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Happy Repeal Day, folks!
Yes, on this day in 1933, Prohibition was repealed! So to celebrate this most holy of days here at Rancho Serious, I went to da store and plunked down the cash.
Tried this Woodford Reserve Master's Collection oat with a shooting buddy on Saturday:
Grabbed some long-awaited Garrison Brothers Balmorhea and some Weller:
And the Michter's Sour Mash is really good. Had some with a friend crashing at my place a week ago, and it was pronounced "Muy Delicioso!"
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I took my wife to the local bar after getting our Christmas tree. Didn't realize it was the 85th Anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition until we were there. They had a bunch of specials for the occasion and only eight or so people were in the place. Brought home some bourbon barrel ales after trying a bunch of different ones.
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Interesting - what type of barrels were they aged in, do you know?
Experimentation with woods and maturation can be a lot of fun.
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Here's hoping Carrie Nation is still burning in hell and a reminder that socialist "do gooders" who wish to inflict their morals on everyone else are nothing new.
It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
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Repeal of Prohibition Day? I'll drink to that.
(I even have some Woodford.)
" Nil desperandum - Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it. "
- Samuel Adams -
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My birthday is celebrated all over because of this.
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An eternal reminder of “unforeseen” consequences and the folly of emotion based governance.
The interesting thing to me is that at least back then politicians still felt it necessary to amend the Constitution to ban alcohol. Today they would ban it by legislation.
"A flute without holes, is not a flute. A donut without a hole, is a Danish." - Ty Webb
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I have a bottler of W L Wellers Old Antique coming and just got a bottle of Macallan 15yr old scotch. Buddy recommended the Macallan to me so I thought I'd try it out. I'm more of a bourbon guy but have been interested in Scotch for a bit now and this is my 1st foray into it.
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Duck Tape can't fix stupid but it sure muffles the sound!
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Thanks to Prohibition for giving us prima facie evidence why legalizing and taxing drugs is the only solution to that problem and for providing one of the main arguments against repealing the Second Amendment.
Cheers!
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Celebrated with some nice Sazerac
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