KingOfPancrase wrote:hawdrigoh wrote:
I was under the impression that Tennessee whiskey and bourbon are very similar but Tennessee whiskey undergoes extra filtering. I suppose strictly speaking it is probably a bourbon, but if you tell a producer of Tennessee whiskey that they're making bourbon they'll shit all over you.
I don't know or care about any other brand of "Tennessee Whiskey" but Jack Daniels is Bourbon. Just look up the ingredients and then look up what determines if a liquor is bourbon.
This is why it's not that simple:
As defined in the North American Free Trade Agreement, Tennessee Whiskey is classified as a straight bourbon authorized to be produced in the state of Tennessee.[
On May 13, 2013, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam signed House Bill 1084, requiring the Lincoln County process to be used for products produced in the state labeling themselves as "Tennessee Whiskey, with a particular exception tailored to exempt Benjamin Prichard's, and including the existing requirements for bourbon. As federal law requires statements of origin on labels to be accurate, the Tennessee law effectively gives a firm definition to Tennessee whiskey, requiring Tennessee origin, maple charcoal filtering by the Lincoln County process prior to aging, and the basic requirements of bourbon (at least 51% corn, new oak barrels, charring of the barrels and limits on alcohol by volume concentration for distillation, aging and bottling).
Going strictly by ingredients you'd call it a bourbon. But it seems they are trying to make a point of classifying Jack Daniels (and Tennessee whiskey in general) as something different than bourbon. It comes down to whether one considers the extra processing as producing something "different" from bourbon.
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 7:07 pm
