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From: Mandrake the Praetorian <jfwaldby@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Bourbon Barrels
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2025 13:27:49 -0500
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Bruce wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Apr 2025 17:02:51 +0000, dsi100@yahoo.com (dsi1) wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 7 Apr 2025 16:01:09 +0000, flood of sins wrote:
>>
>>> On 2025-04-07, Ed P <esp@snet.n> wrote:
>>>> 60 Minutes tonight had a segment on bourbon barrels, how they are made
>>>> and used.  Last year, Kentucky distillers bought 3.2 million charred oak
>>>> barrels.
>>>
>>>> For a whisky to be called bourbon, it must be aged in a charred oak
>>>> barrel.  It gives the spirits color and flavor and is aged from months
>>>> to many years.  The bourbon is emptied, but the barrel lives on.
>>>
>>>> The used barrels are shipped around the world to Europe, India, China
>>>> where they are used to age other spirits.  They showed a warehouse that
>>>> just takes them in and re-ships by the thousands.
>>>
>>>> The episode had some influence on me.  As I'm typing this, I'm sipping a
>>>> wee bit of 7 year old Whistle Pig bourbon.
>>>
>>> i don't like Bourbon at all. when i started drinking whisky i
>>> tried many different brands and don't like any of them. i love
>>> Scotch and i do like several Scotches that spent some time aging
>>> in used Bourbon barrels though.
>>>
>>> Whistle Pig makes a great rye whisky. my fav is Crown Royal. go
>>> Canada!
>>
>> My younger brother drinks Scotch. He also likes to smoke fine cigars.

Honey, I'm not having a good time.  What is it called when a young punk 
suffers alcohol poisoning at age 16 and afterwards can't drink anything 
stronger than 32 proof straight?

I don't believe in fine cigars.  They are all equally bad.

But you, you are a great person!
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