/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Jim Beam black label is my shit.

Maybe one day I'll find out whatever the better things are, but let's face it, at a base level alcohol does not taste good and we drink these concoctions to feel good, with taste coming second.

Black label on the rocks both goes down smooth and tastes good.

I like Amsterdam Liquor Store Bourbon, "Our Own Brand".

You could try Highland Park 12yo, or Balvenie Double Wood. Both are among the best quality malts in that price range.

>>4827276
>tfw Highland Park is the most money I've ever spent on a single bottle of liquor in general
Sucks being poor. And I didn't even get to drink it.

Laphroaig 10y
Ardbeg uigedail
Caol ila 12

>>4827276
This, Balvenie Doublewood 12 is the best you can get <$70

anyone enjoy rye whiskey?

>>4827284

Caol Ila is quite good.

>>4827284
Laphroaig 10yr is quite delish

>>4827204
>at a base level alcohol does not taste good and we drink these concoctions to feel good, with taste coming second.
the embodiment of pleb, ladies and gentlemen

Taliskeres Storm or ten year.

If you have not had it you have not tasted whiskey.

get on my level Americans

>>4827661

>Blended Malt

>>4827661
at least post -good- canadian whisky. you're embarrassing us.

>>4827199
McClellands is shit. Get a real single malt.

>>4827503
I have a bottle in my closet but I can't really enjoy it.. how do I into smoked whisky?

>>4827706
Add a little water if it is too sharp. If you still don't like it, give it to a friend who does.

>>4827698
Pull my camera out
"Yes, yes like this, exactly! Slighty pull off your wax seal, so sexy. Keep the pose it's perfect, peeerfect "

Can also works with a canvas.
"I'll draw you like one of my french bottles"

>>4827798
I'm glad I'm not the only one who found this image suggestive

Roast chicken thread. Does the upside-down method work much or is it just bullshit? Also share your methods.

>>4827868
Bullshit.

Also, Ardbeg Alligator is fucking great.

>>4827204
>Maybe one day I'll find out whatever the better things are, but let's face it, at a base level alcohol does not taste good and we drink these concoctions to feel good, with taste coming second.
Absolutely untrue. Good whiskey, like other good spirits, wines, etc. can be absolutely amazing. Cheap spirits are brewed to be easy to drink in a mix, or to be affordable; good spirits are brewed primarily for flavor and complexity.

>>4827199


>>4827698
Glenfarclas 15 and Glendronach 15 revival are both quite good and in your price range. In some places, so are the various extra-matured Glenmorangie bottlings, which can be quite interesting. Quinta Ruban is my favorite of those out of the ones I've tried, still looking for a bottle of the PX one. Might also be able to get a young bottle of Talisker, again depending on where you are; sadly since Islays have become so popular lately they're a lot more expensive than they used to be.

Alternatively you could go for a different style of whiskey, you can get pretty stellar bourbon or rye for that price.

Currently have three bottles of whiskey open in my cabinet:
>Blanton's gold edition bourbon
>Balvenie 21 portwood
>Lagavulin 16
And I've got a bottle of George T. Stagg bourbon left from last year unopened that I'm hoping to open come holiday time and compare it to the new version.

>A'bunadh
Fuck yes. That stuff is awesome.

What is a good whisky for someone new to whisky?

>>4828512
Glendronach 15 or Balvenie 12.

Alberta Premium because it's 100% rye and a very good price.

>>4828500
Have you had the Pappy 20 yet? It's fucking amazing.

I would still trade one of my Pappy 20s for a bottle of Stagg. Stagg is insanely expensive where I live. About $550 per bottle. Fuck that.

>>4828512
Buffalo Trace is so could, it could be sold at twice the price and still be worth it.

>>4828539
>could

I meant good. I don't know what I am doing....

>>4828534
>550 per bottle
Jesus christ that's ridiculous. Where do you live, if you don't mind my asking? I thought Canadian liquor prices were bad and that's still well over twice what I pay for a bottle. Also yes, Pappy is amazing stuff- I'd say it's about equal to Stagg imo, they're pretty different stylistically. Pappy is just really hard to get your hands on here.

>>4827706
Coke and ice cubes.

