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Ultimate Clemson Legend [108479]
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Need yallz advice. Running low on bourbon, like out.
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May 9, 2025, 8:17 PM
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Found an old bottle of Crown Royal, and though to myself I hadn't had a Crown and Coke in years, why not?
Grabbed the bottle and it looked odd. First off the label said "Seagrams Crown Royal", which I thought was odd. Then I noticed it had the old liquor tax seal on the top, unbroken. So I knew it was one of dad's old bottles. Then I looked at the date on the tax seal.....1969.
So question is....should I drink it? Sell it?
This is what the bottle looks like:
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Might finally be good. Plus '69
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May 9, 2025, 8:18 PM
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Ring of Honor [22221]
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Taste it. If taste good, have a few drinks. If feeling good tomorrow, repeat.***
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May 9, 2025, 8:23 PM
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Ultimate Clemson Legend [108479]
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This is my plan.
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May 9, 2025, 8:37 PM
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I survived drinking from a bottle of Old Crow that was hidden in the walls of my great grandfather's house, and was found when my cousin remodeled it. My cousin and I sat down one night, opened the bottle, and had a drink over a few cubes of ice. Wasn't too bad. Best we could guess, the bottle had to be shoved into the wall between 1920 and 1937, and with prohibition was probably the mid to late 30's. The bottle looked like this...
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TigerNet Immortal [170026]
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Depends on how thirsty you are
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May 9, 2025, 8:25 PM
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An empty bottle of 69 is listed on eBay for $24.99 so you could probably get 7 maybe?
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Orange Immortal [66259]
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Do it.***
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May 9, 2025, 8:38 PM
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NICE***
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May 9, 2025, 8:42 PM
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Clemson Sports Icon [52880]
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I don't think it spoils. Similar when my parents died and house cleanout,
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May 9, 2025, 9:50 PM
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some bourbon there under the kitchen sink where they kept it...I don't even recall what it was, but it went down smooth, a blessing under the typical circumstance of house emptying/distribution. As I recall at the moment, best bourbon I ever had.
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I dont appreciate your persona on here
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May 9, 2025, 10:04 PM
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so I try not to engage. But I just had a great
Four Roses Single Barrel. I think it’s like 49.99. Amazing for the price.
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TigerNet Immortal [176632]
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Thats one of my go-tos. Kind of bummed that up until the last
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May 9, 2025, 10:10 PM
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Year or so, there was a Kroger across the state line in KY that sold it for $32. One day out of the blue it went to $49 like everywhere else.
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TigerNet Immortal [176632]
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Youd consider selling a bottle of your pops stash instead of
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May 9, 2025, 10:11 PM
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Drinking it and toasting the old man? That’s cold man.
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Ultimate Clemson Legend [108479]
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If that bottle is worth $2000 or something and I drank it
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May 10, 2025, 7:13 AM
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My dad would kick my butt for drinking it and not selling it, or saving it.
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Diddy Ggity a smart man!***
May 10, 2025, 1:18 PM
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Ultimate Clemson Legend [108479]
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He was a collector of stuff. Mainly
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May 10, 2025, 3:06 PM
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guns, gold and silver coins, coffee cups, match boxes, hotel soap and shampoo. I never bought a bar of soap or shampoo in my life, until I was in college.
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Orange Immortal [64811]
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See my post and link below. Sell dat sh*t for $2200 and make Diddy proud!***
May 10, 2025, 3:18 PM
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Re: Youd consider selling a bottle of your pops stash instead of
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May 10, 2025, 11:19 AM
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This is the correct answer. My dad is still living, but he and I and my brothers toast my late grandfather every year on his birthday with the last bottle he bought, and love to retell the same old stories about him.
Before he passed he would notoriously mix really nice scotch and bourbon with juicy juice, strawberry lemonade, whatever happened to be in the fridge at the farm.
He also cut his own hair for probably 60 years, and used to always say he paid himself $10 for every haircut, and when he’d saved enough up he’d go and buy a bottle of bourbon, Canadian whiskey, whatever. Someone asked him what he does when the price of liquor goes up, he said he just charges himself more for a haircut.
