Idiot swears off his favorite whiskey, is still an idiot. This tells me the whiskey probably isn’t at fault. If anything this should be good PR for JD.
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hear, hear. it’s fine, but not my go to by any means. they do make some really good barrel proof stuff though.
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I was thinking that too. “What do you think that’ll burn?” You need to double the percentage before you’ll get close to a sustainable flame.
In this video, at first the fumes ignite and look spectacular but when he takes the butane torch away, you can see the flames go all quiet. The camera briefly peeks back at the fire pit, then scoots away when it doesn’t look spectacular anymore. I suspect there’s a parallel here to when he realizes he’s had a lively tantrum but he’s only hurt himself.
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There’s an infamous image that does the rounds of a Steam group dedicated to boycotting some Call of Duty Game where about a third of the visible members are playing the game at the time of the screenshot.
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just got home from work where an ignoramus was bragging about how he took all of his Bud Lite out into his back yard and shot it because they recently advocated LGBTQ rights somehow. I guess destroying liquor is a thing now, kinda like prohibition, but this time for alcoholics with low IQ’s.
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As I understand it, it was founded by his descendants, who are also the ones that got JD to finally recognize Nathan officially. (Yep, just checked the link to be sure)
Yeah, not to go into too much nerdy spirits detail, but charcoal filtering is a very effective and simple way to remove unwanted elements from a spirit. Which fits for a process that was developed ca. 150 years ago. Most people think the process of distillation is the most critical determinant of spirits flavor, but fermentation is where most of the nasty stuff forms. Before cultured yeast, sanitation and temperature control it was like throwing darts in the dark. I’ve always assumed that JD made its mark simply by being able to control this aspect of flavor.
There is a whole crazy history of Russian vodka carbon filtration processes that, much like this whiskey, originated from very basic necessity and was then commoditized by the elite in a poor facsimile. I’ll post a link if I can find one, but basically, Russian commoners utilized a very cheap wood for filtration, but elites used a more expensive wood that was poorer at filtration (adsorption, actually), but was seen as prestigious, so was preferred.
ETA: Oh yeah, an interesting side note; JD employs what is referred to as the “Lincoln County process” (the aforementioned carbon filtration). It was recently recognized by the TTB as a unique process and finally given its own designation. So now “Tennessee Whiskey” is actually a legally binding statement.
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Honestly, it’s kinda funny how late companies like JD are to the party. Being pro-Pride for cynical marketing reasons was, what, circa 2015? Remember when all these brands set their Instagram profiles to purple squares or whatever the fuck it was?
When something is so mainstream that corporate brands embrace it as a marketing tool well, my sweet summer redneck children, that ship sailed long ago.
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Aw man, I’ve been forgoing my Jack and Coke out of some sense of not liking Comrade Mitch, now I find out JD is woke!? Opening a bottle now…
I used to wonder what kind of madness infected the crowd that called out for Jesus to be crucified, especially if Douglas Adams’ summary is accurate: “… one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change”.
This, and incidents like it, are what I will consider supporting evidence from now on.
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It would have been spectacularly funny if he couldn’t get it to light because his teenager had been secretly siphoning off the whisky and replacing it with colored water.
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What kind of Jack Daniel’s collector doesn’t have at least one Jack Daniel’s mini oaken barrell? What’s that term for someone like this? Is it pouser?
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My son has adopted Edinburgh as his home, and I was so pleased when he told me that his fiancée agreed to him going kilted for the wedding - along with his 2 best men and me 
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And yes, we will be doing it properly. In the words of the late, great Spike Milligan:
“Is there anything worn under the kilt?”
“No, it’s all in perfect working order”.
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Our best man wore a kilt. I paid a singer to sing The Drunk Scotsman to him.
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That’s genius. I shall share with his best men, I’m sure they can make good use of it 
Saw a clip of Billy Connolly’s new special the other day. When they were kids, wearing the kilt wasn’t often done, and him and his pals used to shout “Kiltie kiltie cauld bum” at anyone so clad. A Glasgow expression, the other one of course being “Hey Donald where’s your troosers?”
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I think folks need to realize that the veneer of the boycott isn’t about how silly it is but that all the folks who do this know they have economic power sufficient to be able to consume such goods and even throw most of it away without feeling the sting. Essentially, they’re able to leverage power than poor folks couldn’t afford to do it. I’m not saying it’s not silly but I’m saying it shows how the right has a privileged economic position.
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Yeah, this was a highly planned tantrum.
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Isn’t producing alcohol in a dry county kinda “woke” behaviour in the first place? I mean if one’s definition of woke behaviour is pushing against old conservative outdated ideas.
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