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What's your favorite drinking whiskey? Not shooter or mixer

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FleshEater said:
I can’t do whiskey/hard stuff anymore. Burns my gut for days. From 21-22 I drank 110 bottles of Rebel Yell. :barf:

But I really like Jack Daniels Single Barrel. I’m not fancy, and didn’t realize whiskey drinkers had such sophisticated palettes. :flipoff2:
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On several blind taste tests most people couldnt tell the difference between cheap and expensive, or even whisky, bourbon, or scotch. Half couldnt tell the difference between their brand of choice and any similar style.
 
Stuck said:
On several blind taste tests most people couldnt tell the difference between cheap and expensive, or even whisky, bourbon, or scotch. Half couldnt tell the difference between their brand of choice and any similar style.
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I went to a fancy bachelor party a while back to Whisky Attic | Las Vegas Whiskey Tastings & Private Parties
My one takeaway was you're not supposed to take a big whiff of whiskey and then just drink it. You're supposed to take 3-5 small sips and hold each one in the front of your mouth for a few seconds before swallowing. Then take a drink and actually try to taste it.

He had some cheapo blueberry flavored whiskey there vs whiskey that actually had had blueberries soaked in it. The first go-around, they tasted the same. After using this dudes recommendation, I could actually taste the chemicals used to make the blueberry flavor in the cheapo and it tasted like ass.

Blew my mind because I'm the person that can't tell the difference between tap water and filtered, so I figured I wasn't the kind of person who could notice the difference in whiskey. As long as I do that little ritual, I can tell. But then again, who has time to sit around and do that when your friend slides you a glass?
 
Harry Johnson said:
I went to a fancy bachelor party a while back to Whisky Attic | Las Vegas Whiskey Tastings & Private Parties
My one takeaway was you're not supposed to take a big whiff of whiskey and then just drink it. You're supposed to take 3-5 small sips and hold each one in the front of your mouth for a few seconds before swallowing. Then take a drink and actually try to taste it.

He had some cheapo blueberry flavored whiskey there vs whiskey that actually had had blueberries soaked in it. The first go-around, they tasted the same. After using this dudes recommendation, I could actually taste the chemicals used to make the blueberry flavor in the cheapo and it tasted like ass.

Blew my mind because I'm the person that can't tell the difference between tap water and filtered, so I figured I wasn't the kind of person who could notice the difference in whiskey. As long as I do that little ritual, I can tell. But then again, who has time to sit around and do that when your friend slides you a glass?
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Yeah it was one of those type of things we went to. There were a couple of people who knew their shit. Most of the "hardcore" whisky drinkers ended up feeling pretty dumb when they couldnt tell rotgut from top shelf
 
Stuck said:
Yeah it was one of those type of things we went to. There were a couple of people who knew their shit. Most of the "hardcore" whisky drinkers ended up feeling pretty dumb when they couldnt tell rotgut from top shelf
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I had a friend who got some VIP tickets to a wine/alcohol event downtown in my local town because he was on some local business committee or other. We wandered around trying wine for free until we ended up in a back VIP area and there was a dude pushing some kind of high-end tequila I had never heard of before(probably because I'm too cheap to buy fancy alcohol). We walk over and I'm showing my friend about the way I learned to try whiskey and wondering if it will work with tequila. We both do the thing and the guy pouring is like "I see you gentlemen are connoisseurs" and proceeds to pull out some extra special bottles from under his table. We ended up shooting the shit with him and trying every tequila multiple times as a result. I don't actually know what happened after that but my wife came and picked me up later. :grinpimp:
 
Still a Makers fan. Been sipping on Bulleit ever since huffing the delicious fumes of it from some oak barrels. Need to broaden some more as I've not tasted as many as of late.
 
I know nothing about whiskey, but my boss loves Blanton's. He's always complaining nobody ever has it in stock, and it's not cheap.
 
I am not a connoisseur of whiskey but overly rot gut stuff is usually cheap from the stuff I've had. Thus I'm trying to give myself a floor. I'm sure I couldn't taste the difference between a $200 bottle vs a $50 bottle.:emb:

I'm also not interested in heavy flavored stuff... to me, it is mixer whiskey. I did Skrewball Peanut Butter(gift) and it was beyond over powering. I'd just as soon go with my old standby of rum and coke if I'm doing mixer stuff:homer:

I think someone nailed it on smooth being the person drinking it but in many cases, the more it cost, the smoother it goes down. I found that with tequila early on and I've applied the logic to other liquors since:shaking:
 
Sazarac rye is amazing
Angel's envy rye
Old elk
Buffalo trace
Tin cup rye
Michters rye
Basil Hayden dark rye
Blantons if you can find it
 
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Breckenridge PX Sherry Cask Finish Bourbon Whiskey is amazing.
 
Stuck said:
On several blind taste tests most people couldnt tell the difference between cheap and expensive, or even whisky, bourbon, or scotch. Half couldnt tell the difference between their brand of choice and any similar style.
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If you can’t tell Scotch apart from a whiskey you should just drink White Claw. The smoke on a scotch is very noticeable. I don’t like Scotch either.

The Costco whiskeys are not bad. I have done blind taste tests with them and they have tasted good to me. Kirtland 12 was good.
 
Garrison Brothers
Whistle Pig
(Have lots more variety on hand / don’t really partake in it as much anymore).

In the winter time I sure like to sip some good stuff and watch snow come down.
 
Regular sipping stuff is Bulleit Rye. We usually have a few handles in the cupboard and one on the booze table.

I've mentioned it before but Pikesville Rye is really really good for a $40/bottle price point.

We typically get a single bottle allocation a year of a selection of Van Winkle stuff at retail. Van Winkle 12yr Lot B is really hard to beat for the retail price. If only we could get more.

Mastersons Rye
Whistlepig 10+
Redemption Rye, the 10yr is solid
Lagavulin 16

Not a big fan of Tin Cup and most of the array of 4 Roses.
 
Jefferson's Ocean
Whistle Pig
Buffalo Trace

I don't buy it. My friends do. And they normally won't share. Something about I need to learn not to shoot it . . . or something like that . . .
 
Wheelerfreak said:
If you can’t tell Scotch apart from a whiskey you should just drink White Claw. The smoke on a scotch is very noticeable. I don’t like Scotch either.

The Costco whiskeys are not bad. I have done blind taste tests with them and they have tasted good to me. Kirtland 12 was good.
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I wasnt talking about my self. It was an event we went to that had about 100 different distillers present. One of the publications that does cigars and alcohol was doing tests to show distiguished drinkers what they were missing. It didnt work out quite the way the gentleman doing the demostration had hoped. In all honesty he was kind of a vapid little tosser who I dont really think knew what he was doing.
 
Eric said:
Jefferson's Ocean
Whistle Pig
Buffalo Trace

I don't buy it. My friends do. And they normally won't share. Something about I need to learn not to shoot it . . . or something like that . . .
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I thought Buffalo trace was kinda syrupy.
Whistle pig rye is tasty though.
 
Fun fact: Whiskey makes you fat. I only drank it on the weekends. I quit because of stomach issue's lost 10 pounds. :laughing: I still have a six-pack of beer or occasionally wine. Doesn't seem to affect me.
 
Wheelerfreak said:
If you can’t tell Scotch apart from a whiskey you should just drink White Claw. The smoke on a scotch is very noticeable. I don’t like Scotch either.
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Yep. I never came across a whiskey or bourbon I didn't like. I never found a scotch I could tolerate. They all taste like tire fires to me
 
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