All of us salarymen were blessed with a 3% haircut on the pay last week. Troubling times. It should not affect me, other than the fact I'll have to find a brand of John Barelycorn even lower on the quality scale than Ten High, if such is possible.
Can anyone speak to the macular degeneration prospects of Heaven Hill? I don't want to go blind. Just cross-eyed.
I had always thought that Evans Williams was superior to Jack Daniels, which isn't saying much. Don't turn into this guy though.
http://www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com/issues/08_05/0805_rotgut_man.htm
Modern Drunkard is a great resource for questions like that.
We got no pay-raises last year, and will get none this year. Hope and change.
Posted by: rob sama at August 8, 2009 7:00 PMThere is always "Col. Lee" or the late lamented "Tiger Tom" to consider depending on how veerrry far down the rot-gut scale you want to go... Actually, a very good, relatively cheap bourbon from the people that make the superb "Old Fitz" and "1849" (the discontinued V.V.Old Fitz was a classic.) is the widely avail "Cabin Still" brand. Further up the scale originally by the same distillery is "Rebel Yell." It used to be sold only south of the Mason-Dixon line when I was in college in the sixties. (the actual truth) They've since changed the labeling in these more PC times after they got bought out by an outfit in St. Louis in 84 who decided to mkt it nation-wide., but is an EXCELLENT bourbon nonetheless. Out here in Cali, Trader Joe's has it on the shelves at almost 1966 prices@9 bucks/5th! I'd opt the "Rebel Yell" route, fwiw--would seem to fit your personality...
(I realize these are all st. bourbons, not Tenn. sippin' whiskey like JD, but.....)
Posted by: virgil xenophon at August 8, 2009 9:14 PMI love Modern Drunkard.
You lazy bastard, you self-pubbed Trip of Goats! What'd you get--five rejection letters? Lightweight. I've had over 300. And that book was totally able to get you an agent--completely worthy of attracting a small literary publisher.
I will start shilling it for you. It deserves to be read.
Posted by: Rosie at August 8, 2009 10:11 PMI'll second Rebel Yell. If you get in a (more!) perverse mood, they used to market a cinnamon flavored variant, believe it or not.
I didn't, until I tasted it.
It'll get you drunk.
Posted by: Randy Rager at August 8, 2009 11:46 PMGo with Old Crow bourbon in the plastic bottle. It'll give you a manly rasp to your speech after it etches the skin off your uvula. It doubles as an aftershave and window cleaner.
Posted by: El Capitan at August 10, 2009 2:33 PM