FiftyFifty Eclipse experts, Question

Gray is Jack Daniels.

 

Tashbrew will sort this out for you.

 

I'm not an Eclipse expert, but I think you had to attend the Eclipse release party in Truckee, CA to acquire the GHS special blend (steel grey wax) .. so if you bought if off the shelf, you can eliminate that possibility.

 

Looks like Evan and Old Fitz to me.

 

The fact that you are talking about "going back and getting more" tells me it is not the GHS blend -- it was sold in bottles only at GHS a long time ago. They are not selling it to-go (and may be totally sold out). If you bought it in a store, it is something else. Period.

The gunmetal color also has slightly shimmery metallic flecks. Yours looks like a standard, faded blue (Old Fitz).

It's probably the Jack Daniels.

 

Nope not Jack Daniels... Which was in 2009 only and Honey colored wax.

Based on color I'd say it was GHS Blend. I can't speculate where you got it but clearly it had a price tag. The distributor could have made a order pulling error and a case made it to a one off retailer somewhere?

 

It is not the GHS. The GHS doesn't have a batch number on the bottles just the year(at least mine were that way). And the wax has silver flakes in it. My guess is it's Evan Williams that was put on display in direct sunlight

 

Regardless of what it is (no expert) that is a great sticker on your fridge. I am a fan of the platform myself.

 

Honestly, I had the same thing happen as the OP. Picked up an eclipse with that same steel Grey wax in San Diego a few months back. Place looked like they had just gotten the case in or remembered they had it in the back, had all 12 sitting out on sale. Drank the mystery one side by side with an Evan Williams eclipse and they tasted very different. Actually, I'll admit I was clearing out some cellar space. Drank 6 different eclipses over the course of a week, all normal shelf ones minus the mystery bottle, and the mystery steel greyish one was the best imo.

 

Out of curiosity since the same thing happened to me. Was this Mesa Liquor and Wine on Convoy? (I think it's Convoy atleast...)

 

Maybe they just got a stray shipment in of GHS? I remember checking it against my other eclipse bottles and none of the other waxes looked similar to it. I also remember it being quite a bit more expensive than the other eclipses I've purchased, like $32.99ish per bottle but were also on sale. I did try it almost side by side with the other eclipses you've mentioned, over the course of a week though, and didn't think the mystery bottle tasted like either old Fitz or Evan Williams.