We Found a Vintage Eagle Rare Decanter | Ep. 147

 It’s not just any bourbon collectible, this one’s a piece of whiskey history. 

In this episode of Arsenic Culture, Matt, Jason, Drew, and Jordon get their hands on a vintage Eagle Rare decanter, one of the most coveted (and bizarre) relics from bourbon’s past. From the craftsmanship and nostalgia to the wild era of 70s and 80s decanter culture, the crew dives into what makes this bottle special (and others!) and why collectors lose their minds over it. 

Is it an art piece, a time capsule, or just an expensive dust trap? 

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This wasn't at Buffalo Trace, this was at the old prentice distillery in Lawrenceburg. Lawrenceburg. No, I ended up getting this bottle for essentially Free, and I think the whole fucking cork gonna come up. Oh, sorry. Look at that. Welcome back to Arsenic Culture. I'm Matt. I'm Jason. I'm Drew. I'm Jordan. And, uh, Jordan is hanging out in his orange, Tennessee hat.'cause he's a big Tennessee fan. They're up right now on Georgia. Yeah, over in Georgia. Yeah. Congratulations, man. Your team is up on Georgia right now. How's that make you feel? Hey, when they're up, I'm up. Do you really like Tennessee? No. Oh no. I mean, I assume not, but that's an orange cambo. I know it is, but he's rolling with it. Like what's sexy deer season's coming up. That's right. Yeah. Make sure nobody mistakes you for a deer. That's right. You gotta have a little bit orange maybe. But then you got some of the orange, so that way it's, you know, there's the deer colorblind, so it doesn't matter. That's right. That's true. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. Yeah. Wait, our dear color blind. Sure. I used to dream to, all animals are colorblind at this point. The only people that aren't colorblind are people. Jordan's like, man, I don't know. That's deep. It's like one of those, um, yeah, we are, we're hanging out and we're drinking some, uh, we're actually not drinking yet any of these amazing decanters and I just realized you strategically placed them on the four corners of the table. I did. Oh, look at you. Thinking ahead. If you look, uh, this is the moment in the video to where I go pop. Pop, pop. And I just showed off all four, but I did, I did keep the, the best of canner sitting by me though. I'm just gonna say. Yeah, of course you did. Yeah. I don't know. My Turkey might, I think that an eagle baby. That was awful. Pretty. Yeah. This is a bowling pin, by the way. It is a bowling pin. Yeah. Mine is a, I don't know what mine is. It's an Elk's Lodge, something ELs. Lost Genie bottle. Yeah, this looks like something that was awarded to the winner of the Olympics back in 1932. You know, it does. I think I've seen Paul Bearer carry that to the room. This might have ashes in it. I'm not really sure. Li Liquid Ashes. Liquid Ashes. That's the name of the apartment actually. Yes. They went defunct a year after they were, uh, they were created so. But yeah, let's talk about decanters. Yeah. And, uh, the whiskey that is usually inside of them. So, do you know anything? Anybody here know anything about the history of decanters? Where they started, why they started? Yes, I know. Fuck all about it. Okay. Okay. So in the past, whiskey was actually sowed to retailers in barrels we're talking a long, long time ago. So retailers then had to transfer it to different vessels. So wealthy households began storing whiskey in crystal decanters. And in the fifties and sixties, that's when we saw it over here. So you look back then I remember growing up, my grandfather used to have like this collection of like, like porcelain or whatever the hell it's made of lead, I guess, right? Of like cars and horses and all these things. They were a series of the canners for all these different things. He had the University of Kentucky, like the Wildcats. Oh yeah. Um, I actually got one downstairs. It's unopened. We'll have to open down in the future episode. I've seen Does it have the dick tongue? It does not, no. Oh, man. It's a legit, like, it's a legit wildcat, not it, it says University of Kentucky. Like it's a series, but it's, it's like the wildt, like a taxidermy. Gotcha. Yep. So in the fifties and sixties, beam made the canners to really sell old bourbon. Right. Because they had the surplus. Nobody was buying bourbon. That's right. Interesting. So what you would see in there is you had some, some age stated older bourbon that was in these decanters, the nice, nice decanters just to get rid of it because that age bourbon was sitting, nobody wanted it. People were drinking Canadian mist or Seagram seven or, or whatever. So, uh, this also appealed not just to the whiskey people or the bourbon people. It appeal appealed to collectors. So you had some nature scenes. States, cars, sports events, organizations like the Elk Lodge or whatever the hell that is. I've seen, yeah, I've seen castles and all kinds of crazy stuff. Yeah. Yeah. So I mean, it's, it's been, it's been pretty wild. So you look