Whisky / Whiskey / Bourbon

Rittenhouse 100% Proof BIB Rye is current favourite - been enjoying revisiting bourbons and ryes...

Grabbed a bottle of this today, its on offer at Gerry's on Old Compton Street if anyone else is interested!

I've been meaning to try it for a while

Just out of interest what do people do with their old bottles? Seems a shame to chuck em?

Currently tucking into a Speyside from the own label range Sainsbury's have on special currently. Perfectly acceptable breakfast whisky at a bargain price.

Grabbed a bottle of this today, its on offer at Gerry's on Old Compton Street if anyone else is interested!

I've been meaning to try it for a while

it's pretty much my fav bourbon. along with buffalo trace.

got a nice bottle of glenlivet 12 year old on the go, lovely.

as for bottles, some i keep, but am limited for space unfortunately so usually end up throwing em in the recycling.

I really do this, I'm happy to say. I always have a good bottle - the actual bottle - with a cheap blend in. Caters for people who I know can't taste the difference to save their lives, are too pissed up to waste good stuff on, or whom I don't like enough to waste the really good stuff on.

Jack Nicholson used to do the same with Cocaine - if he gave a visitor a cheaper cut, and they raved about it, then that's what they always got - he kept the special stuff for his inner circle.

Actually that's a bit different isn't it?

Jack Nicholson used to do the same with Cocaine - if he gave a visitor a cheaper cut, and they raved about it, then that's what they always got - he kept the special stuff for his inner circle.

Actually that's a bit different isn't it?

Well, it's certainly more powdery I guess. But I got onto it one evening when I had two mates around, one with a pallet, one without. I was low on decent malt, but OK for Grant's or whatever. Distributed appropriately. Then heard Grants man saying to pallet man; "I dunno what shit he's palmed you off with, but this is fookin' magic". Just before he punted it all over the carpet with this stupid fat foot. Lesson learned, I thought...

Works great for gin too. Make a cheapie using "bluff" bottle, rub a nip of Bombay/Tankie/Hendrick's etc around the rim before serving, and hey presto!

A palate is about the first sense to abandon you when intoxicated, hence doner kebabs. Giving a drunk person an unexpected blind taste challenge isn't really exposing their philistinism. Think about how much you actually need to concentrate when trying to identify the difference between, say, coke and pepsi and you'll understand why even professional tasters can be 'found out' when they're off guard.

Hmmm. Alcohol promotes hunger, hence donnas, n'est pas?

Fair point, coke/pepsi, one thing. Happy Piper/25 year old single malt = another. Anyway, fact is, whatever the reason, it's a waste of good grain. And I did know all about their philistinism; their usual is a JD & Coke. Need I go on?

ha! fair do. I tend to cast dispersions on folk who take their hooch sweet and sickly myself.

ha! fair do. I tend to cast dispersions on folk who take their hooch sweet and sickly myself.

Nowt bad about that. Given the weather, there are few things I like more than a good mac for elevensies. One of the benefits of working for one's self...

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Hmmm. Alcohol promotes hunger, hence donnas, n'est pas?

It's the hops that make you hunger for grease.

Just out of interest what do people do with their old bottles? Seems a shame to chuck em?

put em out for recycling... I've got a one in one out policy at the moment as it is. I've got not idea what to do with empties expect make my house look like a student digs

A very good friend just had a kid and I thought a bottle of whiskey would set the nipper on the right tracks from the start. Is there anything that I can buy now and that can be stored for 15-18 years (or however long til he steals it / are allowed to drink it)?

Once bottled, whisky stops maturing, so it should taste the same in years to come.

I have heard that once the bottle is opened, the whisky starts to go off, but apparently this takes about a year and I've never had a bottle on the go long enough to test the theory.

so any decent bottle as long as it's kept un-opened then?

Or you could see about buying a share in a barrel that's just been laid down to mature?

oooh, good thinking there

Disclaimer: Could be pricey. Depends how much you like the parents...

screw the parents, i'm trying to sort the kid out in case they don't

no not really, he's a great friend. perhaps not silly-expensive-present-great though. but then, who is

Plus, it'd be rude of the kid not to share with Uncle kboy.
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I bought myself a bottle of that in Taipei a nice 17yr and promptly drank it all. Cracking stuff. I went to look for it over here and it's £60..eek