Rant/Rave: Bourbon

[haltz]

I think there's a good number of people who just think of food and drinks as stuff they need to survive, and they like to get it over with so they can move on to whatever it is they like to do.

[Jocephus]

rum, but its conan

[JackofDiamonds]

What's everyone drinking this weekend?

I picked up a bottle of St. George's Single Malt (American Whiskey) and it's [expletive] phenomenal. I'll work through that tonight with buddy, then switch into cocktail experiments - we're working on a barrel aged recipe with brandy, kronan, fernet branca, and a rum tincture.

[jim]

Budweiser.

[letsgocards89]

I've seen Weller 7 and 12 year mentioned in this thread.

I saw this at Walmart today:


Is this the 7 year? And is $17-ish a good price?

[thrill]

Is this the 7 year? And is $17-ish a good price?

That is the 7 and $17 is the best price I've ever seen it at. That is a damn, damn good whisky.

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

Eagle Rare = perfection. Smooth, not too sweet, and plenty of flavor.

Too bad it's $40

[thrill]

Further reinforcing the stereotype that Tucson is full of dumb hicks, every time I go there for work, I hit up a BevMo on my way out of town, and every time there's at least one Weller 7.

Went there for work today.

Scored a Weller 12 and and Weller Old Antique for $21 and $22 respectively. Thank you, Tucson schmucks.

[thrill]

I opened the 12 and now I don't want to go to work tomorrow.

[33anda3rd]

I'm gonna put this here b/c it's not thread-worthy, but if it were you could call it "Rant: Drinking in LA."

I just spent a week there. Everything was way too damn sweet. I went to this place last night, the Melrose Umbrella Company. The menu is on a clipboard, and the first page is like 5 paragraphs that reads like a PR release telling you how the place is all about housemade tinctures, tonics and fresh juices and stuff, how they replicate the speakeasy culture of pre-Prohibition, with the bios of the two guys who opened the place telling you how awesome they are. Had three drinks, every one of them way out of balance and entirely too sweet. I had the "Patterson's Nap" which was Buffalo Trace, couple fruit juices, some bitters, and it tasted like a glass of juice. The bourbon was non-existent to the taste. It's the damn base spirit, it should shine and the other stuff should highlight it, but instead any taste of bourbon was removed by the sugary fruit juice. Had an aperitif cocktail, way out of balance and too sweet. Had a drink with pisco, rosé, creme de peche, and I swear the creme de peche must have been the base because it tasted like a peach with 5oz of sugar poured in and a little bit of carbonation. They garnished it with a gummy Life Saver. All of these were gross. This is what passes for cocktails in LA, fruit juice and overly sweet. I went to a couple other places and it was about the same, though this place was the worst. In short, F the LA cocktail "culture" where you get a page-long manifesto about how awesome they are on the menu and then order and the drinks all suck dong.