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Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Evan Williams to the Rescue

Just got a press release from Heaven Hill: in the interests of making sure there are no repeats of Hillary's "whiskey faux pas" (the Senator knocked back a shot of Crown Royal while campaigning in Indiana, going for the 'regular guy' effect... Senator: an American presidential candidate drinking Canadian whiskey to bond with blue collar workers? How tone-deaf can you be?), Heaven Hill sent bottles of Evan Williams to each presidential candidate. With Kentucky's primary coming up on May 20th (and actually meaning something, unless a miracle happens and one of the two candidates wins both North Carolina and Indiana really big today), you better hope they both pay attention and take some bourbon-drinking lessons.
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14 comments:

  1. KevinMay 6, 2008 at 6:51 PM

    I thnk that Evan Williams makes a perfect Manhattan and is one of my favorite everyday bourbons. I how every do not qualify as a Manhattan expert as I am not a 70 year old lady.

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  2. Lew BrysonMay 6, 2008 at 7:29 PM

    Dude... Careful. First, it's obvious you're not a Manhattan expert, because they're supposed to be made with rye. But second...the big Manhattan drinkers I know are steak-eating men who go to boxing matches.

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  3. KevinMay 6, 2008 at 8:39 PM

    Touche. My Grandmother drinks them (she uses American whiskey) and I read that they were made for Winston Churchill's mother. Perhaps that is why I associate them with old women. In any case I love my whiskey, sweet vermouth, and bitters cocktail made with Evan Williams.

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  4. Lew BrysonMay 6, 2008 at 8:58 PM

    Yeah, well, everyone makes 'em with bourbon, and they taste fine. No worries.

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  5. StevenMay 7, 2008 at 8:06 AM

    Hmm, promoting drinking through the candidates? Do I hear the neo-prohibitionists tuning up?

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  6. castempressMay 7, 2008 at 8:30 AM

    My wife loves Manhattans, and she's a 30-something who's never been to a boxing match. Big steak-eater, though.

    Loves them so much that we had to institute a "one Manhattan only" rule. The trick then is to find a place where that one Manhattan is generous.

    She does get some odd comments about it tough. I remember one older gentleman asking "where did you find out about Manhattans?"

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  7. Lew BrysonMay 7, 2008 at 8:33 AM

    It's been a drinking kind of campaign, Steven, and with each candidate trying hard to show that they're regular guys, in touch with the elusive white working class male -- and the Kentucky primary coming up on the 20th -- there's only going to be more of it. New Drys be damned, drinking is good politics!

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  8. Lew BrysonMay 7, 2008 at 8:40 AM

    By God, it looks like we need a dedicated Manhattan thread... I think there's a whole Manhattan sub-culture, folks drinking this excellent cocktail who just don't care what the drink of the week is. They deserve more respect. And better Manhattans.

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  9. StevenMay 7, 2008 at 11:24 AM

    "...drinking is good politics!"

    Okay, wait... I'm writing that one down... ;-)

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  10. JayMay 8, 2008 at 2:29 PM

    I just like reading about bourbon...

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  11. Alexander D. Mitchell IVMay 11, 2008 at 10:57 AM

    You're kind of late, the punditrocity already feasted on this tale, chewed it up, and left it behind in search of the next faux pas. However, I managed to catch a different media report on a different event where Hillary was asked her favorite beer, and somehow she came up with "Blue Moon with a slice of orange".

    Oh, the places you can go with that. For starts, who produces Blue Moon? Coors--run by one of the most reliably Republican-donating families out there, if I'm not mistaken.

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  12. Lew BrysonMay 11, 2008 at 7:38 PM

    Sandy...once again, already reported on this, too, including the Blue Moon and orange slice:
    http://lewbryson.blogspot.com/2008/04/another-great-reason-for-longer-primary.html

    Gotta read the whole blog, dude. Blue Moon's also brewed in Canada, BTW...

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  13. Alexander D. Mitchell IVMay 12, 2008 at 5:30 PM

    Well, come on, dude, I DO read your whole blog. It's just that what phony-baloney politician is doing what stupidity for the cameras with regards to alcoholic beverages--as long as it's not calling for Prohibition II--is so freakin' far down the list on my personal priorities (even with regards to booze and politics) that I can't even see it when I'm lowering a lantern down the Arizona mine shaft on a rope, y'know? And what few notes I have on such stuff I left back on the desk in Maryland. I'll let you know how the beer is in Flagstaff when I get there.

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  14. Lew BrysonMay 12, 2008 at 8:46 PM

    So I should lean my blog to your personal priorities? Or wait...when you point out that Hillary likes Coors, and they're Republicans, that's commentary, but when I bring up that Blue Moon is made in Canada (like Crown Royal), that's worrying about stupid politicians?

    I gotta stop reading blogs, it's wasting my time!

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