Worst bourbon you've had?
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Willett Pot Still
Whistle Pig(not an earthy bourbon type guy)
Dickel
Willett Pot Still
Whistle Pig(not an earthy bourbon type guy)
Dickel
Technically, Tennessee whiskey is aged in used barrels and then charcoal filtered. Two things that prevent it from being bourbon according to the official definition adopted by congress.
It's considered bourbon by the IRS for tax purposes, but the IRS can GGP.
Have yet to make it down to WP, wanted to go this fall for the OU game but of course C19 had other plans. Our time here is limited given the grandbaby's arrival last spring, so need to check off a bunch of bucket list items before moving back to Texas.
Used barrels = automatically disqualified the term Bourbon. Most whiskeys (in America) aged in used oak barrels is then called American Whiskey (like Michters American #1)
Charcoal Filtering... I believe EW BiB is charcoal filtered.
Jack Daniels uses new oak barrels that THEY Cooper. charcoal filter.
Tennessee whisky uses the charcoal filtering (like Brita) and takes all the oils/flavors out.
any distilled mashbill over 50% corn that touches (for a microsecond) in new white oak barrels is bourbon. Then, if you finish it in anything other than new barrels technically needs a description as a suffix to the term Bourbon.
BTW: eff Tennessee and their ****** whiskey (except Chattanooga).
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Up to WP is a 20 minute ride up 9w.
i want to go to a game. Never have. So pretty.
My son is considering applying to Army.
Kessler’s is not bourbon but whatever it is, it’s bad.
But it is cheap and in college that was enough.
But it is cheap and in college that was enough.
Beautiful state around Saratoga and the Adirondacks.
Catskills/Hudson Valley's a nice area. I like Buffalo, I like the grittiness to it, Western NY south of Buffalo is nice. Didn't realize that St. Bonaventure was out that way, Ithaca's a neat area small college town with Cornell. The only Ivy league schools we haven't visited is Princeton and Columbia.
Back in the day Tom Moore made Old Crow top shelf. Bootleggers made a fortune off that rock gut.
Bought a fifth of this glorious gut rot 20 years ago for $2.99.
Got what I paid for.
Have you been to Old Louisville lately? There are fewer and fewer of those run down Victorians, most of them have been fixed up really well. Still a few ****** multi families though, and of course you still have a bunch of panhandler weirdos. But most of the houses themselves have been fixed up really well. I have been looking for a house recently and you really can’t find much in Old Louisville under $400-500k.
Also, Willett Pot Still isn’t my favorite, but there is NO WAY it is the worst or even among the worst bourbons.
Cause there ain’t no such thing as NY bourbon. NY whiskey on the other hand...
Have had some that.. didn’t think it was so bad... but whatever the bootlegger sold was bad bourbon... I saw Tom Moore come up and do remember Distillers Pride being terrible...
Wonder if it's the harsher & longer winters? Would that affect the bourbon that much?
Where does it say Tennessee Whiskey is put in used oak barrels?
Nowhere because it isn’t true.
the only thing Tennessee whiskey does to bourbon is place it the through the Lincoln county filtration process.
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False. Bourbon can be made anywhere. Not just KY.Cause there ain’t no such thing as NY bourbon. NY whiskey on the other hand...
I think it's a relatively new thing. I remember Albany Distilling Company made a few bourbons about 8 years ago, but they were hardly aged. I think a lot of companies are still getting their product up to speed. Hudson Baby Bourbon was kind of the same, as I recall.
Looking at the website, ADC's Borubons are only aged "minimum 24 months". And as I recall, they were pretty harsh.
When I was in HS my buddy and myself would buy a bottle of Bourbon Deluxe......I don't even know if they make it any more.......put two dollars worth of gas in my car and drunk drive around all weekend.....thinking back it is a wonder we didn't kill ourselves......
My friend had a 4 story victorian house right near 4th and Hill St.......I done a lot of work on the old place.....he had to nearly give it away.......parking is the issue where he lived......he had one space behind his house and that was it.....some days I would spend most of my time moving my work van to keep people happy......his neighbors knew my van..........beautiful house though......back in the day I turned quite a few of those houses in that area into apartments......ruins them IMHO...........at least on the inside.......
It's gotta be in that barrel for a minimum of two years, and the charcoal filtering changes the flavor and color. Both disqualify jack and dickel.
Per Jack Daniel's website...
IS JACK DANIEL'S A BOURBON?
Jack Daniel's is not a bourbon - it's a Tennessee Whiskey.
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@Kooky Kats should let them know they are wrong about the product they make
IS JACK DANIEL'S A BOURBON?
Jack Daniel's is not a bourbon - it's a Tennessee Whiskey.
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@Kooky Kats should let them know they are wrong about the product they make
They classify it as Tennessee whiskey. They CAN call that ******** bourbon. They choose not to.Per Jack Daniel's website...
IS JACK DANIEL'S A BOURBON?
Jack Daniel's is not a bourbon - it's a Tennessee Whiskey.
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@Kooky Kats should let them know they are wrong about the product they make
They'd have to change their process of making it to call it bourbon.
You've become a damned yankee, trying to convince people that JD is a bourbon. You'll get your mouth smacked if you try to do that down here in person.
I’ll have you know of my 80 bottles, none are from Tennessee.
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Nice collection. If you're ever in Lexington hit me up and I'll pour some sips you can't buy from the store 