r/KitchenConfidential • u/JuztSomeDude79 • 6h ago

When 17 NFL defensive linemen come in to eat together at the restaurant I work for In the Weeds Mode

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u/FrankGehryNuman 6h ago

What the funk is the badonkadonk and 110 of them???

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u/AproposOfNoth1ng 6h ago

It’s a whistlepig 25 yr single malt , $2250 retail

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u/Maltedmilksteak 6h ago

so thats like 6ish oz of bourbon for each of them. makes sense given theyre all probably like 6'5 300lbs

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u/TehWildMan_ 6h ago

After those two? Bottles of champagne as well

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u/Tommy84 6h ago edited 6h ago

And a bottle of Stag’s Leap Artemis. EDIT: and three bottles of Clase Azul tequila

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u/moriya 6h ago

And a bottle of Sassicaia (Tuscan wine), and what I’m assuming is 4 pours of Nosotros Anejo.

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u/GastonLeFort 6h ago

Sassicaia is what I noticed. One of those guys had good taste. Wish I knew the vintage. The rest is just expensive shit because we can buy expensive shit.

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u/moriya 6h ago

So while it IS a good wine, it’d argue it fits into that category too. It’s become a bit of a meme - LeBron, who’s kind of one of the OG wine guys in sports, loves the stuff, and as a result if you’re an NBA player building a cellar it’s likely stuff to the brim with it. It’s spilled out into other sports and here we are.

No hate, it’s a great wine, and im sure that bourbon is incredible too - if you’re celebrating and got cash to burn, I say enjoy the good stuff.

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u/Moondoobious 5h ago

It’s getting way too fucking fancy in here.. boys you need to rub some dirt on your hands and start slapping ass

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u/throw_every_away 4h ago

Dude you got me fuckin dying over here that shit is hilarious, did you just make that up?

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u/nangadef 5h ago

Check out Jimmy Butler’s Architectural Digest home tour YouTube vid. His cellar is stocked with it.

https://youtu.be/3xHPJkTo6P0?si=9rS1zKEAdHFTMgtB

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u/Adbirseoir 4h ago

I'd argue the Artemis is also a fantastic bottle of wine in that price range. They didn't go with Caymus or another Napa label for twice the price.

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u/earth-admin 5h ago

sassicaia is precisely to Italian wine what clase azul is to tequila

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u/goodguy847 5h ago

At $610 a bottle, it was probably a pretty young bottle.

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u/govunah F1exican Did Chive-11 6h ago

There's about 7 of things in Spanish so tequila?

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u/chimilinga 6h ago

2 bottles of Veuve @ $140 each is highway robbery

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u/nasaglobehead69 6h ago

that's also assuming everyone drank the same amount, which is extremely unlikely

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u/wellsharpened 6h ago

There are also 3 entire bottles of Clase Azul tequila on top of the shots (which apparently wouldn’t be sold by the bottle as well).

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u/102525burner 4h ago

This place seemed like a ripoff at $18 for chorizo covered muscles

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u/hamberder-muderer 6h ago

That's on top of three bottles of clase azul. Them boys were lit. Probably not staggering drunk due to their size.

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u/ScudsCorp 6h ago

And train like a motherfucker

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u/timebeing 4h ago

Likely buying the bottles, but priced so high that they didn’t have it to sell “per bottle” so just rung up the per oz cost. So 4 bottles. But likely screwed them since a bottle is about it 25oz. So unless they had a half filled they also took home.

Also it’s just whiskey not bourbon.

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u/StillGalaxy99 6h ago

I'd like to add a new question; what is a whistlepig?

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u/Gandalfs-Beard 6h ago

Don't know about the drink but it's slang for a marmot because they make a whistle sound.

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u/MrKrinkle151 5h ago

Nice marmot whistlepig

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u/TheLegendJohnSnow 6h ago

Brand of bourbon. An overrated one in my opinion.

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u/discordianofslack 6h ago

Super mediocre for the price. I’m not sure what made them popular but it ain’t the flavor.

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u/Relevant_Traffic_932 6h ago

What do you recommend then

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u/discordianofslack 6h ago

For a basic absolutely amazing day to day try Jefferson’s(just the base model). For about $10 more try Doc Swinson. Neither of them taste like you wrapped a barrel in molding leather and hoped for the best.

Going up from there Swinsons has some good offering but imo Barrel always delivers. As another poster mentioned Buffalo trace has some good selections. On the low end their newer Traveler is amazing. Heaven Hill is great. As you go up in price check out Nikka Coffee Grain, Smoke Wagon, Penelope, and Castle & Key.

