Posted on 04/14/2026 9:14:57 AM PDT by re_tail20
A walk down the aisles of almost any neighborhood liquor store showcases a wealth of variety that hardly seemed possible when I made my first legal purchase [mumble-mumble] years ago. You'll see 50 bourbons where there used to be five, vodkas from as far and wide as Russia's Stoli to Tito's from Texas. If you'd have told 21-year-old me that someday I'd enjoy scotch from Japan, I'd have looked at you like you were a crazy person.
You'll find, as General Motors used to say about its array of cars, a spirit "for every purse and purpose." Things are already so good that PJ Media's own Chris Queen writes a continuing series on bourbon, and it will be a sober night at my house before he runs out of material.
We truly live in a Golden Age.
So how do I put this without veering into completely over-the-top hyperbole?
Forget it. I can't.
That's because no matter how good we have it now, our Golden Age of Spirits will soon transmute into a Platinum Age Wrapped in Gold-Pressed Latinum Sprinkled with Diamonds.
All because of a recent decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court in New Orleans.
It's a long-standing stain on our national honor that there's any law at all standing between liberty-loving Americans and our frontier spirit for distilling spirits when and as we like. But for the last 158 years, the Reconstruction-era Revenue Act of 1868 made it functionally illegal to distill spirits at home.
We'd run up huge debts fighting the Civil War, and liquor taxes made up a sizable portion of Washington's revenues. So the Revenue Act — hence "revenuers" in federal law enforcement — effectively made it impossible to legally operate a home still. The theory being that big distilleries were easier to tax...
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Tito’s.....isn’t that a cheap bar brand?
END all government student-loan and student tuition programs.
That debt is enslaving students and being channeled to useless neo-marxist social sciences to support the bloated, woke education bureaucracy.
There is no “good” vodka. It is cheap neutral spirits. “Good” is merely marketing.
I agree. if vodka is distilled six times or so, then compared to other vodkas, there really is no difference.
I thought alcohol use was on the wane with pop culture today? At least that’s what the pop culture media has been saying for the last year or so?
Possom always said; “mighty, mighty pleasin’, pappy’s corn squeezin’!
Neighbors around Brier Mountain were once noted for the quality of three things; cured hams, sausage, and corn likker.
Oh good. I’ll be legal from here out.
I don’t not normally drink Vodka, but I do use it to make my own Vodka Sauce recipe, which I have been perfecting for decades. What I discovered is that the more expensive vodkas are terrible for this purpose, but the cheapest ones work the best. I cannot explain why, but the difference is very noticeable. Therefore, my quest at the neighborhood liquor store is to find the cheapest vodka on the shelf. This is, of course, embarrassing, and it only makes it worse if I say that I am only buying it to cook with. At present, my brand of choice is Popov, which sells for under $20 for two liters.
In early America, there were few roads. Settlements were every mile, about as far as a person could effectively walk in a day. And getting farm produce to market was very hard. But the cure for excess produce, distance and loss of value was whiskey.
As such, it quickly became a currency.
Get a good bottle of Polish Vodka, place in freezer for at least 24 hours (48 is better) pour in to a chilled shot class, crack a bit of fresh pepper in to the shot class (black or white pepper) your preference (I prefer white pepper but will drink it both ways) and knock it back.
Then report you findings.
What do you mean “gentleman “? I want to do it
Tito’s is undrinkable 😝
Whistle Pig please, over ice.
Huh?
On my fb feed there are non alcoholic whiskeys and such marketed as fun without the hangover. Botanicals and mild hallucinogens and Marijuana appear to be some of the ingredients used.
Bowmers’. Twofingers. Three cubes.
Ill try that. And I’m a white pepper guy too.
And even then, the goobermint wanted their cut. See the “Whiskey Rebellion”.
“Daddy made whiskey and he made it well
Cost 2 dollars and burned like hell
I cut hickory just to fire the still
Drink me a bottle and be ready to kill”
Grateful Dead - Brown-Eyed Women
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