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What Whisky/Whiskey are we drinking this month?

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    #6092
    Wailin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭Wailin


    Supervalu have offers on jameson at the moment too. Caskmate bottles down to €27, black barrel and crested reduced also. Not sure if posted here already.


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    #6093
    Ivefoundgod
    Registered Users Posts: 2,433 ✭✭✭Ivefoundgod


    Wailin wrote: »
    Supervalu have offers on jameson at the moment too. Caskmate bottles down to €27, black barrel and crested reduced also. Not sure if posted here already.

    Not great discounts compared to O' Briens has at the minute though I notice a Proclamation Blended Irish Whiskey I've never heard of before.

    I'm tempted to have one last go around of the O' Briens sale over the weekend for a bottle of Method & Madness but must resist. Have enough to keep me going for now.


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    #6094
    Insect Overlord
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    Couldn't resist picking up a Green Spot and the Jameson Caskmates stout edition. Including loyalty card points and the VAT reduction as well they were just over €69 instead of the usual €97.95. They'll go nicely on the shelf with the Knappogue 14 YO and the Method & Madness single grain.

    I shouldn't have to buy another drop for a while now, unless someone spots a bargain on Scotch... >_>

    Edit: the Jameson is remarkably drinkable.


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    #6095
    Cazale
    Registered Users Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭Cazale


    Ivefoundgod wrote: »
    Not great discounts compared to O' Briens has at the minute though I notice a Proclamation Blended Irish Whiskey I've never heard of before.

    Made by the same people behind Grace O'Malley Whiskey.


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    #6096
    Cazale
    Registered Users Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭Cazale


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


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    #6097
    Cazale
    Registered Users Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭Cazale


    Wailin wrote: »
    Winter might start for me tonight! Have Talisker Skye

    Heading off to the Isle of Skye myself tonight for some Talisker. I have a full size bottle of the 10 year old but the others are new to me.


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    #6098
    Wailin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭Wailin


    Had Talisker skye, Highland Park 12 and ardbeg 10 last night. The skye is decent, a bit tamer than the talisker 10 but very drinkable. HP12 is a superior whiskey, lightly smoked but lovely balance. Ardbeg 10 is just a peat/iodine behemoth and definitely one to finish off rather than start! Enjoy the selection.


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    #6099
    Hodors Appletart
    Registered Users Posts: 2,055 ✭✭✭Hodors Appletart


    I've had a bottle of Ardbeg 10 on my shelf before and always found Laphroaig 10 a less approachable peated than it, different strokes of course, but still.

    I love(d) both and personally prefer L10.


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    #6100
    BonnieSituation
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    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.


    :)

    ---

    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.


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    #6101
    Hodors Appletart
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    I'll have to revisit PJL

    wasn't that impressed by it


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    #6102
    BonnieSituation
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    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


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    #6103
    Hodors Appletart
    Registered Users Posts: 2,055 ✭✭✭Hodors Appletart


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


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    #6104
    BonnieSituation
    Registered Users Posts: 18,925 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    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.


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    #6105
    Hodors Appletart
    Registered Users Posts: 2,055 ✭✭✭Hodors Appletart


    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...


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    #6106
    BonnieSituation
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    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.


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    #6107
    Hodors Appletart
    Registered Users Posts: 2,055 ✭✭✭Hodors Appletart


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


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    #6108
    BonnieSituation
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    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.


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    #6109
    Hodors Appletart
    Registered Users Posts: 2,055 ✭✭✭Hodors Appletart


    not of the first batch, but yeah from the second

    will cost you a decent cup of burundian


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    #6110
    BonnieSituation
    Registered Users Posts: 18,925 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    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. :D


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    #6111
    BonnieSituation
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    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.


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    #6112
    Hodors Appletart
    Registered Users Posts: 2,055 ✭✭✭Hodors Appletart


    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


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    #6113
    BonnieSituation
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    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.


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    #6114
    Hodors Appletart
    Registered Users Posts: 2,055 ✭✭✭Hodors Appletart


    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


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    #6115
    Mickiemcfist
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    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.


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    #6116
    2011abc
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    oleras wrote: »
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    Some of those yokes are very flimsy and have the potential to end in disaster!


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    #6117
    2011abc
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    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(?!)


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    #6118
    Twee.
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    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.


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    #6119
    Cazale
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    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?


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    #6120
    EagererBeaver
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    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.


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    #6121
    BonnieSituation
    Registered Users Posts: 18,925 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    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.


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