Celebrating A Real American Liquor

September is National Bourbon Heritage Month.  In its honor I will post two bourbon cocktail recipes this month.  One is an original creation, and the other is the product of a great bartender and author.  Stay tuned for details ……

Here’s a quick refresher about bourbon — all bourbon is whiskey but not all whiskey is bourbon.  Only the United States can make bourbon. Although most bourbon on the market does come from Kentucky, it can come from anywhere in the United States as long as its grain mixture contains at least 51% corn and it ages for at least two years in new charred oak barrels.

Now that you’ve read through this legal and technical stuff, you’ve earned yourself a bourbon or two.  If you’d like some ideas, click the bourbon categories link on the right.  Want a classic?  Can’t go wrong with a Manhattan.  Are you a 007 fan like me?  A Pussycat will make you think you have a license to kill.  Are you a Francophile?  Say bonjour to a Bourbon Renaissance.  Think you’re a smooth criminal?  Pull an Inside Job.  Want to honor the U.S. of A?  Have some Pride and Joy as you salute the RWB.   The possibilities are endless, at least until you run out of bourbon.

All of this typing is making me thirsty.  Time to go to the liquor cabinet ….