Book of Bourbon

A whiskey adventure for you and me.

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“There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.”

Raymond Chandler

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“I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.”

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five

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"Whiskey is by far the most popular of all remedies that won't cure a cold."

Jerry Vale

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1965

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Home-infused fig bourbon by Drew Gosselin. 

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Some Friday night notes.

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How could two women be more different than the beautiful languid Carolina girl and this swift handsome girl from Utica, best Dutch stock? One thing was sure. Each was to be courted, loved, drunk with, with bourbon. I should have stuck with bourbon.

Walker Percy (from Bourbon, Neat)

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For the gold bar of my dreams. 

Teardrop Barspoon. [Buy.]

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Portland bartender Evan Zimmerman, of Laurelhurst Market, arranges his bar spoons to aid you in stirred drinks. 

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Maple Leaf 

INGREDIENTS

2 ounces bourbon

1/2 ounce pure maple syrup

1/2 ounce lemon juice

1 cinnamon stick

DIRECTIONS

1. To make the maple leaf cocktail, combine the bourbon, maple syrup, and lemon juice in a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with the cinnamon stick.

2. Mix, shake, repeat as often as the party requires.

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I saw a notice that said 'Drink Canada Dry' and I've just started.

Brendan Behan

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Wherever you are…

Early Times advertisement featuring some interesting “city-themed” recipes.

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Now isn’t that just the cutest thing you’ve ever seen? #fourroses #bourbon #whiskey #airplane #mini (Taken with Instagram)

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From "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" :

The whisky they drank that evening (two big bottles of it) is important. Otherwise, it would be hard to account for what followed. Perhaps without it there would never have been a café. For the liquor of Miss Amelia has a special quality of its own. It is clean and sharp on the tongue, but once down a man it glows inside him for a long time afterward. And that is not all. It is known that if a message is written with lemon juice on a clean sheet of paper there will be no sign of it. But if the paper is held for a moment to the fire then the letters turn brown and the meaning becomes clear. Imagine that the whisky is the fire and that the message is that which is known only in the soul of a man — then the worth of Miss Amelia's liquor can be understood.

-Carson McCullers, 1951

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Alyson Thomas

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A man does not exist until he is drunk.

Ernest Hemingway