THE GRAND OLD FASHIONED
Suntory Global Spirits owns and produces Old Grand-Dad Bourbon Whiskey, which is distilled at the Jim Beam distillery in Clermont, Kentucky. For those of you interested in provenance, Suntory Holdings acquired Beam Inc. in 2014. I’ve been using Old Grand-Dad Bonded for my Old Fashioned since 2017. I love the 63% corn, 27% rye, and 10% malted barley mash bill because I think it stands up well to dilution.
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Behind the idea that pretty packaging and on-trend marketing slogans sell products lies a mountain of evidence that what our customers purchase, deep down, really isn’t the product we’re pushing. Not really. The real product, what’s actually being sold, whether we know it or not, is rarely what meets the eye.
The King’s Peach
Modern bartending has grown under the watchful demand for complete mastery of prohibition era techniques incorporating trends propagated over the circus of social media. And that, my friends, is a GOOD thing.
