Did You Really Win the Bottle, or Just the Right to Prove You're You? — The Cut — S02E129

Old Forester's Birthday Bourbon winners can't send a friend to collect — they need matching ID, in person, in Louisville. Sagamore Spirit's new Bottled-in-Bond rye leans on a federal age guarantee instead of a label's word for it. And Maker's Mark's oldest-ever bourbon raises the question of whether older automatically means better. 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.