do you have a good sense of whiskey?

Jack Daniel's isn't real whiskey...it's mass-produced Tennessee mash-scum.

This is Whiskey.

One day, I will buy a bottle of the 18-year-old Jameson. It's damn near impossible to find.

I have never really liked whiskey, but I think I've only had Jack before. I'll have to give Jameson a try... :)

that's the stuff they only sell on premises at the Jameson Heritage Center in Ireland.

40 years old and smooth as smokey silk.

I think that's a whiskey.

THIS is whisky.

That's why I answered "No" to my own poll. :)

These are whisky:

if you are abandoned on the Isle of Skye without a boat and it is the end of the world, I guess.

Why would you want to leave, with such perfect whisky available?

Lagavulin tastes of peat and the sea.



Laphroaig, on the other hand, tastes like salty motor oil. Now THAT is a whisky!

You done good with the Talisker, though. I'm a big fan of the pepperiness.

The 40 year old stuff is simply out of this world.

and of whisky, too. Here's what I'm drinking right now:

I have Knob Creek bourbon whiskey in the cupboard upstairs...

My inlaws and I taste tested good versus not so good bourbons and my mother in law and I have expensive tastes and could always sense which was the better bourbon.

eom

that had been in a family since forever? It was from a distillery that closed its doors back in the 1880's or something, so the dang thing was OLD...lemmee go google


After google search:

The oldest known bottle of whiskey in the world is up for auction. The label on the bottle reads "Glenavon Special Liqueur Whisky Bottled by the Distillers" and, as the Glenavon Distillery in Banffshire ceased to operate in 1858, that means that the whiskey is at least 148 years old, possibly as old as 155 years based on other production records. An Irish family had the 14-ounce bottle for generations and they are the ones who have now offered it for sale. The price is expected to go as high as $20,000. (It actually went for just over $49,000.00)

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The only way to have that is straight up in a cut glass that is so damn heavy it is almost awkward to lift.


You know, it would be hard for me to open the thing if I owned it. I woud look at it in wonder and awe.

if it had spent 150 years in the cask, it would be amazing, probably, but since it was bottled 150 years ago it's probably going to taste much like a more recently distilled whisky.

So what's Jack Daniel's got to do with whiskey?

:popcorn:

I don't know much about whiskey, obviously, and I've stated so upthread. Jack was just the first whiskey that I thought of when I was making this copycat poll.

But it's a good thing I started this thread. I now know a lot more than I did! I can't wait to try some Jameson!

:hi:

this for Xmas:




He shared with us and it was not too bad.

doesn't matter if it's considered good whiskey or rotgut. It all smells the same to me.

Maker's Mark bourbon