Walt wrote:

Dave Stallard wrote:

I used to make 'em with Four Roses or JW Dant. Now I use Makers Mark or
Elijah Craig or some other spendy yuppie whisky.
Could be the cheap stuff makes better Juleps...

Four Roses?? That stuff is for export only. I've only had it in
Europe. When/where were you making Juleps out of it?

Early eighties, mid-atlantic region. Not exactly the south, but below
the Mason Dixon line. About the only thing I remember about 4 roses is
that it was cheap.

I guess that must have been before they changed over to export only.
I've had a couple of times outside the US, it's not bad at all to drink
straight.

I haven't had JW Dant (I think it's a Heaven Hill brand), but it is
pretty downscale, I believe.

Now *that's* an understatement! Think rubbing alcohol with a little
shoe polish for color.

There's a lot of bad stuff out there that I never drink.

By the way, I saw in the news last night that Jim Beam had a barrel
house fire. Burning bourbon shooting flames into the air, the works.
That seems to happen every few years. Wild Turkey had one a couple of
years ago. Heaven Hill lost a whole distillery that way.

Dave