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Google 'Bourbon tree' and you will see Henry McKenna as close to Evan Williams as any other. Same distillery and same mashbill.

Exactly!!

Exactly!!

Yes, its not my first choice, but is drinkable

agreed

Its generally what I drink, but williams single has such a pleasant flavor. It sucks it went away here.

Thanks for the choices guys. A couple i havent tried yet. Despise Elijah Craig. Everyones tastes are different I guess

Best Bang For the Buck--Old Forester 86 proof, Hands down.
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I haven’t acquired a taste for real heavy bourbons yet so I’m just thrilled with Buffalo Trace myself. I find it very enjoyable.

Whats a "real heavy bourbon"?

I live in Bourbon country. It was invented here. But I don't drink it.

The smoothest brown corn based liquor I've ever drank is Royal Canadian Mist blended whiskey.

It's smooth enough to cause you to make a damn fool of yourself if you don't watchit.

A case of Canadian Mist is a safe wedding gift for the reception.


The snobs will either go home or drink it and have fun.

All in all,...I think sticking good corn liquor in a charred oak barrel and forgetting about it for 8 years will ruin it.

The best corn liquor I've ever had was some old school, no sugar added, moonshine that probably hit about 120 proof. It was oily and you could really taste the corn in it.

It was made like they used to make it back before processed sugar was widely available.

Corn was used to make liquor back in the old days because it had a high sugar content. That's what started the whole "corn liquor" thing.

Very few people today have tasted moonshine that hasn't been sparked with processed sugar.

The old style stuff is very good. But it's expensive to make and it's labor intensive. I used to know an old boy who would make up a few gallons of "old style" whiskey for the holiday season every year. He passed around a little of it to friends.

It's very different than what most people think of as moonshine.

Back in the day,..the old time moonshiners derisively referred to the new type of moonshine as "sugar whisker" after processed sugar became available.

If you buy moonshine today,...it's going to be sugar whiskey.

After processed sugar became available?

Like 500 years ago?

It's been around a long time,...but it was a luxury item in 17th century America,...and many other places.

Making whiskey out of sugar was cost prohibitive for a long time.

Ever read the book Angela's Ashes?

Its from this century.

"Go easy on the sugar! We're not millionaires!"

Processed sugar was rationed as recently as WW2 in America.

My mom told me about how her uncle bought a 5lb bag on the black market and hid it in his closet. She was threatened with an ass whuppin' if she told anybody about it.

Spot on

Sugar is a crazy, crazy commodity.


I suppose the varieties of corn used have changed too.

Before breaking out of deepest, darkest Appalachia, I considered Wild Turkey to be high-end schitt. Nowadays if I can't decide on a bourbon, I almost always default to WT.







Nope, not off base at all. All the drunks I know buy crap to feed their addiction and turn their nose up at quality.








A friend of mine is Pennsylvania Dutch and speaks of pure corn whiskey, especially the "corn" taste that's masked in commercial whiskey and white liquor sold as "moonshine". I would like to know more about this old-school method since I plan on getting one of these:



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Guess I'm the only one that ever drank Weller&Weller.