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Favorite scotch/kentucky bourbon?

us Offline G-Dizzle

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Favorite scotch/kentucky bourbon?
on: April 04, 2018, 11:01:27 PM
Well I just posted a beer thread so might as well do this one. I have not branched out into the bourbon world any farther than Makers Mark so I guess that is my favorite. Never tried a single malt scotch (gasp, i know) so I would like to try that. I am looking to try something semi nice sometime soon (not nice enough to blow a hole straight through my wallet). Either kentucky bourbon or single malt scotch. What is your favorite? Any recommendations?


us Offline Nix

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Re: Favorite scotch/kentucky bourbon?
Reply #1 on: April 04, 2018, 11:06:06 PM
Again, it depends on the circumstances, but if I could have only one.......



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Re: Favorite scotch/kentucky bourbon?
Reply #2 on: April 04, 2018, 11:08:41 PM
A nice aged Oban malt. Their 14yr is very smooth


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Re: Favorite scotch/kentucky bourbon?
Reply #3 on: April 04, 2018, 11:34:31 PM
Singleton and Dalwhinnie are both pretty decent and affordable.


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Re: Favorite scotch/kentucky bourbon?
Reply #4 on: April 04, 2018, 11:43:20 PM
I never really got into drinking because of my medical, but a few things I did try were the obviously Jim beam/coke or once old grand dad/coke, and one other called a snake bite: Yukon jack/lime juice..
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Re: Favorite scotch/kentucky bourbon?
Reply #5 on: April 04, 2018, 11:49:26 PM
I tried a few single maltw, but they have quite difficult Scottish names with many consonants, hard to remember and impossible to spell and pronounce. I always order a Chivas Regal myself. It goes perfectly with Drambuie, one of the few liquors I really like (another is Metaxa 7 stars).
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Re: Favorite scotch/kentucky bourbon?
Reply #6 on: April 05, 2018, 12:17:14 AM
This thread put me in the mood for whiskey - I'm having Highland Park at the moment.


us Offline G-Dizzle

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Re: Favorite scotch/kentucky bourbon?
Reply #7 on: April 05, 2018, 12:18:26 AM
Welp, just went by the store. Went with the one that a MTO user named themself after.



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Re: Favorite scotch/kentucky bourbon?
Reply #8 on: April 05, 2018, 12:25:35 AM
A nice Speyside.  :tu:

But you'll ney get no hair on ye chest with sich a smooth dram!


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Re: Favorite scotch/kentucky bourbon?
Reply #9 on: April 05, 2018, 12:31:48 AM
A nice Speyside.  :tu:

But you'll ney get no hair on ye chest with sich a smooth dram!

...nae get hair on yer chest wee..


us Offline Nix

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Re: Favorite scotch/kentucky bourbon?
Reply #10 on: April 05, 2018, 01:10:44 AM
Thanks for the assist, Fuzzy!  :salute:


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Re: Favorite scotch/kentucky bourbon?
Reply #11 on: April 05, 2018, 01:14:43 AM
I thought the bourbon barrel reserve was cool, they age it the last couple years in  new charred american oak, before that in used bourbon barrels. Seems like a neat tip of the hat to American bourbon while still being a Scotch. Plus the color matched my shirt. ;)


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Reply #12 on: April 05, 2018, 03:08:32 AM
Plus the color matched my shirt. ;)

A solid criterion by any measure. Enjoy!  :drink:


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Reply #13 on: April 05, 2018, 11:44:56 AM
Thanks for the assist, Fuzzy!  :salute:

You're quite welcome! :salute:


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Re: Favorite scotch/kentucky bourbon?
Reply #14 on: April 05, 2018, 12:50:51 PM
Ardbeg or Glenfiddich if someone else is paying, Ballantynes if I am.
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Re: Favorite scotch/kentucky bourbon?
Reply #15 on: April 05, 2018, 12:59:01 PM
Johnnie Walker. Usually Black label. Tried Blender's Batch, pretty smooth with rich flavour.





