/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[i;m drunk No.13745038]

The goat.

[Anonymous No.13745048]

Pro-tip: whiskey is very much a subjective drink with some people liking the smooth flavor and others favoring the peaty flavor. To each his own.

[Anonymous No.13745053]

>>13745048
You sound like a huge faggot

[Anonymous No.13745072]

>>13745053
Takes one to know one ; )

[Anonymous No.13745078]

>>13745072
I'm not a fag, but I guess you admitted being one, good luck to you dicksucker.

[Anonymous No.13745083]

>>13745038
Not even the GOAT Irish whiskey.

[Anonymous No.13745091]

>>13745078
Thanks lt. rimjob

[Anonymous No.13745098]

>>13745048
If all you care about is the quality of the spirit (muh smoothness) then don't drink aged whisky at all. Drink high quality vodka.
Judging whisky by smoothness is like trying to find a skateboard that you think is most like a unicycle. Just buy a fucking unicycle.

[Anonymous No.13745099]

Whiskey brainlet here, can someone explain the differences (flavor, ABV, etc) between
>Bourbon
>Rye
>Irish
>Scotch
>Japanese

[Anonymous No.13745119]

>>13745038
We talking best whiskey in here?

[Anonymous No.13745127]

>>13745099
Corn Mash
Rye Mash
Triple Distilled Barley Mash
Purely Barely Mash (single malt) / Barley Mash (blends)
Scotch's regionally isolated cousin

[Anonymous No.13745144]

>blocks your path

[Anonymous No.13745168]

>>13745127
how does the mash affect the taste? only ever had Jameson, random Scotches and Bourbon/Tennessee whiskey

[Anonymous No.13745178]

>>13745168
Corn tastes like corn and so on.
I forgot to mention Scotch's always malt 100% of the barely they use. The Irish malt most of it but not all.

[Anonymous No.13745241]

[Anonymous No.13745292]

>>13745241
The double oaked is unbelievably good at a ridiculously low price for what it is. It tastes like it's 25 years old.
I haven't had the double double oaked yet but I want to.

[Anonymous No.13745378]

GOAT right here

[Anonymous No.13746075]

>>13745144
It's good, but the LARPer bottle makes me feel like I'm a kid playing cowboys and indians.

[Anonymous No.13746081]

i just want you lads to know

scotch was never widely drunk 120 years ago and irish whiskey was THE Gold Standard of whiskey internationally and the go to drink of the global upper classes along with French brandy worldwide

if you want to know more, reply

[Anonymous No.13746099]

If you think irish whiskey is better than kentucky bourbon, you're just fucking wrong.

[Anonymous No.13746126]

>>13746099
>shitty corn distilled muck matured for a year in harsh unaged barrels

ahahahaha ya okay
dope
bourbon is the definition of retarded whiskey,
for retards

[Anonymous No.13747114]

>>13745168
Rye is spicy and intense. Absolutely delicious if you enjoy strongly flavoured liquor.

[Anonymous No.13747382]

>>13745099
>made from corn, sweet, MURICA
>spicy, also MURICA
>triple distilled, smooth to a fault, the vodka of whiskey
>no e, huge variety of flavors, tastes bad at first but is potentially better flavorwise than all others once you're into it. the craft beer of whiskey
>variously trying to imitate the above

[Anonymous No.13747485]

Need a rundown on Maker's Mark Cask Strength, is it quality?

[Anonymous No.13747612]

>>13746081
120 years ago people thought the world was flat and burned people at the steak for withcraft.

[Anonymous No.13747644]

all Paddy's liquor is overpriced af. Jameson is shit-tier, >>13745083 this is overpriced, this >>13745241
>>13745144
>>13745378
is a bourbon, and bourbon is well known corn piss essence. there is only one based GOAT drink and it's Scotch. okay, two of em, + Gin. fuck, okay, three of em + british Rum.

[Anonymous No.13747663]

>>13745038
do you drink when you're sick?
i'm home sick right now with a headcold and while i don't feel like eating, a hot toddy really made me feel great

[Anonymous No.13747687]

I love you John, I'll see you tomorrow night ;).
Sine Metu

[Anonymous No.13747688]

>>13747485
pretty much, yeah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5bJ_5oGNr8

[Anonymous No.13747706]

>>13747644
You're a dumbshit Celtophile, you type like a faggot, and your scotch collection fucking sucks.

[Anonymous No.13747709]

>>13746081
the problem is Irish whiskey contain shit-tier grain spirit, Paddys are so lazy and greedy, they can]t propery make it into malt. second problem is Paddys mostly use shit-tier column stills. third problem is - Ireland's export alcohol taxes which make it rediculously more expencive, than x2 times beyyer 100% malt / pot still and properly matured Scotch. you see, back in the day of 120+ years ago 99% of Scotland distilleries were illegal, and the moment they came out legal, irish whiskey was defeated. and now it remains separeted: Paddys make shit-tier booze called whiskey, McLauds make top-tier whisky for those who know what they drink. And unironically, Paddys make more money cuz they sell much, much more worldwide.

[Anonymous No.13747727]

>>13747706
Im not collecting Im drinking it you absolute bellend and probably a filthy frog too.
>Celtophile
what the hell on earth is this mean? and who are you? -phill of what? horseshite moonshine?

