whiskey

sorry man, I drank your whiskey and replaced it with basement water :(

Oh I really hope I get to Longman and Eagle when I'm in Chicago next month, I love it there and I've never had the opportunity to have a go at their whiskey selection.

wow, there is some stuff there i would love to try

I like the place, been to eat there a few times. Glad I don't live on that block any more though, the parking/tourist/yuppie situation would drive me insane. Their sidewalk seating is bad enough...

Has anyone ever had this?

http://www.whisky-drinker.com/pages/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Tamdhu-no-agesm.jpg

Top secret L&E tip, go there for lunch, when the lines are not mad and the bartenders can be talked into giving tastes. Granted, not the best time to start on whiskey, but you take the good with the bad.

Big Star in Chicago is another fun whiskey stop.

Yeah the gf and I went with my parents like half an hour before dinner service started to get a little drink on ahead of time and ensure we got a decent table. It worked out well.

(that's pretty much the only way I can envision getting in there w/o hassle on a saturday)

Yeah Big Star is awesome also, though I often find myself looking longingly across the road to the Violet Hour. I understand that marks me out as a ponce, but whatevs, I'm English so everyone thinks that about me anyway.

The joy of being on vacation when we're in Chicago is we can plan our day to get to L&E before the madness kicks in too severely. Or just go eat at Lula over the road which is one of my lovely wife's favourite restaurants in the world.

Violet Hour is great, but not the casual commitment Big Star or L&E are.

just bought some sazerac, stoked

Anyone know an online whiskey store in the US with reasonable prices on single malts?

Not sure how reasonable they are but there's always http://www.binnys.com/

Thanks - they look ok so going with them (still got gaps in my US online retail knowledge)

Today's payday and I'm fresh out of "nice-ish sippin' whiskey that I keep around to drink occasionally & expand my palate" so I went and bought a bottle of Jefferson's standard offering on my lunch break. Now it's just sitting on my desk, staring back at me. Teasing me, almost. Only 4 more hours...

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/c0.0.403.403/p403x403/533943_10101194472688960_1835927744_n.jpg

braggin

this is the amount i have now. it's enough for me but i am thinking maybe i should get some more for friends and stuff. cost is holding me back too.

Ha, you could have sold that PVW rye for enough to buy probably 10 4-packs of BCS.

but then i wouldn't have it!

I'm fully aware of my own circular logic behind buying bottles of stuff due to their massively inflated price on the secondary market, knowing full well I would never sell on the secondary market.

if it was stuff i didn't like that would be one thing

Yeah, CAD, I used to have the whole whiskey world at my fingertips, but now I live back in Idaho, where liquor is controlled by the state and they only sell the most popular brands -- "popular" in Idaho of course no where near equaling "best"...

Oh well. I've gone through nearly a 5th of Dickel 12. I swear every drop of it was sipped, no gulping!

Drunk. Next time I'm gonna order fancy stuff online, but the boys down in Tennessee haven't let me down yet. They can go ahead and let their whiskey sleep for 20 years down in Kentucky, doesn't mean its better!

This Jefferson's is too... thin and sweet for my tastes.

http://sourmashmanifesto.com/

good blog I came across while researching different whiskies

chuck cowdery's blog is still awesome

xp yeah that guy is good, cowdery is obv amazing.

it's not whisky, but tonight i got to enjoy some 36 year old rum from francis ford coppola's private reserve. he bought two barrels when it was 24 years old and transferred it to white wine barrels from his vineyard for 12 more years, bottled it, and kept the bottles for himself to give as gifts. i had never had rum outside of mixed drinks or awful shots, so this was quite a treat.

wow, that sounds kinda incredible. how was it?

Surprised there's no massive clamor for certain rums the way there is for whiskey, though maybe there is! But rum has been made for a lot longer (than bourbon, at least), in more places, with fewer rules, and ages well (like whiskey), so there must be some really awesome pirate stuff floating around out there.

Bought this from the distillery in Oban, it was a little too easy to drink. Probably the nicest Whisky i've had to date.
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Xpost rum is continually super underrrated imo

the FFC rum was really good, although i'm not a rum connoisseur, so i'm not really sure how it would compare to other boutique rums. you could definitely taste the oak like you would with a very old whisky, but the spirit itself is much thinner tasting. it was neat to try, and it might be super rare, but i'd take a bottle of talisker over it just in terms of taste. plus, (no brag) part of the allure of the rum is that i was drinking it WITH francis ford coppola, so that definitely added to the whole "unique experience" thing.

haha yeah that's pretty rad.

i've never heard of rum aged in white wine barrels! super curious about what they added.

I want a rum aged in FFC's beard.

Guys I'm only one glass in but I think Old Grand Dad might be the new Dickel for me.

which expression are u drinking

100 proof bonded

that's my fav

I could only manage the one glass because it was getting a little late and I'd already had two glasses of wine (plus lol 100 proof), but damn, for $20 and change out the door that stuff's flaovr easily outpaces the $30+ Jefferson's I bought a few weeks back.

http://i.imgur.com/RENFm.jpg

For sure, Old Gran Dad 100 proof, like Wild Turkey 101, is a great deal. I have a bottle of Old Fitz 100 I've been meaning to open, too.

roommate got a bottle of clontarf as a secret santa gift and wow is it not good

Snagged a bottle of 2001 Evan Williams single barrel on sale for $19 at a small town liquor store in MN today, feel kind of irrationally needy and happy about this. Couldn't convince myself to buy the other 3 bottles left on the shelf.

Needy = nerdy

google autocomplete for 'clontarf whis' is 'clontarf whiskey aldi', this is a protip imo

Anyone tried cask strength Laphroiag? Hooboy.

mmmm no but would try! i had to unbookmark this thread for a while because it was making me want to drink whiskey at inappropriate times of the day.

there are no inappropriate times, just inopportune times

3:15 PM in the Midwest? Sure let's test out this bottle that I got while grocery shopping.

And oh my, it's quite a bit stronger than anticipated. Glad I just tasted it.

I was at a whisky tasting a few months ago and got to try a 30 year old laphroiag, it was delicious and I don't even like regular laphroiag much. The harsh peat taste was totally smoothed off. Some might not like that I guess since that's kinda what laphroiag's all about, but for me it was great. But then it bloody well ought to be at £250 a bottle.

Got to sample all the single malts my Dad got for Christmas... Bunnahabhain = delicious.