most expensive whiskey I ever had was this: http://www.whisky.fr/medias/images/produits/675x900/m355.jpg
it goes for up to $5500 fyi
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 19:54 (fourteen years ago) link
i have a bottle of reg. midleton sitting at home, waiting for the right occasion....
― unlucky son (call all destroyer), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 19:56 (fourteen years ago) link
btw the western gold bourbon in Lidl is really really nice.
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
also cheap
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 20:07 (fourteen years ago) link
The spelling differentiation between single malt whisky and whiskey needs to go as well.
I'm on the fence with this one - part of me likes the different spelling as representative of the different traditions that go into the whole whiskey thing, and the other part just wishes we could drop all the naming conventions and get good and stinking with each other.
Man, I got a thirst after reading this thread. Luckily, it will be 6 hours at least before I can even acquire booze, so hopefully it will have abated by then.
― Two Will Get You Three (B.L.A.M.), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 20:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Ed, Old Portrero is really good, it's very unique. It's not like bourbon or scotch at all, hard to describe. its definitely worth finding.
― Bill Magill, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
I am off to SF next month, I shall make a beeline for the distillery.
― Mornington Crescent (Ed), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Enjoy. If you ever find yourself up in Massachusetts, that is where i have had the best luck in finding Pappy Van Winkle. Their website also has a state by state list of their retailers:
http://www.oldripvanwinkle.com/newbs/vw/website3.nsf/wProducts?readform&t=Products
― Bill Magill, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 20:42 (fourteen years ago) link
bought a bottle of george dickel last night, was very pleased. sipped it neat
― mark cl, Thursday, 16 July 2009 12:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Only had a pull or two of the dickel and I liked.
― ╓abies, Thursday, 16 July 2009 12:56 (fourteen years ago) link
(ilx quoted out of context)
at $18, dickel used to be a go-to of mine, felt like a steal. now it's like $24. still tasty tho.
― W i l l, Thursday, 16 July 2009 13:32 (fourteen years ago) link
found it for $20 in western MA
― mark cl, Thursday, 16 July 2009 13:34 (fourteen years ago) link
at a place that sells maker's mark for $24
― mark cl, Thursday, 16 July 2009 13:35 (fourteen years ago) link
ye olde Chicopee Chiseller
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 16 July 2009 13:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Dickel is pretty decent, I think I paid $18 in DC.
i used some to make a sazerac last night (OK not orthdox and I had no peychaud and had to do a twist of lime), but I have a bottle of HB pastis and it had to be done.
http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/tales-of-a-cocktail-sampling-sazeracs-in-new-orleans/
― Mornington Crescent (Ed), Thursday, 16 July 2009 13:46 (fourteen years ago) link
ok if you paid $18 in dc (where i live) and tracer is calling marker's for $24 chiseling, i really need to stop going to the neighborhood corner liquor store.
― W i l l, Thursday, 16 July 2009 13:52 (fourteen years ago) link
PA state liquor (not known for its cheapness) lists it for $19.99.
― Mornington Crescent (Ed), Thursday, 16 July 2009 13:54 (fourteen years ago) link
there's a real nice liquor store less than a minute from my place but everything costs a fortune there. i think a bottle of laphroaig was like 60 bucks, i got one for 40 in new hampshire two weeks ago.
― north sea jazz dit weekend (call all destroyer), Thursday, 16 July 2009 13:55 (fourteen years ago) link
$24 for maker's is chiseling? wow i thought i was getting a deal.
yea i feel like it's hard tho to find out if you're getting ripped off - most of the liquor stores around here sell stuff for similar prices. guess u find out by traveling a bit. i didn't buy any liquor really until i moved to western MA so i'm not sure what stuff would cost in, say, cleveland, where i grew up
― mark cl, Thursday, 16 July 2009 13:58 (fourteen years ago) link
i think tho that my liquor store is moderately priced then - they had laphroaig for like $48
― mark cl, Thursday, 16 July 2009 13:59 (fourteen years ago) link
damnit what was the single malt i had the other night that had a lovely treacley finish?
― ledge, Thursday, 16 July 2009 14:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Beer seems really expensive here which is a bummer, I' just drink wine these days.
― ╓abies, Thursday, 16 July 2009 14:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Ah twas Isle of Jura it was. xp.
― ledge, Thursday, 16 July 2009 14:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Ed do you recall where you bought dickel for $18 in dc
― W i l l, Thursday, 16 July 2009 14:01 (fourteen years ago) link
laphroaig under 50 in mass is generally indicative of good prices imo. 24 for maker's seems like a deal tho i don't really like maker's at all.
― north sea jazz dit weekend (call all destroyer), Thursday, 16 July 2009 14:02 (fourteen years ago) link
i've never even heard of dickel--are ppl recommending it?
Somewhere around 16th and P/Q, bought whilst walking from Dupont circle to the Doubletree.
