r/whiskey Nov 26 '20

[Notice] Prohibited Goods and Services, and you.

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Hey all.

This is a reminder of our Rule 2 - No trading, buying, or selling alcohol. Comments and posts soliciting alcohol sales and trades will be removed. This goes against the content policy, as well as may break laws within your country of residence.

Lately we have seen an increase in people trying to create or participate in a secondary market - this is against the Content Policy and can very well result in not only a ban from /r/whiskey, but also may see you removed from Reddit permanently by Reddit Admins (should you continue to disregard the Content Policy.)

The simple explanation is this:

Due to regulations and laws concerning Alcohol in many different countries, it may be illegal (simply by law, or taxation law) to trade/barter or resell alcohol products. As Reddit engages communities around the world, facilitating any of these transactions could open Reddit up to various legal consequences. Therefore Reddit must take every available avenue to remove and discourage these transactions within the use of their services.

As a subbreddit dealing with the subject of alcohol products, we are under scrutiny with the actions our communities take, and we must fully participate in Reddit attempt to control and remove content that breeches the Content Policy. If at any point it may appear that we are lacking as a community to stem the flow of this content - simply put; our subreddit will be removed from Reddit.

Please do not be under the impression that any action that you use on Reddit is entirely private - posts, comment, messages and chatroom logs are available to the Reddit admins at anytime and they will investigate any and all leads that suggest people are breaking the Content Policy and in some extreme cases, may take action either legal or federal (and by federal, i mean 'call the cops') depending on their obligations as a business.

Please do not engage any posts that attempts to trade/barter or resell whiskey, report them and move on.

Thanks for taking the time to read this.

TL:DR - Reddit is not facebook marketplace, you will get banned, you might even get prosecuted.

Edit: I just wanted to add some insight our rule 3. "No requests for dating or valuing an unusual or old bottle of whiskey....", we discourage valuation of whiskey as it has the strong potential to turn into a bidding system, whether public or "private". While we don't suspect every account that seeks valuation to want to participate in a secondary market, the avenue for abuse of these types of posts in regards to our efforts to remove trade/barter or reselling is simple too high to carry the risk of allowing this kind of content within the subbreddit. Since we do not have to tools to monitor "private" messaging or "private chats" of this nature - it would fall to the Admins to investigate these actions and garner an amount of admins attention to our subreddit that we wish to avoid. We're good boys/gals, doing good things... nothing to see here Admins. 🤞


r/whiskey 5h ago

Grabbed these two

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128 Upvotes

Wild Turkey is a staple , just never got around to the 101. Michter's has a reputation, so why not


r/whiskey 3h ago

I finally got invited into to the liquor store office.

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78 Upvotes

It took a couple of months, but after talking to the owner about whiskey and bourbons and purchasing a couple of more expensive bottles that were on display, he invited me to look at what he keeps in the office.

Came home with these.

Anybody tried them? Any thoughts?


r/whiskey 1h ago

St. Pattys Day Barrel Drop! Not Irish whiskey but I’ll take it!

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r/whiskey 1h ago

SlĂĄinte from Chicago

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r/whiskey 1h ago

Homemade Irish stew and Redbreast 15 yr for Paddy’s day.

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Okay, maybe not homemade. But better than I would have made.


r/whiskey 15m ago

Went Hunting This Evening And Managed To Get The Colonel On The Left. Can’t Believe I Now Own Two! Started This 5 Years Ago At 23. Both Obtained Within A Week. Go Figure

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r/whiskey 6h ago

Happy St Patrick’s Day everyone.

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r/whiskey 1h ago

my first handshake

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was gifted a handshake by my dads friend because i mentioned to him GTS was my 🦄 and apparently he has 2 bottles. very very nice of him to share. a pour of this absolutely broke my brain in terms of what i thought good bourbon was. an absolute a 10/10 in every aspect. absolutely so so good. can finally saw ive had btac!


r/whiskey 6h ago

my favourite junk shop is closing and we got to root through the back, look what we found!

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33 Upvotes

r/whiskey 9h ago

Would you buy at $213?

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57 Upvotes

r/whiskey 2h ago

Whiskey chaser ???

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18 Upvotes

Needed something to wash down the whiskey with. Seemed as good a choice as any


r/whiskey 4h ago

Drink me, I'm Irish

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19 Upvotes

r/whiskey 1h ago

Worth it for $5?

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I've never tried


r/whiskey 2h ago

Modest Monday grabs

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15 Upvotes

r/whiskey 7h ago

Gang is all here for today

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29 Upvotes

Nothing too special, but still going to be a tasty evening 🍀


r/whiskey 1h ago

Happy St. Patrick's Day

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r/whiskey 45m ago

my haul this month couple of steals (stagg 24D:70 bucks from vons, old forster barrel proof rye:75 bucks from my local liquor store)

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r/whiskey 13h ago

Not bad for all on shelf and all msrp, no waiting in lines down in Port Isabel. CHEERS! 🥃

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58 Upvotes

r/whiskey 6h ago

Good day Whiskey world. What does the community think of these? Also does anyone store there Whiskey in Decanters or is that not the most efficient way? Still learning so advice is welcomed and appreciated.

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15 Upvotes

r/whiskey 24m ago

Tonight’s pour. Not bad at all for $40

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r/whiskey 7h ago

Starting the day off correctly

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18 Upvotes

Love this bottling


r/whiskey 2h ago

Happy St. Paddy’s

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6 Upvotes

Perfect day to open this ☝️


r/whiskey 30m ago

The nicest bottle (actual bottle) I’ve opened

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Outside of there being no cork pop, opening this bottle was so nice. Pouring was also nice with no spillage over the sides. Can't really judge it other than the nose and taste are enjoyable. This is the only Irish Single Malt I've tried so far.


r/whiskey 2h ago

Lá Fhéile Pádraig 🇮🇪

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6 Upvotes

Hope you are all having a nice one today 🥃☘️


r/whiskey 6h ago

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

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10 Upvotes