whiskey

you should make at least a couple manhattans with it but it's fantastic with water too

I picked up a bottle of the Knob Creek 9 y.o. 120 proof. It is VERY good, and only ~$45. Highly recommended.

Kind of spoils more subtle bourbons like Blanton's if you have them the same night. Gotta trend up in proof, I guess.

It's counter intuitive, but higher proof bourbons can be surprisingly easy to drink.

My great-grandma drank scotch for pretty much her entire life, and lived to be 101. So yeah it's in my blood.

hold on to it s1ocki, I'm coming over with some mixology

Bushmills, bushmills black, bushmills 12 yr pot- black
Jameson, green spot, redbreast 12- green spot
Teeling, teeling small batch, teeling poitin- batch

Overall green spot ahead of redbreast

Poitin was appalling

Been sipping Heaven Hill this week. I FEEL AMAZING

You would if you have been sipping it all week. I would take a break and have some water.

Well im sipping on Perrier right now.

I had bought a bottle of Booker's for myself as a b-day present that I finally cracked

I got a bottle of Knob Creek standard the other day, and damn if'n it ain't superb. Much better than I had remembered.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2014/09/24/templeton-rye-lawsuit-iowa-recipe-consumer-fraud/16165957/

lol

awesome! delighted someone is finally doing this.

Check out this comment from 2008 on Chuck Cowdery's blog. If it's really from Scott Bush, it's amazing lawsuit evidence:
http://chuckcowdery.blogspot.com/2008/01/what-is-this-stuff-really.html?showComment=1201740780000#c5125144523431029136

Also check out the linked recent article at the end of the comments there.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/28/your-craft-whiskey-is-probably-from-a-factory-distillery-in-indiana.html

yeah, that was the big media "omg we're blowing the lid off this" article, finally mainstreaming something that's been written about everywhere for years

cowdery must be the happiest guy alive today, years of trolling templeton and the others have finally paid off.

it'd be nice if he got credited more, but hey

So, knowing that, what's the best whisky to ask for at the bar? Do I need fancy terms or can I just say "Bourbon on the rocks, please"?

("Just throw a couple in their, yeah?")

there*

All I seem to drink anymore is Four Roses, but I did have a taste of Dickel white whiskey a week or two ago because it was on special and I couldn't resist. It smelled deadly but was actually quite smooth.

This rye story is pretty lol -- does it apply to Dickel rye too?

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I always ask for Knotter Bourbon.

cad I would love to see a list of your top five/ten "affordable range" whiskeys, I need a new bottle of bourbon anyway and am getting kinda tired of Four Roses

lol xp

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From the article I linked:

Some of those bottling and branding MGP whiskey make an effort to give the juice some sort of finishing touch to make their product distinctive. George Dickel Rye starts with MGP whiskey but charcoal-filters it before bottling. Angel’s Envy buys Indiana rye, puts it in old rum casks to soak up a little sweetness, and then charges a hefty markup. Others, such as Redemption Rye, present their MGP whiskey as-is.

The prize for the most upfront bottler has to go to Blaum Bros. of Galena, Illinois, which market Knotter—read “not our”—Bourbon with the transparent admission “We didn’t distill this bourbon. Nope, not a drop.”

cad I would love to see a list of your top five/ten "affordable range" whiskeys, I need a new bottle of bourbon anyway and am getting kinda tired of Four Roses

lol xp

― sleeve, Thursday, September 25, 2014 2:31 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's getting tougher and tougher to find dece affordable stuff, but here are some things (with the caveat that i neither have the money nor the inclination to try anything that's "craft distilled" or has an unclear origin, not that any of that stuff is affordable most of the time)

very old barton bib (if you can get it in your area, nb i haven't had it since they dropped the age statement, but man this stuff was good)
weller 107 proof
jim beam black
dickel no. 12 (still sort of affordable i think)
old grand dad bib (not really a sipper but the best mixing bourbon in the world imo)

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I always ask for Knotter Bourbon.

― nickn, Thursday, September 25, 2014 7:31 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"Knotter Bourbon. neat. Thanks"

I'll tell you all about it

thanks cad!

old grand dad bib

is this the 100 proof bonded stuff or something else? I was using the bonded for a while on yr recommendation

yeah it's the bonded

the 114 is kind of overkill imo

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/11/04/business/japanese-whisky-yamazaki-named-worlds-finest-dram#.VFlY1zQgtN4

perfect timing. i'll try to score a cheap bottle while in japan later this year.

has anyone tried it?

So I scored a bottle of Pappy 12 tonight, I suppose I should feel good? Lucky?

nice work! if you didnt pay over retail it's a very nice and fairly priced bourbon.

I paid $20 over, I guess? Not too worried about it, I haven't been buying bourbon much at all this year.

hi dan, what are you doing the next couple weekends? :D

Looking at this bottle, petting it occasionally, waiting for 12/5 to crack it open.

Had a Yamazaki the other night after winning a football match 8-0. It was most fitting. Very peaty and flavoursome, without any sort of sweetened chemical flavour. Delicious.

speaking of pappy 12, anyone ever see weller 12 year? it's very very similar if not indistinguishable. used to be my jam til it disappeared. elijah craig 12 year is my affordable go-to these days, but tonight i'm sipping four roses single barrel which is delightful.

haven't seen weller 12 in a few months now unfortunately

Van winkle 12 year/lot b is I believe just single barrel Weller 12. Technically not Pappy though. Weller 12 not gone, but all the "it's as good as Pappy" talk means it didn't linger when it shows up. That said, I haven't seen it for about a year, not long after someone tipped me it was going AWOL and I didn't believe him.

i don't even think lot b is single barrel, i think it's just the best barrels of 12 year old weller blended and bottled. the general shortage of older weller and the fact that they can divert the existing supply to the more desirable van winkle label means weller 12 is going to be an endangered species for quite a long time.

picked up a bottle of four roses limited edition single barrel 2014--pretty excited since the 2012 edition was possibly my favorite bourbon ever. the price has certainly gone up.

I've had an easier time getting Pappy than any of the 4R limited editions.

I couldn't believe what I was seeing for a few seconds!

I drank a whole bottle of this year's Booker's

http://www.wsj.com/articles/fear-of-a-bourbon-shortage-puts-enthusiasts-over-a-barrel-1418004595

I also picked up Hillrock's solera aged bourbon. it's quite interesting. a bit rough around the edges but I quite like it. excited to see what they'll be doing in 6 years or so.

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have we already talked white whiskey itt

i like that kings county white whiskey i must say

Fuck a white whiskey.