We haven't discussed whiskey here in a while...

I think I’m going to start an infinity bottle this week.
I’ve got a few bottles that have been sitting around for quite some time with just an ounce or three left.
 
dodgechargerfan said:
I think I’m going to start an infinity bottle this week.
I’ve got a few bottles that have been sitting around for quite some time with just an ounce or three left.
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I had never heard of that but knew exactly what you meant instantly. What a great idea!
 
dodgechargerfan said:
I think I’m going to start an infinity bottle this week.
I’ve got a few bottles that have been sitting around for quite some time with just an ounce or three left.
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Walter Trout told a story about how back in the day about how he and his manager would, after a bar gig, empty all the half drank glasses of booze left on the tables into a bottle and then drink it going home.
 
I've no doubt mentioned it before but almost a decade ago one of my best friends passed away, we ran a charity fundraising night for cancer research and I won a bottle of this for £150 in the auction (it's now worth about £300-350 if I hadn't opened it!) I lived at my parents' when I bought it so for the first couple of years I had a half on the anniversary of my friends passing. I left it when I moved out and only got it back on Christmas Day this year.

There's a small band of whisky masters who trawl the distilleries and buy their own casks then have them bottled and released when they're up to snuff - 1984 was the year my pal John and myself were born...
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John's dad (old John) passed shortly before him, he was a mad character, total stoner, hard as nails, good family man and I recently mentioned some memories of going to see Roger Waters with him and his mad pals on Jack's Place.

Old John would have turned 65 this week so I decided to dig the bottle out and have a half and a smoke in his memory only to be confronted with this;

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I take it my parents had stored it lying on its back! The cork was totally rotten and a corkscrew went through it like butter which let to:

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I ended up having to decant it into some scabby old milk bottles :grin:

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Old John didn't drink, that just got in the way of getting high but I'm sure he's out there somewhere laughing at me drinking his expensive fancy arsed whisky out of a 20p recycled milk bottle :grin:

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Oban has a great distillery tour.

It sits about 100 yards from the water and the whisky picks up the salt from the sea air.
 
I'm not really a scotch guy, but the Oban is reeeeeeeally smooth and no particularly peaty.
The Yamazaki is really nice. I've only had a little of it. I think I'll give it a proper go this evening.
 
micwalt said:
I'm not really a scotch guy, but the Oban is reeeeeeeally smooth and no particularly peaty.
The Yamazaki is really nice. I've only had a little of it. I think I'll give it a proper go this evening.
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You won't really get peat from most whiskys that aren't from Islay.
 
jbj said:
I've no doubt mentioned it before but almost a decade ago one of my best friends passed away, we ran a charity fundraising night for cancer research and I won a bottle of this for £150 in the auction (it's now worth about £300-350 if I hadn't opened it!) I lived at my parents' when I bought it so for the first couple of years I had a half on the anniversary of my friends passing. I left it when I moved out and only got it back on Christmas Day this year.

There's a small band of whisky masters who trawl the distilleries and buy their own casks then have them bottled and released when they're up to snuff - 1984 was the year my pal John and myself were born...
99127630_3260204810664496_4513715297554792448_o.jpg


John's dad (old John) passed shortly before him, he was a mad character, total stoner, hard as nails, good family man and I recently mentioned some memories of going to see Roger Waters with him and his mad pals on Jack's Place.

Old John would have turned 65 this week so I decided to dig the bottle out and have a half and a smoke in his memory only to be confronted with this;

99122069_3260206413997669_3269077923142828032_o.jpg


I take it my parents had stored it lying on its back! The cork was totally rotten and a corkscrew went through it like butter which let to:

98484950_3260207430664234_6836637128256913408_o.jpg



I ended up having to decant it into some scabby old milk bottles :grin:

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Old John didn't drink, that just got in the way of getting high but I'm sure he's out there somewhere laughing at me drinking his expensive fancy arsed whisky out of a 20p recycled milk bottle :grin:

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HATE it when corks do that.
 
I still haven’t started that infinity bottle.

However, I picked this up today.
It’s from the Forty Creek Distillery.
It’s infused with juniper berries, spruce tips, mugwort, Labrador tea, and sweet fern.

I’ll be trying it this weekend, I think.


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Lerxst said:
Happy birthday! @ 2 years, I take it they're a fairly recent distiller?



Have you had the Dark Rye? It's more port than rye to me but a nice dram by a fire on a chilly night kinda sipper
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Thanks. Yeah, up in Edmonds, NW of Seattle. Not sure how long they have been there, and Rex, my brother, didn’t know much about the whiskey, though it won an award. But he really likes their gin.


I liked it very much! In fact, I overserved myself one more pour as I chatted with someone about the state at of the world and stuff too late.

Full disclosure, the really high end stuff or scotch is generally wasted on me. I don’t like a bunch of peat, etc. But this was smooth and nice, and not too sweet, etc.
 
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sunvalleylaw said:
I liked it very much! In fact, I overserved myself one more pour as I chatted with someone about the state at of the world and stuff too late.

Full disclosure, the really high end stuff or scotch is generally wasted on me. I don’t like a bunch of peet, etc. But this was smooth and nice, and not too sweet, etc.
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That's generally the best way to drink whisky :embarrassed:

You should try a Speyside or Highland Scottish malt. The peaty stuff is really only from certain parts of the islands.
 
jbj said:
That's generally the best way to drink whisky :embarrassed:

You should try a Speyside or Highland Scottish malt. The peaty stuff is really only from certain parts of the islands.
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My neighbor Jeff has lots of good stuff with special names I don’t know. But yeah, will try those you suggest. Maybe at a bar sometime when I can go, before committing to a bottle.
 
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