[quote]giterdone wrote:
Johnnie Walker Black used to be my favorite go-to, don’t feel guilty about drinkin it because it was reasaonably priced but still was a nice drink with a good nose and complex overtones.
Haven’t had that in a while. Imma get some today.
Johnnie Red is vile.[/quote]
I was sippin on some black last night.
A few years ago, a bartender poured a bunch of flights to see if we could tell the difference. Jim Beam 7 yr old was surprisingly good. Jack tasted like burnt wood in comparison. To each his own. Itâ??s a great test to try with a few friends.
Knob Creek used to be the best buy on the market, but Beam got wise and jacked the price up. Same problem with Lagavulin. Love the stuff, but when they raised the price to $90/bottle, it got a little pricey.
What do you guys recommend for peat moss? I recently discovered green label Johnny Walker. Wondered what else is out there.
[quote]mud lark wrote:
A few years ago, a bartender poured a bunch of flights to see if we could tell the difference. Jim Beam 7 yr old was surprisingly good. Jack tasted like burnt wood in comparison. To each his own. Itâ??s a great test to try with a few friends.
Knob Creek used to be the best buy on the market, but Beam got wise and jacked the price up. Same problem with Lagavulin. Love the stuff, but when they raised the price to $90/bottle, it got a little pricey.
What do you guys recommend for peat moss? I recently discovered green label Johnny Walker. Wondered what else is out there.
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In a single malt, look for stuff from Islay.
This shit is awesome. Like licking a peat bog…in a good way.
I’m enough of a man, and enough of a homo to admit I hate all 3 aforementioned liquors.
lol.
Gentleman Jack is definitely my favorite. I like to pour on the rocks and allow it to mellow for about 5 minutes. It has a sweet, caramel taste to me.
[quote]giterdone wrote:
[quote]mud lark wrote:
A few years ago, a bartender poured a bunch of flights to see if we could tell the difference. Jim Beam 7 yr old was surprisingly good. Jack tasted like burnt wood in comparison. To each his own. It�¢??s a great test to try with a few friends.
Knob Creek used to be the best buy on the market, but Beam got wise and jacked the price up. Same problem with Lagavulin. Love the stuff, but when they raised the price to $90/bottle, it got a little pricey.
What do you guys recommend for peat moss? I recently discovered green label Johnny Walker. Wondered what else is out there.
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In a single malt, look for stuff from Islay.
This shit is awesome. Like licking a peat bog…in a good way.[/quote]
Thank you giterdone. Much obliged.
[quote]Crow wrote:
Gentleman Jack is definitely my favorite. I like to pour on the rocks and allow it to mellow for about 5 minutes. It has a sweet, caramel taste to me. [/quote]
Agree 100%
I like my whiskey room temperature, is that weird?
Jameson, hands down. I’ll drink it mixed, on the rocks, or out of the bottle. Some of my worst moments have happened because of it, but damned if I don’t love that shit.
[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
I like my whiskey room temperature, is that weird?[/quote]
Not a bit. Ice is good for cheap stuff to take the edge off as it dulls the taste and aroma.
Dependng on the whisky, sometimes neat makes sense but usually they are better with a bit of water. The water tends to “open it up”. There is some chemical reaction stuff that goes on that nobody cares about.
Add water a little bit at a time, swirl it. Repeat until the nose prickle goes away when you stick your schnoz in the glass.
[quote]giterdone wrote:
[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
I like my whiskey room temperature, is that weird?[/quote]
Not a bit. Ice is good for cheap stuff to take the edge off as it dulls the taste and aroma.
Dependng on the whisky, sometimes neat makes sense but usually they are better with a bit of water. The water tends to “open it up”. There is some chemical reaction stuff that goes on that nobody cares about.
Add water a little bit at a time, swirl it. Repeat until the nose prickle goes away when you stick your schnoz in the glass.[/quote]
Yeah I actually do that with some of my stronger stuff, never even thought to do it with the stuff I naturally enjoy.
Woodford Reserve
[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
[quote]giterdone wrote:
[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
I like my whiskey room temperature, is that weird?[/quote]
Not a bit. Ice is good for cheap stuff to take the edge off as it dulls the taste and aroma.
Dependng on the whisky, sometimes neat makes sense but usually they are better with a bit of water. The water tends to “open it up”. There is some chemical reaction stuff that goes on that nobody cares about.
Add water a little bit at a time, swirl it. Repeat until the nose prickle goes away when you stick your schnoz in the glass.[/quote]
Yeah I actually do that with some of my stronger stuff, never even thought to do it with the stuff I naturally enjoy.
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It is kinda whisky dependant. Some are pretty delicate and can’t take much if any water. The worst that can happen is you fuck it up and need to pour another one 
I’m not big on whiskey made outside Kentucky, but Midleton’s Irish Whiskey is the nicest, smoothest liquor I have ever had. I remembered reading about it in an article TC wrote several years ago. Well, about a week before I deployed (January 2008), I saw a bottle of this in a display case at the local liquor store. It cost something like $140. I asked my wife if she cared if I blew 140 bucks on some liquor. She didn’t, so I asked the store owner to take it out of his display case.
Got it home that night, opened her up and poured some in a glass. It was so smooth. No bite or after taste at all. I couldn’t believe it.
Highly recommend it.
Speaking of adding water, Sigma-Aldrich 200 proof is quite good. But you do have to add water.
[quote]Bill Roberts wrote:
Speaking of adding water, Sigma-Aldrich 200 proof is quite good. But you do have to add water.[/quote]
That sounds like a “tastes like burning” moment.
There are smoother choices, but I am guessing that is only from lower alcohol concentration (if adding relatively little water to the straight ethanol) or from possible taste-masking effect of liquors.
Yes, it’s not available as a beverage. But most certainly, chemically it’s possible to produce ethanol that is almost entirely free of water.
Actually, even the stuff they add to gasoline – so as to save the planet – must be nearly free of water, though it probably doesn’t have the purity of the Sigma-Aldrich stuff.
200 proof is not available as a beverage because without addition to water, it would “burn” the tissues of the mouth (by pulling water out of them.)
In practice, actually I don’t rely on this. Patron is better, but doesn’t fall within the whiskey/bourbon/scotch topic so I didn’t mention it.