back like the series you got there, drew, so the Wild Turkey series that actually started in 1971. It got a pretty cool, that tack strap was, T strip was just broken recently. The head's actually broken on that one, but it's full, it's never been opened and you can see the sides of it there. I mean, it's got like the old wild Turkey label at the bottom. Yeah, I mean it's, it's pretty cool. Um, some other famous decanters, Stitzel Weller, um, had the old Rip Van Winkle. Those old decanters like that. That's the real I've seen that. Pappy Juice. Yeah. Pat, you'll, you'll see those for sale. Oh, pat had some of those. We need to, we'll do a follow up episode. Maybe go over there. You can come out with those. You can buy some of those in local groups or like a eBay or something. Empty ones. Yeah. And they're awesome. They look awesome, but they're pretty cheap. That's right. The fake groups and not real groups. No, no, I'm saying. Empty. Yeah. Empty. That's right. Yeah. But you had Ezra Brooks. That's the one you got me not too long ago. It, yeah. I kept calling it Charlie Chaplin, but it was, uh, Ola Hardy. Yeah. Who was not Ed Hardy? It's like comedian duo back in the, like sixties, yeah. Seventies maybe. I don't know. Laura Hardy know this. Yeah. You don't know. No, they were way before that. They were. Oh, when were they? Forties, fifties, twenties, maybe the thirties maybe. Yeah. Facts were optional. Yeah. So just making sure you know that Laurel, I think Laurel Hardt were all black and white. Yeah, yeah. Oh, for sure. They were. They were. Jason. The seventies were not that damn long ago, seventies, like last year. I'm pretty sure I was born in the seventies. I know. Yeah. So you know what's funny, just to hijack for a second. No hijack. We were on, we were on that trip over the Nashville Derby and I was talking to one of those guys and he told me. Something. He was like, yeah, I, I started doing this 20 years ago and I was like, oh. Back in 1980 and like, he looked down for a second, he looked up, he was like 1980, like 2005. And I was like, oh shit. God. We're, yeah. Not even close. That's while you're bullshitting over. Jordan's gonna open this one. Okay. We're gonna open the gym Beam Dec canner. Me and Jordan actually went down there at the Jim Beam the first day they released this one. Yeah. So there was limit two per person. They were roughly like a hundred bucks each, but. This is the third. It's, I think it's a twist. I could be wrong. What do you, what do you think of them reintroducing the tax trip on there? I think it's fantastic. That's, yeah. It's nostalgic. It's a fake. It's not even real. I'll pass this around if y'all wanna change. Do you need me to, do you need me to get the cork out? I got my wolverine claw. I heard. I heard it. There's no court. I heard it's a bitch to pour out of Just FY There. Go go quick. You're a gallon plug. So this is actually the third bowling pin that they've done that I'm aware of. They did one. It's very similar to this same design. Okay. Like clear, right. They did another one that was white, so it was, uh, like a bowling pen that you would have at the, at the bowling alley, right. Gorilla one. Okay. So with this one, this is from Jim Beam. They're probably the king of decanters. I, I would say Yeah, I agree. I, I would agree with that. Yeah. Most of everything that you will see in like in a collectible shop is usually it's 90% beam. Yeah. And if, if you read that little, uh, tag they put on it, I can't read that. It said that they, uh, they've had Oh, okay. Well, uh, just for everybody, uh, Jordan's got microscopic vision isn't if he can see that dude, he's, he's better than, better than man than now. It says the beam pin bottle. It is Beam, celebration of the decanter. Um, shit, I can't read. I tried, I'm trying to read. I couldn't read it. Yeah, dude, you got a shot though. Damn, further. Not that is some small print. It is. So this one's eight years old, 86.8 proof. I mean, the bottle's beautiful. It is, uh, a shelf piece. I mean, I, I got two of these. I hit my limit. I'm never gonna open the other one. It's gonna be a mantle piece, you know, on Yeah. Here I can. Basically it's, it is basically, um, the unique decanters, I think it says, presented by the James Beam R Beam Distilling Company from the 1950s through the 1990s. The Beam Decanter series featured iconic bottles inspired by classic cars. Uh, some Great America landscapes and something else. Cultural events. Maybe this is it. The pro I've already tasted, I don't know if you wanna taste Sure I'm shit. Um, it's, what is the proof of that? 86.8. Okay. It tastes low. It tastes low. Like, I don't mean that in a bad way, but it's, I mean, it's, it's, well, I think it is a bad way. Yeah. It's, it's, yeah. It's, I like beam, but you do. And, uh, but 86.0 eight's pretty, pretty low. It's, it's good though. Is it good? It? I think so. Oh, you mean the, the juice is good. Yeah, it's, I, the first first bourbon I ever tasted was Jim Beam. Yeah, me too. And I hated it, you know, old