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[Anonymous No.16592241]

Looking for a whiskey to give myself for a birthday. Did anyone here tried this one? Is it any better than unknown year version, and worth 215 bucks?

[Anonymous No.16592266]

Stay away from japanese whisky. Normies have inflates the demand and prices are absurd for the quality you're getting. You could easily get a bottle you'll enjoy just as much (if not more) at half the price if you go bourbon or scotch.

[Hajimari No.16592285]

>>16592241
>215 bucks?
What the fuck?
It isn't worth that much anon it is a $50 whisky. I do enjoy it but hard to justify the price people ask for it nowadays. Hell I found it for $100 but even then it isn't really worth it.

[Anonymous No.16592287]

>>16592266
I have tasted Hibiki Japanese harmony and liked it a lot (I even purchased it for a second time), and since that I was interested in more mature weeb whiskey. If the price is the only disadvantage, fuck it, it's a birthday for a sake and 215$ isn't that much. But if I won't feel the difference between usual Yamazaki and 12 years one, or if Yamazakis are shit in general, please, make me aware of it.

[Anonymous No.16592307]

>>16592241
I had a drink at a bar quite a while ago, but this one is much better.

[Anonymous No.16592657]

>>16592287
Yamazaki 12 is great but I'd suggest you to pick up 4 scotch whiskies instead. It will give you much more enjoyment

[Anonymous No.16592874]

>>16592241
Yamazaki especially, but Japanese whiskey has gone fucking bananas. Nikka used to have solid offerings, now Coffey and from the barrel are priced at top shelf levels, and Miyagikyo is unobtainable.

>>16592287
I've wanted to try Hibiki for a while, I just haven't for whatever reason. The real underrated Japanese alcohol is the Roku gin, very savory, very weird gin. Amazing in negronis or anything that would suffer from overly floral gin. Makes a strange martini, but it's cheap and I had fun drinking it. Then there's the Suntory yellow labelled stuff I forget the name of that's made for highballs and sells for 50 a bottle or something insane.

[Anonymous No.16594151]

>>16592241
it's like $40 a bottle in Japan
your better off just booking a holiday there when the borders are open and bringing back 2-3 bottles.
works out much cheaper, especially with how cheap flights to Japan used to be.

[Anonymous No.16594755]

>>16592285
It goes for $450 AUD here. It's an increasingly rare, inflated as fuck whisky.

>worth 215 bucks?
To answer OP, no, you'll find value tends to be inversely proportional to Jim Murray's score.

[Anonymous No.16595710]

>>16592241
>nip whisky
gay and stupid. buy a bottle of arbeg 10 instead and use the savings to buy yourself a lap dance

[Anonymous No.16596844]

>>16592241
Suntory is a relatively cheap Japanese Whisky that is also fucking amazingly smooth and tasty I'd try that first to get a feel for taste and quality before you move onto stuff more expensive.

[Anonymous No.16598282]

>>16592241
Laphroaig quater cask is what id suggest, its my favorite im Scottish have lived here my whole life and tried a lot of whiskey

[Anonymous No.16599835]

>>16592241
Try this one and thank me later

[Anonymous No.16599858]

>>16599835
>poop in a barrel
>wait twenty years
>pour into a bottle, add a fancy label
>call it "The Poop"
>sell to anglos, get money, spend on deep-fried mars bars
>mfw

[Anonymous No.16599867]

>>16592241
How does one get into whiskey?
I always wanted to enjoy a good bourbon but the taste of it just makes me gag

[Anonymous No.16599872]

>>16599867
Depends omyour taste really Bourbon is usually high in oak flavor. You have totry out diferent Whiskys to find your taste. As a beginner you should try out some Scotch preferbly Sherry cask ones for a start and then progress from there.

[Anonymous No.16599897]

>>16599872
my main problem is the taste of alchohol in general
is it possible to grow into liking alchohol, like focussing on different aspects of a drink? Or do I just need to drink more frequently

[Anonymous No.16599903]

>>16599897
Maybe better then to not drink at all but in case you want to try it anyway maybe start with sweet vines or sparkling vines. For me it was easy the first time i got a beer as a child i was hooked but i am German so it's in my blood.

[Anonymous No.16599909]

>>16599903
will try, thanks for the advice, prost!

[Anonymous No.16599914]

>>16599909
My pleasure

[Anonymous No.16599918]

just get a McCallan

[Anonymous No.16601214]

>>16599835
>21
how rich are you?

[Anonymous No.16602222]

>>16599867
>ewwww the icky barrel water makes me gag
grow up you little queer

[Anonymous No.16603903]

>>16599897
Start with lower abv stuff like flavored whiskey and add ice. This will ease you into it. Keep in mind that you should not take gulps as if you were drinking Kool aid, sip and enjoy. Chugging hard liquor is infantile behavior you should avoid it.

In time you will learn to appreciate the alcohol as a gateway to other flavors and move on to real whisky and also lose the ice
Take your time, no rush

[Anonymous No.16603923]

>>16592241
Do yourself a favor and try this (pic). You will save a whole lot of money.