It kills me to see them selling whiskey from Texas and other states and calling it “Bourbon”. At least Tennessee has always called it’s whiskey “Tennessee whiskey”.
How about the Japanese selling swill and calling it "Scotch" ?
My preference is a smooth 12 year old Scotch but I can sip on a bourbon on occasion.
Lately I've been drinking a sweet, dark rum, must be my taste is changing.
Why?, because its sourced?
If MGP were to burn to the ground half of the bourbon/whiskey you see on the shelves would disappear.
That being said Michters American Whiskey is pretty damned good.
Until a few years ago when Tennessee passed a *state* law regarding the use of the "Lincoln County Process" (charcoal filtration) on any whiskey labeled "Tennessee Whiskey", that name was just a marketing decision (and one heck of an effective one). Based on the legal mash bill and cask aging requirements, Jack Daniel's Old No. 7 is a bourbon. So is George Dickel, which at one point during its history was bottled and sold as a bourbon.