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nurikabe posted:Is the best bet for an intensely peaty scotch still Ardbeg 10 or Laphroaig 10? Or Laph Quarter Cask, which is sometimes less expensive than 10
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Mao Zedong Thot posted:Laphroaig is slightly smokier. Ardbeg is slightly better. they're both insanely good drams. And I'll take the sweetness of young Laphroaig over young Ardbeg any day.
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Dec 28, 2019 00:36
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nurikabe posted:Is the best bet for an intensely peaty scotch still Ardbeg 10 or Laphroaig 10? Port Charlotte from Bruichladdich is also a good option, maybe $10-15 more per bottle.
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Dec 28, 2019 00:42
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Or if you are looking for maybe a more briny peat: Ledaig 10 or Talisker 10. Not as much the peat monsters that Laphroaig and Ardbeg can be, but for non-Isaly peat they're two of my favs.
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Dec 28, 2019 01:18
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My wife got me some suntory “torys extra” for Christmas. It’s absolutely dogshit and the picture on the side seems to show it being mixed with soda. What can I do with it to make it more appealing!? The soda does nothing.
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Dec 28, 2019 02:08
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I can’t find a decent supply of EH Taylor aside from the small batch and single barrel. Are the rest of the line up supposedly hard to get?
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Dec 28, 2019 03:33
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Got a bottle of Mellow Corn for Christmas. gently caress the police.
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Dec 28, 2019 03:38
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Okay I got a bottle of Octomore 7.3 and I love it so much.
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Dec 28, 2019 03:50
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Anyone know of a site to get samples shipped to Florida? Total wine only carries a scant selection of samples. I've had Abelour A'bunadh suggested to me multiple times by multiple people, but I'm not up for dropping $100 on a bottle (which is deep into "special occasion whisky" territory for me) I've never tried, and there aren't any good whisky joints around to order a glass.
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Dec 28, 2019 03:56
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Mao Zedong Thot posted:Okay I got a bottle of Octomore 7.3 and I love it so much. I have not tried too many Octomores, but the ones I did were not only drinkable, they were delicious and highly warming. It's hard to describe, but the smoke starts from the back of the mouth and rolls forward in waves.
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Dec 28, 2019 04:01
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TobinHatesYou posted:I have not tried too many Octomores, but the ones I did were not only drinkable, they were delicious and highly warming. It's hard to describe, but the smoke starts from the back of the mouth and rolls forward in waves. I had a flight of Octomores a few months ago and they were really all over the place. All good, but some were young and raw, some older and smoother. 7.3 is wild, it's 5yo, 63%(!!) but smooth and salty and heavy with vanilla (and a gently caress ton of peat).
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Dec 28, 2019 04:11
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Mao Zedong Thot posted:I had a flight of Octomores a few months ago and they were really all over the place. All good, but some were young and raw, some older and smoother. I love the high proof Caol Ila “Unpeated” releases. I ended buying a case of the 10yr 65.8% 2009 bottling. Not sure I’ve seen a single malt higher than that. It’s not subtle and it doesn’t “open up” with water.
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Dec 28, 2019 04:18
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Bape Culture posted:My wife got me some suntory “torys extra” for Christmas. It’s absolutely dogshit and the picture on the side seems to show it being mixed with soda. What can I do with it to make it more appealing!? The soda does nothing. Torys is Suntory’s retro budget label and as far as I know is Japan only, so yeah, it’s not good, you’re supposed to buy it at the convenience store and make highballs with it. In Japan that means soda, but with a little lemon juice too. Add a lot of ice, and you’re supposed to have like six of them and get smashed. I’d try doing that.
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Dec 28, 2019 04:29
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spankmeister posted:I always thought jura 10 is bottled before it's prime. The 15yo is much much better but it's very hard to find. I just had Talisker 10 at a bar and it was everything I wanted the Jura to be, with some extra smoke besides. I guess the moral of the story is I need to find an excuse to go to lots of whisky tastings since I'm not a frequent bar patron.
