the beginning of Trump’s second term, before The Camps, and The Disappearances, when there were still LGBTQ bars.
Good. Canada pulled it off the shelves. Jack Daniels also funded the anti-suffrage movement in the 1900s they have a long history of being on the bigot side of history.
They had two options:
- shut the hell up, change nothing, and continue to be humane
- virtue-signal that you’re dicks
These are the one who make the honey booze, right? I’m just coming down with a man-cold - I rode the train without a mask, serves me bloody right - and my supply of elixir is really low. Now what am I gonna do?
https://www.wineandbeyond.ca/products/whistler-irish-honey-irish-whiskey-750ml
Ooh, this just got real. I’ll report back.
Thank you for being dicks, JD !!
Bärenjäger! Hard to find sometimes, but fuck me is it absolutely delicious! And it’s not affiliated with bigots.
Where my Canadian Club enthusiasts?
CC and coke is so damn good. Especially the 12 year aged one. And now I want a rye and coke
They even sponsor the vice president. Or why else would he be called JD Vance?
I thought it stood for Jorken Dapeanus
Good. It’s a crap bourbon anyways. It’s like turpentine mixed with ear wax.
Note that Brown Forman also owns the following bourbon/American whiskey brands:
- Woodford Reserve
- Old Forester
- Coopers Craft
They also own the following European distillers:
- Slane (Irish Whiskey)
- Benriach (Scotch)
- Glendronach (Scotch)
- Glenglassaugh (Scotch)
Jack Daniels is obviously their highest volume brand, but some of these other brands are pretty big, too.
Evan Williams, from Heaven Hill, make a comparable product at a 1/3 of the cost. It doesn’t go through charcoal filtration like JD so it is a bit more complex and not quite as smooth. Heaven Hill does not have the best labor practicesvis a vis their union however
Heaven Hill makes a lot of good stuff. Too many brands, though.
I’ve never heard that Heaven Hill isn’t union friendly. I always see their brands on the union-supported lists.
I don’t have a bottle of Evan Williams at the moment but next time I do I will run some through a Brita water filter just to see what comes out the other side.
Like they mention in the article, I also recommend the Uncle Nearest brand.
Uncle Nearest (his name was Nearest Green) was a slave who worked with Jack Daniels to create his famous whiskey. He was (I believe) the first black Master Distiller.
His descendants have created their own distillery. His great-great-granddaughter is now their Master Blender and man are those blends good. I went on the tour last year - highly recommend if you’re ever in Tennessee.
1, thats awesome. 2, they note gluten free specifically - which if they test for it (I really hope they do when they make the claim, because distillation does not guarantee gluten-free) means I’ve got a new whiskey to enjoy!
Gluten weighs so much more than alcohol that Im baffled as to how it would remain in solution in alcohol. It should be separated in distillation.
Added ingredients is the usual culprit, that said - some barrel pastes use a wheat base, which can then be a problem. Good ones use beeswax.
Some double distilled can be a problem for me. I obviously have no way of testing other than bad experiences, but I have yet to find a triple distilled thats an issue.
Short answer - “should” and “does” are two separate issues. “Should” isn’t good enough when it comes to a medical issue, something I’ve learned the hard way with being gluten free.
I assumed all distilled alcohol was gluten free. Perhaps there are some odd production exceptions.
… and nothing of value was lost.
This reminds me of when practically every bar in NYC pulled Bulleit off the shelves after it was revealed that the owner of the distillery was some homophobic asshole.
Even now, there are a lot of bars in NYC that refused to carry it.
That’s why I developed an appreciation for Jim Beam. Less expensive, and I like it better.
And fuck Jack Daniels. They stole the recipe from Jim Beam and ran over the river into Tennessee and started their own distillery. That shit isn’t even bourbon.
Bulleit was a bullshit brand in NYC. At top deal in 2016 I was paying $27 wholesale for a 750ml on a 2 case purchase (24 bottles total). That put it on the shelf at $35-40 depending on your markup (it’s NYC so it’s even more expensive than the rest of NY)
In most states the top deal was 56 cases and in most states that bottle sold at retail for $9 less than I paid wholesale.
They are a shit brand with hostile pricing made for a bigot. Fuck bulleit.
Agreed, although I will say that, everywhere else I’ve been, Florida is a good example, the price of a bottle was only a few dollars more. Not nine dollars.
But that’s not the wholesale price, that’s the retail price. And that is also absolute crazy bullshit. I can see how it was not a hard decision to make.
No it was $9 more at wholesale in NY than in retail in KY. It was almost twice the price on my shelf than yours in FL
Like I said, I’m not too familiar with wholesale pricing. I’ll take your word for it.
I haven’t been a buyer for eight years now but this was a perpetual issue in parts of the country. I was blown away when I found out it was a bargain brand as in Boston where I first tried Bulleit it was more expensive than Evan William’s vintage release (RIP). I just thought they were chasing JD in that whole image driven brand rather than good quality to price ratio
Bulleit used to be my at-home go-to until that news broke out. Since then, I’ve started preferring smaller and local distilleries’ whiskey. It costs a little more by it tastes way better and my money isn’t going to some giant corporation.
Basil Hayden is a solid bourbon, and it’s a Jim Beam product.
Depending on your local brand it might be supporting a bigger company anyways. Dickel is filling a ton of “local” producer’s offerings.
That shit isn’t even bourbon.
It is. It meets all the legal requirements to be called bourbon (at least 51% corn in the mashbill, distilled in the United States, distilled at lower than 160 proof, aged in charred new oak barrels, barreled at lower than 125 proof, bottled at between 80 proof and 150 proof, no added coloring or flavors).
They just choose not to label themselves with that name.
I thought their filtration process DQ’d them from the strict bourbon definition as well, although they meet the rest of the criteria.
In any case, it’s still disgusting and I’ll stick to Peated Scotch.
Nothing about the Lincoln County process violates the definition
To hell with a legal requirement. That shit isn’t even bourbon. Even Jack Daniels distillery, themselves, insist that it isn’t bourbon. (Yes, I know the law, but the law is wrong.)
It doesn’t get to become bourbon based off of some silly technicality in the law.
“Bourbon-style corn drink”, maybe. Or “caramel-flavored moon juice”.
Bourbon is only made in Kentucky!
No, Bourbon can be made anywhere in the USA.
Go look up the legal definition.
Otherwise it’s called Sour Mash.
Sour mash vs sweet mash have to do with how you make your whiskey. It isn’t a designation for bourbon styled whiskies made outside KY.
Ah, thanks for correcting me. Going to leave my comment up for future context.
None of the gay men I know would drink that swill anyway. But, I respect the right to peacefully protest.
Jack and Ginger ale is such an incredibly common drink for lesbians in NYC that I have managed to convince two lesbian cashiers I have worked with to successfully pursue women they were interested in because they bought JD from us while holding ginger ale.
Cuts down on their overhead
Noooo I think that’s illegal! Somehow!!
I’m just imagining all those “illegal” boycotters receiving bills
Dear god, not the smoke flavored sewage
(What’s So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding?
I feel like he should research bullet too here…
