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Re: The ToonForum Whisky Club

Post by Hjl » Sun Jan 14, 2018 12:01 am

Bodacious Benny wrote:
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Get a glass of one and then the other.

Never paid much attention to Irish either. Might have to change that, if Jameson is the jack daniels of Irish then the bar must be significantly higher.
Like your thinking!

Yeah don't drink much (any) regular JD as for the same price you can get something like buffalo trace which is much nicer. I don't mind Gentlemen Jack or JD Single Barrel tho.
Jack is nasty. But it's mass produced muck which is the same reputation that Jameson has. But Jameson is much much better.

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Re: The ToonForum Whisky Club

Post by Hjl » Sun Jan 14, 2018 12:02 am

Get some Noahs Mill if you can. It's very good. Might be hard to get outside of the local markets though

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Post by Bodacious Benny » Sun Jan 14, 2018 12:12 am

Hjl wrote:Get some Noahs Mill if you can. It's very good. Might be hard to get outside of the local markets though
Thanks for the recommendation, not heard of that one. Can get it on Amazon UK it seems for about £70 so in the same price bracket as Stagg junior.

How much would you typically pay for Noah's Mill in the US?
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Re: The ToonForum Whisky Club

Post by Hjl » Sun Jan 14, 2018 12:30 am

Bodacious Benny wrote:
Hjl wrote:Get some Noahs Mill if you can. It's very good. Might be hard to get outside of the local markets though
Thanks for the recommendation, not heard of that one. Can get it on Amazon UK it seems for about £70 so in the same price bracket as Stagg junior.

How much would you typically pay for Noah's Mill in the US?
About $50 a bottle. Same as Stagg jnr

Ever had any Japanese whiskey? Had a glass last night at the cigar lounge, it was very good. Yamazaki 18
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Re: The ToonForum Whisky Club

Post by Bodacious Benny » Sun Jan 14, 2018 12:32 am

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Thanks for the recommendation, not heard of that one. Can get it on Amazon UK it seems for about £70 so in the same price bracket as Stagg junior.

How much would you typically pay for Noah's Mill in the US?
About $50 a bottle. Same as Staff jnr

Ever had any Japanese whiskey? Had a glass last night at the cigar lounge, it was very good
A fair bit cheaper then as you'd expect!

Love a bit of Japanese whisky. Had Hibiki, Yamazaki in the past (both excellent) and got a bottle of Nikka from the barrel and a bottle of akashi on the go at the moment, both decent <ok>
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Re: The ToonForum Whisky Club

Post by Hjl » Sun Jan 14, 2018 12:34 am

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About $50 a bottle. Same as Staff jnr

Ever had any Japanese whiskey? Had a glass last night at the cigar lounge, it was very good
A fair bit cheaper then as you'd expect!

Love a bit of Japanese whisky. Had Hibiki, Yamazaki in the past (both excellent) and got a bottle of Nikka from the barrel and a bottle of akashi on the go at the moment, both decent <ok>
I had a thimblefull of yamazaki 18. Good stuff, but pricey

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Post by Bodacious Benny » Sun Jan 14, 2018 12:41 am

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A fair bit cheaper then as you'd expect!

Love a bit of Japanese whisky. Had Hibiki, Yamazaki in the past (both excellent) and got a bottle of Nikka from the barrel and a bottle of akashi on the go at the moment, both decent <ok>
I had a thimblefull of yamazaki 18. Good stuff, but pricey
I bet. I've just had the regular Yamazaki (Distiller's reserve I think it's called) and that was very nice (about £55 a bottle) so imagine the 18 y/o is rather tasty.
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Re: The ToonForum Whisky Club

Post by Hjl » Sun Jan 14, 2018 12:43 am

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I had a thimblefull of yamazaki 18. Good stuff, but pricey
I bet. I've just had the regular Yamazaki (Distiller's reserve I think it's called) and that was very nice (about £55 a bottle) so imagine the 18 y/o is rather tasty.
I went to world of whisky in Houston last year. Had some Balvenie 50. It was good, not amazing though and certainly not 37 grand good.

