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RICHARD L ANDERSON
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Posted: Wed Jul 11th, 2007 06:25 pm |
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Harry you woos . Go ahead and have a gill. If you do I'll pull the Gentalman Jack from the freezer and have one with you. I need an excuse to get off this thing and stop looking at guns...its to expensive . Makes a $40.00 fifth of Single Barrel a deal.
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Harry Collins
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Posted: Wed Jul 11th, 2007 06:53 pm |
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Don,
Woodford Reserve is made on the grounds of what was the Old Pepper Distillery on McCracken Pike in Woodford County (Versailles). It was owned by Freeman Hockensmith who was my brothers father in law. David and Susan lived on the distillery property while they were married. When production at Woodford Reserve started and while waiting for the new whiskey to mature the bottles were filled with select barrels of Old Forester. What is being bottled now is the real thing. Remember when I said I liked Old Forester? OH, there is a bottle of Woodford Reserve a few steps away as well.
Rich,
Still at it and must go out now to see some people, so the gill must wait. Please go ahead.
Harry
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Posted: Fri Jul 13th, 2007 12:00 am |
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| Try a little Pigs Nose, or Sheep Dip, both Scotch's by the same distilliary.
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Harry Collins
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Posted: Fri Jul 13th, 2007 01:42 am |
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Jeff,
Some of us have had them in both forms!
Harry
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Travis Sims
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Posted: Fri Jul 13th, 2007 02:57 am |
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I like Crown Royal...............
Maker's Mark is just outstanding and a beautiful place to visit! If you can find it, somewhere in the hills of Marion County or is it Nelson County? Can't remember, it's over there on the other side of Loretta.
But the best of all is Woodford Reserve! Outstanding sippin whiskey.......enuf said!
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RICHARD L ANDERSON
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Posted: Fri Jul 13th, 2007 12:13 pm |
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Harry in honor of your unrelenting pursuit of economic gain I raised a glass to your efforts. In the midafternoon hour (around 3:30) Gentalman Jack had left the building .
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Don Kaas
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Posted: Fri Jul 13th, 2007 02:35 pm |
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Harry- I believe you have what is known as "local knowledge"!
Another bourbon of my past was "J.T.S. Brown" whose association with the movie "The Hustler" my film school friends and I in college found quite profound...another was a related product, "J.W. Dant Charcoal Perfected Whiskey" which in the late 70s we found superior to JD...
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Bill Murphy
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Posted: Fri Jul 13th, 2007 02:45 pm |
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| Don, is that "J.T.S.Brown, no ice, no glass."?? I believe the Dant name is kaput, at least in our part of the country. I believe it was a label name rather than a distillery name, but I have been wrong before. By the way, the Redhead has cancelled the trip north. Sorry.
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Harry Collins
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Posted: Fri Jul 13th, 2007 03:08 pm |
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Don,
When a hamburger, ff & a coke were $0.25 and a half pint was $1.10 there weren't many bourbons that did not pass my lips.
Tabasco is aged in bourbon barrels from Brown Forman Distillery (Woodford Reserve, Old Forester, Early Times and yes, Jack Daniels among others) in Louisville. Why Distillery's in Louisville? Louisville had one of the top five best tasting waters in the USA.
Harry
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Derrick Stewart
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Posted: Fri Jul 13th, 2007 03:26 pm |
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Don,
My father-in-law was a dire hard J.W. Dant drinker. About two years ago the ABC board here took J.W. Dant off the order books and I bought the last case sold in NC. You can't even special order it. I have had my fair share of it over the years. It's a good 100 proof bourbon. The only place I have found J.W. Dant is in Gatlinburg, TN.
Derrick
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Bill Murphy
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Posted: Fri Jul 13th, 2007 04:12 pm |
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| Was J.W.Dant made famous by the classic liquor store robbery scene in American Graffiti? During my short career in retail liquor, I had a collection of cassette tapes we would que up when the situation arose in the store. When a young looking person would approach the counter, obviously to ask for a pint or half pint, which are kept behind the counter, someone would push the start button on the American Grafitti scene. "I'll have one of those pocket combs, and a Sky Bar, a couple of those Slim Jims, and, oh, a pint of the Dant." "Son, I'm going to have to see some ID for that Dant." "Oh, I left it in the car." "OK, I'll wait while you go to the car." "Oh, I left the car home."
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Don Kaas
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Posted: Fri Jul 13th, 2007 04:31 pm |
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| Well you know what they say about a pint of bourbon, "It's a good start!"
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Bill Murphy
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Posted: Fri Jul 13th, 2007 05:09 pm |
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| The Dant Bourbon that Derrick's father in law favored was Bottled in Bond. The Dant made for the rail was called Olde Bourbon. It was "Olde" alright, about two years, five minutes old.
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Harry Collins
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Posted: Fri Jul 13th, 2007 05:43 pm |
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| I haven't seen JW Dant here in a long time. Though I am not looking for it when I go to the "Store". It and JTS Brown were made by Heaven Hill Distilleries. Old Fitzgerald is about the best to come out of that place along with Henry McKenna and Elijah Craig single barrel. Attached Image (viewed 183 times):
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John Hickerson
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Posted: Fri Jul 13th, 2007 08:50 pm |
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Don,
My wife's aunt worked for the Virginia A.B.C. Board for over forty years. She, using inside infomation recommended J. T. S Brown to her bourbon drinkers sisters. AS result my mother inlaw stocked it. However the aunt preferred Gin on the rocks..
By the way, they all lived into their mid nineties with my mother in law two months short of a hundred.
Hick
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Don Kaas
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Posted: Fri Jul 13th, 2007 09:47 pm |
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| Hick- they say when you marry a woman, you marry a family. This obviously worked to your advantage! We can discuss gin on another thread.-Don
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Bill Murphy
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Posted: Sat Jul 14th, 2007 12:41 am |
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| Harry's picture is of a bottle of Dant 100 Proof. I would like to have a bottle of that right now. Well, maybe a glass. By the way, Hick, lots of women recommended J.T.S.Brown because Paul Newman drank it. We don't know how much, but he drank it. No ice, no glass.
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Posted: Sat Jul 14th, 2007 01:12 am |
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| I guess we could call it "Newman's Own" in a manner of speaking.
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David Hamilton
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Posted: Sat Jul 14th, 2007 02:09 am |
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| What ever happened to I W Harper? I do remember it as an up-scale whisky back in the dark ages of the 40's and 50's. Didn;t drink much in those days so the flavor is lost to me now, There were some dredful brands out there but I do remember uncles who always drank rye. High proof rye. Made Mint Julips with it. I do remember those, one was one too many! David
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Posted: Sat Jul 14th, 2007 01:44 pm |
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| Many of these bourbon names are out of a marketer's hat. As Harry Collins illustrates, some Kentucky brands are honors bestowed on actual people in the bourbon business. Casual drinkers don't know which is which. As long as we're willing to accept brand names out of a hat, how do you like the sound of "Destry Hoffard Reserve"?
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