Whiskey/Scotch Thread

The5rivers · 03-26-2021, 12:57 AM

Had some eagle rare, midelton and Blantons over the weekend with some beautiful Cuban cigars (Quai d'Orsay and Vegas Robaina). Such a relaxing time with nice weather!

dreamingat30fps · 03-27-2021, 12:40 PM

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Originally Posted by The5rivers

Had some eagle rare, midelton and Blantons over the weekend with some beautiful Cuban cigars (Quai d'Orsay and Vegas Robaina). Such a relaxing time with nice weather!

Blantons use to be one of my favorites until it became all crazy. You can't find it anymore and people are trying to get stupid money for it now.

ssokolich · 03-27-2021, 03:08 PM

Hatozaki snall batch

Joekerr · 03-27-2021, 03:26 PM

Just picked up Macallan Classic Cut again, but the 2020 vintage, so when I get around to it, I plan to compare it to the 2019 (which I have a little of left).

The5rivers · 03-27-2021, 07:23 PM

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Originally Posted by dreamingat30fps

Blantons use to be one of my favorites until it became all crazy. You can't find it anymore and people are trying to get stupid money for it now.

Yeah blantons is hard to get now. Luckily, I was able to get two from my local Costco last year. Tastes so good and it goes quick with that little bottle haha.

evil-G-nius · 03-28-2021, 12:48 AM

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Blantons use to be one of my favorites until it became all crazy. You can't find it anymore and people are trying to get stupid money for it now.

I can get it. Not sure what you consider stupid money but I am pretty sure the price I can find is pretty good. Let me know what your range is and I'll see if I can get it. If so I'd be more than happy to arrange shipping some for you

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Hatozaki snall batch

This stuff is good! So much flavor even though it is such a light color

Hawkeye · 03-29-2021, 04:17 PM

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I can get it. Not sure what you consider stupid money but I am pretty sure the price I can find is pretty good. Let me know what your range is and I'll see if I can get it. If so I'd be more than happy to arrange shipping some for you

This stuff is good! So much flavor even though it is such a light color

I would consider $60-$70 good. Anything over $80 is stupid IMO.

evil-G-nius · 03-29-2021, 04:49 PM

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I would consider $60-$70 good. Anything over $80 is stupid IMO.

Good to know. I'll take a look next time I am at the shop but I think that is the range I see them. I'll double check to be sure though

dreamingat30fps · 03-29-2021, 05:11 PM

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I would consider $60-$70 good. Anything over $80 is stupid IMO.

Yeah, by crazy money I just meant significantly over retail and I believe when it was readily available it was in that $60-$70 price range. Now if I google it you see it going for anywhere from $100-$300 and I didn't check to see if they actually had it in stock.

One local place has it listed for $62 but its only for select something or the other club members by invitation only or some shit. Gimme a break.

G80indy · 03-31-2021, 09:32 PM

What do you think of this?

evil-G-nius · 04-01-2021, 12:52 AM

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What do you think of this?

Its on the list of top bourbons a lot. I personally have not had that one yet but I see it a lot

JP10 · 04-01-2021, 07:22 AM

My brothers picked this up for my bachelor party last weekend. Finally got around to trying it last night.

Hawkeye · 04-01-2021, 09:34 AM

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What do you think of this?

It's a very solid bottle for $40. The other variants get better as well. I wasn't a huge fan of the single barrel select, but the store picks and barrel proof stuff is damn near impossible to beat.

David70 · 04-01-2021, 10:51 AM

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I would consider $60-$70 good. Anything over $80 is stupid IMO.

Agree except maybe not "stupid" at $80 just over priced, going rate on local secondary market is roughly $80-$100. I've got three and when general stock of bottles gets lower I will likely be a trader. Prefer trades over $$ as it takes care on two problems at once.

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What do you think of this?

One of the best for available, reasonably priced bottles.

OHV_44 · 04-01-2021, 02:18 PM

Islay always rocks.

David70 · 04-01-2021, 02:41 PM

New Riff is where we used to have our bourbon club meetings (think liability was too much for them) and they gave us our club members a chance to buy 1 of 800, 15 year bourbons (from MGP in Indiana). Price was $200 and proceeds went to bar and restaurant workers. I bought one, then found out secondary value was far more so I traded the New Riff 15 for the other 4 bottles below plus $450, figure I bought it for $211 with tax and traded it for roughly $750 total value. Tried my friends bottle and just didn't think it was worth the roughly $45 per drink-

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Hawkeye · 04-01-2021, 02:52 PM

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New Riff is where we used to have our bourbon club meetings (think liability was too much for them) and they gave us our club members a chance to buy 1 of 800, 15 year bourbons (from MGP in Indiana). Price was $200 and proceeds went to bar and restaurant workers. I bought one, then found out secondary value was far more so I traded the New Riff 15 for the other 4 bottles below plus $450, figure I bought it for $211 with tax and traded it for roughly $750 total value. Tried my friends bottle and just didn't think it was worth the roughly $45 per drink-

https://www.breakingbourbon.com/bourbon-whiskey-press-releases/new-riff-distilling-releases-15-year-old-bourbon-to-benefit-restaurant-relief-funds

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A new riff 15 like that would sell for more than 750 easily in some of the groups I'm in. That's a super rare bottle. Hell the smoke wagon special releases (also ~10-15y MGP I believe) go for a couple grand each.

David70 · 04-01-2021, 02:57 PM

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A new riff 15 like that would sell for more than 750 easily in some of the groups I'm in. That's a super rare bottle. Hell the smoke wagon special releases (also ~10-15y MGP I believe) go for a couple grand each.

Some of this is selling local, not national so I can require meetup at or near my house and exchange/cash being simple and at least with people that know the person I am dealing with. I have never dealt with national as the hassles and risks aren't worth it to me. The people in the group get pretty upset when prices get up to national level. Also sold it as soon as I got it and this likely hurt the value some as our club got probably at least 100 bottles local and a lot of people were selling them local.

Run Silent · 04-01-2021, 05:01 PM

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Islay always rocks.

Man - don't know how you drink that, lol. Tastes like wet charcoal soaked in salty mud to me.

Hawkeye · 04-01-2021, 07:26 PM

Little cigar night tasting

fgpalmer71 · 04-01-2021, 08:32 PM

Had some colonel Taylor last night and thoroughly enjoyed it.

OHV_44 · 04-02-2021, 03:52 AM

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Man - don't know how you drink that, lol. Tastes like wet charcoal soaked in salty mud to me.

It is exactly like that. Add a little liquorice and cough syrup.

But I drink this too.

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