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Does Your Bourbon Contain Rattlesnake Heads?

BOURBON without RULES DO YOU KNOW WHAT'S IN THAT BOURBON YOU'RE DRINKING? BACK ON THE FRONTIER, THERE'S NO TELLING WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN IN YOUR GLASS! SSSS SE WHISKY IN THE 1850s WHISKY ON THE FRONTIER Whisky is still "whiskey" just spelled the Scottish way Whisky had a wide variety of uses on the frontier Currency Medicine Antiseptic Diseașe prevention Quality Control Free to be tampered with 000 WHISKY DISTILLERS ONLY SOLD SALOONS AND GENERAL STORES WERE FREE TO PUT BY THE BARREL WHATEVER THEY WANTED IN THE WHISKY BARREL • Mass produced glass wasn't available until 1857 • Bottling whisky was too expensive • Retailers bottled whisky themselves • Quality and inconsistency was rampant • Patrons brought their own jugs RECTIFYING OR MANIPULATING TO IMITATE BETTER WHISKY OR STRETCH SUPPLIES, MEANT • Batches would vary in strength and flavor profile to fill up at the tavern • Poor quality liquor frustrated doctors prescribing it as medicine ADDING INGREDIENTS THAT CHANGED THE TASTE AND COLOR OF THE SPIRIT TAINTED SPIRITS: According to the The New York Times by 1903 WHEN GOOD WHISKY Rectified WHISKY WENT WRONG 80% OF WHISKIES ON THE MARKET WERE "IMITATIONS" of genuinely-aged whisky JonINE OF An RUN Tobacco Spit Rattlesnake Heads Water Sugar Prune Juice Neutral Grain Turpentine Iodine Fuse Oil Spirits ALL BOURBON whisky GSSSSST BOURBON IS KNOWN AS WHISKY'S SWEET SIDE, because it's aged in NEW charred oak barrels SSSS SSSE SSSE SSS SSL BUT NOT ALL WHISKY IS BOURBON George Garvin Brown BOURBON From to PHARMACEUTICAL SALESMAN BROWN BROWN BOTTLED THE FIRST BOURBON WHISKY to be sold exclusively in ESTABLISHED 1870 OLD PORESTER Sealed BOTTLES THE OLD FASHIONED COCKTAIL COMES STRAIGHT FROM BOURBON COUNTRY'S • Sold only in sealed, tamper-resistant bottles LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY • Controlled quality of bourbon • Originally named "Old Forrester" after Dr. Forrester from Louisville, KY, but was later changed when he retired. Legend has it that this classic cocktail was originally made with Old Forester Bourbon OLD FORESTER the ORIGINAL BATCH MINIMALLY FILTERED, 90-PROOF, WITH CRAFTED BY BATCHING BARRELS HINTS OF BAKING FROM THREE DISTILLERIES SPICES & CITRUS TO CREATE A CONSISTENT DLD FORLSTER FLAVOR PROFILE BROWN'S SIGNATURE AND A SEAL ON EVERY BOTTLE ENSURED OLD- FORESTER OLD FORESTER WHISKY STRENTUC ON HIGH QUALITY HAIOHT WHISKY Hin Latel George Garvin Brown was ahead of his time BOTTLING SAFE BOURBON WHISKY 27 YEARS BEFORE GOVERNMENT REGULATION THE LAW 1897 CRACKS DOWN While the U.S. regulations applied to all spirits, it was most applicable for whisky BOTTLED IN BOND ACT Required 100 GUARANTEED PURE TAX QUALITY AND SAFETY OF BOTTLED WHISKY YEARS WATER PROOF STAMP 100 proof One distillation season one distillery one distiller Aged at least 4 years Only pure water could be added Required tax stamp stating year produced and year bottled 1909 "What is whisky?" PRESIDENT TAFT "WEIGHS" IN ON THE LAW TYPES OF WHISKY BLENDED Whisky STRAIGHT - Whisky IMITATION Whisky • ALLOWS FOR A MIX OF OTHER • DISTILLED FROM GRAIN • AKA "FLAVORED WHISKY" OR WHISKIES OR NEUTRAL • AGED IN OAK BARRELS WHISKY WITH ADDED COLOR GRAIN SPIRITS • ONLY PURE WATER ADDED AND FLAVORING AGENTS Had to be made from grain Can mix different barrels of whisky as well as distilleries from the same state Whisky with coloring or flavoring agents and not molasses, as molasses is the basic ingredient for making rum BOURBON FALLS UNDER THIS CATEGORY BOURBON VS. SCOTCH Prohibition's repeal led Scotch distillers to snatch up the cheap and readily available Oak casks that influence the taste and aroma of Scotch during maturation Scotch doesn't use new oaks barrels like bourbon and it also allows for plain caramel coloring Always 100% MADE IN AMERICA “AMERICA'S NATIVE SPIRIT" Mixture of at least MODERN BOURBON 51% CORN AS WE KNOW IT IT MUST BE DISTILLED BARRELED AT NO BOTTLED AT NO LESS THAN AT NO HIGHER THAN HIGHER THAN Aged in NEW CHARRED OAK BARRELS 160 125 Proof Proof Proof BOURBON CAN COME FROM ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES, BUT 95% OF BOURBON COMES FROM THE BLUEGRASS STATE Next time you break out the BOURBON thankful Visit: it's free of OLDFORESTER.COM/BOURBON TOBACCO SPIT O RATTLESNAKE HEADS Sources: kybourbon.com oldforester.com/origins FIRST BOTTLED BOURBON OLD FORESTER whisky.com/history.html jpaul.us/links/bourbon.pdf law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/27/5.22 EST'D 1870 gobourbon.com/the-taft-decision brown-forman.com/about/hisfory bruichladdich.com/article/why-bourbon-barrels filsonhistorical.org/archive/news_v5n3 distilling.html filsonhistorical.org/archive/news vón3 distilling.html filsonhistorical.org/archive/news_v7n4_distilling.html -KENTUCKY- STRAIGHT BOURBON cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a-d&d-LAH19091227.2.5 athena.uky.edu/kyleidoscope/industrialky/bourbon/bourbon.htm amazon.com/Bourbon-Curious-Simple-Tasting-Drinker/dp/0760347 109 sippncorn.blogspot.com/2014/03/bottled-in-bond-bourbon-propels-early.html WHISKY enbc.com/2013/09/24/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-kentucky-bourbon.html slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_cexaminer/2010/02/the_chemists_war.html mensjournal.com/food-drink/drinks/the-proper-spelling-of-whisky-or-is-it-whiskey-20150331 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res-9505E7DD1539E433A25755COA9649D946297D6CF www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/retrieve ECFR?gp-&SID-9b2a0a59ad7bdd15023465091823490c&n-27v1.0.1.1.3 https://books.google.com/books?id-fj65dP2AyfoC&lpg-PP1&pg-PA 47#y=onepage&q&f-false * PLEASE ENJOY IT RESPONSIBLY. DEVELOPED BY N NOWSOURCING Old Forester Straight Bourbon Whisky. 43-50% Alc. by Volume. Brown-Forman Distillers Company, Louisville, KY ©2015

Does Your Bourbon Contain Rattlesnake Heads?

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If you've never been served bourbon that contained rattlesnake heads or tobacco spit, you can thank some of the earliest consumer protection laws in the U.S. Check out this infographic to learn more!

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