white label, you know what I mean? Yeah. But looking at this one, so. They made over 3000 unique decanters from the forties. It says the forties, but there's a little discrepancy just like bourbon history, right? That's back when you're, that's when the Laurel Hardy one came out. So it's like there's forties. They said Decanters started with beam, but then you look everywhere else. Decanters did start to the fifties, right? So I don't know who's Rob, but either way from the forties through the nineties, that's when Jim B made 3000 different. Design decanters. That's, that is insane. And what's crazy is Jim b Malone. Jim b Malone. Wow. That's why they're the, the king of the decanters. Yeah. And you look at it though, they didn't really have two designs that were similar. So those were unique. Like you look at that one there and compare it to the bowling, they, they're not even close. You're having to buy that glass from someone else. Right? I mean, and the thing is, each one, they, they weren't one-offs, so they were one-offs. I mean, you would go to like, there's a Masonic, you in Jackson that had one, but I'm saying you're literally, they only made one of these bottles ever. No, no, no, no. Sorry. That's what I'm saying. Like they would make this design and they might print like a thousand of these bottles, or it might be. Enough to fill three barrels might be 700, 600. So, but you gotta imagine, I'm not saying it's a logistical nightmare, but it's, but you're gonna have an assembly line to manufacture. 3000 different prints. Yeah. Yeah. And back and back then I, I don't even know the lead time. You'd have to have to get like a ceramic. Can you imagine decanter, like the wild Turkey like that Jim Beam? Yeah. Yeah. Like that eagle rare. This is half glass and plastic on top. Yeah. Yeah. So even, but even this is custom. That's custom. Yeah. I mean, not to mention all the lead, you have to buy ahead ahead of time to put in the bottle to poison all of your customers. Yeah. I mean, there's maybe some asbestos in there. You gotta think ahead. I thought that that's another thing about decanters that I don't know about. Uh, I've always heard people talk about it though, but, uh, do you know, think about that. Yeah. We'll jump ahead a little bit. Good. Lean in. So the caners and lead, so some older decanters contain lead, which could and probably did, seep into the bourbon at some point. Even their porcelain or whatever it is. I guess some of the lead paint right would seep through. Even the glass ones, right? Some The glass. Crystal glass. Yeah, absolutely. Some of the crystal was actually made with lead. We've heard like leaded crystal. Yeah, that's true. That's that's the most dangerous one. So that is the crystal, the crystal candor. My family had a bunch of those, like that Tiffany one, we had the seas. Yeah. Yeah. I think though we had that bottle for about three years open. No, I think we've drank that much outta it. It was awful by the way. It was not good anyway, so it was awful. So what people you that hell to prevent us from drinking It did. So what people will tell you that though is like a little bit, um, will be okay for you, but you wouldn't wanna drink it every day. So if you had, if it does have lead in, or it probably does, if you're drinking a half ounce to an ounce a week or a month, your risk is gonna be very low with that. But if you're drinking a fifth in a day, a fifth in a week. You probably gonna the hospital think that with anything you're gonna the hospital. Right. That's probably true. True. Yeah. Your 50 mil corner day, you might go to the hospital, say, we was getting ready to try that one out. So back to this, we'll find out, back to the specific though, the canner. So there were several ones relate released. So forties, fifties, and sixties. You had the glass version like this one. The seventies and eighties was the white ceramic one I was telling you about earlier. Go back to what you said. You said in the fifties they had, they had glass in the fifties, forties, fifties, and sixties. Now the forties is kind of debatable, but fifties and sixties, let's say they had the glass version of this just exactly like this one. Okay. Like it didn't have the, I thought they went straight into the ceramic. Ceramic. I didn't actually know that that was seventies and eighties on this one's. Interesting. Okay. Uh, many, many sources say that the first beam decanter was released in 1952. Mm-hmm. Even though they list on their website, looking through Reddits and all these things, the forties. Most people say 1952. Um, this is actually also celebrating the 230th anniversary of Jim be James b Beam Distilling. Nice. So that's the reason they released this one. That's his birthday. Uh, it is. We were there on his birthday. That was the day we went. They released his birthday. That's right. And I think they're probably gonna release the Cantor every year on his birthday. A hundred percent. You should. I hope they do. You should. I mean, you're the king of the Canners, right? So