The OFFICIAL Countdown to Lock'n 2016 Thread!

[mccjeff]

Nov 25, 2015 10:57:51 GMT -5 smosey wales said:

don't know that one--where is it made? Any good?

There is a great single malt made a few miles from Lockn farm called Virginia Highland Single Malt--they own/owned Eads in Scotland, and currently are aging that Scotch in Nelson County. The put their own stills on line last year, and in a few years will have Virginia start to finish. They were the water hole sponsor at L2.

Wagamunds also makes a smoky single malt down in Scottsville, maybe 20 minutes from Lockn, but it's not nearly as good as the ones from Islay, Orkney, etc.

Sliante'!

StillTheOne Distilery in Port Chester, NY

287 SINGLE MALT WHISKEY RELEASED



“Distilling is 49% cleaning stuff, 49% moving heavy stuff around, 2% drinking beer.”


At the end of the day one summer afternoon (during the above mentioned 2% time) we were enjoying one of the excellent local brews made by Captain Lawrence Brewing. Suddenly our distiller exclaimed, “beer is made from grains, whiskey is made from grains, whiskey mash is also known as beer before it’s distilled… what if we made whiskey from beer made from a brewery?” When we explained the idea to Captain Lawrence Brewery owner Scott Vaccaro, he couldn’t have been more excited and started sending us thousands of gallons of his Freshchester Pale Ale. “287 Whiskey” was born, named after the highway that connects StilltheOne Distillery and Captain Lawrence Brewery. “287 Whiskey” is carefully distilled to capture the nuance of the malted barley and then matured in new oak barrels. It’s floral and malted barley notes blend with caramel and vanilla flavors to create a very unique and delicious whiskey. Try it neat, on the rocks or with a splash of water or have some alongside a Freshchester Pale Ale and bring home new meaning to the term ‘a shot and a beer’.

[robny]

Almost a turkey. Gobble gobble everybody.

I'm thankful I'm going to Lockn' 2016.

[worf rat]

Wait...there's a way to drink whiskey other than neat?

[smosey wales]

for Scotch, you always add a very small amount of water to open it up; at a tasting you do this after you "nose" it. Many recommend the same with bourbon, but not as universally so.

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^^^^ I see what you did there....

[smosey wales]

Look close--those dials go way higher than just 11

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The zero of the Celsius temperature scale is (to the nearest whole number) 273 Kelvin. Thus, absolute zero (0 K) is approximately -273°C.[3] The freezing temperature of water and the thermodynamic temperature of the triple point of water are both approximately 0°C or 273 K.

[smosey wales]

"Why, that's almost interesting."
--Martin Mull

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OR

[worf rat]

Ever get the feeling you're being cheated?

[smosey wales]

I thought 45's had big holes--British thing? New thing (as in <40 years ago)?

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Joe Pullum My Woman Part 2


b. c.1900, prob. Houston, Texas, USA, d. c.1965, poss. California, USA. Active in Houston, Texas, from the early 30s, Pullum sang the blues in a high and clear voice that brought added texture to his material. He appealed to contemporary blues audiences of the mid- to late 30s and signed to Victor Records, but unfortunately made only a few recordings for their Bluebird Records subsidiary. In 1934 he recorded his own ‘Black Gal What Makes Your Head So Hard?’, a song so popular that he went on to record other versions of it, including ‘Black Gal No. 3’ and ‘Black Gal No. 4’. The song was also recorded around the same time by Leroy Carr and others, although Pullum’s version was the most popular, so much so that Jimmie Gordon recorded the song for release as by ‘Joe Bullum’. The song was covered in later years by artists such as Lightnin’ Hopkins, Robert Shaw, Clifton Chenier, Mance Lipscomb and, especially, Victoria Spivey who recorded it more than once. Spivey is reported as stating that Pullum wrote the song about a decade before he recorded it although the 1934 recording contains contemporary references, notably to the bonus marchers, which suggests that either Spivey was in error or, more likely, that just as he would change the lyrics after 1934, Pullum had also changed them to suit that date. He also performed ‘Bonus Blues’, indicating a continuing interest in social and political matters of the era.



Among Pullum’s other songs are ‘Mississippi Flood Blues’, ‘Joe Louis Is The Man’, ‘Blues With Class’ and ‘Dixie My Home’. On record, Pullum was often accompanied by pianists Robert Cooper or Andy Boy. The latter is with Pullum on, for example, ‘House Raid Blues’, ‘Yellow Gal Blues’, ‘Ice Pick Mama’ and ‘Too Late Blues’. In the 40s Pullum relocated to California where, in 1948, he recorded for Swing Time Records, sometimes with accompaniment from pianist Lloyd Green. Some of the work with Green has been released on compilations under the pianist’s name, Honky Tonk Train (1983) and Chica Boom (1988). Not long after his California sessions, the last of which was in 1951, Pullum sank to a level of obscurity even deeper than that which had surrounded his earlier life.

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