Whiskey is complicated
Lots of ingredients and you can get a (useless) PhD in it.
I hope this means that the next time I’m in Texas and ask for a bourbon, they don’t say Jack or Crown? For a group of people so uptight about chili, you’d think they’d have this down.
September 12th, 2013 at 9:36 pm
Most non STEM degrees are just as worthless.
September 12th, 2013 at 9:36 pm
Sorry: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.
September 13th, 2013 at 8:51 am
Maybe they’ll give you Wild Turkey. Hey, it says bourbon right on the label!
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September 13th, 2013 at 10:15 am
Jack Daniels qualifies as bourbon. They choose to market it as “Tennessee Whiskey”, but it’s still “bourbon”.
I’ll stick with single malt Scotch and Irish whisky. . .
September 13th, 2013 at 1:38 pm
I feel I’ve already earned a PhD in whiskey…(Hick!)
September 13th, 2013 at 1:41 pm
Jack might be bourbon, but it’s horrible bourbon.
(Gentleman Jack, on the other hand, is actually good.)
Only a heathen lunatic would consider Crown Royal “bourbon” – it’s Canadian rye whiskey.
I love a rye whiskey, but they aren’t bourbon any more than scotch is.
September 13th, 2013 at 1:43 pm
(But then, I’m a godless heathen lunatic who likes beans in his chili.
But with actual meat (beef, pork, lamb).
White chili, we can all agree, is an abomination before God*.
* If you try and call it chili, that is.)
September 13th, 2013 at 1:50 pm
Sigivald, rye is the proof that God loves us. Even my mom agrees, and she doesn’t drink it. She does use it in cooking, and it just brings some amazing flavors to certain dishes.
September 13th, 2013 at 2:27 pm
Under the category of “It’s all good” I will only add that the definitive pronunciation guide below has added greatly to my appreciation of the brown stuff I drink.
http://www.esquire.com/features/drinking/scotch-pronunciation-guide-5836909
Where do I get a job like that?
September 13th, 2013 at 2:47 pm
Someplace where they drink the godawful drippings from a peat bog?
September 13th, 2013 at 3:54 pm
Bourbon is for drinking, JD is for cleaning toilets.
September 13th, 2013 at 3:59 pm
What? No love for Buffalo Trace or Blanton’s? Heathens all!
September 13th, 2013 at 6:31 pm
I’m not sure how a PhD in Chemistry is worthless?
September 13th, 2013 at 7:55 pm
When it come to drinking stuff in Texas a lot of folk are not too fussy and while I know the difference, if it gets you a decent drink when you order whiskey and get something brown with alcohol that’s enough to drink the girls pretty. We also ask someone for a Coke and they ask if you want a Pepsi or a Dr. Pepper cause they are cold and that’s enough too. I am not sure if I could ever pass a blind test on much of anything, especially when it has 7-Up or Coke poured over it.
Of course I like a decent scotch with ice or soda and 3 ice cubes but that’s just me.
September 14th, 2013 at 2:53 pm
I like to keep it simple. I let the Scotch Drinkers drink all their Stuff, and I drink my Bourbon. Long as they keep their hands off my stuff, we’re good.
September 15th, 2013 at 2:12 pm
There’s a lot of money in whisky. Food science degrees are not worthless…alcohol science degrees are even better due to the scarcity, specialization, and high profit margins.
September 15th, 2013 at 6:38 pm
Makers
September 15th, 2013 at 11:48 pm
I always laughed, when our family drove through Bourbon, Missouri. The water-towers were just great.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3455/3715218346_6c121c08d0_z.jpg?zz=1
September 16th, 2013 at 11:08 am
Sigivald —
100% correct my friend. Just as a HiPoint or Jennings is technically a pistol, Jack Daniels is technically a bourbon. LOL