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Subject: Re: Bourbon
From: -JAM-
Posted: Mon Aug 4. 2003, 12:09 UTC
Followup to: "Bourbon"  by summieone  (Mon Aug 4. 2003, 09:30 UTC)
> I can't remember when this was last discussed but I couldn't remember 
> an important fact about bourbon until I saw the West Wing the other 
> day (OK its secretly one of my favourite US dramas)
> 
> Anyway Bourbon can only be called Bourbon if it comes from Kentucky, 
> otherwise its called Sour Mash
> 
> D

yeah, something to do with 51% of the ingredients too? Hence Jack Daniels is a 
sour mash whiskey and from tennessee.

Something like that anyway.  JD usually called a bourbon but technically it's 
not.

JAM
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