{"id":16861,"date":"2014-05-21T03:19:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T03:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/beating-the-whiskey-shortage\/"},"modified":"2014-05-21T03:19:22","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T03:19:22","slug":"beating-the-whiskey-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/beating-the-whiskey-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Beating the whiskey shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bonus.kottke.org\/post\/86362177478\/beating-the-whiskey-shortage\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">jkottke<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If distillers can\u2019t keep up with the current and growing worldwide demand for bourbon, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theawl.com\/2014\/05\/how-to-shut-up-about-the-whiskey-shortage\">we may have to turn to rum instead<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>You can buy some old-ass rum, which, after being distilled from molasses or sugar cane, has sat around in barrels for long periods of time, for relatively small sums of money: El Dorado 15 is, as you might expect, made with a blend of rums that have sat in a barrel for at least fifteen years. Is it slightly sweet and rounded with a \u201cfull nose packed with dark coffee, candied orange, almonds, dark chocolate, pepper and rich vanilla.\u201d It is only thirty-six dollars. Barbancourt 15 is kind of soft and woody and fruity and other things you might say about a bourbon, but instead of corn it\u2019s like molasses. It\u2019s about forty bucks. Ron Zacapa 23, which is a blend of rums between six and twenty three years old, is probably the first rum that made a lot of people go, \u201cOh, rum isn\u2019t just that stuff that goes in a daiquiri or a mojito or that made me vomit pieces of my intestines into a urinal while I was wearing a silver crown.\u201d Here are some tasting notes for it: \u201cNose full or apricots, citrus fruits, vanilla, cocoa and bourbon.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>jkottke: If distillers can\u2019t keep up with the current and growing worldwide demand for bourbon, we may have to turn to rum instead. You can buy some old-ass rum, which, after being distilled from molasses or sugar cane, has sat around in barrels for long periods of time, for relatively small sums of money: El [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-4nX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}