Blurtmusic Holiday Playlist: National Bourbon 🥃 Day

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Happy National Bourbon Day.

It’s raining here today, so perfect weather for a nice glass of bourbon and a good book by the fire.

What happens when you combine corn, limestone, white oak, fire, and time? You get one of the best-loved alcoholic spirits in American history: bourbon.

Since June 14 is National Bourbon Day, a little history is in order....

In the mid-1700s, Scots-Irish settlers in the area that is now Virginia and Kentucky began distilling corn — the only grain native to the area, but one which made for excellent whiskey owing to its sweetness. Another geographical factor was also beneficial to the birth of bourbon. The Limestone Shelf region, where all major American whiskeys are still made today, imbued the local water with calcium while filtering out iron.

Turns out that high-calcium, low-iron water is excellent when it comes to makin’ moonshine. We have a clergyman-cum-distiller named Elijah Craig to thank for the third major piece of the bourbon puzzle. In the late 1780s, Craig was using old fish barrels to store his spirits.Not surprisingly, fish-flavored wood did not enhance the whiskey’s taste, so Craig started purifying the white-oak barrels by charring the inside. Then he stamped the barrels with their county of origin (Bourbon County, in his case) and sent them on a 90-day trip down to New Orleans. The charred oak and three-month travel time combined to mellow the whiskey and give it a smooth, smoky, oaky flavor. When New Orleanians requested more of “that whiskey from Bourbon,” the name and the spirit were born.

Source: https://nationaltoday.com/national-bourbon-day/

Here is my Song Selection for today’s Holiday Playlist ...

One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer by John Lee Hooker

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  ·  4 years ago  ·  

How did I not know this day existed? A day without bourbon is a day not worth living 🙂

  ·  4 years ago  ·  

You will only learn these things on Blurt .... or the Blurt Chamber on Noise.Cash

  ·  4 years ago  ·  

A lot more days to celebrate drinking than I realized.

That's the homesick Blues.

One scotch..
One bourbon..

Sometimes I miss Chicago but it's not the same anymore. I miss a plcae that doesn't exist in 2021. And the people are mostly in Florida and Arizona.

Da Bears

  ·  4 years ago  ·  

I think there is a drinking Holiday at least 365 days a year. It seems like every day is a good day to have a drink of something and celebrate Life... even if it’s just a coffee. I have one of those every day.

  ·  4 years ago  ·  

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