Bourbon, Catsup and Golf

So, the story of the trip through the midwest continues.

Here Connie and I stand, somewhat drenched in rain in front of a mock President's Cup.  We'd been to the Jack Nicklaus designed Muirfield Village in Dublin, Ohio to watch The President's Cup. 

Exciting. 

After seeing acres and acres of soybeans and corn, we came upon quite a sight.  The world's largest catsup bottle, in a small town just east of St. Louis. 

The Buffalo Trace distillery was also subject to a drop by.  And then, about a week after we had visited, roughly 65 cases of Pappy Van Winkle bourbon was reported missing. 

The Wall Street Journal said in July,  “the bourbon (is) so popular even billionaires can’t find it.”  Some call it the finest bourbon whisky in the world.

Pappy is aged 20 years and bottled at 90.4 proof. It retails for about $130 but the price can skyrocket on the secondary market — generally $300-$400 a bottle, or more. One California liquor store with two bottles of 20-year-old Pappy in stock Thursday was asking about $1,200 each in its online store.  (That's not Pappy in those barrels. We heard folks talking about it, but didn't get to see it.)

We didn’t take it.  We didn’t even get to sample it.  But, I can tell you the stuff we sampled was pretty tasty!