{"id":1722,"date":"2016-09-27T13:30:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T18:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/?p=1722"},"modified":"2016-09-28T10:07:15","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T15:07:15","slug":"the-barrel-man-and-jd-150th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/2016\/09\/the-barrel-man-and-jd-150th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"The Barrel Man and JD 150th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"img_1925-jpg\"<\/a>\"27674726853_e601ba00fc\"<\/a>I visited True Spirits<\/a> yesterday and happened upon The Barrel Man, Kevin Sanders from Jack Daniel’s. \u00a0He was on a tour in his customized Polaris Slingshot and had made a stop at the store to sign bottles and shake hands. \u00a0After shaking his hand and watching him sign a few bottles, he handed me a free, signed bottle of Jack Daniel’s 150th Anniversary Commemorative Special Edition of Old No. 7 Tennessee Whiskey. \u00a0According to Sanders, this edition is aged in toasted oak (as opposed to charred oak) and bottled at 86\u00ba instead of the normal 80\u00ba for Old No. 7.<\/p>\n

He then sent Greg True (proprietor of True Spirits) and I for a spin in his Slingshot and allowed me to take the picture above when we returned. \u00a0This was a lot more than I bargained for with my visit and a welcome break before returning to work after lunch.<\/p>\n

As far as the signed bottle, I think I’ll hold on to it, which means I’ll have to acquire another one in order to taste the whiskey. \u00a0Since I’m not a fan of JD Black Label, but I do like their Barrel Proof Single Barrel offering and have a couple of batches on hand, it may be that it’s a better choice to break open. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I visited True Spirits yesterday and happened upon The Barrel Man, Kevin Sanders from Jack Daniel’s. \u00a0He was on a tour in his customized Polaris Slingshot and had made a stop at the store to sign bottles and shake hands. \u00a0After shaking his hand and watching him sign a few bottles, he handed me a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[4],"tags":[107,219],"class_list":["post-1722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whiskey","tag-jack-daniels","tag-tennessee-whiskey"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p364aH-rM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1722"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1731,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions\/1731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}