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Kentucky's finest: Bourbon documentary
Channel 14, WFIE ^ | 8 June 2007 | Steve Burger

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


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bourbon; bourbonwhiskey; famousbooze; whiskey
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To: jws3sticks

Rebel Yell is the best buy in liquor. But it’s gives me a headache like nothing else.


41 posted on 06/09/2007 10:31:36 AM PDT by Vision ("Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him." Jeremiah 17:7)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
“nice pic but JB is distilled in Tennessee. It isn’t REAL bourbon.”

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.

42 posted on 06/09/2007 10:32:35 AM PDT by nralife
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To: TheRightGuy

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

Not on a Saturday! lol


43 posted on 06/09/2007 10:34:38 AM PDT by nralife
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To: aruanan
The Balvenie 15.
NOT an embarrassment at all.
A little sweet to my personal taste, but nothing I would store away on an upper shelf in the pantry for neighbors.
My own taste runs toward the more “heavy” “smoky” malts like Lagavulin Cask strength or Laphroiag.
But it is like asking a person the favorite color or favorite automobile, or even favorite Sax player.

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 ?)

44 posted on 06/09/2007 10:36:57 AM PDT by Gideon Reader (DEMOCRATS: Not quite American, and proud of it! Palestinians are,...well,... Palestinian.)
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To: Gideon Reader

Kenny G is like a cup of saccharin. I prefer Stan Getz in his Brazilian mode.


45 posted on 06/09/2007 10:41:54 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: aruanan

No, because as I understand it, the Kennedy’s still make money on scotch whiskey sales in the US.


46 posted on 06/09/2007 11:14:32 AM PDT by RKV
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To: Lurker

I’ve been a teetotaler for many years, but Marker’s Mark is a truly fine bourbon.


47 posted on 06/09/2007 12:09:06 PM PDT by miele man (Continually voting against iodine deficient libs for 42 years)
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To: nralife

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.


48 posted on 06/09/2007 1:38:54 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel
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To: Gideon Reader

try any of those on the rocks, the melting ice changes the flavor as you sip...more betta


49 posted on 06/09/2007 2:19:25 PM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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To: Lurker

I shall raise the Talisker filled crystal rocks glass in your general direction @ 01:00 Zulu.


50 posted on 06/09/2007 2:21:45 PM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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To: wtc911
And I shall do the same. Since the wind is out of the west tonight, perhaps you will pick up the fragrance of one of my Macanudos.

Best,

L

51 posted on 06/09/2007 3:07:13 PM PDT by Lurker (Comparing moderate islam to extremist islam is like comparing small pox to plague.)
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To: RKV
I visited a couple of distilleries last summer.

Was worth the trip..Especially the tasting lesson.

52 posted on 06/09/2007 3:18:16 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (Taz Struck By Lightning Faces Battery Charge)
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To: wtc911
No rocks mate.
I LIKE my malt without any doo dads. A small release of clear water and I’m good for a day with some music (Stan Getz Aniversary CD)and a good book. Peculiar situation causes ice to make me feel as if I am staring in Marathon Man.

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.

53 posted on 06/09/2007 4:09:16 PM PDT by Gideon Reader (DEMOCRATS: Not quite American, and proud of it! Palestinians are,...well,... Palestinian.)
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To: Lurker
Great idea cooking here.
A virtual tasting.
At a specified time all interested FReepers hoist their Bourbon, single malt or wine selection and toast the public political demise; the end of incompetence, corruption and mismanagement by the political figure of his/her choice.

What a terrific thread THAT would be.

54 posted on 06/09/2007 4:14:09 PM PDT by Gideon Reader (DEMOCRATS: Not quite American, and proud of it! Palestinians are,...well,... Palestinian.)
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To: Lurker
I've recently discovered Wathen's. Very nice...


55 posted on 06/09/2007 4:19:05 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (The Democrat Party: radical Islam's last hope)
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To: RKV

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.


56 posted on 06/09/2007 4:49:45 PM PDT by aposiopetic
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To: Gideon Reader
Stan Getz and jazz mysteries...in the early 70s (while waiting to get into the NYPD) I tended bar and bounced at an after hours jazz spot on West 52nd just down the block from Jimmy Ryans.

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?

57 posted on 06/09/2007 6:51:11 PM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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To: wtc911
Pal’o mine,...
No. I don’t want to know what Miles thought was hip.
I love and respect the music of those Jazzmen; those greats whose music I listen to every single day and night, but they were some kind of screwed up. Human losers of the first order. Lost souls that fame and money and talent could not rescue.
Ever read Art Peppers book? Or Getz’s. All(or almost all) were fu-ked up beyond knowing. What a crying shame.
Dope and booze and kicking the crap out of their wives and girlfriends, going to jail and wasting their God given talents. No. I don't think I care to know what their definition of hip or cool was.

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.

58 posted on 06/09/2007 7:55:33 PM PDT by Gideon Reader (DEMOCRATS: Not quite American, and proud of it! Palestinians are,...well,... Palestinian.)
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To: Lurker

Worst whisky made.


59 posted on 06/09/2007 7:59:44 PM PDT by afraid
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To: RKV; Billthedrill; All
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.


60 posted on 06/09/2007 8:00:54 PM PDT by dighton
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