Posted on 05/28/2014 12:42:21 PM PDT by TheProducer
Edited on 05/28/2014 3:57:10 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
One of the oldest distilleries in the country is warning of what some observers are calling a
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Our office bottle of Pappy is long gone and we have had no luck getting any at any price. The good news is that J. W. Weller and Weller 12 year come out of the same mash bill. Of course the selected barrels go on to become Pappy, but Weller is mighty fine and a fraction of the cost. It has become our No. 1 choice for after hours sipping.
I believe their biggest market is Japan, of all places.
Everyone needs a whiskey family tree. Here it is:
http://www.gq.com/life/food/201311/bourbon-whiskey-family-tree
Dickel No. 12 neat is some good stuff.
Eh. If I want bourbon I'll buy a bottle of Dickel. Rather have cognac if there's a choice.
I was on a ferry to Islay, ground zero for the best whisky in the world, to kill some liver cells with a dram or two.
I chatted with a bloke onboard, he had driven on a large lorry that was loaded with bourbon barrels from the US. Each barrel was knocked apart for transportation and numbered for reassembly once they arrived at the distilleries.
The frugal Scots will use them over and over until all the tannins have leached from the wood, they then chop the barrels up to smoke their salmon, herring, etc.
A dram or twa, indeed. Its a very fine thing, American whiskey barrels to help make very fine Scots whisky, dae ye ken.
“I’m strictly a beer drinker, so this doesn’t affect me in the least.”
Yea. Well......
“First they came for the whiskey drinkers...”
What the hell?
This isn’t your video, you had nothing to do with it.
Why are you directing traffic to your blog to view a video you stole?
What the hell is wrong with you?
People will have to go back to OLD CROW.
nothing wrong with Old Crow or Old Grand-Dad
Great value too.
My brother lives in Mountain Brook. I don’t. I was telling him how good Dickel 12yo was. He wanted to show me what REAL whiskey tasted like so he brought a bottle of Blantons over. Pretty good at twice the price. Actually more than twice the price. The Dickel was better.
Woodford Reserve Distillery is in Woodford County. Just off the McCracken Pike, over the Creek and through the woods. Splendid horse country, splendid bourbon. Tour the visitor center sometime, pick up some Distiller’s Select, and they’ll engrave a bottle with your name for two or three extra bucks.
In the movie “Mister Roberts” with Henry Fonda, he and the doc made “scotch whiskey”.
Coke for color, iodine to add taste and coal tar from hair tonic for aging.
Heresy!
I don’t drink Whiskey I drink Whisky.
Go over to the religion forum and tell people to quit going to church. They’ll save money. If that’s your thinking.
When I was in Barbados, we toured the rum distillery. They use the recycled barrels from Jim Beam in Kentucky.
I think their bourbon is great.
I agree Blanton’s is quite nice and the stopper is cool, but not 2x as nice as Dickel No. 12.
Have you tried Dickel Rye? I find it not too bad for a change, although I have to cut it with a little water. Rye is just a little too perfume-ie for my palate.
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