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Bourbon and brandy

Unread postby bourbonv » Tue Dec 20, 2005 12:55 pm

I have been reading a letter from J R Thomson of Paris and Allen, New York spirit merchants (31 Broad Street for our New York crew) dated 11 January 1870, to E H Taylor Jr. In this letter he discusses the possible extension of the bonding period to two years and how it will hurt the industry and encourage speculation and over production. He also thinks it will lead to a reduction of duties on imported spirits, especially brandy, and that would hurt sales of American whiskey. It is interesting that brandy, not scotch or irish whiskey is seen as the main competition to American bourbon and rye.

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Unread postby Strayed » Fri Dec 23, 2005 1:18 am

Nice catch!
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Unread postby bourbonv » Fri Dec 23, 2005 4:10 pm

Thank you, John.
I thought you would find that interesting.
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Unread postby bunghole » Fri Dec 23, 2005 4:16 pm

Strayed wrote:Nice catch!


ima agrees! 8)
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Unread postby bourbonv » Fri Dec 23, 2005 5:36 pm

Thanks Linn.

It does add to the theory that bourbon was designed to be "Corn Brandy".

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Unread postby gillmang » Fri Dec 23, 2005 6:38 pm

Even in Britain the main competition for whisky in this period was brandy, especially Cognac. Brandy was THE spirit and had cachet around the world including America. Hence the sobriquet, Brandy King, bestowed on the American distiller whose image inpired my avatar, even domestic brandy had a huge sale. Whisky in both places had to fight brandy for market share and eventually gained ascendancy - even in France.

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