Kentucky's finest: Bourbon documentary

Channel 14, WFIE ^ | 8 June 2007 | Steve Burger

[Lurker]

...I’ll bring the Arturo fuentes and the Talisker...

My back yard at about 1900 hrs tonite.

You sir are a gentleman.

L

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

ping!

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

I’ve bbeen toying with the idea to start a bourbon ping-list. Maybe make it a Saturday evening regular post on chat as well as making notifications of Freep artcles that mention bourbon (good, bad and comical).

Thoughts?

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

I’ve bbeen toying with the idea to start a bourbon ping-list. Maybe make it a Saturday evening regular post on chat as well as making notifications of Freep artcles that mention bourbon (good, bad and comical).

Thoughts?

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

nice pic but JB is distilled in Tennessee. It isn’t REAL bourbon.

[RKV]

Sign me up.

[michaelt]

If you made it a Whisky/Whiskey ping list then you’d get a lot of back and forth about what’s better.

I don’t know if you want that, though. Either way I’d sign up.

[TheRightGuy]

I'll take Jim Beam.

... a little early in the day to be ordering doubles, don'cha think?

[aruanan]

I used to drink Laphroaig. But since the Kennedy fortune was based on scotch whiskey (among other ventures) I swore off it.

Isn't that like saying that since Al Capone came from Italian stock you're swearing off pizza and pasta and switching to haggis? Or since Bonnie and Clyde used Fords in their robberies (I don't know that they actually did), so you're going to drive only Chryslers?

[aruanan]

I used to drink Laphroaig. But since the Kennedy fortune was based on scotch whiskey (among other ventures) I swore off it.

And was it Scotch or Irish whiskey that the Kennedy family bootlegged?

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

I’m thinking it would be bourbon only. I’ve got some FR friends that might be willing to contribute a weekly Americana anecdote, too. Working title: My 2 Fingers Worth.

[michaelt]

Like the title. I’d check it out; sign me up.

[norraad]

Me too, I keep trying to up scale, but usually I don't like'um, wind up back to Evan Williams.

But, I'm still lookin' for something I like better, if not, maybe I'm just lucky I like a more affordable habit.

[Freedom4US]

I heard a story once that the civil war era campaign maps of a certain Union Army group didn’t make much sense - zig-zagging all over in pell-mell fashion - till you overlay the location of all the distilleries. Then it makes perfect sense. Don’t know if it’s true or not.

[SamAdams76]

There is a phenomenal amount of wealth in our country. Take Kentucky for example, just one state out of 50 in our country and not particularly large either. Yet you can spend years traveling the back roads through Kentucky and see endless splendor as you go through all the hollers and rolling hills that make up this state. If you ever travel in an airplane over Kentucky, you would think that 95% of it is uninhabited as all you mostly see are the treetops of immeasurable forests. Yet for all this ruralness, nearly five million Americans make Kentucky their home. There is over 100,000 miles of rivers and creeks in Kentucky, more deer and wild turkeys than just about any other state and of course the capital of making whiskey.

Kentucky makes enough bourbon to supply the entire world. And they could make a lot more if the demand called for it.

California is just one state (out of 50) as well but California's economy is big enough to put it well inside the Top 10 largest economies in the world if it were it's own country. Yet even California is mostly depopulated. While nearly 40 million people call California their home, the state is still mostly rural and could easily support one billion people. I've been to the Mojave desert and the northern forests and in both cases, I was so isolated from other humans that it was hard to imagine that in this very state were 40 million others.

Now California makes a lot of wine and could easily support the entire world with wine if the demand called for it. Take all the wine produced in Europe, Australia and South American and California could double that output without even stretching it's resources. And many of the wines produced in California outclass wine produced anywhere else in the world.

So my point is that the United States is massive, incredibly rich in resources, and yet has only realized a tiny fraction of its potential. The United States could easily support a population of 50 billion people within it's borders and still have plenty of rural space left over for recreation.

Also, it is only a matter of time before the provinces of Canada join our union. This will make us even more massive and powerful. And when the last Mexican crosses our borders, why we'll just take over that land as well and make a few states out of that.

[Lurker]

Excellent response. And I love your tagline.

L

[GQuagmire]

I’m a convert.

Not ready for straight up (yet)
MM,ginger ale,lemon twisted in.

[Gideon Reader]

The single Malts from Scotland and the blended crap that Nazi Joseph Kennedy bootlegged are about the same as Gold and shit.

[aruanan]

The single Malts from Scotland and the blended crap that Nazi Joseph Kennedy bootlegged are about the same as Gold and shit.

I wish I could remember the name of the single malt I bought my thesis advisor after my graduation. I went to Sams in Chicago and told the guy I wanted to buy a single malt that wouldn't be an embarrassment for someone who appreciated single malt whiskey and he recommended one. I know it was 15 year single cask, which was supposed to be good. It think it could have been Balvenie.

[muddytadpole]

My two mid-shelf favorites after Maker's Mark are below. The Evan Williams single barrel is the best bourbon you can buy for $20 IMO, with Knob Creek not too far behind. YUM!