I wonder if, I wonder if he was happy at that birthday party. Probably wasn't around. That's enough. So can you think of any other decanters that you remember or seeing anybody here? I bet Jordan Mott of like a famous decanter. Like what's, what's one you can think of, uh, the, the Wildcat one, like you said, that's like, that's cool. Crawling over the tree branch kind of thing. Yep. That's cool. And then the, the Rip Van Winkle one where he's like. Uh, he looks like a wizard or something, and he's sitting on like a tree stump with a pipe or something. That's pretty cool. Are you serious? That's, that's it. Yeah. Uh, he's wearing like a blue, I think, kind of. Is there like a hobbit next to him? I mean, honestly, you could probably, uh, it looks just like that, but they have, they also have something that same series, like it's almost like a hillbilly. Yeah. Like they have the Gandalf looking one that crazy. Also the hillbilly too crazy. But also, you know, the wild Turkey ones and you know. Yeah. There's one though that I'm really thinking of you. Oh, I know. Yeah, I know what talking about, don't saying. Have y'all thought of any? The one that I see the most often, like for sale around is what was Castle and Key before it was, was it Taylor? Taylor? Yeah. I see those all the time. Like the distillery, the castle. Yeah, the distillery. Pretty cool. The tower actually did some of those, didn't they? I'm sure. Pretty sure. That's the one I see the most. Just like around for sale. What the one did you think of it? So yeah, the chest set head's, the one that goes, yeah, that's the one. The old crow chest set is the epitome of. Best liquid in a decanter. Yeah. From what? From what I know. I've never had it. You know what's crazy about that one though? The proof on those is 86. A little bit less than this. Yeah. And they're 10 years old where? This one's eight. Yeah. So I, I've only had it once. I think Jacob, our friend, let me try some of his, but it was fantastic. But it's also a lower proof, so it's not. I mean, I want something probably it's not gonna feel as complex. I want 100 plus. Right. For me, you want hazmat dec i I don't need how, you know what? I do want hazmat decant. Probably probably eat the, if you get some lead, it's hazmat. You look at the inside of the walls are like an inch or like a quarter of a centimeter thing. I want the most from eighties movie, like those nuclear waste, like the big barrels. I want that. That's my decant design. Yeah, the hazard. Yeah. Hazmat. That's pretty good. So other things about this, we're gonna get into it. So which one of these decanters you want to open? You wanna go beam against beam first? Yeah, I, let's do that side by side. We could, do you want to go like best first so that way our pallets are more fresh or, I mean, I say, I'll say, let's go beam versus beam and then we'll open the rest. What's the proof on this? Uh, u over here. It should be, it should be 86. It's on the other side. On the bottom. Um, you know what is not in a decanter is never say die bourbon. Oh, good call. Yeah. Unless this is a decanter, which it very well could be. It's a nice looking bottle. It is a nice looking bottle. Never say die. Bourbon our sponsors appreciate you guys. You can find them at a liquor store near you. Uh, very tasty juice. No decanter needed, completely unle. And, uh, it will not give you, um, what does lead give you? I think cancer lead poisoning your teeth fall out. You'll retain lead poisoning. You'll retain all of your teeth, guaranteed. Ah, unless you drink a lot of alcohol. If there's a doctor watching or a dentist, let us know. Yeah, yeah. But I never say die Bourbon. Appreciate you guys. You should check them out. Oh, okay. Oh, baby. Oh my God. I can't, there is no way. This is going in that. So I got my trusty Wolverine claws. This is like a specialized look at that. Look at the top of that. That is completely disintegrated. It's just gone. This is supposed to go in the outside of the cork and then use pressure by the way it's shaped to pull it out. So you asked the, you know the stats on this one. So it's 86 proof and it's 120 months old, so it's 10 years old. Right. If my mask correct. Yeah. Which is probably not correct. Damn. The lead really soaked into that court. The, uh, the bottle says Fidelity Charity Justice Brotherly Love, uh, 19 18 68 to 1968. So not 68 decanter. It's a hundred year anniversary of whatever this, uh, this thing is. The Oaks Lodge. Okay. I need, I need four prongs. There's no, I've got two more in there. I don't know if we could layer them though. You know what I mean? Not with that attitude. You know what's not helping? Is the lip on here? The lip? Why didn't you go the other way? Jason? Stop being logical. Come on. Dumb ass. Oh, I mean, Matt, I'm sorry. I, there is no, it's just, it's just welded to the ball. Pushing. I really hate to do that. Okay. Okay. Fuck you. Help me. Help me get all this shit out. Okay. What do you wanna do? Just start like grabbing stuff. Okay. It doesn't matter. We