The Playboy Bar: Bourbon
October, 2010
All the juice on the great American spiritALL TIE JUICE ON THE GREAT AMERICAN SPIRI1Born in the USA. The Turks have raki, the Kazakhs have fermented mare's milk, and America has its own native spirit. Bourbon first appeared in the 1780s in Kentucky, where old boys raised on rye whiskey in Pennsylvania found limestone-filtered water and corn in abundance. Turned out to be just the thing for a country with a sweet tooth. The law: Straight bourbon must be at least 51 percent com, distilled to less...
