Kentucky's finest: Bourbon documentary

Channel 14, WFIE ^ | 8 June 2007 | Steve Burger

[Vision]

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

[nralife]

“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.

[nralife]

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

Not on a Saturday! lol

[Gideon Reader]

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 ?)

[aruanan]

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

[RKV]

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

[miele man]

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

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

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.

[wtc911]

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

[wtc911]

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

[Lurker]

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

[TASMANIANRED]

I visited a couple of distilleries last summer.

Was worth the trip..Especially the tasting lesson.

[Gideon Reader]

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.

[Gideon Reader]

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.

[COBOL2Java]

I've recently discovered Wathen's. Very nice...

[aposiopetic]

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.

[wtc911]

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?

[Gideon Reader]

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.

[afraid]

Worst whisky made.

[dighton]

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.