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03-29-2020, 04:57 PM #151
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03-30-2020, 02:34 PM #156Registered User
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Molly's Irish Cream is a really great option to the other overpriced, most popular one.
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03-30-2020, 05:19 PM #157
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04-11-2020, 11:24 AM #158
is this the stuff y'all are recommending? My bourbon is almost out, I am mostly a mixer anyway so high quality stuff ain't necessary.
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04-11-2020, 11:28 AM #159
^I ponied up for a bottle of the white label vs. my usual green label for mixers this week. Can confirm that its decent for the price. Stronger than green or black label too so there's that.
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04-11-2020, 01:52 PM #160User
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04-11-2020, 02:43 PM #161
Rittenhouse for the win -- No Rye at that price point comes close, and it the equal of ryes 2 to 3 times its price
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04-11-2020, 05:40 PM #162User
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04-11-2020, 05:43 PM #163
^ I honestly think I prefer the bonded old overcoat
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04-11-2020, 05:44 PM #164
I was starting to worry that I’ll get low on WT101 for cocktails over the next week or 2, but remembered that I have a Four Roses Small Batch and an IW Harper that I was gifted last year. Just as well drain those first.
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04-11-2020, 06:03 PM #165
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06-26-2020, 03:34 AM #166
After all the recs around here for Talisker Storm, I finally got around to ponying up for a bottle to celebrate my first paycheck in ages (woohoo!).
Anyway, perhaps it's because I'm a total Scotch novice, but good golly this stuff if HEAVY on the smokey peat. Was almost like drinking a cigar. I kinda liked it, but also kind of have mixed feelings. Perhaps it's an acquired taste. Will definitely enjoy the rest of the bottle but going to take me longer to finish than my usual bourbon, that's for certain.
Maybe I just need to experience Scotch more. Sometimes I get a hankering, but the price usually keeps me from getting into it. Too expensive to explore as opposed to bourbons, rums, etc.
Did I just go full K12 (Better off Dead ref) when I should have started out on the Scotch bunny slope?
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06-26-2020, 06:11 AM #167
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06-26-2020, 08:54 AM #168
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06-26-2020, 09:05 AM #169
don't listen to this malarkey, just man up and embrace the peat. speysides are for people who like to talk about their feelings and parse the nuance between "plum" and "peach" flavors. try mixing with that bottle of storm - like make an oldfashioned, but use the storm instead of whatever bourbon.
if you want a real peat monster for cheap, check out "Old Finlaggan" at Trader Joe's. It's like $20. and a serious, serious peat bomb - a lot of scotch experts think that it's a whitelabeled Laguvulin 6 or a young Laphroaig. makes the storm seem like a tempest in a teacup compared to the raging north atlantic.
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06-26-2020, 09:08 AM #170
i mean yeah but it's also unrealistic to compare storm to the nicer taliskers. it's $30 or whatever. for $30, it's great. is it as complex as talisker18? jesus no. is it as fruity as talisker distillers? does the pope shit in the woods?
compared to other widely available $30 speciality scotches, it's a decent value. monkey shoulder or the aforementioned old finlaggan are the only ones that comes close IMO, and they're both very different (monkey is less peaty, while old finalaggan is significantly more peaty). you could have a decent spread of scotch with those three bottles on your bar.
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06-26-2020, 09:19 AM #171
Agreed. I wanted to like Storm more though. For 30 bucks, I'd still rather drink something smokey/woody and American.
In other news, I picked up some Balvenie double wood on sale. Bowls right down the middle. Great value at whatever I paid for it, maybe 40 -50?
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06-26-2020, 09:24 AM #172
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06-26-2020, 10:04 AM #173guy who skis
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I like the double wood. After the recommendations around here for Monkey Shoulder I picked up a bottle. Didn't knock my socks off. I'd swap it for a bottle of Storm in a heartbeat.
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06-26-2020, 10:13 AM #174
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06-26-2020, 11:01 AM #175
Talisker is more like briny peat than smoky peat like Ardbeg or laphaoig to me. I do agree with others that Talisker is not a scotch I'd recommend for a scotch novice. It is my favorite distillery, but for a novice I'd recommend something like Aberfeldy 12, Glenfiddich 12 or 14, or even Glenmorange 10 as these are fairly friendly. I'm not the biggest fan of Glenlivet 12 as I find it boring, but it is another easy drinking scotch. If you want to ease you way into peat then Highland Park 12 or Oban Little Bay or 14 are good starting points, but it certainly would call these inexpensive.
I've recommended scotch that is sherry cask aged or finished for bourbon lovers as these whiskys seem to be closer to the sweeter notes of bourbon.
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