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Re: Favorite scotch/kentucky bourbon?
Reply #16 on: April 05, 2018, 01:03:08 PM
You could try this one, too:



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Re: Favorite scotch/kentucky bourbon?
Reply #17 on: April 05, 2018, 04:57:30 PM
Notice everybody's answering with their favorite scotch.  My favorite BOURBON is Basil Hayden's.


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Re: Favorite scotch/kentucky bourbon?
Reply #18 on: April 05, 2018, 05:08:21 PM
Neither Scotch nor Kentucky. I haven´t had this in a long time, but it used to be a favorite.
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Re: Favorite scotch/kentucky bourbon?
Reply #19 on: April 05, 2018, 05:15:46 PM
Neither Scotch nor Kentucky. I haven´t had this in a long time, but it used to be a favorite.

Tried the "regular" Tullamore. Liked it, smooth and tasty.
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Re: Favorite scotch/kentucky bourbon?
Reply #20 on: April 05, 2018, 05:26:57 PM
Abelour 10 year old are one of my favourite single malts.

Four Roses is a pretty good bourbon.
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Re: Favorite scotch/kentucky bourbon?
Reply #21 on: April 05, 2018, 05:32:06 PM
I first had Tullamore when a friend of mine, a bar owner, served me what he called Sweet Tipperary, a cocktail of one part whiskey and two parts vermouth, with lots of ice and a cherry. The original recipe had one part whiskey, one part vermouth, and one part chartreuse, but I never had it.

Fun fact: About 500 yards from my home is a shop with over 1537 brands of scotch, whiskey, and bourbon. See http://www.whiskykoning.nl/en/assortment


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Re: Favorite scotch/kentucky bourbon?
Reply #22 on: April 06, 2018, 01:41:46 AM
Knob Creek Kentucky Straight Bourbon here!


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Re: Favorite scotch/kentucky bourbon?
Reply #23 on: April 06, 2018, 07:52:14 AM
Wild turkey. I'm itching to try Glenfiddich
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Re: Favorite scotch/kentucky bourbon?
Reply #24 on: April 06, 2018, 02:39:06 PM
Scotch wiskey is much more widespread than Single Malts and Kentucky Burbon. I only ever tried 1 Kentucky Burbon (and that was 30 years ago) and a few, 2-3 Malts from Scotland. How could I know which one is my favourite?
And what's all the fuss about spirits made from barley, maize, rye, even potato, when you have the holly and jolly fruit of Dionysus to make spirits from? They call it Brandy people. French drink it and French are all about the taste.
And when you get sun-dried Savatiano, Soultanina and Black Korinth grapes double distillate aged for 3-80 years in french oak limousin barrels and then mix it with a small amount of aged sweet muscat wine from Samos and Lemnos and then infuse it with a secret recipe of herbs and rose petals and leave it to mature is Samos muscat wine barrels for a year, Metaxa is what you get.




Leave the maize for Pop Corn gentlemen.





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Re: Favorite scotch/kentucky bourbon?
Reply #25 on: April 06, 2018, 05:18:55 PM
Wild turkey. I'm itching to try Glenfiddich

I'll let him know. Don't think his girl will appreciate it, but...

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Re: Favorite scotch/kentucky bourbon?
Reply #26 on: April 06, 2018, 05:42:00 PM
I like a wiskey of the Canadian variety. Crown Royal is my favorite. I prefer the Reserve and even more so the XO version.
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Re: Favorite scotch/kentucky bourbon?
Reply #27 on: April 06, 2018, 07:39:54 PM
PBR...... :D
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Re: Favorite scotch/kentucky bourbon?
Reply #28 on: April 06, 2018, 08:45:40 PM
Wild turkey. I'm itching to try Glenfiddich

I'll let him know. Don't think his girl will appreciate it, but...

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Favorite scotch/kentucky bourbon?
Reply #29 on: April 07, 2018, 03:12:09 AM
Well, my buddy cancelled on me until tomorrow so i opened the bottle on my own. Really enjoying this first glass very much. Anyone else having whisky?


 

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