Bourbon: The spirit that doesn't play by the rules

Taking time out from his busy National Bourbon Heritage Month schedule, Bernie Lubbers -- officially the whiskey ambassador for Heaven Hill Distilleries but more commonly known as "the whiskey professor" -- spoke to The Daily Star by phone about an unpretentious specialty born of "bea...

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Published inMcClatchy - Tribune Business News
Main Author Fleming-Farrell, Niamh
Format Newsletter
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington Tribune Content Agency LLC 23.09.2013
Subjects
Beer
Liquor
Whiskey
United States > US
Kentucky
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Summary:Taking time out from his busy National Bourbon Heritage Month schedule, Bernie Lubbers -- officially the whiskey ambassador for Heaven Hill Distilleries but more commonly known as "the whiskey professor" -- spoke to The Daily Star by phone about an unpretentious specialty born of "beautiful mistakes." People had toasted barrels for a couple of thousand years, but there's a difference between toasting a barrel with a passive fire and actually lighting the inside on fire, and that's what makes bourbon totally different than any other whiskey in the world, because now by law we must use a charred barrel.