Derek Trucks talks Bourbon with Dan at Bourbon & Beyond; Ep. 91

Daniel: welcome back. Bourbon Brass & Beyond is talking with Derek Trucks. Derek is Search number two, but like our seventh release. Nice, yeah. But we brought it with us. We're doing a a bottle share tomorrow and so I hope that's free. Okay. So I know a lot of it I mean, when we first got into it, me and my brother, we were definitely leaded bourbon people. I mean that's kind of the first stuff that really got us excited. But we we just became fans of just good whiskey, so it's really it just really has to be the it's a quality standard and less of a a specific kind of profile. I've gotten to really enjoy things and I didn't early on I wasn't a big rye guy, but I really didn't around these. finding things that that I would buy if I wanted to it's that's just kind of our you know it's me and my brother were chasing down bottles for still find them, especially in the deep south where we live. It was we we stumbled across some pretty incredible stuff along the way. So it's it's kind of a way for us to continue to do that in a different way because that game is done. Right again like now when you find something that's marked up twenty and thirty X like it's like we're not gonna do that. So this has been really fun and we got to meet a lot of these burban families and And and you realize it's it's a family affair for almost all of them. They're third, fourth, fifth generation sometimes. So the the stories are incredible. I just love the I love the history of it. I love the fascinating. We got to see every every part of the process at this point and farm major don't sort of go to some corn. So it'd just be fun to to get it all the way from the beginning. But it's yeah I love it. It's a labor of politics. We all have like a Yeah. That's why I think something that's that's bigger than you are but you're hopefully you're a good steward to carry it to the next generation. We feel that with with our music. I mean I was I was a fan of the Allman Brothers before I was on the road. tell that you've influenced musically and it's you've been part of the lineage and it's so you do your best to hold up as much of it as you can. So it's it's yeah, I feel feel very fortunate and honored to be a part of it. And and some of these some of our friends now in the in the bourbon world, I feel like they've really opened up their their their families to us and it's it's been awesome to get to know them and really dig in and thing I've noticed is like these these guys that have been in the game 40, 50, 60 years, they still get so excited talking about it, drinking whiskey with it that I was like, that's that's what you're after. Same same in this world. You want people that are still inspired and aren't just photo in a bit. So I I I really appreciate seeing we were working with this master distiller a few days ago and we were tasting the distillant, he's he's pouring it off trying to get to the tail and he's chasing every ten, fifteen minutes and he's just almost bouncing, he's so excited about it. He's like, It's still home run. I This dude's been at it for thirty years and he's pumped. So that's yeah, that's it's been a it's been a blast. something we were gonna do anyways. So now we're gonna get to have our hand in it. Right. And and now you get to pick, I this is what I want. Yeah. And and really understand what we're tasting and like when you taste certain things realize on how it gets there which is fascinating. Like learning we we we put some juice in a barrel two days ago. So 10 years from now. And but we had all these all these choices, like how how hard do you want to char what you know what what what are we charred? How hot do we want to hit the barrel? We tasted through all these things in the two or three days we need to. Yeah. Taste it once a year and hope it's on the right journey, but it's yeah, I'm pumped about that one too. So one of our favorite tools Yeah, that was a surprise. That was we were not expecting to ever go outside of Kentucky. But for me and our brother get these samples, I tell him I was like, fill in wildcards and they'll we'll get twenty, thirty samples from all different producers. Said, like we're gonna whatever we like the most, I think. And we always ask about how old it is and what the price is last, and we always hit on the most expensive one. Usually the oldest much. I was like, well, we're we're not businessmen, we're perfect. That's that. But that 20 was a was a real surprise for me. I I was I wasn't expecting it to be to us to live a Tennessee whiskey deadline. That's that that and I think the the third release are probably my two favorites at 15. That that's the one that I don't have any more of when I get home. So I've been calling my friends that that have bought every release and I was like, got any more of that fits? You know, trying to track down my own stuff. Now now a lot of number six came out. I haven't found that one. Have you. That's to me that's the most unique of of the bunch, profile wise. It's Working with the guys. chat with him about so you're seeing it from start to finish now. It's that's yeah. Getting to learn from people that are carrying on this tradition. So it's it's been it's been awesome. I mean it it's the last three or four days it's just master class after master class. Here with Chris Morris last night at the dinner and they just put out Kentucky boy like his fiftieth year with the company. And he was just telling the I mean this for you the whole thing has an awesome awesome view in a room with all those guys. whiskey families together which is I think a pretty unique setting. And yeah, getting a sip whiskey with those guys is it's a treat. We did we did a podcast with Preston Flash Park. Yeah. Smoking cigars and Pastor 23s. So I mean pretty good time. Trade time. Yeah we we were just hanging with Preston the last few days. I love that guy. He's actually one he's probably the re definitely the reason I'm in this is Just a big whiskey family and my brother, one of our good friends Eric Fredo was a guitar tech for a lot of people over here for the office. Preston, Preston and his buddy his brother in law and James came out to the show at the palace and he brought a Pappy 10 and I remember popping it and drinking it right out of the bottle and then we were past friends and then I've gotten to know his family and it's just been a it's been a real journey. But my my entry into the world was kind of the main so it's and still every time we're here we hang and I'll learn something new every time. I think he's got a palate. Well I just have to say so all my kids are amusing. So I'm just gonna say DJ wanted this come to say hi. Tell her hi for me. I will you know I got my I got my train shirt on today, so I'm permanent breast. Perfect. Thank you for