Warning this may get long winded......
- The main reason for posting a few weeks back about not posting as much was due to my distributors asking me to remove myself from bourbon poker groups, secondary and any other online accounts that could come back to bite me one day. I’m an idiot here so “krazykats” might not be the best thing for me in 2019.
It had nothing to do with being cool, busy or anything else other than the image I’ve created for some of you could never be taken serious and that’s on me more than anything.
- As far as my nephews son, man, just all around awful. Back when I was 14 my sister had a baby with Down’s syndrome and multiple other issues and he passed after a few weeks. She tried so hard to have kids and eventually had my nephew but the man she married really took the death hard and drank and ate pills from then on. By the time they had a healthy kid my uncle was too far gone, so they divorced after some really bad and hazardous situations, and eventually he mixed too many pills one night with alcohol and never woke up.
Fast forward to yesterday, my nephew already as 2 little girls and wants a boy so bad. This was it, but he was born way early and because of fluid that built up before being born he wasn’t developing right.
My wife being a nurse would fill me in on details and in reality I was prepared months ago for what happened, but doctors gave my family there false hope and they opted to keep pushing for the baby to make it. 4 months of hanging on, per chaos in life scheduling, and just nothing but hope vanished and they are devastated.
Now we are all really concerned about my nephew because we relate him to his dad and are scared of what he may do after this.
That’s life, and I’m not above GYERO being GYERO and taking a little hazing, it’s fine.
-Geese is an uppity *****, and Rich was being stand up.....
Rich 1
Geese 0
-Bourbon Release Randoms
I had no clue what to expect, but had 50-60 folks were there in the end with about 10 people texting or calling that they wouldn’t make it before hand.
Boat coming from Lexington was a shock, but that dude couldn’t be nicer. Thanks for all the support and give to me straight no matter what Bob says today!
Several compliments to the label, and all the blue we chose to use.
I was given notice I would be talking to the group mid way so after a few drinks it wasn’t so bad after introducing myself to about 30 people I’d never seen before.
Everyone loved the 12 year product. Had a few folks buying bourbons from the tasting room and comparing side by side toward the end and I was floored with the responses from random people picking down home over some high priced secondary bottles. One fellow bought 4 cases and I never felt more indebted to someone in my life.
Had a guy show up, after reading the Insider Louisville article, strictly because Down Home references western Kentucky where he and my family is from.
Had a lady show up 10 minutes before we wrapped up that was in a frenzy and glad to show up. Apparently opening an “Ernie’s” in Etown soon that has the original Al Capone bar being installed.
Note, I was way to drunk at this point so some of this might be a little off.....
Her story went that the people backing them had really long money, and they helped her buy the bar that used to be in Al Capone’s speak easy. A few of us were unbelieving, but then she told us it’s the director or producer of the upcoming top gun movie and had bought 2 bottles for me to sign to Linda and Jerry, and I’ll be damned if Jerry(can’t remember his last name now) wasn’t someone half the people there had heard of.
We swapped cards, and hopefully this story turns out to be true.
I could go on and on, but I should probably stop here. I will add that we sold over 100 bottles last night, and the distributor just updated me that day 1 commitments for a third of our product(100 cases, roughly) is already on the way to stores today.