Veteran Distiller: My Secret to Picking the Best Whiskeys at Costco

📗 Save $2,000 A Year On Whiskey With My Distiller Methods: https://wadecooperdistiller.com You paid 42 dollars for the purple bag and put the plain bottle back on the pallet. Same size, same country, same set of rules, and the plain one told you right on the front that it was aged six years. The difference at the register was 22 dollars and 28 cents, and you paid it for the part of the bottle you cannot drink. I spent 34 years in this industry, and I filled a great many barrels that left the building under names that were not ours. So here are the three things I check on any whiskey in that aisle, in the order I check them: the gap, the country, and the name on the back. Then the fourth thing, the secret inside the secret. A store label is a contract, not a distillery. One plain label has had four different arrangements behind the very same name, and nobody was ever told. I tell you what went into Hoyt's drawer, which store bottles I buy, and the one I walk straight past. Your homework: five minutes in the aisle without putting a single bottle in the cart, and one back label read out loud at home. Then tell me in the comments what town you are in and what the newer store bourbon in the 1.75 liter bottle costs at your warehouse this week. CHAPTERS: 00:00 – 42 dollars for the purple bag, and the plain twin put back on the pallet 01:03 – Same size, same country, and what the difference pays for 01:46 – Who I am blaming, and it is not who you think 02:35 – Three things I check, and a fourth 03:09 – Who I am: 34 years, and barrels under other people's names 03:45 – Why the word secret is in the title 05:22 – What a store bottle is: private label 06:05 – What the store says about its own brand 07:01 – The shelf of eleven bottles in Hoyt's office, and the drawer under it 08:20 – The first thing: the gap 09:13 – Running the numbers on two famous bottles 09:57 – What the gap tells you, and the 20 percent rule 10:31 – Not yet: the bottle I walk straight past 11:05 – The second thing: the country, and the Canadian rules 12:14 – Irish, Tennessee and straight bourbon 12:56 – Compare twins inside one country 13:44 – The third thing: the name on the back, and a building 14:36 – A town, a bottler, an importer, and the rule 15:42 – The fourth thing: a store label is a contract 16:07 – Four arrangements behind the same name 17:03 – What went into Hoyt's drawer, and the habit 17:48 – What I buy 18:19 – The honest words: when the famous bottle wins 19:34 – The bottle I walk past, and what no label can print 20:21 – A record number of barrels, and where a surplus goes 21:26 – No sponsor, and the men who stopped setting a bottle out 22:13 – Your homework: five minutes in the aisle 22:59 – At home: read the back out loud 23:36 – Tell me your town and one price 24:21 – Next time, and until then #whiskey #bourbon #costco #kirkland #storebrand #distiller #whiskeytips #canadianwhisky #irishwhiskey #crownroyal #homebar