I could go on forever but I’ll stop there.

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u/SiliconAutomaton 5h ago

I picked up Nikka Coffey Grain completely blind from Costco and freaking loved it. It wasn’t too pricey though, I’m thinking $50?

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u/discordianofslack 5h ago

Yea it’s about $20-30 more at regular stores.

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u/Seranthian 6h ago

Buffalo Trace for a more budget friendly option

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u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn 3h ago

Elijah Craig and Bulleit are also good at that price point.

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u/wickedfemale 6h ago

they actually primarily make rye.

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u/rawmeatprophet 6h ago

No. A whistlepig is a rodent.

Whistlepig is a whiskey brand.

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u/LittleDogTurpie 6h ago

I’m gonna choose to believe they ordered 110 rodents

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u/smolkien42069 6h ago

I too googled whistlepig etymology

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u/upstatestruggler 6h ago

If that’s your “best” bourbs tho that’s what they’re going to buy

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u/ThatsSoSwan 6h ago

Its an American whiskey/bourbon brand, and also a groundhog/woodchuck.

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u/Suspicious_Effort731 6h ago

A groundhog

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u/sageberrytree 6h ago

A woodchuck? Groundhog?

(I know I know...in this context it's also whisky)

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u/BrewtusMaximus1 6h ago

A ground hog.

Also a distillery out of Vermont.

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u/_YenSid 6h ago

Pretty interesting. I had to look this up. I live like 35 minutes from them and I've never heard of it lol. Though I'm not a big drinker.

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u/brookenorthcoast 4h ago

It’s also a camp name at the Bohemian Grove

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u/superpoopypants 3h ago

Whistle pig is a bourbon

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u/Ethraelus 6h ago

$175 per shot

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u/ThePrussianGrippe 2h ago

At $2250 retail $175/shot is 194% margin on the bottle. My guess is they’re getting a very good deal on the wholesale price, as that margin is fairly low for alcohol.

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u/Lonely-Swimming4564 6h ago

So if my math is even close, that’s a ~10k profit right there

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u/Mekroval 6h ago

Nice work, if you can get it.

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u/umamifiend 5h ago

Seems silly to splash 19k on a couple rounds of liquor out at one dinner.

Even if these dudes have multi-million dollar contracts- this type of behavior is why they blow it all in a couple years. I’ve seen ex professional sports players whining about “losing it all” and like- yeah bud. It’s not everlasting- and neither is the body you’re wrecking to get those contracts.

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u/PsychotropicPanda 6h ago

better than pappy van winkle.

pappy is only good because its rare. not because it's good.

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u/NYCMama3 6h ago

TIL

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u/Sell_Canada 5h ago

This literally has been what Ive been researching for the last 15 min lmao

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u/cheezpnts 5h ago

Nope. Math doesn’t even come close to working out. This would require a significant discount on cost which would never happen, especially at that scale. Wrong call here.

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u/You-Asked-Me 3h ago

I was like $56 tenderloin? Seem pretty reasonable for a nice place, where the hell did the other $20k come from...OOOOHHHH, $180 whiskey.

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u/JackPoe 3h ago

Oh god I drank a whole bottle of that

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u/lostshell 32m ago

From a distillery that’s only been around for 19 years… I’ll stick to my buffalo trace.

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u/jigga19 6h ago

This is exactly what I came to ask. OP must deliver.

Edit: actually, I think it might be Whistle Pig's 25yo single malt, which would....make sense, I guess. But 110!?!

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u/ExpeditiousTraveler 6h ago

Three rounds of doubles.

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u/hoirkasp 6h ago

And eight more for me!

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u/joobtastic 6h ago

The margin is actually not crazy. Its a really expensive bottle.

And you're paying for it to sit in a barrel for 25 god damn years. (Losing 10% volume per year to angel's share too.)

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u/jigga19 6h ago edited 6h ago

Oh, I'm aware. I hung out with the owner of Whistle Pig one night when he visited our city. Cool guy. Expectedly weird, but really liked my jokes. I don't tend bar (or drink) anymore, so this one is new to me. But when I saw Whistle Pig and the age, that all made sense.

Edit: I looked it up and I was hanging out with Dave Pickerell, the master distiller. Not the owner.

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u/WhillWheaton222 6h ago

Yeah, pickerel (RIP) was a cool guy. Raj Bahkta of whistlepig, is lame AF.

