This thread is about WHISKEY, dammit.

[asthmaticeog]

I love a really good single-malt Scotch when I feel like spluring (BTW, Glenlivet & Glenfiddich are not really good single-malts). But if you really want to get me going, it's Irish. Bushmills, Jameson, Powers... I love 'em. Neat, rocks, whatever.

I love bourbon, too, but it makes me way too talkative.

And you know what kicks ass? Wasps. Maybe this drink has a different name in other areas, but around here a Wasp is 1 or 2 oz of Irish Whiskey (usually Jameson, though I use Powers when I make 'em at home) on the rocks, top off the tumbler with ginger ale, finish with 4 or 5 dashes of bitters and stir. YUM.

So what's your fave whiskey? And if you've got any good mixed drink ideas to share, I'm all ears.

[Sporadicus]

1. I Have To Go with Canadian Blended Whisky

especially...



supremely smooth.

[asthmaticeog]

3. As it happens, I have a story about Crown Royal.

A friend of mine rented a house across the street from my apartment building - a happy circumstance made happier when he found a HUGE cache of liquor in the basement. He gave most of it to his friends, and I got the bottle of Crown Royal. It was still sealed and in the velvet bag and in the box, with a vintage certificate placing it at about 40 years old. That bottle was the catalyst for a *wonderful* evening of conversation among friends - 4 of us (including the guy who gave it to me, of course) finished it in a sitting and called it a night, as going out for beers afterward would have seemed an insult to the whiskey. It was a lovely time, and DAMN if that whiskey didn't go down smoother than anything I'd ever had before or since.

[Sporadicus]

4. Good Times!

Wish I could come across such a cache! Of course, the Crown Royal would be the crown jewel of a find like that.

[Bake]

21. Blended! Bah! Ptooeeey.

If it doesn't come from Kentucky, it ain't worth drinking.

Bake

[BiggJawn]

2. Well, when you said Jameson....

I said "Now THAT'S Whiskey!"

Distilled by Marconi's grand-daddy. didja know that?
Annie Jameson was Guglielmo's mom....

[many a good man]

5. Tullamore Dew

Maybe I'm crazy, but I like Tullamore Dew better than Jamesons or Powers. Its not as powerful so you can taste it better. Better for sippin' straight up. And great in coffee!



http://www.epinions.com/fddk-Spirits-By_Name-All-Tullamore_Dew_Irish_Whiskey/display_~reviews

[Wwagsthedog]

6. Laphroaig

& Makers Mark.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[asthmaticeog]

8. Oooooh, Laphroaig!

Right up there with Talisker, Lagavulin & Oban in my personal pantheon.

With Makers, though - did you notice some serious inconsistency with the stuff about 4-6 years ago? I got a couple of bottles that were like friggin' rotgut and have shied away from it ever since.

[many a good man]

10. You wanna try and pronounce that?

Lap Frog? Laffery?
:shrug:

[asthmaticeog]

11. la-FROIG n/t

[amerikat]

7. I just watched "Independence Day" Jeff Goldblum was drinking Bushmills

Which is my fav. And then I was thinking of a song about Canadian whiskey since you brought it up.


(Tom Russell)

In the hills of Montana
There's a timber wolf howlin'
The rangers are prowlin'
For a woman alone
She'd run away from an Indian lover
He'll never recover
She turned him to stone


She drank Canadian whiskey
Pure blended whiskey
She drank it like wine
Her eyes were the color of Canadian whiskey
Pure blended whiskey
So light brown and fine

Twenty tears later
I heard of a woman
She's living alone
Up by Yellowstone Creek
And old Trapper John
Brings her cases of whiskey
Canadian whiskey
He says she never will speak


:beer:

[many a good man]

9. That was beautiful!!!

:cry:

[amerikat]

12. I've never met a girl with eyes the color of Canadian Whiskey

but I would like to.

[kedrys]

13. My last whiskey bender involved The Macallan

My dream is to be able to some day afford a single malt that's older than I am - a taller order by the minute, but hey. You gotta have goals. :)

[asthmaticeog]

15. How old?

I've had the 10 and the 12. A friend's dad had a bottle of the 25 but didn't want to spare any, not even for a kindness-cup, the bastard, so I still haven't had the supremely pricey stuff.

[kedrys]

18. You're not catching me with those trick questions :)

Let's just say...30+ :P

The bender in question was with the 12. It was my birthday and someone else's dime, so what the heck.

[asthmaticeog]

19. Oh, shit!

I honestly wasn't trying to suss out your age! I've never met anyone who'd had a Macallan's older than the 18; I was just hoping you'd had one of the badass MFs so I could maybe hear if it was really all that. Still, a night out with the 12 on someone else's tab - nicely done!

For the record, I'm also 30+, and with similarly diminishing hopes of ever affording a single malt older than I.

[kedrys]

20. LOL!!!

Think nothing of it. I'm actually fairly well preserved, so few people who see me guess right. :P

As far as the really old stuff, the only parallel I can draw is plunking down 2 bills for what turned out to be the *best* bottle of bubbly on the planet. You could really tell the difference - so I have high hopes for a similar experience with a ridiculously old and expensive single malt.

[EstimatedProphet]

14. Here's some of mine:

Rowan's Creek: a small batch "boutique" bourbon-very hard to find


Baker's: A high-end bourtbon from the Jim Beam distillers


Bulleit: A good "western-style" bourbon


McKendric's: A "western-style" whiskey, aged in Mesquite


Aberlour: an excellent single malt


Platte Valley: my favorite "corn squeezin's"-a very nice, smooth corn whiskey

[asthmaticeog]

17. That's it.

I'm bookmarking this thread so I can remeber some of those to run 'em down and try 'em on for size. Of all those you listed, I've only ever had Bakers.

[EstimatedProphet]

22. Try here

http://www.hitimewine.com/iStar.htm
They have just about everything you'd ever want, and ship it nationwide.

[asthmaticeog]

23. DAMN!

Thanks, EP! :hi:

[Floogeldy]

16. I disagree about Glenlivet

It is incredibly good shit. Great fruity aroma and smokey aftertaste.

Luv it, luv it, luv it!

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