can make, we can put it like this and just actually no, that's perfect. Matt. Oh wait. Hey, that's actually really good. Did you get it? What? Alright, so Matt has, Matt has worked his magic. We had a five. Here's our contraption. This is, this is nuts. So we got a little twisty tie onto a one pro cork thing. And then our two prongs to go on the outside to squeeze it up. And we got most of it, man. Like that's pretty good. Those are technical terms too. Prong thingy. One prong thing, and the two pronged thingy. We're gonna give you first pour. Okay. I'll do the first pour on this one with all the cork. Yeah. Okay, so 1968, 10-year-old, 86 proof. I, I feel like an old timey winch from like medieval times or my beer winch. I know I need like a boost to like push my boobs out. I, I don't, uh, I don't want neck pour. I don't need to want one. That's why you want me to go first. Yeah, that's good. You're good to get, drink all you want. No, I'm just kidding. We, we got a lot drinking going on. It's a, it's a marathon. It's not a spring. So have you had old bean decanters before Jordan? No. Uh, I think I've only had like a taste of like a wild Turkey decanter once. Okay. What about you Matt? I think you have with me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Drew, you had 'em before? I have not. No. So they can be really good and they can be really bad. That's pretty cloudy. Yeah, I would just take a small sip of that. Very cloudy. That's probably not worth drinking. We will take a small sip and try it, but that's probably a drain pour. You know what's weird? It smells sour. That's the cloudiness little bit. So those corks, yeah, smells like chemicals to me. So most of that's the lead. Most of most of the courts in this time have failed. They disintegrated like you just saw. Yeah. No shit. I don't know about that. What you all tried, is that what you think? Yeah, based on the smell, I'm not a, not a, see it is, it is oaky. It's a little quirky. Yeah. Yeah. It's a little chemically, I think. I don't, I don't, oh, yeah. That's, I I would honestly say there, I don't know if it's possible to get infection into a, into a whiskey. But there is, there's some sort of, I don't wanna say contamination, but it just, oh, a lead contamination maybe. Yeah, maybe that's all it is. It feels off well. I mean, do you think that when they bottled this, that they ever thought that it was gonna be sitting there? No. For 70 years or whatever. 60. 60 years. They like when they bottled this, that's the thing, their thought was, let's get this product the hell out of our warehouse. Right. Thank God somebody might buy it. They had to make it more attractive so people, so it would move. Right. Yeah. A hundred percent. We gave it, we gave it a go. Yeah. That, that's some more back in here. That's kind of a good lead into the future, right? Yeah. Why you need that is this, is this what, uh, distilleries are doing now? They should. So the one that we first opened, if you're, if you're listing not watching the Jim Beam pin, the bowling pin bottle, it's a screw top, essentially, right? So there's no cork on that. It would last a long time, which is much better. Which screw tops probably didn't exist back in, back in this time period. I'm sure they did. Yeah. I don't know, man. Yeah, I would think so. I'm trying to think of like, what year was this? Coke 68. I'm trying to think of like the Coke bottles, you know? Right. They were the original Coke bottle. Had a court. They're gonna need to update their, but in the sixties though, they not. They were, you gotta break the necks on the burns to get the, the, that's what you really gotta do to kill a bird to go that neck. So you wanna go Turkey? Let's wild Turkey. We'll go Eagle wear lunch. Let me refresh my, uh, setup here. This thing is just wet by the way, Scott, can you gimme a paper, paper towel? Do you mind? Oh, I got, I got towel here. Thanks man. Scott, I would offer you pour that when you don't want it. You don't want it? Yeah, you're good. All right, so this is the wild Turkey. And this is what? That's what the cork Careful that might pour out. There's a lot in that one. Yeah, that's what the cork looks like right now. So I am the second owner of this decanter, the first owner. This was bought in Tennessee, um, within I guess 10 years of, of being made. I'm glad I get to sit down for this one. Yeah, so there's actually, the cork on this one looks much better, right? Yeah. It, it doesn't look nearly as wet. This one's eight year 101 proof Wild Turkey. But remember back then they're trying to move product so. If the age statement's eight year, it could be more than that. Right? This could be 12, 10, 12, 15-year-old juice in there. You don't know. Interesting. Is it easier to get a dryer cork out or a wetter cork? I would say dry like that. Yeah. Well, it, it comes down to the cork itself being intact or not.'cause you see that. Yeah, I mean that's just, that was just in shoes. This was like a better quality court just looking at it right now than that one