Whisky / Whiskey
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@mariner4life said in Whisky / Whiskey:
because i am a pretentious piston wristed gibbon, i really want to be a scotch drinker. I want to be that guy that comes home and pours a single malt, and really enjoys it. It looks sophisticated and cool, and i so want to be sophisticated and cool.
But, i really fucking can't stand the taste. To me, all straight liquor tastes like shitty Johnny Walker blended crap, my throat tries to close, and i make this retarded o-face as i try to keep it down.
I keep thinking it is something you grow in to, but i seem to be getting further from it. My father in law smashes the stuff, and he's constantly trying to get me to join him, but i just can't do it.
I know a large Welsh guy in Sydney who is a whisky ambassador. His job is to teach people to drink the stuff. His collection is impressive to say the least. I got in to them one night, but i certainly didn't enjoy the experience. I am honestly envious of you blokes who can put it away.
I go through stages eh, every couple of years I'll pop back to enjoying a whiskey every couple of nights, then just stop, or move to a voddie martini or something. I'm now starting to get back into whiskey, but have no class. How good is famous grouse!
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@taniwharugby said in Whisky / Whiskey:
@mariner4life ha, I have a mate that has always been a social smoker and we have always given him grief, he now lives in an Eastern European country and he has taken up smoking properly now, his reason, it's too cheap not to! oh how we took the piss out of him for that!
Oi. UK isn't eastern Europe yet.
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@Bones you do have pretty small girly hands
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@taniwharugby said in Whisky / Whiskey:
@Bones you do have pretty small girly hands
I do. For a legend.
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Don t think this has been mentioned, but if you like interesting whisky/whiskey, check out these guys in Auckland
they do tastings regularly as well I understand
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@nzzp said in Whisky / Whiskey:
Don t think this has been mentioned, but if you like interesting whisky/whiskey, check out these guys in Auckland
they do tastings regularly as well I understand
I think that is just an online store?
Did you mean these guys in Auckland?
They are really helpful if you're trying to choose a new whisky.. I haven't been to any of their tasting evenings though
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@Duluth said in Whisky / Whiskey:
No Ardbeg fans?
I tend to buy Laphroaig or one of the Ardbeg variations
I am an Ardbeg fan - but it's pricey. I can usually afford the standard Ardbeg 10, but the Uigeadail is very nice.
I have also tried a couple of Japanese whiskeys, which are very good quality - but not cheap!
At the moment, I've taken a break from whisky to go down the aged dark rum route.
The Irish Whiskeys are quite a different flavour, but you can usually get the weaker sex interested in whiskey by going with something like the Jameson Gold.
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@Duluth said in Whisky / Whiskey:
@nzzp said in Whisky / Whiskey:
Don t think this has been mentioned, but if you like interesting whisky/whiskey, check out these guys in Auckland
they do tastings regularly as well I understand
I think that is just an online store?
Did you mean these guys in Auckland?
They are really helpful if you're trying to choose a new whisky.. I haven't been to any of their tasting evenings though
Yep, that sounds right. I saw the whiskey store down on Princes Wharf a few years ago, but clearly the online web addresses misled me.
I need a weekend - apologies for any confusion this may have caused
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So last night, based on this thread, i caved and had a Jameisons with the FIL. And you know what? Not bad. Nice taste, love the warmth as you drink it. Would drink again
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If you're new to drinking whiskey, I recommend Tullamore D.E.W. It's inexpensive, available and a nice drop to boot.
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Was away a few days on holiday, and one of the guys there was another American, this time from Chicago. So we all had to bring booze (most bought standard gin, vodka etc) but insted, he bought a special edition cask strength bourbon, the brand was Makers.
Anyway, I've not touched Bourbon for years. Jim / Jack was my uni drink and I've probably puked more B & C up then most. Sort of grew out of it. So he poured me one over ice, said hold it for a minute to the ice melts a bit and dilutes it then sip it like a scotch.
What a revelation. It was totally fantastic. A different sort of experience to Scotch, but just as complex when it comes to flavours. Perhaps a little sweeter, but not sickly sweet.
Bit of an eye openers, and something I'll be adding to the MajorRage liquor cabinet.
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@MajorRage will have to try my drinking my ever-present bottle of Gentleman Jack straight.
On the Jameisons again last night. I could get used to this.
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@mariner4life I should point out that we also had a bottle of JD there, and a few of us tried it straight over ice comparison test with Makers.
It was hard to believe that they are the same class of drink. Jack Daniels neat, is bloody awful. It needs the coke.
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Just standard Jack?
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@mariner4life yeah. standard. Have never tried gentleman jack.
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JDS be sippin' whiskey!
I found Jim Beam white label smoother neat than Jim Beam black label, similarly Wild Turkey rare breed isn't that good neat, but with a mixer, is very good.
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I'm sure I've shared this before but back in the 70's Rum and Bourbon was brought into NZ in Oak barrels and then bottled at a plant out in Te Atatu.
You could buy the barrels for $10. Over the decade or so the sprit had been maturing the oak had absorbed a lot of the liquor. Plus there was generally about5 cms of high alcohol molasses in the bottom.
I used to pour boiling water into the barrels and then turn them once/day. After about 3 weeks I would bottle what came out of the casks straining it through a pair of tights.
I would generally get about 5 litres of incredibly smooth very alcoholic spirit ( a cap of it would take over a minute to burn off). Typically I went for the bourbon.
In most instances I would get two batches/barrel so about 10 litres for $10.
then I would cut the barrels in half and sell them for $10 per "planter" to the local garden centre.
I still have 2 bottles from the last batch I put down in 1979 that I very occasionally broach.
Very disappointed to learn when I came back to NZ that they had changed over to plastic casks.
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@dogmeat said in Whisky / Whiskey:
I'm sure I've shared this before but back in the 70's Rum and Bourbon was brought into NZ in Oak barrels and then bottled at a plant out in Te Atatu.
You could buy the barrels for $10. Over the decade or so the sprit had been maturing the oak had absorbed a lot of the liquor. Plus there was generally about5 cms of high alcohol molasses in the bottom.
I used to pour boiling water into the barrels and then turn them once/day. After about 3 weeks I would bottle what came out of the casks straining it through a pair of tights.
I would generally get about 5 litres of incredibly smooth very alcoholic spirit ( a cap of it would take over a minute to burn off). Typically I went for the bourbon.
In most instances I would get two batches/barrel so about 10 litres for $10.
then I would cut the barrels in half and sell them for $10 per "planter" to the local garden centre.
I still have 2 bottles from the last batch I put down in 1979 that I very occasionally broach.
Very disappointed to learn when I came back to NZ that they had changed over to plastic casks.
Yes, you have shared that before and no, I don't get sick of reading it. It's up there with such fern posts as "a day in the life of ...." and "the Tangiwai Disaster test in South Africa"
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Speaking of which, @KiwiPie @Donsteppa
Is the Tangiwai Disaster Cricket Test on this new forum? Coming up to Christmas, always worth a repost if you have it about?
