REFINED VICES

I like rum, real rum - Zaya 12 fails to qualify! ...but I still enjoy it greatly - as an after dinner liqueur. It's deep vanilla in a sweetened package, with a dusting of cocoa and a bit of leather allow me to forgo a more fattening dessert! JUST CALL IT LIQUEUR! It bears no resemblance to whatever ...

Yes, several. if not many distilleries use barrels other than the relatively cheap recycled bourbon barrels. A couple that come to mind are Robert Seale's Doorly's XO which is a blend of bourbon, sherry and Madeira casks, if I recall, and Rhum Clement VSOP, which is a blend of young french oak casks...

<shrug> There's time left on the domain name registration. The only thing that I can think of that would disappear a website that instantly - and it was overnight - is a court order. If it was just needing funding for the site, all he had to do was ask. I surely would have pitched in. If it was some...

Just to give those of you an idea of my thoughts on this spirit, the nearest Total Wine with a spirits license to me is 90 miles round trip. Total Wine seems to have an exclusive contract with Foursquare in the US, or at least the Eastern US. Illegal in Georgia, but... Oh, I make that drive with min...

Greetings. JaRiMi has it right. Sugar should never transfer in the distillation process - this isn't wine, where the stop point of fermentation determines sweetness. Sweetness in spirits is the result of post-distillation processing - I know of no exception, but would be glad to be educated. A rum e...

...although it could be larger, deeper pocketed malfeasants <cough> DIAGIO! <cough>! May they burn, and keep the petition alive!

I miss the crusty bastage!

Given the sudden shutdown, I think that it might be more a legal issue w/ bilgemonkey or somesuch asshat. I hope it isn't health!

Paddle on Jimbo!