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[Tonker]

You guys and your bourbon.  You're so cute.

[SKO]

You guys and your bourbon.  You're so cute.

Have you sampled much bourbon, Tonk? What is the bourbon market like over there? (honest questions)

[Bort]

At the very worst, Maker's Mark is the Newcastle of whiskeys.

QFT

So it's a gateway whiskey?

It's definitely the first step up the higher-end bourbon ladder.

It's also a safe choice that isn't awful.

[PenFoe]

A friend of mine and his wife had another couple over, recently, for a night cap. They missed their train so my friend said he'd open this new bottle of Rye Whiskey he likes for the group. The male friend, who had proclaimed himself a whiskey snob, was handed a glass of the rye. He smelled it. Put it down. He did not take a single sip.

To me that's the definition of a total asshole.

Sure, I like craft beer but if I'm offered a Lite or a Bud or whatever at someone's house I'm going to drink every last drop.

This is a bad person.

[Bort]

A friend of mine and his wife had another couple over, recently, for a night cap. They missed their train so my friend said he'd open this new bottle of Rye Whiskey he likes for the group. The male friend, who had proclaimed himself a whiskey snob, was handed a glass of the rye. He smelled it. Put it down. He did not take a single sip.

To me that's the definition of a total asshole.

Sure, I like craft beer but if I'm offered a Lite or a Bud or whatever at someone's house I'm going to drink every last drop.

This is a bad person.

This is a person that needs to be beaten with a bar of Ivory soap in a gymsock.

[Quality Start Machine]

A friend of mine and his wife had another couple over, recently, for a night cap. They missed their train so my friend said he'd open this new bottle of Rye Whiskey he likes for the group. The male friend, who had proclaimed himself a whiskey snob, was handed a glass of the rye. He smelled it. Put it down. He did not take a single sip.

To me that's the definition of a total asshole.

Sure, I like craft beer but if I'm offered a Lite or a Bud or whatever at someone's house I'm going to drink every last drop.

This is a bad person.

This is a person that needs to be beaten with a bar of Ivory soap in a gymsock.

Or be forced to drink a funnel of Malort.

[Tonker]

You guys and your bourbon.  You're so cute.

Have you sampled much bourbon, Tonk? What is the bourbon market like over there? (honest questions)

1.  I can't say I have.  I'm sure some of it's fine... good, even...
2.  It's all available over here, but as far as I can make out, nobody drinks it unless it's got Coke in it.

[CT III]

You guys and your bourbon.  You're so cute.

Have you sampled much bourbon, Tonk? What is the bourbon market like over there? (honest questions)

1.  I can't say I have.  I'm sure some of it's fine... good, even...
2.  It's all available over here, but as far as I can make out, nobody drinks it unless it's got Coke in it.

I thought you guys all drank Pepsi.

[Quality Start Machine]

Any rum drinkers here?

[CT III]

I don't know if this is a big deal, but Maker's Mark to Dilute Bourbon by 7 Percent

Clearly this isn't the best way to save a buck, right?  

Wouldn't raising prices versus (quite literally) diluting the product and brand be a better option?

Hey remember that time we all bitched about something?

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/makers-mark-restore-alcohol-content-whiskey-18524914

If this were Vancouver, we'd build a statue of this thread at the entrance of the messageboard.

[Quality Start Machine]

If this were Vancouver, we'd build a statue of this thread at the entrance of the messageboard.

Validated.

[SKO]

You guys and your bourbon.  You're so cute.

Have you sampled much bourbon, Tonk? What is the bourbon market like over there? (honest questions)

1.  I can't say I have.  I'm sure some of it's fine... good, even...
2.  It's all available over here, but as far as I can make out, nobody drinks it unless it's got Coke in it.

There's lots of good bourbon out there, and it's a very different experience than drinking Scotch. You need not ignore the one because you like the other.

[Tonker]

You guys and your bourbon.  You're so cute.

Have you sampled much bourbon, Tonk? What is the bourbon market like over there? (honest questions)

1.  I can't say I have.  I'm sure some of it's fine... good, even...
2.  It's all available over here, but as far as I can make out, nobody drinks it unless it's got Coke in it.

There's lots of good bourbon out there, and it's a very different experience than drinking Scotch. You need not ignore the one because you like the other.

No, I need not.  Fortunately, though, we over here in the United States of Europe have a little thing we like to call choice.  I choose to ignore it.

[CT III]

I don't know if this is a big deal, but Maker's Mark to Dilute Bourbon by 7 Percent

Clearly this isn't the best way to save a buck, right?  

Wouldn't raising prices versus (quite literally) diluting the product and brand be a better option?

Hey remember that time we all bitched about something?

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/makers-mark-restore-alcohol-content-whiskey-18524914

If this were Vancouver, we'd build a statue of this thread at the entrance of the messageboard.

In a fitting epilogue to this whole saga, yesterday I received an e-mail blast from Binny's, urging me to rush in and purchase a LIMITED COLLECTOR'S EDITION bottle of 84 proof Maker's Mark.

[Quality Start Machine]

I don't know if this is a big deal, but Maker's Mark to Dilute Bourbon by 7 Percent

Clearly this isn't the best way to save a buck, right?  

Wouldn't raising prices versus (quite literally) diluting the product and brand be a better option?

Hey remember that time we all bitched about something?

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/makers-mark-restore-alcohol-content-whiskey-18524914

If this were Vancouver, we'd build a statue of this thread at the entrance of the messageboard.

In a fitting epilogue to this whole saga, yesterday I received an e-mail blast from Binny's, urging me to rush in and purchase a LIMITED COLLECTOR'S EDITION bottle of 84 proof Maker's Mark.

How much did it cost you?