What Whisky/Whiskey are we drinking this month?

BonnieSituation · 26-09-2020 10:58PM

Cazale wrote: »

Drinking some Powers John Lane tonight. Beautiful stuff. Would be in my top five I think!

Actually, you there you... throw us out your Top 5. You've not led me astray yet.

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Just opened up the Method and Madness there for a wee one to celebrate the end of a week from hell that concluded an intensive 3-week Java course (I still don't understand it) and doing the Irish Rail assessments which were a lot easier than I thought they would be.

Hodors Appletart · 26-09-2020 11:05PM

I'll have to revisit PJL

wasn't that impressed by it

BonnieSituation · 26-09-2020 11:08PM

Hodors Appletart wrote: »

I'll have to revisit PJL

wasn't that impressed by it

I've hovered over it now on Masters of Malt. I think I'll hold off on pulling the trigger 'til next month. The Ponaire order ate into the whiskey budget.

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Interesting price differential between the new and old labels at CWS:

New: 64
Old: 75

https://www.celticwhiskeyshop.com/index.php?route=product/search&search=Powers%20John%27s%20Lane

Hodors Appletart · 26-09-2020 11:09PM

haha! between scotch, coffee and craft beer me mrs's heart does be broke

BonnieSituation · 26-09-2020 11:17PM

Hodors Appletart wrote: »

haha! between scotch, coffee and craft beer me mrs's heart does be broke

Same. Though she likes beer (She bought the White Hag box) and I have introduced her to decent coffee and she now "gets it".

I've been devouring cheap german pilsners of late tbh, so the craft element can wait. The Oettinger Tsunami has finally subsided in Lidl so I'll be heading back to Martins and Drink Store in time.

Hodors Appletart · 26-09-2020 11:29PM

ah my mrs likes coffee "but not those fancy ones" and loves a nice craft or homebrewed stout

she also loves decent rum and has paid eyewatering amounts for the stuff so...

BonnieSituation · 26-09-2020 11:32PM

Hodors Appletart wrote: »

ah my mrs likes coffee "but not those fancy ones" and loves a nice craft or homebrewed stout

she also loves decent rum and has paid eyewatering amounts for the stuff so...

How dare she diss single origin fruity Ethiopians.

Mine is into eye-watering expensive gins.

I like gin. But cmon, gimme a decent tequila or rum or whiskey anyday. She hates all three.

Hodors Appletart · 26-09-2020 11:35PM

we're about to start a gin from scratch (:eek:)

BonnieSituation · 26-09-2020 11:36PM

Hodors Appletart wrote: »

we're about to start a gin from scratch (:eek:)

I commend any sort of distilling regardless of my protestations about buying them.

And I want in on the ground floor of getting a sample.

Hodors Appletart · 26-09-2020 11:38PM

not of the first batch, but yeah from the second

will cost you a decent cup of burundian

BonnieSituation · 26-09-2020 11:43PM

Hodors Appletart wrote: »

not of the first batch, but yeah from the second

will cost you a decent cup of burundian

I can stretch to that I guess. Good man.

BonnieSituation · 26-09-2020 11:47PM

While we all aspire to be Cazale when we grow up, I've just poured my second dram of the night and it's Black Bush. As I said a few weeks back after I picked it up that it was a long time since I had it despite it being my favourite whiskey as a gasún, well, you'd easily guess that given how easy it has gone down.

What's more interesting though is tasting it directly after the M&M.

It is obviously a lot milder, but the notes of sherry and liquorice are so so strong now. Frankly tastes like a completely different whiskey to me. That is unbelievably mind blowing. Never got those notes as strong before. Usually more caramel and light cinnamon. wow.

Hodors Appletart · 27-09-2020 12:06AM

jaysis I use BB as my "everyday" whiskey (I don't drink it every day)

but I lash it into a glass with sours and soda for a friday afternoon relaxer and stuff like that

BonnieSituation · 27-09-2020 12:17AM

Hodors Appletart wrote: »

jaysis I use BB as my "everyday" whiskey (I don't drink it every day)

but I lash it into a glass with sours and soda for a friday afternoon relaxer and stuff like that

Aye, that's why I have it. I had only expensive nonsense in the cabinet. So BB got into the rotation as, my everyday once I moved into the new apartment and I got rid of the Paddy.

It was just odd, that a whiskey I know so well, gave me a more layers I never noticed as strongly before.

Hodors Appletart · 27-09-2020 12:24AM

yeah I get that, you need an everyday, but it also has to be decent. I fell into the BB as my everyday because I won it in a raffle heh

Mickiemcfist · 27-09-2020 08:39AM

My every day is caskmates stout edition, I buy a few when Tesco do it for 25, or powers. Although I got roe & co for 25 recently & wish I had bought more. I didn't want to like it but its great at that price point, but at 40 it competes with nicer stuff.

2011abc · 27-09-2020 03:08PM

oleras wrote: »

Some of those yokes are very flimsy and have the potential to end in disaster!

