Whats in your glass tonight??? Part(?)

December 23, 2014, 09:55 PM

AKSuperDually

Since I ran out of CO2 to push my ciders and beers.....I'm drinking a cheap merlot with a finger of some cheapish cooking whiskey I keep around. Saving a nice bottle of cupcake wine for Christmas, I'll probably go get more CO2 after that....cause the vodka is almost gone also.

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"The trouble with our Liberal friends...is not that they're ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so." Ronald Reagan, 1964
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"Arguing with some people is like playing chess with a pigeon. It doesn't matter how good I am at chess, the pigeon will just take a shit on the board, strut around knocking over all the pieces and act like it won.. and in some cases it will insult you at the same time." DevlDogs55, 2014

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December 23, 2014, 10:08 PM

kx90

Neshaminy Creek Brewing Company - Churchville Lager

This is a local brewery starting to take off pretty good.

December 23, 2014, 11:04 PM

jer830

Lagunitas Hairy Eyeball. Might follow it up with a Brown Shugga'

December 23, 2014, 11:26 PM

tatortodd

An old "friend"

December 24, 2014, 01:38 AM

Ian111

Picked these up tonight. I'm having the Lagavulin right now. And it's true it doesn't need water to open it up. Nice out of the bottle.

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December 24, 2014, 07:00 AM

Lt CHEG

I really need to try some Springbank. Every time I see one of those bottles on this thread I'm soooo tempted. I almost picked up a bottle at the liquor store the other day but went with a Speyside instead. How does the Springbank compare to a Highland or a Speyside? I notice that you like Islay Scotches as well, and ism not a very big fan of strongly peaty Scotches so I wonder how I'd like the Springbank.

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December 24, 2014, 07:37 AM

280nosler

quote:
Originally posted by Lt CHEG:
I really need to try some Springbank. Every time I see one of those bottles on this thread I'm soooo tempted. I almost picked up a bottle at the liquor store the other day but went with a Speyside instead. How does the Springbank compare to a Highland or a Speyside? I notice that you like Islay Scotches as well, and ism not a very big fan of strongly peaty Scotches so I wonder how I'd like the Springbank.

Springbank has three releases: Springbank, Longrow, and Hazleburn. Hazleburn is completely non-peated, Springbank barley spends 6 hours over peat smoke and Longrow barley spends 48 hours over peat smoke. Regular springbank is very low on the peat flavor. I would classify Springbank 12 (Green) as having a similar amount of peat as Oban 14 or Old Pulteney, but slightly richer, and only having a single dram of Hazleburn, would put it between a Talisker and a Ardbeg.

December 24, 2014, 07:41 AM

mttaylor1066

While I am baking this Christmas Eve... this:

December 24, 2014, 07:44 AM

Lt CHEG

quote:
Originally posted by 280nosler:
quote:
Originally posted by Lt CHEG:
I really need to try some Springbank. Every time I see one of those bottles on this thread I'm soooo tempted. I almost picked up a bottle at the liquor store the other day but went with a Speyside instead. How does the Springbank compare to a Highland or a Speyside? I notice that you like Islay Scotches as well, and ism not a very big fan of strongly peaty Scotches so I wonder how I'd like the Springbank.

Springbank has three releases: Springbank, Longrow, and Hazleburn. Hazleburn is completely non-peated, Springbank barley spends 6 hours over peat smoke and Longrow barley spends 48 hours over peat smoke. Regular springbank is very low on the peat flavor. I would classify Springbank 12 (Green) as having a similar amount of peat as Oban 14 or Old Pulteney, but slightly richer, and only having a single dram of Hazleburn, would put it between a Talisker and a Ardbeg.

Thank you. It sounds like regular Springbank is definitely worth a try for me, while Longrow probably is not as I'm not a fan of Ardbeg (the Scotch not the SIGforum member

). The price seemed very reasonable too. I'll pick up a bottle soon. Thanks again.

December 24, 2014, 02:22 PM

blueshep

My Dad has wanted a bottle of Blue for sometime now but wouldn't spend the money,so Merry Christmas and Happy Birthday Dad!
Hope he don't mind sharing!

December 24, 2014, 03:28 PM

280nosler

When they got rid go Johnnie Walker Green, they immediately thought the sales of Blue and Gold would skyrocket, but they didn't. This led the the release of JW Platinum, but it doesn't hold a candle to either Green or Gold. Essentially they have a bottling not many care for in either the quality, value or price point. I heard a bottle of JW Green went for about $40 shy of Blue last month in one of the area whisky clubs.
Hope your dad like that Blue, it is an interesting dram.