whiskey

I found a nice (new to me) shop in town that has a few more American whiskeys beyond the usual supermarket fodder (basically Jim Beam & Jack Daniels here in the UK). The prices though... ouch.

They actually have a bottle of Sazerac 18 Year Old (Fall 2009). I'd love to try that, but it's £100. George T Stagg for £115 as well. Dreams...

Has anyone tried either of those, the Sazerac 18 Year Old or George T Stagg? I'm a fan of Jim Murray and his whisky bible and he raves about previous year's incarnations of both.

just double checked--my sazerac 18 is the fall '09 bottling. it's fantastic. but i paid £45 for it according to the currency converter.

(the equiv of, i should say)

Jealous face.

yo cad, this rittenhouse is nice. do you take it with water? any good simple cocktails made with rye (besides manhattans)?

my fave whiskey based cocktail is a 'double'. you get a good whiskey, (tho it can be made with a bad whiskey, at a pinch) and you add one part whiskey to one part whiskey et voila.

if I meet you dmac I'll stand you a double of macallan 12 year and seagram, but you gotta mix them

a sazerac is a classic rye cocktail (that is awesome) but you'll need a specific type of bitters, and also some absinthe...

you could make an old fashioned?

yeah i was gonna say i don't usually drink rye straight (and i don't usually mix bourbon). but if i did, i would def add a splash of water to the rittenhouse since it's 100 proof.

my preference is a simple rye old fashioned--sugar in whatever form you like, about 4 dashes of bitters, a couple ice cubes, and a lemon twist.

glad you like it btw dyao!

if I meet you dmac I'll stand you a double of macallan 12 year and seagram, but you gotta mix them

bribery will get you everywhere tbh

hah I'm doing an informal a/bing of rittenhouse and four roses bourbon and it's quite interesting. also need to open this bottle of 'yoichi' single malt by nikka whiskey that my friend got for me in japan. i love whiskey whiskey whisky whisky whiskey whiskey would skey

wrong thread i know but i just got a bottle of glenfarclas 105 (which i tried at the whisky fringe last weekend, i don't remember much of it but it had "OMG KEN BUY ME! BUY ME! DO IT" in the notes! so it must have been very good??? i was too trashed 'sampling' the aberfeldy 21 and port ellen 1979 that i can never afford).

look forward to drinking it!

i fucking love four roses small batch and single barrel

you guys hear the dude on the Today programme this morning, who says he's invented a fuel made from whiskey distillation byproducts - that can go directly into your unmodified gas tank??

it may be these guys - http://www.heliusenergy.com/

if it means more whiskey then i support it!

"we have to keep churning out delicious whiskey or else!!!"

i'm doing my bit for the planet hic

rye is also good with ginger beer

Yes! I feel guilty doing that with expensive rye, but w/beam or whatever it is awesome

alternating between sips of rittenhouse and four roses. both are good. very good. yeah.

I feel that after a certain price point you really can't move up anymore in whiskies. you just move laterally. they are all good. they all deserve love. whiskey and whisky should be loved by all.

if there's anyone on here who doesn't like whisk(e)y, please let yourselves be known. then escort yourselves out. get out. out.

i forgot jsut how much I genuinely like whiskey!
― whatever (nordicskilla), Tuesday, March 29, 2005 4:28 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark

nordicskilla otm. me too. I forgot. until now.

got a bottle of laphroaig last week

sort of neglected it before as an 'obvious' choice that i'd get round to eventually

didn't expect it to be quite ~that~ full-flavoured, it's as if they got a cubic mile of hebridean air/sea/soil and compressed it into 75cl

maybe I will pick some up, that laphraig. there's a surprisingly good liquor shop near my flat, surprisingly good for HK at least. they have a good selection. 3 different kinds of highland park, 3 different vintages of nikka japanese whiskey. maybe they have laphroaig. I will check. it has a good selection for HK, which is pretty much a dry city. almost all of the people here only drink cheap beer. really cheap.

i'd like to get more american whiskies but the prices are usually stupid here

searching for cheapest four roses (-tax) = £19, in america £11

rittehouse 23 yr = £185, £95 in US

Bruichladdich is my favorite.

http://www.laddieshop.com/acatalog/shop.html

alternating between sips of rittenhouse and four roses. both are good. very good. yeah.

my man.

flask of rittenhouse for the wedding i attended yesterday. ordering ginger ales from the cash bar.

how does Laphroaig compare with Glenfiddich, anyone?

favourably

will drink

a lot of briny, peaty flavours. i kinda wanted to try it after a bottle of connemara whiskey which is ireland's only peated single malt or something (double distilled iirc so more like a scotch iirc). laphroaig is more intense and probably not something you'd drink too often without getting sick of it.

yeah but is it good with coke?

i prefer the glenny

laphroaig and a few lines would be standard issue shithead junior analyst at deustche bank boring sunday night stuff. coca cola on the other hand mixes nicely with islay malts and is sure to impress in any company.

Laphroaig, like other southern Islay malts (Lagavulin, Ardbeg), isn't for mixing. Its tar, smoke, iodine, a medicine cabinet in a bottle. Bracing. Glenfiddich is "accessible", and hence accounts for 35% of single-malt export sales.

I've never thought of mixing a single-malt. That's what Famous Grouse is for.

feel like the 'froig is kinda parodically earthy

(was kidding about the mixing)

will be trying laphroaig anyway, but i'd be lying if i didn't say the 'accessibility' was a large part of why i enjoyed glenfiddich so much.

idk if it's about the taste or the company's sales strategy

I mixed rittenhouse earlier tonight 1:2 with water and it was a treat

finished the four roses, wondering what to replace it with. think I prefer bourbon/rye to scotch these days. but laphraig sounds exactly what I want. no more tame single malt scotches.

Laphroaig is like drinking seawater. kind of fun.

Glenfiddich has a smoother taste. depends what you like really.

laphroaig is definitely the opposite of tame

i was thinking it tasted more like dirt than seawater

(in a good way)

Laphroaig is like drinking seawater. kind of fun.

"boss? got sales on line 1. they want a word about the new guy"

laphroaig smells like bandaids to me

i like it