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How the Kinsey Report Fueled Whiskey Sales
by Cristen Conger | December 20, 2011
While browsing through Brenda R. Weber’s study on the public discourse around Alfred Kinsey’s 1953 “Sexual Behavior in the Human Female” this caught my eye: “…newspaper coverage on Kinsey’s volume on women not only displayed but fostered several important discursive phenomena…ranging from augmented sales of Kinsey whiskey (no direct relation) to increased audiences for evangelical denunciations of Kinsey’s ‘morally dangerous’ report.”
Cool article here from Popular Science, a great site if you haven’t checked it out. A “friend” of the Web site decided to separate scotch whiskey into it’s different components so he could taste the individual notes. Pretty cool if you ask me, but how would you do such a thing you ask? They cranked up an evaporator that “uses a process of vacuum distillation at room temperature to separate liquids based on their relative volatility.”
This HowStuffWorks video looks at the basic process to make Jack Daniels whiskey: How Stuff Works – Jack Daniels Whiskey The steps: 1) Start with dried dent corn (and perhaps other grains) 2) Use a mill to crush the grain, then sift to remove hulls. What is left is pure corn flour, also known as [...]
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