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Originally posted by ilovemyglo
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.
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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
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