According to Bloomberg (please don't tell my employer that I read something from Bloomberg), the practice isn't entirely new. In the sober days of Prohibition, boozemakers running low on spirits would mix their stuff to extend their stock. Now, though, distillers are doing it on purpose.And if I know my audience, I believe I've found the hybrid whiskey that'll soon be gracing bars across the Gheorgheverse.
Japanese spirits house Chichibu is marketing Ichiro's Malt & Grain, a blend of whiskeys from "the big five" whiskey-producing countries: the U.S., Canada, Scotland, Ireland, and Japan. Bloomberg says the $65 bottle (hard to find in the U.S. under $100, apparently) is "silky and elegant, with warming, almond-like tones and a honey-pepper finish".
Bloomberg also touts a three-decade blend from The Hilhaven Lodge (rye from the 1980s, Tennessee whiskey from the 1990s, and bourbon from the 2000s), Wild Turkey's 'Forgiven', which is 78% six year-old bourbon and 22% four year-old rye, and High West's Campfire, which includes rye, bourbon, and a bit of Scotch.
Those all sound tasty, but I think we all know what we'll be looking for at our local packie. First one to find Ichiro needs to report back to the class.
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It's a style!
i'm trying to curtail my beer drinking and this looks like the way to do it. alex just ran up the stairs, the stomping never sounded better. he's one lucky dude.
i'm in san diego for the international chiefs of police conference. at the same time, in my hotel, there's a cosmetology convention, so there are a ton of cops, models, hairdressers, and freaky-deaky types sharing the same space. the bar scene this evening is gonna go to eleven.
hello, gheorghies. every bar i've been in here has sculpin on tap. is this heaven?
While Rob is experiencing Fear and Loathing in San Diego, I'm up at 410 AM for a 610 flight. Boston/Dallas/Houston this week. 4 nights, 3 hotels and one carry-on bag.
More breweries per square mile in the greater San Diego area than any other metro area in the country. So, yeah, pretty close to heaven.
sculpin is corporate swill.
https://toe.prx.org/2016/06/sudculture-part-i-of-ii/
The TR I used to know would have slept 10 more minutes.
I feel for ya TR. LA, Orlando, Philly this week. Mediocre times. At least I was in seat 49A form my LA flight.
I'm beginning to think the Jets may not win the AFC East.
Amusing thing, to me, my 2nd grader said: "Dad, did you hear? Donald Trump is going to ban pizza and holidays if he becomes president. So, we have to move to Mexico if he wins"
WTF thing my 2nd grader said ten minutes later:
Son: "Dad, my hair is blonde, right?"
Me: "No, it's light brown"
Son: "Well, I'm saying it's blonde"
Me: "Why"
Son: "Donald Trump is going to throw everyone out of the country that doesn't have blonde hair if he wins. It's kind of like when they drove out all those people with dark skin in the past"
It's getting bad when there are political trolls and plants in the 2nd grade. I can't imagine how this shit comes up on the playground.
Yooodge day at G:TB, lil Squeak notwithstanding.
Schilling plans to run against Elizabeth Warren in 2018. That would be a fun debate.
Rock N Roll hall of fame candidates for 2017: Pearl Jam, Tupac Shakur, Depeche Mode, Electric Light Orchestra, Jane's Addiction, Janet Jackson, Journey, the Cars, the Zombies, Yes, Bad Brains, Chaka Khan, Chic, J. Geils Band, Joan Baez, Joe Tex, Kraftwerk, MC5 and Steppenwolf.
How is the motor city 5 not in already?
On my way from LA to Orlando on a red eye to give an 8 am talk. It is a small world. #bummingdome
But as my dad always says, "sure would hate to paint it"
warren will flay the skin from schilling's body and wear it as a cape
Dan's dad borrows from Steven Wright.
TR... Geno to the rescue.
Clarence says this is order of magnitude among those nominees. NOT Clarence's personal favorites, but influencers and prolific deliverers of good music:
Depeche Mode
Pearl Jam
The Cars
Yes
Electric Light Orchestra
Journey
Tupac Shakur
Janet Jackson
Jane's Addiction
the Zombies
Joan Baez
Kraftwerk
MC5
J. Geils Band
Chic
Bad Brains
Chaka Khan
Steppenwolf
Joe Tex (good a funny line about him in The Commitments)
maybe make that a post, clarence. lord knows we need one.
Will try. Too much work for now...
I'd like to see Yes and ELO make it. Both really versatile. My wife thinks Joe Tex's "I Gotcha" is a little sexually aggressive.
"I Gotcha", isn't that Trump's theme song.
Rob, the head brewer at Surly resigned today. His wife resigned in February. Wonder if they are getting bought out.
Joe Tex is bad at lip synching "I Gotcha."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qT4zTv_vVY
Note that at the end of the video he only pulls ladies onto the stage. Very Trumpian.
I will always remember it as the song playing when Mr. Blonde and Mr. White dragged the kidnapped cop into the warehouse.
Don't say nuthin' just give it here.
If Schilling gets into politics, are some Sox folks worried the associated intense media scrutiny will reveal that the bloody sock was a phony? Mercurochrome or something?
it wouldn't break my heart to learn that schilling was a self-promoting fraud. doesn't change the outcome.
zwoman says we have to watch the debate so we'll get the jokes in the SNL opening.
i really don't want to watch. i'll miss part of it driving kids around. not gonna feel bad.
I am throwing down free food in a mundane Sheraton on the outskirts of Houston. It's so tragic here I may cry in my complimentary meatloaf and mac and cheese.
i understand that professional teej is taking over the sports illy tweeter machine tomorrow. i expect at least one gtb reference. and some muppetry.
incorrect. though i wish that were the case.
i still expect those things
My daughter is required to watch the debate for her 8th grade Civics class. Child abuse.
Supreme Court, gun rights, abortion. The docket tonight thus far ain't in Hillary's wheelhouse.
this election is the gop's everlasting shame. stunning doesn't even describe the fact that a major party presidential nominee declined to agree to accept the results of an election.
I think the media is getting their panties in a bunch about this point. It's like he said something sacreligious.
The media is freaking out and trying to tell people this is an omen of Armageddon. He's just doing his schtick.
schtick plays on a teevee show. he's running for president, and he's normalizing anti-democratic sentiment for millions of dipshits. that's some dangerous shit.
The analysis I've seen focused on the fact that even the people in his base will find that pretty lame and weak.
Why is Kayleigh McEnany wearing a latex blouse on CNN?
I'm always surprised that Hillary never mentions Trump's beef with the pope when she goes through her list of people he's beefed with. That struck me as a remarkably stupid flame war.
Where did Rudy Giuliani's neck go? It's like his body is morphing into Verne Lundquist's.
Brian Williams is now stuck next to Maddow. I feel for him. That's brutal.
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