Whisky / Whiskey
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I'm an occasional scotch drinker, and I've never bought a bourbon in my life other than Aldi brand one for cocktails. Just got a bottle of Maker's Mark last night on your recommendations, and I have to say it's very nice. Wasn't expecting that at the price.
Iechyd da
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@victor-meldrew If you enjoyed that, there are two others worth considering...
Gentleman Jack and Jack Silver Select.
Cheers
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Got me some woodford reserve for Fathers day, looking forward to trying it tonight.
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@taniwharugby Nice.
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Cadrona “just hatched”….very drinkable
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@kiwiwomble said in Whisky / Whiskey:
Cadrona “just hatched”….very drinkable
I've bought a bottle of the Growing Wings Solera and the Growing Wings from the pinot cask on a visit to the distillery two weeks ago. A bunch of us are looking at buying a barrel too...
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@smudge i have been down that "buy a barrel" route, i couldn't get enough people interested and although the 2-3 of us that were keen could still afford it....in the end i realised id still just end up with 10-15 bottles of the same whiskey, and i still enjoy trying new ones
I do love the idea though if you can get enough people into it
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speaking of xmas, picked up the Lark xmas release to share with the brother in law
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@roninwc said in Whisky / Whiskey:
A little Xmas present for myself, to be enjoyed after Xmas dinner.
Really gotten into Islay whiskies over the past year, especially those with a good whack of peat so I wanted to try this one from Caol Ila
Fuck my favourite
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@kiwiwomble said in Whisky / Whiskey:
@smudge i have been down that "buy a barrel" route, i couldn't get enough people interested and although the 2-3 of us that were keen could still afford it....in the end i realised id still just end up with 10-15 bottles of the same whiskey, and i still enjoy trying new ones
I do love the idea though if you can get enough people into it
My mate and I thought maybe 2-3 of our mates would be interested. We're up to 12 in less than 2 weeks...
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@smudge that would work, would have been happy with 2-4 bottles each
....now thinking about a "fern" whiskey barrel
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@roninwc said in Whisky / Whiskey:
A little Xmas present for myself, to be enjoyed after Xmas dinner.
Really gotten into Islay whiskies over the past year, especially those with a good whack of peat so I wanted to try this one from Caol Ila
Had a whisky tasting evening. One of the lads brought the 15 year caol ila unpeated, it went down a treat with everyone.
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got a bottle of this from TR Jnr for Xmas, now I'm not normally a fan of the Islay whiskys, while this has a very smokey aroma, it was surprisingly smooth to drink, MRs TR got me a Glenlivet 12 yr (might crack tonight)
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Reviving this topic again as it keeps getting no love.
As per the Beer thread, recently had my best mate from Melbourne stay with us.
Drank heaps of beers but we are both massive peat-heads so this was our whisky (and whiskey) lineup for his stay.
And yes, that is my second bottle of the Coal Ila which is absolutely crazy good. My second favourite whisky only behind the Ardbeg Ardbog.
The two Octomore's 10.3 and 11.3 are also brilliant but without quite the same finesse that the Coal Ila has.
Also, if anyone is looking for a great but reasonably priced Rye Whiskey, I could not recommend the Willett enough. A smashingly good Rye Whiskey which surprised us both.
And Seaweed & Aeons & Digging & Fire & Cask Strength is just nuts, very full on in your face smoke, peat, iodine flavours, an absolute flavour bomb and loved it as well.
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@taniwharugby said in Whisky / Whiskey:
got a bottle of this from TR Jnr for Xmas, now I'm not normally a fan of the Islay whiskys, while this has a very smokey aroma, it was surprisingly smooth to drink, MRs TR got me a Glenlivet 12 yr (might crack tonight)
Ahh... Smokehead.
I did a New Year's Eve/Hogmanay in Scotland a few years back... one day, while others went skiing, a couple of us drove around a few distilleries, and the Whisky Shop in Dufftown - stocked up with quite a lot of delicious delicious scotch for a few nights.
The first night - we ended up drinking a metric fuck-ton of whiskey, and rating each on ever more ridiculous criteria. Started off with taste, packaging, etc... then got down the best "glug-glug" sound when pouring from the bottle, etc.
Smokehead was one of my purchases - and my vote for best-tasting, but it lost out in the popular vote (to some pansy "floral" weak-as-piss bullshit from Dalwhinnie, if I remember correctly. Not that I'm still bitter or anything.)Ever since - I always kept an eye out for it - and never saw it again... for at least 5 years. Until a couple of years ago... I spotted it on tucked away on the bottom shelf of a Rotorua Liquorland. Stoked - I grabbed it up.
Since then - I've seen it in many NZ liquor stores - and have a bottle with me right now.At the time of my initial purchase in Dufftown - I was told they were pretty much a bottle-it-brand-it outfit. They'd go to one of the Islay distillers, taste some of their casks - and buy up one or more entire casks - to go away and bottle it under their own brand. With some rumours about who they'd bought from each year. But I see in that packaging - it actually lists "Ian MacLeod Distillers" - so maybe that's changed? Or was bullshit?
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@Kiwiwomble said in Whisky / Whiskey:
@smudge that would work, would have been happy with 2-4 bottles each
....now thinking about a "fern" whiskey barrel
Update on this. We've paid for the barrel and have the filling ceremony in June.
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@Smudge said in Whisky / Whiskey:
@Kiwiwomble said in Whisky / Whiskey:
@smudge that would work, would have been happy with 2-4 bottles each
....now thinking about a "fern" whiskey barrel
Update on this. We've paid for the barrel and have the filling ceremony in June.
very jealous, well done
on a side note...got pretty drunk for the first time in a while back in NZ, this is very bloody drinkable, two of us knocked off a bottle
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@Smudge said in Whisky / Whiskey:
@Kiwiwomble said in Whisky / Whiskey:
@smudge that would work, would have been happy with 2-4 bottles each
....now thinking about a "fern" whiskey barrel
Update on this. We've paid for the barrel and have the filling ceremony in June.
Further update: filling ceremony was yesterday. Gorgeous day at Cardrona, with plenty of snow around, but with a clear blue sky above. They look after you very well - we were drinking Veuve Clicquot as we chatted and caught up with people, and had a quick rundown on the distillery's history. We then wandered through the distillery on a tour, before getting to the filling bit. As I was the one who corralled my mates into doing it, they decided I was the one who was filling the cask. Took about 2 minutes to fill the 230L barrel and luckily I wasn't one of the people who kept the tap on for too long and sprayed the fresh product everywhere, which has happened in the past apparently.
After that, we rolled the barrel out through to their storage hall, then went back into the main restaurant/bar where they take you to a separate room for a a rolling hour or so of food, some of their products (whisky, vodka, gin and liqueurs) and more wine. All up about 3 hours, and nice to have some pomp and ceremony above just buying into the cask.
Shit I feel average today.
