whiskey

hey! some people love to drink melted ice cream (but not me)

OMG it seems like a pretty bad thing that the most exciting thing happening in my life is that Dickel Rye is coming soon...

Had an impromptu taste test between Old Grandad and Old Overholt last week at a party. Overholt wins IMO.

overholt was my hurricane drink when the beer ran out
no hangover!

krakow - the whisky shop on sutter at stockton is practically a whisky museum. cask on market and 3rd is good too - more bourbon (whisky shop is almost all scotch).

Thanks! Leaving early in the morning. Excited!

helped my friend get a bottle of george dickel, think we paid too much though. o well! it was the only store in the area that had it (wburg)

how much?

been repping hard for jim beam black lately

$33 for a liter : ( xp

I'm all about the Wild Turkey 101 for casual drinking these days (nights). Bargain considering the quality.

the new dickel rye, or their classic tennessee whiskey?

turkey 101 is classic

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that's way overpriced, man :(

all american whisky seems to be stupidly overpriced here

i think even a lot of supermarkets sell jack daniels 70cl for over £20/$35ish

and Jack is terrible! I can't imagine what they are gouging you for something like Maker's Mark.

lmao it's £24 in sainsburys, you can often find laphroaig for less than that

jd that is

makers mark is about £26ish?

Dickel is the better Tennessee whiskey, partially due to the fact they haven't progressively watered it down like JD has been

XP one more pound for one more ton of quality, IMO.

er, two rather. It's early hear, the counting part of my brain hasn't kicked in... I need some whiskey...

lol nor has the homophone distinguishing part. *here

that's way overpriced, man :(

― d-_-b (mh), Thursday, November 1, 2012 11:14 AM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark

whatever I had some sweet dickel in my mouth last night

hehehe. It saddened me when they changed the shape of the bottle.

I hear you. I was way guilty of drinking at hotel bars due to laziness during travel in the past year and spending way too much on whiskey

Last night on the phone, my dad cautioned against "getting Dickeled" when drinking the 12 year.

Canadian Club Sherry Cask, good stuff. Sort of my way of not spending the extra 30 odd on sherry cask Scotch.

Rye + sherry flavoring makes for an interesting mix, sort of smokey sweet. Slightly metallic but still enjoyable.

tangle ridge is the most over the top rye + sherry mix. i swear it has to be 10% sherry.

i'm trying the limited edit gibson's grey cup edition that has the slight slight slightest hint of maple syrup/maple sugar in it. super wooddy finish is where the maple makes an appearance.. (tastefully done "flavored" whiskey blend compared to ... also picked upa bottle of wiser's vanilla and it's liek wiser's with vanilla sunlight dish detergent absolute shite.).

jim beam black seems to be p popular among hipster atm

the last time i poured pappy 20 was when the patriots lost the super bowl

Really nice whiskey. Being Scottish this is one hellova find! Now one of my favourites. My wife bought this for me on a trip to Dublin - all because I like breasts and the colour red! Little did she know she found an Irish gem of a whiskey!!!

- Neil, 29th April

乒乓, really? I'm the only person I know who's been saying much about it locally, and mostly tried it because it was on sale.

I guess I am independently emulating the hipster lifestyle

jim beam black seems to be p popular among hipster atm

― 乒乓, Tuesday, November 6, 2012 11:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this feels v. sensible to me--somewhat forgotten and fairly priced. it's decent stuff for sure.

still so sad I didn't buy them all when it was on sale for $16

Is there any bourbon at that $25 or so price point that is not decent? Seems like, in the midst of this golden age, that you have to go really cheap to go really wrong.

i don't think there's a product from one of the big kentucky distilleries that's bad at that price point, no.

What's Devil's Cut at, still closer to $30? I like that, but some have mixed opinions

not sure if it's quite that much around here. that's prob too much for it but i do like it.

hey CAD, did you know that Koreana in Cambridge sells ENORMOUS pours of Gentleman Jack for $8?

(I just discovered this on Friday)

i did not know that! driven past koreana a million times--is the food good?

The food is VERY good! They do full-on Korean BBQ there and have a menu where they will grill all kinds of awesome foods at your table. We were all over the beef and pork bulgogi, plus a surprisingly good tofu dish.

that sounds really good.

be prepared to wait if you don't have a reservation tho; we waited 45 min for a table for 4 (tho fortunately J and I got their early and got us on the list) and their bar is tiny

still, $8 Gentleman Jack!

Did you know that Gentleman Jack was allegedly originally designed for women?

Makers Mark had some sort of thing five or six years ago where you could sign up for their promo stuff and they'd put your name on a barrel of whiskey and let you know how it progressed.

I got a poster in the mail this week with a date range stamped on it, next year, of when I can come buy the whiskey

these guys really play the long game with marketing

seem to be a lot of discount whisky offers around at the moment, asda were selling lagavulin for £28 but seems that's over, they're still selling aberlour for £18 which must be some sort of record for a 10yr single malt these days

Glenmorangie 10 yr old is £20 in Sainsburys. Coming up to Christmas you get lots of ridic bargains.