Celebrate America's "Native Spirit" on National Bourbon Day - June 14
There is something about bourbon that's captured our global attention. In North America sales have soared and in the U.S., where bourbon originates, one of the nation's most popular whiskey makers reversed a decision to water down its recipe in an effort to meet worldwide demand.
- Salinas, CA (1888PressRelease) May 07, 2015 - Tarpy's Roadhouse Announces Its Bourbon and Burger Dinner.
Some say the rise in bourbon sales is due to the growth of small batch and single barrel bourbon in the 1990s, while others say it has to do with the resurgence in popularity of hard-liquor swilling characters and settings on television shows such as Mad Men and Boardwalk Empire. Whatever the reason, you'll want to raise a glass of the sweetened amber spirit June 14 as we celebrate the splendor of this great whiskey on National Bourbon Day!
Celebrate National Bourbon Day on Sunday, June 14th at Tarpy's Roadhouse.
The Details:
• Sunday, June 14th
• 5:00 p.m. - 7:30 pm.
• Tarpy's Roadhouse will celebrate National Bourbon Day with a Bourbon and Burger dinner.
• Enjoy appetizers and Manhattans
• Savor 5 Chef Todd rocking burgers paired with bourbon inspired cocktails and tastings.
• Meet Matt Stober, who is the Jim Beam Bourbon Brand Ambassador
• Ohhhhh baby end the night with a bourbon chocolate dessert burger. MMmmmmmmmmm
• Cost is $55 per person inclusive
• Tarpy's Roadhouse is located at 2999 Monterey Salinas Highway, Monterey, CA 93940 and is open daily for lunch and dinner.
• To make a reservation, go to Tarpys.com or call 831-647-1444.
Did you know?
Bourbon's roots are tied to the migration of settlers west from the original colonies, in the 18th and 19th centuries. They included Scots-Irish descendants of the men who invented Scotch and Irish whiskies, but they also included other English, Welsh, German, and French settlers.
There is no single person or family credited with inventing bourbon. Elijah Craig, a Baptist preacher and distiller, sometimes gets attributed with the creation of the spirit, but that's doubtful.
The Bourbon name comes from Bourbon County, a large Kentucky district founded after the American Revolution. This county was ripe for crops and corn especially. According to Charles K. Cowdery, by the time Bourbon County was formed in 1785, there were dozens if not hundreds of small farmer-distillers making whiskey throughout the region. In those days, with few roads and even fewer local markets for farm products, the only practical way for farmers to sell their corn crop was by first distilling it into whiskey. If they did not have a still, they found a neighbor who did and traded some percentage of the output in payment for the distilling services.ma
Along with Kentucky's other main export product, hemp, surplus whiskey was loaded onto flatboats and shipped via the Ohio River to New Orleans for sale. The barrels were stamped with the words Old Bourbon, what residents commonly called Bourbon County, and the name stuck.
Certain political, social and cultural events helped shape the development of this liquor. Prohibition, which took place from 1920 to 1933, made life difficult for American whiskey makers. During World War II, bourbon distilleries were retrofitted to make fuel alcohol and penicillin. Since penicillin is a by-product of fermentation, bourbon distilleries were a natural choice to make it in large quantities.
In the late 1800s, there were hundreds of distilleries in Kentucky. Now, ten major whiskey makers produce hundreds of brands, including many of the top-priced single-barrel, small-batch, and cask-strength variations.
Lyndon B. Johnson gave bourbon his presidential stamp in 1964 when he signed an Act of Congress that designated bourbon as "The Official Spirit of America".
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