[Anonymous No.13747752]

>>13747706
bourbons are shite anyway

[Anonymous No.13747753]

>>13747727
English, right? Explains the retarded jingoism for your dogshit college-party spiced rum and all-the-same juniper piss
>I'm drinking it
If you actually drank scotch you'd have a lot less of it by now you posturing fucking limey
I'd tell you to slit your wrists and spare me the bother of talking to you but there's no chance you have access to anything sharp enough

[Anonymous No.13747783]

>>13747753
oh you Billy Borger Bob corn piss drinking soft arse wanker, spiced rums are absolute shite, and I bet only Scotch you drank was maximum Red Label

[Anonymous No.13747809]

>>13747783
And the funny part is that almost all craft bourbon is better than this

[Anonymous No.13747840]

>>13747809
Glenfiddich is not-so-good-tier, even old ones like 18yo. Anyway I was just tickling you, burbons are fine, especially craft ones, but ryes are even more superious. Too bad it's hard to get one here + shipping makes it more expencive than some based scotches like, fro example, pic related (bought just a few days ago).

[Anonymous No.13747914]

>>13747840
Weird, the average upmarket liquor store over here has plenty of Scottish and Japanese whiskies.
I recommend trying to get your hands on Willett's 4-year rye if you know a good imports shop. Don't fall for the Blanton's meme, it's good but not $80-100/bottle good. Hipsters and collectors have pushed the price up.

[Anonymous No.13747951]

>>13747914
I was talking about shipping burbons here to Eu, not vise-versa. You just can not buy most of based one or they cost ridiculously expensive.
>I recommend trying to get your hands on Willett's 4-year rye
noted, thanks. I think I seem some very good reviews on it, but still not present in my country. Can't buy it.

[Anonymous No.13747957]

>>13747951
I recommend getting to know the owner of a liquor store so you can pressure him into ordering foreign stuff for you.
Angel's Envy bourbon is also a nice one. I find that a port/sherry/etc. fortified wine finish works very well with the natural sweetness of bourbon.

[Anonymous No.13747980]

>>13745038
Flavorless generic shit that's overpriced. But Patty's day is coming. So there's that. Glendalough is my choice for irish shit. Connemara not to shabby if you like it smoky.

[Anonymous No.13747989]

>poisoning yourself
>not doing a more effecient drug

[Anonymous No.13748016]

>>13747644

>british rum
girlslaughing.jpg

[Anonymous No.13748042]

>>13748016
british style of rum* pot still* properly aged*
pardonne moi, I forgot to make this clear for rumlet faggots, and show tiddies btw

[Anonymous No.13748152]

>>13747709
Scotch distilleries began cheating by using the column still first. This was part of the reason why Irish whiskey had nearly went under by the 50s. They refused to do the blending with grain whiskey thing for decades and wanted to be traditional. Eventually they had to turn jameson into a blend containg grain whiskey, when before it was a single pot still. Similarly regular bushmills was a single malt and was turned into a blend, following the example of popular scotch blends.
Please stop spreading disinfo

[Anonymous No.13748245]

>>13748152
should I remind you who started making shit ass grain spirit and put it into blend with malt content of whisk(e)ys? and why? and when?

also, Mick, do you really think I am the one who is spreading disinfo? I think you can recon pic related, right?
>In 1830, Irishman, Aeneas Coffey, patented the two-column, continuous distillation distillation apparatus which bears his name...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column_still

[Anonymous No.13748246]

>>13747644
I don't know where you buy Redbreast 12 but it's $37 at Costco which is certainly not overpriced.

[Anonymous No.13748285]

>>13748246
>Costco
we don't have this here. also, some whiskys cost cheaper in the US, which is ridiculous, but for some reason this is true.
https://www.whiskybase.com/whiskies/whisky/28100/redbreast-12-year-old
for 45 euros one can buy fuck ton of much all around better scotches, and older, and higher on ABV.

[Anonymous No.13748433]

if you miss al/ck/ join here >>57005269

[Anonymous No.13748603]

>>13748245
you are retarded

an irishman invented the column still, but Irish distillers didn't want to use it

>Coffey tried his invention out in Dublin. Nobody was interested in the resulting “whiskey” and the business soon failed. (It’s possible that the reason for that failure is the fact that Coffey’s father, a plumber, built the prototype still, using iron pipe rather than copper. You cannot make good whiskey with iron pipes.) The large distillers in the Scottish Lowlands, however, soon found his invention and by 1835 numerous Coffey stills—this time of copper—were up and running, turning out massive amounts of an ultralight spirit based on raw grain with only the minimum of malt needed to start fermentation. The spirit was cheap and clean, but didn’t taste like much, even when barrel-aged. Meanwhile, Irish “old-still” whiskey, as they were calling it to distinguish from the bland new spirit, was dominating the market. It was far richer and tastier than the “patent-still” whiskey, without veering into the off-putting thickness, fire and intensity of what was coming out of the Scottish pot-stills.

