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I'd recommend maybe Knob Creek or Baker's/Booker's. Good bourbon flavor without being overly sweet. Some of the Old Forester's are pretty solid as well. Old Forester Rye for $20 bucks is a good buy.
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I'd recommend maybe Knob Creek or Baker's/Booker's. Good bourbon flavor without being overly sweet. Some of the Old Forester's are pretty solid as well. Old Forester Rye for $20 bucks is a good buy.
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As i've been dealing with the chinese coof over the last few days i've found sipping whiskey really soothes a sore throat and keeps my nose unblocked thanks to being gifted various scotches over christmas: talisker, jura, monkey shoulder, also jameson stout edition is nice
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Not really whisky or whiskey, but I'd like to advise everyone looking for something different to try clairin. Unaged agicole rum from Haitian microdistilleries, distilled from strictly local cane varieties. Such a wild fucking ride. As of 2021 there are five distilleries producing for export: Sajous, Vaval, Casimir, Le Rocher, and the newest, Sonson. There's also a blended Communal bottling, consisting of distillates from the older four distilleries.
Arran also released their updated bottlings of Machrie Moor now in their new squat bottles, and they're bloody good. While pineapple dropped out of the flavour profile the original concept still works: great balance between delicious fruits, slight sweetness, and intense but not overwhelming peat. Crying shame it's nearly impossible to acquire along with most of their "cask
range" bottlings.
Arran also released their updated bottlings of Machrie Moor now in their new squat bottles, and they're bloody good. While pineapple dropped out of the flavour profile the original concept still works: great balance between delicious fruits, slight sweetness, and intense but not overwhelming peat. Crying shame it's nearly impossible to acquire along with most of their "cask
range" bottlings.
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My first go-round with coof I did much the same, only adding 1 tsp of local kudzu honey, and that was tits. I also tried it with pure manuka honey in white whiskey, but that was a bit..... wild.
In any case, I definitely felt a little more alive.
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I really liked Baker's. A friend hooked me up with a bottle a few years back, but I haven't bought any more because of all stupid reasons it felt like drinking bourbon out of a wine bottle, which feels as wrong as drinking a stein of milk.
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Is there anything similar from Dominica? I wouldn't trust rum made with Haitian water, even triple distilled.
Speaking of squat bottles, I found this recently; a '92 Bruichladdich unpeated single-malt, 700ml "Black Arts Edition"
The edgy label & sticker price was pretty lulzy, at $1k per. I wonder how much of that price is in the packaging, because I'd still love to try something similar.
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I don't think so. I've had agricole before but clairin isn't even that - there's herbal, there's the tropical fruitbowl, yes, but there's also briny olives, salt, vegetable soup, and a wide range of industrial smells and flavours that are completely out of place in a rum. Besides Dominican rum is a completely different style as it's made of molasses while agricole is made of raw cane juice.
These clairins are imported by La Maison&Velier, a joint between French spirit giant La Maison du Whisky and Italian spirit importer/distributor Velier so it's not like you're getting the worst kind of rot gut. Haiti is said to have over 500 micro-distilleries and only five of those produce bottles for export.
Based solely on their diagrams the 2011 Islay Barley might be somewhat similar.
There's an enormous difference in aging, though: the '92 Black Arts was aged for 24 years while the Islay Barley series are usually aged for 6-7 years. I've had a bottle of the 2010 release and it was damn good.
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If it's made with raw cane juice then a cachaça is probably the same, it's not a true "rum" because rum has to be distilled from molasses.
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It's rum (or properly, rhum) agricole, the French West Indies/Indian Ocean style. https://www.rhum-agricole.net/site/en/index.php?id=generic
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Only Haitan rum we get in my area is Barbancourt. You can find Rhum J.M. is you want and agricole though. I prefer Jamacian rums for sipping usually, and Appleton’s older expressions are easy to source without going completely over the top with phenol content. You’ve had Smith and Cross before as a good example from them that’s more over the top.
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Honestly, that square Single Barrel bottle is my favorite of the bunch.
Well, that would be because Bookers/Bakers uses wine/cognac bottles for their bourbon.
