{"id":567,"date":"2017-06-10T15:58:28","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T19:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/?p=567"},"modified":"2017-06-10T15:58:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T19:58:28","slug":"a-little-bourbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/2017\/06\/10\/a-little-bourbon\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Bourbon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been quiet here lately as I was out of town for a 17 day trip across 10 states.  Sure is nice to be home.  Part of that time was spent in Kentucky &#8211; my first visit &#8211; visiting distilleries in Bardstown, Louisvile, and Lexington.  I had a great time touring and tasting, and I brought home a few souvenirs of the trip, many of which are only available at the distilleries.  <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_mmd_566\" class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_2959.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_2959-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"attachment-1024x576 size-1024x576\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" align=\"none\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Back Row, Left to Right<\/strong>: Woodford Reserve Distillery Series Kentucky Rye Whiskey, Jim Beam Stillhouse Select Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey, Knob Creek (additional details omitted for reasons), Woodford Reserve Distiller&#8217;s Select Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey &#8220;Kentucky Derby 143&#8221; Label, Buffalo Trace White Dog (x2), Barton Bourbon Cream, I.W. Harper 15 Year Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey, Blade and Bow Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Front Row, Left to Right<\/strong>: Bulleit Bourbon (gift), Elijah Craig Barrel Select Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey, a pair of tasting glasses from Jim Beam Urban Stillhouse in Louisville, Jack Rudy Cocktail Co. Bourbon Cocktail Cherries, Wordford Reserve Aromatic Bitters, Bittercube Trinity Bitters.<\/p>\n<p>In the background, you can see the pile of bags and other packing material it was in.  Just to the right is a bag of &#8220;Barrel Char&#8221; from Barton Distillery, which is sold for adding to your grill for smoking food.  I may try some in my electric smoker, however, I plan to use it in my tabletop aging barrel to try and help speed age some corn whiskey.  <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been quiet here lately as I was out of town for a 17 day trip across 10 states. Sure is nice to be home. Part of that time was spent in Kentucky &#8211; my first visit &#8211; visiting distilleries in Bardstown, Louisvile, and Lexington. I had a great time touring and tasting, and I [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[128,129],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bourbon","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions\/570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}