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  • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    1 month ago

    If you make an aged oak spirit in the UK, it would be a corn whiskey, that exact same spirit in the USA would be Bourbon.

    Thank you for the being the stereotypical ignorant American who thinks bourbon is unique.

    concurrent resolution adopted by the United States Congress in 1964 declared bourbon to be a “distinctive product of the United States” and asked “the appropriate agencies of the United States Government … [to] take appropriate action to prohibit importation into the United States of whiskey designated as ‘Bourbon Whiskey’.”[26][27] A U.S. federal regulation now restricts the definition of bourbon for whiskey to only include spirits produced in the U.S.[28]

    That’s it, it’s literally a USA ego thing.

    Also, scotch is a terrible example, that’s another unique one, it’s made in Scotland only…. You really don’t know your whiskey history at all do you?


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    Hey you just described the requirement of corn whiskey? Anyone can distill a spirit that could be called Bourbon, but they can’t, since it wasn’t bottled in the USA.

    The only difference between a corn whiskey is bourbon is bottled in the USA, but try to make it sound better than it is. It’s a corn whiskey, bottled in the USA.


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    Try a corn whiskey, some people don’t like Rye or the other grains, but the only distinction (again) between corn whiskey and bourbon is quite literally Bourbon is only bottled in the USA. That’s it. Nothing else.

    The “baiting” is to find the Americans, they cling to bourbon is better, but it’s really not, it’s a corn whiskey, distilled in the USA. Americans are the only ones swooning over a marketing difference.

    You can take aged Kentucky bourbon over to the UK, but you couldn’t bottle is as bourbon, that’s how stupid this distinction is.