Distiller Reveals 7 CHEAP Bourbons That Drink WAY Better Than Maker's Mark

📗 Save $2,000 A Year On Whiskey With My Distiller Methods: https://wadecooperdistiller.com You are standing in the bourbon aisle with the red wax already in your hand. Maker's Mark, 36 dollars and 99 cents. Two shelves down, about the height of your knee, there is a bottle with wheat in it too. It says 100 proof instead of 90, and it costs 15 dollars less. You have walked past it every time, and nobody ever told you it was there. In this video I count down seven bottles that cost less than the Maker's at the state store, and every one of them beats it on something printed on its own glass: the proof, the recipe, or the law. Along the way you will hear about a building in Louisville that helped Maker's Mark get started more than 70 years ago, and which bottle on the bottom shelf still carries one of its old names. I made bourbon for 34 years, most of it at the warehouse end, and for years I filled barrels that went out under other people's names. Nobody paid me to make this video, no company sent me a bottle, and there is no code. Every price comes off the Virginia state list this month, and yours should land within a few dollars. Your homework this weekend: buy one bottle off this list, whichever one your store has, and pour it next to your Maker's, the same amount in the same size glass. For the first five minutes, do not drink either one. Look at them, smell them, and turn both bottles around and read the backs. Then drink, and decide which one goes back on your shelf. Then tell me in the comments the town you are in and what number one costs at your store this week. CHAPTERS: 00:00 – The red wax in your hand and the bottle by your knee 00:54 – Three things this video is not 01:18 – My claim: seven bottles, the proof, the recipe or the law 01:50 – The building in Louisville 02:09 – Who I am: barrels under other people's names 02:37 – The thread: wheat, 90 proof and the wax 03:19 – Why seven and not ten 04:22 – Number seven: Buffalo Trace 06:12 – Number six: Four Roses 100 proof 08:08 – Number five: Fighting Cock 10:12 – Number four: Larceny 12:00 – Halfway: three left 12:23 – Number three: Old Grand-Dad 114 13:47 – No conspiracy: the name sets the price 14:30 – Number two: Weller Special Reserve 15:57 – The honest words about that price 17:01 – Hoyt and the bottle on the floor 17:30 – Number one: Rebel 100 19:15 – The label, not the whiskey 20:29 – Proof, recipe, town: the 90 seconds 22:25 – Nobody paid me 22:38 – 16.1 million barrels 23:11 – Three things to remember 23:33 – Your homework: next to your Maker's 23:58 – Tell me your town and your price #bourbon #makersmark #cheapbourbon #wheatedbourbon #bottomshelf #distiller #whiskeytips #bourbonwhiskey #budgetbourbon