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I’m loving the idea of the transphobic Mitch McConnell voters of Kentucky realizing that their state’s only products are bourbon and sadness and we stopped buying bourbon.
Don’t forget bluegrass.
You mean woke DEI music?
Affirmative Action blues-for-white-people.
I don’t see Canada letting up on that terribly soon, at least here in Ontario. The liquor stores don’t have huge empty shelves or anything (bourbon isn’t overly popular, at least where I live). And Americans underestimate how petty Canadians can be.
I’d be all for putting bourbon back on the shelves once the States has a less insane leader in place, especially one that publicly denounces the “51st state” bullshit.
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Well he found an entire political party of them, so there’s that.
I’d be all for never putting it back on the shelves again. America was always a mixed bag at best, but now it’s something else entirely. Something dark.
I’d be all for putting bourbon back on the shelves once the States has a less insane leader in place, especially one that publicly denounces the “51st state” bullshit.
I wouldn’t.
The USA has shown what’s in its rotted heart. People keep thinking of Trump and his coterie as the cause of the USA’s problems. They aren’t. They’re the symptom of the problems. The problems are set deep and are a profound cultural rot. The USA switched from being a Canadian “friend and ally” to an existential threat in the time of a single election. It switched from being a flawed democracy to a nascent fascist dictatorship in less than a year.
Of fucking course the next American president (assuming there is one; Trump is, after all, speed-running 1930s Germany here) will be all buddy-buddy “heh heh yeah sorry 'bout that, won’t happen again” with the nations the USA has pissed off.
But that same leader is one election away from returning to a Trump-equivalent because the cultural rot is still there.
It will take generations to fix the USA, and in that time nobody smart should buy anything American.
BC “Bourbon-style whiskey” is selling well and people are realizing it was better than that kentucky turpentine.
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Burning their house to the ground to virtue signal against the rapist in the other town, while ignoring the rapist in the next room.
I like whiskey, but tuffy fuckin’ toenails, I guess. That trainwreck of choices has long since left the station.
All bourbons are whiskeys, but all whiskeys aren’t bourbon. Bourbon is an American product with specific requirements:
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Grain Bill: Must use a fermented mash containing at least 51% corn.
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Barrels: Must be aged in new, charred oak barrels.
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Distillation Proof: Must be distilled to no higher than 160 proof.
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Entry Proof: Must be entered into the barrel at no more than 125 proof.
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Bottling Proof: Must be bottled at a minimum of 80 proof.
From a taste perspective, bourbon is sweeter that whiskey because of the mash being at least 51% corn.
There are plenty of whisky products out there. If you would like to really give Americans the finger when you purchase booze, I suggest purchasing scotch whiskey; especially if there aren’t viable local/Canadian products. Scotch whiskey is made in Scotland, and is only made in Scotland. It’s made using malted barley, (but can sometimes be mixed with another grain,) and will have a different taste profile than bourbon. Now your discretionary booze money can prop up the GDP of a country that isn’t America.
I like whiskey too. I hope you can find one you enjoy.
Unfortunately scotch tastes like cough medicine to me. Rye is … bland. Not bad. But really more a mixing whiskey than a sipping whiskey. I haven’t had the opportunity to try Irish yet, so there’s some hope, but without bourbon I’m probably off whiskey for good (unless Irish turns out to be awesome).
I don’t like general statements like these.
You can’t possibly have tried every scotch and rye out there, and there’s a huge variety in scotch.
I have had enough of each to know they’re not my vibe. Fuck off with the “you have to try each and every obscure little tipple or you can’t make up your mind” bullshit.
I swear scotch drinkers are the vegans of tipple: obnoxious prats when faced with people who choose differently.
You’re free to not like something, but every one that told me they didn’t like it changed their tune eventually once we found something that was more suited to their taste. It’s not about trying every one of them, but between the peaty ones, the fruity ones, the flowery ones, the caramelly ones and all the ones in between, to blanketly state you don’t like any just because they come from a specific country sounds very narrow minded. You jumping to insults doesn’t help.
I have had a thousand fucking scotch drinkers explain in just as arrogantly snooty terms that I’ve merely not tried the right kind. They then plied me with the right kind.
After a few dozen tries of scotch, each of which did, to be fair, taste different, they still all tasted like varying formulations of cough syrup to me.
I. DO. NOT. LIKE. SCOTCH.
Get that through your skull, booze-vegan. Sometimes PEOPLE JUST DON’T LIKE WHAT YOU LIKE. It’s not that they’re ignorant, or inexperienced or anything like that. It’s that:
THEY. DO. NOT. LIKE. WHAT. YOU. LIKE.
It really is that fucking simple.
Motherfucker do people like you piss me off.
I think Canada won the right to call its booze scotch whisky too.
Either way, there’s a lot of decent whiskies in Canada, and even some bourbon-like. We’re still shopping around, but we’ll find a replacement for our faves.
Why? We aren’t Scottish.
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For me this was the hardest to give up. I love bourbon; I consider bourbon to be the only major American contribution to world cuisine.
I will never drink it again, however.
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Running the country like a business.