2011abc · 27-09-2020 03:14PM

Ivefoundgod wrote: »

Update, picked up the Brabazon 1.

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The original bottling (2017vs2018?)of Brabazon 1 was paradise .The second still nice but not so good .Or maybe i just think this cos I read it from the Whisky Bible(?!)

Twee. · 27-09-2020 03:39PM

2011abc wrote: »

Some of those yokes are very flimsy and have the potential to end in disaster!

I destroyed some by dropping them into just boiled water to clean/steralise them - the rubber shrank! I assumed they were heat safe, definitely not :pac: Dishwasher only from now on.

Cazale · 27-09-2020 06:09PM

BonnieSituation wrote:

throw us out your Top 5.

It's boring enough! Top five would be Redbreast 12, Powers John Lane, Green Spot, Ardbeg Uigeadail and Lagavulin 16. Pot still, peat and sherry. All of which I always have a bottle of.

Top five I've only tried once would be Powers 30 year old (1970 bottle), Knappogue Castle 1951, Glengoyne 25, Redbreast 1991 Friend at Hand and Redbreast 27. What's yours and everybody else's?

EagererBeaver · 27-09-2020 06:16PM

Have opened a Hibiki Japanese Harmony this evening. Admittedly I've yet to find a Japanese whiskey I don't like but it's very tasty altogether.

On the Islay discussion, sorry, but Lagavullin 16 is the undisputed king for me.

BonnieSituation · 27-09-2020 07:02PM

EagererBeaver wrote: »

Have opened a Hibiki Japanese Harmony this evening. Admittedly I've yet to find a Japanese whiskey I don't like but it's very tasty altogether.

On the Islay discussion, sorry, but Lagavullin 16 is the undisputed king for me.

You've literally just reminded me that I haven't received my Japanese whiskey set from CWS. Completely forgot about that.

Wailin · 27-09-2020 07:35PM

Top 5 go to and accessible whiskies for me, in no particular order, redbreast 12 CS, ardbeg 10, powers john Lane, arran 14 and method and madness french chestnut.

Of the more expensive stuff I'd go with glendronach 18, glengoyne 25, Ardbeg Uigeadail, Lagavulin 12 CS and longrow 18.

A lot of sherry influence there, like cazale. I just love the richness of it and added red fruit flavours.

Wailin · 27-09-2020 07:39PM

EagererBeaver wrote: »

On the Islay discussion, sorry, but Lagavullin 16 is the undisputed king for me.

Have you noticed a change in the flavour profile from about 2017 on? Lagavulin 16 was my introduction to peated scotch and I never tasted anything like it. Rich, earthy and that smoke was something else. But lately I think it's changed and not for the best. Seems to have lost the richness and earthy flavour, more dry now and harsh? Reading online seems to agree with that trend that it's not what it once was.

Tired Gardener · 27-09-2020 07:40PM

Recently picked up a bottle of Jamesons Stout Edition Whiskey, more out of curiosity than anything. Don't usually go for Jamesons, more a Kilbeggan Single Grain Whiskey drinker.

Cazale · 27-09-2020 09:31PM

Trying some Whites 22 year old tonight from the 1960s. Whites is an old pub in Belfast and they used to be a wine/spirit merchant who sourced/sold their own whiskey. The whiskey is supposedly old Jameson stock from Bow Street in Dublin. Great to be trying some more whiskey from a defunct distillery especially one from Dublin.

BonnieSituation · 27-09-2020 09:32PM

Cazale wrote: »

Trying some Whites 22 year old tonight from the 1960s. Whites is an old pub in Belfast and they used to be a wine/spirit merchant who sourced/sold their own whiskey. The whiskey is supposedly old Jameson stock from Bow Street in Dublin. Great to be trying some more whiskey from a defunct distillery especially one from Dublin.

I used to live in the Bow Street building so I best keep my eye out for that sometime.

Ivefoundgod · 27-09-2020 10:58PM

My top 5 with the caveat that up until about a year ago I was happy enough with a standard bottle of powers/Jameson so my experience is very limited and in no particular order;

Glenfiddich 12 YO, Teeling Revival Series 4, Red Breast 12 YO, Laphraoig 10, Teeling Brabazon 1

I've done a few tastings here and there but those stand out for me as when I did the tastings in the past I didn't really know what I was drinking or how to get the value out of it. I did a whiskey tasting in the Celtic whisky bar and larder which was high end stuff like Middleton but I was clueless really.

actuar90 · 28-09-2020 06:44PM

Mulligan's doing a tasting of the Whistler, tickets on sale now, the samples are:
Calvados cask finish
Imperial stout cask finish
Bodega cask 5 year old sherry matured single malt
P.X. I love you, PX cask finished single malt
The Whistler Irish Honey.

Effects · 28-09-2020 09:07PM

Just signed up for the Whistler tasting. I'm travelling on the Friday so I'll watch it on repeat on Saturday.

What Whisky/Whiskey are we drinking this month?

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