I ain't got much else to do since I have had to forego the sauce for a bit because it wants to fight with some medicine the vet told me to take.
I am making Barleycorn (my bourbon loving dog to you newbies), sweat it out with me. He called the SPCA this morning and registered a complaint agin me. I may have to spend the night at the kennel and eat dry food.
Be that as it may, we BE learners and listeners have been treated through several threads to lively debates by knowledgeable people on the history and fortunes of bourbon making in the USA.
The recent discussion about the decline in the quality of bourbon is interesting to me since I really only have experience with bourbons available in the last few years (I suspect my A H Hirsh and my 12 YO Wild Turkey from the mid-nineties are the oldest bourbons I have have the pleasure of tasting).
I can only read and enjoy the comments and speculate about the accuracy of the claims. My own opinion is that there are some very fine bourbons available now, but gee, wish I could verify that they measure up to 'the good ole days'.
Can some of you historians tell me what my favorite American of all time, Mark Twain, would have had available to drink? Aside from the fact that he seems to have been a prodigious drinker, do we know what his favorite whiskey was? Do we know if he left any 'tasting' notes or other comments about why he liked whiskey so much?
I wonder if the kennel holding cell has interent access? Ah, surely they won't take the word of a dog agin mine.............hmmmm, less they start looking too close in to my background. Damn dog's gone and done it again!!