Posted on 06/09/2007 6:56:38 AM PDT by RKV
Later this year, an Evansville man hopes Kentucky's finest amber export will win gold for him at national film festivals. Tom Fischer says his documentary film on bourbon is nearly finished and he hopes to enter it in a number of film festivals this summer and fall around the country.
His travels for the film centered on the bourbon distilleries and festivals of central and western Kentucky. "We joked that we did this just to get free samples." Fischer says he originally went to Bardstown, Kentucky to do a podcast for his site, Tripodder.com, but soon found what he calls "American stories" about the people with a passion for making Kentucky's famous alcoholic beverage. "Bourbon is more than just a product. It's a spirit that brings people together."
Good bourbon can take a decade or more to make, but Fischer says it's only taken him about a year and a half of traveling around the country working on the film project. While most of the time was spent in Kentucky, the film locations included such places as Bourbon Street in New Orleans. Fischer says bourbon is making a comeback as a popular drink among younger adults. The annual festivals at the various distilleries feature a number of products you might not expect, such as bourbon syrup, which Fischer says is very popular in Japan.
What amazed the filmmaker most is the easy access that anyone has to the people he calls, "bourbon royalty". Fischer says at any of the festivals you can walk right up and talk with people like Wild Turkey master distiller Jimmy Russell. "It was amazing to me that we could drive two and a half hours and see what the rest of the world drinks every day." He says the documentary has taken on a life of its own. As the project has become more widely known, Fischer says he's had musicians contact him to write special songs for it. One of those is a tune called "Burn the Barrel" by Owensboro musician Rick Miller, in reference to the charred wooden barrels used by distillers to get better bourbon flavor.
The documentary includes Fischer as host and producer. He says Timothy Paul Taylor of Evansville is the principal videographer, with some help in Kentucky from videographer Chris Baggs of Louisville.
Here's the link to the preview http://www.stomfischer.com/tripodder/videoplayer.asp?movie=tribourbonvcast.wmv&item_id=82
Rebel Yell is the best buy in liquor. But it’s gives me a headache like nothing else.
I don’t know about that. My bottle of Jim Beam says on the label, “Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey. Distilled And Bottled By James B. Beam Distilling Co. - Beam - Clermont - Frankfort, Kentucky USA.”
I don’t know if any of those locations are in Bourbon County, but it is made in Kentucky.
I think you are thinking of Jack Daniels. IIRC, it is made in Tennessee.
“... a little early in the day to be ordering doubles, don’cha think?”
Not on a Saturday! lol
Balvenie is a(thankfully not a Kenny G)very nice gift.
But not a Stan Getz (who is?)
(How do you like the way I introduced a new Jazz thread in ?)
Kenny G is like a cup of saccharin. I prefer Stan Getz in his Brazilian mode.
No, because as I understand it, the Kennedy’s still make money on scotch whiskey sales in the US.
I’ve been a teetotaler for many years, but Marker’s Mark is a truly fine bourbon.
Yep! I are stoopid and done gotten my cheap bourbons confoozeled.
Either way, and as another posted wrote, use the cheep bourbons (Beam and JD) for BBQ sauce.
try any of those on the rocks, the melting ice changes the flavor as you sip...more betta
I shall raise the Talisker filled crystal rocks glass in your general direction @ 01:00 Zulu.
Best,
L
Was worth the trip..Especially the tasting lesson.
Speaking of good books.
Try anything by Bill Moody for a terrific Jazz mystery, based on actual events, and done with taste and style.
G.Reader recommends highly.
What a terrific thread THAT would be.
The FBI memo says someone (name redacted) obtained a US distributorship from Distillers Limited just before the end of Prohibition. It seems JPK did some (presumably effective) follow-up after that.
I'd show up for work @ midnight but things were always dead until three or four. There were still real jazzmen around the Apple or passing through (Miles, Mingus, Getz ...). They'd all stop in. The place was probably as big as your basement. I've always felt really fortunate for having caught the tail end of all that jazz and being close to all those giants. btw...it was Miles who told me what 'hip' really meant...wanna know?
I believe that being hip is what makes you comfortable in your own skin; what lets you pass your day knowing that what you have stood for and what you have done, and said, is right.
When you are shaving and are satisfied with whom is looking back at you. My man,...THAT is hip. THAT is cool.
If I were a person to whom envy came easy, I would envy your experience at that 52nd Street hole in the wall, and would have caged a five minute sit in on drums with one; anyone of those guys. Giants walked the land.
but they were some kind of fu-ked up while they were doing it.
I have really enjoyed this thread.
Worst whisky made.
Nectar, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they come pretty near to a knowledge of its chief ingredient.— The Devil’s Dictionary.
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