Totts Supporter

My dad did the same thing to me when I was 3 or 4. I swam on a full paid scholarship for the University of Cincinnati for 4 years. I’m ok with this.

You know, I’ll give in. On a Federal level, maybe JD meets the requirements to be called a bourbon. One could argue that the additional filtering through, I think it’s cherry wood charcoal, changes the flavour of the original, out of the barrel, product. Idk. I will say that JD chooses to call themselves a a Tennessee whiskey because they think that additional filtering mellows their product and makes them unique to the bourbons of KY. At the end of the day, I’m not saying it’s bad whiskey. I’m not telling anyone to not drink it. I’m only saying that I’ve been told ad nauseam that it’s not a bourbon, and JD itself considers itself apart and superior to bourbon.

Find on the JD website ANYWHERE they claim to be a bourbon and I’ll say sorry and quit my job job as an alcohol rep for the last 23 years. Again, it literally says Tennessee Sour Mash whiskey on the bottle:

They’re not bourbons. That’s the whole fricking point. Dickel makes a bourbon, but historically they’ve produce Tennessee Sour Mash whiskeys. They’re close, very much the same process, but also completely different. See the processes of Irish whiskey versus Scotch.

So, I’ve been selling alcohol for 23 years. You probably don’t want to go there with me. Here you go. Besides, it literally reads Tennessee Sour Mash on the bottle.
Tennessee whiskey and bourbon are both American whiskeys with a lot in common, but Tennessee whiskey undergoes an additional filtering step called the Lincoln County Process, which distinguishes it from bourbon, according to Nestor Liquor and Liquor.com. Both must be made in the US, primarily from corn, aged in new, charred oak barrels, and meet certain proof requirements, but Tennessee whiskey is specifically made in Tennessee and must be filtered through sugar maple charcoal before aging.