After a 200 year dry spell, George Washington Distillery will once again offer its magic concoction. Governor Tim Kaine recently OK’d a special legislation that allows Mount Vernon (careful of the music!) to sell the spirits. The special $25 blend is produced from a blend of Jack Daniel’s, Jim Beam, Wild Turkey, Maker’s Mark, George Dickel, Virginia Gentleman, Very Old Barton, I.W.Harper, Woodford Reserve, Rebel Yell and Platte Valley, or a total of 11 American Whiskeys.
The George Washington’s Distillery was the largest, most successful whiskey distillery in early America and today, is the only distillery that can offer an 18th-century distilling process.
I say cheers to American Whiskey!
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$25 for an airplane bottle??? c’mon. for roughly $50 you could buy an airplane bottle of each of those whiskeys/bourbons, mix it up yourself and have over a pint of booze!
Hmm… looked up the distilling process of the 18th century… does this mean they use a similar process to bootleggers? So you take a bunch of whiskey and put it all in some sort of bootleg distiller and extract the whiskey again??? I am so confused… But from what it sounds like, you are looking at whiskey that is about 95% pure alcohol from this bottle.
Whatever happened to that chap who offered to get us all soused if we named his new whiskey? Like the BRGR bastards… a tempting offer, a funny thread, and then no payoff.
/feels used.
@3, I am super pissed at them… I will order a meal, enjoy it and then I will fail to pay for it in revenge. Their food better be amazing, because if it’s not, I’m not going to be nice.
/DON’T ASK OUR READERS TO DO STUFF IF YOU DON’T HAVE BALLS.
//WE GOT USED.
@4: They will tackle you as you flail at them with your hammer cane…
@ 4 No doubt. Sure there were some silly suggestions, but some of them were rather good. Almost all of them were better than BRGR, which, in the world of restaurant names, is an apocryphal abortion.
/weak sauce.
An elaborate hoax. Or if it’s not, it should be.
It’s ‘a unique “vatted” American whiskey produced from “marrying” together and re-aging at Mount Vernon portions of eleven of America’s most famous brands including Jack Daniel’s, Jim Beam, Wild Turkey, Maker’s Mark, George Dickel, Virginia Gentleman, Very Old Barton, I.W.Harper, Woodford Reserve, Rebel Yell and Platte Valley.
The unique product was created under the auspices of DISCUS [Distilled Spirits Council] by master distillers on the banks of the Potomac at Mount Vernon on August, 17, 2005, utilizing the contents of special barrels that had been aging in “an undisclosed location,” on the Mansion grounds since 2001.’
Something fishy in that river.
Here’s another bottle they made, signed by former Pres. G.H.W. Bush:
http://www.discus.org/images/10-2-07-001.jpg
I wouldn’t pay $25 for a 55 gallon barrel of anything containing Virginia Gentleman.
The ‘name our whiskey’ dude is Chris Allwood and he is a super nice guy and will follow through on any commitment he made because he has integrity and breeding.
/standin’ up for a Brit
//expecting payback Chris
@ 9 Bloody poms. Just lay back and think of whiskey.
@9 he should just call it allwood then. it’d be classy because it’s his last name, but also has huge potential with a minor speaking role in a somehow popular yet always regrettable theme party drink, “the allwood ballbagger.”
- 1pt allwood
- 6oz redbull
- dash of 151
- 3 oz sugar wine (CRU, you guys.)
- red gatorade
it’s been responsible for hundreds of cases of vanishing pants.
As usual Parlie, amidst all the utter tripe that you vomit forth, there is a gem of pure fucking brilliance from you. In my humble opinion, Vanishing Pants is the absolute BEST NAME EVAR for a cocktail/single malt/VW campervan.
aww, that’s sweet! i barely appreciate your genius, too.