For sale “open bottle of Pappy 20, I’ll take just $500”

2 oz sample of Hirsch 20 for $300

Pappy 25 for sale for 15k

I could go on but the stupidity of the drink has gotten worse, much much worse. These 3 are just some recent ones.

It used to be an arguable debate to scalp someone for buying secondary but that’s an acceptable solution today or so it seems. Is it trust or stupidity? Could it be both? I don’t think so. In so many cases your dealing with strangers and a large sum of money. This isn’t just online. Some high end retailers in places like DC, LA, NYC are buying highly sought allocated bottles at secondary prices and reselling them for much more. These are being bought by very smart people with expense accounts as gifts often but the valuation on these things is irrelevant.

I’m shocked by the idiocy buying an open bottle. They deserve what they get. It’s like trusting a bar with a sole bottle of something allocated that occasionally mysteriously refills itself.

Old stupidity were things like buying one of the 20 types of Jefferson that will suck that cost $100 or over. Now the same people are like gamblers needing a bigger scratch ticket. When the $20 isn’t enough, come out with the $50 ticket. So the $50 ticket of whiskey is the $500 Whistle Pig Black Prince. Put the stuff against the regular 12 year old, Lot 40 or other decent Rye and you’ll realize you paid $400-$450 too much but it’s being treated like something allocated people are supposed to badly want or need.

The sellers of bottles splits and samples is another one like the open bottle sale-how do you know? You really don’t. Sure there are some bars out there with the bottomless bottle/s of Pappy but you gotta draw the line of trust somewhere and most bars will get the Benefit of the doubt.

Fake reputable auction house items are now becoming common place and the experts are blowing the whistles on them.

I’m finding stupidity of the drink astounding. Awkwardly, it gets me pissed when it’s not me doing the buying or selling. In a vengefulness I want these people to get ripped off but they don’t and won’t learn a lesson I won’t be teaching them. I’m left with sarcasm and laughing at them to often quietly fearing I’ll offend someone and another 100 idiots will come to their defense on social media groups— like they need some sort of protection! So I sit and watch the stupid get one upped and it gets worse. What’s next? Well it’s happening where the underwhelming whiskey gets put in a special looking bottle and sold to the stupid that needs nothing more than a pretty package. Like a baby with a new rattle it works from 6 months to 80 years old. I hope my readers are smarter than the average whiskey buyer.