I normally drink it on the rocks or in an Old Fashioned.
― #TweetFromAnUnknownWoman (j.lu), Monday, 31 March 2014 17:57 (ten years ago) link
If you're mixing it for a cocktail, maybe go for Old Overholt or Sazerac. Fancier ryes, a lot of people like Whistle Pig's Boss Hog, or the older Sazerac, if you can find it, or Handy, if you can find it. Rittenhouse makes a super fancy 23-year, but that's $$$. Willett has some good rye. That might be a good mid-high point rye.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 31 March 2014 18:01 (ten years ago) link
i love the angel's envy rye
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 31 March 2014 18:06 (ten years ago) link
I love love love Rittenhouse BIB rye whiskey. Given that I'm so happy with it, and can get it readily for a fair price, is trying other, pricier brands of rye worth it? Name names if you want to recommend any.
― #TweetFromAnUnknownWoman (j.lu), Monday, March 31, 2014 1:54 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i would definitely recommend trying sazerac which is probably the other great mid-shelf rye left in existence. i prefer rittenhouse but there's a great contrast between the two. sazerac 18, if you can track it down, is absolutely worth the investment.
if you're just staring at the shelf of ryes keep in mind that bulleit, dickel, templeton, redemption, and a couple others i'm forgetting have a common source and use a substantially different mashbill from rittenhouse/sazerac (and from american rye whiskey as it's historically understood). you can certainly give one of these a shot, but just be aware of what you're getting.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 31 March 2014 18:21 (ten years ago) link
just bought a dozen bottles of talisker 10yr for abt £21 each, reasonably safe to assume im not going to get bored of it
― a respected member of the hip-hop criticism community (nakhchivan), Thursday, 3 April 2014 22:19 (ten years ago) link
still taking the occasional swig outta that glendronach. it's lasting far longer than it should. ur bliss sounds tastier
― halber mensch halber keks (imago), Thursday, 3 April 2014 22:31 (ten years ago) link
theres hardly any actively crap single malt whisky, theres underwhelming and theres all sorts of limited release shit which clearly isnt remotely worth its retail price but its all drinkable
just over twenty is fine for a good entry level single malt, mostly they are around thirty quid now (~£20 net) which seems excessive and is inflated significantly from the mid 2000s
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 3 April 2014 22:40 (ten years ago) link
ah i can't rly complain, it's not too bad & it was a gift
my best friend received this from his mother's newish husband a few years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penderyn_(whisky) and it was incredibly atrocious. just pure shit. ffs wales
― halber mensch halber keks (imago), Thursday, 3 April 2014 22:42 (ten years ago) link
yeah never tried it but it's just whatever shit they can sell with no age statement, probably half of it to sentimental welsh people
they might make something better given time and if they do they can thank the people who bought their shit early releases (very difficult to found a distillery precisely because absent some futures scheme there is no revenue for years)
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 3 April 2014 23:02 (ten years ago) link
like this is almost certainly a prime example of speculative veblen collector dogshit
http://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/P-13405.aspx
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 3 April 2014 23:06 (ten years ago) link
i love when cask strength whiskies both "benefit from the higher bottling strength" and "take water well."
― eh mec, elle est ou ma caisse? (ytth), Friday, 4 April 2014 01:30 (ten years ago) link
i have a bottle of rittenhouse, should i use it for fancy cocktails or just savour it straight or on the rocks (or with water, which is how i drink my scotch)
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 10 April 2014 14:35 (ten years ago) link
you should make at least a couple manhattans with it but it's fantastic with water too
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 10 April 2014 14:42 (ten years ago) link
I picked up a bottle of the Knob Creek 9 y.o. 120 proof. It is VERY good, and only ~$45. Highly recommended.
Kind of spoils more subtle bourbons like Blanton's if you have them the same night. Gotta trend up in proof, I guess.
