I used to buy spirits for a handful of restaurants/bars and since no one has really answered your question yet I’ll suggest a few.

-Whistle Pig is great and widely available. There’s a handful of old world, single barrel, speciality bottlings that are quite nice. I didn’t much care for the Madeira one personally but others seem to really like it -Jefferson’s ocean aged -michters barrel strength -heaven hill grain to glass -very olde St Nick (I’ve only tried 8yr, summer, and harvest) -willet family 7yr

Above $100, in my opinion, you quickly hit diminishing returns. There’s honestly little reason to think $180 bottle is better than $100. If you can find it, it’s never a bad idea to try it first at a bar or liquor store that offers that.

Yeah that’s a great one! I intentionally didn’t mention channels that I saw others had already listed.

I learnered about some interesting looking channels from this thread so I’ll pay it forward and share some that I like.

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Angela Collier

Bobby Broccoli

Climate Town

Computerphile

Defunctland

fern

Folding Ideas

JimmyTheGiant

KnowledgeHusk

Lextorias

Not Just Bikes

Odd Compass

Ordinary Things

PBS Space Time

slow start

Suibhne

Thought Slime

Tom Nicholas

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I use this recipe and it’s pretty good. https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/206953/authentic-cincinnati-chili/ I cook the ground beef in water the day before then put the pot in the fridge overnight. I remove the fat from the top before cooking the next day and use a bit more of all the spices than the recipe calls for.