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White whiskey? Isn't it moonshine?

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A LOOK AT THE LOST AMUSEMENT PARK WHERE LAGUARDIA AIRPORT NOW STANDS

Anyone closer to southern New England remember Whalom Park and Rocky Point? Life was good.

And yeah, not looking forward to the blizzard tomorrow.

#1 Maniac on 2022-01-28 08:35 (Reply)

Rocky Point - Friday nights pay one price, ride all night. Our neighbors packed their station wagon with their kids and those from the neighborhood whose parents gave them $3 and drop us at Rocky Point. We would ride all night long until they came back at midnight to pick us up. Probably one of the best investments our parents ever made.

#1.1 Little Rhody (Link) on 2022-01-28 12:49 (Reply)

George Washington made his own white rye whiskey.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/george-washingtons-whiskey

#2 LS (Link) on 2022-01-28 08:49 (Reply)

A friend brought some back after visiting Mount Vernon and it's good and strong. I have a dram every year on Washington's birthday. Mainly because you have to buy in person and it's $100 a bottle (375ml). I'll take over the 291 stuff which seems hyped and overpriced.

#2.1 grant1863 on 2022-01-28 20:09 (Reply)

The walls are closing in on Hillary! Any day now her crimes will be exposed! Any day now! Yep, any day now.

#3 Jerryskids on 2022-01-28 09:08 (Reply)

White whiskey? Isn't it moonshine?

Nah, it's all whiskey/whisky, just not aged in this case.

#4 Christopher B on 2022-01-28 09:13 (Reply)

I agree. Moonshine is just unauthorized whiskey. There's no reason it can't be aged or flavored, and often is.

#4.1 jack walter on 2022-01-28 10:10 (Reply)

I see as a marketing gimmick that works because people get confused by the appellation system applied to wine, which is something of a marketing gimmick in its own right.

You can ferment and distill anything anywhere. What you wind up with is a combination of the ingredients and the process regardless of location, kinda like most beers (assuming you aren't using wild local yeasts).

Ferment malted corn, wheat, or rye, or a combination, distill it, and you've got whiskey/whisky.

Do the same to potatoes, it's vodka

Do it to agave, it's tequila.

Do it to sugar cane, it's rum.

You can age it if you want, or sell it raw.

Age it in a new charred white oak barrel and it's bourbon.
Age it in any other barrel, and it's still whiskey/whisky.

Malt the ingredients over a peat fire, age it, and it's scotch.

Distill wine, and it's brandy.

#4.1.1 Christopher B on 2022-01-28 11:03 (Reply)

The Federal government maintains "Standards of Identity" to regulate what spirits can be sold under what names. For instance, bourbon must be distilled from mash containing at least 51% corn (and aged at least two years in charred oak barrels), while Whiskey must be at least 51% malted barley. Brandy needs to be distilled primarily from sugars derived from grapes, unless it is labeled with another fruit (apple or apricot, for instance). Rum can be distilled from either molasses or refined cane, beet, or corn sugars.
Vodka has no standard of identity. Anything that can be distilled into neutral grain spirits (ethanol and water) can be labeled as vodka.

#4.1.1.1 Another Guy named Dan on 2022-01-28 13:51 (Reply)

One more: Tequila can be up to 49% cane sugar as long as it's 51% agave-derived sugars. Anything less than 90% agave needs to be labeled as "mixto", but can still be sold as tequila.

#4.1.1.1.1 Another Guy named Dan on 2022-01-28 13:55 (Reply)

I'm not a enthusiast of spirits, but the best hard liquor I ever had was moonshine - out of a mason jar and purportedly from a third-gen moonshiner using an all copper still somewhere in Kentucky - an acquaintance had made a run to see family and come back with a case (this was 40+ years ago). Holy smokes. That stuff was pure liquid golden light, smooth, tasty, and probably around 120 proof. Dangerously good.

#4.2 Aggie on 2022-01-28 10:29 (Reply)

Yes.

I have also heard that the best whiskey is made by moonshiners, and that whiskey is clear. Apparently there are some moonshiners that are real craftsmen.

About 40 years ago there was a novelty whiskey called Georgia Moon. It was clear, came in a mason jar, and was, "guaranteed not to be over 90 days old."

It was pretty good if you could get past the smell. It was also useful for starting fires.

#4.2.1 feeblemind on 2022-01-28 12:50 (Reply)

I also find it interesting that we can legally make home brew, and wine, but the feds get real fussy if you start making hard liquor.

I wonder why that is?

#4.2.1.1 feeblemind on 2022-01-28 12:52 (Reply)

I always thought it was tax revenue - a bonded bottle of whiskey would have a tax stamp over the cap. Didn't they use to call them 'Revenuers"?

