Favorite Whisky?

[M-technik-3]

Don't really like whiskey but this is what we have for people who do like it.

[Smelser]

Wisers deluxe. Available in Canada! 58 bucks a 60 oz. normal 60ozs cost 54 bucks. Well worth the extra few bucks

[QUKBMER]

Jameson is my favorite.:nice:

[z31maniac]

That's why Bulliet is so good. It's affordable and tasty, makes a great dark and stormy.

Uhhhhhh. Dark and Stormy calls for Dark Rum Brochev.

You must be like the bartender who muddled up lemon in my $13 Woodford Reserve Old Fashioned friday night.

Just change the recipes all Willy-Nilly. :p

[delatlanta1281]

:-)

Uhhhhhh. Dark and Stormy calls for Dark Rum Brochev.

You must be like the bartender who muddled up lemon in my $13 Woodford Reserve Old Fashioned friday night.

Just change the recipes all Willy-Nilly. :p

I meant an horses neck... I just read what I wrote and laughed.... Too much bulleit perhaps?

[flyboyx]

bulliet is pronominal for the price. i just discovered it a few weeks ago when i was perusing a liquor store going out of business and they were selling it for 30% off. what a deal and what a good bourbon. makers mark 46 is very under rated. it has a flavor complexity much superior to standard makers mark.

at the beginning of this thread there are a lot of misconceptions about what is a bourbon. the only requirements to call a whiskey a bourbon is that it has to be made anywhere in the us of a, it has to be made with 51% corn, it has to be made in a new unused american oak barrel. that is it. the name, however, did come from bourbon county kentucky which is no longer a county. most successful bourbons are made in kentucky because the water is filtered through limestone which removes any iron content in the water. a necessity for making whiskeys.

a couple of years ago, i did a bourbon tour which encompassed woodford, buffalo trace, and maker's mark. i was really impressed with woodford and makers. i know there are a lot of people out there that like buffalo trace products but at least for me when i took the "pepsi challenge" that day, i have to say their products are shit in my opinion. they didn't offer to any tastes of the pappy van winkle, but i thought blanton's tasted like cheap swill in an expensive bottle with a stupid cork that everyone needs to collect. i will never go back there and i will never buy any of their products with the exception of the fact that i do have a desire to try the pappy's.

[z31maniac]

Part of Bulliet's excellence is the higher-than-typical Rye content.

I'm happy to see Rye coming back into fashion in general.

A Mnahattan with a quality Rye blows away the same drink made with a quality Bourbon. And I like bourbon.

[agent]

I'm primarily an Islay fan. I try to keep a bottle of Lagavulin around when I can afford it, though Bowmore does the job. I have a cask strength Bowmore I got a couple of years ago that I break out every so often, and about two shots left in a bottle of cask strength Macallan.

As for bourbon, no bar is complete without a bottle of Maker's. My grandfather's words, not mine.

[mrsleeve]

just picked this one up for the 1st time, very pleasantly surprised

[z31maniac]

Wow, suprised you've never tried it.

If you see it anywhere, snag a bottle of the double oaked WR. Excellent for sipping.

[mrsleeve]

Yeah me too frankly, its always been something I have been meaning to snag a bottle of, just never have. With the rain day today and a day off tomorrow I dont think there will be too much of this particular bottle left

[Ratbastage]

Bourbon man here. My go to for 'value' is 1783, on the upper end of the scale, Woodford Reserve or Elijah Craig.

[Rev Run D]

Wife bought me 2 180ml bottle of Nikka Single Cask Reserve. 1 is a 20 and the other 25 year! FTW!

http://www.nikka.com/eng/products/whisky_brandy/nikkasinglecask/singlecask_yoichi/

[Ryan Stewart]

Yeah me too frankly, its always been something I have been meaning to snag a bottle of, just never have. With the rain day today and a day off tomorrow I dont think there will be too much of this particular bottle left

You obviously dont fly Delta much, its their plane bourbon.

I was usually tanked on Woodford by the end of my 5 hour commute between LAX and ATL. The worst was the flight to/from LGA. I lived on Delta and was always upgraded (in first class they get a manifest with your name) and it was almost always one of two stewardesses. Id get to my seat with a couple bottles already there for my amusement during take off and theyd usually feed me 3-4 more during the flight.

I was flying so much Delta was giving me these cards that you could give to stewardesses that gave them like 2500 miles and told corporate that they made a regular customer happy. They knew when I got drunk Id make it RAIN!

[mrsleeve]

haha

I do fly delta fairly often when I do fly, but I almost never get the up grade, so I am stuck in cattle class 98% of the time. Hell most of the planes I am on dont even have 1st/business class section, little puddle jumpers for most of my flying. And I refuse to spend 7-8 bucks a pop for those itty bitty bottles