I’ve tried that one and honestly it was the only whiskey that was different from the others. But then, I’ve might have been biased because of Bill Murray.
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https://www.jamesonwhiskey.com/en-US/ourwhiskeys/jameson-18-years
I’m an Irish whiskey man. Good Catholic whiskey.
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Jack Daniels is still the best whiskey bottle to throw across the room when your woman thinks she can tell you how much whiskey to drink.
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Nothing wrong with a good aged Jameson. I enjoy some of their cask mate series as well.
It is unique, and amazing. One of my top 5 “pure” whiskeys.
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Maybe it is my frequency of drinking whiskey (about twice a year), and it is usually in an old fashioned, but I just can’t tell a difference in them. My buddy gets excited about whiskey, and makes me one, and I think it’s about the same as the last bottle you had, but tell him this one is good, and come up with some comments about the wood flavor or smell.
I think I could tell you the difference between bourbon and scotch if I had the two in front of me, but I am not really sure.
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I get it. I think getting into whiskey is similar to how many people get into coffee:
They start with hot chocolate growing up. The smell of coffee is great but the taste is horrible. They try their parents and hate it. Then later they find they need a bit more energy than hot chocolate for studying or school, so they move on to mocha…it’s still pretty much hot chocolate but now with the kick of caffeine and a little less sweet.
Then eventually they get tired of paying exorbitant fees for a drink, but they still need the caffeine. So they decide to save money by getting coffee, and then doctor it up with lots of cream and sugar to hide the coffee taste, but they admit to themselves it’s not as bad as they always thought. There’s something kinda nice about a touch of bitterness mixed with the sugar.
Next thing you know, it’s black coffee. Then black coffee with a shot of espresso to really wake you up. Then you’re suddenly comparing regional differences in coffee beans and you look with derision on those plebs that still have to drink the “sugary bullshit” for caffeine while you - the enlightened - sip contentedly on your deathly black coffee.
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Where I am with coffee, but I use artificial sweetener, as I am not a Philistine.
Same thing with beer. First one I had was a Coors light which I thought wasn’t very good. Then I tried an IPA and thought who in their right mind would subject themselves to drinking alcoholic Pine-Sol. I like most beer now, but prefer porter / stout most days, but go with an IPA often if nothing in the dark beer selection interests me.
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My grandmother put coffee on my cornflakes.
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Or maybe they stick to hot chocolate even in adulthood and spend like five hundred a year on various unsweetened cocoa powders from specific plantations in different parts of the world much to the chagrin of their significant other.
Just sayin’.
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Almost the exact same thing I thought when I first tried an IPA lol. And yet now I love many of them (certainly not all). I feel you on stouts and porters though, fantastic.
My first ever beer was a Guinness Extra Stout. Then an Irish red ale was my second. New Belgium’s Abbey was my third (still a favorite). So I was pretty much ruined from the start for the stereotypical “cheap American college beer” drinking. I basically sentenced myself to bringing my own beer to all college parties as a result.
I can now drink light beers if someone buys me one without asking, or if it’s what’s in the cooler at a gathering. But I still don’t have to like it.
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Lmao. Is there something you want to share with us loppar?
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Tea, because I’m British. Then onto beer, because I’m Irish.
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Interestingly, when I was 7, I used to start the day with tea and a digestive biscuit. And I wasn’t in the UK.
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All well and good, but where does the caffeine boost you need come from? You can’t get adequate caffeine from tea, it’s like having a sip of coffee and calling it good.
A man of culture I see.
Oh I drink a LOT of coffee, but the drinking for pleasure isn’t from there, that’s for sure 
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Man, why are all these pro science folks suddenly anti-vaxxers? It really is hard not to be cynical about all this…
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Banded KB swings are great. I alternate weeks where I use banded KB swings and then weeks where I don’t.
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If it’s any consolation, the guy who gave me some to try said he paid $80 or $90 for the bottle, he used to travel a lot for his job which also gave him discounts in duty free. I was profoundly disappointed with the scotch though, I wouldn’t want it unless it was free.
I’m not really into whiskey in general, I never liked the stuff since I was a kid.
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That’s much more reasonable, but still much too high for essentially a marketing gimmick. Although…who is this buddy with connections and how does one make his acquaintance? Asking for a friend…
A kid? Got an early start I see…
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