whiskey

Just a reminder y'all: Drink Whiskey Day is December 5.

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― fwiw: lol iirc sb'd u tbqh (dan m), Wednesday, December 1, 2010 11:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

holy shit, yes

There's whiskey in the jar-o iirc

i tasted the small batch buffalo trace zinfindel stuff and it's a noble failure.

more info: first taste was bourbony w/ a little extra sweetness on the end which was v v nice and kinda interesting but then it opened up and it became grape juice w/ rubbing alcohol in it and was v v gross.

oh what it was aged in zinfindel barrels?

ewww

So, a friend got me a bottle of Knob Creek over the Thanksgiving holiday, and I had a glass last night in my typical bourbon fashion - one big ice cube in the glass.

I will be trying it neat tonight. Shit was SMOOOTHER than I remembered. Dayum.

eagle rare neat is treating me right

did not mean to be almost halfway thru the bottle but ohhhhh well

and now with drink whiskey day coming up and all ...

oooooh i am looking forward to drink whiskey day

oh what it was aged in zinfindel barrels?

― call all destroyer, Thursday, December 2, 2010 11:27 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah not worth it unless someone offers it to you/is paying

what is drink whisky day

every day is drink whisky day

craving whiskey. I will buy whiskey.

problem. solution.

i like abelour scotch, but why i couldn't really tell you, i don't know much about scotch. and i have to say the reason i posted the hitchens video is that i think johnnie walker black is really good.

Hitchens is notorious for regifting really nice bottles of scotch to his friends & neighbors. Many people know what he's fond of scotch and get him very expensive bottles as presents but he ONLY drinks Johnnie Walker Black and gives away everything else.

that's awesome. i've told this story before, but he's replied to two of my fan emails before within a few hours with a very polite, informative response each time... he is a true gentleman

I got bottle of Compass Box Flaming Heart 10-Year Anniversary as a present for a friend today at my favorite local liquor store. Really gorgeous label:

http://i51.tinypic.com/2z9a79l.jpg

Also, bless that store for carrying 14 kinds of rye.

you are a good friend!

haha I don't think I'd have gotten it for him if I wasn't sure that I'd be able to share some.

X-posts/re: hitchens

Except that, even allowing that its a really good one like Johnny Walker Black, repping that hard for a blended whisky, to the exclusion of all other whiskeys is so weird to me. I look down on it, as surely as I look down on someone who only drank canadian whiskey.

I mean if you don't drink single malts or quality bourbons, you just aren't in the fraternity of whiskey snobs/afficionados, and are hence to be ignored on the subject.

i'm shocked, just shocked that hitch would be stubborn and intractable about something!

what is drink whisky day

a very special day that coincides with the repeal of Prohibition in the USA

(note: if the actual date falls on a week day then the holiday is moved to the nearest following Friday, creating Drink Whiskey Day (observed))

wasn't the idea though that something like johnnie walker black would have the same consistency year in year out, rather than as a result of the particular year as in a single-malt? maybe that's what he likes about it, i don't know.

dude what is that store? i want to go to there!
xposts

so maybe i should make it tomorrow because the 5th is a sunday (aka school night)

yes i also want to know about this store so i can make a pilgrimage someday

also, re: hitchens, i've heard the same thing about him drinking wine. i read this account of a dinner someone was at with (seriously) richard dawkins, and they were drinking clos du bois, like $12 bottles of wine. i've also seen pictures of hitchens waiting for the bus in washington d.c.
awesome, awesome person

drink whiskey day i mean. xpost
well i guess next fri is the nearest following friday.
i give up. bad at posting tonight!

(xposts) it's Ace Beverage on New Mexico Ave (DC). Inconvenient location, only open until 5pm, but goddamn is it a great store.

By all means celebrate Drink Whiskey Day on a day that works best for you, but this year it does conveniently fall on a weekend.

Hitchens used to be maybe the closest thing I had to a sort of hero, but then there was that Iraq War boosterism and I stopped paying attention to him. But you bring up the wine and taking the bus and Johnnie Walker Black fits in in sort of an admirable way. I was interpreting it another way.

this is a bit off-topic but yep, the iraq stuff, i don't know. i don't really understand how he got to that point.

but johnnie walker black i have to say was really, really good. i haven't had any in a while but i was struck by how good it was.

No it is good. I won't deny that.

it's great stuff for sure

again sorry to be off topic here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/collina/4343030446/

hahah

lol. I used to ride the 42 b/w mount pleasant and dupont circle all the time.

On Thursdays I get all frosty on Jim Beam Rye and ginger beer and watch television.

you know, a google search for "drink whiskey day" yields 14 results, one of them a chicago ilx thread. lol.

more commonly called Repeal Day iirc

http://www.repealday.org/

I stumbled into a DC Whiskey Week tasting be coincidence at Bourbon last night, free tastings of:

Smooth Ambler White Whiskey (West Virginia, 100 proof) - a pretty delicious moonshine. Lots of corn on the nose but a really bright taste, almost like a pisco. Great for cocktails. They also make a really unusual gin.

Redemption Rye (Kentucky, 92 proof) - 95% rye, super spicy of course. Not too nuanced but it was only a 2-year old bottling and retails around $26, so what can you expect. This was one of my favorites of the night just because the rye content made it so unique.

Redemption Bourbon (Kentucky, 92 proof) - eh, nothing special.

High West Rendezvous Rye (Utah, 92 proof) - blend of a 16-year old rye and a 6-year old rye, both with very high rye contents. Great stuff, very long finish. Not filtered, but still cut. Wish it had been bottled at a higher proof. There were a couple older High West ryes, too, but I think bottling a 16 or 21 year old rye at 92 proof is a crime.

Willett 8-year "Coco Loco" Bourbon (Kentucky, 123 proof) - as usual, the Willett bottlings are really special. The Coco Loco was worth seeking out but the real star was the...

Willett 8-year "Suspension Bridge" Bourbon (Kentucky, 128 proof) - holy shit, probably my favorite Willett expression since the 16-year Malt Bomb. Huge flavor with a good burn but also a nice balance and strong finish. Less sweet than the Coco Loco. All the Willett bottlings (except for the Pot Still) get selected by individual barrel, so there are less than 200 bottles of each. I'm going to grab a bottle of the Suspension Bridge quick.

I feel very lucky to have a bar as good as Bourbon in DC. Also grateful for DC's relatively open liquor import and distribution regulations, that kind of stuff isn't visible but it makes an enormous difference to consumers.

good stuff!

the mini quality rye drought we were having up here seems to be over big time; seen both rittenhouse and sazerac in multiple stores recently. i guess i can stop hoarding?

whiskey week! dang. how do i never know about these things until after hte fact!?

i have hardly had any whisky this week

every week is whiskey week

xp was about to say me neither, then i realized i hade some monday and tuesday

glenfarclas anybody? got a bottle of the 12-year on a fabulous discount on new years eve.

got some redemption rye after a sampling a few weeks ago - made an awesome dry manhanttan with it. really young and lively.