was. Now this is not, this is, this is within 10 years old than that too. Let's put that right. I don't need that. Put that wherever. You don't wanna throw shit at me, man. I should have put this in first. I wasn't really thinking. That's what she said. I think this can, yeah, this contraption, I think this idea works. Mm-hmm. It worked well in the first one. Dude. It did work ish. I, I don't being a smart ass, but I felt like that went very genuine. Very genuine. It looked, it looked, it did work. Well Adjacent. Well Adjacent. Well adjacent. Yeah. I'm actually gonna. Do one of those deals and then we'll get this in here. Yeah, I'd wipe that off. Wipe the big chunks off too. Just get 'em outta the way, way they don't just bow on it. There you go. Matt, you look like he's pretty good at that. Actually. Go ahead now. Now these, uh, decanters, they look, they're a bitch to pour out of, to be honest. A hundred percent. No forethought. No. It's like how are you gonna get the alcohol out of it? This was, this was moving product. Yeah. Please God, take it off our hands for any amount we can make a dollar on. Yeah, that's all this was. But now. Some of these wild turkeys are pretty, it's moving. I wonder what the, I wonder what the MS rrp on That looks good. The caners were compared to the like regular whiskey bottles back there. I would say double the price. You think? I mean, I bet they actually make a lower profit margin on those. Yeah's, that's pretty good actually. Good job. And I'm sure all the wives love your husbands walking in with this instead of a regular bottle of whiskey back in the day. I'm gonna make a mess of this. I'm optimistic with this one, so we'll see. Ugh. Feel. Just touch that and then wipe your hands off. Well. Oh, it's pretty slimy. It's not cloudy, so that's good. Much cl Much clearer than other one. This cork, I feel like if you could solidify the influenza virus, that's what this cork would, that's what it would feel like as this cork. Yeah. Gobble. Gobble. I do have a, this one smells better. Little pieces of cork in mine. I just poured half of it on my leg, so I didn't, I didn't piss myself as far, it's actually, it's just wild Turkey, mom. You know what, those Turkey went up in value. Yeah. And later. When uh, Jason shows off his legs, we'll be able to auction. Auction off for our Patreon. Yeah. Patreon baby. Is that a wild Turkey to cancer in your paint? Did boring. That one was a lot harder than any of the other ones. We've had eight years. 1 0 1 8 year 1 0 1. Nice. At least eight year could be more. And we know when this was bottled. Uh, 19, I think it was 73 19. I gotta double check that. Okay, we'll pass over Scott. He might want before too. Scott grabbed this Turkey by the Good luck buddy. By the wallet, whatever. Oh yeah. It's a lot better. Damn. It's good. Interesting. Oh, that's the one. Oh my god. Damn. See, this is why you do this. That taste, this is why you, that tastes like today's like. 14, 15, 18-year-old Burp. You got a little tingle too. Like the proof's still there. It's not oxidized too much. Oh man. That Cork was actually pretty much intact. Intact. It's in shape. Yeah. Do you remember my birthday over at uh, blue Grass Tavern. And I Wasn't that your birthday at Bluegrass Tavern? Was it you? It was You clearly, clearly Blue aver. Clearly. Yeah. I'm not your friend. So, uh, what was that bottle that we got and they had like one pour left. Oh yeah, we got the bottle. No, I was there. Was there old Taylor? I was there. Shit. Yeah, it was old Taylor. You both there I an orchestra there. Six year. It was old Taylor. But again in 70 something. Don't forget though, just 'cause it says six years, probably older back too, so, right. Yeah. And they had bought it some off, some old lady out of her trunk. Yep. Jordan. And they had one pourer left in the bottle and we were out for my birthday and I got the last pour and we were like, dude, can I take the bottle back? And he's like, I really can't. And we were like. Just let us have the fucking bottle. It's empty, you know? And it is really old. Everything but this, just remind me of that a hundred percent, that experience. Kind of just like, you know, one thing I wouldn't do is accept trunk pours from a old decanter from somebody. Would or wouldn't? Nah, I would not, I wouldn't hardly, this wasn't, this wasn't in a regular bottle. It was regular bottle. Oh, regular bottle. It, it was like an old Taylor six and Matt has it. And the difference between, you know, the bottles now and bottles, then they're, they're more sexy from the older time. It's very like a silhouette. Very curvy. It's, you know, other ones are more square now. Even that bean bottle looks, I mean it's more, you know, more modern. It especi the curves. It does, it's got the curves. Maybe it's got a curve. Put the apple bottom jeans. I think she, I think that's where this stuff, this is dangerous. The problem with this Turkey, this is, I could drink, I could drink this. Oh, we could crush that. I could just That's very good. Yeah. That's