7 BUDGET Rye Whiskeys That Are WAY Better Than Bourbon

📗 Save $2,000 A Year On Whiskey With My Distiller Methods: https://wadecooperdistiller.com You walk into a Virginia ABC store on a Friday afternoon and go straight to the Wild Turkey 101, 27 dollars and 99 cents. Eighteen inches to the left stands the same bird, the same 101, the same 27 dollars and 99 cents, and one word is different: rye. I have made both, and the one that cost the distillery more to put in the bottle is not the bourbon. So this is seven ryes, counting down to number one, each one standing next to the bourbon from the same house at the same price or within a couple of dollars, and every one of them under 37 dollars. For each bottle you get the price, the recipe and the proof, and what rye does in a fermenter and a still that nobody prints on a label. Along the way: the two kinds of rye on the shelf, the one near 51 percent that drinks like your bourbon with more backbone and the one near 95 that drinks like nothing else in the store; why a rye that gives less and fights back more sells at the easier whiskey's price; and a man with a stern face on the front of a bottle and a state on the back that tells you where it was really made. Number one is a bonded rye for 26 dollars and 99 cents. Turn it around and there are two plant numbers in small type that a bonded bottle is required by law to print. I show you where they are, what they said for about ten years after a fire that nobody noticed, and why that changed which rye I buy. Your homework costs nothing: find the bourbon you always buy, find the rye from the same company, read both fronts and both backs, then pour an inch of each into two glasses the same shape and decide for yourself. I spent 34 years in this industry making whiskey and looking after it, and a good part of those years filling barrels that went out under other people's names, rye among them. Nobody paid me to say any of this. No company sent me a bottle, no link, no code, and nothing for sale. CHAPTERS: 00:00 – The bird you came for, and the bottle eighteen inches to the left with one word different 01:10 – The promise: seven bottles, with the price, the recipe, the proof and the bourbon beside it 01:40 – What I owe you: the rye with the number on the back is number one 02:08 – Who I am: 34 years, barrels under other names, and the scar on the wrist 02:45 – The thread under all seven: the mash bill, 51 percent, the same law, and what corn gives 03:40 – Seven: Wild Turkey 101 Rye, and what rye does in the fermenter and the still 05:23 – Six: Rebel 100 Rye, the cheapest, Indiana on the back, and 51 against 95 percent 07:06 – Five: Old Forester Rye, the 20 percent malt, and a question to hold 08:32 – Where the numbers come from: the Virginia list, and no sponsor 09:28 – Where this stands: three ryes in, four left, and the next one has a face on the front 09:49 – Four: Old Overholt Bonded, the frowning man, Pennsylvania on the front and Kentucky on the back 11:34 – Three: Elijah Craig Straight Rye, and two glasses the same shape 13:03 – Two: Jack Daniel's Bonded Rye, 700 milliliters, and the charcoal 14:27 – The answer: why every rye costs the same as the bourbon beside it 15:38 – Taking two things back: the price I had wrong, and what I told young fellows about rye 16:43 – Hoyt: corn is what you sell, and rye is what you keep 17:12 – One: Rittenhouse Bottled in Bond, and the two plant numbers on the back 18:22 – The fire of 1996, and the ten years the number told a different story 19:15 – The Pikesville beside it: two more years and ten more proof for twice the money 19:58 – How to buy it: Bottled in Bond, 100 proof, and KY-1 on the back 20:50 – Four readings that outlast this video: the pair, the percentage, bonded, and the state 22:02 – The wider picture: the barrels aging in Kentucky, and the men priced off their Friday bottle 23:09 – Three things to carry out of here 23:32 – Homework: five minutes with nothing in the cart, then both fronts and both backs 24:05 – Your town, your Rittenhouse price, and the number on the back 24:22 – Next time: the ice in the first ten seconds after you pour #rye #ryewhiskey #bourbon #whiskey #distiller #distillertips #bottledinbond #wildturkey #rittenhouse #budgetwhiskey #whiskeytips #savemoney