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Dec 28, 2019 04:34
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Bape Culture posted:My wife got me some suntory “torys extra” for Christmas. It’s absolutely dogshit and the picture on the side seems to show it being mixed with soda. What can I do with it to make it more appealing!? The soda does nothing. Being Suntory's official dogshit whisky, it's basically too far gone to be rescued (Tory's technically wasn't even a whisky before 1989). FWIW they have offered canned highballs using it with all sorts of different flavors over the years: ginger ale, coke, tonic, orange, mandarin, yuzu, sudachi, kiwi, guarana, plum, pineapple, ramune. So just try whatever fruits/carbonated mixers you can until you find something that helps you get past the dogshittiness. edit: I hope she didn't pay more than like  for the bottle. Given it's a "Japanese whisky," the dogshit ones that aren't well known outside of Japan are a scam just waiting to happen.
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Dec 28, 2019 05:29
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Anyone else tried Connemara? It’s a peated Irish Whiskey which is kind of weird. It has that brightness of 80 proof Irish whiskey but finishes like licking a piece of charcoal. It’s odd, I’m not sure I like it
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Dec 28, 2019 16:00
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Laphroaig 10 is what I imagine the rum ham tasted like after Danny Devito fished it out of the ocean
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Dec 28, 2019 16:06
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Odd Mutant posted:Laphroaig 10 is what I imagine the rum ham Is that good or bad
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Dec 28, 2019 16:08
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The Quarter Cask is way hammier. Tastes like someone immolated a pig.
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Dec 28, 2019 16:36
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Costco had Laphroaig 12 Cask Strength IB bottles for $50 a week or so before Christmas. Tastes like a salty hock of meat over a big open wood fire.
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Dec 28, 2019 21:46
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What are IB bottles?
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Dec 28, 2019 21:55
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Shrapnig posted:Anyone else tried Connemara? It’s a peated Irish Whiskey which is kind of weird. It has that brightness of 80 proof Irish whiskey but finishes like licking a piece of charcoal. It’s odd, I’m not sure I like it I haven't had it for a while, but I like both Irish whiskey and peat. Dammit, I'm going to have to see if the state store has any.
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Dec 28, 2019 21:58
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Enigma posted:What are IB bottles? Independent bottlers. Basically third parties who buy you casks from producers and bottle them under their own label. Alexander Murray, Gordon & MacPhail, Signatory, and Douglas Laing are some of the big ones. The Costco bottles looked like this: 
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Dec 28, 2019 22:06
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Sometimes you just have an itch for a 4th or even 5th fill hogshead single malt...
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Dec 28, 2019 23:03
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Vox Nihili posted:Independent bottlers. Basically third parties who buy you casks from producers and bottle them under their own label. Alexander Murray, Gordon & MacPhail, Signatory, and Douglas Laing are some of the big ones. The Costco bottles looked like this: Wow, that's awesome. I've never seen that before, and I can't even get Laph 10 for that price. Costco here doesn't carry anything but Glenfiddich and JW.
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Dec 28, 2019 23:07
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Vox Nihili posted:Costco had Laphroaig 12 Cask Strength IB bottles for $50 a week or so before Christmas. Tastes like a salty hock of meat over a big open wood fire. Is That Good Or Bad
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Dec 28, 2019 23:25
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ITGOB okay I'll go with this as the acronym. 
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Dec 28, 2019 23:27
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Considering you're talking about a type of Scotch that includes delicious modifiers like band aids, burnt tire, and bog, I'm gonna go with "good."
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Dec 28, 2019 23:33
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I'm trying to put together a raffle basket to donate for a nonprofit organization's raffle. My best bottles are all opened so among my unopened bottles I was thinking of putting together: Woodford Reserve Batch Proof 2019, Stagg Jr., Elijah Craig Barrel Proof C917 and a Knob Creek Single Barrel store pick that is 14+ years old. All my rare and allocated stuff is already opened so I can't offer up any of my BTAC, but hopefully it's painful enough to put together those specific bottles that I can help raise more than the market price of those bottles.