― Survivalist Compound Row (B.L.A.M.), Thursday, 10 April 2014 22:00 (ten years ago) link
It's counter intuitive, but higher proof bourbons can be surprisingly easy to drink.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 April 2014 22:26 (ten years ago) link
My great-grandma drank scotch for pretty much her entire life, and lived to be 101. So yeah it's in my blood.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 10 April 2014 22:28 (ten years ago) link
hold on to it s1ocki, I'm coming over with some mixology
― a strange man (mh), Friday, 11 April 2014 02:22 (ten years ago) link
Bushmills, bushmills black, bushmills 12 yr pot- blackJameson, green spot, redbreast 12- green spotTeeling, teeling small batch, teeling poitin- batch
Overall green spot ahead of redbreast
Poitin was appalling
― james lipton and his francs (darraghmac), Friday, 16 May 2014 13:20 (ten years ago) link
Been sipping Heaven Hill this week. I FEEL AMAZING
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 16 May 2014 16:09 (ten years ago) link
You would if you have been sipping it all week. I would take a break and have some water.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 May 2014 16:25 (ten years ago) link
Well im sipping on Perrier right now.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 16 May 2014 16:28 (ten years ago) link
I had bought a bottle of Booker's for myself as a b-day present that I finally cracked
― a strange man (mh), Friday, 16 May 2014 18:24 (ten years ago) link
I got a bottle of Knob Creek standard the other day, and damn if'n it ain't superb. Much better than I had remembered.
― Survivalist Compound Row (B.L.A.M.), Sunday, 18 May 2014 04:32 (ten years ago) link
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2014/09/24/templeton-rye-lawsuit-iowa-recipe-consumer-fraud/16165957/
lol
― ⌘-B (mh), Thursday, 25 September 2014 16:24 (nine years ago) link
awesome! delighted someone is finally doing this.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 25 September 2014 16:26 (nine years ago) link
Check out this comment from 2008 on Chuck Cowdery's blog. If it's really from Scott Bush, it's amazing lawsuit evidence:http://chuckcowdery.blogspot.com/2008/01/what-is-this-stuff-really.html?showComment=1201740780000#c5125144523431029136
― ⌘-B (mh), Thursday, 25 September 2014 16:36 (nine years ago) link
Also check out the linked recent article at the end of the comments there.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/28/your-craft-whiskey-is-probably-from-a-factory-distillery-in-indiana.html
― nickn, Thursday, 25 September 2014 17:46 (nine years ago) link
yeah, that was the big media "omg we're blowing the lid off this" article, finally mainstreaming something that's been written about everywhere for years
― ⌘-B (mh), Thursday, 25 September 2014 17:51 (nine years ago) link
cowdery must be the happiest guy alive today, years of trolling templeton and the others have finally paid off.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 25 September 2014 17:51 (nine years ago) link
it'd be nice if he got credited more, but hey
― ⌘-B (mh), Thursday, 25 September 2014 17:59 (nine years ago) link
So, knowing that, what's the best whisky to ask for at the bar? Do I need fancy terms or can I just say "Bourbon on the rocks, please"?
― ∞, Thursday, 25 September 2014 18:26 (nine years ago) link
("Just throw a couple in their, yeah?")
― ∞, Thursday, 25 September 2014 18:27 (nine years ago) link
there*
All I seem to drink anymore is Four Roses, but I did have a taste of Dickel white whiskey a week or two ago because it was on special and I couldn't resist. It smelled deadly but was actually quite smooth.
This rye story is pretty lol -- does it apply to Dickel rye too?
― dan m, Thursday, 25 September 2014 18:30 (nine years ago) link
x-pI always ask for Knotter Bourbon.
