From: "Mark" 

And to think I was laughing at Gary stocking up on 86 proof Jack 
<101 Wild Turkey is a far more precious and threatened commodity
now!>

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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> Kegs of Kentucky Bourbon may be the future 'gold' standard 
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> "Mark"  wrote in message
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>> Shit, you finally got my attention Rich  > bottle will cover the new temperature controlled warehouses though>
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>> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
>> news:43d96d59$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> http://www.nrdc.org/onearth/06win/frontlines.asp
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>>> Since the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794, when farmers of Scottish and Irish
>>> descent tarred and feathered government excise collectors, Kentuckians
>>> have fought hard for their bourbon. Federal law makes it very clear that
>>> unless your whiskey is made from a mash containing 51 percent to 79
>>> percent corn and produced and stored for at least one of its two years
>>> of aging in Kentucky, you can't call it Kentucky bourbon. But if a
>>> recent study conducted for the Commonwealth of Kentucky is correct,
>>> global warming may soon make it impossible to produce good Kentucky
>>> bourbon --  at least in Kentucky.
>>>
>>> According to the author, Mike Jones, a researcher at American
>>> University, a bourbon's distinctive Kentucky flavor comes from the
>>> seasonal warming and cooling of the whiskey during its aging. This is
>>> done in white oak barrels that have been "toasted" in order to
>>> caramelize the sugars in the wood and then charred on the inside to
>>> impart flavor to the whiskey during storage. "When the
temperature rises
>>> in the summer, the bourbon expands," Jones says,
"and with lower
>>> temperatures in the winter, it contracts. This movement gives the
>>> bourbon its amber color and oak flavor."
>>>
>>> Producers consider these temperature variations so critical that during
>>> the course of their storage, barrels are shifted from the lower racks in
>>> the warehouse to the upper racks. However, the 3-degree Fahrenheit
>>> average temperature increase predicted for the state over the next 100
>>> years will mean less variation between winter and summer temperatures.
>>> The study's sorry conclusion: "In the future, global
warming may affect
>>> the weather patterns which are essential in Kentucky for the aging
>>> process."
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