Knob Creek - seriously

Miguel_Sanchez

Sitting at the bar in one of my favourite quiet pubs last week. We were casting an eye over the selections of whiskeys available when we spotted a small bottle of a whiskey called Knob Creek.

Needless to say that we enjoyed several minutes of high-brow jokes about it. Mixing it with Jim Beam would probably not taste great but the name for the resulting drink would be worth it.

Anyone else seen this? Where's it from? Is it any good?

The Sweeper

...Knob Jim? Knob Beam? Beam Creek?

[/me goes away puzzled]

Larianne

Jeff_Lebowski wrote:

Sitting at the bar in one of my favourite quiet pubs last week. We were casting an eye over the selections of whiskeys available when we spotted a small bottle of a whiskey called Knob Creek.

Needless to say that we enjoyed several minutes of high-brow jokes about it. Mixing it with Jim Beam would probably not taste great but the name for the resulting drink would be worth it.

Anyone else seen this? Where's it from? Is it any good?

When I was living in Chicago last year I saw it in quite a few bars there, so maybe its American?

And it was only the Irish with me that had a few laughs... everytime we saw it.

Sarky

I once tried an ale called Bishop's Finger, just so I could say I'd tried one.

I wish I hadn't, it was muck.

The Sweeper

My local has a beer festival on at the moment. Apparently 'bishops finger' is named after an unusually-shaped signpost that used to point pilgrims to Canterbury.

Shabadu

You don't have to kiss his ring or anything?

Tusky

I always found 'cockburns' gin to be a weird name.

Larianne

Tusky wrote:

I always found 'cockburns' gin to be a weird name.

Not one to go down easy, I'd say....

Lafortezza

Minesajackdaniels wrote:

...Knob Jim? Knob Beam? Beam Creek?

[/me goes away puzzled]

Jim's Knob there's a 'mouthful' joke in there somewhere, gimme a sec..

Civilian_Target

Sarky wrote:

I once tried an ale called Bishop's Finger, just so I could say I'd tried one.

I had that last night in Spring&Airbrake in Belfast, it was both rotten and overpriced.

For a nightclub they have some surprising drinks - eg. they don't have Heineken, but they do have both Erdinger Dunkelweisse and Hoegarden....

Go figure.

eth0_

Tusky wrote:

I always found 'cockburns' gin to be a weird name.

Pronounced "Coburn". I think it's a Scottish name. A few times I have heard tourists sniggering at the Cockburn St in the old town in Edinburgh.