Some mood music for the thread...
 "Copper Kettle" - Chet Atkins "White Lightning" - George Jones "Tennessee Whiskey" - George Jones |
If you can speed up a peat-smoked malt give me a call. I will take the taste challenge
(There is even a picture of former President Barack Obama shaking hands with Mr. Lix during Mr. Obama’s swing through these parts during a tour centered on innovation.)
That’s enough for me to never try his product. I don’t think there’s a chemical process yet that can get the Obama out.
Isn’t it the law that bourbon can only be called bourbon if it is made in Kentucky?
Raisin Jack
Climax Whiskey or something or other.
I don't think it's on now, but I remember watching a part of an episode wherein they did this...accelerating the process with electricity and pressure and came up with "real" bourbon.
Yeah, sure.
This sounds plausible. Heck, adding a flavor and color additive could probably do it, once you find the right mix.
What is a major part of bourbon aging is that the barrels are in towering warehouses that get really hot in the summer and cold in the winter. Every year the bourbon seeps into the charred wood and then back out of it due to the temperature change. Each year the flavor changes a little more due to that process.
If you can do it just by letting the moonshine (which is basically what it starts as) pick up the flavors from chopped up charred oak due to the massive surface area of the wood, that’s great. We’d have super cheap bourbon that still tastes good.
But since most of the price of a bottle of bourbon is taxes anyway, this is kinda pointless.
Been done. It can make decent whisky, but not great.
Can’t call it “bourbon” unless it is aged in Kentucky!!
“Cleveland Whiskey of Ohio makes bourbon in less than 24 hours”
And smooth, too, I bet.
Smoooooth
It wouldn't be worth my time to taste that swill.
I may try a bottle just for fair/informative comparison.
Hate the idea of tech overwhelming traditional crafting, but progress happens. Let’s see how good/bad it really is, albeit apparent blasphemy.
Well, since the top-selling whiskeys are not bourbons, it seems that buyers don’t care what it’s called.
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"Copper Kettle" - Chet Atkins "White Lightning" - George Jones "Tennessee Whiskey" - George Jones |
The “beechwood aging” of Budweiser is similar with wood chips added to the stainless steel vats. This process might make a drinkable whiskey in record time, but there is a lot of complexity in the flavors that takes years of aging in barrels.
Mr. Lix will have to fight being lumped in with Thunderbird, M/D 2020, Boone's Farm...
BTW, whiskey is AGED in wood, not fermented. Flavored, not cooked! Wood alcohol is toxic to humans.
He’s making liquor, not Bourbon.
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