>By the middle of the century, Scottish vintners and spirits merchants found a solution to the problem: what if they used some of their stock of the patent-still “grain whiskey,” as it was being called, to stretch out and tone down their malt whiskies and the malts to add flavor to the patent-still stuff? Let it age for a while together and you ended up with something that could compete with the Irish whiskey for palatability and undercut it in price.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-birth-death-and-rebirth-of-irish-single-pot-still-whiskey

[Anonymous No.13748677]

>>13745378
finally someone appreciating the rare breed as much as i do

[Anonymous No.13748682]

>>13745038
>i;m drunk
that explains it

[Anonymous No.13748687]

All alcohol tastes like ass
can't believe I fell for the damn meme once. I'll stick to drinks that actually taste good and are consequently non alcoholic, can't believe there's so many sods ready to swear up and down how it tastes good or how you need to get used to the taste or some bullshit. Truly the alcohol jew has gotten us all.

[Anonymous No.13748706]

>>13748603
so what about shit grain content, huh? that was the main point of my comment above.

[Anonymous No.13748748]

>>13748603
also
>David Wondrich
I heard, he is of Irish descent.
who would've thought.

[Anonymous No.13748794]

Mi amor...

[Anonymous No.13748811]

>>13748687
Great bait or intense cope

[Anonymous No.13749058]

>>13747644
Why are you typing like a queer?

[Anonymous No.13749962]

>>13748706
no it wasnt

anyway, are you also upset by pot-still distilled tequila, mezcal, rum, and brandy? how dare anybody ever think that anything other than single malt specifically distilled in Scotland is fit to drink

[Anonymous No.13750035]

>>13745038
This and Canadian Club 12 year old small batch were the only whiskey's I tried that I ever liked. The worst hangover I've ever had was from a whiskey called 40's creek.

[Anonymous No.13750336]

>>13745038
bushmills tonight tho

[Anonymous No.13751239]

>>13749962
Irish fren, ok lets put it on a serious discussion. ples re-read the article you've quoted
>https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-birth-death-and-rebirth-of-irish-single-pot-still-whiskey
it show the only side of the story, clearly biased and rigged towards Irish. Wondrich is not even trying to hyde it. oh muh poor noble Irish distillers and muh sneaky ass bad scottish. really, if you want to discuss it - okay lets get it on, but first you promice to be un biased, cuz all white men should follow the ancient distillers: Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas.

deal?

[Anonymous No.13751632]

so where is my Paddy whisky history professor to argue with?

[Anonymous No.13751654]

>>13745038
But that's not the Stout Edition, Anon.

[Anonymous No.13752106]

>>13745038
I'm more of a fan of Powers or Tullamore Dew when it comes to Irish whiskey in that price range.

[Anonymous No.13752599]

where is Paddy the irish whiskey professor?

[Anonymous No.13752678]

You can all shut your fucking mouths now, thank you.

[Anonymous No.13752737]

>>13752678
bretty good but simple scotch, for those who wonna start with single malts. btw the most popular single malt scotch in France, and for a reason, yeah.

[Anonymous No.13752849]

>>13752737
Is there a scotch you would reccomend with a similar nutty falvor? I don't like smoky stuff.

[Anonymous No.13753848]

>>13752849
sure, Glendronach 12 and older.
will blow your mind, just next level of everything you got in Aberlour 12 double cask.

[Anonymous No.13754123]

Proof66.com says Quiet Man is a top-rated, reasonably priced Irish Whiskey, so I bought some. Still not better than an average bourbon, though.

[Anonymous No.13754131]

Gentlemen, behold! Corn!

[Anonymous No.13754203]

>where is Paddy the Irish whiskey professor?

[Anonymous No.13754230]

I clearly don't get it you bellends. Friday foking night and no one is speaking about booze here on foking ck? Are yeh bitten by feggets yeh cunts?

[Anonymous No.13755145]

>>13754131
Ever had Hudson's Baby Bourbon? Better "literally just corn" whiskey in all respects.
>>13754203
Soyjak posters should be killed.
>>13754230
The folks who actually know anything about fine spirits have friends to drink them with
The cruel irony of whis/ck/y threads

[Anonymous No.13755311]

>>13752678
Nope

[Anonymous No.13755529]

>>13745038
Caskmates is better

[Anonymous No.13756097]

>>13755145
what a massive cunt, leave this place, because I bet you suck dicks too

[Anonymous No.13756269]

>>13745038
This is that shit with the nigger detective commercial in south africa right?

[Anonymous No.13756293]

>>13745099
>Sugary shit for children
>Never tried it
>Best cheap whiskey
>Best expensive whiskey, tastes like death of cheap
>Good way to announce to everyone you still haven't lost your virginity.

[Anonymous No.13756302]

>>13747663
Of course, but only due to alcoholism. If I wasn't already a drunk, there's no way I'd drink while sick because it makes it worse.

[Anonymous No.13756415]

>>13745099
>corn syrup distillate, usualy harsh and havy on wood
>spiced bomb, similar with burbon but all around better
>cheap and relatively smooth / light and tasteless booze
>God's choice to drink, but as good as more expencive
>scotch wonnabe nip piss x5 more expencive even thath scotch itself. why? because hipsters choice.

[Anonymous No.13756509]

>>13746075
You aren't wrong, but I like simplistic packaging in general.

[Anonymous No.13756699]

>>13756293
>whiskey I don't like is for children
I hope you die of a preventable disease diagnosed just barely too late

[Anonymous No.13756712]

>>13747644
You type like a faggot and I bet you know way too much about the most boring part of British history (Imperial era and only in Europe, nothing about the Raj) but you're right about alcohol.
Port + other fortified wines are GOAT too.

