Decent Cheap Liquor

[ZOXXO]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt

Originally posted by: BigFatCow
Whats some relatively cheap hard liquor that is decent to drink. I love jack daniels but its kind of expensive for me to be drinking when i want to get drunk. I plan on drinking this with coke.

If you like Jack and are planning on mixing with Coke, stick with Bourbon. The beauty of bourbon is that it's manufactured under very strict standards. It can only come from one place with a narrow range of acceptable grain mixes, a certain kind of water and virgin oak casks for aging. So unlike vodkas and tequilas where some stuff is utter crap, even cheap bourbon is pretty damn good because it's not allowed to deviate from the norm. You can find stuff like Evan Williams, Early Times and other inexpensive bourbons for less than half the price of JD and they're pretty damn good. Since you're quite obviously not too discriminating or experienced, you'd be unlikely to tell the cheap bourbons apart from Jack when mixed with Coke.

Jack Daniels is not bourbon.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Jack Daniels is bourbon in every way except the name. Same mash recipe, same water, same aging process. It's not allowed to be called bourbon because it's made in Tennesse instead of Kentucky and because the sugar-maple barrels used impart slight coloration while bourbon must be uncolored. It's a technicality. The idiots who chime in with "Jack Daniels is not bourbon" have likely never tasted Jack or a "real" bourbon and would not be able to tell Jack Daniels apart from Yukon Jack.

 

[TheShiz]

Originally posted by: murphy55d

Originally posted by: ToeStub

Originally posted by: BigFatCow

Originally posted by: murphy55d
buy cheap vodka and filter it through a brita thing. it works.

turns crap into good vodka.

I dont have a brita and i heard that takes forever to do.

Sounds like BS to me. :roll:

it is not BS.

if this works why don't cheaper vodkas use this process to compete with the more expensive ones?

 

[rickn]

the homeless and welfare's choice is colt 45 32oz screw top bottles.

 

[TrueBlueLS]

Southern Comfort!

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: BigFatCow
Whats some relatively cheap hard liquor that is decent to drink. I love jack daniels but its kind of expensive for me to be drinking when i want to get drunk. I plan on drinking this with coke.

Jack IS cheap liquor. Or at least where I live. About $16/fifth. To give perspective, the cheapest bourbon whiskey I will buy is Jim Beam, which runs about $12/fifth where I live.

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
If you like Jack and are planning on mixing with Coke, stick with Bourbon. The beauty of bourbon is that it's manufactured under very strict standards. It can only come from one place with a narrow range of acceptable grain mixes, a certain kind of water and virgin oak casks for aging. So unlike vodkas and tequilas where some stuff is utter crap, even cheap bourbon is pretty damn good because it's not allowed to deviate from the norm. You can find stuff like Evan Williams, Early Times and other inexpensive bourbons for less than half the price of JD and they're pretty damn good. Since you're quite obviously not too discriminating or experienced, you'd be unlikely to tell the cheap bourbons apart from Jack when mixed with Coke.

Jack is not bourbon. It is Tennessee sour mash whiskey. And yes, I can taste the difference. Jack has a different flavor because of the non-bourbon-standard barrels they use. If you're going to bring up bourbons and the strict standards that it takes for a sour mash whiskey to be called a bourbon, and then bring up Jack while seeming to forget that it is made in Tennessee and in non-standard barrels, well... people are going to think you a fool and call you on it, regardless of what else you say.

For cheap, Jim Beam and Evan Williams are both good bourbons. Real bourbons too, made in Bourbon county, Kentucky. Another good and cheap Tennessee sour mash whiskey that tastes similar to a bourbon and is cheaper than Jack is George Dickel. If somewhat lacking in the same quality of flavor as Jack, it is actually a bit smoother, and makes for a good shot or hard mix. About $12/fifth here.

If your goal is just to drink hard liquor mixed with coke on the cheap, do yourself a favor and just buy Barcardi light. It's a cheap, good rum that mixes well with almost anything. That or Smirnoff's vodka.

Avoid the super cheap alcohols (like Hood River Distillery for example, or Monarchs, or Brokers, etc). What they sell may say on the label that it is whiskey, or rum, or vodka, but is actually nearly-pure distilled alcohol (i.e. everclear) mixed with flavoring. Not good.

