 1792, and dozens of other names. Some were priced high and some had ok prices. A few were even marked down.
Jan 11, 2016, 7:29 am
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In my experience, yes. My dad used to tell those same stories back in the 1980s.
Jan 11, 2016, 7:30 am
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Come to D.C. I just saw a bottle at Washington Wine & Liquor on 1200 E St NW. I saw an awful lot of bourbon bottles. Seemed like at least 80 different brands/types. Including large 1.75 liter sizes of Buffalo Trace. Sazerac Rye. Diamond Edition Wild Turkey (never heard of that), Blantons, 1792, and dozens of other names. Some were priced high and some had ok prices. A few were even marked down.
Also wanted to add that I was the recipient of a very nice bottle of Elmer T. Lee over the weekend. It's nice to have thoughtful friends! ^
Jan 11, 2016, 1:41 pm
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It's something to do with failure to pay the state liquor tax.
Jan 11, 2016, 1:43 pm
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A bit off topic perhaps but here in Fairbanks, Alaska you can regularly get a bottle of Bookers for $47.00 + tax. Not everywhere, mind you, but if you go to the Walmart liquor store you can. Everyday pricing, too. I've never seen this tasty bourbon regularly priced so low anywhere else in the country - though I've yet to look for bourbon in Kentucky. Last week, the little convenience store 5 miles up the road had a 750ml bottle of Woodford Reserve Double Oaked priced at $25.00! Not everything is super expensive in Alaska...
Jan 11, 2016, 1:49 pm
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Jan 11, 2016, 4:31 pm
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It was certainly still illegal in Mass when I left in 1989. The cops would arrest drivers of cars that were spotted at the NH state liquor store parking lot over the line. I also heard of busses from Connecticut being stopped and liquor purchases being confiscated by CT state police.
It's something to do with failure to pay the state liquor tax.
It's something to do with failure to pay the state liquor tax.
Jan 11, 2016, 6:06 pm
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Jan 12, 2016, 9:17 pm
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It was certainly still illegal in Mass when I left in 1989. The cops would arrest drivers of cars that were spotted at the NH state liquor store parking lot over the line. I also heard of busses from Connecticut being stopped and liquor purchases being confiscated by CT state police.
It's something to do with failure to pay the state liquor tax.
It's something to do with failure to pay the state liquor tax.
That's not to say states don't still have incredibly silly or obscure alcohol laws...
Jan 14, 2016, 8:47 am
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Jan 15, 2016, 5:00 pm
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Come to D.C. I just saw a bottle at Washington Wine & Liquor on 1200 E St NW. I saw an awful lot of bourbon bottles. Seemed like at least 80 different brands/types. Including large 1.75 liter sizes of Buffalo Trace. Sazerac Rye. Diamond Edition Wild Turkey (never heard of that), Blantons, 1792, and dozens of other names. Some were priced high and some had ok prices. A few were even marked down.
Guy running the store said he's been hearing that VA is getting most of the harder to find / good stuff right now (including Weller 107 which they had a place for on the shelf but said they've been out for months).
Tough times down in NC for anything that isn't mass produced and aimed at pleasing the majority of customers coming in the door.