Bourbon thread

[KevinM]

I found it.........https://www.jurawhisky.com/us/all-whisky/signature-series/12-year-old/

 

Jura

From Islay, you can gaze east and see Jura. It feels like just a quick swim away.

The small island is relatively wild and scarcely populated—fewer than 200 people live here. The island’s single road leads to its namesake distillery, the island’s only pub and one hotel.

Author George Orwell once called the island “the most un-get-at-able place.” He wrote his dystopian novel 1984 while he lived in a farmhouse amid this idyllic backdrop.

In the late 1950s, two landowners, dismayed at the island’s declining population, hired William Delmé-Evans to build a whisky distillery. He went to extreme lengths to ship in unusually tall stills, which are believed to produce a lighter distillate.

According to Graham Logan, distiller manager for Jura, working within Scotland’s smallest distilling island community helps to make the whisky unique.

Photo by Dan Kenyon

“The reality is that living on a remote island, in a small community of about 180 people, means everyone has to work together,” says Logan.

He would know: Logan worked more than two decades alongside former distillery manager Willie Cochrane, a beloved figure who retired in 2016 after a 39-year career.

Logan started out 25 years ago, when he manned the stills and mash tubs, and worked his way up to distillery manager. When he first set eyes on Jura, Logan was aboard the HMS Liverpool during his time as a marine engineering mechanic in the Royal Navy. Little did he know that his father had accepted a job on Jura, and that he’d soon call it home.

“For two centuries, whisky has been our only major export, and the distillery is the main driver of tourism,” he says. “It takes more than barley, water and yeast to make Jura 10. It takes an island.”

Try This

Jura 10 Year Old; $55. The distillery’s newest bottling is an easy-drinking dram. Time in former Bourbon and oloroso Sherry barrels means that lip-smacking hazelnut, coffee and cocoa take a starring role, and it all finishes with just a mild puff of smoke.

[harv]

Has anyone tried this beer ? 8%, and tastes pretty good 👍....harv 

[HubertB]

38 minutes ago, harv said:

Has anyone tried this beer ? 8%, and tastes pretty good 👍....harv 

I can drink strong stuff, but positively dislike the concept of beer with a strong alcohol content …

Hubert

[harv]

It's pretty dam good !

...harv 

[BlrwestSiR]

1 hour ago, HubertB said:

I can drink strong stuff, but positively dislike the concept of beer with a strong alcohol content …

Hubert

This one might scare you Hubert. 

I had it at Christmas after it's been aging since 2015. 

11% which means they have to call it barley wine instead of beer. It's on the sweet side and very smooth. 

[harv]

Forgot to mention,  it's cheap. $10 a 12 pack. All you need for an evening alone....harv 

[ScottsGT]

But come on Harv, at the end of the night, you’re still drinking Natty Light. 🤮 Just a little stronger. 
 

We use to do a weekend camping trip to a friends shack down on the marsh in Charleston.  We would all bring beer but this guy would drink everyone else’s until we ran out then he would get his cooler out of his truck.  Cheap bastard would show up with natty light to ruin our evening after drinking our slightly more expensive, but still low on the food chain beer. 

[harv]

Well buddy, come on over and we will drink the good stuff....harv 

[harv]

4 beers and , well what can I say....