Dang, I'll be there next week but it looks like that place is on the west side of town.

Where will you be? I can give suggestion for the south metro area.

Close to the airport

Yeah, I don't have much knowledge east of town. Sorry about that.

Silly friends…I had a crawfish boil here at the house this past Saturday. I pulled out more than a few bottles and brought them outside for people to drink and taste. Told people mixers are in the house. One buddy (after his personal jack and coke cans went empty) went inside to get more jack and coke. Dude opened my glass cabinet and opened (taking the wrapper off) my JD12 for his coke. The big bottle of JD is sitting on the table top chest level. The JD12 is in a cabinet knee level tucked to the left. I didn't realize it until this morning. He didn't realize it was JD12 and thought it was regular JD.

KDubAg said:

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Silly friends…I had a crawfish boil here at the house this past Saturday. I pulled out more than a few bottles and brought them outside for people to drink and taste. Told people mixers are in the house. One buddy (after his personal jack and coke cans went empty) went inside to get more jack and coke. Dude opened my glass cabinet and opened (taking the wrapper off) my JD12 for his coke. The big bottle of JD is sitting on the table top chest level. The JD12 is in a cabinet knee level tucked to the left. I didn't realize it until this morning. He didn't realize it was JD12 and thought it was regular JD.

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That's what he told you.

Which of the JD products would he have been able to grab the quickest and easiest (based on your description above)?

Oh well . . .

It would depend on the bottle and what they have it priced at. If you find a blunt end at retail, I'd buy that.

Thank you; I didn't see it till you posted.

There used to be a heads up post in this thread whenever a new TexAgs pick thread was going to get started. Not so anymore - unless I have missed them.

I got lazy, my bad.

Howdy! I donated a bottle of Orphan Barrel Barterhouse 20 Year Old Bourbon to a silent auction benefiting the Cedar Park Public Library Foundation. A fellow Ag is on the board. Please go bid! And if you win, I'd love to taste a pour.

Here's the link to go bid:
https://cpplf.betterworld.org/auctions/run-roses-auction/items/orphan-barrel-barterhouse-20-yea

I want to do this.

Did you know that at @MichtersWhiskey's Fort Nelson Distillery in Louisville, KY, you can actually bottle your own whiskey?

It’s a limited, first-come, first-served experience (not daily, usually just a handful of bottles per day). You step behind the counter, grab the bottle,… pic.twitter.com/j9zkJaAjuu

— 🚫👁️Drinks on Saturday🇺🇸 (@drinkonsaturday) April 28, 2026

I usually do the fill your own bottle experiences from distilleries if they offer it.

My favorites are Whiskey Thief (where you actually thieve it, no machinery involved), Angel's Envy, and Copper & Kings (recently have new ownership so not sure if they still offer).

Always fun flying back with bottle(s) you filled yourself.

I was able to do it in 2024. Was a lot of fun and especially cool to hand log your bottle in their ledger. And the barrel strength bourbon is phenomenal.

WeightedWhiskey said:

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I usually do the fill your own bottle experiences from distilleries if they offer it.

My favorites are Whiskey Thief (where you actually thieve it, no machinery involved), Angel's Envy, and Copper & Kings (recently have new ownership so not sure if they still offer).

Always fun flying back with bottle(s) you filled yourself.

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Whiskey Thief is fun. I got to thieve some out of a Buffalo Trace barrel - not a full bottle but got to fill up my water bottle (barrel proof BT = Stagg - amazing).

Heaven Hill You do Bourbon was fun too. Got to bottle some ECBP

WeightedWhiskey said:

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I usually do the fill your own bottle experiences from distilleries if they offer it.

My favorites are Whiskey Thief (where you actually thieve it, no machinery involved), Angel's Envy, and Copper & Kings (recently have new ownership so not sure if they still offer).

Always fun flying back with bottle(s) you filled yourself.

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Yessir!!

WeightedWhiskey said:

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I usually do the fill your own bottle experiences from distilleries if they offer it.

My favorites are Whiskey Thief (where you actually thieve it, no machinery involved), Angel's Envy, and Copper & Kings (recently have new ownership so not sure if they still offer).

Always fun flying back with bottle(s) you filled yourself.

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Whiskey Thief is an excellent experience and fantastic juice. Probably ended up with one of the best bottles from any of my trips to KY from there. Highly recommend…especially the Franklin County location.

Was my favorite. I got the rye.

Dan Garrison is over at The Woodlands Total Wine location, or at least while I was at lunch he was, fun to chat with him for a few minutes.

For those in the Austin area. I've had a lot of their store pics before. They are always great.

Was in Spec's at lunch and went to the glass case first just to see if anything new was there. As I was looking, an employee at the front counter pointed out that they got some things in that were sitting at the register. There was a Thirteenth Colony cask strength, an EC 15 and one other one. She made sure to tell me, unprompted, that was all they had and nothing allocated. I went back to the normal section and was looking and another employee asked if I was looking for anything. I said I was just seeing what they had and, unprompted, she said they had Blanton's and ER 10, but you had to be a Key Club member.

I picked up an ER as I haven't seen any at my Spec's for a long time.

I don't really care to spend $150 on a bottle, so I passed on the EC 15. How good is it? If I was in a more convenient location to trade, I may have picked it up for that purpose, but it's too hard for me to meet anybody for the most part.

Bin Weller SiB

Location?

id be running off with all three Antiques.

Clifton Liquors, Clifton, CO

What year?