Favorite snack alongside your bourbon

[highlife]

Hey all, what is your favorite snack to accompany your pour? Nuts? Chips? It's Monday night football tonight and I need some ideas.

Cheers!

[barturtle]

Chocolate....or (vanilla) ice cream...or almonds, macadamias, cashews.

[cowdery]

I'm a pretzels guy anyway and also find them a good complement to bourbon, but mostly what I like with bourbon is...

...more bourbon.

[DrinkyBanjo]

You took the words right out of my mouth.

[scopenut]

If drinking on the rocks, it's pretzels. If neat, maybe a small bit of dark chocolate, otherwise nothing.

-Kevin

[jburlowski]

Chocolate (of course)... also nuts )macadamias mixed with dry-roasted almonds).

Lately, when I want something a little more substantial, its been crackers and some really good triple-cream cheese.

[SBOmarc]

I am with the pretzel group, but most of the time not too much else but bourbon.

[jeff]

Right now I'm enjoying the heavenly combination of Rittenhouse Rye BIB and pistachios. Try it, trust me!

[ratcheer]

I usually don't eat anything when I'm drinking spirits, but when I occasionally do it is usually either natural, unsalted nuts (pecans, almonds, walnuts), dried fruit (raisins, cranberries, apples, etc), or, rarely, brown sugar or other darkly sweet candy.

Tim

[cowdery]

While I can't say I often have it, even though it's fairly easy to make, there is a great spread for crackers, that you generally can only find in Kentucky, called Benedictine. It doesn't contain bourbon, but it's such a Kentucky "thing" that it just has to go well with bourbon.

It is a cream cheese base flavored with cucumber and onion juice, then colored just a little with green food coloring.

I don't know much about it, except it is ubiquitous in Kentucky. I don't know where it comes from, why it is called that, or why it has to be green. I like it. It's tasty.

Recipes are easily found on the web.