The 7 Greatest US Bourbon Brands Ever Made (And Why You've Never Heard of Half of Them)

📗 Save $2,000 A Year On Whiskey With My Distiller Methods: https://wadecooperdistiller.com You walk into a Walmart on a Friday night, back to the liquor aisle. At eye level the bottles are 54 dollars, 62 dollars, 79 dollars, heavy glass and wax on the necks. Down by your shoe the names get old, and the prices start with a one. You figure that is the shelf where whiskey goes when it is finished. It is the other way around. In this video I count down the seven greatest bourbon brands ever made in this country, and I tell you plainly why you have never heard of half of them. One of the seven was the most famous whiskey in America for the better part of a hundred years, and today it costs about 14 dollars. Not one of the names you never heard of disappeared because the whiskey got bad. Every one of them was a decision made in a room with no whiskey in it. I spent 34 years on the making side of bourbon, and for a good part of those years I filled barrels that went out under names I never saw. None of this is my discovery; the folks who write bourbon history for a living found it. Nobody paid me to make this video, and no company sent me a bottle. Your homework this week: get down to the bottom shelf, pick up three bottles with Old on the front, and read the town on the back of each one. Then buy one wheated bottle, the red wax or the Larceny, pour an inch next to whatever you drink now, and smell them both before you taste either one. Then tell me in the comments what town you are in and what Old Crow costs at your store this week. CHAPTERS: 00:00 – A Walmart on a Friday night, and the bottom shelf 00:59 – Seven names, and the back of the bottle 01:29 – The 14 dollar bottle by your shoe 01:53 – Who I am: barrels for names I never saw 02:31 – The thread: a room with no whiskey in it 03:11 – Three or four, and the order is mine 03:42 – Number seven: I.W. Harper 06:40 – Number six: Old Crow 09:15 – Number five: Four Roses 11:12 – Halfway: number one is a name you never heard 11:39 – Number four: Old Taylor 13:48 – The room with no whiskey in it 14:39 – Number three: Old Forester 16:19 – Number two: Maker's Mark 18:10 – I have to take something back 19:04 – Hoyt at the kitchen sink 19:32 – Number one: Old Fitzgerald 21:07 – Why it disappeared and the whiskey did not 22:01 – How to buy the wheat on Saturday 23:12 – The town on the back label 24:39 – Nobody paid me 24:52 – The barrels sit still while the names change hands 25:56 – Three things to remember 26:17 – Your homework: the bottom shelf and the wheat 26:46 – Tell me your town and your Old Crow price #bourbon #bourbonhistory #oldfitzgerald #oldcrow #makersmark #wheatedbourbon #distiller #whiskeytips #bourbonwhiskey #budgetbourbon