The Bourbon and Whiskey Thread

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  • jarubla
    jarubla Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A friend brought me back a bottle from Ireland. Shared a few drams with peers at work. Yum!
    “There’ll be two dates on your tombstone and all your friends will read ’em but all that’s gonna matter is that little dash between ’em.” -Kevin Welch
  • jarubla
    jarubla Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Grabbed this one this afternoon, gonna open it tonight
    “There’ll be two dates on your tombstone and all your friends will read ’em but all that’s gonna matter is that little dash between ’em.” -Kevin Welch
  • Usaf06
    Usaf06 Posts: 11,890 ✭✭✭✭✭
    jarubla said:
    Grabbed this one this afternoon, gonna open it tonight
    My favorite bourbon
    "I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form."
    -- Winston Churchill

    "LET'S GO FRANCIS"     Peter

  • jarubla
    jarubla Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A co worker brought back this from Taiwan. He was very generous and shared some pours this afternoon. A unique one for sure, fantastic lingering finish


    “There’ll be two dates on your tombstone and all your friends will read ’em but all that’s gonna matter is that little dash between ’em.” -Kevin Welch
  • jarubla
    jarubla Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If anyone has a bead on Woodford Reserve Frosty Four Wood, please PM me details

    -Jay
    “There’ll be two dates on your tombstone and all your friends will read ’em but all that’s gonna matter is that little dash between ’em.” -Kevin Welch
  • Nolagizmo
    Nolagizmo Posts: 1,914 ✭✭✭✭✭
    jarubla said:
    Grabbed this one this afternoon, gonna open it tonight
    I love blantons we just have the regular Woodford down here. I have only been given 1 shot of Blantons I took the rest. My brutha in law was pissed

    "Come party with me in Tennessee for my birthday July we can smoke in the Smokey's."
  • MikeTodd
    MikeTodd Posts: 974 ✭✭✭✭✭
    jarubla said:
    If anyone has a bead on Woodford Reserve Frosty Four Wood, please PM me details

    -Jay
    @jarubla
    My dad lives about an hour from Woodford in KY. I'll see if he has a lead on some.
  • jarubla
    jarubla Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thank you @MikeTodd
    “There’ll be two dates on your tombstone and all your friends will read ’em but all that’s gonna matter is that little dash between ’em.” -Kevin Welch
  • jarubla
    jarubla Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Playing a bit of catchup. In the last week I finally nabbed a bottle of Eagle Rare, a bottle of MaCallan, and a bottle of Oban. 

    Jus' doin' my part for the children's lunch money in my state...
    “There’ll be two dates on your tombstone and all your friends will read ’em but all that’s gonna matter is that little dash between ’em.” -Kevin Welch
  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,419 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I flushed my flask of the last of the Bulleit Bourbon yesterday and filled it up with Four Roses small batch.  The Four Roses is smoother and easier to drink than the Bulleit, I've been enjoying it.
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  • Nolagizmo
    Nolagizmo Posts: 1,914 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I guess I got to quit drinking rot gut bourbon and cut back on my cas so I can buy some of these highly Groovy names I read here. No mater what a 5th has a life span of 2 to 3 days in my house. Let me hold back on logging into auctions for 1 week then visit the real liquor store and see what's available. I wish I could find some cool stuff with horses on the cap. My brother in law shared a bottle of that last weekend. We emptied it.
    "Come party with me in Tennessee for my birthday July we can smoke in the Smokey's."
  • Guitarded
    Guitarded Posts: 4,720 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 2016

    That is Blantons Nola. Should be about 60 a bottle. Good stuff!

    Friends don't let good friends smoke cheap cigars.
  • avengethis
    avengethis Posts: 5,697 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm a big fan of Four Roses and Angels Envy.
    Team O'Donnell FTW!

    "I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn't going to smoke ever last one of 'em." - Ron White
  • jarubla
    jarubla Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Pretty good, actually. 

    $20/bottle IIRC. 
    “There’ll be two dates on your tombstone and all your friends will read ’em but all that’s gonna matter is that little dash between ’em.” -Kevin Welch
  • jarubla
    jarubla Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A couple of unicorns. Tasted the one on the right (pretty dam4ed smooth) and the one on the left gets to come home with me.

    As Bill Murray would say: 'Suntory Time'

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    “There’ll be two dates on your tombstone and all your friends will read ’em but all that’s gonna matter is that little dash between ’em.” -Kevin Welch
  • Wylaff
    Wylaff Posts: 5,483 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I want to drink at work...
    "Cooking isn't about struggling; It's about pleasure. It's like sǝx, with a wider variety of sauces."

