bottling bourbon

[rdking647]

went to a borubon distillery near me to volunteer as a bourbon bottler. (we get a bottle of bourbon for doing it)

the bourbon bottling line
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sealing the bottles
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the texas star stamp
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liquid gold
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the bourbon must be protected
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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Those are really interesting pics!

I enjoyed them enormously...

Esp. the Texas Star Stamp. Is that your hand?

Thank you.

[rdking647]

3. yes

my job was putting the leather pigtail on the bottle,dipping in the was and stamping.

[Major Nikon]

2. I'll have to try a bottle of that if I can find some

[rdking647]

4. depending on where you live it might be hard to find

its a very small production. this run is only 7500 bottles and they only have 2 runs a year so far. its available in the austin area and this run will be sold in houston. outside of that area it isnt sold yet.

[Major Nikon]

6. I wonder if a distributor in the Dallas area would be able to order a bottle

I'll have to check with my local liquor store. I'm a sucker for Texas hooch.

[rdking647]

13. not yet

akaik this batch it going to austin,san antonio and houston only.

[Solly Mack]

5. How cool!

Thank you!

Love the last shot!

[era veteran]

7. Sorry

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It may be good whiskey but it ain't bourbon unless you make it with Kentucky water.
Great images.

[rdking647]

8. it is bourbon..........

[alfredo]

9. The limestone water, aging in scorched oak barrels is what makes bourbon what it is. The state of Ky

might take issue with the use of the term Bourbon. Bourbon was first made in Bourbon County Ky by Rev Elijah Craig. Kentucky is the home of Bourbon, and is recognized as such throughout the world. Only US distillers can use the term Bourbon, and then they have to stick to the basic ingredients that make Bourbon Bourbon. Jack Daniels doesn't stick to the recipe, so they can only call their drink Whisky.

I did like the pictures.

I see they are copying the Maker's Mark wax sealing.

My favorites are Eagle Rare and W L Weller Antique.

[d_r]

14. I agree

not kentucky, not bourbon

[rdking647]

10. these are the official rules for borubon making

Jack daniels is considered bourbon under NAFTA and canadian law. Jack is filtered through charchol after aging,that is the difference between it and traditional borbons.
in order to be bourbon under US law a whiskey must
1. made from at least 51% corn
2. aged in new charred oak barrels
3. distilled to no more than 160 proof
4. barreled at no more than 125 proof
5. bottled at 80 proof or more.

[era veteran]

11. We don't accept those standards.

Needs to have good limestone water.
The hemp is optional.

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[rdking647]

12. we prefer hillcountry rainwater :-)

although if wonder i you can distill hemp somehow.....

[Historic NY]

15. So hows the flavor?

I've been recently addicted to Maker's Mark for making Manhattans....we have a upstate regional recipe for the cocktail. It dates to the days of colored bathtub gin. Might be a good choice for a batch sometime.

[Twinguard]

16. I love it!

I love that small distilleries are sprouting up like micro breweries and Washington (the whole west coast, really) wineries. I don't drink much, but it's hard to pass up a good spirit. There is one in my town (Spokane. Dry Fly Distilleries) that produces an insanely good vodka and wheat whiskey. They also produce a gin and a "bourbon" (I'm with the poster above who said that it's not real bourbon without Kentucky water, but I digress...) that I'm looking forward to trying. There are two I know of in Montana (my pop lives there, so I take a few annual trips (one, especially, is an annual family-less trip that I take to occupy my dad's wood shop to build guitars, and drink fine bourbons and scotches (obviously, the woodwork before the booze))). One distillery is in Missoula and the other is in Bozeman. I've had the Bozeman whiskey, but at 120 proof (or something ridiculous like that) I can't drink more than a sip.

My father-in-law has a bottle of some prohibition-era recipe rye whiskey from Iowa that is maybe the finest thing to ever touch my tongue... and I've tasted some dandy wines, ales, and spirits. This whiskey is so amazing that Al Capone himself was known to have bottles of it smuggled into Alcatraz for him.

I'm the kind of guy that makes it a priority to buy local. I know I'll (probably) never meet the chap that crafted the product I buy, but I like it when I can call up a business I support and they can tell me the name of the shoemaker that built my shoes, the luthier that built my bass, or the brew master that created the recipe that made my ale. Other than one really cool photomosaic picture of Yoda I've got, I could name the artist that created everything hanging on my walls. I honestly hope I get close enough to Texas to buy a bottle of Garrison Brothers bourbon sometime. It looks like it's right up my alley. 50 points to rdking647's house.

[Historic NY]

17. NY state has created a cottage industry with their distillery law.

we have new ones popping up.


http://www.dailyfinance.com/2011/02/18/how-new-yorks-microdistillery-law-is-building-a-new-industry/

[HarveyDarkey]

18. That would be Templetons Rye

The whiskey from Iowa. Check out my review of it here: I said San Quentin, but I meant Alcatraz,