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Re: Booze
« Reply #640 on: December 16, 2017, 04:15:27 pm »
Early Christmas gift from my mother in law:



Very nice selection of whiskeys I knew nothing about. All are quite interesting tastes.
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Re: Booze
« Reply #641 on: December 16, 2017, 04:47:40 pm »
Quote from: CanuckS2K on December 16, 2017, 04:00:06 pm
^ What's a bottle of MM go for at the LCBO?  I believe it's $48 here at our ANBL stores.
$44.95 is the regular price & what I paid today.

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Re: Booze
« Reply #642 on: December 16, 2017, 06:29:35 pm »
Quote from: PJungnitsch on December 16, 2017, 04:15:27 pm
Early Christmas gift from my mother in law:



Very nice selection of whiskeys I knew nothing about. All are quite interesting tastes.
Holy :censor: where can I get that?!?!?!?!
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Re: Booze
« Reply #643 on: December 16, 2017, 07:14:55 pm »
LCBO has it for Ontario, I think.

I pretty much agree with this review here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Scotch/comments/5ocqal/review_3739_bruichladdich_wee_laddie_tasting/

IMO not really for fans of mellow whiskeys (my wife prefers the Glendalough Double Barrel we got at the same time), but great if you like stronger and more complex flavors.
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Re: Booze
« Reply #644 on: December 18, 2017, 09:22:08 am »
Saturday night was my office's holiday party.  They had the Port Charlotte, and the other offerings were sh!t.  I had 8oz of it.

...and then another 4 shots of who knows what my coworkers gave me.  Made it home, made it to bed, then woke up at 4am and :hurl:

All in all, a great night.  The Port Charlotte was nice, but not really outstanding.
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Re: Booze
« Reply #645 on: December 18, 2017, 09:48:36 am »
Quote from: No-san on December 18, 2017, 09:22:08 am
Saturday night was my office's holiday party.  They had the Port Charlotte, and the other offerings were sh!t.  I had 8oz of it.

8oz. @ 50% Alc/vol. that'll do it!
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Re: Booze
« Reply #646 on: December 18, 2017, 06:29:02 pm »
Quote from: tortoise on December 18, 2017, 09:48:36 am
Quote from: No-san on December 18, 2017, 09:22:08 am
Saturday night was my office's holiday party.  They had the Port Charlotte, and the other offerings were sh!t.  I had 8oz of it.

8oz. @ 50% Alc/vol. that'll do it!

https://youtu.be/z_L8aI8ldCY
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Re: Booze
« Reply #647 on: December 31, 2017, 05:56:36 pm »
Did a very good tasting at Foursquare, one of Barbados three rum distillers:



Settled on the one limited run overproof they had,



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Re: Booze
« Reply #648 on: January 02, 2018, 10:19:42 am »
I drank a lot of booze over the NYE weekend...

...and yet, the only "good" thing I drank was a dram of Macallan 12 - good, not the best, but good.

I sadly forgot one bottle of Lindeman's Cuvee Renee in the trunk of the fozzie...what a faking mess -20'C weather made to that bottle (and the trunk liner, which was an easy clean at least).  Wife's livid since she wanted to gift that bottle to her boss (who is Belgian - or in her words, "Belgish").  Hopefully I can find a store in Vermont next week that carries it so I can bring 'er home.  I know there was one such store in Ithaca, so perhaps Vermont will have it, too, like:

http://beveragewarehousevt.com/
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Re: Booze
« Reply #649 on: January 02, 2018, 11:39:58 am »
My New Year's Eve tipple...
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Re: Booze
« Reply #650 on: January 02, 2018, 12:06:59 pm »
I'm a big fan of the whiskeys coming out of Japan and Korea.  Unfortunately they seem to be getting "found" by more folks so most are sold out here in Quebec.  Lucky for me I was in New Brunswick over the holidays and NB Liquor had some holdovers from their big whiskey / scotch show. 

Finally found some Hibiki Harmony and picked up two:  https://www.anbl.com/hibiki-harmony-750ml-25170

Also picked up some Nikka Taketsuru and a Kavalan Concertmaster. 
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Re: Booze
« Reply #651 on: January 02, 2018, 01:17:25 pm »
I prefer the Nikka, and it's harder to find.  Hibiki is well-stocked 'round here.  Never heard of Kavalan.
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Re: Booze
« Reply #652 on: January 02, 2018, 07:08:37 pm »
drinking some Monkey Shoulder blended scotch - never heard of it

Good stuff, quite fruity actually
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Re: Booze
« Reply #653 on: January 03, 2018, 03:54:03 pm »
Got some Laphroaig Quarter Cask over the holidays.  It was a gift.  I was hesitant to try it because of it's peaty/smoky reputation, and I had recently tried the Talisker Storm, which was WAY too smoky to be enjoyable for me.  However, the Laphroaig was relatively subtle, and I loved it. 
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Re: Booze
« Reply #654 on: January 03, 2018, 03:59:25 pm »
Quote from: SearhardBurger on January 03, 2018, 03:54:03 pm
Laphroaig was relatively subtle,


That's an oxymoron.
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Re: Booze
« Reply #655 on: January 03, 2018, 04:47:06 pm »
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Re: Booze
« Reply #656 on: January 03, 2018, 05:18:29 pm »
Nothing about the Islay drams are "subtle" :P

My coworker was in Florida for the holidays and brought back a 60oz bottle of Glenmoragie Original.  Looking forward to tomorrow after work ;D
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Re: Booze
« Reply #657 on: January 03, 2018, 05:20:12 pm »
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adjective: relative

1. considered in relation or in proportion to something else.
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Re: Booze
« Reply #658 on: January 03, 2018, 05:24:55 pm »
Even relatively subtle can't describe the peaty nature of Islay drams :P
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Re: Booze
« Reply #659 on: January 03, 2018, 06:59:36 pm »
The Quarter Cask is less peaty than the regular offering.  Smoother too.  But yeah, not exactly subdued.
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