Whisky / Whiskey

[taniwharugby]

@delicatessen said in Whisky / Whiskey:

Jim Beam White I understand - it's fairly shite - but the nicer Jim Beams are fine

Jim Beam White is better than Jim Beam Black, which is supposed to be better

[broughie]

@bovidae Makers 46 goes for about 26 bucks at Sam’s Club over here and I don’t know what the exchange rate is. I bought the wild turkey longbranch Duty free for close to 50 bucks in Aruba as all alcohol is expensive in that little island.

[taniwharugby]

@broughie looks like it (Makers 46) varies from $57 to $79 in NZ for a 700ml

[broughie]

@delicatessen I haven’t tried J D’s high-end stuff so it might be good. That’s one thing the boys want to do is a whiskey tour in Kentucky/Tennessee.

[broughie]

@mariner4life dry also for me.

[Bovidae]

@broughie It will be double the price, even allowing for the exchange rate. The standard 1L Maker's Mark is $60 (US$42).

The only time I ever went to Sam's Club was to buy a leg of NZ lamb to cook for the flatmates.

[broughie]

@bovidae I brought some lamb chops recently but as much as I like a leg of lamb my children have nothing to do with it :-).

[MajorRage]

Look what you've started @Billy-Tell

Hope you give it a go and will be interested in what you think. FYI, up until December 2015 I thought exactly the same as you did. Til an American mate brought some Makers Mark on a holiday.

[junior]

@majorrage said in Whisky / Whiskey:

Look what you've started @Billy-Tell

Hope you give it a go and will be interested in what you think. FYI, up until December 2015 I thought exactly the same as you did. Til an American mate brought some Makers Mark on a holiday.

Yep, Maker's Mark really is the dogs nuts. Generally prefer Scotch or Japanese, but it would be hard to pass up a Maker's regardless of what the other choices are

Edit: I am also currently enjoying some Buffalo Trace, having bought a bottle after hearing Joe Rogan was lyrical about it and then seeing a bottle on sale - not bad and definitely more Maker's Mark than Jim Beam

[Catogrande]

Jack Daniels is not actually bourbon I think?

[Victor Meldrew]

Had a bottle of Jack Daniels Single Barrel a few years back. Was pretty good and way, way above yer normal JD.

[delicatessen]

@catogrande said in Whisky / Whiskey:

Jack Daniels is not actually bourbon I think?

Nah its Tennessee whiskey. Similar enough though, just slightly different filtering processes.

[GibbonRib]

I'm an occasional scotch drinker, and I've never bought a bourbon in my life other than Aldi brand one for cocktails. Just got a bottle of Maker's Mark last night on your recommendations, and I have to say it's very nice. Wasn't expecting that at the price.

Iechyd da

[RoninWC]

@victor-meldrew If you enjoyed that, there are two others worth considering...

Gentleman Jack and Jack Silver Select.

Cheers

[taniwharugby]

Got me some woodford reserve for Fathers day, looking forward to trying it tonight.

[Tim]

@taniwharugby Nice.

[Kiwiwomble]

Cadrona “just hatched”….very drinkable

[Smudge]

@kiwiwomble said in Whisky / Whiskey:

Cadrona “just hatched”….very drinkable

I've bought a bottle of the Growing Wings Solera and the Growing Wings from the pinot cask on a visit to the distillery two weeks ago. A bunch of us are looking at buying a barrel too...

[Kiwiwomble]

@smudge i have been down that "buy a barrel" route, i couldn't get enough people interested and although the 2-3 of us that were keen could still afford it....in the end i realised id still just end up with 10-15 bottles of the same whiskey, and i still enjoy trying new ones

I do love the idea though if you can get enough people into it

[RoninWC]

A little Xmas present for myself, to be enjoyed after Xmas dinner.

Really gotten into Islay whiskies over the past year, especially those with a good whack of peat so I wanted to try this one from Caol Ila