/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.11459128]

Is crown royal whiskey any good for it's price? According to google it's less than $35 Canadian. For any whiskey drinkers out there, would you recommend it for someone with a more meager income?

[Anonymous No.11459199]

It's alright, but if I was going to buy a cheap rye Id buy Lot40 or Alberta Premiums Dark Horse for a much cheaper drinkable rye.

If you can afford it Glen Garioch Founders Reserve is a friendly well priced scotch at >60$

[Anonymous No.11459205]

Just make old fashioneds with buffalo trace lmao

[Anonymous No.11459497]

yeee crown is pretty alright for straight drinking, mixes well but you can hit the same niche for cheaper. don't stray down the path of flavoured or colored crowns, waste of money that stuff

[Anonymous No.11459540]

>>11459128
It's all about the hangover. Crown burns clean. So does the cheap vodka, Sobieski. Crown is a good blend and you get to keep that purple bag. I'm a chronic V.O. drinker, myself.

[Anonymous No.11459555]

>>11459128
It's shit tier whiskey. The bottle, labeling and the stupid fuzzy bag it comes with are all probably worth more than the whiskey itself.

[Anonymous No.11459567]

>>11459128
Their actual Rye (green labeling, white bag I think) is god-tier. Everything else is shit.

[Anonymous No.11459572]

>>11459128
>someone with a more meager income?

The only people I know that drink Crown Royal are blacks. Seriously that's all my coworkers talk about.

[Anonymous No.11459586]

I recently found in my cabinet a Crown Royal "10 years old" that seems averaging 160$ online, now, is it actually good or it's just more rare?

[Anonymous No.11459661]

>>11459128
If you want actually good whisky then get Alberta Premium or Forty Creek instead.

If you just want to get drunk as a poorfag then dollar to booze ratio is best served by bottom shelf fortified wines

[Anonymous No.11459772]

>>11459199

Dark Horse is a fantastic whisky that I rarely drink straight.
I mostly drink scotch straight, but I've had more Dark Horse than any other whisky just because I keep buying it for cocktails.

The very first time I had crown, I asked the person who gave it to me where the whisky was.
Drink something else. People don't recommend crown, they just ask about it because the marketing makes it prevalent enough to make them think other people are drinking it often it enough for it to be a quality product.

[Anonymous No.11459895]

>>11459661

Note that the barrel select is basically a cream, and you need the other forty creeks to get something more resembling regular whisky.

[Anonymous No.11459998]

Northern Harvest is pretty good

[Anonymous No.11460050]

I can get get a Grey Goose for 'bout 100 bucks, Great deal?

[Anonymous No.11460075]

>>11460050

No.
Goose is a meme.
Vodka is a meme.
If you just want to get drunk, drink whatever is cheapest units alcohol per unit price.

If you don't, then you shouldn't consider vodka for anything, ever.

[Anonymous No.11460159]

Every time I drink even the slightest bit of Crown I get nauseated. No other liquor does this to me.

What does this mean?

[Anonymous No.11460168]

Is this the price/performance ratio champion whiskey?

[Anonymous No.11460193]

MODS THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT ALCOHOL AGAIN!

[Anonymous No.11460239]

>>11460075
You're a retard.
Vodka is way tastier and way more versatile than distilled bread wine.

[Anonymous No.11460255]

>>11460159
it means your stomach is bigoted towards canadians

[Anonymous No.11460257]

>>11460075
>you shouldn't consider vodka for anything, ever.
mixed drinks for dumb sluts ranks pretty high on the usefulness scale
but you definitely don't need Goose for that

[Anonymous No.11460260]

>>11460239
you're embarrassing yourself but that can't be new

[Anonymous No.11460263]

>>11460239

If you're outside of north america, you might be right.
If you're in NA, and let's be real, that's probably how it is, especially if you're talking about Goose, then it's legally required to be flavourless.

[Anonymous No.11460301]

>>11460159
Placebo effect.

[Anonymous No.11460302]

>>11460263
NAfag here, what are foreign vodkas like? do they have a distinct potato flavor to them?

