Whisky / Whiskey / Bourbon

haha. Islay-t you off with that one.

Benromach, Lagavulin 16 and Redbreast 12 it is. 😊🥃

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Litre bottles of Jim Beam are £16 in Asda.
Not a patch on Woodford Reserve, but for experimenting with cocktails seems a better choice.

Good selection to have! Hope you like the Benromach, lovely balance of sherry, sweet and smoke.

Good choice! Hope you enjoy the Redbreast

Aberlour 12 is on offer at Amazon £25 a bottle. Which is a bargain for a decent 12 year speyside. One of my favourite affordable whiskys and probably one of the best you can get for that money.

Agreed! That's a bargain.

And Asda, or was last week.

Lovely stuff.

Made a few purchases after the Bristol whisky festival. Cask strength springbank is a bit nuts but I love it.

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Not to be left out, I opened a bottle of Lagavulin 16 last weekend. Haven’t tried it for years and years, and... I’m underwhelmed

My memory is the Lagavulin 16 is a huge rich peaty substance, but this stuff is middling - it’s tastes ok, but nothing more. Peatiness not greatly different than springbank, and much less than kilchoan machir bay.

Odd bottle? Am I just used to peaty whisky in a way I wasn’t years ago? Or have the mellowed to a MOR type drink?

I've got a rather old bottle of something I'm not going to drink. Any reason not to flog it off a the Whisky Exchange? Or is there another reputable resller of which I might not be aware?

A bit low-brow but the new-ish Jack Daniel's Rye is knocking around for £25, good intro rye imo and has enough dry spice to make a killer Old Fashioned

You will get better money at an auction site. I used whiskyauctioneer and if you look back a few pages someone used one recently too (may have been same one).

Bulleit Rye is THE intro rye!

Yeah, thanks, I had a look at the whiskeyauctioneer site and the trade-offs are that it requires more effort and it takes longer to get paid. It's not a whiskey I'm selling either, so I'm worried it wouldn't generate enough interest.

There seems to be one or two shops selling what I've got for around £800-900, so I'm expecting a valuation in the 450-500 range.

What is it?

Brandy, 1930s

Bad news for Japanese whisky fans

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/16/whisky-lovers-may-hit-the-rocks-as-japanese-producer-suntory-runs-dry

Aldi has been getting medals again for their own brand whisky.

https://inews.co.uk/news/consumer/aldi-whisky-13-pounds-international-spirits-challenge-2018/

Just checked to see the value of a Hakushu 12 year and Hibiki 17 - unfortunately I opened a new 12 year a while ago but have an unopened 17

Enjoying this in fact it's bloody lovely.

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What is it?

So is anyone stocking up on bourbon before this batch runs out and the new eu tariffs kick in?
I’m thinking about getting some of that cheapish Bulleit bourbon in Sainsbury’s..

It goes from bad to worse 😢

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Just bought the Highland Black 8. We shall see.

Stranahans is a curious fish - it’s single malt-ish with very bourbon overtones. I think it’s an attempt to bridge the two, and in that attempt it succeeds wholeheartedly- it’s just not really a combination most people want most of the time. In a dive bar in D.C. at 2 in the morning, I’m kinda enjoying it. But also I think the staff are going to throw me out if I have one more because they don’t believe English people can stand up after a few whiskies...

(If Stranahans is old hat to you, forgive me as I haven’t been in this thread for months)