Posted on 01/05/2014 12:24:09 AM PST by Slings and Arrows
“I think Evan Williams tastes great for the money....”
I disagree. I’d rather cough up the extra $5 or so and get Jim Beam, and if budget isn’t really a concern I’ll go with Maker’s Mark.
Evan Williams is nasty.
Two Buck Chuck (or is it now Three Buck Chuck? I haven’t bought any in a long time) is really good considering its price. Score one for cold fermentation...
Sir Noel is crying.
Scientists got troubles to drown, too.
I would like to add a small comment about brandy and cognac. Unlike the other non-scotch ‘brown’ liquors, there is a sensible gradient of pricing, at least to $100 or so.
Avoid the cheapest brandies - E&J - Ack! Metaxa is an economical acquired taste. The slightly dearer French brandies are fine. At twice the price, Hennessey and Courvoisier are value for dollar as an introduction to cognacs. Once you decide you like cognac, it is worth trying a bottle of the $90+ stuff - they really are worth the price once you can appreciate them, imnsho...;^)
Sheesh!...I sound like Sideshow Bob!!!
Sip it slowly...
A single malt should be aged 10yrs in a cask minimum to be labeled as such. After that the price goes up exponentially as approximately 2% is lost per year,the angels share. So you pay for the distilleries time in cask
Obviously some of the “better” stuff has had more refinement, but the underlying taste of tequila, gin, whiskey, etc, is essentially the same for whatever it is.
It then becomes a matter of taste. Which do you prefer.
As for the next morning effects for overindulgence, that’s on you. ;-)
A true hangover is technically “alcohol induced hypoglycemia” where the alcohol strips the sugar out of your bloodstream, and you suffer the symptoms of that until you can get your blood-sugar levels stabilized.
BRITA have been asked about filtering alcohol before and our understanding (although we do not run tests on this) is that there may be a very slight reduction in alcohol content if filtered through a BRITA cartridge but the ion exchange resin will not have an effect on alcohol.
The ion exchange resin selectively removes certain metal ions such as copper, lead, calcium and aluminium from the water and as a weak acid cation exchanger ions removed are replaced with hydrogen ions, which combine with other ions and eventually form H20 and C02.
I hope this answers your query.
Yours sincerely
Rachel Laycock
BRITACare Manager
Brita Water Filter Systems Ltd
http://www.stillsmart.co.uk/general-info/filtering-spirits-using-brita-type-filters/
My introduced me to Breckenridge Bourbon. I love it.
I am mostly a vodka drinker.
I wasn’t a big fan of whiskey before but now I pick up a bottle for special occasions. Doesn’t last me long though. :(
https://www.breckenridgedistillery.com/hooch/awards/
I have seen bottles of wine at Bern’s Steak House in Tampa, FL that cost $15,000.00. You read it right folks. THat is 15K! Never could figure out what kind of a person would spend that kind of money on wine.
P. T. Barnum said that there was one born every minute.
Reminds me of Lew Rothman, America’s largest purveyor of cigars, responding to all the extremely limited runs of $20+ cigars: “I might run out of $10 cigars, but I would NEVER run out of $20 cigars!”
That has been my exact same experience.
Takes out about 25% per pass.
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This does not make sense. Please elaborate.
My brother and I were working on importing soju. It is a Korean liquor which is exempt from import duties. It is a bit rough in that it contains way too much fuselage alcohols. We were testing if the harshness could be tamed by filtration. Testing with Britta and pur filters. Each filtration pulled about 25% of the ethyl alcohol tested with a hygrometer. Both filters contain ion exchange pellets. When filtered through plain activated carbon, no drop in ethyl alcohol. I then tested it through some ion exchange resin pellets I had left over from a soft water system recharge. Same result. About 25% less alcohol based on specific gravity. Don’t know why it happens, but it does.
Please see previous post on this thread.
Fuselage = fusel. Damned autocorrect
Thank you for responding.
The change in density that you observed does not equate to a capture of ethanol by the filter.
Ok, then we drank the resulting liquor. 4 pass stuff. Very drinkable but less potent than most wine. Starts out 40 proof. Then 30. Then about 22. Then a little over 16. About 8% alcohol.
We could drink it like a porter. Like a stout beer of equal abv. We could drink it like a Chardonnay or anything else with about 8% alcohol by volume.
Sorry, but it just is. Don’t ask me to explain how or why, but it pulls about 25% of the alcohol per pass till it saturates whatever is bonding to the alcohol.
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