Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 12/18/2009 6:34:43 AM PST by Pharmboy
I have three! But I had wisdom teeth taken out yesterday.
Well, and I’m off today.
I love that short terrible time between “Now you’ve done it!” and “Now your gonna’ get it!”
It’s like the peace in the eye of the hurricane.
Well duh! Vodka is in essence, grain alcohol and water with a completely neutral flavor. It can have other flavorings added (the Russians used to enjoy paper-flavored vodka...look it up...), while bourbons and whiskeys by their very nature and because of the presence of these “congeners” have a distinct flavor.
In addition, most of the unfavorable elements found in raw whiskey are reduced by absorption in the charcoal that lines the barrels the liquor is aged in. A lot of commercial whiskey is also filtered through more charcoal before bottling.
Grain alcohol is one of the first “value added” products that man came up with, and is an excellent way to concentrate the value of a bushel of grain in a valuable and useful product. Brewed beer was once a medicinal substance, and was even considered to be blessed in ancient times, because it was Monks who figured out how to brew, and since they boiled their mash, the product was much cleaner (and therefore healthier) for drinking than the local water...
The author can badmouth demon alcohol all he wants but the basic concept that the products he is complaining about are either largely absent from the final modern product, or are there deliberately to provide flavor.
Brew science is a very complex subject, and anyone who practices that hobby would be glad to discuss the subject with this egghead, and at least try to convert him with a proper beverage or two...
Except for a glass of wine or two with dinner, we don’t drink during the week. I enjoy my bourbon as a “treat” on the weekend. I’ll have two-four fingers on Sunday during football. It’s a pleasure I enjoy very much, and know that enjoyment would diminish with abuse. It’s the same with anything in life; overindulging lessens the value.
Bourbon tastes better than vodka. AND it’s American.
Martha Washington's Rum Punch
Ingredients:
- 3 oz. White Rum
- 3 oz. Dark Rum
- 3 oz. Orange Curacao
- 4 oz. Simple Syrup
- 4 oz. Lemon Juice
- 4 oz. Fresh Orange Juice
- 3 Lemons quartered
- 1 Orange quartered
- 1/2 Tsp. Grated nutmeg
- 3 Cinnamon sticks (broken)
- 6 Cloves
- 12 oz. Boiling water
In a container, mash the orange, lemons, cinnamon sticks, cloves and nutmeg. Add syrup, lemon and orange juice. Pour the boiling water over the mixture in a container. Let it cool for a few minutes then add the white rum, dark rum and orange curaco. Strain well into a pitcher or punch bowl and serve over ice in goblets and decorate with wheels of lemon and orange. Dust with a little nutmeg and cinnamon. (Source: Distilled Spirits Council)
Did you know...? The first president of the United State made whiskey at his Mount Vernon estate 200 years ago. Washington made 11,000 gallons of whiskey first year of operation that was almost valued $7,500, which was a fair amount of money in the 18th century. The distillery was considered one of the largest in the country. To toast to American heritage, try Martha Washington's original rum punch found in her private journals.
From here.
HA! Brilliant comment...
This is true of Blended Whiskeys.........not Bourbon. Bourbon is the purest of liquors, it is the apex of the distillers art. /true but said in a humorous tone.
For some reason I prefer vodka - less of a hangover. Maybe it goes back to a run-in I once had with Jack Daniels.....
Not really.
Taste matters. (And though I certainly consume my share of the world's Bourbon production, I am never affected by it the next day.)
ML/NJ
Absolut, Ketel One, or Grey Goose. There is a world of difference between the top-of-the-line stuff and the rest.
Absolut, Ketel One, or Grey Goose. There is a world of difference between the top-of-the-line stuff and the rest.
Absolut, Ketel One, or Grey Goose. There is a world of difference between the top-of-the-line stuff and the rest.
Once I get started with Bourbon, I drink a whole lot! And I still don't worry about after affects.
Well I ain’t seen my baby since I don’t know when...
Vodka is alcohol, water, and nothing else. Nothing. Alcohol has no taste. Water has no taste. Vodka can be made from anything, as long as the final product is only alcohol and water.
All other hard liquors are a combination of alcohol, water, and SOMETHING ELSE. Its the something else that gives the unique flavor (and what gives burbon, rum, tequila, gin, etc... their unique taste.)
Or to put it another way, every hard liquor is really Vodka with flavoring.
Ya and in Oak Barrels, which make fine smoking wood one the BBQ. OH you forgot the Ruskies make Wodka. Drinking something made out of a potato does not sound appealing.
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