KY bourbon barrel cake

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If you should happen across a SAMS CLUB in your neighborhoods, check out the cake section. In a round wooden container, it reads KENTUCKY BOURBON BARREL CAKE. You can check it out on Kentucky Woods™ Bourbon Barrel Cake™ I have seen it before, and it is a bit "Pricey". Twenty bucks. I could get a lot of cakes for that price, but I just had to try it. And I have to admit.......you may like it or not but I thought it was a smash. Had to try it, and I'm glad I did. Very interesting indeed.

Kentucky Woods™ Bourbon Barrel Cake™

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I had a few bourbon barrel beers a couple weeks ago at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver. Brewers from across the country go to this thing and give samples of their brews. Fantastic!

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I had a few bourbon barrel beers a couple weeks ago at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver. Brewers from across the country go to this thing and give samples of their brews. Fantastic!

So who drove you home? All kidding around on the side, I like anything that smelled like aged whisky or bourbon. And I don't drink neither of those. I just like the distinct flavor and smell coming from a wooden barrel. I especially like a humidor dipped in whisky to give the cigars an initial whisky flavor before I smoke it. I was checking out the web site too. I gotta have those Bourbon aged barreled Maple cookies someday.

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Great stuff. Excellent.

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Hah, it actually worked out pretty well. Friend of mine had an extra ticket he gave me, found another for the wife. We drove there, left my car at friend's house, then took train halfway home (neighbor picked us up the rest of the way). My friend needed a ride outside of town, and our house was along the way, so he brought my car back, I gave him a ride the rest of the way. He also discovered I had a heater core leak. That was a pain to fix, but it's done!

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Heater core leak? That sux. Did your coolant get all over your floor area underneath your glove box? Or did it drip outside like its supposed to? Changing it is not too bad but getting your fingers to disconnect the hose lines can be very tight. Some heater cores where you attach the hose come in plastic and can break or crack as you put on the coolant lines. I got the one that was made of aluminum so it would have more strength. Would really be a drag if you went through all that and still leaking because the connector cracked on you. Usually with a heater core gone bad, you get some STEAM looking action when you turn on the heater. Can smell the antifreeze too. You must have had a slow drip.

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Yeah, drips ahoy on the floor. At first, I thought it was from when I transferred a (mostly sealed) pan of coolant there. Then I thought it was from the bottle I used to top it off (the one time it leaked right in front of me was the one time I happened to decide to buy some more to top off the radiator. Now I know why I needed to). No obvious sweet smell, but my sense of smell honestly kind of sucks at times, and whatever I may have smelled I probably attributed to it being a 20 year old car. There was a bit of windshield fogging, though!

Had to remove the passenger seat to change it without being a contortionist. Still took a lot of work to figure out what I was supposed to do next at most steps, but I eventually got it. Also had to take the alternator and its mounting bracket out to get to the hoses on the other side of the firewall. Forgot to install that little harness that tells the darn thing to charge, so at first I was wondering why my lights were so dim and the fan very weak.

My new one is pure aluminum, so hopefully that will help. The other one had this copper tone to it, but you would think that after 20 years it would oxidize and be totally green if it actually were copper. I don't know.

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When you have to start taking things off to get to a line or a hose, or whatever, of course, it adds work to the situation. Well, at least you got it fixed. Pain in the butt but its done. I thought I had a heater core issue not long after I changed a heater core only to find out it was coming out of the water pump gasket. I bought a new water pump and changed the pump and put a new gasket because I figured that it was probably time for the pump to go soon. Since the gasket was rotted away. Car was over ten years old at the time. To my surprise, the pump was still in good working order, but the hell with it, changed it anyway. And this crap about draining the radiator before you do this......to hell with that too. I'll just let the radiator spill to the level of the water pump since the pump sat above the radiator or at least level to it. Why risk braking a drain cock on the radiator that is probably old and corroded, now you have two problems. Then having to reseal the radiator with radiator sealant. Experience my friend.

I've done my share of alternators. Not a bad job. Only thing is figuring out at times where to put your breaker bar to the belt pulley to loosen the belt and slide the serpentine belt off. Some are tight, hard to see and vary from car to car. But once you know your car, there it is you will know. Here is a word of advice. You want a quality alternator, go to NAPA PARTS. Forget the others. You'll pay top dollar for it but the parts are that much better. Old man aircraft mechanic told me that a long time ago. And he was right. After my Napa alternator, never had another issue. Forget the for life time warranty parts at Auto Zone or O'reilly's. They kick you off the system when you least expect it. You have to provide your own proof and keep all receipts. Napa is a cut above.