Unfortunately, like the Bourbons after the French Revolution, they have learned nothing and forgotten nothing.
If you recognize the names, it is because there have been bourbons named after each one.
They're looking for the rare and hard-to-get, the limited releases, the birthday bourbons and single-barrel bourbons.
The real opposition to Henri came from another branch of the royal family, the Bourbons.
During the last decade premium bourbons have been introduced by most of the major distilleries.
Today American whiskey is really two quite distinct businesses: the low-end, so-called "value" bourbons and the more expensive stuff.
It probably helps that I like good rye so much as it has more of a rye influence than most bourbons.
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Recommendations of five bourbons were incorrectly paired with the wrong bottle photographs in an Off Duty article about bourbon on Saturday.
For one thing, it's not always entirely clear to buyers that very few bourbons are actually distilled by the people who sell them.
Thus was born the current profusion of small-batch bourbons, boutique whiskies made with at least 51% corn (see: " The Kings of Bourbon").
Indeed, the French who gave some support to the fledgling republic were not keen on wasting too much military energy in helping to oust the Bourbons.
Scott Fitzgerald once bellied up to this bar, where you can choose from more than 40 bourbons or sample the Seelbach cocktail, a heady mix of champagne, bourbon and bitters.
The fluid is made and bottled by Buffalo Trace, a Kentucky distillery that makes 12 different bourbons, a vodka, a couple of ryes and an eye-watering, 125-proof white dog (unaged whiskey).
Buffalo Trace's bourbons have gained a reputation as works of art--complex drinks that show the hand of the distiller and taste like the work of a dedicated craftsman, rather than just a bottle of mass-produced, committee-designed drek.
Faison doubled down on the American barbecue theme with a great all-American beverage program, a lengthy list of domestic wine, beer, cider and whiskey featuring boutique bourbons and ryes, and the sole exception being Mexican tequila, which is fair enough since some folks consider it an indispensable barbecue condiment.
Likewise, some of the best bourbons, including Black Maple Hill, don't really exist as a single liquor with a single recipe: They're mixed from different bourbons acquired from multiple sources, and aged and bottled by the Willett Distilling Co. (which has its own line of superb whiskeys, some of which are labeled Willett, some of which aren't).
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