OHLQ Announces 2023 Winter Bottle Lottery Winners

The Ohio Department of Liquor (OHLQ) has posted the results of the 2023 Winter Bottle Lottery Winners. Sadly, I kept my losing streak alive and didn't win 😞. 

Winter Lottery - There were 2488 bottles available (up from 1313 last year, mostly increases in George T. Stagg and Thomas H. Handy) and a whopping 155,692 entries (up from 142,061 in 2022). This resulted in an overall chance of winning of 1.59% (or around 1 in 63). 

The breakdown of available bottles was (with 2022 bottles in parenthesis):

• Old Rip Van Winkle 10 - 204 (235)
• Van Winkle Special Reserve 12 Year - 219 (183)
• Pappy Van Winkle 15 - 87 (87)
• Pappy Van Winkle 20 - 72 (8)
• Pappy Van Winkle 23 - 20 (5)
• Eagle Rare 17 - 111 (109)
• Sazerac Rye 18 - 41 (34)
• Thomas H. Handy - 506 (318)
• William Larue Weller - 159 (174)
• George T. Stagg - 1049 (160)

This year saw over 13,000 more entries than last year and over double the amount since I've started this site in 2018. 

2023 Entries - 155,692

2022 Entries - 142,061

2021 Entries - 111,845

2020 Entries - 98,923

2019 Entries - 65,389

2018 Entries - 73,443

Some of my favorite winners were:

• Anthoney V. 2148028
• Cortney S. 2245466, Courtnee W. 2127387, Courtney M. 2125559
• Deziree E. 2233453
• Donald T. 2213767, Joseph B. 2243360, Hillary C. 2184934 (😐)
• Erica F. 2174738, Ericka C. 2246386, Erika H. 2213995
• Jaison M. 2227740, Jason A. 2144767
• Kirstynn R. 2150284, Kristen B. 2175542, Kristian B. 2163168
• Mark R. 2186963 (ugh... not me), Marq S. 2183075, Marc Z. 2162916

As always, Congrats to everyone who won.