Voyageur
Cheesehead
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Vodka, cognac, and I always have a 1.75 liter bottle of Jack Daniels #7 on hand. Those are my 3 "go-to" favorites. At times, I've even been known to have a quart or two Mason jars hanging around with some "special brew" that I get from a friend of my Brother-In-Law, who I met, in Kentucky, and I swear came right out of a family that lives so far up in the sticks that he would be the perfect person to describe as being the ultimate hillbilly. It included the bib overalls, with only one working strap! Seriously!You mentioned you like Vodka. We aren’t known for our vodka here in Kentucky, but we do do bourbon very well. In fact, right now I have open bottles of Blantons, Weller(antique),E.H. Taylor, Buffalo Trace and Makers Mark for my wife.
The distillery in Frankfurt for Buffalo Trace came out with, in the last year or two, a vodka called Wheatley. I’ve heard good things if it reaches that far.
But, if you want smooth, this guy does make the best shine I think in this world. He'd put the boys on that TV show about Moonshiners to shame. But, I don't know much else. You just don't ask questions, as you well know, living in Kentucky.
What a lot of people don't realize is that a lot of the brands you mentioned have their roots back to moonshiners. Their Master Distillers come from a long line of people who drove '49 Mercuries with a shine tank in the trunk, and a top end of 160 MPH, and a low center of gravity. In fact, in the Air Force, I met a guy whose Pappy was a Minister, and the guy I knew was a shine runner, and had one of those Mercuries. In fact, he went into the Air Force to avoid going to jail for running shine. He brought his "second car" to the base because his first one had been confiscated when he got caught, before enlisting. That car was something else. I rode with him at 145 MPH, and told him that if that speedometer ever went over 90 again, and wasn't going to ride with him to go out drinking.
Anyhow, David taught me what good shine was all about. He always had a couple of Mason jars full of it on weekends, when we couldn't leave the base, and didn't have the scratch to go to the on base club. Needless to say, we spent a lot of evenings just sipping on Cokes in the day room of our barracks, getting wasted, and nobody had a clue.
Sorry about that! I've done so much over a lifetime. It just comes out in bits and pieces.