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Single malts
- Thread starter Groucho
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Having a crack at the Jim Beam Pre-Prohibition Rye...
again, like the Double Oak, it's not bad, and actually pretty cheap for a rye. But it's thin as a reed. I'd happily spend an extra tenner for the Rittenhouse BiB.
again, like the Double Oak, it's not bad, and actually pretty cheap for a rye. But it's thin as a reed. I'd happily spend an extra tenner for the Rittenhouse BiB.
A few years back I posted in here that after a private visit to the Glenglassaugh Distillery that a few of us bought an Octave Cask and settled back to let it mature. Well that was five years ago and yesterday my six bottles were delivered . It matures quicker in the smaller casks and we’ve been resisting pressure from the distillery to bottle it for a couple of years - the Angels share will keep growingwas their pitch , but think they really just wanted shut ofit and had offered to buy the Cask a few years ago.My daughter and her husband named my bottles “Gaisgeach Beag “ , Little Warrior , after our Grandson who sadly only lived a week but was an inspirational warrior to all who met him. We’ll be having a wee dram or two on special occasions.
Great value that for The Ardmore, I’ve got a bottle too , I quite like the low level , but distinct peattyness . I came across it initially by accident a few years go when I was diverted off the A96 Aberdeen to Inverness road, missed the turn back on , kept going on a straight road parallel to the A96 , and drove past the Distillery. Stuck in my mind and a few weeks later picked up my first bottle in Tesco . I suppose geographically it’s more Speyside than Highland but as you say it’s different from both.
kithnou
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We need to set up a drink club
There is one mate, you not been invited ? First rule of Drink Club : nobody talks about Drink ClubWe need to set up a drink club
Brendan Janus
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We need to set up a drink club
Or maybe a fight club !!
kithnou
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I’m a happy drunk mate.
Curious about this one. Been recommended by a friend. However a quick search and I see the 1l bottle priced as around $US20 and, wait for it, $AUD262 down here. Quite the discrepancy.
Is it a top ended in the UK, or is the Australian site a scam?
With no research, sight unseen etc, I'd go Aussie Scam.
There's a 'tradition' going back to when it took 6 weeks to send stuff here, to mark things up until the pips squeak...and if you're very lucky, back it off a quarter of a turn.
I pop in here every so often and see 'this' is on in Tesco for GBP25 (AU$ 40) only to find it at my local 'Bottleshop' for $85-90
kithnou
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Like most things down here...
Do you pay tax on your whisky?
Black Belt Jones
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Sounds reasonable - it's 60% aq ethanol with just trace flavour and fragrance components at the end of the day, and most of those components are identified and understood. Suspect any such accelerated aging process / 'artificial' flavouring will find it very tough to displace the natural approach, though, as a commercial enterprise. That rustic, artisan marketing of fine whiskies is very powerful in people's minds, esp as it's something you're putting inside of yourself.
Compared with something like man-made carbon diamonds - indistinguishable from natural diamonds and doesn't involve slave labour in Africa. I can easily see that putting de Beers and co to bed once the technology develops to lower prices. Single malt aged in a fortnight has a tougher road I reckon.
I really, really hope so.
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