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Yeah; the Double Black is very good drinking, too good TBH, slips down too easily haha :)

I caved in and opened the Tar Very Much; couldn't help myself. It's a stunning drop...

Going to order a decent bottle for our family week away later on in June, my Dad's not a fan of peated whisky, so my brother and I will buy a decent 25 year old sherry/port cask malt; that'll shut him up :D

Bunnahabhain 18yr would do the trick, unpeated but lovely sherry notes.

The Caol Ila 18yr is superb, very much a grown up Islay malt, a lot more complex and smooth than the light and sharp 12yr.
 
Bunnahabhain 18yr would do the trick, unpeated but lovely sherry notes.

The Caol Ila 18yr is superb, very much a grown up Islay malt, a lot more complex and smooth than the light and sharp 12yr.

Already had he Bunna 18 and yes, very good drop. But going to go for something different, maybe the Balvenie Portwood or similar
 
I have not met anyone who likes both whisky and bourbon equally, usually a drinker of one and not the other.
A little like vodka and gin, tends to be polarised but I have met the rare exception for this one.


Given you've never met me, I like both Whisky and Bourbon, and of all the whisky drinkers I know, all of them like a shot of bourbon. I have about 15 bottles of malt whiskey and about 6 bottles of bourbon. I also like Gin and Vodka equally (I have about 80 bottles of Gin and 10 bottles of Vodka).

People I know who run bars, and whom I have done some work with WRT cocktails over the years, say that gin based cocktails are on trend at the moment, and predominate some menus, but vodka based cocktails are equally popular.
 
He said "Like equally" and I think he's right. I like drinking whisky, my favourites are Highlands and Islands based. I do drink Bourbon on occasion, it's nice enough but I don't like it *as much* as a decent malt. Horses for courses, Jim Beam makes a great Old Fashioned and I'm sure it's fine with ginger ale if that's your thing. JD and Coke is a classic with good reason. I'd never put Highland Park, Oban or Lagavulin in Coke.
 
He said "Like equally" and I think he's right. I like drinking whisky, my favourites are Highlands and Islands based. I do drink Bourbon on occasion, it's nice enough but I don't like it *as much* as a decent malt. Horses for courses, Jim Beam makes a great Old Fashioned and I'm sure it's fine with ginger ale if that's your thing. JD and Coke is a classic with good reason. I'd never put Highland Park, Oban or Lagavulin in Coke.

yes I know and I do like them equally.

Mind you, much as I try I really dont like Rum very much. Dont mind a nice whisky aged in a rum cask mind you.
 
Interesting.
Although I will say once mixed all bets are off.
Gin has indeed made a big come back and vodka is fashionable.

Oh, and just to be argumentative, 15 vs 6 and 80 vs 10 doesn't sound exactly equal to me :p
 
yes I know and I do like them equally.

Mind you, much as I try I really dont like Rum very much. Dont mind a nice whisky aged in a rum cask mind you.

Same; just cannot get into it. Too sweet for me; but agree. As I said in my post above, the Balvenie Caribbean Cask is a lovely drop ;)
 
Liked rum in my late teens, straight and mixed. Very rarely drink it now, if I do it's mixed. I agree with the too sweet statement. If going sweet go all the way with Barcelo Cream, rums answer to Baileys and much nicer.
I'm collecting some whisky names from this thread and will see if I can get any locally...
 
Rum gives me the most vicious hangover imaginable. Then some. I've been to a few parties in France where it is the tipple of choice, you stumble off to bed sometime around dawn and wake up mid morning to a head that's lifting off and won't let you sleep under any circumstances. It's hellish.
 
He said "Like equally" and I think he's right. I like drinking whisky, my favourites are Highlands and Islands based. I do drink Bourbon on occasion, it's nice enough but I don't like it *as much* as a decent malt. Horses for courses, Jim Beam makes a great Old Fashioned and I'm sure it's fine with ginger ale if that's your thing. JD and Coke is a classic with good reason. I'd never put Highland Park, Oban or Lagavulin in Coke.

I would say I do like other whiskys/whiskeys including some Bourbons and other American whiskies as much as Malts (Scotch and otherwise) given they are of equivalent quality. Some other properly aged spirits can be very good too, most young brandy and all young rum is bloody awful, but I have had some superb ones that have been between 12 and 30 years old!

In the UK market pricing and availability is massively on single malt Scotch's side. A good 12YO single malt Scotch from one of the big boys can be had for £25 or so in a supermarket, but getting a good 12YO Bourbon requires going to a specialist retailer and shelling out £80 or so...and £25 gets you less than a fifth of a Bourbon you can buy a half gallon handle of for the same price in NC and is exactly as good as you'd expect something sold in 1.75l plastic bottles to be! In the US market things are much more equal once you get to the top shelf product, Bruichladdich Laddie is about the same price in NC ABCs as it is at the distillery give or take exchange rate fluctuations!

But anyway, I actually stuck my head in to say I've bought a set of these
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I'm telling myself it's an investment as they are likely to appreciate, we'll see! :D
 
I went to the local Asda earlier, which has been in a right mess after a refurbishment that has so far moved everything bar the isle labelling, so everything is now in exactly the wrong place, all but unfindable and if you eventually manage to often annoyingly close to its sell by date. Anyway, to my considerable surprise on the whisky isle, which has actually only moved about 6’ to the left, they now seem to be stocking Scapa Skiren at a very reasonable £30. Never seen it there at all before, and that’s cheaper than Amazon’s usual price.
 
The Glenallachie has gone down very well; so much so that there's only about 35-40% of it left.
So I've been following Ralphy's advice and bought a couple of standard bottles for the cabinet: Glenfiddoch and Glenmorangie at 25 quid each. The latter has been more immediately appealing.
 
I thought I wasn't a bourbon fan as I equated it with the likes of Jim Beam, Jack Daniels and Early Times. Not really my thing.

Since I'm living in the states at the moment I thought I'd give a different bottle a try. The local bottle store had around 100 bourbons, Jim and Jack being near the bottom at $20/bottle. Top shelf was around $55-70.

Not having a clue, I asked the guy in the store for recommendations and walked out with a bottle of Eagle Rare 10yo for $30. A little too much oak for my liking but it's a smooth and tasty drop. I'll definitely be trying a few more.

I had a bit of a revelation with tequila last time I was staying over here when a colleague was gifted a $100 bottle for his 50th. One of the nicest spirits I've ever had, nothing like Jose Cuervo at all.
 
I thought I wasn't a bourbon fan as I equated it with the likes of Jim Beam, Jack Daniels and Early Times. Not really my thing.

I highly recommend Woodford Reserve as an excellent bourbon many many levels above JD and JB etc. Should not be too spendy either, very light smoke.
 
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