Just for fun. Brand loyalty. Favorite brands?

No, but you made a good point of how we all take ourselves way too serious here
on the satellite.

Cheers

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My hometown’s offering: Old Smokey charcoal grills. Since 1923, made at 1620 Maury Street, Houston, about 5 miles north of campus.

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No, it’s bourbon.

By law and treaty, any whiskey that is both a) made in the USA, AND b) 51% or more corn is bourbon.

Jack Daniel’s fits that criteria.

Don’t let their marketing department tell you any differently.

All that “sour mash” means is that each batch uses a bit of fermented mash from the previous batch in its production process, sort of like sourdough starter with bread. Any bourbon might be made that way, and Jack Daniel’s isn’t the only one that is, although Jack Daniel’s seems to market that aspect more forcefully than other sour mash bourbon producers.

Jack Daniel’s also calls itself a “Tennessee Whiskey.”

According to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), any straight BOURBON (emphasis added) produced in Tennessee may call itself that.

They also like to differentiate themselves by a charcoal filtration process they use in production, but again, they are not the only such whiskey producer that uses it.

So by law if Jack Daniels wanted to call itself a bourbon they could. Which is how I always interrupted that particular law. It says what whiskeys can call themselves bourbon if they meet that criteria. Jack chose to add a couple steps then differentiate themselves by calling it Tennessee whiskey.

Not quite.

They are a BOURBON by definition.

They simply like to call themselves something else, you know, just to be different.

I don’t know too many liquor brands as recognizable as Jack Daniels.

I worked next door to a liquor store for a while and observed the resupply every 2-3 days was more Jim Beam than anything. This was in Baytown, fwiw.

It’s the world’s #1 selling whiskey for a reason.

But don’t let them tell you that they aren’t a bourbon.

That’s a lie.

That said, I generally don’t buy Jack Daniels. I’d rather buy Maker’s Mark (its longtime President and CEO, Bill Samuels Jr., is a fraternity brother of mine - Delta Alpha Chapter of Sigma Nu Fraternity), Woodford Reserve, or one of several good Texas bourbons.

Pour it in a Smirnoffs bottle and then drink it. It will the best bottle of Smirnoffs you ever had.

Oh, nice! My father-in-law, (also a Bill Jr) gave me a bottle of Maker’s 46 Cask for Christmas.

Don’t mind the Dickel in the background. That wasn’t a good choice.

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Excellent choice!

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Copenhagen-regular cut.

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Ever tried it after putting a shot of bourbon in it and then packing it in the fridge?

I don’t dip, but I’ve heard snuff aficionados say that it’s sort of a thing!

Back when I dipped, a habit I picked up from some of my UH fraternity brothers, I liked Kodiak. It was much easier to handle than Copenhagen for me.

Leadslingers Bourbon

Truth.

You are wrong my friend; take it from the maker themselves.

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Jack Daniel’s is not a bourbon - it’s a Tennessee Whiskey. Jack Daniel’s is dripped slowly - drop-by-drop - through ten feet of firmly packed charcoal (made from hard sugar maple) before going into new charred oak barrels for maturing. This special process gives Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey its rare smoothness.

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Jack Daniel’s is not a bourbon - it’s a Tennessee Whiskey. Jack Daniel’s is dripped slowly - drop-by-drop - through ten feet of firmly packed charcoal (made from hard sugar maple) before going into new charred oak barrels for maturing. This special process gives Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey its rare smoothness.

https://www.thewhiskypedia.com/whisky-stories/jack-daniel-bourbon-whiskey

As I said, laws and treaties say otherwise, regardless of how Jack Daniel’s might like to characterize itself.

The charcoal filtration process isn’t unique to JD and is used in other bourbons.

The fact that it is a sour mash doesn’t mean anything either. There are several sour mash bourbons. In fact, most straight bourbons are sour mash bourbons.

And by treaty, any straight BOURBON made in Tennessee (including Jack Daniel’s) is a Tennessee whiskey.

As I said, legally, any whiskey that is both a) made in the USA, AND b) 51% or more corn
is a BOURBON. Jack Daniels is that
no matter how much they may want to deny it. Its mash bill uses a combination of corn, barley, and rye, same as most bourbons.

Maker’s Mark is unusual in that it uses winter wheat instead of rye.

Whatever. BTW, I and own one square foot of the Jack Daniels facility and have been given the title of Tennessee Squire by Jack Daniels.

Speaking of Jack Daniels, just had a nice pour of this last night. Don’t care for the Old no. 7 personally, but this was damn good

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