Originally Posted by globe
One of the best drinks I’ve ever had,
A buddy of mine called right at dark and said he wanted to go kill some pigs.
I had just bought a bottle of Early Times to try (just never had it). Threw a couple of ice cubes in a short yeti and just about filled it up with early times. It was cold that night and that drink tasted about as good as you could ask for. Funny how conditions change the taste….., like a dip of Copenhagen after I killed a deer. Long time ago and simple pleasures.


Mrs. Irish and I were riding our bikes out west one year and we had stopped for the night in Clarksdale, MS for some blues. We stayed in the Clark House Mansion. I thought it would be good to have some bourbon on the front porch like we were rich plantation folks.

So I jump on the bike and go to the liquor store. Now keep in mind this is dark town. I get there and the place has a little window inside you have to walk up to and the resto fo the place is completely barred up like a jail or something. The guy asks me what I want and of course I want some bourbon, but had no idea what they had. So he kind of looks around cautiously, walks over the the steel barred door and lets me back in the back.

Of course all they have in there is bottom shelf rock gut whiskey. So I picked out a 5th of Old Charter for $11, brought it back, we found ice and some whiskey glasses in the kitchen of the old house, poured us a glass each and settled in on the front porch. That might as well have been the best glass of bourbon we had ever had. It was delicious and we had a few.

Last edited by Irishguy; 10/06/25 09:43 AM.
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