I’ve always been intrigued by bars and restaurants that get their own private barrel of whiskey. Four roses does these branded bottlings a lot: Nopa used to have one, I think Elixir still does, even Beltramo’s, the South Bay’s most famous liquor mart, had their own branded bottles of Four Roses. For me, though, it’s hard to form an opinion on a spirit with just one shot in the course of a dinner or a night out.
Enter Hog & Rocks, who is offering their private barrel of Elijah Craig 12 by the bottle. Here’s the deal: you pay up front for the bottle, they put your name on it, and they keep it behind the bar. Then, any time you want, you just walk in and have them pour you a shot. I’m especially looking forward to convincing friends to go with me without mentioning the program, and then just walking up to the bar and having them pull out my personal bottle like a boss.
They also allow you to add up to four names in case you don’t think you can go through an entire bottle yourself. But I live a few blocks away, so I’m not worried.
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How much do they charge for this privilege? Because I have a bunch of personal bottles. I keep them at home.
I didn’t say because it would just make you mad. I am open, however, to doing a Drink of the Week feature on you drinking in your apartment (not joking.)
Now that’s a fascinating proposition…and I happen to have scored a bottle of Pappy 20 year yesterday. hmmmmmm
That definitely ups the ante. Now all we need is an angle. If we could get a pic of a babe drinking it straight out of the bottle we’d probably get like 250 comments.
Angle: PVW 20 yr vs. Old Granddad BIB head to head. Then we have a wet t-shirt contest using Old Granddad 80 proof.
Twist: Allan is wearing the t-shirt.
gold
BTW it’s ‘like a bouse’
Half “boss”, half “souse”? That’s clever, I like that!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh6YN2lqjOE
There are now ONLY snapshots with phone zombies pictured in them. Literally impossible to find photos that don’t have a phone zombie in the background somewhere.
Also featured here as a boombox zombie. http://www.missionmission.org/2011/05/28/say-anything/
It cracks me up the way so many women will spend hours doing their makeup, but the only way you ever see their faces is being lit up by that ghastly iphone blue glow. Zombies indeed!
Nobody wants to talk to you anyways
“in case you don’t think you can go through an entire bottle yourself”
What kind of sad sonofabitch can’t go through an entire bottle himself? The problem is: who can afford an entire bottle of this magic hootch himself?
Get thee to Bevmo! http://www.bevmo.com/shop/productdetail.aspx?productid=557
Hot tip! I was thinking of bar prices.
Yeah, so triple or quadruple it for the bar price.
same price at Bi-Rite actually…
Narcissistic.
More importantly, who is that hottie stealing the show!?
Please donate to a non-profit soon. You have run out of things to do with your excess cash.
+1
Pretentious. I guess a few google or facebook fuckwads would be into this.
Lol you went to community college
Well educated individual here. Pretentious as fuck. $95 so you can have your own bottle. This blog is for the entitled fucks that look to fill their vapid lives with bullshit consumer culture.
Shouldn’t that be “well-educated” since it’s an adjective?
bottle service repackaged for the reclaimed wood crowd?
Having your own bottle at the bar is a concept older than I am. And I’m old.
I have a bottles on reserve at almost every bar I got to.
Beltramo’s is in Menlo Park. That’s “Peninsula,” not “South Bay.”
Suburbs is Suburbs.
Privilege is privilege even when it’s dressed up as a hatred for the “suburbs.”
Yes. Because if there’s one huge example of privilege, it’s the privilege of those who live in our inner cities over those who live in the suburbs.
Pff.
It is when we’re talking about SF.
95.00 a bottle at Hog and Rocks.
$25 a bottle at Bi-Rite
so dumb.
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