Baker's

Last night, Maker's cask strength

Good stuff!

Laphroaig 18

Jameson I got for Christmas, pretty good Irish whiskey, it was smooth as silk with a nice oak finish.

Big red VIP bourbon- 114pf LESV 5 Barrel small batch from MGP. I was trying to wait til my sinuses cleared up. I didn't get any of the fruit or sweet from the reviews on this one. Lots of spice and floral notes. Not sure if i should go buy 5 more or not. Going to try to revisit when feeling better.

Compared to a splash each of knob creek, Willett 15, and 2015 four roses ltd small. Four roses is clear winner haha

Also enjoyed some of the VIP tonight paired with a MF FdlA I still like it Nick ( saw your name on the label Bros. )

Anvil?

I revisited the VIP bottle last night. Got a lot of the sweet caramel vanilla and sugar notes that I didn't get the first time. I'm thinking my senses were wrecked from my cold/sinuses earlier in the week. I ordered an extra case today as its a on off product. Still not picking up all the fruit though.

Edit:

also for you malt heads out there, are there any Glendronach fans? The guys on reddit are always raving about it. Astor wines had a 19yr single cask on sale the other day so I decided to see what all the hype is about. Definitely pricey but the booze is supposed to be phenomenal.

The 12 year standard expressions that are bottled before 2012 or maybe early 2013 are actually significantly older as the distillery was moth balled form like 1996-2001 or something. The current bottled 15yr (its on a hiatus so the last bottles were from like 2015 and the old juice) and 18yr are significantly older as the last distilling season in those age ranges would've been 95 or 96 or whatever so right now they contain mostly whiskey that is probably 20+ years old... unless they've been dumping barrels and tanking them. Regardless they get great reviews and consensus is its worth the price for sherried scotch lovers.

http://wordsofwhisky.com/glendronach-is-a-lot-older-than-the-label-says/

http://wordsofwhisky.com/glendronach-15-discontinued-for-3-years/

Balvenie doublewood 12 - ran outa beer.

Elmer last night

I was gonna postdict that!

I keed, I keed...

I heard it was whiskey week.

Woodford Reserve

Black & White Scotch

Speyburn 10yr Scotch

Balvenie doublewood 12

EC12. Private Barrel. Poplar Liquor. Casper WY

Emailed my guy to see if he has more. Won't be up there til may

Springbank 15 cask strength

Last night had the new bottle of Johnnie Walker Platinum 18 Yr I just bought. Fantastic! Bite when it hit the tongue then super smooth going down.

Not a whiskey but also bought a bottle of Patron XO Cafe. Good stuff!

Sazerac rye.

Old Forester 1920 - great stuff!

IB of Imperial 20yr scotch - also good

Picked up 2 bottles of 1792 High Rye.

I might consider selling one if anyone is interested.

Paul you crack me up

It's an allocated bourbon so it's very difficult to find....or it is here. I think the Sip got around 50 bottles last year.

I know it won't be released again until late this year.

And when I pass on the price that I paid, you won't confuse me for being nice. $89.00

Missed this one! What did you think? The 2 cask strength bottles I have taste quite a bit like dill and something else herbal to me. Much more than any other MGP rye I've had. Some days I like it some days I don't.

If you like the SAOS rye, better go back where you found this and stock up. Its not regularly distributed anymore. Close 2nds would be any other MGP rye but the Willett and Redemption of similar age is prolly closest.