― Mornington Crescent (Ed), Thursday, 16 July 2009 14:04 (fourteen years ago) link
i like it! xp
think it's a really good value too
― mark cl, Thursday, 16 July 2009 14:05 (fourteen years ago) link
also here's what merle haggard has to say about dickel:
"I think George Dickel is absolutely the best Tennessee mash whiskey. It's my understanding that Jack Daniel's was an attempt to try to take the recipe of George Dickel to a commercial state of reproducing it. Whereas they couldn't do that with George Dickel, because in order to make it the way they make it, they would have had to repeat too many different formulas. It would have been impossible. They did certain things at certain temperatures in a certain kind of water. So I went down there and looked at their distilleries and saw what they were doing, saw the difference between that and Jack Daniel's, and I couldn't believe it. You take George Dickel and you pour it over ice and hold it up to the light, and it won't separate. But if you take Jack Daniel's and do that, hold it up to the light, you'll notice that the corn oil starts separating from the whiskey, because it hasn't been married at the correct temperature. When you go down and have this education thrown upon you, and then you drink it—everybody got drunk when we was taking pictures. It was about 20 girls and about 20 guys, and we're all down in this creek drunk with two fists of George Dickel apiece, and we all stayed over and had breakfast together, and not a one of us had a hangover."
I would recommend dickel, decent cheapish whiskey, quite light compared to Makers, Woodford and the like. It mixes nicely, makes a great old fashioned.
― Mornington Crescent (Ed), Thursday, 16 July 2009 14:06 (fourteen years ago) link
merle haggard reccomends ithttp://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h75/gridw/grid_dickel.jpgxxp
― mizzell, Thursday, 16 July 2009 14:07 (fourteen years ago) link
haha, I juuust opened this thread to bring up that Merle Haggard endorsement.
― ╓abies, Thursday, 16 July 2009 14:07 (fourteen years ago) link
cool, i will check that out--i want to trade an amount of my beer drinking for whiskey sipping so something tasty and cheap will help that process.
― north sea jazz dit weekend (call all destroyer), Thursday, 16 July 2009 14:08 (fourteen years ago) link
hahahah awesome ad!
that is pretty much why i bought dickel xp
― mark cl, Thursday, 16 July 2009 14:08 (fourteen years ago) link
was probably Cairo at 17th & Corcoran - good little shop, especially great beer selection.
― dramatic, positive, whatever but in an ironic way (I DIED), Thursday, 16 July 2009 14:22 (fourteen years ago) link
mark i will confess that it's been a while since i've bought a fifth of bourbon but i always thought of maker's as really not much better than jim beam if at all
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 16 July 2009 14:23 (fourteen years ago) link
and i prefer evan williams to either, which is (i believe) cheaper
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 16 July 2009 14:24 (fourteen years ago) link
they def aren't cheap and they may seem trendy but these hudson river valley whiskies are really really goodhttp://tuthilltown.com/QUALITY/gif/ryetrans.gif http://tuthilltown.com/QUALITY/gif/babytrans.gif
― mizzell, Thursday, 16 July 2009 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link
nice-looking bottles
― north sea jazz dit weekend (call all destroyer), Thursday, 16 July 2009 14:31 (fourteen years ago) link
yea def
― mark cl, Thursday, 16 July 2009 14:32 (fourteen years ago) link
can anyone recommend a good, affordable sipping rye? is old overholt any good? jim beam rye? looking for something in the $15-$30 range that won't give me a hangover. will likely be sipping it neat
― mark cl, Friday, 17 July 2009 13:26 (fourteen years ago) link
will def not be mixing
― mark cl, Friday, 17 July 2009 13:27 (fourteen years ago) link
sazerac is good - not sure how much that is in the US but i would have thought it would be in that price range.rittenhouse is also good but prob not for just sipping
― just sayin, Friday, 17 July 2009 13:40 (fourteen years ago) link
funny, i didn't even know sazerac is a co., thought it was a cocktail until i just went to their website
― mark cl, Friday, 17 July 2009 13:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Beam Rye is actually pretty tasty. I would recommend it neat or on the rocks.
― NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! dude, yessssss! (B.L.A.M.), Friday, 17 July 2009 15:25 (fourteen years ago) link
how does it compare to old overholt? (which i've never tried, but i'm just really loving its bottle:)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/cf/RyeWhiskey.jpg/200px-RyeWhiskey.jpg
― mark cl, Friday, 17 July 2009 15:35 (fourteen years ago) link
rittenhouse 100 proof is good in that price range, old overhold & beam rye are both excellent for the money (should be $12-15/bottle)
― dramatic, positive, whatever but in an ironic way (I DIED), Friday, 17 July 2009 15:37 (fourteen years ago) link
I have never had overholt, actually.
But I would take I DIED's advice on matters of alcohol and cocktails.
― NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! dude, yessssss! (B.L.A.M.), Friday, 17 July 2009 15:58 (fourteen years ago) link