Posted on 05/12/2015 9:33:29 AM PDT by smokingfrog
Hey! We’re close enough...let’s drink vodka ( “911” ?! ) together... :)
Knob Creek and Woodford Reserve are my two favorites, but my bourbon test-tasting is limited. Jack Daniels and Gentleman Jack are OK, but they are different tasting than bourbons.
I have never had Blanton’s.
I will have to look for that next time around.
Bourbon is the NEW vodka as far as popular spirits. It is in high demand right now. Five years from now the vogue spirit will be Tequila or Rum or Scotch or something else.
FWIW: KFC is quite different in Canada, much leaner than the fat-dripping American original. I get an earful every time my Montreal-raised wife has some here.
No Blanton’s? You must correct this deficiency in your life.
Hometown is in central NY, I’m a thousand miles away. If you’re in GA, perhaps we could tip a tumbler of 1911.
What a delightful factoid. Thanks guys! Now I have an excuse...
I’m not in GA, I thought YOU were. I’m in FL...let’s meet half way ;)
Vodka is always going to be for people who don’t actually like the taste of alcohol. Scotch had its wave in the 1990s, about the same time cigars became a fad. Tequila had its boom about ten years ago. Maybe rum will be next, especially if trade with Cuba opens and Havana Club becomes available. But I think there are going to be a lot of interesting American spirits coming out of the craft movement that are aging now and will hit the market in a few more years. I’m already starting to see some on the shelf.
I will only buy the rum that is distilled from sugar cane. Most rum or Rhum as the call it in the Caribbean is typically distilled from molasses.
My favorite is 10 Cane Rum.
Because a lot more wood gets used for building than booze. When the largest user of a market stops buying sellers go under, then secondary users find supplies drying up. Of course the next step is prices go up and sellers enter and supplies rebound. So there will be shortage of bourbon for a while, and then it will rebound. Which works well for the bourbon makers actually, as they get to charge more when supplies are low, which helps keep the “cool” cache for when their oak supply goes up.
You are in for a treat.
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