Enjoying some bourbon tonight.

[Aristus]

Our local distillery, Woodinville, just released a variation on their flagship product. It’s their signature bourbon, only aged in port casks, instead of charred oak casks.

I poured some into a tumbler over chilled whiskey stones. It’s good. Not substantially different from the regular, but it has some subtle red wine notes. (The port, obviously.)

Don’t know if I’ll get a second bottle when this one is done. The original has some wonderful sweet, caramel notes to it that are irresistible.

But I’m definitely not getting Woodinville’s rye whiskey again. Rye is just too rough for my palate. Good for a tough, strong New York Sour, but not much else.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend…

🥃

[WVGal1963]

1. Bourbon? I don't know much.

But thanks, Aristus…thanks for making me think I must learn more about Bourbon.

[Aristus]

2. Glad I could help!

I used to just drink blended whiskey, like Cutty Sark, for example. Nice, but nothing too adventurous.

My little brother, a whiskey connoisseur, introduced me to bourbon and single malt scotch.
My life is much richer as a result.

[Permanut]

3. Dad used to drink whiskey sours..

with Old Overholt. He called it Old Overcoat.

Couldn't stand 'em.

[Aristus]

4. I love whiskey sours!

Great way to relax and avoid scurvy at the same time.

[Permanut]

16. It's a health food!

Who knew?

[Aristus]

17. There you go!

[hlthe2b]

5. GA football! (on my third Michelob Ultra--okay, I AM a lightweight!)

[Aristus]

6. Enjoy!

[Different Drummer]

7. 17-nil Dawgs so far!

[hlthe2b]

8. I will be drunk before it is over, but damn. I NEED THIS!

[PJMcK]

9. None for me tonight

Yesterday, I had several vaccines: flu, Covid booster and Hepatitis-B (I’m going to Central America this week). I’ve felt lousy all day so no adult beverages for me tonight.

Tomorrow, I’m golfing with a couple of pals and I know we’ll enjoy a few! Because of your post, I think I’ll go for Old Fashioneds.

[Aristus]

10. Nothing better than a perfectly mixed Old Fashioned.

[Skittles]

11. I'm drinking some 1835

distilled in Kentucky but bottled locally

[Aristus]

12. Tell me what it's like.

[Skittles]

13. I find it a bit rough on the throat

so I chase it

good feeling though

I'm just an occasional drinker - cannot stand wine or beer, but like bourbon and rum

[Aristus]

14. Glad to hear it feels good.

As Sergeant Elias said in “Platoon”: ‘Feelin’ good is good enough…’

[Skittles]

15. yes

I intended to have plenty of liquor available on Nov 5 - yes INDEED!

[Aristus]

18. Whichever way it goes, I'm going to be well-stocked.

Champagne in the fridge. I don’t give a shit anymore about tempting fate. We have to win this!…

[Skittles]

19. yup you get it!

[mitch96]

20. For me when it comes to "hard" liquor it's all about the smooth. Smooth in the mouth and smooth down the throat.

I was reading about Costco 1.5 L vodka. Made in france..hint hint but ONLY the 1.5 L.
Gray goose over runs?
So I got a bottle and tried it out...very very smooth and a bit sweet if that's possible.
Just for shits-n-grins I just HAD to compair it to Gray goose. Do they taste the same? No, just a bit off and both are very smoooth. Price difference is pretty dramatic. A 1.5 L bottle of Gray goose is about $52 . Costco 1.5 L french vodke? $20 and I can tell if you put the costco into a gray goose bottle no one would tell the difference. Actually my friend poured the Costco vodka into a Tito's bottle.
To me smooth liquors are for sipping and yes I don't like rye for that reason. too harsh. Harsh liquors are good for mixed drinks where you can hide the harshness..
On another note have you tried Jack Daniels bottled in bond bourbon? 100 proof and aged a minimum of two years. I just had to try it. Yes smooth and I mixed it with some tart cherry juice, just a splash. WOW did that taste good!! The sweetness of the bourbon and the slight sweetness of the tart cherry just make a nice simple "cocktail". nothing fancy just a good flavor that's easy on the pallet...
Ok back to the costco bloody mary... Hey it's healthy veg juice, right?
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[marble falls]

21. Try Makers Mark, low and no rye. Was at their distillary and what an amazing place and good bourbon ...

... that wax top always struck me as frippery. And I have a wine stewards bias against overly distinctive bottles and I didn't drink it until last week. My wife bought a bottle, the first bottle of the hard stuff I've seen her buy in 20+ years.