[Anonymous No.13756720]

>>13747783
>>13748042
Yeah, you seem like the kinda tremendous faglord who's use those sorts of reaction gifs
>muh based 1960s men smoking and drinking whisky

[Anonymous No.13756740]

>>13745099
>pure sweetness, tastes like bad egg custard
>the same but spicier
>burns and tastes like burning
>can taste like any flavour of wood you'd like
>goes great with your roku gin and katana collection
feel sorry for americans who have to deal with scotch that's more expensive than bourbon

[Anonymous No.13756746]

>>13745038
This stuff is the bomb

[Anonymous No.13756763]

>>13756746
What are they?

[Anonymous No.13756801]

>>13756712
>You type like a faggot and I bet you know way too much about the most boring part of British history
why would I bother? Im Russian. kek.
Portos and Sherry wines are awesome, yeah.

[Anonymous No.13756806]

>>13756720
baited / ownd

[Anonymous No.13756860]

who /moon/shine here?

[Anonymous No.13757753]

spent more time cataloging my pop's minis. some of you might remember me from a few threads ago.

>well, it's definitely whiskey I guess

[Anonymous No.13757758]

>>13757753
I can't remember if anyone here talked about grandad still being produced or not. I've never had any, is it good?

[Anonymous No.13757770]

>>13757758
look at how opaque the Large is. you can see rings on the side of the bottle where it sat. It's weird to me that it's discrete rings instead of a continuous glaze, as if it evaporated, then stopped for a while, then started again, etc.

What could make a whiskey so opaque? I guess the lines don't start until the halfway point, so maybe all of the 50% ABV evaporated and then it got contaminated, and from there it was just water evaporating?

[Anonymous No.13757781]

>>13757770
and my favorite from today
>U.S. Government standard for Whiskey requires not less than 80 proof
>42 proof

fuck you Parnell, taking advantage of drunks with text too small to notice

>Ohio

of course

[Anonymous No.13757809]

>>13756269
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XehwSM9n_Ko

[Anonymous No.13757813]

>>13756269
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Durcu7j3wiA

[Anonymous No.13758778]

My dad likes Talisker, whats something else he might like? I'm thinking Ardberg, or Laphraoig

[Anonymous No.13758885]

>>13745098
you're being autistic

[Anonymous No.13758921]

>>13745119
This was good, I got the peat and the rye notes but not much of the bourbon sweetness. Doesn't have as good a finish as the initial taste but no regrets buying this

[Anonymous No.13758930]

>>13747809
I thought the Glenfiddich 18 was rather underwhelming compared to the 15 or even the 12.

[Anonymous No.13759009]

>>13745144
>He doesn't know....

[Anonymous No.13759017]

>>13757758
Old Grand-Dad just put out a bottled in bond bourbon that's really good.

[Anonymous No.13759020]

>>13754131
i really wish i could get this here

[Anonymous No.13759024]

>>13745038
Jameson is $30 at my liquor store. There's no way it's worth that, right?

[Anonymous No.13759080]

i've tried most of these expensive whiskeys and in the end, morrigan is my favorite. and it's like 30 bucks. i simply don't think that good liquor is expensive to make. the rest is just paying for the sake of knowing you're drinking expensive hooch.

[Anonymous No.13759083]

i've tried most of these expensive whiskeys and in the end, morrigan is my favorite. and it's like 30 bucks. i simply don't think that good liquor is expensive to make. the rest is just paying for the sake of knowing you're drinking expensive hooch..

[Anonymous No.13759086]

>>13759080
That, or you've ruined your tastebuds with shit food, so you don't know what you're tasting

[Anonymous No.13759100]

>>13759086

the idea of 'ruining tastebuds' is silly. taste is a sense, not a competition. it doesn't matter in any respect what you think about how things taste, so there's no such thing as 'good taste' or 'bad taste'.

the whole circus seems to be people trying to have better opinions than each other to seem... i don't know what people who want to 'have good taste' are trying to accomplish.

it's not as though enjoying pleasure is something to be proud of.

[Anonymous No.13759104]

>>13759083
It's okay to admit that you drink to get drunk, prefer "smoothness" above all other qualities, and don't take flavor into consideration.

[Anonymous No.13759125]

>>13759104

i like to get drunk on things that taste good, though. my 2 cents: morrigan tastes better than the pricey bottles i've had or sampled. it also tastes better than the cheaper and comparatively priced bottles.

[Anonymous No.13759138]

>>13759100
It does though.
If you only eat foods with really strong flavour, of course anything with subtly is going to pass you by. Taste is of course subjective, but how sensitive you are to different flavours is going to be objective.

[Anonymous No.13759223]

Parents got me a bottle of Lagavulin 16 year for my birthday today, goddam I love those old coots.

[Anonymous No.13759544]

>>13745038
When it comes to Irish Whiskey in that range I prefer Powers myself.

[Anonymous No.13759558]

>>13754131

Been wanting it but can’t find it in Texas

[Anonymous No.13759559]

>>13756699
I'm sorry all the cornsyrup infused vegetables and water has destroyed your taste buds

[Anonymous No.13759562]

not even close OP

[Anonymous No.13759790]

>>13757758
It's damned good for what it used to cost, but it seems like the price has shot up at all the local liquor stores over the last couple years.

