Straightbourbon.com Forums - History http://www.straightbourbon.com/forums/ A forum for the discussion of bourbon history. en Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:52:17 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.straightbourbon.com/forums/images/styles/UndergroundStyle/misc/rss.png Straightbourbon.com Forums - History http://www.straightbourbon.com/forums/ Edgewood Whiskey? http://www.straightbourbon.com/forums/showthread.php?20267-Edgewood-Whiskey&goto=newpost Mon, 10 Jun 2013 20:22:22 GMT So I was at a Whataburger in Schulenburg, Texas yesterday. Like most WB's they have historical photos. Except normally it's all old WB photos. This one though had a photo taken in 1915 of Stenelman's Saloon in Schulenburg. There was a big sign on the front of the saloon bragging that they had Edgewood Whiskey from Lincoln County, KY. I saw a bit of info about it on the net, but not much.

Anyone have info on Edgewood whiskey..every had any?? ]]> History weller_tex http://www.straightbourbon.com/forums/showthread.php?20267-Edgewood-Whiskey Old Chalk Sour Mash Whiskey http://www.straightbourbon.com/forums/showthread.php?20263-Old-Chalk-Sour-Mash-Whiskey&goto=newpost Sun, 09 Jun 2013 23:31:46 GMT By Chalk Springs Distillery near Gravette Arkansas, anyone know it's history? ]]> History kaiserhog http://www.straightbourbon.com/forums/showthread.php?20263-Old-Chalk-Sour-Mash-Whiskey Favorite Pics of Parker Beam http://www.straightbourbon.com/forums/showthread.php?20073-Favorite-Pics-of-Parker-Beam&goto=newpost Sun, 19 May 2013 14:30:43 GMT To celebrate Parker & Linda Beam's 35th Anniversary today, I initiate this thread to share favorite pics of the great Master Distiller of Heaven Hill.

This is one of my favorite pics taken at the Gazebo during the 2003 Kentucky Bourbon Festival. Parker is using das über sb.com glassware -- a Barrel_Proof approved Erlenmeyer flask! :cool:

Parker & Barrel_Proof Erlenmeyer Flask 2003 KBF Gazebo.jpg
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]]> History Barrel_Proof http://www.straightbourbon.com/forums/showthread.php?20073-Favorite-Pics-of-Parker-Beam Lake Champlain and Great Lakes smugglers http://www.straightbourbon.com/forums/showthread.php?20023-Lake-Champlain-and-Great-Lakes-smugglers&goto=newpost Sun, 12 May 2013 23:37:46 GMT http://mschnure.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/atlas-plate2.pdf Whiskey on the lake https://www.smore.com/ebt0-daily-maximum-ontario ... http://mschnure.files.wordpress.com/...las-plate2.pdf

Whiskey on the lake

https://www.smore.com/ebt0-daily-maximum-ontario

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http://news.google.com/newspapers?ni...pg=4515,227281

Not smugglers but a shipwreck

http://sleepingbeardunes.com/blog/20...r-dune-waters/

"December 2, 1854....She was said to be carrying a strongbox full of gold and valuable brandy and premium whiskey worth millions today."
http://www.mynorth.com/My-North/Augu...Treasure-Ship/
Northern Michigan: Discovering the Westmoreland Treasure Ship

http://donsdiverdown.blogspot.com/20...sure-ship.html

"..The whiskey, which if intact could be worth millions of dollars, was unable to be seen since the hold was collapsed under the weight of decks above it. Richardson discovered an access hole into the hold but with virtually no room to move within it.
“I wouldn’t go in there. I don’t need a drink that badly,” Richardson quipped." ]]> History Jono http://www.straightbourbon.com/forums/showthread.php?20023-Lake-Champlain-and-Great-Lakes-smugglers Why oak barrels? http://www.straightbourbon.com/forums/showthread.php?19597-Why-oak-barrels&goto=newpost Wed, 20 Mar 2013 20:42:29 GMT Is there some kind of rule or law that it has to be an oak barrel, or just tradition? Does oak have some kind of physical properties that tends to... Is there some kind of rule or law that it has to be an oak barrel, or just tradition? Does oak have some kind of physical properties that tends to make it the wood of choice?

