It's actually the most regulated (for purity, recipe, etc.) whisky in the world, and if one looks at what the Irish and the Scots are doing these days (finishing in sherry casks, port casks, etc.), in some ways they are starting to mimic what was done in creating "bourbon".

Due to the French influence in New Orleans, the Kentucky producers used the fired oak casks to give the whisky a taste somewhat "towards" the brandy the Frenchified folk of N.O. preferred. And so was born the signature taste.

Due to all of the rotgut being made, The Bottled in Bond Act was passed, guaranteeing that if it said Kentucky Bourbon on the bottle, and 100 Proof/Bottled in Bond, it was a guaranteed product (no shoe polish or methyl alcohol, etc.).

Indeed Kentucky Whisky is something of which we should be respectful. I like Rye a lot as well.

It's actually the world's most regulated (for purity, recipe, etc.) whisky in the world, and if one looks at what the Irish and the Scots are doing these days (finishing in sherry casks, port casks, etc.), in some ways they are starting to mimic what was done in creating "bourbon".

Due to the French influence in New Orleans, the Kentucky producers used the fired oak casks to give the whisky a taste somewhat "towards" the brandy the Frenchified folk of N.O. preferred. And so was born the signature taste.

Due to all of the rotgut being made, The Bottled in Bond Act was passed, guaranteeing that if it said Kentucky Bourbon on the bottle, and 100 Proof/Bottled in Bond, it was a guaranteed product (no shoe polish or methyl alcohol, etc.).

Indeed Kentucky Whisky is something of which we should be respectful. I like Rye a lot as well.