[Anonymous No.13760130]

>>13759083
Thanks for the recommendation. It's going to be my next bottle.

[Anonymous No.13760141]

>>13759100
maybe it's because other people's favorite flavours aren't available for $30 retard

[Anonymous No.13760342]

>>13759562
solid, respectable choice.

IMO this is the best bourbon under $100

[Anonymous No.13760384]

>>13745083
That honour belongs to Connemara.

>>13745099
Bourbon is sweet (made from corn), woody (aged in new barrels), doesn't age well past 10 years (if that). 40% minimum if in USA, otherwise the local minimum.
Rye is much the same except it's made from rye. Rye is spicy.
Irish is can be made from any cereal, is at least 3 years old, 40% minimum abv, can use any barrel. I find them to be waxy. There's not that much variety imo.
Scotch comes from Scotland. 3 years old in used barrels. 40%. Flavour varies the most. Some are smokey. Some are fruity.
Japanese rules are slack as. I think you're guaranteed 37%, but you're not guaranteed age or that it's Japanese.

>>13747809
I doubt this. Not that it's a fair comparison since that isn't a "craft" scotch.

>>13748246
Goes for $125 here.

>>13758778
That or buy him other Taliskers. Storm and Skye aren't that different from 10.
Distillers edition and Port Ruighe are both a step up (especially the former).
Otherwise yea, Ardbeh and Laphraoig.

>>13759100
If you smoke or something and ruin your sense of taste you are robbing yourself of enjoyment.

[Anonymous No.13761001]

>>13758778
Springbank, Killkeran, Bowmore, Ledaig and btw nowadays Talisker is shit

[Anonymous No.13761008]

>>13760384
>Otherwise yea, Ardbeh and Laphraoig
these are not similar with Talisker you fagged, Ardbeg is an ashtray, and Laphroaig is medicinal as only can be, like liquid hospital. these are>>13761001

[Anonymous No.13761063]

>>13745038
>tfw it's 2pm and i bought 3 cans of bottom of the shelf 12% beer
>took a sip and feel like i'll puke my guts out if i keep going
>used to chug that shit with no issue a month ago
help

[Anonymous No.13761160]

I grabbed one of these yesterday.
Absolutely delicious.

[Anonymous No.13761229]

>>13761063
just lay down the beer and stay sober. probably next time, or you better mercy kill and spill it into sewer.

[Anonymous No.13761288]

>>13761229
Just trying to drink my last daily booze for a while, after six years.
>went out on friday
>drank a lot and did coke with people i didn't know
>crashed hard at about 6am after smoking weed with the same people
>didn't exchange numbers so will most likely never see them again
>barely got home at 8am saturday, felt and probably looked like a zombie
>woke up at 4pm and didn't drink anything, too lazy to buy some
>felt tired at midnight so went to bed
>barely slept, constant nightmares and felt hot as fuck throughout the night
>got up with mad shakes at 10am today
>want to stop for good after the coke fueled evening
>bought the garbage booze
>now drinking little sips and smoking a lot of cigs
>know i'll sleep like a baby tonight but the entire week will be excruciatingly painful from experience
How do people do it? I relapse after about a month every time.

[Anonymous No.13761616]

>>13761288
Start reading LOTR. Take your mind off the booze/can't really read drunk.

[Anonymous No.13761670]

>>13752849
If you have the chance, Glenmorangie The Tayne is super nutty

[Anonymous No.13762052]

>>13760384
Bourbon can age well. Having 49% of the mashbill not be corn goes a long way, and only the first period of aging needs to be in new oak. I recommend trying out Deadwood Tumbling Dice bourbon if you want to see what a high rye mash can do for a bourbon, and Angel's Envy if you want to see how much corn-heavy bourbons can be aided by gimmick casks.

[Anonymous No.13762125]

>>13759562
>the asshole pucker when you first get hit with nearly 130proof bourbon
based

[Anonymous No.13762172]

>>13761008
>these are not similar with Talisker
Correct. They actually taste good.

[Anonymous No.13762215]

>>13757770
Hi Anon, first of all, cool bottles. I don't know why it's cloudy, but the same happened to some bourbon that I forgot in a glass over night recently. It became really cloudy and when it had evaporated completely it left a speck of brown residue. I thought it was the added food coloring at first, but I suspect it's something else.

[Anonymous No.13762974]

How’s Connemara

[Anonymous No.13762978]

>>13762974
weak

[Anonymous No.13762993]

>>13762974
It is a really good peated single malt whiskey. Kind of sweet and light when compared to other peated malt whiskeys but still pretty ashy/rubbery

[Anonymous No.13763068]

>>13747753
Oh shit dude you killed him

[Anonymous No.13763099]

>>13761008
Ardbeg is the least ash tray tasting islay.
But yes, Laphraoig is medicinal.

Springbank and Kilkeran are not similar to Talisker at all. At least not the bottles I've tried.
Bowmore is not a bad recommendation.
Ledaig is incredibly similar to Ardbeg, but it's a lot worse because it's so fucking sharp.