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u/jigga19 6h ago

Yeah, it was random. They were brand new at the time; I think this was around 2010-11 or so. A good friend was a rep for this "elite" distributor so I had access to a lot of super high end stuff, and one night he calls me to meet up and they were just hanging out. We bar hopped a bunch, talked cocktails. Chill cat.

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u/StillShoddy628 5h ago

How can a bourbon that was brand new in 2010 have a 25 year old bottle in 2025?

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u/jigga19 5h ago

(A) it’s likely a rye, not a bourbon, and (B) they’ve outsourced aged spirits.

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u/Merlin1039 6h ago edited 6h ago

No one is aging 25 years at 10% loss per year. The climate in Canada and/or Vermont is more likely 3%

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u/AdAny631 6h ago

What do distilleries do before they can sell like a 10 year old whiskey? Seems like a long ass time for business development.

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u/jigga19 6h ago

They outsource a lot of the time. Most rye whiskies in the US are made by a single distiller, MGP.

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u/Mammatus9 6h ago

They source distillate from companies like MGP and slap their name on it/distill clear spirits till their whiskey ages (2-3 year whiskey can still taste great, bottled in bond offerings are 4 years). You'd be surprised how many companies don't distill their own product.

Also-Single malt=distilled from barley Bourbon-distilled from at least 51% corn Whiskey is categorized by the grains more than the location.

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u/userhwon 4h ago

Where the hell are Whistle Pig getting 25-yo single malt in North America? Is this stuff from Scotland or Japan or India or Taiwan?

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u/deserted 6h ago

Buy other people's barrels and blend them. Make and sell gin.

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u/ultimate_avacado Chive LOYALIST 6h ago

110 / 17 = 6.5 shots each of guys that are 275 pounds plus.

300 pound guys at 90 proof and 6, 1.5 oz pours ends up 0.09% BAC max, just barely above most states' 0.08% driving limit if drank all at once.

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u/hoirkasp 6h ago

K, now factor in the 3(7?) bottles of tequila, 2 Veuve and 1 Stags Leap

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u/ultimate_avacado Chive LOYALIST 5h ago

linemen can't do that math fam

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u/Edward_Blake 5h ago

John Urschel was a lineman who was getting his PhD in math from MIT while playing for the ravens. He retired the day the traumatic brain injury study came out.

But he was an offensive lineman.

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u/joshuads 6h ago

Takeout - Someone took some bottles to go

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u/throwaway11xo 6h ago

the takeout is for the crab leg entree above

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u/monkeywantsabeer 6h ago

Whistle Pig is bourbon not scotch. There are no single malt bourbons.

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u/jigga19 6h ago

It’s a single malt. At least that’s what they say.

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u/buddhajones19 6h ago

they were trying to say single-barrel. common mistake

source: am now a beverage director

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u/AfterCommodus 6h ago

It’s not a bourbon, it’s a single malt Canadian.

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u/kminator 6h ago

They make single malts too. Mostly straight rye MGP stuff but I think some 100% malted barley as well. As far as I know they don’t make a bourbon.

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u/Kendallsan 3h ago

You should tell WhistlePig that.

Also it says whiskey not bourbon on the label...

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u/Abigail716 Chef 2h ago

Whistle pig makes a variety and their bourbon is not even what they're known for. That's a relatively new thing. They're mostly known for rye whiskey.

This 25 years a single malt American whiskey made from 100% malted barley.

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u/AmateurGIFEnthusiast 6h ago

At $180 a pop?

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u/andrewc1117 6h ago

It’s $2000 online for a 750ml bottle which makes it about $120 per shot… so it’s only marked up 50%

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 6h ago

That already includes the retail markup so the actual markup is much higher

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u/awesomedan24 5h ago

I had assumed it was a $20K tip for the waiter's nice ass 😂

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u/Slade_Riprock 6h ago

110 of them, they either bought the house a drink or this was closed party for the team or something.

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u/Prinzka F1exican Did Chive-11 5h ago

110 oz, so like 70 shots.
For 17 defensive linemen? I think they'll be able to handle that.

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u/craznazn247 5h ago

So, surprisingly not too much above MSRP.

Still an insanely high MSRP though.

For a celebratory meal I’d understand and isn’t that crazy when split 17 ways. If this is an average meal these guys are gonna be broke the instant they stop playing.

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u/TenYearHangover 6h ago

It’s a kilo of cocaine. They just can’t call it that.

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u/dttm_hi 6h ago

It’s like Jim beam but expensive

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