[Anonymous No.11460322]

>>11460302

As an NAfag myself, I can't say. I just know that I can't make my "All vodka is boring and you're full of shit" statement apply to everywhere because I've only seen the written law for Canada and the US. Maybe some slavfag can help you out. >>>/bant/ might now. or >>>/int/

[Anonymous No.11460329]

>>11460322

might know*

[Anonymous No.11460351]

The only liquor I can drink straight and enjoy is Jim Beam Honey Whiskey. Why is my taste so shit?

[Anonymous No.11460356]

I don't know about Canadian prices but here Forty Creek is $10 cheaper and better. I definitely wouldn't recommend Crown for someone on a budget, and I wouldn't recommend Canadian whiskey to a whiskey drinker.

[Anonymous No.11460367]

>Is crown royal whiskey any good for it's price?
no. it's terrible at the prices they ask

[Anonymous No.11460374]

>>11460351
you're starving for calories, hate the taste of liquor or are simply dumb as a brick

[Anonymous No.11460412]

>>11459128
it's 27-29 canadian

[Anonymous No.11460419]

>>11460168
Yes, yes it is.

[Anonymous No.11460490]

>>11460374
>tfw not smart enough to enjoy liquor

[Anonymous No.11460912]

>>11459128
My uncle is a millionaire and this is legitimately the only thing he drinks. Take what you will from that...

[Anonymous No.11460918]

>>11459128
its a better mixer than jacks

[Anonymous No.11460997]

>>11459128
It's pretty good, plus you can keep your illicit gains in that purple bag that's included with the bottle.

[Anonymous No.11461053]

>>11460356
there are awesome Canadian whisky's, but most of the stuff that makes it stateside is bottom shelf trash.

Lot40 is amazing for the price, and a much better national embassador than CR.

much like Johnny walker and Jack Daniels, the marketing is much better than the actual product

[Anonymous No.11461065]

Try Famous Grouse. Mid tier scotch, tastes like apple juice and zero hangover.

[Anonymous No.11461083]

>>11459128
If it's the same price point or cheaper where you live just drink Canadian Club 100% Rye, damn good cheap whisky.

[Anonymous No.11461518]

>>11460050
I can get that stuff for $70 why does it cost so much for you?

[Anonymous No.11461533]

>>11461518
is this some kind of meme? It's like a $25 bottle

[Anonymous No.11461556]

>>11459128
no, crown royal drinks like a $12-15 bottle. Best part is the little bag.

Evan Williams Black, Maker's Mark, Wild Turkey 101, 4 Roses Yellow and Bulleit are all better for $20 or less.

[Anonymous No.11461644]

>>11460050
Kirkland vodka is grey goose
Kirkland vodka is grey goose

Buy your vodka at Cosco
Look it up

[Anonymous No.11461684]

>>11460302
All vodka tastes the same. They all taste like nothing + alcohol. The only difference between brands & bottles is how many times it is filtered. That difference manifests in "smoothness" i.e. a smoother vodka will hurt less going down. Russian Standard is top tier but if you're min/maxing your price:quality ratio, New Amsterdam. Any vodka you buy can be incrementally improved by passing the bottle through a Britta filter. This will ruin the filter, so do this on a filter you are about to replace.

[Anonymous No.11461717]

>>11461533
No it's 70 nzd or 47 usd

[Anonymous No.11461759]

Crown Royal=whiskey-flavored vodka. There is more neutral grain spirit in a bottle of Crown than actual whiskey. But hey, if that's your taste, go for it..

[Anonymous No.11461800]

>>11459128
It's fucking swill, we have $10-$15 bourbons that are infinitely better.

[Anonymous No.11461855]

>>11459572
Never use to be that way until the onset of all the flavors. Blacks like things that are sweet, expensive, and/ or colorful. The marketing guys at CR realized how much money they were losing by marketing to only manly-men white guys and rednecks. They saw the negros drinking cognac and Ciroc (expensive), moscato wine and shit liqueurs like Hypnotiq and Viniq (sweet), and noticed how they admire colorful and shiny things. Case in point, some small CR sizes come to us without the colorful meme bags and the negros flip their shit, thinking we're stealing them. "It don't come wit no bag!?" But yeah, they suck down the apple and vanilla meme flavors like it's going outta style where I work.

>>11459567
It won awards. No joke. Mr. "Whiskey Bible" guy loved it.