    At any given time the urge to sing "In The Jungle" is just a whim away... A whim away... A whim away...
  • Nolagizmo
    Nolagizmo Posts: 1,914 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Got the weekend off some how. Gonna start in on some of this. It was on clearance. Hope it sips well.
    "Come party with me in Tennessee for my birthday July we can smoke in the Smokey's."
  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,419 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's good with ice or a bit of water. 
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  • Wylaff
    Wylaff Posts: 5,483 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Bulleit is good, but on the rocks is awesome. It brings a very enjoyable sweetness to the front of the palate
    "Cooking isn't about struggling; It's about pleasure. It's like sǝx, with a wider variety of sauces."

    At any given time the urge to sing "In The Jungle" is just a whim away... A whim away... A whim away...
  • Nolagizmo
    Nolagizmo Posts: 1,914 ✭✭✭✭✭
    On the rocks is good.image
    "Come party with me in Tennessee for my birthday July we can smoke in the Smokey's."
  • Bob_Luken
    Bob_Luken Posts: 11,675 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I've had a little ol' sample bottle if the same Bulleit and (While on the Vherf,....... this past Thursday? Tuesday?) I sipped it side by side with four roses single barrel in my usual manner (with water) And YES! The frontier bourbon is a definite YES!  It's smoother and a little sweet compared to the 4R.  Planning to get a big ol'  bottle today. 
  • Bob_Luken
    Bob_Luken Posts: 11,675 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wylaff said:
    I want to drink at work...
    mad men drinking drinks miss blankenship
  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,419 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 2016
    When I came home my wife was watching some show about how to hack your life, they were trying to make cheap bourbon taste like the good stuff, they fooled about half the people with a few simple additions like this article. Has anyone tried this?

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/how-to-age-whiskey-yourself_us_5640e6d2e4b0b24aee4b2ab4

    "Here’s how to do it — mix the following ingredients into a 750-milliliter bottle of your favorite cheap bourbon and shake.
    • 1 tablespoon dry sherry
    • 3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
    • 1/8 teaspoon liquid smoke"
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  • Wylaff
    Wylaff Posts: 5,483 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It may fudge the taste buds, but the hangover will tell you the truth.
    "Cooking isn't about struggling; It's about pleasure. It's like sǝx, with a wider variety of sauces."

    At any given time the urge to sing "In The Jungle" is just a whim away... A whim away... A whim away...
  • Wylaff
    Wylaff Posts: 5,483 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I recently tried the Ainsley Brae Highland Single Malt that was finished in a Sauternes cask. This was BY FAR the best smelling whiskey I have ever tried. And it was incredibly smooth. I found it at Total Wine, and if anyone has a chance to try it, it's worth every penny (which isn't much at $40). Definitely one of the best whiskeys I've had recently, and the price just made it so much better.
    "Cooking isn't about struggling; It's about pleasure. It's like sǝx, with a wider variety of sauces."

    At any given time the urge to sing "In The Jungle" is just a whim away... A whim away... A whim away...
  • Big''nBall''n
    Big''nBall''n Posts: 767 ✭✭✭✭
    Nolagizmo said:
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    Got the weekend off some how. Gonna start in on some of this. It was on clearance. Hope it sips well.
    I love the Rye version. that one is good too! 
    The Names Ball'n.... Big'nBall'n! 
  • 90+_Irishman
    90+_Irishman Posts: 12,409 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 2016
    Got way into bourbon the past several months myself and have grown the collection. Moved to a new house, yes finally a house and not some POS apartment LOL, here is the liquor cabinets... all of the shelving is 3 deep.





    EDIT: Apparently I no longer know how to post pics on the new forum layout... SMH

    Brett
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    "When walking in open territory bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask them to stop. If they do not stop, destroy them."
  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,419 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Having gone through a bottle each of Woodford Reserve, Four Roses Small Batch, and Bulleit Frontier Bourbon,  I'm taking a break to drink down the bottles of rum that I've accumulated.  I'll circle back to Bourborn in a bit, my preferences were Woodford then Four Roses and then Bulleit.
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  • 90+_Irishman
    90+_Irishman Posts: 12,409 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Was lucky enough that last week I was able to herf with Ben Hanks when he was out this direction, and we polished off about the last of his 2014 George T. Stagg at 138.1 proof.... that really is the best bourbon I have ever had wow! I brought my EHT Barrel Proof Uncut Unfiltered as well as some Four Roses Single Barrel Barrel Proof OESO 11 year 4 month bottle. Dug into those as well and they rocked, he also hit me with some amazing sticks, hope he liked what I smacked him with too.







    Brett
    "When walking in open territory bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask them to stop. If they do not stop, destroy them."

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