Whisky / Whiskey / Bourbon

Yes, I reckon very much so. Usually try to get a litre of it every time I fly.

I don't mind Glenfiddich 12.

I don't mind monkey shoulder.

Monkey Shoulder is a decent blend.

See. We can all get along.

I've pretty much done that Evan Williams Single Barrel 2004

Bloody lush!

so basically monkey shoulder and glenfiddich are only suitable as charlie throat cleansers

getting along fine

I've been making my whisky and coke all wrong it seems.

People adding stuff to makers can

I only said that about Glenfiddich 12.

@stevo_com unfortunately I couldn't be arsed cycling to Sainsburys so opted for Laphroaig Quarter Cask instead (currently £25 at Asda).

mrs_com bought me a litre of that on the way back from Canada once. Definitely needs water, will last for ages.

Makers and coke is my goto when I'm not drinking beer or rum or vodka or cider or cocktails or wine or...

Firefly Apple Pie moonshine.

Really is like boozy apple pie. Full of win!

Moonshine comes in sauce jars, is purchased at petrol station, and the label is done in sharpie. Fruit flavour moonshine is squeezings.

I picked up some new whisky at the weekend. Many, many years ago some friends and I bought a cask of Bruichladdich, with me buying a 1/16 share. Recently, after just under 13 years maturation in a new sherry cask, we had it bottled. It's cask strenth (65% ABV), bloody good, and I've got 19 bottles of it. Well, 18 because I've given one to a friend. Still bloody good though.

Nice. We should do source a cask for this thread.

If you don't mind my asking - was it originally £££? Not sure what they sell casks for these days.

In for a cask share.

We sound have done this in 2007.

It was a long time ago, but I think it was about £150 for a 1/16 share, so about £2.5k for the cask. Overall, including duty and bottling it came to about £30 a bottle, excluding any allowance for interest on the original payment. Given that Buichladdich micro-provenance bottles usually go for £80-90+, I reckon that's pretty good. And it is very very good stuff.

The chap who organised it is trying to organise another but apparently it's proving hard. It seems that given the demand for whisky these days the distilleries don't need the forward receipt of funds which selling casks gives them.

True, I know Glengoyne stopped this a year or so ago.

Great idea - I would totally be in for this on the normal forum proviso (someone else actually doing the legwork).

Bought (opened, made serious dent in) a bottle of Lagavulin 16 yesterday - really should be drinking that stuff much more often.

@danstuff - cheers. Enjoy drinking something truly rare.

@kl & @mashton - I'll make an effort to go and ask the next time I'm at SWC. I'm sure they'll know. I suspect that most that will sell are mostly selling to independent bottlers as opposed to groups looking for a single cask.

Raising my hand in serious interest of going in on shares of a cask!

Hand firmly raised also

That's 5 of us for 1/16th so far. I would imagine we could get a few more.

All we have to do is agree on a distillery........

#fuckpeat