Few drinks are as near and dear to my black heart as Jameson Irish
Whiskey. Over the past 17 years I have done some amazing, or if you're a
pessimist the most asinine things while enjoying the sweet sweet nectar of John
Jameson's famous distilled creation.
The company was established in 1780 when John Jameson established the
Bow Street Distillery in Dublin! Jameson is by far the best selling
Irish Whiskey in the world with annual sales of 31 million bottles. Jameson
Irish whiskey is produced from a mixture of malted and unmalted or
"green" Irish barley, all sourced from within a fifty mile radius
around the distillery in Cork. The barley is dried in a closed kiln fired
by natural gas, and formerly anthracite coal, to preserve its flavour.
Like most Irish whiskey, Jameson is triple distilled for optimum smoothness.
The philosophy is balance, ensuring that no one flavour element overpowers
another. The end result is a sweet-tasting whiskey.
I was first introduced to Jameson back at the University of Illinois
when The Weasel, Mike T, and Gunner first became roommates at Weston
Hall at the old 6-Pack Dorms! The Weasel was the one who introduced
us! The Weasel was a fine Irish lady! He always proposed we
start a weekend off with some Jameson shots as we hit the bars! It didn't
take long for the Jameson to start to "retard" our judgement!
Before long we had hooked up with a few other lads and introduced
them to Jameson as well. Steveo, Fish, Shoots and Zents all joined
the cult of Jameson and we all became friends as well as roughneck
hooligan's! Sadly Mike T didn't make it through the first year and had to
transfer, but that had nothing to do with the Jameson, it was more to do with
his love of sleep! But alas Mike T is a very successful structural
engineer with a beautiful wife and kids! In fact everyone but Steveo and
I have beautiful wives and kids...sans FIsh he just has a beautiful wife!
We enjoyed Jameson in many forms not just shots! The dreaded Irish
Car Bomb was one of our favorites! The Car Bomb entails taking a double
shot or a pint (if you're game) of Guinness and dropping a shot of Jameson
in it and then chugging it all down! It's a great n tasty drink, but
watch out have too many and you might be cleaning your undies out after
shitting your pants in a booth at Legend's Bar, or vomiting on the floor of a
buddies bathroom and covering it with his bathmat so he won't know...right away!
One thing I wouldn't recommend doing would be to do a shot of Jameson
every minute for 10 minutes on St. Patty's day! That is a bit of a
stretch of ones ability to tolerate excessive amounts of alcohol and
next thing you know you're driving your buddies car down I-80 headed
downstate towards Champaign while he has his head stuck out the window sharing
his puke with everyone else...while it's about 10 degrees out sans the
windchill! That ends up being a mistake that you end up paying for even a
few weeks later! So use caution because if you have too many shots...you
also may tell a fat, ugly girl she's fat and ugly...then break a whine glass
over your head and call her a whore just for show!
I particularly enjoy Jameson with Ginger ale on the rocks!
If you can't find Ginger ale then Sierra Mist, Sprite, or 7UP work
nicely! I often Enjoy this with a nice cigar!
But don't take my word for it, pick up a bottle and do stupid things
with it...then enjoy the collateral damage!!
Cheers!
