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    Like they mention in the article, I also recommend the Uncle Nearest brand.

    Uncle Nearest (his name was Nearest Green) was a slave who worked with Jack Daniels to create his famous whiskey. He was (I believe) the first black Master Distiller.

    His descendants have created their own distillery. His great-great-granddaughter is now their Master Blender and man are those blends good. I went on the tour last year - highly recommend if you’re ever in Tennessee.

    The Wikipedia Article on Nearest Green

    Their website

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      1, thats awesome. 2, they note gluten free specifically - which if they test for it (I really hope they do when they make the claim, because distillation does not guarantee gluten-free) means I’ve got a new whiskey to enjoy!

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          Added ingredients is the usual culprit, that said - some barrel pastes use a wheat base, which can then be a problem. Good ones use beeswax.

          Some double distilled can be a problem for me. I obviously have no way of testing other than bad experiences, but I have yet to find a triple distilled thats an issue.

          Short answer - “should” and “does” are two separate issues. “Should” isn’t good enough when it comes to a medical issue, something I’ve learned the hard way with being gluten free.

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    Good. Canada pulled it off the shelves. Jack Daniels also funded the anti-suffrage movement in the 1900s they have a long history of being on the bigot side of history.

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    They had two options:

    • shut the hell up, change nothing, and continue to be humane
    • virtue-signal that you’re dicks

    These are the one who make the honey booze, right? I’m just coming down with a man-cold - I rode the train without a mask, serves me bloody right - and my supply of elixir is really low. Now what am I gonna do?

    https://www.wineandbeyond.ca/products/whistler-irish-honey-irish-whiskey-750ml

    Ooh, this just got real. I’ll report back.

    Thank you for being dicks, JD !!

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    Note that Brown Forman also owns the following bourbon/American whiskey brands:

    • Woodford Reserve
    • Old Forester
    • Coopers Craft

    They also own the following European distillers:

    • Slane (Irish Whiskey)
    • Benriach (Scotch)
    • Glendronach (Scotch)
    • Glenglassaugh (Scotch)

    Jack Daniels is obviously their highest volume brand, but some of these other brands are pretty big, too.

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    This reminds me of when practically every bar in NYC pulled Bulleit off the shelves after it was revealed that the owner of the distillery was some homophobic asshole.

    Even now, there are a lot of bars in NYC that refused to carry it.

    That’s why I developed an appreciation for Jim Beam. Less expensive, and I like it better.

    And fuck Jack Daniels. They stole the recipe from Jim Beam and ran over the river into Tennessee and started their own distillery. That shit isn’t even bourbon.

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      Bulleit used to be my at-home go-to until that news broke out. Since then, I’ve started preferring smaller and local distilleries’ whiskey. It costs a little more by it tastes way better and my money isn’t going to some giant corporation.

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      That shit isn’t even bourbon.

      It is. It meets all the legal requirements to be called bourbon (at least 51% corn in the mashbill, distilled in the United States, distilled at lower than 160 proof, aged in charred new oak barrels, barreled at lower than 125 proof, bottled at between 80 proof and 150 proof, no added coloring or flavors).

      They just choose not to label themselves with that name.

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    All bars who support “having sex for fun” should do this.

    I don’t support sex being limited to marriage and procreation and otherwise shamed… and even outlawed.

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      Said every ancient Greek ever. We’ve got a true conservative here, at least in the realm of sexuality between two consenting adults.

      Well I guess that last clause would cause you to be anethema to the modern conservative causes.

      /j

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      CC and coke is so damn good. Especially the 12 year aged one. And now I want a rye and coke

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      I doubt most of them are in cities, and I have some bad news for you about rural Washington State and Oregon.

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        All but 1 on the Washington list are from western WA (the nice half) and the other is from Spokane (hipsters who got priced out of Seattle and Portland)

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          Ah, that’s promising. I’d still look into the individual companies before assuming they’re owned by good people, though. The politics of business owners don’t always align with the general population surrounding them.

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    They even sponsor the vice president. Or why else would he be called JD Vance?

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    Isn’t there more left leaning voters than right. The right only wins through Gerry mandering. So maybe this is reality catching up with the shitty fake reality we’ve been living.

    Politics skewed people’s view of who exists out there. The majority of people are common sense, we all just live within a block of each other. So politically the consensus looks like it’s trump supporters. Reality is people are more common sense. But the skewed political view made the everytime executive private school class get too comfortable that they started showing their lizard skin and now we see them for what they are and have to pay

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    Are there any (liqor) companies who have the ovaries to keep DEI policies? Please dont tell me its gin :'(