whiskey

i've had old overholt out at bars a few times, but never seen it in a store. the only thing i can find regularly is the beam rye, which is very easy to drink.

yeah i was at a nice cocktails place on thurs and they were doing overholt with a couple other elements to make a nice sweetened version. sold me on picking it up for 13 bucks--that was the price at the really expensive liquor store!

woah that is expensive for knob! i'm used to it being in the 32-35 range?

tracer, zubrowka, <3!

i just made bulleit + soda. nice revive timing.

Enjoying Wild Turkey right now but don't know if I could stand it without rocks.

i don't get a hangover from good whiskey but maybe i'm special

that's because you're on drugs

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100% sold on the g. dickel btw

what do people think of bulleit bourbon?

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bought some the other day and tried it last night. thought it was really good. definitely didn't strike me as a soft bourbon, it was even a little harsh. lots of cedar imo. really good and fairly complex.

meant that to be an image, not italics

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w/ some friends last night we did a blind tasting of the 4 whiskeys i have: knob creek, bulleit, g. dickel, and old overholt. it was pretty fun! old overholt was pretty clearly the least complex, knob the most. knob won out over the bulleit for the ~$30 range.

big fan of bulleit, when i first found it (living in tucson at the time) it was cheap too

i need to do a blind tasting one of these days.

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wooooof old grand-dad was the first whiskey i've ever tried, snuck it from my parents' liquor cabinet when i was 15. shit was gross imo but it has been 11 years since i've tried it

that shit was responsible for me & lots of friends throwing up, many times

give it another try! O G-D was my grandfather's favorite (he lived in kentucky) not as heavy/complex as knob creek et al but v. v. drinkable on the rocks

ok i will

regarding that kind of price range/shelf level i have a friend who swears by old crow. bottle looks like a wild turkey knock-off but i haven't tried it

Old Crow is pretty godawful, if memory serves correctly, but my friend and I only really tried it a long time ago.

yea it looks terrible

old crow is fine liberally mixed with something else.

god i wish bulleit was broadly available in england

mix with lemonade if you want to feel like a middling poet whose second marriage is failing in the early 1960s.

also i wish i could afford to buy this on the regular

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^^

i just need to suck it up and buy a bottle

god i wish bulleit was broadly available in england

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it is! thresher's/wine rack stock it.

xp tho i'm waiting for the weather to cool down a bit. sippin bourbon is fine during the summer but for a real peaty scotch i think i want it to be a little colder outside

oh fuck guys i came here to post one thing but i gotta say--just buy laphroaig it is the best thing ever.

i was planning on posting that i was at a place on friday and got some old overholt old fashioneds--i watched their technique and tonight am ripping it off to quite good effect.

Nice. Woodford on the rocks for me, with a little....Pasadena local-grown.

Set up the office much better, so I can work more from home and less from the office. Gonna be a good thing.

BTW - I've known this for over a decade, but whiskey is wonderful. I really need to keep the good run of times with whiskey I've had lately. Gotta respeckt this stuff. Got some punch. 1-2 drinks each, tops. Any more, and the next day is just painful.

ack draank a bottle of johnnie walker red over the weekend :(

only have a teeny bit of my talisker 18 yr left too :(

Can I informally poll you distilled people?

Is there as much a divide, as I see, between Scotch and bourbon drinkers? I mean, I'm never gonna turn down a glass someone offers me, but I GREATLY prefer bourbon to Scotch. I don't even keep Scotch in the house, despite my acknowledgement of it being a great liquor of the world.

Thoughts?

I hav <3 4 both

but def prefer a good scotchie

I used to prefer scotch, now prefer bourbon.

scotch has never really done anything for me, even laphroaisdgkj

bourbon til i die
(prematurely of cirrhosis)

i'm not big on bourbon, would chose scotch over it just about always (but i don't like laphroaig)

Virginia Lightning is awesome stuff.

Legal moonshine, actually.

Laphroaig is way too peaty for me, but I'm not really a fan of the Islay scotches.

it's all a mood thing--i always have a bottle of each in the home bar at all times. bourbon is much better if yr out with friends (though dewar's and ginger is a good go to mixed drink at bars), and lately i've been wrapping up nicer dinners with some scotch since i have no use for coffee at that time of day. i expect as someone was alluding to upthread i'll go w/more scotch as it gets cooler out.

i'm a week late but bulleit is fucking awesome.

Is there as much a divide, as I see, between Scotch and bourbon drinkers? I mean, I'm never gonna turn down a glass someone offers me, but I GREATLY prefer bourbon to Scotch. I don't even keep Scotch in the house, despite my acknowledgement of it being a great liquor of the world.

came into whiskey intrigued by both. gradually i've realized that i definitely prefer bourbon. tennessee whiskey too. can't nail it down exactly but i've tried some scotches that do nothing for me, but in just about every bourbon i've tried i've found something i liked (tho tbh i haven't tried the low low end shelf bourbons). i'll prob regret saying this once 'my palette is more refined' but i'll defintely take an average-to-modestly-good bourbon or tennesee - your g. dickel or maker's - to, say, a glenlivet or something like that

tho i guess glenlivet is pretty middle of the road wrt moderately priced scotches? i don't know.

also anyone try michter's whiskeys? they've got a rye whiskey, a bourbon, and an unblended american whiskey. want to buy b/c they look good and aren't horribly expensive (mid-$30s)

From what I remember about michter's it's a bit brighter than a maker's or something, but I could be totally wrong cause I haven't had it in 2 or so years.

I am on my way to buy whiskey right now, actually... What will I get?

get g. dickel if you're looking for something not too expensive. i will rep for this whiskey non-stop

glenlivet is on the low end of single malts, price-wise
not a great scotch, but serviceable