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Recently I was fortunate enough to attend a "Whiskey tasting event" which gave me access to try more than I could have imagined in commercial products.
119 different samples with bottles up to the $180 price range.
I plan on writing a better overview of the day soon.

The thing I wanted to bring up was "Cabin Fever Bourbon". This stuff was something different. Its a MAPLE Syrup laced bourbon. One of the brother who distill it in NH, ya I know bourbon is from KY, was on hand and I got to speak to him at length. The stuff was 80 proof and smooth. It is one of those "are you sure there's alcohol in this" drinks. I can see myself sitting on the back porch with a tumbler half iced tea/ half cabin fever. If you get the chance to try this give it a shot. Or 2.

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Hmmmmm Iced tea. I'll have to try that with some of my stuff.

blanik

Olddog already teached me bout syrup. But I'd love to try theirs never the less.

Yup, a tablespoon full of maple syrup per gallon of UJSSM gives a nice background flavour.

real maple sugar in aged UJSM is a 'secret' of mine also. It really adds a wonder 'finish' to a easy to produce faux bourbon.

H.

works great in oaked DWWG too.

One of the brother who distill it in NH, ya I know bourbon is from KY

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"While it can be made anywhere in the United States, it is strongly associated with the Commonwealth of Kentucky."

We only use THE real maple syrup. I usually use a dark amber or sometimes a cooking grade because of the extra smokiness of the syrup. The light stuff is for the touristas.
I have had the Cabin Fever stuff. Not too bad.

SB

Maple sap has been running here for about a week... For some reason, when it starts running, so does my nose... My nose is a maple sap barometer... Go figure...

rad14701 wrote:Maple sap has been running here for about a week... For some reason, when it starts running, so does my nose... My nose is a maple sap barometer... Go figure...

Rad try some sinus buster nasal spray. After 48 years of hay-fever I tried this and it WORKS. Its a capstasian pepper spray and while it sounds crazy me and my boys swear by it. All 3 of us were allergy sufferers big time and after all that allegra and prescription stuff this simple stuff did it. Beside who doesn't like a lil hot pepper up there nose ?

I don't know what the Maple Syrup supply is like in other parts of the country Just know I have abundant resources here in the New England area.
Being spoiled that way. I can get these small bottles of Grade A amber 1.75 oz for $2 a pop. Anybody want them drop me a pm and I'll send em out in a shipping envelope. This pics background is a standard napkin.

Good looking future gift bottle too.

LWTCS wrote:Good looking future gift bottle too.

Oh........ is that why I bought the 24 pk. LOL

While back I was eating so many pancakes just to get the lil bottles.

But now I add syrup to my likker too. So getting them good looking little bottles is getting easier and I'm no longer sick andtired of pancakes and french toast.

Just a follow up story:

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Personally, I found the maple syrup to over powering. I would like to try it without the maple syrup, save it for the pancakes

MOONSHINE1 wrote:Personally, I found the maple syrup to over powering.

Your obviously putting in too much, you only need a small amount to give a background taste / flavour, too much is overpowering.


OD

olddog wrote:Your obviously putting in too much, you only need a small amount to give a background taste / flavour, too much is overpowering.

So says U

Gotta sweet tooth and I only make good solder joints 30% of the time.

What will I ever amount to?

Just don't combine drinkin and solderin, not a good mix.

Doesn't say anything about a distillery. Bet he's just buying aged product left over from a KY distillery and putting Maple Syrup in it. That's a liquer, not a bourbon. It has to be advertised as a 'flavored spirit' and does not meet the criteria for bourbon, though it's very likely that it started life as a bourbon, and probably from Kentucky as they do quite a bit of that. The bottle actually looks exactly like an "Old Rip Van Winkle" bottle and the labeling size, placement and even graphical decor is very similar. That would of course be the Buffalo Trace distillery as it does all of Jullian III's work these days as well as many others. There are always aged batches floating around to be bought in quantity. Good marketing idea of course but he hasn't done the hard work of setting up and running a distillery, but, if it's a unique taste it could work, and, you gotta at least give him credit for starting with bourbon. Can't say the same for these contemporary excresences of flavored vodkas that are merely bulk purchased as grain neutral and vat-flavored then packaded with some new twist then proceeding to make noises about 'dedication to quality,' which is just a load of manure.