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110%er [3643]
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I had the exact same conundrum a while back
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May 9, 2025, 10:11 PM
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Cleaning out my gran-in-laws house when she died. Her deceased husband was the tax guy for all the locally owned bars and restaurants in town and his clients gave him a nice fresh bottle of booze every Christmas and St Patty’s day. There were quite a few from the 1950s. They didn’t drink but kept it all so It ended up taking up most of the floor in an entire bedroom.
Needless to say over the years we have sampled a bit of the product from this stash and none of it is off.
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What year?
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May 9, 2025, 11:06 PM
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50s and 60s OGDs will get absolute MINT.
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Can't be worse than what I'm doing
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May 9, 2025, 10:35 PM
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I'm drinking Yellowstone bourbon with Diet Mountain Lightning
I say go for it
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Re: Can't be worse than what I'm doing
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May 9, 2025, 10:38 PM
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Re: Can't be worse than what I'm doing
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May 9, 2025, 11:08 PM
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Ultimate Tiger [33042]
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Orange Immortal [66259]
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I got a few Dustys like that from my FIL. One IW Harper in a cool bicentennial
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May 9, 2025, 10:44 PM
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cask decanter (had been opened but not drank), one pinch scotch, one Canadian club. All were gifts to him in late 70s or early 80s.
All has been good so far, haven’t opened the CC yet.
I read up on it and as long as it’s unopened and doesn’t look/smell off it should be fine. Only danger is if it gets contaminated somehow if opened.
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So, A '69 starts out fishy
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May 9, 2025, 10:50 PM
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But there's usually a creamy finish at the end, very satisfying
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Just saw this, don't open it yet.
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May 9, 2025, 10:57 PM
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Lemme see what I can find for ya. If somebody will give you $4-500 for it, that might alter your decision a lil. Then again...you don't really need the dough, and I'm curious to hear how it is, so...maybe I've changed my recommendation mid-post.
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Couple hits in the first scan:
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May 9, 2025, 11:00 PM
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1969 mini went for $70: encouraging
1974 (full size) went for $120: back into "open it" range
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1966 went for $160, so
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leaning towards not super-valuable discovery, crack it open and see what's up.
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JGB has wooden nickels that laugh at this.***
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May 10, 2025, 1:47 AM
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Ultimate Tiger [33042]
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Re: Need yallz advice. Running low on bourbon, like out.
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May 9, 2025, 11:10 PM
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Chug it!
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Bourbon, so uncivilized.
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May 10, 2025, 11:13 AM
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I have a difficult time getting anything over about 90 proof down, anything higher has the texture of burnt rubbing alcohol with notes of toothy blowjob and flat tire.
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Re: Bourbon, so uncivilized.
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May 10, 2025, 11:22 AM
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Not really a big Bourbon drinker. If I'm going whisky it's usually Scotch or Irish. Normally whisky is an Autumn/Winter drink for me; however, once in a blue moon I'll have a Bourbon. I like it on the hottest soupiest evening, outside in the garden. For some reason it feels like a Southern thing to do on that sort of evening.
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Re: Bourbon, so uncivilized.
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May 10, 2025, 11:26 AM
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I’m with you there on scotch, but then again I always have it over wet ice. I feel like every time someone pours me bourbon I have to just warm rawdog it.
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Re: Bourbon, so uncivilized.
May 10, 2025, 12:21 PM
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Ice in whisky - HEATHEN!
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Orange Immortal [64811]
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Depends on the whisk(e)y. Scotch blend? Irish? Rotgut bourbon?
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May 10, 2025, 1:24 PM
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All fine for ice. And water, ginger ale, or any other mixer.
Single malt? High-end bourbon? Japanese? Just a splash of water at room temperature. Or neat.
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Re: Depends on the whisk(e)y. Scotch blend? Irish? Rotgut bourbon?
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I'll go to vinum before that. If it's something I can't get out of, and it's not up to par, I will go with ice and ginger.
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