Thanks! Tastes of this crew are completely all over the place, a couple are huge peat monsters but most are 180 opposite. "Easy drinking" is exactly what I was looking for!
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Klobberer
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I could send you a couple of samples...
Big Yellow Spot fan here, too. But it's awfully hard to choose among this and Red Spot, plus the comparable Redbreasts (esp. the new 27-year!) and the ever-changing Midleton Very Rare -- especially since they're all made by Irish Distillers at the New Midleton Distillery.
Just imagine the Irish whiskey tasting you could put together!
This is my current Irish shelf:
Favorite also means accessible and something I'd want to drink on a regular basis. Red and Blue are very good, but also much more challenging than you'd find in just about any other Irish and not something I normally look to when I reach for something from the Emerald Isle.
I'm not a proof snob, but the Redbreast CS shows what a higher proof Irish can do. I've never been interested enough in Redbreast in general to pursue the older aged bottles myself.
Haven't gotten into the Powers White label yet, but it comes highly recommended by my Irish boss as the 'fancy version' of his go to.
Connemara is odd as an irish given it is peated, but nothing really wrong with it, just picked it up once as 'something different'. The Glendalough is just bad. It's Irish aged in relatively obscure Japanese oak barrels. I was in Dublin and walked into a whisky shop and asked for a bottle I wouldn't be able to ever by in the US and that is what I walked out with.
I very much appreciate the offer my friend but I'm sure the recommendations will be great, and really the whole point of what we're doing is trying something new together. I'd be "cheating" if I did the samples first lol.
Got to find me a Red Spot next.
I’ve heard that the Powers Three Swallows is pretty good. I might pick that one up next.
I noticed my typo and edited it, and then read your reply. Thanks for noticing, too.
Nice selection!
If you head to Dublin again, the relatively new Teeling distillery in Dublin is producing a number of interesting whiskies...
BruceWayne
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Eagle rare and wilderness trail tonight. Kind of a theme...
FDLmold
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After an above-average workout, it's Noah's Mill. No theme at all. It was at the front of the "good" shelf and I couldn't move my arms any further than that.
Neck pour. Some meh reviews on this, but I prefer to make up my own damn mind.
And after a sip or 2....not terrible, and not meh. I think it is decent with room to improve. Again, just the ol np so, hope it livens up!
And after a sip or 2....not terrible, and not meh. I think it is decent with room to improve. Again, just the ol np so, hope it livens up!
When I was 14, my sister worked at a record store. She bought me the Robert Johnson Complete Recordings. It changed my life.
How do you all organize your spirits/whiskey? Type, region, rarity, how much you like them?
All of mine are safely tucked away inside the bar. I know where each bottle is by memory. I can pull them out in the dark with a blindfold on.
I have a few boards that are color-coded with information about what bottles I have, which ones are open etc...
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My pours are usually in the 2-3 oz range. Weeknights its one or two pours the nights I drink, which for the sake of my liver I try to limit to 2 to 3 times a week.
Game nights and weekends all bets are off, it can be 2 to 15ish pours depending on how badly the previous week went.
detroitdad
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Nowadays bottles go wherever I can physically fit/hide them. Virtually I have a little google spreadsheet to help me keep tabs on what I have and/or am looking for. It usually sorted just by bottle name, but I have columns for price, place I bought it, type, distillery and my rating. Having it on google sheets is nice because I can check it from anywhere on my phone, so if I stop by a store and find something I can double check if I already have it (or how much I previously paid for it).
Sometimes I'll put my sampling notes in the sheet too. Lately I usually type up the sampling notes here on PCF, then just cut/paste into my sheet. But the google sheet is not really a great format for that (especially trying to read it later), there's probably an app that I should be using.
Billy Baroo
Full House
This…with an emphasis on hide
Billy Baroo
Full House
Just picked up three more to “hide” today!
FDLmold
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I've got stuff I'll share with anybody, stuff I'll share when we're friends and warmed up on shelf 1 a little, then shelf 3 is me being selfish, or for the great times.
BruceWayne
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Two "top shelf" cabinets house the hard to find, rare and/or special drinkers. One for rye, one for bourbon, about 6-8 bottles each.
The main bar is 3 rows... some good stuff makes it's way here too, but overall it's by the following...
Cheapest/budget stuff far left, rye far right. Organized by bottle height...whatever else in the middle... tallest bottles in back/top row, then a middle section, then bar level. About 25 bottles a row.
Older photo but you get the idea
Rail bourbon, whiskey, ryes I don't particularly like to sip (but mix) go under the bar, on separate shelves in front. About 15 bottles.
Storage room off to the side, boxed up are backups or bottles waiting for a space to join the party. 3 full boxes, about 20 bottles.
I also have a detailed spreadsheet organizing everything that enters the bar. Distillery, bottle, proof, price, where acquired, nose and tasting notes, a grade. My plan is to have this for my friends when we get together and want to talk over our hunts or what we've enjoyed or want to share.
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this is rapidly becoming my approach as well.
my cabinet it completely full and I have about 50-60 bottles tucked away. I’m probably going to sell a bunch off since I’ll never get around to opening them
Haha this is true for me too. I might be selling some soon as well
Dibs.
Love my New Riff ryes!
Klobberer
Full House
Where ever they fit until I can build more shelves.
My wife is cleaning the basement and I’m just waiting for when she stumbles upon my bottles. I still haven’t figured out what to say. At least she doesn’t know how much I spent. Lol
I've got a rather sizeable shelf that is just various mixers/liquors/creams/what have you. This is things like baileys, chambord, drambuie. I've got a very bottom shelf that is like half vodka, straight and flavored, and then is being quickly taken over by coffee things like coffee liquors that I have entirely too many of but I can't help but buy.
I've got a shelf for just the core expressions of the 9 active distilleries on Islay. My wife is getting me some framed drawings and the like of distilleries on the island so I want to kinda keep this relatively uncluttered. I also have an overflow single malt scotch shelf but I'm frustrated with it because it is hard to reach given how high up it is.
Also got the Irish shelf and an 'other whiskey' shelf. In here I have the few bourbon/americans I keep in the house as well as the blended scotch I have. It amuses me greatly given this is pretty close to the ground and it's where Johnny Walker goes.
Recently I've picked up a non trivial number of spirits just from Bruichladdich and they are at the point where they kinda need their own shelf but I don't have another shelf for them. Presently they are sitting by the window. It's entirely possible I'm about to reorganize the entire part of the room just to get another shelf open.
I've got a shelf for just the core expressions of the 9 active distilleries on Islay. My wife is getting me some framed drawings and the like of distilleries on the island so I want to kinda keep this relatively uncluttered. I also have an overflow single malt scotch shelf but I'm frustrated with it because it is hard to reach given how high up it is.
Also got the Irish shelf and an 'other whiskey' shelf. In here I have the few bourbon/americans I keep in the house as well as the blended scotch I have. It amuses me greatly given this is pretty close to the ground and it's where Johnny Walker goes.
Recently I've picked up a non trivial number of spirits just from Bruichladdich and they are at the point where they kinda need their own shelf but I don't have another shelf for them. Presently they are sitting by the window. It's entirely possible I'm about to reorganize the entire part of the room just to get another shelf open.
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