Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]2011-01-05-12:46:30 Lawrence Zeitlin: > Why waste your time and money on smokey, soap flavored whisky from > Scotland! > Moonshine is what REAL MEN drink. This Hudson Valley 100% corn whiskey > harkens back to an earlier time before Prohibition when there were over > 1200 > farm distilleries in New York State. Those Hudson/Tuthilltown folk make some tasty spirits, unaged or aged. http://tuthilltown.com/category/products I first encountered their products at a spirit seminar or expo or some such, where they were one of the exhibitors, maybe around two years ago. I liked the way they'd pour a taste, but wouldn't let it into someone's hands until they'd dipped an eyedropper into their jar of "pure Hudson water", and added exactly one drop of it to the whiskey. Lovely stuff, and I was glad to be able to run some down at Astor Wine & Spirits soon after. It is remarkable just how much you taste the corn in the clear corn squeezin's. And actually how delicate the flavors are behind the burn. Kind of puts me in mind of grappa in that respect. A similarly educational (but not quite as enjoyable to me) other un-aged product is Buffalo Trace's "White Dog", which is the corn, rye and malted barley mash which would become straight bourbon with some years in wood. -Jeff