If the goal is lightly-medium smokey there are closer picks. But that would never be my goal, and I can't be certain of my recommendations because I don't keep tasting notes, I just document bottles I want to buy. But nonetheless here they are:
Dalwhinnie 15 (many reviewers claim no smoke, but I recall it and the bottle claims it)
Old Pulteney 12
Oban 14

[Anonymous No.13763100]

>>13763068
yeah, mate, he killed me

[Anonymous No.13763113]

>>13745241
same

[Anonymous No.13763125]

>>13762052
I have a bottle of Angels Envy. I was quite underwhelmed considering its price. And I very much do believe there are significant improvements to be had from cask finishing, it just wasn't really there in this one.
Also my understanding is that Angel's Envy is 95% rye. You're better off buying Bulleit Rye, the same whisky, for less than half the price.

I can't get Deadwood Tumbling Dice.

[Anonymous No.13763128]

>>13762215
If the whisky isn't chill filtered adding water will make it go cloudy.

[Anonymous No.13763133]

>>13762974
Fantastic. Fuck bonfire and ash, this one tastes like birthday candles.

[Anonymous No.13763136]

>>13763100
Yeah mate. He fucking destroyed you.

[Anonymous No.13763137]

>>13763099
>Ardbeg is the least ash tray tasting islay
this is absolute bullshit lie one ever can hear, there are actually non peated Islay malts at all, like Bunna and Kilchoman, some of Bruichladdich isn't peated as well, and Bowmore is, but nothing close to "ash", but literally "smoky". Laph is medicinal and iodine, as well as Lagavulin, and only Ardbeg is pure ash, when you open a bottle you're like having a breath of a havy smoking dude, and when you taste it, you think you've just took a lick of an ashtray, literally.

if one is lurking for lightly smoked malts, to those I've already mentioned>>13761001 I can boldly add Highland Park, but the only reason I didn't do that at the first time, is because nowaday they suck, and charge too much for their mostly NAS malts.

[Anonymous No.13763140]

>>13763136
horrible man. Im still not fully recovered. he's a savage.

[Anonymous No.13763154]

>>13763137
Live bonfire with real smoke.
Laphroaig and Lagavulin are ash trays.

[Anonymous No.13763163]

>>13763154
less, muuuuuch less then Ardbeg, and that's a very well known fact for those who actually tried em.

[Anonymous No.13763175]

>>13763163
No, not at all.

[Anonymous No.13763236]

>>13763175
yes, it is.

[Anonymous No.13763826]

>>13763125
If you got something that was 95% rye, you didn't get Angel's Envy, which is a port-finished bourbon. By law, bourbon is from a bill of at least 51% corn.

[Anonymous No.13763833]

>>13763099
Yeah, I, too, think Laphroaig and Lagavulin are more ashtray-y than Ardbeg. Ardbeg balances its bright, citrusy notes well with its campfire smoke.

[Anonymous No.13763878]

>>13763826
They have a rye, though I did receive bad information and that's not what I have.
I have checked the Bourbon laws in the past. I'm pretty sure they only apply in America. We have a trade agreement that says we have to adhere to America's laws, but since the American law states that they only apply in America I think there are no such rules in play.

I did double check. The entire relevant body of law does not apply to exports. That said I believe there is now relevant case law requiring the Bourbon be made in America; there have been local Bourbons in the past which is now an illegal practice.

>https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/27/5.1
>https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/27/5.22

[Anonymous No.13764404]

>>13756293
>if I don't enjoy it, it's for children and virgins
Doubt you've even tried Japanese whiskey. It's literally the top shit at the moment and blows all the other countries out of the park

[Anonymous No.13764484]

>>13764404
Depends on how you categorise it.
I doubt a Japanese whisky is best at any price point.
If you divide by cereal or blend, then they'll definitely win the blended categories.
If you go by age ranges they may be in with a shot for some, thought there's stiff competition.

[Anonymous No.13764631]

>>13763133
wow okay yes your tasting notes are correct and ours are wrong bro not ash not bonfire WAXY CANDLES. CANDLES CANDLES CANDLES wow sorry for being wrong holy fuck

[Anonymous No.13764658]

>>13764631
You haven't posted tasting notes.

[Anonymous No.13764682]

>>13745098
lol retard

[Anonymous No.13764688]

>>13747644
that glenfiddich and glenfarclas was your first buys werent they

[Anonymous No.13764692]

>>13757753
this is amazing
Please make a video or some faggot shit like that on all his little minis itd be cool just you and me man

[Anonymous No.13764927]

>>13764404
they own a huge pile of scotch distilleries (beam suntory), and what they actually do, they buy / take barrels from the stores, ship em right to Japan, bottle with their own branding and sell for tastelet faggots like you with x3, x5 and sometimes even more the price. and as faggots like you is still buying this shit, the price will be growing. daily remainder, just 6-8 years ago japanese whiskey costed shit, on the same range with cheap blends, and that is their fair price.

[Anonymous No.13764935]

>>13764688
these two (actually three, one is behind) are 2014 and 2011 bottling you absolute fuckwit, and I bought it for like nothing. yeah, I like simple easy malts to drink without putting a finger in my ass, fantasizing how posh and fancy am I, and when I want to drink a good scotch, I grab smt like pick related.

[Anonymous No.13764962]

>>13759024
Absolutely not, it's bland as fuck.

