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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Jun 4, 2023 19:27:12 GMT -5
Bought this last winter down in the desert for 70 bucks. It is/was fabulous. Sweet, spicy, cinimon, caramel, brown sugar and leather. Superb. But now it’s gone, and it isn’t sold in Oregon. Stupid Oregon. It is sold in Washington, but it’s 96 dollars plus tax up there. Sigh. If it’s available near you, for around 70 dollars, and you like really good sipping bourbon/Rye, Mikee gives it four thumbs up.  Mike |
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Post by billhammond on Jun 4, 2023 19:39:04 GMT -5
Bought this last winter down in the desert for 70 bucks. It is/was fabulous. Sweet, spicy, cinimon, caramel, brown sugar and leather. Superb. But now it’s gone, and it isn’t sold in Oregon. Stupid Oregon. It is sold in Washington, but it’s 96 dollars plus tax up there. Sigh. If it’s available near you, for around 70 dollars, and you like really good sipping bourbon/Rye, Mikee gives it four thumbs up. Mike $52 at Total Wine here. |
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Post by John B on Jun 4, 2023 20:29:40 GMT -5
It adds 21 miles to my trip to visit my BIL and family, but I suppose I could swing by on my way to TN. Maybe they sell it at the distillery? I've been meaning to stop by Bardstown, as I'd like to check out the Bardstown Bourbon Company. I knew someone who worked there, and the "high tech" approach intrigued me. www.bardstownbourbon.com/ |
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Post by PaulKay on Jun 7, 2023 11:12:27 GMT -5
It adds 21 miles to my trip to visit my BIL and family, but I suppose I could swing by on my way to TN. Maybe they sell it at the distillery? I've been meaning to stop by Bardstown, as I'd like to check out the Bardstown Bourbon Company. I knew someone who worked there, and the "high tech" approach intrigued me. www.bardstownbourbon.com/When we went to the Jack Daniels distillery in TN, they couldn't sell any of their product from there. It resided in a dry county. |
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Post by Dub on Jun 7, 2023 12:34:11 GMT -5
It adds 21 miles to my trip to visit my BIL and family, but I suppose I could swing by on my way to TN. Maybe they sell it at the distillery? I've been meaning to stop by Bardstown, as I'd like to check out the Bardstown Bourbon Company. I knew someone who worked there, and the "high tech" approach intrigued me. www.bardstownbourbon.com/When we went to the Jack Daniels distillery in TN, they couldn't sell any of their product from there. It resided in a dry county. Back in the mid 1960s I was working at Chicago’s Ford assembly plant on the far South Side. A fellow I worked with had been a deputy sheriff in that Tennessee county. He said everyone in that county made whiskey and some of them were employed by Jack Daniels Distillery. 😉 Nobody got hassled unless they dropped their price. When that happened, he’d get a call at the Sheriff’s office complaining that the offender was making illegal whiskey “up in the holler” and the law should do something about it. So he’d call the offender to tell them they’d been reported and they would have to go up there about 3:00 PM the next day and break up their still. Of course by the appointed time, the functional still would have been replaced by junk equipment all ready for the sheriff’s men to demolish. When they’d gone, the good still would be reassembled and soon be back in business but at the “approved” price. My coworker used to bring the most wonderful sweet mash whisky back from visits home. It was very smooth and warmed our innards on cold winter nights out in the barrel yard. |
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Post by billhammond on Jun 7, 2023 12:40:25 GMT -5
My coworker used to bring the most wonderful sweet mash whiskey back from visits home. It was very smooth and warmed our innards on cold winter nights out in the barrel yard. I was stationed with a Tennessee native who after going home on leave, came back to the barracks with some Mason jars of moonshine. It was crystal clear and boozy as hell, but I was amazed at how good it tasted. Kyle showed us how you can/should set a jar lid of it on fire to determine its quality -- either a blue or a yellow flame was what you wanted, I can't recall which. |
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Post by jdd2 on Jun 7, 2023 21:04:45 GMT -5
... you can/should set a jar lid of it on fire to determine its quality -- either a blue or a yellow flame was what you wanted, I can't recall which. Isn't that where 'proof' came from? Sailors' grog was tested to prove they were getting real alcohol, not diluted. |
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