whiskey

Tonight it's Fighting Cock, 103 proof, maybe it will do the trick.

fighting cock leaves me with a monstrous hangover -- good luck.

rittenhouse at the moment tbh

i really wanted to like the kickin' chicken, but....

It goes down well with a little vermouth and bitters, but it leaves an odd taste in your mouth.

i didn't hate the taste -- a little rough around the edges -- i just hate what i did to my head the next morning.

Nothing a good day of manual labor won't cure!

TURKEY

I keep looking for a bottle of george dickel rye but I never see it. Has it not be released yet?

Never mind guess it's just not sold in Oklahoma.

happy st patrick's day! killed a bottle of this with help from 3 friends

http://www.drinkhacker.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/wild-geese-irish-soldiers-and-heroes-whiskey-Limited-Edition.jpg

Via some twists and turns, I'm lucking into a bottle of this special Longman & Eagle bottling of Willett:

About six months ago, we were approached by the folks from the Willett Distillery, who were in possession of a very curious find – six twenty-one year old (!) ‘mystery’ barrels of bourbon.

After some research, it’s thought that these are old Heaven Hill stock, presumably from a lower floor in a rickhouse that burned down in 1996. These single-barrel, barrel-proof bourbons are among the finest we’ve (ever) tasted, so we of course bought two of the six barrels for ourselves. A precious, rare find indeed…

After a month or so of quietly enjoying these two bottlings ourselves, it’s time to share this bounty with the larger public. Barrel one, ‘Longman’, is 109 proof and is limited to 106 bottles; barrel two, ‘Eagle’, came in at 100.5 proof and is even more limited at 62 bottles total – both fairly low for barrel-proof whiskey and both absolutely, totally delicious.

wow nice!

are those anchor distillery whiskies fairly available in san francisco? worth checking out?

so i know the square root of fuck all about whiskey but i nearly picked up a bottle of ardberg 10 in saino's tonight before chickening out and getting reliable old glenmorangie og

now no complaints obv but still i'm wondering. basically i'm terrified of ending up with another laphroaig cos that shit was horrible (fernet branca is my one and only official mouthwash partner)

find a bar that has it by the glass and try it first! ardbeg is even more peaty than laphroaig, so if you don't like the latter... definitely try it first.

see this is the thing with the tasting verbiage semantics game imo, peaty suggests an deep earthyness to me not just medicinal

i mean it's a fun game don't get me wrong

hold on let me mail u some ardberg real quick

calling it ardberg and not ardbeg is probably some real n00b shibboleth for a start huh

for starters u should be posting in the 'whisky' thread not the 'whiskey' thread

peaty means high peat content, not smells like peat moss

I would just recommend avoiding Islay scotches if you dislike Laphroaig.

yup, there are tons of whiskies out there to choose from that don't have that flavor profile so get one of those.

Ardbeg is the best. Doesn't have the medicinal flavour / smell of Laphroaig at all. Really deep, savoury smoke instead.

well now that i'd be all up for

obv f.hazel's advice is entirely sane but the lack of consensus is intriguing me

i mean i do think ardbeg and laphroaig have some fairly different qualities but if by your own admission you know fuck all about whiskey it's the kind of thing that's better to back into after enjoying a few bottles of, like, glenmorangie or something.

Wish I had some of both to compare right now, and some Lagavulin for good measure.

Glenmorangie is one of the sweet candies of the scotch world

Regarding peat:

http://www.whiskyforeveryone.com/whisky_basics/influence_of_peat.html

peat and repeat got in a boat. peat fell out.

i don't like laphroaig, and i do like ardbeg. personally, if i'm drinking peaty scotch, i prefer something more like talisker or highland park, which aren't as heavily peated as the big boys (laphroaig, lagavulin, ardbeg). ardbeg is fun, though - at first you'll be overwhelmed by the smoke, but there's a lot more going on underneath all that. with laphroaig, it's smoke and iodine and that's it.

Man charged with drinking http://www.wtae.com/news/local/westmoreland/Man-charged-with-drinking-102-000-worth-of-pre-Prohibition-whiskey/-/10932546/19430164/-/e51nr7z/-/index.html02,000 worth of pre-Prohibition whiskey

oh nuts. sorry.

gonna drink about 102000 worth of jack daniels over the weekend tbph. thread needs to allow for economic realities every now and again

rtc, how are you fixed for glenfiddich? one of my faves, and well situated between clean/sweet and smoky/footcheese

Local store had a Knob Creek / Knob Creek Rye sale. I picked up a case (6 bottles) of the rye at a decent discount and will be splitting it with a friend.

just finished 21 yr old mystery islay and looking at this cheap 8yr blended scotch from tesco, reliably described on their site as both vegetarian friendly and also

Allergy Information

Free From: Mustard
Instructions

Standard Frozen Guidelines

No

lol

bought some presents for family for my upcoming wedding including Bruichladdich The Laddie 16 and Dickel Barrel Select, totally going to hound ppl about opening them up and giving us a taste

you buy them presents?

I thought the same thing at first

The timing of this event is not at all doable for me, and the price is slightly steep, but it's still interesting: http://americanwhiskeyfest.eventbrite.com/#

Got a bottle of this as a gift, waiting for a special occasion to try it but by all accounts it's good stuff.

http://www.leopoldbros.com/American_Small_Batch_Whiskey.html

Also tried a glass of Penderyn Madeira Single Malt a few days ago, fantastic flavor for something I didn't expect to like much. Sweetish like a bourbon, no peat. (I realize this will be a turn off for some/most itt.)

The attempt to water down Maker's Mark in February did more than garner headlines. It resulted in a 44 percent comparable sales increase for the bourbon in the first three months of the year.

Although Maker's parent Deerfield-based Beam Inc. rapidly reversed its decision, it didn't stop Maker's fans from stocking up.

"This episode reinforces that Maker's is a rare brand that can inspire this rare consumer passion," Beam CEO Matt Shattock said in a call with investors Thursday. "Given the ongoing supply constraint of Maker's, we'll manage growth going forward and we anticipate being able to sustain the healthy sales growth rate for the brand result."

Forgot about the Maker's Mark controversy, I got a bottle in duty free coming back from the US last month. Think it's 45% which is the regular strength isn't it?

For some reason I forgot/didn't realize Maker's Mark is also owned by Beam. Hrrm.

xp yes it is

I just think it's a bit rich for them to cite the bump in sales as a ratification of its "rare brand" rep. They just brilliantly/boneheadedly bullshitted everyone into thinking they would make it more rare, then immediately backed down. But anything sold by the jug in Costco is not "rare," lol.

xpost Fittingly, my friend considers Maker's an "airport" brand. That is, if you're stuck in the airport, and you need a sip of bourbon, you know there's at least Maker's. But neither he nor I have ever spent money on a bottle of the stuff.

yeah makers is usually the one ok bourbon at shitty bars and rock clubs

btw my supply of knob creek rye is soooo gone. three bottles lasted fewer than three weeks :/

I usually get Wild Turkey 101 at the duty free but they had some honey version instead this time.