Now's here's a hike we oughta take - the Whiskey Trail. Drink where George Washington drank! And wouldn't you know, one of the stops is in Kentucky, along with four operating distilleries that are open to the public.
Posted by tizzie at October 07, 2004 01:41 PMJust imagine - a monkey meet-up on the Whiskey Trail. C'mon! Even Miguel should fly over for this.
Listen to this historic fact!
Also displayed are a confiscated copper still that belonged to George Washington and a number of pre-Prohibition whiskey bottles and containers, including a 1854 E.C. Booz bottle, the brand from which the word 'booze' originated.
Now that's educational.
Posted by: tizzie on October 7, 2004 01:45 PMOh Miguel will fly over for this, I assure you, Tizzie!
Will he fly out again though? Imagine the hell of answering the phone at the end of each projected stay and it's me saying, for the third year running, I've decided to stay until the end of the month and was calling to know what monkey-lover's parties were planned and would it be OK for you to store two containers-full of vintage paperbacks I'd been buying for next to nothing and, about that offer you once made in April 2002, to put me up, is is still going?
"Hiya EBK! It's me again, Miguel! Right, I'm sitting at the bar of the Clift hotel and this idiot bartender is telling me to put out my cigar. Would you have a word with him?"
"Uncle Fes! So how's it going - since yesterday lunchtime? Listen: any chance of borrowing that dapper car of yours for an impromptu trip to New Orleans? Would you be a buddy and put a crate of George Dickel (The No. 12, mind!) in the boot? "
"ColdChef! Guess who this is! What? Yeah, vacapinta! I'm in Lousiana...yeah...in Fes's Aston Martin, great guy, always there for a friend. Thing is the gearbox seems to have conked out - filthy British rubbish, ha ha! - and I was wondering whether you could, you know, contact the local dealer... No, nothing expensive... just enough to get it back to him; it's better that he deals with it, don't you agree?"
"Crash, buddy! Can't make it to the barbecue tomorrow. Would Monday night be OK? Make it late, though... midnight would be best. You have to what? Get up early in the morning? Tell you what, leave everything prepared in the garden - don't forget the dry rub, amigo! - and I'll find a way. You'll leave beer in the fridge? Hey, I don't really like beer, to be honest...I was thinking more along the lines of a very dry, cold Puligny Montrachet...oh well, thanks a lot, what a friend you turned out to be! *slams phone*
*rings again*
Have you got Lupo's address? No, forget about the phone number - I want to surprise the old devil! I can't seem to contact him through his blog. Same run-around with dong resin - his publishers say he's passed away. Bastard probably doesn't want to see me, ungrateful cad.
"Hey, Kafka! Hey, that whiskey trail reunion was fun, you irredeemable drunkard, ha ha! What say you we do it again, but this time just the two of us, "mano a mano"? What do you mean you didn't go? Listen, I'm only ten minutes away from your "pad" and I've brought you a complete collection of my novels, which I thought I'd leisurely translate for you, over a few of those famous Californian eggnogs..."
Oh Tizzie, tempt me not! :)
[ Apologies for the verbosity - it comes and it goes...]
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I'll go, but only if we can stop by Jack Daniels and give 'em whatfor.
The nerve!
(Oh, and will someone alert the nurse that the restraints on Miguel's typing hand seem to have gotten loose?)
(I keed.)
Posted by: dana on October 7, 2004 03:49 PMThey lowered their potency down to 40 proof, arto (from 43 proof, IIRC). Bastids.
More to the topic, I'd love to join the Bourbon Tour '04, tizz. More than likely, though, I'd have to pass.
However, if you all happen to take up arms at the Knob Creek distillery and set up camp Ruby Ridge style, I'm there with bells on. And an ice bucket in hand.
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