I have to counter your scotch with more borboun, cigars and smiths because I am not a big scotch drinker....
CHANGED MY WAY OF DRINKING GOOD WHISKY
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I have to counter your scotch with more borboun, cigars and smiths because I am not a big scotch drinker....
75Vette
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I've never been a fan of sour mash or Jim Daniels but a good friend bought me a bottle of the Single Barrel/Barrel Proof for my retirement & sweet baby Oprah!, I never would've imagined Jack could've tasted so good! One small ice cube to open it up & went down like silk. It's gotta be the closest thing to Scotch I've tasted!! Now the Weller don't taste the same...
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oneounceload
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I drank enough of JD back in college when the black label was 90 proof and the green label was 86. Now, you couldn't give me that stuff; there are much better bourbons out there. But for a whiskey to drink neat that won't burn your throat, try a good Irish; "Double, neat, with a water back"
any half-assed bartender knows what that means
any half-assed bartender knows what that means
Wildcatter
Any Texans remember a whisky from the '60s with the brand name Wildcat or Wildcater, had as smooth a taste right out the bottle. Label had an oilwell logo. I thought it was good stuff at the time!
Any Texans remember a whisky from the '60s with the brand name Wildcat or Wildcater, had as smooth a taste right out the bottle. Label had an oilwell logo. I thought it was good stuff at the time!
Absalom
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Jack is NOT from Kentucky!
Just to set something straight (or neat or whatever
):Pretty much ALL whiskey made in the US, be it bourbon, Tennessee whiskey, or rye, is sour mash whiskey, meaning the sour mash method is used. Only a few obscure micro-craft distilleries use the sweet mash method.
The fact that some, like Jack Daniel’s Tennessee whiskey or Elmer T. Lee Kentucky bourbon, say so on the bottle, while most don’t, is just a choice made by the marketing department.
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Got no problem with that, not bourbon, but I still love Crown on the rocks when I want something a little sweeter.I have to counter your scotch with more borboun, cigars and smiths because I am not a big scotch drinker....
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Was in one of our mini stores and looking at the whiskey selection. Makers Mark single cask 100 proof, another Makers Mark at 110 proof and the third at 120 proof. New one on me. Just used to Canadian club or Crown Royal. Frank
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What kind of Whisky we like is all an individual taste. Some people don't care for Jack where as I'd take it over a $1000 bottle of Scotch in a heart beat (assuming I couldn't sell it and buy 20 bottles of Jack Single Barrel for it).
Jack Daniels is a Tennessee Sour Mash Whisky and is not from Kentucky. The ONLY thing that makes it a "non-Bourbon" is the fact that it is charcoal filtered just prior to barreling it. Other than that, it is made identically to Bourbon. Some like that & some don't.
NOTE: About 4 years ago I did a blind taste testing among 3 friends (after a heated Bourbon discussion) and NONE of them could tell the difference between Jack Daniels Black Label #7 and Makers Mark which is a true Bourbon.
Jack Daniels is a Tennessee Sour Mash Whisky and is not from Kentucky. The ONLY thing that makes it a "non-Bourbon" is the fact that it is charcoal filtered just prior to barreling it. Other than that, it is made identically to Bourbon. Some like that & some don't.
NOTE: About 4 years ago I did a blind taste testing among 3 friends (after a heated Bourbon discussion) and NONE of them could tell the difference between Jack Daniels Black Label #7 and Makers Mark which is a true Bourbon.
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Absalom
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NOTE: About 4 years ago I did a blind taste testing among 3 friends (after a heated Bourbon discussion) and NONE of them could tell the difference between Jack Daniels Black Label #7 and Makers Mark which is a true Bourbon.
High-quality American whiskeys are a lot closer in character to each other than others, so a lot of the love/hate talk you hear from “discerning connoisseurs” has little discernable basis in reality
Legally, JD is actually bourbon. Pretty much all bourbons are charcoal-filtered before bottling; the Tennesseans just use a special, more extensive method called the Lincoln County process. If the JD distillery decided one day to bottle “Jack’s Bourbon”, that would be perfectly legal.
But they likely never will. Because they have managed to make “Tennessee Whiskey” a positive upgrade from just bourbon as far as the market is concerned.
That’s why JD and not a Kentucky bourbon is the world-best-selling American whiskey, which irks some Kentuckians. And since 2014 “Tennesse Whiskey” is protected by state, although not federal, law.
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