Why not maple, cherry, cedar, even pine? I know it affects the flavor and color, but would it be too terrible to try? ]]> History Alden http://www.straightbourbon.com/forums/showthread.php?19597-Why-oak-barrels Copper Distilled Pure Old Bourbon Whiskey - Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 1858 http://www.straightbourbon.com/forums/showthread.php?19433-Copper-Distilled-Pure-Old-Bourbon-Whiskey-Boston-Medical-and-Surgical-Journal-1858&goto=newpost Wed, 06 Mar 2013 01:35:34 GMT See below an interesting Letter to the Editor in regards to a circular advertisement making the rounds in Boston, 1858. Fortunately, it is not a rant... See below an interesting Letter to the Editor in regards to a circular advertisement making the rounds in Boston, 1858. Fortunately, it is not a rant against bourbon but a rant in regards to what constituted truthful advertising that nature of how we know what we think we know:


STATE ASSAYERS AGAIN

Quis custodiet custodes ipsos*


Messrs Editors:

During the past week or two a firm in this city has been distributing a new circular setting forth the purity of “Copper Distilled Pure Old Bourbon Whiskey.” As they “beg leave to call your attention to its claims and also ask you to judge, personally, of its merits,” of course you will do so when they send you a dozen. This circular, in the regular style of all quack advertisements, expresses the delicacy of the proprietors “in resorting to any of the usual modes of announcement as they have heralded indiscriminately the good, the bad, and the indifferent.” Notwithstanding this unwillingness to register their “Copper Distilled Pure Old Bourbon Whiskey” among the quack medicines, the proprietors proceed to perpetrate that outrage upon Picken & Co.’s copper distilled &c. This Journal has shown the fallacy of believing in the certificates of State Assayers’ [examiners of ores and metals, that is]analysis of such articles, unless each bottle is tested, this firm must attach to their circulars the very certificates of the very men.

Now, in our view, if the reputation of any firm is not of itself sufficient to warrant the goodness and purity of any article they may sell upon their own statement, the certificates of all the assayers in Christendom would not save them, whether the article sold be Antiphlogistic Salt or Copper Distilled Pure Old Bourbon Whiskey.

This circular is a very queer one and contains numerous certifications. First, Messrs Weeks & Potter “pledge their personal credit to support the character of the whiskey.” Secondly, one assayer of ores and metals certifies to the character of a sample sent to him by Weeks & Potter. Thirdly, another assayer of ores and metals certifies to the character of a sample of whiskey sent to him. Both these gentlemen regard their particular samples as Bourbon Whiskey; but neither of them certify that they are what the circular states, and what whiskey drinkers are very desirous of knowing, that they are samples of Copper Distilled Pure Old Bourbon Whiskey. A link in the chain appears to be wanting. Were those samples of the “Copper Distilled?” That is all that the public wants to know, and we supposed that the assayers of ores and metals would give us the analysis not of the whiskey, but of the still. Unfortunate omission. Did the proprietors not remember that: “Whatever link you strike/ Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.”

However, to make up for this they give us a fifth certificate, signed by nine M.D.’s as if “confidence in the above statements of Drs. Jackson and Hayes” would give us confidence in the still, which they do not appear to have assayed.

Well, well, well. This reminds us of a story which was told, we believe of John Randolph, but of someone, at any rate. Two gentlemen, both unacquainted with the Virginian, agreed to acquainted, become and that one should introduce the other. The operation was somewhat in the following style. “Mr. Randolph, I wish to introduce to you my friend, Mr. -----. Mr. -----, Mr. Randolph.” “Ah, Mr. ----, I am very happy to make your acquaintance - but - who devil introduced you, Sir?”

C.E.B.
Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Volume 57

1858

*Who watches the watchmen ]]> History Fitz1776 http://www.straightbourbon.com/forums/showthread.php?19433-Copper-Distilled-Pure-Old-Bourbon-Whiskey-Boston-Medical-and-Surgical-Journal-1858