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Post by Bodacious Benny » Sun Jan 14, 2018 12:46 am

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I bet. I've just had the regular Yamazaki (Distiller's reserve I think it's called) and that was very nice (about £55 a bottle) so imagine the 18 y/o is rather tasty.
I went to world of whisky in Houston last year. Had some Balvenie 50. It was good, not amazing though and certainly not 37 grand good.
Can't imagine any drink is worth 3 grand let alone 37 grand! I do like a bit of Balvenie, their carribean cask is a very good whisky.
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Re: The ToonForum Whisky Club

Post by Hjl » Sun Jan 14, 2018 12:59 am

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Hjl wrote:
I went to world of whisky in Houston last year. Had some Balvenie 50. It was good, not amazing though and certainly not 37 grand good.
Can't imagine any drink is worth 3 grand let alone 37 grand! I do like a bit of Balvenie, their carribean cask is a very good whisky.
The rep brought a bottle and gave out drams. Perhaps it wasn't a good for for me though. I like Islay scotches, Ardbeg is probably my favourite

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Re: The ToonForum Whisky Club

Post by Hjl » Fri Jan 19, 2018 9:23 pm

Just got a bottle of Rittenhouse. Is a bonded rye and it's great!

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Post by Bodacious Benny » Fri Jan 19, 2018 9:36 pm

Hjl wrote:Just got a bottle of Rittenhouse. Is a bonded rye and it's great!
You live the bourbon dream over there!
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Post by Donkey Toon » Fri Jan 19, 2018 10:09 pm

Bodacious Benny wrote:
Hjl wrote:
I went to world of whisky in Houston last year. Had some Balvenie 50. It was good, not amazing though and certainly not 37 grand good.
Can't imagine any drink is worth 3 grand let alone 37 grand! I do like a bit of Balvenie, their carribean cask is a very good whisky.
About fifteen years ago at a business meeting in London, the client (Russian oil magnet) sprung for after dinner drinks and ordered a Napoleon Brandy at £750 a shot. Ordered doubles for all eight people at the meal the crazy bastard.

Was completely wasted on me, might as well have been a bog standard supermarket brand for all I could tell.

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Re: The ToonForum Whisky Club

Post by Hjl » Fri Jan 19, 2018 11:24 pm

Bodacious Benny wrote:
Hjl wrote:Just got a bottle of Rittenhouse. Is a bonded rye and it's great!
You live the bourbon dream over there!
Yup, isn't bad. Can't get a decent ale anywhere though.

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Post by Chappy » Sun Jan 28, 2018 6:40 pm

On the Aberfeldy tonight gents <gent>
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Post by Bodacious Benny » Sun Jan 28, 2018 7:36 pm

Chappy wrote:On the Aberfeldy tonight gents <gent>
<cheers>

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Post by Chappy » Mon Jan 29, 2018 9:01 am

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Chappy wrote:On the Aberfeldy tonight gents <gent>
<cheers>

Got a bottle of dalwhinnie 15 years old for my leaving gift.
Safe to say your colleagues like you. Good stuff <ok>
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Re: The ToonForum Whisky Club

Post by Hjl » Tue Jan 30, 2018 8:51 pm

I picked up a bottle of Bowmore. Not impressed. Very bland.

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Post by Chappy » Wed Jan 31, 2018 8:20 am

Hjl wrote:I picked up a bottle of Bowmore. Not impressed. Very bland.
Which Bowmore was it out of interest?
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Re: The ToonForum Whisky Club

Post by Hjl » Wed Jan 31, 2018 12:07 pm

Chappy wrote:
Hjl wrote:I picked up a bottle of Bowmore. Not impressed. Very bland.
Which Bowmore was it out of interest?
Small batch

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