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The Cut — June 22, 2026 — SE02E57 — Your Retailer Got the Letter. You Didn’t.
Monday's Cut opens on a distribution letter most buyers will never see. Beam Suntory sent per-account limits to its retail network this week for the Knob…
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The Cut Weekend: On Deck — June 21, 2026 — SE02E56 — Elijah Craig 18 Pre-Allocation Closes Thursday
Sunday's edition of The Cut Weekend sets up the week ahead — two moves with real deadlines and a few things worth putting on a list…
▶ Listen & show notes The Cut Weekend: The Week in the Glass — June 20, 2026 — SE02E55 — Elijah Craig 18 Undercuts Eagle Rare 17 by Ten Dollars
This Saturday recap follows the week's through-line: 18-year bourbons are no longer a single-bottle lottery. Heaven Hill's Elijah Craig 18 lands at $89.99 with a pre-allocation…
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The Cut — June 19, 2026 — SE02E54 — 280 Upvotes Settled the Father’s Day Bourbon Debate
Friday's Cut opens with a community verdict that has a retail window. r/bourbon ran Wild Turkey 101 versus Elijah Craig Small Batch for two days —…
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The Cut — June 18, 2026 — SE02E53 — A $70 Bottle Ships Today. Pappy Doesn’t.
Thursday's Cut opens with one deadline. The E.H. Taylor Jr. Old Warehouse C Bottled-in-Bond 2026 has a Father's Day ground-shipping cutoff before 5 PM ET at…
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The Cut — June 17, 2026 — SE02E52 — Tomorrow Is Your Last Father’s Day Call
Wednesday's Cut opens with a same-day decision. Heaven Hill's Old Fitzgerald Bottled-in-Bond Spring 2026 Decanter received federal label approval on June 15 at exactly 100 proof…
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The Cut — June 16, 2026 — SE02E51 — One Bottle Per Day. No Application.
Tuesday's Cut opens with the most straightforward premium access event of the summer. Michter's confirmed this morning that Fort Nelson Distillery at 801 West Main Street…
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The Cut — June 15, 2026 — SE02E50 — Heaven Hill Just Undercut Eagle Rare 17
Monday's Cut opens with the value move that resets the premium bourbon shelf. Heaven Hill confirmed the Elijah Craig 18-Year Straight Bourbon at $89.99 this week…
▶ Listen & show notes The Cut Weekend: On Deck — June 14, 2026 — SE02E49 — Four Roses LESB 2026 Blind Commitment at 108.2 Proof
Franklin maps out the allocation calendar for the week ahead, starting with Wild Turkey Master's Keep Triumph 2026 — 17 years, 116.4 proof, 11,400 bottles nationally…
▶ Listen & show notes The Cut Weekend: The Week in the Glass — June 13, 2026 — SE02E48 — Garrison Brothers Earns Texas’s First Bottled-in-Bond
Franklin walks through a week where the common thread was access — who gets the bottle, how, and on whose terms. BTAC lottery portals opened free…
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The Cut — June 12, 2026 — SE02E47 — National Bourbon Day Debate Has Real Numbers and a Deadline on One Side
Friday's Cut arrives with National Bourbon Day two days out and the annual community one-bottle debate anchored to two specific available-today releases for the first time…
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The Cut — June 11, 2026 — SE02E46 — Wild Turkey Triumph’s $199.99 Window Closes in Four Days While Secondary Quotes $320
Thursday's Cut opens with the most urgent active spread in the bourbon market: Wild Turkey Master's Keep Triumph 2026 sits at $199.99 through June 15 while…
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The Cut — June 10, 2026 — SE02E45 — Three Bourbons, Three Prices, One Father’s Day Deadline: The Gift Map Is Unusually Clean
Wednesday's Cut opens with the cleanest Father's Day bourbon gift map in recent memory — three confirmed MSRPs at three price points, each backed by real…
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The Cut — June 9, 2026 — SE02E44 — E.H. Taylor Jr. BiB Approved: Get on the List Before the Press Release Drops
Tuesday's Cut opens with federal label news most buyers won't see for two to four weeks — and that gap is exactly when the notification list…
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The Cut — June 8, 2026 — SE02E43 — BTAC Lottery Is Open — $129 Gets You George T. Stagg
Monday's Cut opens with the only bourbon window where the entry is free and the upside is George T. Stagg at $129. The Buffalo Trace Antique…
▶ Listen & show notes The Cut Weekend: On Deck — June 7, 2026 — SE02E42 — Pappy Van Winkle Lotteries Open Starting July 22
Franklin sets the table for the week ahead on this Sunday look-ahead edition of The Cut Weekend. The Wild Turkey Master's Keep Triumph window closes June…
▶ Listen & show notes The Cut Weekend: The Week in the Glass — June 6, 2026 — SE02E41 — Elijah Craig 130.4 and Four Roses 108.2 Converge
The week opened quietly — Beam Suntory's Clermont campus restarted after fourteen weeks dark, a decision whose consequences won't land on shelves until 2035. Then it…
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The Cut — June 5, 2026 — The $70 Bottle Just Won Father’s Day — Larceny Barrel Proof A926 vs. Wild Turkey Triumph
Friday's Cut opens with the Father's Day debate that just got real numbers. Larceny Barrel Proof A926 cleared TTB label approval at 126.8 proof — the…
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The Cut — June 4, 2026 — Two $79.99 Windows Close Tonight — Old Fitz BiB vs. ECBP C926
Thursday's Cut opens with a clock. Old Fitzgerald Bottled-in-Bond Fall 2026 and Elijah Craig Barrel Proof C926 close simultaneous pre-allocation windows tonight at midnight, both at…
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The Cut — June 3, 2026 — 108.2 Proof: Four Roses 2026 LESB Pre-Allocation Opens Before the Recipe Drops
Wednesday's Cut opens with a proof confirmation and a timing problem. The federal government confirmed Four Roses' 2026 Limited Edition Small Batch at 108.2 proof this…
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The Cut — June 2, 2026 — 130.4 Proof: Elijah Craig Barrel Proof C926 Pre-Allocation Closes Thursday at $79.99
Tuesday's Cut opens with a proof record and a three-day deadline. Heaven Hill's Elijah Craig Barrel Proof C926 is TTB-confirmed at 130.4 proof and 14.2 years…
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The Cut — June 1, 2026 — Beam’s Clermont Distillery Restarts: 14 Weeks Dark and What It Means for Bourbon Through 2035
Monday's Cut opens with the most consequential production decision in American bourbon this year. Beam Suntory's Clermont, Kentucky distillery — source of Knob Creek, Booker's, Baker's,…
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The Cut — May 31, 2026 — Old Fitzgerald BiB Fall 2026: Four Days to Get It at MSRP
Today's Sunday Cut opens with a four-day deadline most bourbon buyers will miss. Old Fitzgerald Bottled-in-Bond Fall 2026 is in pre-allocation at $79.99 through June 4…
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The Cut — May 30, 2026 — One Slot Left: The Last Four Roses Reunion Session
This weekend Brent Elliott is at the Four Roses Lawrenceburg distillery walking through the decision that produced "Reunion" OBSV 2026. Four pours — OBSV at seven…
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