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The Scotchy Bourbon Boys · Jeff Mueller, Martin Nash, Karl Henley,Chris thompson, Rachel Mueller

Yellowstone Recollection, Poured With History

January 21, 2026·58 min·5 clips
The Yellowstone Recollection tastes like Stollen with cinnamon frosting and boozy cherry, scoring 15 out of 18.
The cold open starts with Middle West Spirits. It repeats the 2008 founding note, the Ohio River Valley flavor mission, and the grain-to-glass Michelon Reserve pitch before the show settles in. Then the room takes over. A super chat gets acknowledged, Sean gets a quick hello, and the host moves into the Old Louisville barrel bottle breakdown with that loose live-stream rhythm. Amin becomes the main side road. The host talks up Old Louisville, hopes for the Shively location, and keeps coming back to how closely Amin knows every barrel he has. Seven years is the floor. That detail does real work, because the host says Old Louisville does not put out whiskey or bourbon under seven years old. The bottle is Yellowstone Recollection Series. Before the tasting turns into a score, the host lays out the knock system like everyone needs to picture the barrel marks. Nose gets four possible knocks. Body gets four too. Taste and finish get five each, with one exceptional category allowed to earn a butt up. Perfect is described as nineteen of eighteen. The math is strange, but it fits the room. This is less a lab sheet than a bunch of sensory reactions getting pulled into a shared score. Sponsor detours keep popping up. William Dalton bottled in bond arrives with a wheated bourbon mash bill, and the closing stretch swings into a promo for a paranormal podcast. The tech joins the episode too. Near the end, the host complains that the new computer does not like Podcast Studio and says the recording will be redone that night. It is messy in the familiar way. Under the ads, greetings, software trouble, and bourbon-shop affection, the useful piece stays clear: a live-feeling bottle breakdown built around Yellowstone Recollection and Old Louisville's knock-by-knock tasting scale.

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A loose barrel-bottle hang centered on the Yellowstone Recollection series and the Old Louisville breakdown.

An episode built around a Yellowstone Recollection series bottle and the Old Louisville barrel bottle breakdown. The structure is straightforward, but it works: nose, body, taste, and finish each get their turn, and the talk about Amin, Old Louisville, Eric's super chat, and the…

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You want a grain-to-glass bourbon breakdown with loose podcast banter, a four-part scoring ritual, and a Michelon Reserve pour that is easy to sip.

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