What are you drinking tonight?

[bfun_x1]

Kirkland XO Cognac. Amazing for the price.

 

[Zanovar]

Drinking crappy asda wine this afternoon.Cheap and nasty.Hits the spot i suppose.

 

[lxskllr]

It's a pretty blah summer day. Raining and warm. I'm cool with the rain, but summer's been getting me down. It has zero redeeming qualities. About four months to go before I can expect decent weather :^(

 

[TallBill]

Four Roses single barrel and a big jar of espresso

 

[lxskllr]

 

[TallBill]

Been to the distillery, not bad stuff!

 

[lxskllr]

Been to the distillery, not bad stuff!

I'm very pleased. The rum casking gives it a little something different without being weird. There's some nice Irish whiskey getting released these days. I read that Irish got a bad name during prohibition due to people selling domestic rotgut as Irish. It's nice seeing Irish whiskey take off, and get more makers than Jameson and Bushmills in on the game.

 

[lxskllr]

A treble measure of this...

and this...

 

[lxskllr]

+

 

[lxskllr]

 

[lxskllr]

 

[TheVrolok]

Late entry.. Tons of Pisco Sours and Chilcanos last night.

 

[lxskllr]

The beer's good. Crisp and light. Lighter than what I usually get, but good for summer.

The rum's delicious. This was probably the best recommendation I ever got from this site. That said, I think I'm done with rum exploration, unless I see/get recommended something of verifiable quality. There's too much shenanigans in rum production. No real guidelines by statute. Seems like everything's fair game, and the only requirement is had to be sugar at some point. Objectively, I guess the main requirement is it tastes good, but subjectively, it tastes better when it was made with skilled distillation and casking. Anything added aside from age is cheating, and cheapens it a bit. I posted before I thought Kirk & Sweeney was delicious, but the more I tasted it, the more it tasted like the weird vanilla flavor EJ brandy XO("extra smooth" :rollseyes: ) has. It tastes good, but it tastes like a chemist put it together. Something anyone with a gas spectrometry setup could do.

I'll stick with my first two rums which were both winners(Pussers. Angostura 1919), and that'll be sufficient for my rum fix.

 

[urvile]

Quite possibly the best blended rum ever made.

 

[urvile]

My current selection. It's funny back when I was a bum cruising from unemployment to crap job to unemployment and so forth. I used to get drunk on a shoestring budget the more liquor in the bottle the better. In fact I once gave a lightning talk called "alcoholism on a shoe string budget" I talked about home distilled grappa and home made sambuca (sambuca concentrate mixed with sugar boil it up, wait for it to cool down, then pour it into an empty 2 litre coke bottle. Oh yeah) that shit will get you drunk. It isn't pleasant but it does the job.

These days though. I appreciate the quality.

 

[urvile]

 

[urvile]

 

[vi edit]

My current selection. It's funny back when I was a bum cruising from unemployment to crap job to unemployment and so forth. I used to get drunk on a shoestring budget the more liquor in the bottle the better. In fact I once gave a lightning talk called "alcoholism on a shoe string budget" I talked about home distilled grappa and home made sambuca (sambuca concentrate mixed with sugar boil it up, wait for it to cool down, then pour it into an empty 2 litre coke bottle. Oh yeah) that shit will get you drunk. It isn't pleasant but it does the job.

These days though. I appreciate the quality.

I had some Nikka Coffey Grain a few weeks ago. It's VERY good.

 

[JM Aggie08]

Old fashioned with orange/regular bitters, made with Pikesville Rye.

Probably tap back into my bottle of Angel's Envy rye tonight, or perhaps finish of my bottle off Noah's Mill or Four Roses Single Barrel.

 

[vi edit]

Old fashioned with orange/regular bitters, made with Pikesville Rye.

Probably tap back into my bottle of Angel's Envy rye tonight, or perhaps finish of my bottle off Noah's Mill or Four Roses Single Barrel.

You sir, have some good tastes.

I'm slumming it with some Elijah Craig. If you can get it for under $25 it's a great bottle of bourbon.

 

[Batboy88]

I'm Not...hadn't had anything in a long time...but yeah I really really need a Drink lol

 

[urvile]

I had some Nikka Coffey Grain a few weeks ago. It's VERY good.

It's a nice drop and still in the affordable category as far as Japanese whisky goes.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Attempting to clear out my collection in my closet for a few reasons:
1) I need to drink less... less delicious beers in the house, the less tempted I am.
2) I honestly don't think these are going to age well long term without some kind of extra refrigerator where I can store all of these.

So for tonight...

 

[Ackmed]

Kirkland XO Cognac. Amazing for the price.

I like Cognac myself. Recent visit to a Duty Free story and got some Henny White. One of my favorites. Others are getting low, too.

 

[JM Aggie08]

You sir, have some good tastes.

I'm slumming it with some Elijah Craig. If you can get it for under $25 it's a great bottle of bourbon.

I've just started really dipping my toe into the Bourbon/Rye waters, in terms of building up a collection. It's partly driven by picking up an antique (50's-60's) linen fold dry bar back in February. I've found that most mid-tier bourbons are sufficient for my palette, and I've not really sprung for anything higher end -- Angel's Envy rye is fairly pricey/somewhat difficult to find, I suppose. I have 2 bottles of Blanton's, one I picked up in Japan. I'll never buy Pappy -- that's just absurd.

Elijah Craig puts out some fantastic stuff!