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Assessing Bourbons
Using common judging methods will help you pick up aromas and flavor nuances in your bourbon.
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How Women Bootleggers Dominated Prohibition
Did you know during Prohibition women were stellar bootleggers?
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How to Make a Limoncello-Bourbon Cocktail
Limoncello has become popular in champagne cocktails, as an after-dinner chilled digestif and in desserts, like lemon tarts. Some restaurants have even resorted to making it themselves.
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The Bourbon Cycle: From New Fan to Geekdom
From the outside, you’re a bourbon lover, through and through. But something is changing. You’re getting bored.
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Finding Bourbon: Mix or Don’t Mix?
I guess the moral to the story is, enjoy bourbon your way and never apologize – and always lock up your good stuff.
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Christmas Punch
“My father was Christmas, more than eggnog and mistletoe. A coming together of true Kentucky hospitality and bourbon tied the knot on the relationship.”
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Finding Bourbon: Don’t Skip on the Experiences
Soak up the history and the personalities, because when you have a great experience, it helps that delicious amber beverage taste even better.
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A Love Affair with Jim Beam
Then, my professional palate kicks in, picking up the grain, the oak, and the whiskey’s youth, but this time the true reality sets in: I’m living the dream, and Beam is still smooth. Hey, maybe my palate wasn’t so bad at 21, after all.
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Is there Pre-Fire MGP?
One company would release MGP bottles under their brand, a brief buying frenzy ensued, and suddenly they were gone. Then another would pop up. Prices crept higher and higher.
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Finding Bourbon: Favorite Bourbon
But what I am learning about bourbon as I continue my foray into the flavors and culture is that I could have any number of go-to pours, depending on my budget at any given time. And what pleases my palate might not please another’s, which is all part of the fun.
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