Month: March 2022

File this under “We wish could have made this up, but it’s fo’ real.” Top-ranked UFC fighter and Lafayette, La., native Dustin Poirier has launched a new bourbon named Rare Stash. According to a news release quoted in “The Acadiana Advocate,” Poirier declared this about his bourbon mission: “Me being a whiskey person along with Rare Stash and the idea behind it of rare lots of bourbon was intriguing to me because I want to enjoy different bottles like that.” Is that quote real, or is Boomhauer his spokesman? And while he’s at it, Vanna, can he buy some commas? And yet, Poirier kept slugging past the needed punctuation: “This first run of Rare Stash is going to be special because the next release is going to be slightly different, and that’s interesting to me as a whiskey consumer and collector.” And it keeps getting worse: “Poirier created the craft bourbon alongside Ed Seckinger and Bob Wulf. Together, in a news release, they say Rare Stash focuses on unique and rare qualities found in the raw ingredients used to make its bourbon whiskey. Each bottle has its own characteristics based on that year’s corn and grain crop and the tree used to make the barrel where the alcohol is aged.”