Barrell Craft Spirits. I got supersorta accidentally drunk at a whiskey tasting with my brother a weekend in January. Now that I have this literary platform, I can say it was for The People (you…?). Attempting to differentiate between rye (>51% grain rye), and bourbon (>51% corn) at every station was part of the culprit for my later shameful drunkenness. It seems like the 51% qualifier was created by non-math folk who couldn’t grasp the difference between the > and ≥ signs. But who am I, someone who can’t taste the difference between rye and bourbon, to judge?
My favorite find — Barrell Craft’s Tennessee Whiskey finished in an Apricot Brandy Cask. I tried to buy it so you all could appreciate my refined palate, but its $110+ and even Coal Train doesn’t carry it. I sent an email to Barrell…
Raisins. I watched a little girl at church trying to shake that unreachable last raisin from a box. So precious. The kid was pretty precious, but damn she made those raisins seem precious too. Since then, I have been craving raisins. I got some at King's my last visit.
BLUF, Raisins: still terrible in trail mix, but pretty good from a box with a pretty pilgrim sun maid (I get it now!) on it.
“Soon after, a local advertiser named, E.A. Berg coined one of the most iconic brand names in American history: Sun-Maid — a nod to the natural process of raisins being “made” in the California sun. To help spread the news, a train was sent across the county to Chicago with banners on the cars proclaiming, “Raisins Grown by 6,000 California Growers.” In 1915, a young woman, named Lorraine Collett was spotted drying her hair in a bright red bonnet by Sun-Maid director, L.R. Payne. He politely asked Miss Lorraine if she would pose for a painting that would become the Sun-Maid logo found on every little red box to this day.”
https://www.sunmaid.com/about-us/our-history/
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A laugh.