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Bourbon whiskey (/ ˈ b ɜːr b ən /; also simply bourbon) is a barrel-aged American whiskey made primarily from corn (maize). The name derives from the French House of Bourbon, although the precise source of inspiration is uncertain; contenders include Bourbon County, Kentucky, and Bourbon Street in New Orleans, both of which are named after the House of Bourbon. [1]
Bomberger’s Declaration Bourbon, launched in 2014, is a nod to the history of its parent company, Michter’s, which was called Bomberger’s from around 1860 — until Prohibition forced the ...
A "bung" is used to seal the barrels before moving them to nearby hilltop rackhouses where they will age up to nine years. As the seasons change, natural weather variations expand and contract the barrel wood, allowing bourbon to seep into the barrel, and the caramelized sugars from the charred oak flavor and color the bourbon.
American corn whiskey does not have to be aged at all – but, if it is aged, it must be aged in used or uncharred oak barrels [15] "at not more than 62.5% alcohol by volume (125 proof)". [16] In practice, if corn whiskey is aged, it is usually aged in used bourbon barrels. Tennessee whiskey aging in charred new oak barrels at the Jack Daniel's ...
Straight whiskey (or straight whisky), as defined in United States law, is whiskey that is distilled from a fermented (malted or unmalted) cereal grain mash to a concentration not exceeding 80% alcohol by volume (abv) and aged in new charred oak barrels for at least two years at a concentration not exceeding 62.5% at the start of the aging process. [1]
Uncharred white oak casks previously used for the aging of port, rum or sherry are also sometimes used. Whisky is a strictly regulated spirit worldwide with many classes and types. The typical unifying characteristics of the different classes and types are the fermentation of grains, distillation , and aging in wooden barrels.
A pre-2010 Southern Comfort bottle with its label showing an illustration of Louisiana's Woodland Plantation.The label was redesigned in 2010. [6]Southern Comfort was created by bartender Martin Wilkes Heron (1850–1920), the son of a boat-builder, in 1874 at McCauley's Tavern in the Lower Garden District, two miles (3 km) south of the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. [7]