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To fully enjoy drinking whiskey, you first need to know some of the basics about the spirit itself

To fully enjoy drinking whiskey, you first need to know some of the basics about the spirit itself

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Ingredients 1/2 teaspoon Benedictine 1 dash Peychaud’s Bitters 1 dash Angostura Bitters 3/4 ounce rye whiskey 3/4 ounce cognac 3/4 ounce sweet vermouth

With a formula almost as old as the republic, the mint julep is a product of an era in which things were done much slower. Somewhat labor-intensive to properly make, a good mint julep can't be rushed, and cranking them out by the hundreds using prepared mixes and flavored syrups can only result in sadness.

When he arrived at the warehouse, the first thing he noticed (after “the beautiful, sweet, mellow smell of aging Canadian whiskey,” he says) was the black stuff. It was everywhere—on the walls of buildings, on chain-link fences, on metal street signs, as if a battalion of Dickensian chimney sweeps had careened through town. “In the back of the property, there was an old stainless steel fermenter tank,” Scott says. “It was lying on its side, and it had this fungus growing all over it. Stainless steel!” The whole point of stainless steel is that things don’t grow on it.

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"Here's a sobering thought: Hundreds of bottles of Jack Daniel's whiskey, some of it almost 100 years old, may be unceremoniously poured down a drain because authorities suspect it was being sold by someone without a license."

"I have seen many nice and creative cases before but none of them were made out of a bottle."