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Re: Bourbon drinkers
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2015 10:54 am
by AftonAngler
2weight wrote:1. Jack Daniel's is bourbon.
Correct. Jack Daniel's is Tennessee Whiskey. Same basic mash bill but passed through charcoal.
2. All bourbon is made in Kentucky.
Sure, you can make bourbon elsewhere, but why? They're making "good" bourbon in Texas, but you can't tell me that somebody outside of Austin is replicating the natural temperature variations that they get in Kentucky.
3. Older bourbon is better.
Usually, but not always. Older bourbon is *generally* not as alcohol "hot" as a younger variety.
4. You can't add ice and mixers.
I like an Old Fashioned, but I'm not using anything more expensive than Beam to make it.
Hmmmm...
Thinking about #3
Being Friday...and perfectly nice up here in Musky Country...I'm wondering - should I or shouldn't I?
I've got a perfectly good bottle of Wild Turkey 101 open already...
Re: Bourbon drinkers
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2015 2:46 pm
by 2weight
AftonAngler wrote:2weight wrote:1. Jack Daniel's is bourbon.
Correct. Jack Daniel's is Tennessee Whiskey. Same basic mash bill but passed through charcoal.
2. All bourbon is made in Kentucky.
Sure, you can make bourbon elsewhere, but why? They're making "good" bourbon in Texas, but you can't tell me that somebody outside of Austin is replicating the natural temperature variations that they get in Kentucky.
3. Older bourbon is better.
Usually, but not always. Older bourbon is *generally* not as alcohol "hot" as a younger variety.
4. You can't add ice and mixers.
I like an Old Fashioned, but I'm not using anything more expensive than Beam to make it.
Hmmmm...
Thinking about #3
Being Friday...and perfectly nice up here in Musky Country...I'm wondering - should I or shouldn't I?
I've got a perfectly good bottle of Wild Turkey 101 open already...
Hell no. Flip that shit and buy a new fly rod AND a bottle, or several, of good bourbon.
Re: Bourbon drinkers
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2015 4:32 pm
by Upsetter
agreed
my personal favorite remains pappy reserve lot b
12yr i believe, but really good
Re: Bourbon drinkers
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2015 5:04 pm
by T.J. Brayshaw
What an incredibly stupid article.
Re: Bourbon drinkers
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2015 5:17 pm
by SOBF
3. Older bourbon is better.
Usually, but not always. Older bourbon is *generally* not as alcohol "hot" as a younger variety.
4. You can't add ice and mixers.
I like an Old Fashioned, but I'm not using anything more expensive than Beam to make it.
Lotta truth here
Re: Bourbon drinkers
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2015 10:31 pm
by pbrstreetgang
Shitty bourbon belongs in sidecars
Re: Bourbon drinkers
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2015 11:01 pm
by root wad
From the banks of most of the rivers I fish there is no such thing as shitty bourbon. Some of it just hangs around longer. And belongs to someone else.
Re: Bourbon drinkers
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2015 11:59 pm
by SLSS
root wad wrote:From the banks of most of the rivers I fish there is no such thing as shitty bourbon. Some of it just hangs around longer. And belongs to someone else.
My Irish brother.
Re: Bourbon drinkers
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2015 7:45 am
by T.J. Brayshaw
People who say "You can't put ice or water into whiskey. It must be old. You can't make cocktails with it. Blah, blah, blah" = People who say "You must fly fish with a floating line. You must fish for trout with dries, upstream. You must never fish with weighted flies. A clouser minnow is a jig. Blah, blah, blah"
Jis sayin'
Re: Bourbon drinkers
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2015 8:18 am
by fishpimp
So what is makers mark? I like me some makers mark when on the water...
Re: Bourbon drinkers
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2015 10:32 am
by SLSS
shit, I forget where the delete post button is
Re: Bourbon drinkers
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2015 10:33 am
by SLSS
fishpimp wrote:So what is makers mark?.
Delicious.