 

[Gurck]

Bacardi rum is as low as $20 for 1,750ml, good for mixing with soda, but soda costs extra of course. Montezuma tequila is about $25 for that amount and good enough for shots. Seems cleaner too, I can drink more of that and feel ok the next day, while less bacardi will have me feeling fuzzy. Both wreak havoc on my digestive tract though, don't get behind me if I drank either of them the previous night If you're thinking the 1.75 liter bottles are too much, you don't drink enough to have to worry about price in the first place

Originally posted by: Ladies Man
just go out and buy a $10 handle of the cheapest stuff you can buy.
Then buy crystal light mix... $2ish

I've found the really cheap stuff to result in a less pleasant high and worse after-effects. You don't have to spend a ton, just don't get awful garbage like, for instance, Juarez tequila. Has something to do with impurities iirc.

 

[ZOXXO]

GagHalfrunt - I am Portuguese in every way except I wasn't born in Portugal and both of my parents are American.

 

[MBony]

Originally posted by: TrueBlueLS
Southern Comfort!

Actually it is a Whiskey Liqueur

 

[BigFatCow]

I know Jack Daniels isnt exactly expensive but it is about $35 for 1.75L, the Canadian Mist i got was only $13 for 1.75L. The reason i posted this thread was because i was looking for something to purely get drunk off of but i still wanted it to taste relatively good and be cheap. Thanks for all the suggestions guys, right now i got 2 1.75L bottles of Candian Mist but they will probally go pretty fast considering everybody is coming back from college right about now. Ill try some of the other stuff posted in this thread, but the Canadian Mist is actually pretty good when i put 2 shots into a glass half full with ice and fill the rest with coke.

 

[3chordcharlie]

Originally posted by: casimec
1 bottle of rum + Lemon Crystal light + gallon of water

Take some water out of the gallon so you can add the rum. add crystal light.

*puke*

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: ZOXXO
GagHalfrunt - I am Portuguese in every way except I wasn't born in Portugal and both of my parents are American.

 

[3chordcharlie]

Originally posted by: TheShiz

Originally posted by: murphy55d

Originally posted by: ToeStub

Originally posted by: BigFatCow

Originally posted by: murphy55d
buy cheap vodka and filter it through a brita thing. it works.

turns crap into good vodka.

I dont have a brita and i heard that takes forever to do.

Sounds like BS to me. :roll:

it is not BS.

if this works why don't cheaper vodkas use this process to compete with the more expensive ones?

Because you don't have to pay yourself to filter it. If 'cheap' vodkas were triple-filtered, they wouldn't be cheap anymore.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Originally posted by: Vic

Originally posted by: BigFatCow
Whats some relatively cheap hard liquor that is decent to drink. I love jack daniels but its kind of expensive for me to be drinking when i want to get drunk. I plan on drinking this with coke.

Jack IS cheap liquor. Or at least where I live. About $16/fifth. To give perspective, the cheapest bourbon whiskey I will buy is Jim Beam, which runs about $12/fifth where I live.

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
If you like Jack and are planning on mixing with Coke, stick with Bourbon. The beauty of bourbon is that it's manufactured under very strict standards. It can only come from one place with a narrow range of acceptable grain mixes, a certain kind of water and virgin oak casks for aging. So unlike vodkas and tequilas where some stuff is utter crap, even cheap bourbon is pretty damn good because it's not allowed to deviate from the norm. You can find stuff like Evan Williams, Early Times and other inexpensive bourbons for less than half the price of JD and they're pretty damn good. Since you're quite obviously not too discriminating or experienced, you'd be unlikely to tell the cheap bourbons apart from Jack when mixed with Coke.

Jack is not bourbon. It is Tennessee sour mash whiskey. And yes, I can taste the difference. Jack has a different flavor because of the non-bourbon-standard barrels they use. If you're going to bring up bourbons and the strict standards that it takes for a sour mash whiskey to be called a bourbon, and then bring up Jack while seeming to forget that it is made in Tennessee and in non-standard barrels, well... people are going to think you a fool and call you on it, regardless of what else you say.

For cheap, Jim Beam and Evan Williams are both good bourbons. Real bourbons too, made in Bourbon county, Kentucky. Another good and cheap Tennessee sour mash whiskey that tastes similar to a bourbon and is cheaper than Jack is George Dickel. If somewhat lacking in the same quality of flavor as Jack, it is actually a bit smoother, and makes for a good shot or hard mix. About $12/fifth here.

If your goal is just to drink hard liquor mixed with coke on the cheap, do yourself a favor and just buy Barcardi light. It's a cheap, good rum that mixes well with almost anything. That or Smirnoff's vodka.

