whiskey

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

Swollen dickel?

the price of dickel is def p engorged here

I'm back in Idaho and it has state liquor stores. Dickel is a good price... but they only have one variety (can't remember what one). The shitty selection is going to lead me to ordering liquor online...

my favorite place to browse online (and then go purchase boozes 'cause they're all over Chicago) is http://www.binnys.com/

had a pour of the Colonel E.H. Taylor single barrel bourbon tonight and really enjoyed it - 100 proof, opens up w/ a little water, spicy kick in the middle with a sweet butter finish

picked up a bottle of no-name 18-year speyside single malt from trader joe's for $25.99. i was a little unsure about it, but that's a great price for 18-year scotch, and i was curious. the verdict... not bad, and as good as any other scotch you'd get in that price range. pretty simple, easy drinking and smooth, though not much of a finish. thinking of other bottles in this range (macallan 10, glenfiddich 12, jw black), this is definitely better, although it's a miss if you like more full-bodied or smoky stuff.

TJ Scotch (man, I wish our TJ sold spirits) is bottled by Alexander Murray, fwiw: http://alexandermurray.com/. Same people handle Kirkland brand for Costco. I do know their no-brand liquor has a god reputation across the board. Tequila, vodka ...

correction: bulleit bourbon nearly$25 at Costco now

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdfz64dPd41qz6f9yo1_1280.gif

yeah yeah yeah yeah

the online service of waitrose have discounted a lot of whisky so if you use their first-time signup offer of £20 off £100 you can get like four bottles of laphroaig 1/4 cask delivered for fractionally over £20 each

http://www.waitrose.com/content/waitrose/en/home/groceries/offer_aff.html

bulleit bourbon went up to $20.99 at Trader Joe's

awesome insight from toothpaste for dinner.com

no one who is truly into booze should front on the martini, its true

sarahell otm about price change, but it's like $24 here now (maybe I already posted that?)

oh sorry, I meant at costco, here. no TJ liquor section locally

so i got a bottle of buffalo trace discounted, it's now bottled at 40% abv here and some people seem to be unhappy about this (also 700ml as standard rather than 750ml in america i'd imagine?)

could benefit from the extra alcohol but it's very nice and makes a change from laphy taphy

Wow, 40% is pretty low.

40% abv and 700ml? they are disrespecting your country and your personal integrity

yeah reducing spirits to the legal minimum is pretty common, although most of the better single malt scotches seem to be bottled at 43-46% which is alright but even at 40% scotch doesn't lose as much as bourbon

I just picked up a bottle of BT the other day, now I'm paranoid that it is lower % than previously.

nah i'm pretty sure this is a specific to the uk and the shitty market for imported liquors that ensures i only ever buy them at unusual discounts

the price of yamizaki seems to have skyrocketed too cuz i was going to get a bottle but it's into ardbeg territory now

only offender of perpetual proof-lowering in the US is JD, I think

those fuckers

me mum surprise me with a bottle of jefferson's rye last night.
yum!