>>11461759
On a parting note, this. Its "Canadian-ness" notwithstanding, it is still a blended whiskey. They are charging you fools top dollar for something that's been cut with neutral grain. Find a good pure rye, or bourbon, instead.

[Anonymous No.11461867]

>>11461855
blacks like anything they can get for free, they don't care if it's robbin, cheatin, pillagin, or rapin. They was kangs and sheeit.

[Anonymous No.11461886]

>>11459128
In my experience, Canadian Blended whiskey's lack flavor and profile.

[Anonymous No.11461910]

>>11461867
Well said anon. It's unfortunate for them that the CR boxes are unwieldy for stealing, otherwise they'd now be behind the counter at my store too. Funny, the negros also had a Patron phase once because of some rapper marketing it. At my store, there were occasions where one would usually cause a diversion while another unboxed the Patrons (they're less secure than CR, no tape) and stuffed them in oversized purses and whatnot. One African American gentleman used to just come in, grab one, and run out really fast.

But in all fairness, remember these people are only doing this because they are being cruelly oppressed.

[Anonymous No.11461916]

>>11459128

Shite.

Come to Ireland, drink our pot stills.

wasn't there a line before about being able to find the poor kid in a canadian classroom because he brings his sandwiches to school in a crown royal bag?

[Anonymous No.11461937]

>>11461910
All of the places in NY that I've been to, in some decent areas have Patron behind the counter. That's some oppression right there. We used to have a code for them at a sporting goods store in Manhattan, timber. Plus they were going around knocking out windows in places and grabbing shit, so we'd mismatch things in the windows just in case. We never got hit with that one.

There was this dumb nigger that thought he was slick and tried stuffing 3k jackets into a big vaccum cleaner, he stuffed them in behind a bunch of other jackets where there was a window behind him and the owner of the property across the street saw it and informed the owner of the place I worked for and the fucker got busted. That's nigger logic for ya.

[Anonymous No.11461948]

>>11461916
If I drink enough of that will I see leprechauns?

[Anonymous No.11461990]

>>11461937
yeah my boss is a fucking idiot. They don't care too much because they're rich and their stores and everything in them are insured out the wazoo. ALL that kind of stuff should be behind the counter, along with a mandatory .357. Ignorant fucks don't understand (or don't care) that just welcoming shoplifters also puts their employees in danger. Well said though anon, have an upboat.

[Anonymous No.11462041]

>>11459555
Agree 100%. I find Crown is good for cocktails, however, as it is not a whisky I'd prefer to drink meat, and it has a naturally sweet flavour. Forty Creek, JP Wisers, and Lot 40 are my go to canadian whiskies.

[Anonymous No.11462941]

>>11461990
At that sporting good store, Scandinavian Ski & Sport on 57th street, we did keep a baseball bat behind the counter just in case. Luckily, there was never any cause to use it.

[Anonymous No.11462965]

>>11461083
yeee CC rye is cheaper and better than the Crown Royal rye, glad to see it wasn't just a flash in the pan

[Anonymous No.11462983]

>>11462965
I'd try it but I've never seen that in stores in NY. For better or worse, CR has better market penetration here.

[Anonymous No.11463003]

>>11461910
>African American
>gentleman
That'll be the day.

[Anonymous No.11463005]

>>11462983
it's very similar, a couple bucks less and slightly harsher than crown, you're not missing out if you can only get the award winning one

[Anonymous No.11463011]

>>11460257
One can always empty the bottle into som other container and fill it with bottom shelf stuff. It's not like some dumb bitch would notice.

[Anonymous No.11463025]

>>11460168
>>11460419
I was working in Tennessee for a while and asked for a decent inexpensive bourbon and I was recommended Evan Williams black label as a "respectable bourbon." I agree with that after having a bunch.
Tennessee's pretty cool for having good bourbon.

[Anonymous No.11463039]

>>11459128
It's ok. I wouldn't call it the best but it is very drinkable. I mainly bought them for the free dice bag and drank up the contents because why let decent booze go to waste.

[Anonymous No.11463042]

>>11463005
I'd think that NY being just over the border from Canada that we'd have a better selection. I'll look into some ryes.

[Anonymous No.11463079]

If anyone is interested in Rum, Pampero Rum from Venesuela is pretty good and also comes with a nice bag that's useful for stashing stuff.