whiskey

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.

idk if these are 'bargains' in the strictest sense given how inflated whisky prices have become lately, though i think the lagavulin qualifies

got a bottle of laphroaig quarter cask, which is very much like the 10 yr? idk i suspect if you compare them directly the difference is more than just the abv but from memory, there's not a huge difference

must make a shoppin trip to the north soon actually

paid €9 for a pour of glenfiddich 12 last friday night, mannn fuck dublin

pouring one out for u rite now ;_;

is there two tears there? cos that's more than i got in that glass

big wide bastard glass too, not even all the surface got wet iirc

that is a good thing cuz otherwise the viscosity would mean it would cling in an unpourable patina around the entire surface area and u would get nary a crying eagle's worth

wait wait wait i know this one, it was miss kelly in 1993 and the term was.... meniscus or some shit

i got a bottle of knob creek's 100 proof rye earlier today. lacking in depth but has the barnfloor + spice + dusty yeasty sweetness, the reason i drink rye. i've never tried an american rye that i loved. is it the fact that they're usually bottled before a long time in barrel? and how does this compare to the dickel?

had wild turkey rye at a bar last night - maybe it was cause I was drinking rittenhouse before i went out (and the wild turkey is a lower proof?) but the wild turkey tasted kinda thin in comparison

yeah i have not heard good stuff about the 81 proof rye

yeah it was just kinda simple and one dimensional

it is kind of thin, also seemed to somehow have a mint-tasting finish? I thought it was ok, but 81 proof so ehhhh

went to two more stores yesterday I have determined that the price of dickel is swollen all over NYC; good luck getting it under $25 for a fifth

otoh I got a liter of old overholt for $18 wth