Canadian “bourbon”
I can already sense windy seething.
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I get a bit of snobbery with wine, beer, cheese, kombucha.
But whiskey??
Seems a bit about being a heroin connoisseur.
“Enjoy Mexican Black Tar. From the beautiful karst rich mountains and valley’s of Sinaloa. Delicately handcrafted with the very best private label chemicals and painstakingly bought to your door.”
Maybe Kentucky can capture a larger share of the gourmet heroin market.
To make up for their loss of whiskey sales.
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Whiskey and whisky. Scotch only comes from Scotland. Bourbon only comes from the US and has to be made from at least 51% corn grain. Shockingly, Tennessee whisky has to be produced in Tennessee, like Irish or Canadian whiskies have to be made in Ireland or Canada. Within Scotch whisky, you have Highlands, Speyside, Islay, etc. That doesn’t even get into aging statements, single malts or blends, rye vs corn vs barley, what kind of cask it’s aged in, etc.
Anyone can be a snob about anything.
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I guess you just mean Canadian whisky made mostly with corn instead of rye? They don’t call themselves a bourbon (as far as I can tell), so I’m not sure why anyone would be irked by it.
In the ad I saw they called it Canadian “bourbon”. Made in American oak casks.
Is there a tariff on those casks? /p
There’s an exemption. No wait there’s no exemption. Wait… 20%, no 10%. Wait, what day is it?
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“Bourbon of the North”. Here’s another.
Meh. Bourbon-style.
“mayonnaise-style spread”.
It’s always interesting where the lines get drawn.
America calling sparkling wine Champagne is ‘good marketing’; Canada calling this Bourbon-style seems positively restrained in comparison.
Consistency, as ever, remains optional.
I don’t really like bourbon. I need a bourbon drinker to step up and find out if it’s any good as a bourbon substitute.
For science.
Excellent tactic - no sense sullying your palate with sickly embalming fluid. Best delegated to a volunteer with fewer scruples.
I’ll take one for the team. Send me a bottle. I’ll cover any tarrifs.
You know they don’t call it straight champagne, it’s California Champagne, and it’s very few wineries that do this.
Because the Senate never ratified the Treaty of Versailles, after prohibition, US wine makers made what they called California Champagne. After long negotiations, in 2005 the US and the EU reached a trade agreement that California Champagne would no longer be used on labels, unless a producer was already using the champagne name.
Canadian Bourbon sounds good to me too…
obligatory xkcd reference…
geologically an excellent landscape to produce amazing whisky and is comparable to Kentucky. You could even say, we’re the “Kentucky North”! Our Lanark Highlands Whisky
Highlands you say?