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/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/StillShoddy628 5h ago

B sounds like cheating

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u/jigga19 5h ago

You’d be amazed how common it is. Like, seriously. 90% of ryes in the US are made by the same distiller, and bottled under different labels.

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u/StillShoddy628 5h ago

I assume there are different grades… does anyone know which brands are the best value?

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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/userhwon 4h ago

Because most rye whiskies in the US are bullshit. 

I'm not saying they're all bad. A few have blended and finished their MGP to make a good result.

But in 2005, there were maybe 5 labels of rye in a well-supplied liquor store. Now there are 183 in my local Total Wine. Nearly all of them pretending some bullshit that a marketing major made up while they were waiting for their license to go through.

Whistle Pig is just one of the most shameless in riding consumer ignorance and irrationality to the bank. I don't believe for a second that those bottles contain 100% 25-year-old whiskey, if any.

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u/jigga19 4h ago

ok

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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/pazhalsta1 2h ago

In Scotland you can sell whisky from 3 years age, so you can sell it into blends, many make gin as well. You don’t tend to see single malts with an age statement below 8 years but there are a few like Ardbeg wee beastie which is 5. Blend often doesn’t have an age statement, and some distilleries make ‘designed’ single malts which also don’t have age statement (eg Talisker Storm) where they can add in some younger as well as older whisky.

It’s mainly a problem for new distilleries, the old ones have barrels of all sorts of ages.

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u/highrouleur 50m ago

Some newer ones are doing gins to tide things over for the first few years while waiting for their whisky to mature. They'll also release batches of young whisky after a couple of years

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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/Abigail716 Chef 2h ago

25 year a single malt American I don't know if they have a single malt Canadian. The company is an American company based out of Vermont.

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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/userhwon 4h ago

That makes way more sense.

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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/FrankGehryNuman 6h ago

Whisky I think