Keep your powder dry.
Posted on 06/14/2017 10:59:43 AM PDT by heterosupremacist
In 1964, a Congressional Resolution designated Bourbon as America’s native spirit. Since then, there is nowhere else in the world that can make a whiskey and call it Bourbon.
Like Scotch, Cognac and some other spirits that must meet certain standards as well as be produced in a particular geographical region, Bourbon is a whiskey which is only so named if distilled in the United States. To legally be a considered Bourbon, it must be 51 percent corn, stored in new (not aged) charred-oak barrels and distilled no more than 160 proof and barreled at 125 proof.
This particular whiskey derives its name from the Kentucky county which was established in 1785 and was a large producer of corn. The corn, once distilled, would be put in barrels and stamped “Old Bourbon” and shipped down the Ohio River.
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I’ll drink to that.
I am remiss; accept my apologies.
Given the day’s events, I could go for a bourbon. Been debating on buying a bottle of Booker Noe.
Favorite movie line: “Avez vous Bourbon?” From Charade with Cary Grant & Grace Kelly.
My old First Sergeant called Jim Beam bourbon and Coke, “The nectar of the gods”.
RIP Butch
Today is:
Flag Day
President Trump’s birthday
Strawberry shortcake day
Bourbon day
What a day!
I’ll drink to that.
Cheers!
I live on the “Bourbon Trail” in Kentucky. Some mornings you can smell the mash. Nice smell, sort of like way way off in the distance someone is frying bacon. Best I can describe it.
Anyone who pours Coke over good bourbon is a Philistine.
I keep looking at bourbon cocktail recipes, and keep thinking how wrong that is.
Eagle Rare, neat or on 1 rock.
ChildOfThe60s wrote:
Anyone who pours Coke over good bourbon is a Philistine.
Or worse!
I believe I’ll be observing the day later on.
Looks like there are a few liquor experts posting here. I’ve never tasted alcohol in 56 years myself. I don’t need to drink something to act a fool; it comes quite naturally.
So what is the whole James Bond Shaken Stirred martini line? Why do they say that, like insiders who know better?
I want the do a tour on the “Bourbon Trail” someday.
Anything but water or ice in bourbon is a travesty.
lurk wrote:
So what is the whole James Bond Shaken Stirred martini line? Why do they say that, like insiders who know better?
Only pretentious jerks say thing like that...
8O)
Yes, but pouring Coke over bourbon is one of the only ways to properly improve the Coke (rum also comes to mind)...
Keep your powder dry.
I have some Bulleit and Buffalo Trace waiting for me at home.
Anyone who pours Coke over good bourbon is a Philistine
Yes!
They probably also put ketchup on a hot dog.
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