Your are both partially correct. In order to be sold in the U.S. as bourbon it must be made in this country, but a distiller in, say, France can manufacture a product using the same techniques used to make bourbon here, and call it bourbon as long as it isn't marketed and sold in the U.S.

 

Also, a distiller in any country can make a product following every requirement that classifies it as bourbon, and if you drink it, you're drinking bourbon, no matter what you call it.

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Your are both partially correct. In order to be sold in the U.S. as bourbon it must be made in this country, but a distiller in, say, France can manufacture a product using the same techniques used to make bourbon here, and call it bourbon as long as it isn't marketed and sold in the U.S.

 

Also, a distiller in any country can make a product following every requirement that classifies it as bourbon, and if you drink it, you're drinking bourbon, no matter what you call it.

You may be correct in that but I was pretty sure it was copyrighted.

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Nearly all bourbon produced comes from the state of Kentucky, and many people hold that only corn whiskey from Kentucky can truly be referred to as bourbon – though a few exceptions seem to belie this statement. Popular Kentucky bourbon manufacturers include Jim Beam, Old Crow, Maker’s Mark, Wild Turkey, and Heaven Hill. Some bourbon manufacturers outside of Kentucky include Triple Eight of Massachusetts, Ezra Brooks of Missouri, Rebel Yell of Missouri, and Virginia Gentleman of Virginia. It should be noted that Jack Daniel’s, which many people think of as a quintessential bourbon, is in fact a Tennessee whiskey, not a bourbon at all.

 

 

Since 1964, bourbon has been the official spirit of the United States, when an Act of Congress declared it to be “America’s Native Spirit.” Bourbon is one of the few drinks the United States claims solely as its own, holding fast to the term as one that indicates American production.

 

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-bourbon.htm

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Your are both partially correct. In order to be sold in the U.S. as bourbon it must be made in this country, but a distiller in, say, France can manufacture a product using the same techniques used to make bourbon here, and call it bourbon as long as it isn't marketed and sold in the U.S.

 

Also, a distiller in any country can make a product following every requirement that classifies it as bourbon, and if you drink it, you're drinking bourbon, no matter what you call it.

BTW, the EU has the same rules about Feta cheese and Champagne.  Champagne can only come from Champagne, France.  Feta can only come from Greece.

 

As for Beam, it will suck as much under foreign ownership as Budweiser does.

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BTW, the EU has the same rules about Feta cheese and Champagne. Champagne can only come from Champagne, France. Feta can only come from Greece.


As for Beam, it will suck as much under foreign ownership as Budweiser does.

Parma ham has the same restrictions, it can only come from pigs processed in or near Parma. Which meant the pigs would be bred and slaughtered all over Europe, trucked to Parma where they are processed and packaged and shipped back to where it's sold.

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BTW, the EU has the same rules about Feta cheese and Champagne.  Champagne can only come from Champagne, France.  Feta can only come from Greece.

 

As for Beam, it will suck as much under foreign ownership as Budweiser does.

 

Mexico has a similar law regarding tequila. To be called tequila it must be distilled from the blue agave plant and produced either in one Mexican state, or limited regions of four other states. Mescal is distilled from different agave plants. So, all tequilas are also mecals, but not all mescals are tequilas. Mexico has the international license to the word "tequila", which is recognized by the U.S.

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Heart disease.

Obesity would have been the number one answer tho...

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Peyton must store oxygen in that forehead of his. No way I'd still be alive after all that choking.

 

Conan O'Brien:

 

A Japanese company bought the Jim Beam whiskey distillery for $16 billion. This morning the Japanese company woke up in an alley and said, "I did what?"



 

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Conan O'Brien:

 

A Japanese company bought the Jim Beam whiskey distillery for $16 billion. This morning the Japanese company woke up in an alley and said, "I did what?"

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Been there, done that. Just the smell of bourbon makes me ill.

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Been there, done that. Just the smell of bourbon makes me ill.

Mr. Bunny can't even say the word tequila without getting nauseous...and he hasn't had any since he was in his early 20's!!! :blink:

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What in the Wide Wide World of Sports is agoin' on here???

Mr. Bunny can't even say the word tequila without getting nauseous...and he hasn't had any since he was in his early 20's!!! :blink:

 

Thats funny, thats pretty much the same here....although I succumb to peer pressure too much whenever my friends are buying shots, so I don't say no to tekillya...but I hate it. 

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