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Wednesday, June 16, 2004
GENTLEMEN...
I think that by now it's widely known that my favorite semi-affordable whisky (and/or whiskey) is George Dickel's #12. And Dickel's #8 ain't bad - best whisky value..
But the liquor store (read: "Safeway") had Gentleman Jack on sale for like 18 bucks last week. It's a little different recipe than plain Jack Daniel's, apparently, and it is charcoal mellowed twice, once before aging, once after. So the charcoal mellowing process, for those who haven't been to the distillery (or any whisky distillery), involves drizzling the distilled whiskey through enormous, tall casks full of crushed hickory charcoal. This is part of what gives it the darker color (along with aging it in charred barrels). It also mellows it out. Without this process, whisky would be moonshine. Essentially.
So the moral of the story is, Gentleman Jack may be my new favorite slightly-less-affordable-than-Dickel's-#12-whisky. Nice bouquet - flowery even, mellow, smooth..
Let it be known that I appreciate a good whisky as much as any man alive.
Gotta learn distilling. Except for that whole federal offense thing. The ATF needs to lighten the hell up.
-m
I think that by now it's widely known that my favorite semi-affordable whisky (and/or whiskey) is George Dickel's #12. And Dickel's #8 ain't bad - best whisky value..
But the liquor store (read: "Safeway") had Gentleman Jack on sale for like 18 bucks last week. It's a little different recipe than plain Jack Daniel's, apparently, and it is charcoal mellowed twice, once before aging, once after. So the charcoal mellowing process, for those who haven't been to the distillery (or any whisky distillery), involves drizzling the distilled whiskey through enormous, tall casks full of crushed hickory charcoal. This is part of what gives it the darker color (along with aging it in charred barrels). It also mellows it out. Without this process, whisky would be moonshine. Essentially.
So the moral of the story is, Gentleman Jack may be my new favorite slightly-less-affordable-than-Dickel's-#12-whisky. Nice bouquet - flowery even, mellow, smooth..
Let it be known that I appreciate a good whisky as much as any man alive.
Gotta learn distilling. Except for that whole federal offense thing. The ATF needs to lighten the hell up.
-m
Comments:
I prefer the following:
MadDog 20/20
Thunderbird wine (or any kind of ripple)
Manneschevitz and club soda
Michelob (reminds me of my MieMau, especially if someone is smoking Newports...)
MadDog 20/20
Thunderbird wine (or any kind of ripple)
Manneschevitz and club soda
Michelob (reminds me of my MieMau, especially if someone is smoking Newports...)
I noticed that you started your post with "Gentlemen..." Entirely appropriate - I don't think you could get away with starting a post on favorite whiskys with "Dudes..." As for G-Had's craving for Manischevitz.... now I know who to give the $@%*& half-bottle that we have left over after every Passover that sits in the fridge until we put it down the drain sometime in August. Was that last sentence gramatically correct? Who cares? It's June!
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