[RKV]

It's a tad early here on the left coast to be considering sipping a glass of hooch, but I thought you all would enjoy this. Real Americans enjoy bourbon whiskey!

[Lurker]

Some mighty nice folks at the Makers Mark distillery. If you're ever in the area, drop by.

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[nralife]

I'll take Jim Beam.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Bourbon is whisky but whisky is not bourbon.

[wtc911]

Real Americans enjoy bourbon whiskey!

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Gee, where does that leave us single malt drinkers? (I will admit that bourbon does taste like scotch...after adding sugar to the scotch)

[jws3sticks]

The best sipping bourbon whiskey, IMHO.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

ping!

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

I’ve bbeen toying with the idea to start a bourbon ping-list. Maybe make it a Saturday evening regular post on chat as well as making notifications of Freep artcles that mention bourbon (good, bad and comical).

Thoughts?

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

I’ve bbeen toying with the idea to start a bourbon ping-list. Maybe make it a Saturday evening regular post on chat as well as making notifications of Freep artcles that mention bourbon (good, bad and comical).

Thoughts?

[SamAdams76]

There is a phenomenal amount of wealth in our country. Take Kentucky for example, just one state out of 50 in our country and not particularly large either. Yet you can spend years traveling the back roads through Kentucky and see endless splendor as you go through all the hollers and rolling hills that make up this state. If you ever travel in an airplane over Kentucky, you would think that 95% of it is uninhabited as all you mostly see are the treetops of immeasurable forests. Yet for all this ruralness, nearly five million Americans make Kentucky their home. There is over 100,000 miles of rivers and creeks in Kentucky, more deer and wild turkeys than just about any other state and of course the capital of making whiskey.

Kentucky makes enough bourbon to supply the entire world. And they could make a lot more if the demand called for it.

California is just one state (out of 50) as well but California's economy is big enough to put it well inside the Top 10 largest economies in the world if it were it's own country. Yet even California is mostly depopulated. While nearly 40 million people call California their home, the state is still mostly rural and could easily support one billion people. I've been to the Mojave desert and the northern forests and in both cases, I was so isolated from other humans that it was hard to imagine that in this very state were 40 million others.

Now California makes a lot of wine and could easily support the entire world with wine if the demand called for it. Take all the wine produced in Europe, Australia and South American and California could double that output without even stretching it's resources. And many of the wines produced in California outclass wine produced anywhere else in the world.

So my point is that the United States is massive, incredibly rich in resources, and yet has only realized a tiny fraction of its potential. The United States could easily support a population of 50 billion people within it's borders and still have plenty of rural space left over for recreation.

Also, it is only a matter of time before the provinces of Canada join our union. This will make us even more massive and powerful. And when the last Mexican crosses our borders, why we'll just take over that land as well and make a few states out of that.

[muddytadpole]

My two mid-shelf favorites after Maker's Mark are below. The Evan Williams single barrel is the best bourbon you can buy for $20 IMO, with Knob Creek not too far behind. YUM!

[TASMANIANRED]

I visited a couple of distilleries last summer.

Was worth the trip..Especially the tasting lesson.

[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.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

It's a tad early here on the left coast to be considering sipping a glass of hooch, but I thought you all would enjoy this. Real Americans enjoy bourbon whiskey!

I like mine poured over a tall glass full of ice.

[PJ-Comix]

The annual festivals at the various distilleries feature a number of products you might not expect, such as bourbon syrup, which Fischer says is very popular in Japan.

Can it be poured on pancakes?

[PJ-Comix]

I wonder how this documentary will compare with the History Channel show about bourbon. It amazed me they had to rotate the barrels from the top to the bottom because the slight difference in the air affects the taste of the bourbon because of the “breathing” by the barrels.