Well, earlier this year we told
you all about how you could win
an entire barrel of bourbon,
plus many other rare and unique bottles,
all in support of the
nonprofit Educational Justice.
And now you have just one day
left to purchase your ticket.
Joining me now with more of how you can
win and and what you need to do is Brian,
Warren and Jeff. Chessman,
to kind of talk us through everything.
Gosh, you guys were like,
you were on back in March, right?
Yeah. And we've been going great guns,
I mean, selling tickets and
we're just a day away from
the big, say, win a barrel of bourbon.
That kind of gets people's attention.
Absolutely. Who doesn't want to
try to figure out what to do
with 180 bottles of bourbon?
It's like that's a good problem to have.
Definitely. Well, tell us a little
bit about educational justice and
what this goes to support because
it is suit a super unique program.
So we're raising funds to support
kids in our community who are
using their community service.
Hours to help other kids.
So we, you know,
recruit and train high school students
to use their community service.
Hours to help a single middle school
student through middle school.
And it's just such a beautiful thing,
very powerful.
And we see great results
academically and socially.
Yeah, you must have seen a
lot of just inspiring stories,
even this past school year.
And they do, they work with the
kids throughout the summer too.
They they can,
a lot of them do things to each other.
We don't, we don't enforce that.
But it's amazing they will and
they will come up with such
creative ways to hang together.
So they may watch movies and talk about that.
They read books together, You know,
they sometimes will work on the academics,
but you know they build a a.
Bond in a relationship that's
enduring just beyond that helping
both of them actually mentoring
in a very, very unique way.
Well, Jeff, you get to,
you get the great pleasure
of talking about the unique
bourbons that we have here.
You're with Whiskey thief
distilling company and you guys
just had to jump on board with
this and be involved, right.
A great program. We're we're honored
to be associated with Brian and
his group and and very much looking
forward to meeting the winner and and
working on a barrel of bourbon form.
What did you bring here today
because this has been like it's like
a field trip learning all about.
So if you've never been to Whiskey Thief,
we are a small craft
distillery in Frankfort, KY.
When you come onto our farm, first of all,
you're you're in a cornfield,
you're in several acres of corn.
That we've done is to supplement our bourbon,
right? Absolutely.
But you come through the Steel House
and you'll see our our production.
We'll talk a little bit about the process,
all that good stuff,
but we'll have 5 barrels laid out
there for you and we use this tool,
which is a whiskey thief.
And we use that to pour the samples
directly from the barrel into your glass.
So that's where we get our name.
Yes, absolutely
right. You're also going to
play a special role in the
announcement of the big winner.
How's that all going to go down?
So if you've never experienced
a single barrel pick,
which a lot of folks in Kentucky have not.
So it's a welcome experience,
but we really roll out the
red carpet for you.
So those folks are going to get
to come in and and and sample for
some from some different barrels
with our distilling team also
our owner will be out there.
I'll be out there. As well.
So it's just really cool.
It's a it's a great opportunity to
folks to kick back you know with
friends or family and and relax
and enjoy what what it's all about
and one lucky person gets to enjoy
their very own barrel of bourbon.
Exactly one more day.
How are you going to announce the winner.
So the announcement will be
tomorrow night out at Whiskey Thief.
And so between 6:00 to 8:00,
we'll be, you know,
finishing up our raffle ticket purchases.
8:00 o'clock, we will start the raffle.
Of course, we, you know,
welcome people to come out and
join us for that event. It's
going to be quite an experience,
I think, just being there for this. Yeah,
we will have definitely food and
music and those kind of things too.
So come on out, make a day
of it and enjoy the raffle.
I feel like the consolation
prize and the rare bourbons,
these are great rare bourbons.
I want to give just a moment to
kind of describe the different,
the rare bourbons that you guys are
giving away in the raffles. Yeah,
well, we have 22 different lots.
And so, you know,
outside of that barrel of bourbon,
we have some really great bourbons
that are being, you know, raffled.
Including a 17 year old birthday bourbon,
which is fantastic.
And then I've got some selections here,
of course, one of our local distilleries
right here with Rabbit Hole.
And then you know,
we also have a couple unique things.
This is a old fits that you know was
personally picked up by Connor or Driscoll,
the Master Distiller down at Heffron Hill.
And then this one is really cool.
This is a sign bottle by the Bay and
Metallica for their boutique brand Black.
That's very cool.
So great, fantastic things,
A great flight of Weller.
But you can find all of this out on
our website kentuckybourbonraffle.org.
It lists all of the lots and
everything that's in there.
One more day. When does
everything close? Tomorrow. We
sell tickets all the way
up till 6:00. O'clock.
Time to get it in and help
out an incredible cause.
Guys, thanks so much for stopping by.
More information?
Just head to KY Bourbon raffle.org or
check out their Facebook page for all.