Buffalo Trace is excellent. I was going to recommend it but hadn't got around to it yet.
Buffalo Trace is excellent. I was going to recommend it but hadn't got around to it yet.
Does it have to be bourbon, or are you open to all whiskey's? I've been drinking a lot of rye. Bulleit makes a good rye, which you can distinguish by the green rather than orange label. You are probably all set on Irish Whiskey, but Powers is showing up in bars over here and I drink it whenever I can.
I don't really know what you can get over there and how the prices vary. The nice thing about Buffalo Trace is it reasonably priced over here, but that may not hold true when it's exported to the UK.
Knob Creek and Maker's Mark are pretty common over here, and a step above your Jack Daniels and Jim Beam. Maybe these are already common to you.
A friend of mine makes Breaking & Entering Bourbon, which is excellent, but you probably will have a hard time finding it.
Breaking & Entering Bourbon Review » Sour Mash Manifesto
I am in the "Personal Liberty League" referred to on the third page of this menu. Which means I'm trying to drink every whiskey listed here (not in one sitting, they keep your list behind the bar). The bastards keep adding new ones to the list, which I guess is a mixed blessing.
Almost all the whiskey listed on the third page is decent, but some may not taste like whiskeys you've had before. Some are extremely high in alcohol, some have a lot of residual corn flavor, there are clear ones, etc. The Willetts, Johnny Drum, and Michters are some of my favorites. Don't be afraid to add ice or water, which can bring out the flavor that is hidden by the high alcohol ones. Anybody who calls you a pussy for adding water is a philistine.
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Last edited by wackerle; 03-14-2012 at 01:11 AM.
Yeah, you're not talking to a Philistine here. This is one of the places I buy the more obscure stuff from, they have a shop at Vinopolis in London and their online service is very good:
The Whisky Exchange
Makers Mark, Knob Creek, Wild Turkey etc. are fairly well known here, but a lot of these I don't know at all, if there are any you particularly recommend I would be grateful.
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Hey Wacker, I recall some hundred episodes back you were drinking alcohol with Clamato, If you're interested I can give you the exact ingredients we use on ours in Mexico, you should be able to buy most on most groceries stores in cali in the latino foods section. Some recipes even contain sea food. Also, the American Clamato is not the same product as in Mexico: It has NO clam juice in the US. I'll send you some of the original stuff from south the boarder next time I'm down there.
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If you like a sweeter tasting bourbon I recommend drinking wild turkey: american honey. Although wild turkey is quiet nice itself.
Ironman if you truly have the royal status you claim would you not have had all that shit made for you. So unless you threaten to kill your maid's puppy then you are probably just giving him the recipe for metho and boot polish
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Why not? It's what we do.
Basically he's calling you a moron. He says you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a recipe that was, for instance, heavy on the clams and tomato and one full of Naptha, Pseudoephedrine, Ethanol, Red Phosphorus, Lanolin and Iodine.