[Whiskey Tribe] I am become Meatbox, the destroyer of pours...

A mind can wander during dry week.

This morning, I asked my little girl if she knew my given name. Just curious. After a beat, she looks into my eyes and says, “Meatbox.” before casually returning to a bowl of cereal.

What the hell…

She didn’t smile. Didn’t even blink. My girl thinks my name is, Meatbox. Clearly, this isn’t whiskey related but it’s all I can think about. We have to deal with this…

Why Meatbox? Did she misunderstand something that sounds like Meatbox? Was she joking? If so, has she already mastered deadpan comedy? Does she even know what “deadpan” means? Has she told other people that my name is Meatbox?

If I weren’t unraveling the Meatbox mystery, I would tell you about Crowded Barrel's glorious new cocktail menu. I may even throw in some details about the rum distillers that are visiting the tasting room right now. At the very least, I’d talk about the Whiskey Tribes Quarterly Challenge and the optional dry week that runs from July 5th to 12th. And how the MB's can add their name to the list of Whiskey Challengers when dry week is successfully completed.

But no, we won't talk about those things. It’s all Meatbox, all of the time until we figure this out.

~ The Magnificent Bastard

P.S. I’ll probably be up all night trying to make sense of this. Coffee helps. Ours is pretty great. You can try the barrel rested bean experiments here: https://whiskeytribe.com/collections/crowded-barrel-coffee

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