Distiller Reveals 5 WORST And 5 BEST American Bourbon Brands You Can Buy

📗 Save $2,000 A Year On Whiskey With My Distiller Methods: https://wadecooperdistiller.com You walk into Total Wine, turn left toward the bourbon, and there is a wall of 683 bottles with a story on every front. You pick the one with the best story, it rings up at 83 dollars, and it is fine. Not 83 dollars of fine. It is not you. I spent 34 years on the other side of that wall, and I can tell you what ten of those bottles have in them, because I know what went into the barrel and what the label is not saying. Five bourbons that are robbing you blind, with the price, the proof and the thing on the label that ought to bother you. Then five that are worth every dollar, counting down to the best 55 dollars you will spend all year. The bad five sell you a story where a number should be. The good five sell you a number where a story could have been. Along the way: a boat ride on a whiskey nobody will put their name on; water from a limestone mine; the difference between bottled by and distilled by; what a second barrel is really for; a 43 dollar bottle and a 25 dollar bottle born in the same building from the same mash; the only word on a bourbon label the government checks, and the law from 1897 behind it; and the barrel entry proof, the number nobody prints, and why the best bottle on the wall was filled at 115 and not 125. Then the five things I read on any bottle, in about a minute: the proof, the age, the verb, the plant number and the story. Your homework: stand in front of the wall for five minutes with nothing in the cart, read the five things on any bottle over 40 dollars, then pour a 25 dollar bonded bourbon next to whatever you bought last month. Nobody paid me to make this video. No company sent me a bottle, there is no link and no code, and nothing to buy at the end of this. CHAPTERS: 00:00 – The bourbon wall at Total Wine and an 83 dollar story 01:11 – The promise: five robbing you blind, five worth the money 02:02 – One bad bottle and one good bottle from the same building 02:30 – Who I am: 34 years, and barrels under other people's names 03:04 – The law says the same things about every bottle 03:51 – The order: ranked by how many carts, not by price 04:17 – Bad number five: Jefferson's Ocean and the boat ride 05:35 – Bad number four: Widow Jane 10, a blend and a limestone mine 06:56 – Nobody paid me to make this video 07:18 – Bad number three: Blade and Bow, bottled by and the solera 08:21 – Nothing on that label is false, and that is the problem 09:01 – Bad number two: Angel's Envy, the port barrel and 86.6 proof 10:30 – Bad number one: Basil Hayden, 80 proof and artfully aged 12:22 – The loop closed, and the good list starts 12:46 – Good number five: Old Grand-Dad Bonded 13:49 – Good number four: Maker's Mark Cask Strength, filled at 110 14:46 – Good number three: Four Roses Single Barrel 16:11 – The warehouse man and his one rule about water 16:38 – Good number two: Heaven Hill Bottled-in-Bond 7 Year 17:56 – Good number one: Wild Turkey Rare Breed and entry proof 19:34 – What entry proof does in the barrel, and how to buy it 20:38 – The five things to read on any bottle 22:04 – Smooth, too hot, and my store does not carry it 23:10 – 16.1 million barrels and the man priced out of the story 24:33 – Three things to remember 24:55 – Your homework: five minutes with nothing in the cart 25:26 – Tell me your town and what Rare Breed costs 25:40 – Next time: a Costco bottle next to a 130 dollar bottle 26:03 – Read the proof, read the verb, leave the story on the shelf #bourbon #whiskey #distiller #bourbonreview #bestbourbon #worstbourbon #bottledinbond #wildturkey #basilhayden #whiskeytips #homebar #savemoney