Single barrel is a bit of a misnomer because it is a two-stage aging process.

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The unfortunate fact is, even if we stop importing oil from anywhere but Canada and Mexico even if we produce every single barrel we consume the price of oil in the U.S. will be set on world markets.

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Most concoctions of this era primarily used easily found ingredients that would camouflage dirty moonshines and rusty iron pot still Gins of the day, currently these cocktails have made a sexy resurgence with high end, small batch, single barrel, velvety spirits from top name distillers from all over the world.

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They're looking for the rare and hard-to-get, the limited releases, the birthday bourbons and single-barrel bourbons.

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All this from a single 108, 000-barrel-a-day teakettle in Coffeyville, Kans. (pop. 11, 000) and a fertilizer plant nearby.

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It explicitly protects pork-barrel projects and every single tax loophole that benefits the wealthy, but puts on the table cuts to things like Medicare and education, forcing middle-class families to bear the burden while asking nothing from the wealthiest Americans.

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