The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-02-28
THE SALT LAKE HERALD FRIDAY, FEBRUARY IS 1902

ne selected Well-knOvn brand OF rye
WHISKY and an equally well-knoWn
brand Of bourbon. both being case
goods. and as the third grade he picked
tne bar liquor dispensed in the place
He was blindfolded and the bartender
poured out a drink Of each of the Whls-
kles ana placed them upon the bar me
expert picked up the first glass ana
applied ii to his nose. then tipped IL
skyward and drained il That was the
case bourbon. he said. The next glass
was correctly. pronounced TO be the bar
whisky, and the final drink. OF course,
was the case rye He won ms pet ana
the tea man had 20 own that he was
beaten. The money was paid ana the
tea man turned TO the liquor man ana
said:
How on earth did you do II?
Just as simple as shooting nsh IN
barrel, said the lucky winner. hou
see. it is not very difficult TO dlstln-
guish between rye and bourbon. II you
have not been drinking, he explained
The taste and the smell OF the TWO Va
rietieS are distinctive, and even
novice can tell them apart. NOW. l
realize as well as my friend from New
York that after taking two drinks no
man on earth can tell one KIND Ilolh
the other with enough certainty 10
name the brands. You see, ! rather
took advantage OF him when claliliSt
that I could tell more than two pran0s
and We settled upon three. For l
could tell the two first drinks TOOK II
the other one must of necessity De the
third, and so it is as easy TO tell lhree
kinds as il is two,
How did I Go II? Well. L 90 not
care if you know. now that the pet mas
| been decided. As 1 said before Ihe
difference between rye and BOURBON
/ whisky is enough to announce ltseH 10
any one who is at all familiar WIN
LIQUOR. provided he has not been drink
ing Immediately before the test Now
you noticed that I picked out d case
rye and bourbon. and the liquor served
over this bar is also rye. Now, the oI-
! ference between the bar rye ana the
case bourbon would be easy enough 10
distinguish. but person would hatu
rally think that if l had to pick pc
tween the two rye whiskys ! Woul9
have been up against H. wen
took that chance, because II II
against ethics to wager money on
any proposition where the oIhTI
fellow hasn't a chance. But Wheh an
is all said and doe / did not run any
| desperate risk. The reason l was so
certain of my ability to pick out the
three brands lay in the fact that no.
ticed that the bar whisky was Kept on
the ice all the time, while the case
goods came from back Of the
counter, and the liquor contained IN
the bottles on the shelves was consider
ably higher in temperature that that
contained in the rye whisky dispensed
over the bar. ] have been AROUND
enough to know the difference between
rye and bourbon. and when smelled OF
! the first glass of liquor and found that
/ it was bourbon, I knew from my sense
| of smell alone that it must be case
| bourbon. because the other varieties
| selected for the test were rye liquor
| The second glass did not present
any difficulty either, for my sense OF
| touch told me that the glass was 20
! degrees colder than the one l had just
! set down. and must of necessity be the
| bar whisky. The rest. of course, was
easy. No trouble at all. Like finding
4 our friends money on the street
| The whisky expert turned to pass out
! of the barroOm to the hotel lobby,
| when the tea man called to him and
/ asked him a question in a low tone of
voice. ''What?" asked the astonished
| liquor man. Why, of course 1 can't
now. I could not tell the difference
/ between champagne and mineral wa
ter, nor could any other man in my
I situation