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Re: Uncle Bud
I like Hendricks as well. Not as clean as Tanqueray, but it's very good. I've got a bottle of Tito's in the bar. I like the idea of small batch distilling although I doubt the end product is much different that what's produced by the ethanol refineries, which is where most vodka comes from. Anyway, it's not bad...
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Never could stand gin. My parents would serve gin highballs when my grandparents visited. (Am trying to avoid doing a joke about high balls.) Anyhow, vodka is my thing. Love Bloody Mary's and vodka in grapefruit juice, lemonade or cranberry juice. Screw Drivers are ok but not in the same league, IMO. (Also avoiding a joke that combines high balls with screw driver...)
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I'd like to hear AA's take on rye whiskies. if it's limited to Old Overholt, color me disillusioned...
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I'n not anti-rye, but it's not the first thing I go for, unless I'm getting a sazerac. Anyway, Rittenhouse makes a nice rye and so does Pappy Van Winkle.
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I can't stand to drink whiskey anymore. Not sure why I ever did to be honest.
I like the stinky pinky but only up to the first knuckle, I do not want a GD thumb up there--I've told her multiple times and I always catch her when she tries to pull a fast one---it's my butthole for Chrissakes I'm gonna know--so cut out the BS.
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I like Scotch much better than bourbon. Bourbon almost seems like candy compared to scotch, in a cloying way. Rye is somewhere in between. Thinner (which is a virtue in this case, IMO) than bourbon, you might even say cleaner, more bracing, but it doesn't have the earthy character of scotch...
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Here's an interesting essay by Walker Percy on drinking bourbon and why he prefers it to scotch. It's not really about the flavor to him, he just goes off on some metaphysical tangent. It has literary merit, which counts for alot, but not much else. A mention of drinking bourbon at a UNC/Dook football game is an extra bonus (Percy attended UNC)...
http://www.claremont.org/publications/c ... detail.asp
An excerpt:
"The pleasure of knocking back bourbon lies in the plane of the aesthetic but at an opposite pole from connoisseurship. My preference for the former is or is not deplorable depending on one's value system—that is to say, how one balances out the Epicurean virtues of evocation of time and memory and the recovery of self and the past from the fogged-in disoriented Western world. In Kierkegaardian terms, the use of Bourbon to such an end is a kind of aestheticized religious mode of existence, where as connoisseurship, the discriminating but single-minded simulation of sensory end organs, is the aesthetic of damnation.
Two exemplars of the two aesthetics come to mind: Imagine Clifton Webb, scarf at throat, sitting at Cap d'Antibes on a perfect day, the little wavelets of the Mediterranean sparkling in the sunlight, and he is savoring a 1959 Mouton Rothschild.
Then imagine William Faulkner, having finished Absalom, Absalom!, drained, written out, pissed-off, feeling himself over the edge and out of it, nowhere, but he goes somewhere, his favorite hunting place in the Delta wilderness of the Big Sunflower River and, still feeling bad with his hunting cronies and maybe even a little phony, which he was, what with him trying to pretend that he was one of them, a farmer, hunkered down in the cold and rain after the hunt, after honorable passing up the does and seeing no bucks, shivering and snot-nosed, takes out a flat pint of any Bourbon at all and flatfoots about a third of it. He shivers again but not from the cold. "
I really love that little detail "which he was"...
http://www.claremont.org/publications/c ... detail.asp
An excerpt:
"The pleasure of knocking back bourbon lies in the plane of the aesthetic but at an opposite pole from connoisseurship. My preference for the former is or is not deplorable depending on one's value system—that is to say, how one balances out the Epicurean virtues of evocation of time and memory and the recovery of self and the past from the fogged-in disoriented Western world. In Kierkegaardian terms, the use of Bourbon to such an end is a kind of aestheticized religious mode of existence, where as connoisseurship, the discriminating but single-minded simulation of sensory end organs, is the aesthetic of damnation.
Two exemplars of the two aesthetics come to mind: Imagine Clifton Webb, scarf at throat, sitting at Cap d'Antibes on a perfect day, the little wavelets of the Mediterranean sparkling in the sunlight, and he is savoring a 1959 Mouton Rothschild.
