Does your spouse drink bourbon?

[Stu]

Bernadette loves malt neat. However she is finally learning to enjoy bourbon in "Kentucky coffee" (bourbon instead of Irish whiskey) and an unsweetened mint julep. She does enjoy a good rye neat or on one cube however.

[Whiskey Willie]

Nah, my wife does not partake in my bourbon. She prefers wine (her family owns a winery), though she has shown more interest in microbrews lately.

[Jono]

Nope...just foo foo drinks...Amaretto Stone Sours, Margaritas etc...nothing wrong with them...but no beer, no whiskey....actually, I would hate her having beer breath....fruit flavors are much better!

[camduncan]

My wife thinks I'm crazy.

Jen did/does too. Our recent trip to the USA were she met some of the SB.com crowd has mellowed her view though. Now she understands and appreciates (and even enjoys) the social aspect of what we do, as well as the industry that we all support, but she still thinks I'm crazy wanting to try and buy nearly every brand of bourbon I come across.

[SippinJim]

Nope! Ms. Sippin prefers either white or red wine which is OK with me.

[SBOmarc]

Kim doesn't get the bourbon thing at all. She does drink Wines, Champagne, Beer and all kinds of Martini's. She has no problem with my obsession, she encourages it.

[del]

My wife will only have Basil Heyden once in a while with water and lemon twist. That is a great bourbon if your wife has never had bourbon before.

My best friend Lynne loves her some bourbon. I bought her a bottle of Rock Hill Farms for her birthday

[Special Reserve]

del,

Welcome to the board. MI is well represented here.

By the way, my wife only occasionally will drink bourbon. She usually drinks beer or red wine. 35 years ago she hated beer until I introduced her to good beer, now she has one most every day.

Will

[ACDetroit]

Welcome aboard Del! Where you located? I'm in Harrison Township just north of Detroit.

Tony

[ratcheer]

My wife drinks bourbon once in a blue moon. At those times, it is mixed with Coca Cola. Her drinks of choice are Gin and Tonics and Margaritas.

Tim

[darkluna]

The Mrs. likes the bourbon. She has learned that if I'm drinking it, she will probably like it. This is a double-edged sword, as now my favorite bottles disappear twice as fast. She even likes OGD BIB for mixing our Manhattans.

[ratcheer]

The Mrs. likes the bourbon. She has learned that if I'm drinking it, she will probably like it. This is a double-edged sword, as now my favorite bottles disappear twice as fast. She even likes OGD BIB for mixing our Manhattans.

It seems to me that OGD BIB would be a perfect bourbon for Manhattans. Its not too expensive, either. Unless you have trouble finding it, what's the problem?

Tim

[del]

Welcome aboard Del! Where you located? I'm in Harrison Township just north of Detroit.

Tony

Thanks... I am in Ferndale. This site is great. I have been lurking for a while and just bought a bottle of Ten high the May BOTM. Not a bad bourbon at all for the money and blows away beam white in taste.

[jburlowski]

Joan certainly understands (tolerates?) my obsession... to the point where she will surprise me with a bottle from time to time that she thinks I will find interesting. She'll also suggest distillery trips and tastings, etc.

But when it comes to drinking she'll only taste it once in a while. Definitely prefers wheaters. Also will, from time to time, have a bourbon and cranberry juice. But, on the whole, she's more of a Beefeaters martini traditionalist.

[ratcheer]

But, on the whole, she's more of a Beefeaters martini traditionalist.

There's a lot to be said for that.

Tim

[gblick]

Well, I've been at this for a little over a year now (was a tequila sipper before) and haven't been able to get my wife to try any bourbon. About the only alcohol she'll drink is wine during holidays or the occasional margarita at the Mexican restaurant.

[jburlowski]

But, on the whole, she's more of a Beefeaters martini traditionalist.

There's a lot to be said for that.

Tim

I agree... for that and a whole lot of other reasons that will go unsaid here.

[marco246]

Mrs. marco246, otherwise known as She Who Must Be Obeyed, does not partake of alcoholic beverages at all. So she has been a cheap date and the designated driver for over 25 years. Works for us.

[Rughi]

Maia is 100% Rye Oriented in her Manhattans. No bourbon will do.

I've written several times about how she is never fooled with even a rye-heavy bourbon like Grand Dad or Four Roses. It's also not just the lower corn content of a rye, as she likes wheaters and straight wheat least of all.

She likes her rye.

Roger

[billthewoodguy]

Lauren will nose bourbon, and finds it to have a pleasant aroma- who knew?

but she recently tasted a bourbon with sour mix and she liked that.

Bill

[CorvallisCracker]

Sounds like there are very few of us whose spouses drink bourbon.

Kathy is a New Orleans native, and I guess bourbon was part of the lifestyle when she was growing up. Both her parents drank it, and during the holidays her mother would make a bread pudding that had bourbon in both the pudding and in the glaze.

I should say we are both very eclectic drinkers. In addition to bourbon and other whiskies, we both drink gin, rum, tequla and other spirits. We drink wine on a near-daily basis, and beer on occasions.

Our tastes are not identical, nor are our means of imbibing a particular spirit. As I mentioned in the thread-starter, she drinks her whiskey on-the-rocks. I usually have it straight. She also doesn't mind peat the way I do, so she likes a wider variety of Scotch. With gin, I usually have it in a martini while she has it in a gin-and-tonic.

[bigtoys]

Beer, wine (especially sparkling/Champagne), occasional margarita, bloody mary or Mai Tai for mine. At least no fruitinis.

[ratcheer]

Lauren will nose bourbon, and finds it to have a pleasant aroma- who knew?

but she recently tasted a bourbon with sour mix and she liked that.

Bill

Then, you should make her a real whiskey sour with fresh lemon juice and sugar. She should really like that.

Tim

[jburlowski]

Then, you should make her a real whiskey sour with fresh lemon juice and sugar. She should really like that.

Tim

Ahhhh... whiskeys sours: one of my favorite summer drinks. And you're right they should be made as you describe. (The slight variation I employ is to use bourbon that has been infused with fresh mint.)

[d_nelly78]

Not ussually but when her Captain runs out she will ask me to fix her a drink with my bourbon. She tasted the Eli Craig ( the good version not the one that tastes like ass) and loved it she drank up my whole bottle and when I went to replace it I got the more than usual off expression of EC. Obviously the EC was good if she liked it. Too bad every bootle of EC can't be up to par. She likes a good whiskey sour too but the carbs are way too high for her to drink regularly. I am sure she would love an authentic mint julep seeing how much she likes a good Mojito. But a mint julep seems so labor intensive. :skep: