Fighting cock 103 vs OWA 107

[Gillman]

Once in Louisville, I bought a bottle of current FC. I remember this well, it was on Cane Run Road. The area through which it ran, or the part I was in, seemed nondescript, but I was intrigued by the name, Cane Run Road. Where did it come from, what did it mean? Was sugar cane once transported down that road to the distilleries to make rum alongside the native bourbon? (That's my best guess but I'm probably wrong).

Anyway on Cane Run Road in a small store near the motel I was staying in (this was on a private so to speak visit to Louisville to visit some bourbon friends there), I was looking for dusties, found none, so I thought I'd buy some current bourbon. I bought, I'm not making this up, OWA 107 and FC.

The clerk told me that most of the FC he sold was in the Fall. I said, why? He said, I guess it's because of the label, it's what the hunters buy, and Fall is the hunting season. The label does evoke I suppose the idea of hunting although not directly. And so we talked about why different brands sell to different people. It was just a regular smaller liquor store but I enjoyed that conversation and now I read that FC sells for that reason elsewhere in the south too.

It's good bourbon, so is OWA 107. I don't think I ever had the 8 year old FC but the current one is excellent whiskey at a very good price factoring too the proof. I recall tasting them both in the motel room, with Dominos pizza alongside. I had a bit of each neat and then mixed them with non-diet Coke. I probably have a real bourbon and Coke once every two years or so, that was one of the times. Very good combo with the pizza. That was the first time I had Dominos. I ordered it again in another city but it wasn't as good. Maybe it was because I had neither FC nor OWA 107 to go along with it.

Gary

[PaulO]

I'll be making a trip to Bloomington in a few weeks to help a friend move. Even before I checked out this thread, I was thinking to try and pick up some FC and OWA 107! I have sadly discovered that the few stores that carry OWA run out for long spans of time :hot: They can have a ton of everthing else; big open space where the OWA belongs. We'll see, and looking for Rittenhouse; worse than trying to find dusties.