>>4828556
I live in Denmark. I can get all the Pappy I want, but at 280 bucks per bottle. I got 5 bottles currently.

George T Stagg is a lot more rare in Denmark, but 550 dollars is fucking insane. I have 0 bottles currently.

I got close to getting a cheap bottle of Stagg. I was in this old liquor store, and there was a single bottle of 2004 release Stagg. The price tag said the equivalent of 550 bucks, but the first 5 had faded quite a bit, so it looked like it said 50 dollars. I was so close to getting away with it too. He spotted the faded 5 while putting the bottle in the fucking plastic bag, right before the transaction.

I was kicking myself all the way home.

>>4828574
Weird, Pappy costs about the same here in Canada (at least the part of Canada where I live) as it does in Denmark, but Stagg is less than half as expensive.

>>4827547

I bet you think you're really classy because you drink scotch. I would be willing to bet lots of money that you can't discern the different notes or flavors of any scotch. You're an idiot.

>>4829032
...Says the person who thinks all alcohol inherently tastes bad.

>>4827199

I'm waiting to buy a bottle of Talisker 10. I hear very good things.

I also want to try the Macallan 12 sherry cask.


McClelland's is kind of panned universally. It's not very good. That's why it's cheap.

>>4827204
I totally disagree with your idea of booze.

But I do agree that Jim Beam black is good. I used to look down on it because it's Beam brand but it's not bad at all for the price. I can drink it straight no problem.

>>4827276
Just got a bottle of this for my birthday. it's quite good. You can definitely get a bit of sherry from the nose but it's still lightly smokey on the taste.

>>4829220
I actually prefer the 15 year Glenfarclas. A bit fresher, and a bit cheaper.

win-win.

>>4829032
Your pleb is showing pretty hard.

Look, just because you're an autistic Asian who's a "supertaster" (lol) and gets the Asian flush, doesn't mean the rest of us are. Enjoy your inferior genetics chink.

>>4829032
What the fuck are you so pissed about?

>>4827276
>>4827276
I exist in that price range and I recently tried the vanilla Glenmorangie, really pleasantly surprised. Smooth, but heavy citrus.

>>4827547
I'm sorry but drink everclear and tell me it tastes good.

Alcohol is an overwhelming taste that clears out the others until you're accustomed to it and can then distinguish the other notes of the spirit. It's like every whiskey/whisky snob is trying to deny this fact. I'm hard-pressed to find anyone who thinks it tastes good on first sip.

>>4830143
Supertaster theory confirmed.

How does it feel knowing you're genetically defective and the only use out of your shitty genes was to help out humans from poisons hundreds of thousands of years ago while we were living in shit?

>>4830155
Nigger, next you're going to tell me coffee isn't bitter when caffeine inherently is. Yes good roasting and brewing will cover it up more, but there's no getting around that fact.

Get off your false sense of superiority.

(oh, and I enjoy both good liquor and coffee, I just can also acknowledge basic fact)

>>4830143
That's why some add water. The alcohol will be subdued and the flavors become more present.

>>4827199
Gold label is godtier

jameson 12yr is one of my faves, my buddy is fond of jack single barrel. I find that i am fond of the sweeter irish whiskeys but i do love bourbons, wild turkey 101 is my jam when I am aiming to drink. On scotch itself i have to be in a mood of something like it and usually will get myself a finer cigar torono silver labels are what I usually get to smoke, if they are not available i get something with a darker leaf I prefer torpedo or robusto rolls in a thicker gauge.

>>4830364
Red is disgusting (coke and ice)
Black is drinkable
Green is pretty good
Never tried gold
Blue is overpriced

>>4830364
Please don't say that.

>>4830403
Have you tried Buffalo Trace? It's a whole lot better than Wild Turkey, in my opinion.

>>4830431
Not him but I usually prefer WT, though those two are both my favorites

>>4830364
Why would you ever spend money on any of these?

>>4827199
Bowmore 12y is bruddy good and 50-60$ in most places.

>>4830455
I've never been a huge fan of Bowmore.

Bunnahabhain 12 and 18 are both fantastic. Nonchill-filtered and coloring-free too.

Opening a bottle of this for the Breaking Bad finale.

Gonna be glorious.