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11 years 5 months ago #26778 by OleCowboy

Siscowet wrote:

faawrenchbndr wrote: Sippin a bit of Macallen 18

Excellent stuff. 8 days in Scotland put me in Scotch heaven.

You need 8 days in Texas

1) Introducing Ranger Creek Rimfire Mesquite Smoked Texas Whiskey


We’re proud to announce the second release in our Small Caliber Series, our line of creative, limited edition whiskeys aged in small barrels and sold in small bottles. Ranger Creek Rimfire is a single malt whiskey lightly smoked with Texas mesquite that was sourced from a local Texas farmer. The nose brings about sweet tropical notes of ripe mango and dried banana with a hint of vanilla. The taste is smooth and delicate with a light malty sweetness. And the finish is soft, balanced, and dry with hints of light smoke and roasted chocolate. A few drops of water help to enhance the smoke and highlight the mesquite flavor.

Limited Edition

Each bottle of whiskey in our Small Caliber Series is hand labeled with the batch number, bottle number, season, and maturation time. Limited production of these unique, innovative whiskeys makes them special collector’s item products. Less than 500 cases of Ranger Creek Rimfire will be released, so whiskey enthusiasts are encouraged to buy bottles of this innovative whiskey while they last.

Uniquely Texan and Grain to Glass

Ranger Creek Rimfire, along with all of our products, is handcrafted in San Antonio from grain to glass in a labor intensive, manual process that takes love, time, and dedication. Some competitors take short cuts and buy their spirits from someone else. We do it like true Texans should.

2) Texas Straight Bourbon Whiskey
We’re Making Bourbon in Texas

It turns out bourbon doesn’t have to be made in Kentucky. So we’re making it in Texas in a truly Texan way by using weather, attitude, and premium ingredients from the Lone Star State. Our goal is not to replicate Kentucky bourbon in Texas but to make Texas Bourbon.



We’re maturing the same bourbon in both traditional big barrels and non traditional small barrels. The big barrels will take years to fully mature. As a matter of fact, in order to be called Straight Bourbon, a bourbon must be aged for a minimum of two years. We’re one of the first distilleries to make bourbon in Texas (legally, anyway), so we’re not sure exactly how long it will take the big barrels to mature. But we’ll figure it out and be sure to let you know when it’s ready! We anticipate release in 2013-2014, but we can’t rush Mother Nature.

In the Meantime, Small Barrel Bourbon

While we wait for the Straight Bourbon to mature, we have Ranger Creek .36. It’s the small barrel version of our Texas Bourbon that matures in a matter of months instead of years. You can try it now and then try our Straight Bourbon when it is ready. The end result will be an interesting barrel experiment – one of the only kind we know of. We encourage you to buy a bottle of Ranger Creek .36 to drink and another to save and try side-by-side with the big barrel version when it is released in 2-3 years.

I used to sell liquor, Scotch and the American Whiskey/Bourbon were my lines. I look forward to the soon to be released Texas Single Malt but in the interim I drink Ranger .36. I have been a Bourbon drinking since my early days in college and trust me I have drank my fair share of Bourbon and whiskeys. Texas Ranger .36 is the best Bourbon I have ever drank by magnitudes. Nothing out there compares with this. It ain't cheap!

I drink my bourbon at room temp with a single small cube of CLEAR ice or just a frozen glass.

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11 years 5 months ago #26779 by Siscowet
You know, I just realized, every good Sommalier of fine spirits should pack a 1911. No one would ever argue with his wine choices.

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11 years 5 months ago #26780 by faawrenchbndr
I don't normally drink Scotch,......but when I do, I prefer Macallen.

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11 years 5 months ago #26783 by Siscowet

faawrenchbndr wrote: I don't normally drink Scotch,......but when I do, I prefer Macallen.

We found one Distillery that actually imported used casks from Jack Daniels to store and help flavor their single malt. It was quite good, but all of its imported stock went to Japan, China, Hong Kong, and Singapore, so none is sent to the United States.

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11 years 5 months ago #26784 by OleCowboy

Siscowet wrote:

faawrenchbndr wrote: I don't normally drink Scotch,......but when I do, I prefer Macallen.

We found one Distillery that actually imported used casks from Jack Daniels to store and help flavor their single malt. It was quite good, but all of its imported stock went to Japan, China, Hong Kong, and Singapore, so none is sent to the United States.

Unless things have changed sprits are HIGHLY controlled in those countries. Thus a major black market. When I was in Korea we had a punch card that we used to buy sprits. We were only allow x American Whiskey, x Scotch etc etc.

I could buy a Liter of JW Black for about $12 bucks and turn around and sell it for about $100. There was always some GI getting picked up by CID for selling. Some of them did not figure out that they kept track of how much you bought each month.

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11 years 5 months ago #26789 by jtallen83
I'm Drinking a FREE Starbucks coffee! I got in to the Hyatt in Sterling Va. real late last night so I missed the free coffee at breakfast time by 10 minutes. They sell Starbucks after that but I told the guy I would pass when he told me the price. He noticed my Airborne wings on my hat and started asking question. I told him it had been almost 30 years ago but he hooked me up with a FREE large coffee, those wings just keep paying back. :twothumbs: :usa:

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11 years 5 months ago #26806 by Dabu
Coffee right now :)

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11 years 5 months ago #26818 by 10-76
A Northern Brewer homebrew....yummy...

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11 years 5 months ago #26822 by Dabu
Coffee again :laugh:

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11 years 5 months ago #26832 by BUILDING MY SASS
Being the Vampire I am...Night Shift....A Beer...
A bud light Tall Boy to be precise...
with the sip of the Captain... :thumbs:
On occasion... :pinch: :whistle:
BMS

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