Posted on 09/29/2004 7:24:43 PM PDT by nypokerface
That's it. Around midnight. Closing up here. Last call for alcohol.
I have to duck this one otherwise as I'm the guy with a nephew who is an executive for Bacardi. Love Christmas presents!
Knob Creek is my fave (the aroma alone is heavenly), and Bookers for those extra-special occasions (both are Beam products). Jimmy with Coke for the football games.
As a devoted JD drinker, I too noted that as of lately ol'#7 had less and less potential. I thought it was me getting more agressive but come to find out that it was the whiskey. It looks like them boys in Lynchburg are trying to make a fast buck by lowering the proof, hence more sale.(noticed that the price of Jack Daniels went up by $2.00 over the past 3 Months?)
Wonder why...this is a bad move on part of the current owners/who ever entity, to mess around with an American Icon at the altar of PC's-ness. I already moved over to Jameson, an excellent Irish Whiskey and at times to Bushmills! Great stuff!
To the schmucks in Lynchburg...go back to basics, as Jack want it to be and do not mess around with a proven recipe!
Its better straight anyway!
Ever notice that the best writers in history have always been raging alcoholics?
What? Do you live in a box or something???
/just kidding there
Modern Drunkard is one of my favorite sites.
This was one of my favorites:
http://www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com/issues/01-02/01_02_booze_rules.htm
Weird world, eh? I had some Jack a few weeks ago, and I noticed that it tasted different. Now I know why!
Bad as non-alcohol beer. It's for people who don't want to get drunk, but still like to piss a lot.
HAW HAW HAW HAW!!!
One day in the early 90's, I met my lawyer girlfriend for a pitcher on her lunch hour. We ran into one of the firm's senior partners at the bar, and he told her to take the rest of the afternoon off, so we proceeded to get smashed.
Later on that afternoon, I hooked up with a buddy of mine, and all we could find in his fridge were a few bottles of that gawd-awful O'Dooles.
I swear, that stuff was worthless. Even if it HAD alcohol in it, it would qualify as one of the worse American beers of the 20th Century.
They chose the less expensive option of watering down their product rather than making the bottles smaller (the more costly option). Profits may be watered down too if people quit buying it. Bad timing for them too with the upcoming holidays. Comparison shopping for booze should give their competition quite a sales boost
Modern Drunkard is one of my favorite tagline sources.
Now I know why we are fighting the towel heads.
You know, people can bad mouth the beer in this country all they want, but they'd better not say anything about our bourbon.
Heheh well no where else in the world can make Bourbon.
Bourbon can only be made in Kentucky (Its some rule or law of the whiskey making industry)
It is funny I 've noticed that lately I drink more Jack and get less of a buzz. I thought I was just getting older and I was just building up a tolerence.
I've been a Jack Drinker for near thirty years.
I guess it is time for a change, when this current bottle is empty I am trying something different.
That's right - if I remember correctly, it is named after a county in Kentucky. But it's still great stuff that rivals anything else out there.
Dump the Jack and go with Maker's. You won't regret it!
The Kipling story is "Friendly Brook" - about a providential murder committed by a stream in rural England. Kipling's late stories are often confusing, but always the best.
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