[Anonymous No.13764968]

>>13761001
>nowadays Talisker is shit
>hasn't had the 8 or 15 cask strength
But yeah, aside from special releases, Talisker is poo poo.

[Anonymous No.13764972]

>>13761288
>barely slept, constant nightmares and felt hot as fuck throughout the night
I have nightmares as well when I drink but even from very little amounts.
Alcohol really is the devil isnt it?

[Anonymous No.13764982]

>>13754131
BASED

[Anonymous No.13765016]

I don't think there is a GOAT but Jameson

[Anonymous No.13765031]

>>13764982
Interestingly enough, Mackintosh's image and the original advertisement (for toffee) is considered to be in the public domain due it being published in the US before 1925. Someone could arguably bottle a whiskey called "The Whiskey King" with a picture of his face on the label.

[Anonymous No.13765220]

My favourite due to the subdued sweetness and sherry notes

[Anonymous No.13765235]

Can anyone recommend a good rye for me to try, preferably not too expensive. I like seagrams and makers mark (babby tier I know, I’m new to liquor). I like spicy food if that helps.

[Anonymous No.13765264]

>>13765235
>>13765235
>decent rye, preferably not too expensive
Bulleit Rye looks like the perfect option for you mate https://www.masterofmalt.com/whiskies/bulleit/bulleit-rye-whiskey/

[Anonymous No.13765274]

>>13765235
Rittenhouse. Also Bulleit and Woodford do good ones for the price.

[Anonymous No.13765278]

>>13765264
>>13765274
Thanks lads, I’m hitting the liquor store after work today.

[Anonymous No.13765342]

>>13765278
keep us in touch, bro, and forget to throw your opinion down here when you try it. cheers!

[Anonymous No.13765509]

>>13765220
4 u

[Anonymous No.13765543]

>>13765509
aw shit, that's me shilling Tomatin12 in your pic!

I think I'll get a bottle again, love that shit especially for the price

[Anonymous No.13765554]

I'm no whisky expert, but I recently tried this.
Pleasantly surprised.

[Anonymous No.13765591]

>>13745038
I heard it's a nice whiskey because it's triple distilled and therefor barely gives a hangover.

[Anonymous No.13765595]

>>13756763
It's salad dressing, can't you fucking read for a second?

[Anonymous No.13765604]

>>13765595
Not particularly, it's a picture for ants.
I was thinking there was a 50% chance it was a salad dressing meme post and a 50% chance it's some kind of alcohol with hipster salad dressing themeing.

[Anonymous No.13765614]

>>13765543
kek.. that was me asking about The Macallan. I saved it and once I'm finished with my current bottle I'm going to start trying some of the recommendations from that cap.

[Anonymous No.13765616]

Islay ftw.

[Anonymous No.13765618]

>>13765543
oy, my fellow pro-Tomatin shill, lmao. I also do this everytime, whenever I can (and out there too). Tomatin 12 is the fucking absolute killer for the price, some faggots disagree, but those just didn't get it and were meh=muh-tomatin-what-is-dis? - and it can smash 90 out of 100 regular 10-12 yo'lder speysiders in a blind testing easily (comparable the price). tho I can buy some more expensive drinks, this one is my to go Scotch. it has everything you need. Glenfarclas, Glenlivet, Macallan double oak, Aberlour double oak, Tomatin beats em easily. patrician choice, lad.

[Anonymous No.13765632]

>>13765614
Macallan stopped making their double sherry 12, that's why it's expensive. The new standard 12 is nice tho. Glenfarclas 15 is nice, lots of sherry. Try Glenmorangie if you havent. And when you get tired of Speyside step over to Islay scotch,bthe best in the world.

[Anonymous No.13765641]

40 Creek is my whiskey.
Silent Sam for vodka.

I was having a discussion last night. What would be a good mixed drink to use olive juice in?
Martinis were the first option.
Caesers the second.
Anything else?
As an extension, what could I use to substitute tomato juice in a caesar.

[Anonymous No.13765680]

>>13765632
>And when you get tired of Speyside step over to Islay scotch,bthe best in the world
you're forgetting about the whole range of Islanders like Jura, Talisker, Arran, Ledaig (Tobermory), and whole region of best integrity scotch malts from Campbeltown: Springbank, Kilkerran, Glen Scotia. And you haven't even mentioned some absolute based highlanders al Glen Garioch or Scapa, or fuck em, Highland Park anyway (still make some awesome 15 and 18 yo). And I bet I forgot to add another 20 smaller distilleries to mention. So don't be a newfag faggot, there are not only speysiders and Islay whisky.

[Anonymous No.13765699]

>>13765680
Don't get testy, yes there are good distillery s in the Hebrides. I'm drinking a bottle from the Isle of Mull ATM. Very nice too but not Islay, it's a matter of taste ofc. Each to their own, I'd prefer a Ardbeg 10 to anything not Islay.

[Anonymous No.13765713]

>>13765699
come on. mate, I was just tickling you. So you're drinking now, Ledaig, Tobermory? Anyway a patrician choice, as well as with Ardbeg.

[Corn No.13766523]

Corn

[Anonymous No.13766556]

[Anonymous No.13766564]

>>13752678
>Blocks your path

[Anonymous No.13766589]

Just recently picked this up. Was expecting something strong, an assault on the nose and pallete but it's so damn light and doesn't stand out very much. Not bad but not sure where the hype is coming from?? Anyone else had this and can confirm if I had a bad batch or something?

