Red Breast 12 year old pot still Irish whiskey is my whiskey of choice. Peaty, smooth, with a very long finish. I drink it neat. It’s a superior, mid-priced whiskey, about $45.
For Christmas, I bought a bottle of The Balvenie Single Barrel 15 Years Old Speyside Single Malt. It was the best whiskey I’ve ever tasted - smooth, with a vanilla-malt nose to it. Too expensive for every day, but glorious. It got rave reviews from the tasters.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]Bill Roberts wrote:
Speaking of adding water, Sigma-Aldrich 200 proof is quite good. But you do have to add water.[/quote]
I didn’t think a 200 proof was possible. Even Everclear is what…94%?[/quote]
Scientifically, you can only get to ~94% alcohol by distillation due to the way the vapor pressures interact. To remove water beyond that, if I recall correctly, you need to actually use dehydrating agents to get ~100% ethanol. And Jack for me please.
…sips…readjusts glasses…backs out of thread slowly…
[quote]Bill Roberts wrote:
Speaking of adding water, Sigma-Aldrich 200 proof is quite good. But you do have to add water.[/quote]
LOL. I had chemistry TAs in university who would get drunk off the “research” ethanol…heavily diluted of course.
I keep a bottle of Blue in my desk at work, in my desk at home and in my kitchen above the fridge…
Back in '06 and '07 when things were really booming in real estate, the “cool” loan officers at my shop (five of us) would bring in the best scotch they could find and get shitfaced after everyone else went home. We’d all kill a bottle every night and rotate turns - we were all separated from our wives and living large as only freshly single rich guys can… Sometimes it was 500 dollar a bottle plus stuff…
I think the best scotch we had was a 44 year Glenlivet. I still remember how smooth, full bodied and silky-sweet it tasted… That was some good fucking Scotch. (drinking it out of a Styrofoam coffee cup! LOL)
If those walls had ears… Good times!
“The BBC reports that a hotel in England sold one of the world’s most expensive bottles of whisky. A businessman paid over $58,000 for a bottle of Dalmore 62 Single Highland Malt Scotch Whisky, at the Pennyhill Park Hotel, Bagshot, Surrey, on May 24. Only 12 of the bottles were produced in 1942. The hotel reports that the man bought the bottle and drank most of it in one night with five incredibly lucky friends. The identity of the buyer remains a mystery but he is a regular hotel guest and a collector of spirits. The man kept the bottle and the presentation case as a memento. Each of the bottle has its own handprinted label and unique name. This one was called the Matheson, named after the owner of the Dalmore Estate. One bottle has been kept by the spirits company Whyte and Mackay and the other ten are in private collections and the Matheson may be the first bottle opened and enjoyed by its owner. We can only wonder what the mystery man was celebrating.”
…maybe one day I will be so lucky.
Bourbon - Eagle Rare, Wild Turkey, or if on a budget…Old Grandad.
whiskey - Crown Royal
Scotch - Teachers (( a little on the chesp side, but I like it)
I am adding Rum Mount Gay Dark rum is greeatt
Balvenie 21 yr
Oban 14
Lagavulin 12 (yes, 12, not 16 that you normally see) - really amazing taste
Johnnie Green is probably the best valued of the JWs, Blue is nice but I’d never buy it.
I’m tired of the peaty stuff.
Caol Ila 18 is incredible (very woody, spicy) and goes great with a cigar (try an Oliva, Serie G Cameroon, Serie O or V)
Good rum - Ron Del Barrilitos
I need to try Suntori Yamazaki 18 - highly recommended by a friend; supposed to have an awesome woody cherry flavor
[quote]PonceDeLeon wrote:
I need to try Suntori Yamazaki 18 - highly recommended by a friend; supposed to have an awesome woody cherry flavor[/quote]
Insanely good. It won “Single Malt of the Year” a couple times I believe, beating out all the Scotch entries. I can’t get over how expensive it is though, even in Japan.
Anyone ever tried Pappy Van Winkle’s Family Reserve? If so, was it as good as advertised?
Usually drink the Glenlivet 12 year as I think it’s one of the best bangs for the buck but I am not a seasoned drinker of fine spirits so that could just be me.
