whiskey

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 ; )

what a douche jay blanchard was drinking scotch out of a pint glass with ice = GTFO

sorry, carry on thread.

finishing my bottle of knob tonight. prob gonna get a bottle of buffalo trace next? never had it, heard good things.

hahah xxp

buffalo trace is enjoyable imo

i've heard great things about buffalo trace, especially blanton's which is from the BT distillery

haha i don't have proper whiskey glass sizes at all. drinking glasses - 2 left, i broke 1, 32 oz mason jars, coffee mugs (drinking wine out of a handmade one that says "good luck you'll need it" rn). i hope that's ok with y'all.

peeps love their bourbon, we need some scotch/irish drinkers itt imo

britishers are asleep right now. just wait.

i have laphroaig on hand; also i stan dewars on a regular basis

btw CAD i went to blanchard's the other night. that place is awesome - tons of beer in the cooler, even more on the shelves. whiskey selection was much better than most places i've been so far in boston. staff were super helpful - i think like three different people asked if i need help, and the guy i talked to about bourbon chatted w/ me for a while

not crazy abt irish most of the time tho i do have an untouched bottle of midleton i'm saving for the right moment

oh rad mark! bought bulleit and wine there tonight--it's a good store.

currently drinking: The Macallan Select Oak – "Testament to The Macallan’s knowledge and mastery of wood, Select Oak uses 3 cask types – American Oak seasoned with either sherry or bourbon and first-fill European oak casks seasoned with sherry. Investing more per cask than any other Single Malt, each Macallan cask has been handcrafted and selected under the supervision of The Macallan’s Master of Wood, George Espie. This very special whisky has a high proportion of first fill Sherry Oak casks."

It's awesome.

harbl go to a thrift store, you'll prob find something great and for cheap. went to a salvation army specifically for sipping glasses and found a set of 4 perfect glasses for like $2

haha thrift store is where i got my formerly 3 drinking glasses, so of course that'd be the first place i'd look

yes thrift stores are great for little sets of tumblers

hahah jim that sounds great, how much is it per bottle? xxp

i have these weird little blue glasses i got in a thrift store that i never really use, but they are cool

i've been drinking my bourbon lately out of a teacup :\

seconding laphroaig; also, scapa.

yeah i don't even care about having different-sized glasses. i like this set of coffee mugs i got from college pottery sale. i could drink whiskey out of them.

yea all it needs to be is relatively small. before i got the ones i have, i used these tiny ceramic mugs that my sister made, they were pretty great

hahah jim that sounds great, how much is it per bottle? xxp

― mark cl

on the site i c&p'd that info from it says $53, can't remember what it cost me when i got it at the duty free at an airport in Spain, just remember i decided to buy myself a bottle of whiskey that cost almost as much as the bottle of perfume i was buying for my girl.

$53 doesn't sound that bad for what you described imo

wow, this bulleit. sweet and smooth--really really tasty.

yea it's nice and really good for the price imo - usually around $30/bottle

I always thought it was pronounced bull-LEET but I don't think I've ever said it out loud. glad this thread set me straight

buffalo trace is pretty good, ian

I may need to get a bottle of something for my friend's Breeders' Cup get-together next weekend

i've always heard bullet like what you put in a gun

I'm sure that's right. I was only pronouncing it to myself in my head :)