Did I mention the thank-you-for-being-part-of-our-wedding gift that Meghan and Patrick McGeough gave me? It's a bottle of a
"white whiskey" from Bully Boy Distillers, a local distillery in Boston. They figured, correctly, that I'd appreciate a locally distilled spirit.
Now, those of you from the South, and from certain other parts of the country, may think of the term "white whiskey" as a fancier term for "moonshine." But this DOES have a few differences. Most important, this is a wheat whiskey, not corn (maize, for you people everywhere else in the world). Moonshine is definitionally an unaged corn whiskey.
Now, one would normally consider an unaged whiskey to be unbearably hot and raw, but this isn't anywhere near as hot as you'd think. It's about like an eau de vie, so it's got a significant burn -- I wouldn't offer it to a novice drinker, but I really enjoy it.
Yeah, actually, that's a pretty good way to think about it: it's more like a wheat eau de vie than like moonshine.
As I've mentioned before, I've got that thing with my palette where alcohol tastes sweet. So, for me, this is a pretty nice-tasting drink. I imagine that this would be less pleasant to someone who doesn't have that trait.
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