amazing. Got each, have a small amount of lead poisoning so far. So we're good. Yeah, I know. Just a little, little bit of lead. It. We also, we'll also be invincible later. So the piece deros just s right. You wanna get, that's a beautiful bottle, by the way. Let's do, this is a, this is an insane bottle. Like the chance that I got to buy this, uh, for free was, so what's, what's the, uh, sticker on the back of the Tennessee sticker? Is that, that like a, so that's, that's where it was sold. Okay. So that's, that's where it was sold. This has never been opened. I mean, that is pristine, limited dish. I mean, that's the number two in the series. I mean, that is. Yeah. Super nice. So there's some places in the state we get kegs back from 'em. Yeah. They have to put their own local. I took a picture of the back of it too. Madison. Oh yeah. Municipality kind of tag on those kegs. So Eagle area, when you, you look at it now, so it's 10 years old, same as this one, but it's 90 for. Well, this one's 101. So this is, this is pretty, pretty rare to get, I mean, it's uh, this was the old Prentice Distillery in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. Do you know what that was? This wasn't at Buffalo Trays. This was at the old Prentice Distillery in Lawrenceburg. Lawrenceburg. Well, Lawrenceburg, you got Wild Turkey. You got four roses. Four roses, and then you got. To cut the stamp with this's, just four hoses. Then you got the, uh, you wanna try to do this on? Yeah, I gotcha. Here, cut the stamp with that so it's nice and clean. It's already cut. Oh, is it? It's messing with you. Not, I thought it was, yeah, me get nice. And it looks like a brand new to cancer tank. I mean, it looks, Jason's been ing they, so I actually went to Buffalo Trace of the Day and they had one of these in the gift shop. It does not look as good as this one. Like this is, this is pristine. So that's really good. We'll see what we can do with the head of the eagle. Like the person that had this must have kept it pretty well. So the lady that sold it, there was a lot that was bought by my, one of my friends Travis bought this lot in, in Tennessee and got it for a steal, right? So it was essentially, I ended up getting this bottle for essentially free, and I think the whole fucking core is gonna come out with me. Shot up, one shot, one kill. That's how I did. Oh, I think a bald eagle. Eagles, Dr. S the, oh, sorry. Look at that. Uh, the question is, do you pick it up by two wings to port it or how did that happen? Oh my god. That is an intact court show that like, that's got some, some weird, that's little kind. It doesn't. No, it's almost like wax. Oh yeah. I wonder. Maybe they wax the corpse for they wax 1969. Somebody wrote in pencil in there, not 60. So if you wax those things, it won't absorb as much of the stuff. Or maybe the person that refilled it with modern bourbon wax the cord actually ruin the romanticism. I need to drink my last. Up. So if somebody else wants to pour, go for it. I don't know. I feel like I need an assist on the pour. This dude, the cork is like this. This is, well this is an extremely well made like, I, I was just telling Drew, you might have to hold both wings and it's a good idea. Tip it over. I don't know if it's a good idea, but, uh, do you want me to hold your glasses while you hold the wings? You just wanna pour it straight in my mouth? Maybe just hold the base. I'm gonna fucking pour the base. Do you, can you grab the funnel over there? We're just gonna funnel the, uh, the. So question Jason, are these decanters, are they all seven 50 milliliters or are they, uh, that looks good. So all the decanters that I've seen are 750 milliliters, but now I don't, I can't guarantee all of'em are that, I'd say some of 'em. Yeah. Thanks Matt. This is probably a future discussion, but, uh, I wonder what makes like, uh, overseas, uh, 700 milliliters versus. Eagle, right? United States, seven 50 milliliters on a lot of, uh, bottles. Why they did that? Yeah. So metric system, right? So it's, it's looking at it that way. Corner. And also, what's that, sorry, put it in your corner, that bottle. This smells like a wild Turkey. Similar. And this one has, so it's not cloudy. So we know it's not infected. Like, oh, whatever. So that's how you know, uh, so with cloudiness, if you open this up and it was cloudy, it essentially makes the bottle worthless. If you open this up and it looks like this. This bottle's probably worth five to $600 at least. That's without the decanter. That's just with the dec contents being non cloudy. So we just opened five, $600 bottle from 1969, which I've never had this, this product. That's fantastic. We got, we got a eagle rare fan over there watching this, but he, his glass was full. So he don't get any now. Right. He's trying, it's one, one and done. Right. He's trying to see, man, that's like, that's like butterscotch caramel, like wow. It's so, it's so nice to see layers in something that is so ancient. It's honestly like, you know, you look at the legs on this