[Anonymous No.13766594]

Thoughts on the peated Bunnahabhains ?

[Anonymous No.13766603]

>>13766564
>try again son

[Anonymous No.13766606]

>>13766589
Lots of American single malts taste like the ghost of a whiskey. I don’t know that the deal is. Copperworks and Westland both from Washington are fantastic though and really exemplify where the category can go.

[Anonymous No.13766615]

>>13745241
Truly patrician

[Anonymous No.13766616]

>>13766589
two blocks from whiskey vault were shilling for this single malt, they are from Texas too. said that was good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQvbta0VMJQ
>>13766603
never tried one, only unpeated like 12yo and this one. the pic is mein>>13747840

[Anonymous No.13766624]

>>13766594
damn, man. I missed a comment, that>>13766616 was to you, about Bunna

[Anonymous No.13767081]

>>13747644
>gin
that's where you exposed yourself
>british rum
also that.

[Anonymous No.13767329]

>>13767081
gin is the best booze to get yourself smoothly drunk and the british rum is obviously best, everyone knows that. so
>that's where you exposed yourself
I didn't

[Anonymous No.13767427]

>>13766616
I don't mind Whiskey Vault, don't like the long haired guy though. As I said it's not bad but if i had the option to get it again, even if it was on sale, I'd pass. Maybe try the cask strength version if I saw it in a bar

[Anonymous No.13767522]

>>13766606
Westward? It's excellent.

[Anonymous No.13767833]

>>13767427
Those guys are massive shills. There's very little they don't say is fantastic. I've been punished a few times following their advice, which is a shame because their videos are really fun.
Based Horst has never steered me wrong.

[Anonymous No.13768566]

>>13767329
>British rum is obviously best
The entirety of the Caribbean makes better rum than you. Cachaca is better than your rum. Communists in Cuba make better rum than the English do, on a budget of seawater and the dregs left behind at the bottom of the bowl after you finish some oatmeal.

[Anonymous No.13768613]

>>13768566
The Australians do, and given they call it Bunderberg, I bet the Germans do too.

[Anonymous No.13768733]

>>13767833
Horst only works if you share his type of palate. I generally watch both Horst and Ralfy to get a spread of opinions.
sometimes I check out scotch test dummies too because they can be pretty entertaining

[Anonymous No.13768793]

>>13768733
That's the same of any reviewer.
My palate sort of aligns with Horst's. I like super peaty or otherwise intense stuff. He likes mild peat + sherry + age for its complexity. Which are generally rich, so good enough. I really am okay with balancing as little as two or three notes though.
I don't think I agree with Ralfy on anything and I'm not even clear on what he likes.
Scotch test dummies are too friendly and I have trouble inferring how much they like things.

[Anonymous No.13768834]

>>13764692
thanks bruv. I'm cataloging them and then I'll probably do some sort of write-up/datagraphic bullshit.

my dad doesn't even drink whisk(e)y and he's got more than a thousand of these.

[Anonymous No.13769374]

>>13745038
Jameson is very good for genuine Irish Coffee. But if you want a real drink, try Teeling Single Malt or Pot Still.

[Anonymous No.13769845]

>>13768566
nigga, I meant British style of Rum, they make it in Caribbean, Jamaica, Barbados, Nicaragua. This means proper aging (not that skeany fucking lying solera shit, when it stated 12 yo on the bottle. but in fact it's 5 yo max, and you can feel it), + pot still, +demerara, +ofter higher on ABV, 43% is common. All in all British style of Rum most of all looks, feels and tastes like proper single malt scotch. Now you got it, yeh filthy rumlet?

[Anonymous No.13769849]

>>13769845
>We wuz Spanish-style rum n' sheeit!!
For some reason I don't seem to believe you, limey

[Anonymous No.13769862]

>>13756860
>14% alcohol
That's not moonshine boss. Moonshine is 98% alcohol, 196 proof.

[Anonymous No.13769865]

>>13769845
>>13768566
oy, and I forgot to tell the most important thing. British Rum is dry, and all the rest are mostly sweet, and some are ridiculously, crazy sweet. If we take El Dorado or Diplomatico or any other popular rums they add up to 100 gramms of sugar per liter, and you're tastig pure sugar syrup. Disgustang.

[Anonymous No.13769877]

>>13769862
No, moonshine is just any unaged spirit. It has no legal definition because it refers to an illegal practice.

[Anonymous No.13769881]

>>13769877
Yea well under 80 isn't a spirit

[Anonymous No.13769888]

>>13769881
Yeah, that one is just hipster liqueur calling itself "moonshine" for the meme.

[Anonymous No.13770466]

What's the best batch of booker's? Or at least, which is the best batch I can probably find on store shelves right now? Failing that, is there one to avoid?

Sidenote, I want to buy a bottle of scotch. Should I get another 2018 laga 12 while I can still find it (I have one already and love it), a bottle of octomore, or the cask-strength 15 year talisker? I do enjoy the normal talisker, although it's kinda underwhelming compared to high-proof stuff like Uigaedail (my favorite).

[Anonymous No.13770498]

>>13770466
Booker's 17-04 has treated me well, and my local store has a ton of back stock.