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ok, I screwed up. i bought two bottles and in a weak moment gave one away. it's not that i'm a nice guy, but it was a woman type person and i've got this mental defect about women and saying no. i never DID learn that trick. THAT might explain my extensive track record, and intermittent...

So I stumbled and missed on the Scotch buy and felt all jealous. :) Being as my single malt supply exceeds my daily taste for it, and my bourbon excursions were mostly not thrilling.. I'd *nearly* decided to go to Bushmills Sherry Cask, for next up to bat.. , but couldn't find a clue as to...

Well.. Bushmills Sherry Casked 107 proof.. 14 years old.. or the new 17 year Balvenie Sherry Casked... and i had to PICK. oh snap. ;) ok, i'm a balvenie guy but i'm CURIOUS.. so I got all the reviews I could locate on the Bushmills... i'm STILL curious.. Balvenie first. Nearly as I can...

So I've just finished the Daniel Bouju 15 (60% ABV) and opened the 40 year old (50% ABV) and it's as close as a head to head as I can manage. First off, my consumption is measured in CC's per week, and it's a single digit. This stuff is liquid gold, heavenly nectar, yer hottest girlfriends...

i'm not much of a cigar guy, (ouch!) and mostly smoke the little ones outdoors.. (married, you see.. ) .. so booze and cigars aren't my likely combination. that may explain why the sweeter spirits and i get along so well. i'm more likely to have chocolate with spirits than a smoke...

Buy it. Don't wait around to read this thing, time's a wasting! Glenrothes 1992 is a sweetish, but not very, sherried, but not hugely, oldish, but not THAT old.. fine made, well presented, good value, and better'n ya'd think. Buy some, buy extra, buy your relatives and girlfriends some, my...

The concepts of 'cheap' and 'Scotch Whisky' aren't often found in the same bottle.. and if they ARE, you're mostly advised to avoid it, for the sake of your tongue, liver, and head.. But there are exceptions. A few. A bit ago, I tested (and tested, and Tested) some JW Gold, quite a nice...

Is it a particular recipe, or just a way to market blended beer? I'm ignorant.. :blush:

buy a bottle of daniel bouju brut de fut royal.. you was told. I didn't keep it a secret. I'm honest. It's the best booze i tasted in my life, and i'm going to be 52 in september. it's 65$ per bottle, delivered, in two bottle increments. buy two. at least. don't blame ME when you're wishing...

I guess sometimes you shouldn't start close to the top. It can distort your appreciation of good.. If you learned on a Martin D18 guitar, you probably can't easily appreciate a Yamaha.. and if you started with a harley, a Vespa isn't even CUTE.. So, I may have ruined myself with this...

Everybody has favorite tastes. Some whisky isn't fit to drink by most standards, except.. a few people LOVE the stuff.. and it doesn't matter which one YOU like, somebody someplace hates it. But tastes fall into categories. If you like SOME things, you'll probably like others.. I'm a...

I've been collecting booze for about 6 months, just barely a novice. I don't know what I'm doing, most of the time, and struggle to sort recommendations for quality and relevance.. So, I make mistakes, and wind up with things that'd suit others MUCH more than myself.. AND, I have lucky (Or...

This is an odd duck, stronger flavored than I'd expected, and not the most professionally made of all booze I've tasted.. there's a hard whiff of wood alcohol on the nose, and it has a faint scorched taste that indicates they cooked it a bit fast.. both of those bespeak commercial 'hurrying'...

Ports, Sherries, Ice Wines, Fruit Liqueurs, Eue De' Vies, LOTS of stuff is sweet, and goes well to finish a gourmet meal, either with dessert, or AS dessert.. and I like 'em, and am throughly ignorant, and it's for guests and rare occasions and i'm a tightwad with gourmet tastes and a darn...

debt.. is a REAL PROBLEM.. cause there's always something just out of reach, unless you're warren buffet or bill gates.. and even if you Are, there's still things there's only ONE of.. and you ain't got it.. The sky is the limit, but the banker and often the spouse are a little more down...

and of course you can't pass up a bottle on sale. I mean, not a Good one.. :) Sazerac Rye, 18 years old.. distilled spring 1983, bottled fall 2001, 90 proof, product of Kentucky.. 35.99 I don't even want to Drink it, I just want to sit and admire it a while.. :laugh: no, there wasn't...

Because, it's not a SINGLE malt, so I can call it a practice swing.. :blush: Johnny Walker Gold.. a new one on me. In my quest for richer and tastier booze, I've skipped over the premium blends while chasing the more unusual flavors.. so when I was offered a trade, I couldn't pass up the...

hard to swallow..:) I did a little shuffling of my stock, moved out two of the extras, and of course had to fill the holes. Dalwhinnie 90, FINALLY I found a bottle.. and Johnny Walker Gold, jes' cause I'd never tasted it. I'm going to test it for bottle rot now.. :) first impression: if...

Anybody following me around has heard me cuss at Glenfarclas 105, the only kind of Glenfarclas I tried, and i tried it twice. It bothered me cause it had a metallic aftertaste, a varnishy, linseed oily, palate, like licking a turpentined paintbrush or something.. now, that may not be...

Seems like there's a huge gap between the 'standard fare' which is young, good value, and findable.. mostly.. and the top shelf rye at more generally 50-100$ range.. Not much in the 10-12 year old, 100 proof range at all.. Which'd be about the sweet spot for a full grown rye. There's not a lot...