Rant/Rave: Bourbon

[MrSaigon]

Mila Kunis.

[lukethedrifter]

Hell ya

[Secret Weapon]

Right on cue from deadspin today

Beer and Liquor Truthers

Their Truth: Were you aware that fancy Bulleit Rye you're drinking is part of a larger corporate collective? It's not even MADE in Bulleit. And that microbrew you keep in the fridge is owned by InBev. That's right. The only thing I can taste here is your subservience to branding. Why just burn the word SUCKER into your tongue?

Righteousness Rating: Eight turds in the punchbowl.

Essential Reading: Beeradvocate.com.

Other Hobbies: Microbrewing; experimenting with serving turnips as an entree.

Armed? No. Now's your chance to shoot them.

Typical Comment Section Argument: "For a real independent bourbon, try Pappy Ron Mullenrunner's Virgin Corn Spirits. Only three bottles were made and I have two of them. Not for sale."

Chances They Are Right: Oh, 100 percent. Seriously though, [expletive] these people. Let me enjoy my mass-produced phony-baloney niche alcohol in peace. I was happy with my drink before you came along and ruined it.

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/a-fiel ... 1640831550

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

That's funny.

Also. ..just had an old Forrester w a cube of ice. It was good but made me thirsty so its time for a beer.

[jim]

Right on cue from deadspin today

Beer and Liquor Truthers

Their Truth: Were you aware that fancy Bulleit Rye you're drinking is part of a larger corporate collective? It's not even MADE in Bulleit. And that microbrew you keep in the fridge is owned by InBev. That's right. The only thing I can taste here is your subservience to branding. Why just burn the word SUCKER into your tongue?

Righteousness Rating: Eight turds in the punchbowl.

Essential Reading: Beeradvocate.com.

Other Hobbies: Microbrewing; experimenting with serving turnips as an entree.

Armed? No. Now's your chance to shoot them.

Typical Comment Section Argument: "For a real independent bourbon, try Pappy Ron Mullenrunner's Virgin Corn Spirits. Only three bottles were made and I have two of them. Not for sale."

Chances They Are Right: Oh, 100 percent. Seriously though, [expletive] these people. Let me enjoy my mass-produced phony-baloney niche alcohol in peace. I was happy with my drink before you came along and ruined it.

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/a-fiel ... 1640831550

A [expletive] n' men.

[JackofDiamonds]

Drinking now:

1oz dry gin
1oz fernet branca
1oz carpano antica
1dsh angostura

Took about 30 seconds to make, so great, really wish it wasn't called a Hanky Panky.

[Radbird]

So call it something different. Be creative.

Cranberry juice/vodka is a Cape Codder up in your neck of the woods but it's a Red Rooster in Texas.

[JackofDiamonds]

A rose by any other name is still a Hanky Panky.

[33anda3rd]

Right on cue from deadspin today

Beer and Liquor Truthers

Their Truth: Were you aware that fancy Bulleit Rye you're drinking is part of a larger corporate collective? It's not even MADE in Bulleit. And that microbrew you keep in the fridge is owned by InBev. That's right. The only thing I can taste here is your subservience to branding. Why just burn the word SUCKER into your tongue?

Righteousness Rating: Eight turds in the punchbowl.

Essential Reading: Beeradvocate.com.

Other Hobbies: Microbrewing; experimenting with serving turnips as an entree.

Armed? No. Now's your chance to shoot them.

Typical Comment Section Argument: "For a real independent bourbon, try Pappy Ron Mullenrunner's Virgin Corn Spirits. Only three bottles were made and I have two of them. Not for sale."

Chances They Are Right: Oh, 100 percent. Seriously though, [expletive] these people. Let me enjoy my mass-produced phony-baloney niche alcohol in peace. I was happy with my drink before you came along and ruined it.

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/a-fiel ... 1640831550

The voice of the people.

In other news, Templeton has a lawsuit going against them. Why? Because they brand themselves pre-Prohibition rye from the original recipe of whatever. But they're LDI, a corporate distillate, that Templeton puts in barrels and ages and then markets and slaps a fancy label on the bottle claiming something it's not.

Though largely a formality, it is an acknowledgment that Templeton Rye could be found liable for violating Iowa law if allegations of consumer fraud and misleading advertising are found to be true, Brauch said.

Taken at face value, the claims against the rye whiskey producer appear "not even remotely close to frivolous," he said. "In looking at the claims, they appeared to me to be ones that had validity, and in fact, strong validity."

Because it's BULL [expletive]. It's not pre-Prohibition anything, it's just fancy marketing. Like Bulleit.

You can amen all you want, people hating on me in this thread, you're wrong. Dead wrong. This is like if Bud made one of their awful corn and rice infused, low-malt, virtually no-hop beers and sold it to someone who put a fancy label on it and called it "craft beer." It's still big corporate beer.These products are marketing devices that if you're defending them you need to wake up. You can like the taste, and like the product, fine, whatever, I don't care. Spend your money however you want to spend your money and if you like Bulleit god bless. But you can't act all holier-than-thou over the principle behind the thing, or get all up in arms when people point this stuff out, which at its core is marketing that's full of deceit perpetrated on you as a consumer.

G'night.

[The Third Man]

And I'm the dumb one for smoking instead of all this nonsense.

Why not both? Nothing goes with booze like a cigarette.

Unless you meant the other thing, in which case, why not all three? Nothing goes with...well, you get the idea.