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Dec 28, 2019 23:56
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silvergoose posted:Is That Good Or Bad I enjoyed it. Big, peated Scotch is an acquired taste and preferences also vary quite a bit from person to person, but I'm a fan of this particular set of flavors.
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Dec 29, 2019 07:01
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Yuns posted:I'm trying to put together a raffle basket to donate for a nonprofit organization's raffle. My best bottles are all opened so among my unopened bottles I was thinking of putting together: Woodford Reserve Batch Proof 2019, Stagg Jr., Elijah Craig Barrel Proof C917 and a Knob Creek Single Barrel store pick that is 14+ years old. All my rare and allocated stuff is already opened so I can't offer up any of my BTAC, but hopefully it's painful enough to put together those specific bottles that I can help raise more than the market price of those bottles. Hopefully there's someone who knows whiskey at the raffle! Those are all great "in the know" picks.
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Dec 29, 2019 07:03
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obi_ant posted:I can’t find a decent supply of EH Taylor aside from the small batch and single barrel. Are the rest of the line up supposedly hard to get? Basically the whole lineup is tough to get in a lot of areas. Single barrel is definitely hard to find(I’ve seen it once in two years around here). Even small batch is getting tough to find here. Anything more ‘special’ than the single barrel fetched a premium in secondary. Barrel proof, four grain, amaranth grain of the gods, are all more or less unicorns now.
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Dec 29, 2019 23:04
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Got pick number 48 at my local liquor shops lottery this year, needless to say I didn’t have a chance at any of the crazy rare stuff. However, I was expecting really bottom of the barrel selections to be left, was surprised to find: Weller CYPB Michters 10 Mister Sam and a few other neat ones left. I took the CYPB at $50 and called it a day.
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Jan 2, 2020 06:04
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DoctaFun posted:Got pick number 48 at my local liquor shops lottery this year, needless to say I didn’t have a chance at any of the crazy rare stuff. CYPB is a good snag even if you don't have any particular interest in it due to its value on the secondary market ($250-$300 range). You can potentially trade that baby up for a Handy or something.
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Jan 4, 2020 07:26
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Vox Nihili posted:CYPB is a good snag even if you don't have any particular interest in it due to its value on the secondary market ($250-$300 range). You can potentially trade that baby up for a Handy or something.
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Jan 4, 2020 09:33
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I got myself a bottle of 1792 Single Barrel and it is way tastier than the 40$ i paid for it.
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Jan 4, 2020 09:46
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SpookyLizard posted:I got myself a bottle of 1792 Single Barrel and it is way tastier than the 40$ i paid for it. Are you drinking it neat? I’m finding it’s too much alcohol burn for me, which is a bummer because it’s my preferred way to take whiskey.
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Jan 4, 2020 20:39
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New liquor store opened near me and prices seem all over the place. Snagged some Tallisker Storm for $40 but a lot of their stuff seemed to have arbitrary $20-40 markup, and not even difficult to find bottles. Was odd.
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Jan 5, 2020 01:52
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Yuns posted:A friend sent me a sample of his CYPB and honestly I prefer the OWA quite a bit more and GTS and WLW a ton more. I would use CYPB as trade bait. Agreed, I had a sample of it maybe 8 months ago and it was a pleasant wheater, but definitely doesn’t deserve the secondary markup. I didn’t wait long and have a deal in place for $290 + a bottle of blantons. I also walked into a shop today that has one of the better selections in my area. Nothing super exciting bourbon wise, they had some limited knob creeks, John j bowman, and one bottle of WT diamond anniversary. BUT, they had Evan Williams single barrel on sale for $15!! Bought my dad one and one for myself. May have to go back though as they had TWO bottles of A’bunadh batch 47 on the shelf. I already have a couple batch 47s as it’s my favorite whiskey to date, but it’s probably the last time I’ll find them as I think that was released in 2014. They also had a longmorn 2002 Signatory Un-chill filtered, which I’ve sampled before and absolutely loved. Wish it wasn’t $95  . That $290 from my CYPB may already be spoken for!
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Does stainless steel impart weird flavors into scotch that pewter doesn’t, over multi-week flask storage? I can’t find consensus for flask materials
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