Bourbon

[Nephew Twiddleton]

We distill some really vile stuff over here. You know youre going to feel nice and rotten when you find something made in a nearby suburb and comes in plastic as a handle. We like to make sure our packaging lets you know full well what youre about to get yourself into.

Twid
learned a long time ago that they make vodka in somerville, ma

[El Sjaako]

We distill some really vile stuff over here. You know youre going to feel nice and rotten when you find something made in a nearby suburb and comes in plastic as a handle. We like to make sure our packaging lets you know full well what youre about to get yourself into.

Twid
learned a long time ago that they make vodka in somerville, ma

A handle is a unit of volume, right? how much is that?

Also, I have decided that tonight I am drinking Vodka.

[Triple Zero]

a handle is about three knobs, depending on how you calibrate the handlebarometer.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

We distill some really vile stuff over here. You know youre going to feel nice and rotten when you find something made in a nearby suburb and comes in plastic as a handle. We like to make sure our packaging lets you know full well what youre about to get yourself into.

Twid
learned a long time ago that they make vodka in somerville, ma

A handle is a unit of volume, right? how much is that?

Also, I have decided that tonight I am drinking Vodka.

A handle is enough to get 4-5 people socially lubricated, or one person in the hospital.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Oh sorry. Its a slang term really. Its a half gallon or thereabouts. Its been a while since ive worked at a liquor store so i forget exact volumes.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Google says a handle is 1.75 liters

[Triple Zero]

good vodka btw? stoli? gras/zubrovka? I like vodka yumyumyum

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

good vodka btw? stoli? gras/zubrovka? I like vodka yumyumyum

vikingfjord

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Definitely not the stuff from somerville. But if you ever come back to boston ill talk you into trying it.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Also i think weve just put aside any lingering doubts our foreign friends had that americans are in fact barbarians.

[kingyak]

Starting a new thread for this, in order to not derail things to much.

Besides, that's 4 days killed, days that we could be showing you the glory of Tucson.  And bourbon.  Not the kind of bourbon You People would drink, over there where you can get beer that tastes like beer and booze that doesn't chew the enamel off of your teeth.  No.  Our bourbon.  Stuff that would make Humphrey Bogart cry, and make George Thorogood give up on the sauce.  And we shall drink in the company of branding freaks and tape worm perverts, and we shall call it Right & Good.

What is good bourbon? I have quite a lot of experience with scotch, and I've had a couple of bourbons: Jack Daniels and some slightly more classy stuff called woodland reserve. The Jack was good for fast drinking, and the Woodland Reserve was also very nice.

Or maybe I got the question wrong. How much bourbon is good bourbon? Where is good bourbon? What kind of companions make good bourbon?

I have to be the asshole from Kentucky here and point out that Jack Daniels is Whiskey, not Bourbon.

I'm guessing you mean Woodford Reserve, which is usually my default choice (or Maker's if Woodford isn't available), since there's a nice balance between price and quality. There's better bourbon, but it's not usually enough better to justify the price IMO. I'm with Howl on Evan Williams for the "will probably strip the paint off of my car but doesn't *quite* taste like it category," and Wild Turkey is somewhere between the extremes. Whatever you do, stay away from pretty much everything from Jim Beam distillery except Knob Creek unless you're using it to remove bathroom grout.

[EK WAFFLR]

good vodka btw? stoli? gras/zubrovka? I like vodka yumyumyum

vikingfjord

Nansen is better.

[Doktor Howl]

Also i think weve just put aside any lingering doubts our foreign friends had that americans are in fact barbarians.

No.

They have to SEE.

[kingyak]

Cliff Clavin Time: There are actually no longer in distilleries in Bourbon County, Kentucky, and it's a dry county*.

*or at least it was for a long time. I think they went "moist" a few years ago

[El Sjaako]

good vodka btw? stoli? gras/zubrovka? I like vodka yumyumyum

Not sure if you were asking me, but I'm drinking absolut. I don't really like the taste, but it has the advantage of being in my freezer, and having been free.