Birthday Bourbon Trades Louisville Line for Airport Pickup — The Cut Weekend — S02E133

Old Forester replaced the camp-out line for Birthday Bourbon with a random mail-in drawing, but winners still have to make a trip to Louisville and show ID before the bottle changes hands. Franklin weighs whether that's real fairness or just a relocated barrier, points to Starlight's Mizunara lottery as the same argument in different clothes, and lays out what to actually watch — gift-shop drops of leftover stock, secondary market pricing on last year's bottle, and winners posting about their pickup trips. He puts his own guess on the unclaimed-bottle count on the record and asks listeners to do the same. The retail detail — the where, the when and the numbers — isn't in this episode. Platform rules for alcohol content don't allow it here. All of it is in the American Whiskey Industry Brief, free every morning at chasingtheunicornpodcast.com.