whiskey

wine and beer def both age, i mean i don't really know what the fuck i'm talking about but i always just figured distilled spirits are kind of stable by the time they're bottled.

right

this bourbon is so freakin good

http://www.whisky-pages.com/images/stagg-big.jpg

I think I even like it better than Booker's. super high proof but smooth.

Hey, ive been proven wrong about my 50 year old chivas. Still tastes goddamn good though!!

this is a very, very good whiskey bar in downtown l.a.

http://www.sevengrand.la/

kind of a douchey scene, though.

there is some charlatanism going on in some of the whiskey-centric bars in New York, glass of Stagg at Char No. 4 (fancy place with 100s of bourbons in Brooklyn) is $26 and at Whiskey Ward (dive in Manhattan with a small but good list) it's $12

Buffalo Trace Experimental Zinfandel Barrel

wow what in the fuck is this. Char No. 4 has this for $60 a glass. sounds terrible! but Buffalo Trace made Stagg so who knows

glass of Stagg at Char No. 4 (fancy place with 100s of bourbons in Brooklyn) is $26

haha wowwwwwwwww

i will probably never in my life ever feel like i could drop $26 on one drink

except when i'm 60 and $26 pints are the standard

I miss the days of hanging out at the whiskey ward.

sevengrand is really great when not crowded. Which is hardly EVER. Otherwise, roll deep and take over a booth. The whiskey selection is unmatched in the greater LA area as far as I can tell.

Char No. 4 was OK but I wasn't thrilled with their selection for a bourbon place.

is there a whiskey equivalent for beermenus.com? not that i do much high-end bourbon drinking (especially not at a bar) but it would be neat to have as a reference.

I miss the days of hanging out at the whiskey ward.

ian/dmr, fette sau has stagg for $16 i think? not sure what age it is.

i can't find it in stores here.

sixteen is too much for a glass of whiskey imo. though i do love fette sau.

you can buy most liquor online tza.

i know. i gotta get on that.

i had it there to celebrate my last day of work in may, and i had 1. i wouldn't normally drink that extravagantly!

but in some cases, better to spend $16 on a kickass whiskey than get 2 glasses of a poorer one.

what about sixteen shots of something dreadful

yea what are some good online liquor stores

not sure what age it is.

I'm pretty sure there's only one age of it cause after I saw how much cheaper the Stagg was at Whiskey Ward I tried to check to see if CN4 had had some super-premium Stagg 30 Year or something. but no, they just have really high-ass prices. I liked the food though, the house-made sausages were v good ... as a bar it's kinda bullshit.

imo use google shopping for price comparisons

buffalo trace

good?

i have not developed an advanced bourbon palate but i think it's awesome. it smells incredible.

anyone had wasmund's single malt (or anything else) from copper fox distillery?

drinking knob creek at the moment.
however, the last two nights i've been drinking the special at a bar in the neighborhood--shot of evan williams & can of black label for $4. pretty good deal imo.

(xpost) They're getting better with each release, but they still don't stand up to a more traditionally made product. Good effort, and I understand why they did the wood chip quick aging the way they did (hard to be a start up distillery and wait years for your first income), but so far all the ones I've had just seem like part of an interesting learning process. Might be serious in a couple more years, though.

Hmm, thanks for the tip.

enjoying some fine jack daniels right about now

drinking knob creek at the moment.

same here

Rittenhouse 100 with ginger ale.

i have not developed an advanced bourbon palate but i think it's awesome. it smells incredible.

youre right, buffalo trace does not taste bad by any stretch but it smells absolutely amazing. at (now sadly defunct) marty's liquors down the street from me, there used to be this weird old guy who didn't actually work there but liked to pretend he did. if you went down one of the liquor aisles he would ask you what you were looking for, and he was pretty hard to get rid of. he turned me on to buffalo trace. i think he was actually pretty knowledgeable of their stock!

I DIED, I sent you a webmail.

basil hayden's - pretty good imo. almost fruity on the nose, maybe a little cinnamon? apparently is made w/ twice as much rye as some of the other small batches from beam - you can definitely taste it. there's like this slightly minty flavor there, w/ a little spice. definitely lighter than a most of the bourbons i've tried

yeah the thing i noticed about it was how it disappeared off yr palate as soon as you swallowed. i was kind of put off at first but then i decided it was cool.

yea right? it totally does that!!

yeah it's the damnedest thing. definitely works better neat or with one ice cube as opposed to some bourbons where i want them to mellow out over the course of a glass. it's already totally mellow to begin with.

i bought some bulleit today btw--may have a glass in a bit.

yea it's really really mellow

out of the whiskeys i have (which isn't many) - knob, bulleit, dickel, overholt - it's the overholt that it reminds the most of. must be the rye? that could be way off and i'll probably change that the more i drink BH or do a side-by-side tasting but it kind of tastes like a much brighter, more flowery/fruitier overholt. there is this base flavoring the two of them have that seems similar

i like bulleit a lot

there's this big cedar flavor that bulleit has that i like a lot

yeah!

bh, i never thought of it as particularly light! hmm.

how do you pronounce bulleit?

everywhere i've heard it's just "bullet"

a whiskey dork and close friend who works in the spirits industry also clarified for me that it's "bullet"

ok that's what i thought!

i didn't wanna walk into a store and be like do you guys have boo-light
maybe i will get some. i am more interested in liquor than i used to be (mostly a beer person).

ppl should have whiskey on hand imo

the world of whiskey welcomes u, harbl ; )