NEVER Buy the Wrong Wild Turkey Again (A Distiller’s Guide)

🔗 Save $2,000 A Year On Whiskey With My Distiller Methods: https://wadecooperdistiller.com You paid 39 dollars and 99 cents for the Wild Turkey Longbranch because it sat one shelf above the 101 and looked like the step up. Read the front. 43 percent alcohol, which is 86 proof. The bottle you stepped up from says 101, and it costs 27 dollars and 99 cents. You paid 12 dollars more and got 15 proof less. Every bourbon from that distillery in Lawrenceburg starts as the same grain and the same yeast, so whatever separates a 22 dollar bottle from a 64 dollar bottle comes from three places: water, time and choice. Two of those are printed right on the front. In this video I put one old warehouse man's question to every bottle on that shelf, from the 81 at the bottom to the top shelf, and show you which steps are real in the bottle and which are only real in the price. The best Wild Turkey on the shelf does not even look like it belongs to the family. I spent 34 years in the industry, filling barrels that went out under other people's names. I never worked at Wild Turkey, not one day, and I tell you out loud where I am guessing. Nobody paid me to make this video, and no company sent me a bottle. Your homework: walk up to the Wild Turkey shelf this week and do not put a single bottle in the cart for the first five minutes. On every bottle, find the price, the proof and the age if there is one, and write them on the back of an old receipt. Then look for the two words single barrel. Then tell me in the comments what state you are in and what the bottle I picked costs at your store this week. CHAPTERS: 00:00 – Longbranch, one shelf above the 101 00:52 – Nine bottles from Lawrenceburg 01:28 – Nobody is lying on those labels 01:57 – The order, and the bottle to hold 02:38 – Who I am: I never worked at Wild Turkey 03:24 – Hoyt: ask what they took out 05:24 – One recipe, three knobs: water, time, choice 07:02 – The wrong Wild Turkey 08:54 – Five bottles above the 101 09:39 – Number one: the 81 10:18 – Number two: the 101 11:11 – Number three: two bottles at the same price 11:59 – Number four: Rare Breed 12:49 – American Honey is not bourbon 13:15 – The top shelf: Kentucky Spirit and the bottle next to it 14:34 – Why the bird is not on it 15:00 – How to buy it 15:41 – The honest limits of all this 17:12 – What the wrong bottle costs you in a year 17:56 – The warehouses are full 18:24 – Your homework: read before you buy 19:34 – Next time: the bottle from Tennessee 19:58 – Tell me your state and your price #bourbon #wildturkey #wildturkey101 #longbranch #rarebreed #kentuckyspirit #distiller #bourbontips #budgetbourbon #homebar