Favorite Scotch or other brown whiskey

Tullamore Dew is my go to whiskey. If I'm going for good Scotch it's The Balvenie Caribbean Cast.
 
I like the Glenlivet 18 year old stuff. BUT- its a bit pricy and I save it for an occasional treat. The 12 years old stuff id VERY good with a bit of branch water and cost a lot less,
 
Woodruff Reserve is my go to currently.
 
Well, for everyday sippin, the old standbys are Jack Daniels or Makers Mark. Iff'n Im in a good bourbon mood, my go to is Knob Creek. Just somethin about that stuff. Not much of a Scotch fan, but when I do spring for a bottle, it's Glenlivet 15 French Oak Reserve. It's the only Scotch I can drink. Very, very smooth.
 
never got around to Scotch... I drank Beam for a few years...then Southern Comfort for the next 20,with some Wild Turkey... but lately Buffalo Trace has been making the go to list.....several weeks ago I found a bottle of Old Weller Antique 107 proof.... bout 30 bucks... with tax... its making the top of the list now.
With all the Bourbon snobbery going on there are a lot of single barrels being bought up for the holidays.
 
Toss up between Glenlivet's Nadurra 16y/o cask strength, Laphroiag's Triple Wood (or Quarter Cask) & Bushmill's 1608 400th anniversary bottling. I've got both a 2013 & 2014 Oban Distiller's Reserve that are to die for.

I like my whiskey neat. No training wheels, 'ceptin' for an occasional single ice cube in certain cask strengths.

Ain't drank Old Weller 107 in a zillion years, but do love me some Buffalo Trace.
 
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I personally can't stand scotch but I have a couple of Crowns before bed.
 
My absolute favorite!!!!

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If I am paying Jack old No. 7, I will drink anything else if it is free
 
I've drank Jack Daniels for as long as I've been drinking. Old Number 7 with some Gentlemen Jack thrown in for good measure. I really like the JC Single Barrel Select, but at @ $65-70 a fifth it's a little bit pricey! I've lately found some JD Old Number 2 and 3. They are remaking all the old Master Distillers recipes. You can taste a difference.
 
I'll take whatever I can get.

But I am happier with a couple of fingers of Blanton's in my glass.
 
NKD;n13702 said:
I'll take whatever I can get.

But I am happier with a couple of fingers of Blanton's in my glass.
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Same here! Rather hard to find around these parts.
 
Glenmorangie Lavanta is my current bottle and it's very good. Aged in bourbon barrel and finished in a sherry barrel.
 
I like Woodford Reserve also, but have been drinking more Jeffersons Very Small Batch here lately. And alway's neat.
 
Whats in the house now... Glenlivet 15, Old Grand-Dad Bonded, Jim Beam Bonded and Jim Beam Double Oak.. Just finish a bottle of Larceny.
 
I bought a bottle of Jim Beam Black a while back because it was on sale. It's pretty good stuff, although maybe not quite up to Crown Black for me. (I know Crown's not really bourbon, but sometimes you have to hold your nose and force it down!) I also tried a bottle of Makers Mark 46 for a Christmas get together recently, and it was very nice. None of it survived the party.
 
Woodford Reserve is probably at the top of the list. I was gifted a bottle of Elijah Craig Small Batch from my Dad, and copared it to Larceny on a night I was feelin' froggy. The EC was definitely a lil smoother but the Larceny had more flavor. There is always a bottle of Makers in the house...
 
WL Weller 107, I like a kick in the teeth
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Been picking up Jamesons Caskmates Stout edition lately.
 
I do not have a refined palate for booze. Wine and beer, yeah, but not booze. My wife's nephew bought me a bottle of Woodford Reserve for my birthday, and it's the bomb. I love that stuff. That is now my metric, the one I shall compare against all others.
 
The boss and I made a ABC run today for a little cheer for our office. All on the company card!

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Larceny and Bulleit are two of my "go to" bourbons. I think they're both pretty decent. I'd like to get my hands on some Buffalo Trace as well. I haven't seen it in my neck of the woods.
 
Don;n7767 said:
Tullamore Dew is my go to whiskey. If I'm going for good Scotch it's The Balvenie Caribbean Cast.
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+1 on Tullamore Dew. I tend to go for this one quite often. It has a little bit of a different taste than most whiskey, though it is a little hard to describe.
 
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+1 on Tullamore Dew. I tend to go for this one quite often. It has a little bit of a different taste than most whiskey, though it is a little hard to describe.
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It seems a bit sweeter to me than other whiskey.
 
Well hopefully we won't have to see the Lawless Kraken in this thread.
i had the first shot of bourbon I have had in 20 years, while at my brother's back in August. It wasn't bad. He offered my BIL one and I asked if I was chopped liver. David knows I don't drink whiskey so it was an honest faux pas.
For the life of me I can't remember what it was but I'm sure it was pricey knowing my brother. I think it had a buffalo on the bottle.
 
The Green Heron;n18685 said:
Well hopefully we won't have to see the Lawless Kraken in this thread.
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I am no whisky expert but I like that Jack Daniels Tennessee Honey. I am however a rum man....
 
CrashTestDummy said:
Glenmorangie Lavanta is my current bottle and it's very good. Aged in bourbon barrel and finished in a sherry barrel.
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Didn't know you were a whiskey fan. Dude, you got to come over sometime for a tasting, especially if Roger's here. He's always bringin' some killer libations that are near to impossible to even find in NC.
 
Tullamore Dew is good, but has a bit of a bite to it that I'm not always in the mood for.

If I had to pick a favorite "style", I'm an Irish whiskey guy all day. Love a good Scotch as well, primarily Islays, the smokier, the better. I'm hit or miss on bourbon, tho. Some, like Buffalo Trace, I love & some, like Maker's Mark, give me heartburn.

Would still rather spin the top off a mason jar, tho. Love me some high-test corn liquor.
 
Colonel EH Taylor is a little pricey but damn it's good, both the bourbon and the rye.
 
Now that Midliferally has shown up we should have a good scotch thread in short order.

For me the latest was The Glenlivit 12 year old that Studentofthegun was so gracious enough to bring over, and I was smart enough to subsequently hide from thrillhill
 
I'm more of a rum guy, myself.

But, we just cracked the seal on a bottle of 18 year Jameson Irish Whiskey I got for my oldest brother's birthday a few days ago. That's some goooooood stuff!

I've got some Woodford Reserve around here, somewhere, that's pretty good, too.
 
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