Bourbon whiskey is a type of American whiskey, a distilled spirit made primary from corn with a signature taste found nowhere else in the world. The Boozebud range of bourbon whiskey includes all of your favourite brands and makers including the best-selling examples of this delicious amber coloured spirit from the blue-grass roots of Kentucky. You will not find our bourbon whiskey available anywhere else at a cheaper price, this we absolutely guarantee.
Instead of actually setting prices across our entire range of alcohol, at Boozebud we just go looking for what's on special and then we match our every day price to whatever we find. This way when you hop on to your Boozebud account to shop for your favourite bourbon whiskey, your favourite beer, the full range of Australian beer and spirits, like Australia gin, international gin, brandy, whiskey and Scotch whisky, rum, tequila and mezcals, cider, including apple cider, liqueurs and everything else in between, you're only ever going to pay the lowest price. And, you're going to get the best alcohol delivery straight to your door. Our alcohol delivery Sydney and Melbourne takes just a couple of business days, the same with the rest of the country.
At Boozebud, we want to bring you all of the best alcohol that the world has to offer for the lowest prices and the fastest delivery times. That includes our selection of boutique and microbreweries, the largest selection available. Shop your favourite flavours and recipes from here at home in Australia as well as from around the rest of the world to get your hands on the best of the new and up and coming, the best of the classics and the little guys making some of the tastiest drinks you've ever tried.
What is the difference between bourbon and whiskey?
The history of bourbon whiskey is a bit sketchy at the least. Even the name of Bourbon' isn't quite understood but given that bourbon whiskey was developed in American in close proximity to the French family of Bourbon, there is some chit-chat amongst aficionados and historians that make a historic leap between this classis distilled spirit at the possibility of French distilleries lending their family name to the tipple.
In order to make any kind of whiskey, which includes the signature malt blends of the Scottish Highlands and the Irish moors, you need to first malt a grain that is relatively high in natural sugars and then you need to ferment it and then you need to distil the fermented liquid to concentrate both the flavours and the alcohol content of the drink. This history of distilling owes its roots in ancient medicine and in the early development of brandy. When wine merchants would send their wine across the world, keeping the wine free of free acting bacteria and foul tasting hitch-hikers was top priority so that they still had a marketable product at the end of its long voyage that not only still made them some money, but didn't accidentally kill the people who drank it. It was understood at this time, the early sixteenth century or so, that distilling fermented liquids increased the alcoholic strength of whatever you had fermented by removing much of the water (where bacteria could grow) and flooding the rest of it with bacteria proof alcohol. In the case of brandy, really bitter wine that was distilled and then left in an oak cask for a while for shipping or for selling later, proved to greatly enhance the flavours. It didn't take long for the aging process to flood through the rest of the distilled alcohol market and it's this process of keeping your distilled spirit in a range of casks like charred oak barrels or white oak barrels that often develop the signature flavour profiles of your favourite sipping drinks like bourbon whiskey.
Bourbon whiskey was developed in Kentucky and there is a county called Bourbon County which some people believe leant its name to the drink as well. Like a single malt Scotch whisky which has specific standards of identity such as being made from a single batch of malted barley, you can't call your drink a bourbon whisky unless it's made in Kentucky from a malted grain combination of at least 51 percent corn. It must also going into the oak charred aging barrels at 125 proof (80% ABV) and be bottled at no less than 80 proof (40%) but often is bottled at 100 proof.
You will have heard of brands like Wild Turkey, Jack Daniels and Jim Beam. They are all distilled spirits of roughly the same colour, and they are all considered to be whiskeys, however, only two of them are actually bourbons.
Jack Daniels is called a Tennessee whiskey because, for the most part, it's made in Tennessee but also because it has a very specific recipe which makes it uniquely not a bourbon. The most famous part of this recipe includes the fact that it is drip filtered through sugar maple charcoal to give it its signature smoothness.
Rye whiskey is also another kind of distilled spirit from the same places that bourbon is made but is not a bourbon whiskey because the malted mash from which the spirit is distilled contains 51% rye grain rather than corn.
What to mix with bourbon whiskey?
Bourbon whiskey can be enjoyed in a range of ways but traditionally it is drunk straight or neat from an old fashioned glass. Straight bourbon can also be served over ice. The most popular way of drinking your favourite bourbon whiskey is with a mixer like Coca Cola.
When it comes to cocktails, the bourbon whiskey is a hero of many. The Mint Julep is a classic bourbon cocktail with a mix of your favourite bourbon whiskey, sugar, water, crushed ice and fresh mint. In a highball glass, muddle the mint and sugar with some water, fill your glass with crushed or shaved ice, add your bourbon whiskey and then stir well. Garnish with a mint sprig and drink.
The classic Hot Toddy uses your favourite alcohol with some tea, honey and lemon juice. A bourbon whiskey Hot Toddy is the classic winter warm you can wrap ice cold finger and lips around to get some much needed warmth straight to your bones.
The Libertine is a bit fancier and uses your favourite bourbon whiskey, rosemary, lemon juice, orange marmalade, maple syrup, fresh orange juice and an egg white to produce a frothy and refreshing that's both warming and cooling.
However you prefer to drink your bourbon, we have the perfect selection of the finest Kentucky made spirits available to order from Boozebud, Let us know what you like and we will tailor your shopping experience for you, delivering the best and the finest examples of bourbon whiskey and other beverages that you're interested in to your preference list. We love our bourbon as much as we know that you do so we can't wait to share some of our favourites with you.
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