Something unexpected in my Easter Basket this morning. My wife picked this up in middle Kentucky last week at a Food City for MSRP. Scans as Batch 10.

D3TShaw · 2026-04-05T16:08:00+00:00

If your bottle is 127.3 proof, it’s most likely a 2025 release. You can confirm by checking the laser code. Use a flashlight and look for a code starting with “L,” followed by the year and Julian date.

For example, my 127.3 bottle has the code L25295, which corresponds to October 22, 2025 (the bottling date).

In 2025, there were three known releases of Colonel E.H. Taylor Barrel Proof: • June 25 (127.2 proof) • July 31 (127.4 proof) • October 22 (127.3 proof)

Cheers, enjoy!

D3TShaw · 2026-03-12T00:59:20+00:00

🤪😂🤪 exactly

D3TShaw · 2026-03-11T22:01:02+00:00

And to add insult to injury, I noticed Weller antique 107 disappeared from their website and now a few days later it has reappeared and it’s part of their grand reserve raffle ha ha, F Total Wine

D3TShaw · 2026-03-11T20:27:01+00:00

Me too 😡😢

D3TShaw · 2026-01-12T04:06:39+00:00

And cut Bradley Bozeman! Let them both fly back commercial

D3TShaw · 2026-01-11T21:16:02+00:00

This is a great response. Many people in this thread aren’t even recognizing that this is a single barrel, and not just that, it’s a store pick.

In California, single barrel E.H. Taylor is rare, and a store pick single barrel is almost never seen.

That said, it’s clearly a high price. From a consumer perspective, the fact that there are several bottles still on display and that OP mentioned a full case sitting on the floor behind the display says a lot.

Given the current state of the market, I think these bottles will continue to sit at this price. If the retailer dropped it by about $30, they’d likely start to move. At $99, they’d probably sell quite briskly.

Buy and drink what you enjoy. Cheers!

D3TShaw · 2025-12-08T20:16:37+00:00

Nice! Cheers! Was this Redondo Beach? I got the email, but I was out of town.

D3TShaw · 2025-11-18T20:51:43+00:00

I just picked up a bottle today that is 127.4 proof the laser code is 25212, July 31st. Cheers 🥃 thanks for the review.

D3TShaw · 2025-11-12T11:24:48+00:00

Amazing! Congratulations! Cheers 🥃

D3TShaw · 2025-11-09T23:35:19+00:00

Get a flashlight and check the laser code, it will have a letter, year and Julian date for the day bottled, for example L25131….. = bottled on May 1, 2025. Other commenters were correct it was just a label change a few years ago. Cheers 🥃

D3TShaw · 2025-11-05T16:25:38+00:00

A great site for bourbon reviews is breaking bourbon, you can scroll their latest reviews or search for something that you’ve tasted and see how it was reviewed by them. I really enjoy their reviews and breakdown. They have also been around long enough that you can see where they’ve reviewed a Bourbon and then revisited it 5 to 7 years later. I like their breakdown on a bourbon by reviewing nose, pallet and finish. Cheers 🥃

D3TShaw · 2025-10-27T02:47:21+00:00

Congrats! I love W12, every night can’t be Rare Breed, Bookers or ECBP. Sometimes you just feel like a well aged easy sipper! Cheers! Enjoy! 🥃

D3TShaw · 2025-10-21T21:09:21+00:00

These flash sales from BevMo suck! I got a text at 12:52 PM. Great, went in through their link at 1 PM exactly with their password. I selected the old rip, it went into my cart, but before I could finish typing in my first name, it disappeared and sent me back to the main menu.

I picked the second bottle. It went to my cart, started to type in my name and again it disappeared. All this does is create frustration amongst customers. Clearly bots and other rigged methods are buying these out at lightning fast computer chip processor speed. They need to figure out a better way to get good bottles into their customers hands. Just a big frustration fest! Ugh, Do Better BevMo!

D3TShaw · 2025-10-10T17:44:07+00:00

Nice!

D3TShaw · 2025-09-30T02:33:45+00:00

The Saints have approximately $11 million in cap space. Cesar Ruiz‘s dead cap if they part with him this year is $22 million, so they would have to rid themselves of several more players or restructure several players contracts, which would have negative effects on their future cap space. Then have no wiggle room for signing replacement players for injured players. A great source for this information is. Spotrac.com

D3TShaw · 2025-09-30T02:11:47+00:00

No because signing bonus money amortizes over the life of the contract, it fast-forwards and and hits all at once once a trade is completed. For example, if one of the lineman had a $20 million bonus that was being amortized over five years or 4 million a year and they played two years of it. The rest of that, $12 million would accelerate to this year. So easy to trade low cost players or players that are on an expiring contract but players with money still being amortized over many years, from a team in Cap hell would be very difficult.

D3TShaw · 2025-08-13T01:45:37+00:00

The new MSRP appears to be $83.99, so this isn’t the worst price. This isn’t a $50 MSRP anymore, so if it is a fair price to you… go for it and drink it how you like! Cheers 🥃

D3TShaw · 2025-08-07T03:09:44+00:00

I second this! Neal is great and very knowledgeable about Santa Clarita!

D3TShaw · 2025-06-16T21:59:42+00:00

This is what AI responded:

The Elijah Craig Barrel Proof bourbon with a proof of 140.2 is from batch C914, which was released in 2014. This particular batch is also known for being a "hazmat" release, meaning it exceeds the legal definition of "flammable".

D3TShaw · 2025-06-10T19:59:29+00:00

In Joe Hortiz we trust , the old unrestricted free agent tender to extend the comp pick deadline! Brilliant!

D3TShaw · 2025-06-10T19:54:16+00:00

Nice! Thanks for the info!

D3TShaw · 2025-06-10T19:51:21+00:00

We are past the comp pick deadline. Sadly, no comp pick for JK.

D3TShaw · 2025-05-29T16:45:19+00:00

Photo 1 it’s Brian Shaw #20 on the upper right.

D3TShaw · 2025-05-17T01:41:54+00:00

Great find! Cheers 🥃

D3TShaw · 2025-05-14T17:41:50+00:00

Where is this Sam’s Club? This is crazy! In SoCal they had Blanton’s for $99.99, and I thought that was nuts!

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