Alcohol, drinks, beer, rom, alcohol...

[Nitro Express]

We went to the Kentucky Derby one year and I got turned onto mint juleps. A pretty awsome summer cocktail.

[envy_me]

I looked it up. The term proof is British and was used to grade alcohol. The US regulations on alcohol still use the US proof system to grade alcohol. In Europe when the European Union came into being, they have their own alcohol grading system with is based on a percentage of volume.

I believe they still use proof in Canada. At least the Canadian whiskey we buy here has proof. Like Yukon Jack is 100 proof and says so on the bottle.

Those Brittish

[Nitro Express]

Now you know. If you see a bottle of liquor and it has proof on it, the percentage is half the proof number. So 80 Proof is 40% alcohol.

[envy_me]

Now you know. If you see a bottle of liquor and it has proof on it, the percentage is half the proof number. So 80 Proof is 40% alcohol.

Just assume that there is 200% fluid :-) and proof will match

[Nitro Express]

You can tell the proof with a hydrometer but old timer distillers can just put the alcohol from the still into a bottle and shake it. They can estimate the proof pretty damn accurately by how fast the bubbles in the alcohol disappear.

[vandeleur]

Those Brittish

British and alcohol ... Goes together like ed and Dave

[envy_me]

British and alcohol ... Goes together like ed and Dave

Hahaha did you see how Zlatan slaughtered you last night

[vandeleur]

Yeah four lucky goals , what's the chances .... The last one was very very lucky lol
Bet he still didn't smile ....

[envy_me]

Yeah four lucky goals , what's the chances .... The last one was very very lucky lol
Bet he still didn't smile ....

One goal is luck, four aren't

[vandeleur]

Yeah he is still a twat tho lol

[envy_me]

Lol, without us exYu nothing would ever get done

[DONNIEP]

Ah, a sneaky drink of the Brown will get you up and running every time

[ZahZoo]

For a whiskey to be called bourbon it has to meet these standards. Tennessee Whiskey like Jack Daniel's is aged in re used barrels where bourbon has to have a new barrel for each batch. Also tennessee whiskey is usually filtered through a vat of charcoal to mellow it. Bourbon like Wild Turkey gets it's flavor from going in and out of the wood of a new barrel. It's barrel aged for several years depending on the grade and the head distiller knows which barrels are the best.

Booker Noe was a direct decedent of Jim Beam. He was the head distiller. He would pick the best aged barrels in the barrel house at the Jim Bean distillery and just pour the uncut bourbon into bottles and sell them. That's what I got. Basically in the old days, you bought bourbon in the barrel. So in the old days, what you got was like Booker's. That's why they say the pre-prohibition bourbon was the best because after prohibition they started cutting it and bottling it. Most of the bourbon you buy is cut.

Good explanation... A lot of folks get hung up on the term "Sour Mash" because it's used in JD labeling and marketing more than bourbons. But the process is used almost extensively for both bourbons and whiskeys. It just involves using a portion of the spent mash (corn, barley & water) with active yeasts used to brew the previous batch and is mixed with the next batch to ensure the biological strain of yeast and other stuff remains consistent from batch to batch.

JD announced they are coming out with a "white dog" Rye whiskey next year... colorless, un-aged rye whiskey but utilizing their charcoal filtering process.

[Seshmeister]

Brown ale is lush , but it's tough to have a whole night drinking it cos it tricks you into thinking
" this is nice I can totally drink this all"
.........Then you wake up in bed with a pizza .

And realise you ate your girlfriend...

[Seshmeister]

The only vodka I have ever tried is Absolut. But I don't drink vodka anymore. Get sick just from the thiught of it, after a bad night. I perfer rum nowdays :-)

I have to try real rum sometime. I have only tried Bacardi with flavour.

You are doing it all wrong, Bacardi is not good rum!

Try to get Flor de Caña or Havana Club.