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From: Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Bourbon Barrels
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2025 05:28:21 +1000
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On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 13:27:49 -0500, Mandrake the Praetorian
<jfwaldby@gmail.com> wrote:

>Bruce wrote:

No, he didn't.

>> 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!

-- 
Bruce
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