Avoid the super cheap alcohols (like Hood River Distillery for example, or Monarchs, or Brokers, etc). What they sell may say on the label that it is whiskey, or rum, or vodka, but is actually nearly-pure distilled alcohol (i.e. everclear) mixed with flavoring. Not good.

Congrats, you're the biggest idiot in this thread.

#1 - The "non-standard" barrels do almost nothing to taste. They alter color
#2 - Any slight difference in taste comes from the filtration methods Jack uses, not the barrels.
#3 - I never called Jack a bourbon, if you reread my post (after your mommy teaches you to read) you'll see that I said that if he likes Jack he should stick to bourbons as that's the closest match to JD.
#4 - When a person says they like Jack and want something cheaper, any intelligent person will point them towards a bourbon
#5 - When a person says they like Jack, want something cheaper and an intelligent person points them towards cheap bourbons, only a complete moron would raise the "Jack isn't bourbon argument"
#6 - That makes you a complete moron.

So come on Skippy, put up or shut up. Prove that you know something about liquor other than some crap you read on a website and clearly don't understand. If a person likes Jack Daniels and wants something cheaper that tastes about the same, what would you suggest they use? If you come up with anything other than an inexpensive bourbon it merely reinforces #6.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Jack Daniels is bourbon in every way except the name. Same mash recipe, same water, same aging process. It's not allowed to be called bourbon because it's made in Tennesse instead of Kentucky and because the sugar-maple barrels used impart slight coloration while bourbon must be uncolored. It's a technicality. The idiots who chime in with "Jack Daniels is not bourbon" have likely never tasted Jack or a "real" bourbon and would not be able to tell Jack Daniels apart from Yukon Jack.

And then you bring up yet one more way in which Jack does not conform to bourbon standards. Ways that make it more than not a bourbon "in every way except the name".

And I did "put up or shut up", asshole. In my post which you actually quoted. I recommended George Dickel (which, like Jack, is also not a bourbon), Bacardi, and Smirnoff's. Maybe you might want to learn to read? :roll:

But hey, you're doing a great job in proving just how low ATOT has sunk. A guy asks for advice on cheap liquor and you turn it into a worthless flame thread full of petty, insubstantiated insults simply because you feel inadequate over your alcoholism. Nice work.


edit: Speaking of website information , I like this bit from Jack's own website (will you find that credible? :roll: ):

Unlike bourbon, Jack Daniel's is charcoal-mellowed. Charcoal-mellowing refers to a process used to make Tennessee whiskey, such as Jack Daniel's. The process involves slowly dripping the newly made whiskey through giant containers hard-packed with 10 feet of sugar maple charcoal. The process takes ten days, and during this time the whiskey absorbs the essence of the charcoal, refining the spirit and giving it a unique flavor and aroma.

So even the company brags that they don't make bourbon. AND unlike what you said, Jack is not aged in sugar maple barrels (that's the charcoal it's filtered through), but in barrels made from white oak. Here what the company has to say about their barrel aging process:

Whiskey barrels are assembled from American White Oak, and that's because American White Oak just happens to have the right combination of compounds to create the tastiest whiskey. These compounds, referred to as such because they have really confusing names, are exposed when the insides of the barrels are charred by open flame.

As the whiskey ages inside the barrel, the wood contracts and expands (as everything does) with changes in the surrounding climate. The whiskey is allowed to move in and out of the wood as this happens, and the exposed compounds mix with the whiskey. The mixing gives the whiskey a smoky flavor and an amber tint.

 

[Robor]

owned?

 

[PKPunk]

I've found some cheap rum at safeways that tastes great with coke or pepsi or even striaght.

Kuya Fusion Rum, I think it's like 70 or 80 proof.

I usually can find it at safeway on sale for like 10 bucks or like 13 normally priced.

 

[dhans7673]

A cheap and good tasting alternative to Captain Morgan's is Admerial Nelson's Spiced Rum.

 

[Brian23]

Aristocrat

 

[clamum]

Vodka:
5 O'Clock ($5.64/750 mL)
Mohawk ($6.93/750 mL)

Whiskey:
Kessler ($9.49/750 mL)

Gin:
Seagram's ($9.96/70 mL)

Rum:
Admiral Nelson's Spiced Rum ($9.96/750 mL)

Those prices are for MI, they're probably similar elsewhere.