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Jack Daniel's Old No. 7
Tennessee Whiskey — Tennessee, USA
Reviewed
March 16, 2017 (edited December 2, 2018)
When I was a kid chemistry sets were popular one Christmas. I ran across one recently at an estate sale and thought, “Gee, shouldn’t that thing still be quarantined for radioactivity?” Sulfur was everyone’s favorite because every kid in town knew it was the primary ingredient needed in making gunpowder and stink bombs. It’s amazing how we all learned this simultaneously, but it doesn’t surprise me because in those days we had something faster than the Internet; it was called a bicycle! Sulfur was also responsible for giving us our first lessons in chemical engineering. It didn’t take long to figure out its molecules were made up of these little tiny meat hooks that once attached to the nose tissue would hang on for weeks. My older brother was the first to get me, “Here, take a big whiff of this.” Mad as hell, I had to exact my revenge on my little sister, and so forth down the line till everyone got trained. I think the same thing still happens with some whisky, and that’s the point I would like to make about this one.
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Priceless! :)
Thanks for the compliments! If you folks keep educating me, maybe I’ll try a real review some day.
Nice story...you bought back fond memories of my early chem eng days ( injecting a 5 molar sulfuric acid into the coke machine for free sodas is one of them)
Excellent stuff... the story, not the whiskey ;-)
Great things happen when funny anecdotes, eloquence and bad whisky meet. Thanks for the chuckle!
I almost gave it a "1" but I was feeling charitable. :)
HA! Great story. I really dislike JD. It's barely tolerable as a mixer. Way overpriced for what it is