Good stuff. My son bought a barrel at New Riff (Belleview, KY) across the Ohio from Cincinnati because they bring Rye forward on their whiskey and that's what they're drinking in Anchorage where his lounge is. I bought a bottle of the Riff bourbon barrel aged gin. Haven't opened it yet, or the Makers, yet.

I like a smokey single malt scotch but this new bourbon culture has gotten my interest.

If the average drinker drank like the two of us, there's be a heck of a lot fewer distilleries.

[Aristus]

22. I've been putting off dropping my money for Maker's Mark.

I’ve heard it’s a favorite among right-wingers; you know, old, white, genteel, subtly racist country club types.

I don’t buy Kentucky bourbon, either.

[marble falls]

23. Fuck those RWers. They also use penicillin, drink milk, wear clothes, drive on the right side of the road ...

... use the same grocery stores you do. There are a lot, and I mean a lot of Democrats in Louisville, Lexington and a lot of other places. Don't draw your line in the sand with Makers or Kentucky, (now Florida or Tennessee, maybe, but we have a lot of members here from those states).

Makers is dedicated to the environment and low impact footprint as any liberal I know. They buy local and farm, they rotate fields and graze sheep and goats, they don't plow, but chisel in seed. They use no insecticides or herbicides or need to: the goats will eat the weeds and the sheep and goats also fertilize. Kentucky has a huge aquifer of of limestone filtered waters and all these distilleries are very active in their stewardship in the best water that I've tasted that needed no filtering. They send the spent mash to cattlemen: VERY little gets 'tossed' if any by-product, the barrels are reused by vintners and other distillers, and they buy used barrels from other distillers and vintners.

At New Riff Distillery, I had a long conversation with their Rep about how great the Harris/Walz Administration will be.

My family on my mother's father side and my father's father side came up to Ohio from Kentucky, and I live in Texas and my eldest daughter lives in Florida and my youngest lives in Missouri, my son is still in Ohio. Are you going to mark us off your list, too?

[Aristus]

24. Not now; definitely not. Thank you for bringing me up to speed.

They sound like a great company. Maybe I’ll give MM. a try after all.

I’ve lived in Kentucky on three separate occasions in my life, and loved it each time. But they were all before I became really politically aware.

I used to hang out with the gay crowd in St. Mathews in Louisville. I was their pet gay-friendly Army soldier, and a kind of novelty during the awful Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell business in the early 90’s.

I wonder if someday, The Bluegrass State will turn Blue. It would be nice.

[marble falls]

25. I believe that it's happening. BTW: you've set me straight on a lot of things, too. I sincerely thank you for that.

[Aristus]

26. So much of what I say and believe is based on sorrow and disappointment.

I was a raised by a liberal family in a conservative state, Texas, and I hate seeing places I love go the red route.

I love almost everything about Texas except the humidity and the right-wingers.

But I know how Blue Austin, Dallas, and Houston are, and am hopeful that maybe someday, the whole state will turn Blue. That would certainly make the Presidential Elections less of a nail-biter.

[marble falls]

27. The only thing that I like about this state: Dallas gets Bluer every year, the GOP could not gerrymand ...

... Lloyd Doggett out of office, and the state is getting Bluer (incrementally) every year.

We're finally getting Democrats to run for local offices and the state legislature and I think a big turnout will boot Cruz this time.

[Hotler]

28. Mmmmm ... bourbon buttermilk pie, made with Jim Beam.

[Aristus]

29. Sounds delicious!

I should try that sometime. Or try making it if no bakery around here produces it.