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zfleeman
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How goes it?
I recently purchased 750ml of Maker's Mark whiskey, and I was just wondering how you all enjoy drinking your whiskey/bourbons.
I'm pretty excited for this bottle, but I don't really know how else to enjoy whiskey any way besides shooting it. The only other bottle I have purchased was some Canadian Club, and I just drank that really quickly out of a flask. This being a Kentucky bourbon, I was unsure if there was any fancy way to enjoy it.
Thanks in advance.
I recently purchased 750ml of Maker's Mark whiskey, and I was just wondering how you all enjoy drinking your whiskey/bourbons.
I'm pretty excited for this bottle, but I don't really know how else to enjoy whiskey any way besides shooting it. The only other bottle I have purchased was some Canadian Club, and I just drank that really quickly out of a flask. This being a Kentucky bourbon, I was unsure if there was any fancy way to enjoy it.
Thanks in advance.
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I was lucky enough to have a scotch-drinking father. This means that I know that good >> shitty, and I will get a glass of the good stuff about once a year. You should too.
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The way I enjoy it is I get a glass. I pour the brandy in the glass. I sip the brandy.
I sip pretty much any whiskey straight. I'd much rather drink any liquor, other than Tequila, slowly than shoot it.
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All bourbon is whiskey, not all whiskey is bourbon. He's technically right, although if you're drinking bourbon call it that, because bourbon is awesome.
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SO MANY SHOTS
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whisky goes in a whisky glass, neat if it's scotch, neat or on the rocks if it's bourbon
night before last I went to the bar with a friend
followed up a Tom Collins with a glass of Ardbeg. Once I had polished it, I excused myself and asked my friend to buy me a drink, whatever kind he wanted -- came back to a glass of Knob Creek
what a joik
yes I know this
but bourbon is fucking american, and not like that faggy british shit
call it bourbon
ahhh memories
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what
what the fuck
bourbon has 3 requirements
be made in america
be made from at least 51% corn mash
aged 3 years in charred new oak barrels
Ahem.
hello love, how fares the tea?
(easy way) take mint leaves a few table spoons of sugar and dump it in a glass. Mash the hell out of it with a spoon so the mint is all crushed up with the sugar. add ice till the glass is full of ice. Then pour in the makers.
This will at first taste JUST LIKE STRAIGHT BOURBON. Give it about 10 minutes and a good stir and it will taste delicious and very different than normal bourbon.
(the right way) combine bruised (not crushed) mint leaves in a simple syrup solution (one cup water, one cup sugar boiled in a pan on the stove until all sugar is dissolved) Leave the bruised mint leaves and syrup to steep in a sealed container over night in the fridge. The next day add 1 part mint syrup 2 parts bourbon over ice. This will taste better than the other way. Although the ultimate effect is similar.
Easier bourbon drinks.
Bourbon Ginger. Take ginger ale and go half and half with bourbon. This is pretty tasty. Sprite will work in a pinch.
Manhatten. You can google it. But it is pretty much bourbon and vermouth. (something tells me you don't have vermouth.)
Bourbon smash / boubon sour. Again google is your friend here but its pretty much bourbon and a sour or sweet mixer.
Lynchburg lemonade. Bourbon and lemonade.
Bourbon is so fing good.
Also, so far as I know, it only has an aging time requirement if you want to call it "straight", in which case it must be 4 years.
EDIT: correction, 2 years.
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The tea is good, better than that crappy American tea.
theres minor semantic ones, but yeah those are pretty much all most people care about
also it's 4?
I could sworn it was only 3
i drank a lot of even williams this weekend
mostly out of the bottle but sometimes i wasn't a southern slob and i drank it out of a plastic cup
but
but
But that's only if you want to call it "straight".
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rocks or water, cheap stuff with coke.
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like yesterday
oh yeah i also had a lot of whiskey sours
time to flagellate myself
goddamit i AM a redneck aren't I
the south has finally won
Totally serious now:
Most good bourbon is smooth enough that you don't need to mix it and really shouldn't make a sour with it or any of that bullshit.
Sip it straight, over some ice (cubed...big cubes...crushed or chipped is blasphemy), or if you must you can mix it with some chilled water if you're on your period. Now if you must drink it in something mixed, good bourbon can be used in drinks like a Maker's Manhattan, but if I'm drinking mixed drinks I figure why pay for good stuff. Since I'm not a true alcoholic, I only buy good stuff so I usually don't mix shit.
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This is even more bizarre, since in addition to loving bourbon basically the most, I also adore horse racing, and watch the Kentucky Derby every year.
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dan is going to mail you a mint julep immediately for this transgression
crown royal is pretty decent actually
stop supporting our commie friends to the north though and drink gentleman jack
whiskey neat, whiskey on the rocks, whiskey and coke, whiskey sour, old-fashioned
gin and tonic, gin and juice, tom collins
and so on
perfection
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It used to be true before they understood it was the hardness of the water used in Bourbon County, KY that made the whiskey taste the way it did. Now that people can mimic said water, you can make it anywhere using the correct ingredients, charred oak barrels, and aging process.
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but Pip I am a canadian
I will look for your gentleman jack though
apparently there is a bar here with a whiskey room where they let you sample small amounts of all the whiskeys
i am thinking that is something i would like to do
e: pip, you smell, gin is just fine
is it wrong for me to agree with pip?