Then imagine William Faulkner, having finished Absalom, Absalom!, drained, written out, pissed-off, feeling himself over the edge and out of it, nowhere, but he goes somewhere, his favorite hunting place in the Delta wilderness of the Big Sunflower River and, still feeling bad with his hunting cronies and maybe even a little phony, which he was, what with him trying to pretend that he was one of them, a farmer, hunkered down in the cold and rain after the hunt, after honorable passing up the does and seeing no bucks, shivering and snot-nosed, takes out a flat pint of any Bourbon at all and flatfoots about a third of it. He shivers again but not from the cold. "
I really love that little detail "which he was"...
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Walker Percy and Shelby Foote were lifelong friends. Their families lived near each other in Mississippi. Percy is the reason Foote attended Carolina. Foote never graduated, but he was active in the Carolina Alumni Association.
hedge wrote:Here's an interesting essay by Walker Percy on drinking bourbon and why he prefers it to scotch. It's not really about the flavor to him, he just goes off on some metaphysical tangent. It has literary merit, which counts for alot, but not much else. A mention of drinking bourbon at a UNC/Dook football game is an extra bonus (Percy attended UNC)...
http://www.claremont.org/publications/c ... detail.asp
An excerpt:
"The pleasure of knocking back bourbon lies in the plane of the aesthetic but at an opposite pole from connoisseurship. My preference for the former is or is not deplorable depending on one's value system—that is to say, how one balances out the Epicurean virtues of evocation of time and memory and the recovery of self and the past from the fogged-in disoriented Western world. In Kierkegaardian terms, the use of Bourbon to such an end is a kind of aestheticized religious mode of existence, where as connoisseurship, the discriminating but single-minded simulation of sensory end organs, is the aesthetic of damnation.
Two exemplars of the two aesthetics come to mind: Imagine Clifton Webb, scarf at throat, sitting at Cap d'Antibes on a perfect day, the little wavelets of the Mediterranean sparkling in the sunlight, and he is savoring a 1959 Mouton Rothschild.
Then imagine William Faulkner, having finished Absalom, Absalom!, drained, written out, pissed-off, feeling himself over the edge and out of it, nowhere, but he goes somewhere, his favorite hunting place in the Delta wilderness of the Big Sunflower River and, still feeling bad with his hunting cronies and maybe even a little phony, which he was, what with him trying to pretend that he was one of them, a farmer, hunkered down in the cold and rain after the hunt, after honorable passing up the does and seeing no bucks, shivering and snot-nosed, takes out a flat pint of any Bourbon at all and flatfoots about a third of it. He shivers again but not from the cold. "
I really love that little detail "which he was"...
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Re: Uncle Bud
bourbon is pretty sweet. never understood why people mix it with coke or, around here, Mountain Dew or Sundrop. blended scotch is too smoky for my tastes. it's OK but not my first choice. rye was a bit harsh, as I recall. but something about it made me want to keep drinking it.
single malt is the best whisky but I wouldn't know one from another
single malt is the best whisky but I wouldn't know one from another
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As a whippersnapper right out of college, I used to mix Beam/JD/et al with Coke. Now that I'm older, I tend to prefer it dry and straight .
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Me too. Although, I'm a firm believer in eat/imbibe as you see fit. You like Dr. Pepper and single malt? None of my bidness. Just don't ask me to buy one/drink one.
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I used to drink vermouth on the rocks. Don't ask me why...some kind of phase, I guess. Lots of people gave me the business for that.
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Lots of chicks do that. Tell them to get them some bidness and a GED.
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What if they can't even spell GED?
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Then they should be ignored anyway.
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"I used to drink vermouth on the rocks. Don't ask me why...some kind of phase, I guess."
I did that too. I actually kinda like vermouth. I still give the martini shaker a goodly splash when I'm making a batch about half the time...
I did that too. I actually kinda like vermouth. I still give the martini shaker a goodly splash when I'm making a batch about half the time...
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Like I said, lotsa chicks do that.
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Yep. When did hedge turn into a pussy?
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I prefer Beefeater gin.
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