Tonight I'm drinking bourbon and taking trail notes...

[tazzerboy]

Home brewing is one my other hobbies that I enjoy doing when I'm not hiking or planning a hike. One of the guys I brew with is chemistry teacher that also makes his own shine. He said he made a batch that was 186 proof before.
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[JohnnySnook]

Yes a good drink very now and then is nice. Maybe bring a little flask of wild turkey?
The legal moonshine is a joke. Even half the stuff people claim to be moonshine is a joke.
I've only had real moonshine once. The buzz was nothing like anything you can buy. We play volleyball once a week and a buddy came down from the north with some. We only did a couple shots and the rest is history. We all felt warm and fuzzy. Plenty of laughs on the court. I also woke up in the morning feeling great. If they managed to bring some more down here you could get ride a tiny jar for some good money.
Only have seen the real deal moonshine once.
Now a bourbon is nice also. Sorry for the derail. It seems to be one of my bad habits.

[jjozgrunt]

I usually drink the "wild water of the Tennessee"...however, to night I am embiding the cool brew of "Shinner Texas" (the best beer mild beer in the world).

Trust a Texan to be claiming the best beer in the world, a trophy already won by any Aussie beer.

[Wise Old Owl]

I think the closest you can come legally is Everclear which is 90-95% grain alcohol. I remember a TV program where a moonshiner was getting the permits to make his shine recipe but I don't know how that turned out.

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Ya Everclear isnt anywhere near shine! Shine is smooth, EC is harsh, EC is illegal for many years in PA now it appears it is back in state stores.

[rocketsocks]

Trust a Texan to be claiming the best beer in the world, a trophy already won by any Aussie beer.

...nothin like a Sixer of oil cans.

[July]

...nothin like a Sixer of oil cans.

nothin like a quart of blackberry creekwater...

[rocketsocks]

nothin like a quart of blackberry creekwater...

when the fall nights get cool...ah, those were the days...just a tea toadler know...coffee really. But black berry brandy around a bon fire...found memories.

[greentick]

Knob Creek is our group standard.

Got Four Roses single barrel, Knob Creek, Woodford, and Michter's all in various stages of usage in the cabinet at home.

[dangerdave]

I've got thirty gallons of red wine of five different varietals (including six gallons of a mix of all five) made form juice from Chile, all ready to bottle. They will be superb by next spring. I even have three port wines down in the cellar---which would be the "wine of choice" for backpacking winos, with it's higher ABV. The orange chocolate port tastes just like an orange Tootsie Pop. Amazing!

<Hey, don't laugh! It's my creative outlet! Some people create art, others make music, some sing, and I make wine.>

We got no wine drinkers in next years Class?

[jjozgrunt]

Danger I love a good port or a bad one or any port. When did you say you were leaving? Best stuff I've ever had was a clear yellow port from Porta in Portugal. 40 years old and so smooth.

[jjozgrunt]

I drink red wines as well, but I have noticed that aussie reds are a lot more full bodied than reds from most countries. My favorite is called Squid Ink a shiraz from South Australia. It's so dark it's almost black hence the name.

[Furlough]

Hey when you get to the Waynesboro VA there is always route 151 - a whole road of breweries, wineries, a cidery and a distillery. Drop down from Reeds Gap work your way up 151 to Waynesboro then get a shuttle back to Reeds then walk your way into Waynesboro - or the other way around. Either way good food and good fun

Did not know this. Next Trail maintenance trip I may need to head back home that way.

[CELTIC BUCK]

Maker's Mark is my #1 choice ; have had the Gold waxed version twice can't find it in New York heard a tale once that Kentucky keeps it all.

[bigcranky]

Don't much like bourbon. Rye is good, and getting more popular so there are more choices. But my personal favorites are from the wild islands on the west coast of Scotland-- Islay, Jura, and Skye. Laphroig, Ardbeg, Jura, Talisker, Lagavulin, etc. Mmmmmmm.

[Sarcasm the elf]

Don't much like bourbon. Rye is good, and getting more popular so there are more choices. But my personal favorites are from the wild islands on the west coast of Scotland-- Islay, Jura, and Skye. Laphroig, Ardbeg, Jura, Talisker, Lagavulin, etc. Mmmmmmm.

Macallan and Oban?

[bigcranky]

Macallan and Oban?

Oban is terrific, though it's pricey here in NC. For sherry-cask-aged Highland malts, I prefer The Dalmore over the Macallan. My wife's favorite is Caol Ila, which is an Islay single malt, very thick and peaty; something like 98% of their production is sold for blending, but what they bottle is sublime. Not available in NC at all, so we have to look for it when we travel. If I had to pick one widely available single malt to drink forever, it would be Lagavulin, but that stuff is a hundred bucks a bottle. So the bottle tends to last a couple of years Of course, none of these is a "training wheels" Scotch except maybe the Dalmore or the Macallan.

[hikehunter]

Once ...again...."BIG Kranky" may be correctt.....

[JohnnySnook]

Can anyone recommend good nip houses close to the AT?
Maybe the best towns that you may run into some special trail magic?
PM's Welcomed.

[bigcranky]

Once ...again...."BIG Kranky" may be correctt.....

Ask ten Scotch drinkers and get fifteen opinions, all of them correct.

[Old Grouse]

For bourbon, give Blantons a try. For rye, try Whistle Pig. You won't be sorry.