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I live in bourbon country. I fuckin love whiskey. I buy it year-round and drink it in the winter. I keep about 2 grand worth of bottles in my cabinet at any given time.
Bookers is an absolutely fantastic value, even though it's somewhat pricey. It's my favorite whiskey for under $500 per bottle.
My absolute favorite whiskey is George T Stagg, but it's nearly impossible to get a bottle at MSRP. You can get it at bars but it's usually $100+ per shot. No whiskey is worth that. I've only had two bottles ever, one fell of the back of a truck and the other was gifted to me at MSRP by my local store. I hear of it going for over $2000 which is insane.
My favorite daily driver is Knobb Creek Single Barrel.
My favorite scotch is Lagavulin 16. My second favorite is Laphroaig.
My favorite rye whiskey is Wild Turkey Rye, which is also a fantastic value at ~$20 a bottle.
Bookers is an absolutely fantastic value, even though it's somewhat pricey. It's my favorite whiskey for under $500 per bottle.
My absolute favorite whiskey is George T Stagg, but it's nearly impossible to get a bottle at MSRP. You can get it at bars but it's usually $100+ per shot. No whiskey is worth that. I've only had two bottles ever, one fell of the back of a truck and the other was gifted to me at MSRP by my local store. I hear of it going for over $2000 which is insane.
My favorite daily driver is Knobb Creek Single Barrel.
My favorite scotch is Lagavulin 16. My second favorite is Laphroaig.
My favorite rye whiskey is Wild Turkey Rye, which is also a fantastic value at ~$20 a bottle.
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If "secondary pricing" counts, I have about 10k worth of bottles on my shelf. I didn't pay that much, I just happened to get good stuff years ago that remains closed until celebration. What I bought at $120 bucks five years ago is now worth $1000 bucks due to redneck shitheads hoarding everything up.
Bulk of my "expensive stash" is made up of a handful of years of George T Stagg and Sazerac 18 year.
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I read an article in Whiskey Advocate that was an interview with a scalper. He came off as such a prick. "It's not MY fault whiskey is so expensive, I'm just one guy!!!"
Right. Then why are you running your operation like a drug dealer and insisting on anonymity? It is definitely your fault that a $30 MSRP bottle of Weller is unobtainable on the primary market and costs $200 on the secondary.
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I don't mind scalpers at all. It's a free market. My biggest complaint is most of them are on Facebook, and thus invisible to me.
Also Weller is probably the most overrated whiskey I have ever had. It's barely worth $30.
Also Weller is probably the most overrated whiskey I have ever had. It's barely worth $30.
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I've purchased two different whiskies after having read about them in books. The first was Early Times, after reading in Suttree about the characters sharing some. It was a horrifying experience, and I don't recommend it to anyone. I drank it anyway. The second was Wild Turkey after James Incandenza from Infinite Jest, who is an alcoholic, is described as drinking it more than any other alcohol. I actually like Wild Turkey and I've been working through a bottle of their 101 proof bourbon. I just shoot whisky though, I can't afford anything good enough to sip on.
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101 is great, Russell's Reserve (which is Wild Turkey) is even better, especially the Single Cask releases, even more so when they're store picks. Those range around $50 - $70.
101 is a perfectly fine, well priced "good enough to sip on" whiskey. I do it myself and I'm a stuck up snob.
101 is a perfectly fine, well priced "good enough to sip on" whiskey. I do it myself and I'm a stuck up snob.
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I recently tried Wild Turkey 101. I really did not like it at all. I like a whiskey with a clean bite and the 101 had a bunch of bitter tannins mucking up the flavor.
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This. This is absolutely fantastic. The best Knob Creek I have ever had, including a weird 12-year I got as a gift that had the 9-year label on it and the 12-year age statement stickered on.
Currently drinking:
This. This is absolutely fantastic. The best Knob Creek I have ever had, including a weird 12-year I got as a gift that had the 9-year label on it and the 12-year age statement stickered on.
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You sure about tannins? Knob Creek 12 year is fairly well known to be oaked and tannic. :-P