Advantages: The Nice Warm Feeling Of A Good Whiskey Disadvantages: The Bottle Eventually Is Empty
As I took a breather from a rather hectic week, I went to the cabinet and got out a heavy leaded crystal rocks glass. I put exactly five cubes of ice in it and strolled over to the liquor cabinet. I look for the distinctively red wax dipped neck of Maker’s Mark. I treated myself to a rather generous pour of this Kentucky nectar and thought to myself, this is something that has not been properly introduced to my friends across the pond.
For those ... ...the first thing you will notice is that true to the American bastardization of the English Language, we spell Whiskey differently than do you. Like the Irish, we refer to it as Whiskey, not Whisky. The American Whiskeys can be split into a few classes; there is Bourbon, Tennessee Whiskey and Blended Whiskey. Tennessee Whiskey is a whiskey that contains at least 51% of one grain; this grain is usually corn mash, if not it designated otherwise, like ...
Scott_Howitt 28.03.2003
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Advantages: tastes good, smells great, stylish bottle Disadvantages: not cheap
Maker's Mark is America's only handmade bourbon- it's not mass produced. Each individual batch is less than 19 barrels, and the makers claim that this small quantity means they can be highly selective about everything they use and do to make their whiskey. Each bottle is hand-dipped in wax to provide an individualised seal. It's that sort of product. Although Maker's Mark was only founded as recently as 1953, by the father of the current head of ... ...old recipe, and set up Maker's Mark in Loretto, Kentucky. The distillery he bought and rebuilt there had been going since 1805, and is today the smallest and oldest currently operating distillery in the US.
Reading the info on their webpage (www.makersmark.com), it does really sound like a labour of love... specially selected local wheat is used, and only naturally malted barley...an old fashioned rollermill is used for preparing the grain for cooking, ...
seb36 25.11.2002
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