Let's talk about bourbon.
 

http://www.smallbatch.com/smallbacth_lowcarb.jpg



Seriously, this stuff is amazing. The new "small batch" series, put out by the finest bourbon manufacturers in the world - it's truly an exciting time to be a bourbon fan.

-RC
--2000th post parody thread! yaaaay

Paging Mr. Jack Daniels -- Please pick up the white courtesy phone.

Now what's this I hear about JD lower the alcoholic content of No.7....

Oh NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! Sacrilege!!!!!!!

Guess they're being a little more economical in whiskey production -- there was Jack Black (Old No.7) at 86 proof and Jack Green Label at 80 proof.

Free Stuff from Knob Creek
 

Sorry if you missed it.

holy shite!!
no carbs?? are you serious?? cause if so, i think i just found my new drink.

what does it taste like with diet coke?

heaven

That's what I'm saying! :D
My favorite airplane drink: Jack and Ginger Ale

it all sounds yummy....and i've never been a bourbon drinker.

Oh, it's good; a nice way to start and end the evening.

Most popular drink in Germany = Jack Black and Coke. Followed by Asbach Uralt (a brandy) and Coke.

Hmmm... gotta try it with ginger ale... :)

When I was in Louisville, I met a guy from Makers Mark. We had a bourbon sampling one night and mint juleps. Can't say I enjoy the stuff.

Well you've hit on the second most popular mix we do up here in Canada... although we call it Rye - so Rye & Coke or Rye & Ginger are the two big mixes you here ordered at bars... me I prefer the Ginger Ale mix :)

The "small batch" series isn't so new. I've had Basil Hayden or Knob Creek in my bar for a few years now. My husband likes them... I find Basil Hayden isn't bad, but I'm a martini drinker by and large.

Re: Free Stuff from Knob Creek
 

Yeah, none of them are very 'new' - that was included only to keep consistent with the thread I was parodying.


Anyway - I find Booker's to be the best of the bunch, Knob is fine but in my opinion it's the 'weakest' of the bunch.

If you can deal with the extraordinary true-barrel alcohol content, then Booker's would be my suggestion - although it's not really out of line with, say, nice scotch or the highest-end gins (IIRC Citadelle is something like 110 proof).

There was a greek shirt for sale the other week with something on the back like:

"My best friends and me...Jim, George and Jack" with a picture of the three bottles.

This was of course followed by the letters of every GLO on campus. Sometimes I wonder how we get away with these things.

:rolleyes:

For the bourbon lovers
 

Try Rebecca Ruth candies, made with bourbon and other liquors. They are soooo good (especially the chocolate caramel clusters) and her bourbon balls are to die for! I could only get them in Kentucky though, but I'm sure they have a website.

:)


jack daniels=/=bourbon

Speaking of booze in candy, have you ever had these bad boys?
http://store1.yimg.com/I/candywarehouse_1810_74379166

DEEELISH.

Don't forget Ethel M's chocolates... Las Vegas' finest purveyor of boozed-up chocolates!

http://shop.ethelm.com/jump.jsp?item...Type=HOME_PAGE

Now that's some gooooood stuff!!!;)

Technically it is, legally it can't be called bourbon. Only liquor distilled with at least 51% corn in Bourbon County, Kentucky can be called bourbon whiskey.

bourbon pecan pie...
yummy.

Okay, let me play a stickler here:
Jack Daniels is NOT a bourbon- it is WHISKEY
It is made in Lynchburg Tennessee...
ALL BOURBON comes from Kentucky...
Period.
And Bourbon is not a whiskey, it is different...

Sorry, just had to throw that out there..
However, I LOVE Woodford Reserve. good stuff.

Biggest bourbon myth: it has to be made in Kentucky - that's not true at all, but Kentucky is the only state that can put its name on the bottle. Need proof? here

Technically, all bourbon is whiskey - but you are correct that all whiskey is not bourbon. Like 10 people before you have pointed out that Jack is "Tennessee Whiskey", a catagory essentially created just for it (and Dickel, yes I know). The only actual difference between Jack and a bourbon is that the distillate for JD is slow-drip filtered through charcoal, supposedly infusing it with a bit more sweetness on the palatte. However, up until that filtration, it is made in exactly the same way as traditional bourbons, and 99.9% of people don't have a palette refined enough to tell the difference between the two processes. Compare these two to, say, Canadian whiskey, which uses a totally different process.

-RC
--booze nerd

I'm lovin' my Jack Daniels.

That was always my favorite drink in college - Jack-n-Coke. Just call me klassy with a capital K! lol :D

After the day I've had, I need a bourbon tonight.