04/01/2026
🥃 It’s WHISKEY WEDNESDAY, y’all! 🥃
W.L. Weller Special Reserve, Buffalo Trace Distillery, Frankfort, KY
Weller is a famous and storied old label, which, once upon a time, was sold and made very popular by Julian “Pappy” Van Winkle. The whiskey that came out of Van Winkle’s long defunct Stitzel-Weller Distillery (sold in 1972 before shuttering completely some years later) was for many years after its closing the source of the wheated bourbon that would go into Van Winkle’s bottlings. But the Weller label was a long defunct one that was not made from Stizel-Weller’s closing in 1972 until Buffalo Trace and Julian Van Winkle III revived it in 2002. Like the Weller bottlings of old, this is a bourbon that uses wheat instead of rye as the secondary grain in the mash. It is made from the same mash bill and at the same distillery as the Van Winkle bourbon’s currently are. Before 2010 or 2011 this was considered a budget bourbon, and it had a 7-year age statement on it, making it one of the best budget buys of that time. If you consider yourself a bourbon drinker, you probably already know most of what is written here, but what you might not know is that tonight we are featuring shots of Weller Special Reserve for only $4, and a Weller Old Fashioned will only set you back $10.
Open at 5pm. See you soon, partner 😘