too, so you talk about the legs on a pore. When we talk about that, it's on your, uh, it's on your glass. It's kinda running down. So, I mean, this one has a lot of legs. It's very viscous, thick, caramel, sticky sweet to me. I mean, it's for 101 proof bourbon compared to the wild Turkey. This one's quoting unquote more smooth to me. Sweet dessert. This is the epitome of fat boy whiskey to me. Right. Same here. Fat Boy Whiskey. It's fat boy sticky. Sweet. It is just like a dessert. Yeah, that's, and you know, damn. That's good stuff. Thank you. I'm glad I opened this one. Um, I may or may not have another one downstairs. I'm glad you opened it too. And, uh, that is seriously. Thanks man. That is amazing. No, no, that's, that's, I mean, I got this for free. Shout out to my friend Travis, if you're watching this, man. I appreciate you. But, uh, this one was not sold. Should have invited him to the bottle share. Hell no. We don't want him bring, I'll send him a sample, honestly. I will. So, so where are we ranking these first? I mean, if this is clear, this is clear. Third, what are you ranking? You do yours and you'll see, I mean, that's last obviously, that, that, so see what they are in case somebody's not watching. So, so, so the beam, uh, earn canner. Yep. Elk Lodge to Cancer. That, that one's last for me. Mm-hmm. The Turkey was really good. This one's fine. I would say the Turkey second. This one's third. The third is the beam bowl pin, the new one. Bowl pin. Yep. And then the eagle rare man, that is fantastic. I think everybody would rank that number one, right? Like we all give standout. Yeah. Yeah. I'll be honest, I think my or is the same as Jordan's Eagle. Rare is number one, I think. Wild turkey's number two for me. Yeah. And I'm gonna go the beam bottle. Three. Three. It's, it's fine. It's fine. It's not my favorite, but it's for a hundred dollars collectible bottle. Oh, it's fantastic because most people are just gonna put this on the shelf, I think. Yeah. For that boiling po. That's more of, yeah, they did a hell of a job recreating this bottle from the original. It looks just like it. Yeah. Now, I mean, if you can find one these damn decanters, I mean, take a risk on it. But I think what we showed here tonight is two of the old decanters we opened were great. One of them was awful. So you're rolling the dice when you buy those old ones. Yeah, but, uh, I'm excited. I'm hoping the, the future holds a lot more dec canner releases for us. I'm here for it. Do you think they're gonna bring back decanters? I do. A hundred. They're already doing it. That's awesome. Yeah. So Calumets done some, Jim Beam's done some. Who else has done some ca met? I just sent, uh, Jason a picture of, uh, Taylor. Or, uh, uh, world Whiskey Society who does the, uh, Wyatt Earp, uh, whiskey, which I don't know if you guys have saw, we don't get a lot of Doc Holiday White or white Earp whiskey around here very much, but it's based out of, uh, Georgia, I believe. Um. They're starting to do. I, I just sent him a picture today of, it's like a, it's like a old cowboy, almost like leaned up on a bourbon barrel with a rifle. Yeah. Like that, that it's coming back and Yeah. Uh, I think it's for the better, but also I think it ties in with, uh, why they did it in the past. Right. Think was like, move. Yeah. We're trying to get rid of all the extra stock and, and move their shit. And I, I'm here for it. I love it. It adds novelty. Yeah. You know, I agree. Oh yeah. Um, and also it's a conversation piece. Like, I mean, you have those sitting around. I think I gave Michelle's dad, uh, Jim Beam decanter. It was more like a classic one. Had like some like marbling, like blue and stuff on it. Um, I gave that to him very early on. Um, tried to win him over when we were dating, I think. Yeah. But, um, and I think it had some nice work. I think it was still full, but. Given the state of bourbon where it is now, I think it's really cool.'cause you can, yeah. And think what they can do with porcelains or glass now, right? To make it Exactly. I mean, you already see it in some of the bottles. I mean, we're hitting it. We're on the edge of the glut right now. I mean really in modern time. So when this started, that's when it happens. So in, in theory, it should repeat. Correct? Yeah, I agree. Also history is cyclical. Or, uh, speaking of what they can do with glass bottles that never say die bottle. Is it? Did I not look this yet? You did already. Okay. But I mean, that is, that is awesome. I have to remember. Yeah. But that is an awesome looking bottle. Yeah. Is a good looking bottle. It's got that fat bottle. You know what they say about the fat bottom to make the world go round. They make the work go around. Yes sir. Yes sir. I'd say that's a good end. That's actually, yeah. Guys, thanks for tuning in. If you liked it, please share it. Uh, for more arsenic culture, you can check us out on all the social we're @arsenicculture. And if you didn't like it, still like and subscribe on YouTube. We'll see you on the next one.