Favorite Bourbon
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Good whiskeys of any persuasion should have a warning label: "Serve neat or over ice. Mixing is strictly forbidden. Punishment will be swift and without warning."
Tapehead47
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An informative thread, to say the least...
So many bourbons I've never heard of before. I used to be a JD man, but the flavor has harshened over the years. It still has the JD flavor, but not the smoothness it once had.
If I'm drinking Jack, however, I like a JD Prez. That's a Jack Daniels with a little gingerale and club soda. Just right for me!
But make it a double.
Knob Creek is too rough on the tonsils. I have a bottle here that I haven't finished. C'mon over for a little shot! I'll provide the IPA.
Rick in Lutz, Fl.
PS: The Lightning beat the Devils tonight!!! Made my day!
So many bourbons I've never heard of before. I used to be a JD man, but the flavor has harshened over the years. It still has the JD flavor, but not the smoothness it once had.
If I'm drinking Jack, however, I like a JD Prez. That's a Jack Daniels with a little gingerale and club soda. Just right for me!
But make it a double.
Knob Creek is too rough on the tonsils. I have a bottle here that I haven't finished. C'mon over for a little shot! I'll provide the IPA.
Rick in Lutz, Fl.
PS: The Lightning beat the Devils tonight!!! Made my day!
jimfet said:
If you keep it in the freezer it doesn't melt the ice nearly as fast.
stuartk
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Wigwam Jones said:
There have been Tennessee bourbons, although I don't know if there are any currently. Bourbon is also made in other states.
As for the charcoal filtering, I saw a documentary that showed bourbon being charcoal filtered at Jim Beam.
As with Scotch, the water used is evidently important, so that explains why location would be important.
However, I must admit I'm confused why some things would be bourbon and some whiskey when they're pretty much the same.
To further confuse things, Jack Daniels makes me nauseous - literally.
I like many Kentucky bourbons, but the Tennessee whiskeys like Daniels and Dickel unsettle my stomach. The George Dickel wasn't quite as bad though.
Neither Ezra Brooks and Virginia Gentlemen bother my stomach, so it isn't only Kentucky that's ok.
I like Jim Beam, Maker's Mark, Knob Creek and Elijah Craig, as well as the Ezra Brooks.
Last week I picked up a bottle of Woodford Reserve and I really like it. It is very smooth.
stuartk said:
Your post it #148, but way back when the thread started you would find out that anything made outside Kentucky can not legally be called Bourbon. And the Tennessee whiskeys, which are both made in the same way as Bourbon, are referred to as "Tennessee Sipping Whiskey." Well, because of the Kentucky law about that.
You can't make Scotch (whiskey) outside of Scotland. You could make a whiskey that tasted the same way, or was made the same way, but you don't get to call it Scotch Whiskey. Maybe Connecticut Sipping Whiskey?
It is a branding kind of thing. (I live in Knoxville)
stuartk
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Grainger49 said:
I don't care when it was posted in this thread, it isn't true.
I know for a fact that Virginia Gentleman is not made in Kentucky, is called Bourbon, and they're not making it illegally and packing it up here to Ohio in pickup trucks. I bought some not too long ago, so I can vouch for it myself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbon_whiskey
And take special note of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Brooks It's "Kentucky Bourbon" that only sees Kentucky when it's shipped in and sold there.