#4.2.1.1.1 Aggie on 2022-01-28 13:16 (Reply)

Yes. I understand that Aggie, but why isn't beer and wine treated the same way?

I just find it odd.

#4.2.1.1.1.1 feeblemind on 2022-01-28 13:22 (Reply)

In the 19th and early 20th Centuries, there were no real national markets in beer and wine in the US. what wine existed was either imported at great expense, or home made for household consumption. Beer couldn't be shipped long distances in wooden barrels without refrigeration, or it would go flat and spoil. It was only by distilling and concentrating the alcohol that production on large scales could be made profitable, and shipping across state lines became feasible.

It was only after refrigerated railroad cars, cheap glass bottles, and even aluminum kegs and cans became practical that national beer brands could develop. Wine didn't break out of limited French and Italian-American enclaves until after WW II, after GIs who had been exposed to it in Europe began to see it as an affordable luxury while the California industry was developing.

#4.2.1.1.1.1.1 Another guy named Dan on 2022-01-28 13:44 (Reply)

We can thank Jimmy Carter for the deregulation of beer. Jimmy signed the Cranston Act in February 1979. Prior to the Cranston Act, brewing beer at home, or in small volumes anywhere, was hard to do because of federal regulations.

I remember my step-dad loading cases of Coors beer in the trunk, whenever we made our annual trip to Indian from Colorado. Coors could not be sold East of the Mississippi. Why anyone wanted Coors, still baffles me; it always gives me a headache.

#4.2.1.1.1.1.1.1 B. Hammer on 2022-01-28 16:01 (Reply)

Yuengling is the same for me now as Coors was for your stepfather. I Always bring a cache out west from the eastern states to share. I don’t run with very sophisticated crowds.

#4.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Franknbean on 2022-01-28 18:10 (Reply)

Stepdad did not even drink beer. Hardly ever had any alcohol. Could have been why, at times, he was such an A-hole. So, I count my blessings that he wasn't a mean drunk A-hole.

#4.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 B. Hammer on 2022-01-28 22:13 (Reply)

"Maryland county school CEO wants masks forever"

Are you beginning to understand mask mandates yet?

#5 OneGuy on 2022-01-28 09:21 (Reply)

PG County schools suck anyway.

This is just another grift so they can ask for even more money.

#5.1 DrTorch (Link) on 2022-01-28 10:13 (Reply)

The Biden administration is blatantly breaking laws by trafficking in illegal migration. AND he is covering it up. I believe those charges are sufficient for impeachment. He makes Nixon look innocent by comparison.

#6 Anon on 2022-01-28 09:31 (Reply)

You mean, aside from all the Chinese deals, all the the Ukrainian deals, all the family kleptocracy and other pay-to-play influence-peddling schemes. But hey, at least those Republicans are vocally pointing them out putting up good arguments, playing hard ball and shining the light of day on them - right?

The primaries are going to be much more important than the elections in 2022.

#6.1 Aggie on 2022-01-28 09:46 (Reply)

One of Biden's jobs is to ensure that all the laws are enforced, not just the ones that he doesn't want to enforce. I'm not a lawyer or a Constitutional scholar but this doesn't seem different than his declaring that, for example, he will no longer prosecute terrorists, traitors, civil rights violators, etc.

I would think that the president or any elected official refusing to do part of his job would be subject to prosecution of "high crimes and misdemeanors."

#6.2 mudbug on 2022-01-28 14:35 (Reply)

Some readers might find this amusing

https://resistthemainstream.org/watch-desantis-trolls-faucis-covid-19-policies-by-selling-flip-flops/

#7 DrTorch (Link) on 2022-01-28 10:16 (Reply)

"until covid no longer exists". The language of covid at the Ron Johnson hearings.
https://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2022/01/doctors-organization-has-treated-over.html

#8 indyjonesouthere on 2022-01-28 15:33 (Reply)

We could see this coming.

BLM's millions unaccounted for after leaders quietly jumped ship

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/blms-millions-go-unaccounted-for-after-leaders-quietly-jump-ship?

I am only surprised that it isn't ALL gone.

#9 feeblemind on 2022-01-28 16:37 (Reply)

Government VAERS Data Reveal 15,600% Increase in Heart Disease Among Under 30 Year-Olds Following COVID-19 Vaccination

#10 Anon on 2022-01-28 17:24 (Reply)

VAERs is garbage. Anyone can put anything in there they want.

It's only useful for coming up with questions to ask of real datasets.

#10.1 William O. B'Livion on 2022-01-29 00:10 (Reply)

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