― nickn, Thursday, 25 September 2014 18:31 (nine years ago) link
cad I would love to see a list of your top five/ten "affordable range" whiskeys, I need a new bottle of bourbon anyway and am getting kinda tired of Four Roses
lol xp
― sleeve, Thursday, 25 September 2014 18:31 (nine years ago) link
x-pFrom the article I linked:
Some of those bottling and branding MGP whiskey make an effort to give the juice some sort of finishing touch to make their product distinctive. George Dickel Rye starts with MGP whiskey but charcoal-filters it before bottling. Angel’s Envy buys Indiana rye, puts it in old rum casks to soak up a little sweetness, and then charges a hefty markup. Others, such as Redemption Rye, present their MGP whiskey as-is.The prize for the most upfront bottler has to go to Blaum Bros. of Galena, Illinois, which market Knotter—read “not our”—Bourbon with the transparent admission “We didn’t distill this bourbon. Nope, not a drop.”
The prize for the most upfront bottler has to go to Blaum Bros. of Galena, Illinois, which market Knotter—read “not our”—Bourbon with the transparent admission “We didn’t distill this bourbon. Nope, not a drop.”
― nickn, Thursday, 25 September 2014 18:33 (nine years ago) link
― sleeve, Thursday, September 25, 2014 2:31 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it's getting tougher and tougher to find dece affordable stuff, but here are some things (with the caveat that i neither have the money nor the inclination to try anything that's "craft distilled" or has an unclear origin, not that any of that stuff is affordable most of the time)
very old barton bib (if you can get it in your area, nb i haven't had it since they dropped the age statement, but man this stuff was good)weller 107 proofjim beam blackdickel no. 12 (still sort of affordable i think)old grand dad bib (not really a sipper but the best mixing bourbon in the world imo)
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 25 September 2014 18:48 (nine years ago) link
x-pI always ask for Knotter Bourbon.― nickn, Thursday, September 25, 2014 7:31 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― nickn, Thursday, September 25, 2014 7:31 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
"Knotter Bourbon. neat. Thanks"
I'll tell you all about it
― ∞, Thursday, 25 September 2014 19:01 (nine years ago) link
thanks cad!
old grand dad bib
is this the 100 proof bonded stuff or something else? I was using the bonded for a while on yr recommendation
― sleeve, Thursday, 25 September 2014 19:07 (nine years ago) link
yeah it's the bonded
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 25 September 2014 19:10 (nine years ago) link
the 114 is kind of overkill imo
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 25 September 2014 19:11 (nine years ago) link
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/11/04/business/japanese-whisky-yamazaki-named-worlds-finest-dram#.VFlY1zQgtN4
perfect timing. i'll try to score a cheap bottle while in japan later this year.
has anyone tried it?
― ∞, Tuesday, 4 November 2014 22:48 (nine years ago) link
So I scored a bottle of Pappy 12 tonight, I suppose I should feel good? Lucky?
― dan m, Thursday, 20 November 2014 02:38 (nine years ago) link
nice work! if you didnt pay over retail it's a very nice and fairly priced bourbon.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 20 November 2014 02:45 (nine years ago) link
I paid $20 over, I guess? Not too worried about it, I haven't been buying bourbon much at all this year.
― dan m, Thursday, 20 November 2014 02:50 (nine years ago) link
hi dan, what are you doing the next couple weekends? :D
― jenny holzer, ilxor (mh), Thursday, 20 November 2014 04:22 (nine years ago) link
Looking at this bottle, petting it occasionally, waiting for 12/5 to crack it open.
― dan m, Thursday, 20 November 2014 06:45 (nine years ago) link
Had a Yamazaki the other night after winning a football match 8-0. It was most fitting. Very peaty and flavoursome, without any sort of sweetened chemical flavour. Delicious.
― imago, Thursday, 20 November 2014 08:24 (nine years ago) link
speaking of pappy 12, anyone ever see weller 12 year? it's very very similar if not indistinguishable. used to be my jam til it disappeared. elijah craig 12 year is my affordable go-to these days, but tonight i'm sipping four roses single barrel which is delightful.
― Captain Maximus, Friday, 21 November 2014 03:47 (nine years ago) link