Hard Drinkers, Lets Drink Hard (Spirits, Liquors and Cocktails)

[ddtrash]

Lastly is one of last years Bruichladdich Octomore limited releases, the 14.2. This one is finished in Olorosso sherry and Amarone wine casks. Bottled at 57.7% cask strength and 128.9ppm phenol, this is not for the faint hearted. Bruichladdich are very clever in how they finish their heavily peated series whiskies and they do not have that immediate smokey punch that some whiskies like Laphroaig are known for, despite the Octomore numbers for peatiness being way up there. The finishing takes off some of this edge and smooth it out.

This bottle was a drunk purchase from a Bruichladdich whisky tasting evening. Mrs Trash came along for the fun and she does not like whisky so I was double dipping all night drinking her drams. I say a drunken purchase, it is really tasty and not a huge amount of arm twisting was required to purchase this bottle on the night.

[ddtrash]

Lastly is a Pedro Ximenez sweet sherry finished peaty offering from Ardmore. Ardmore are unique in so much that they are a Speyside distillery that pretty much only make peated whiskies. This is unusual for Speyside as Speyside whiskies are generally non-peated. Have not opened this one yet so unable to comment but I am hoping it to be sweet and smokey.

[pechelman]

Riffing again on another cocktail called either "don't give up the ship" or "all hands on deck" for something I guess I'll call "Batten down the hatches!" to stay with the naval theme.

1.5oz rye, .5oz of everything else, a couple dashes of orange bitters, and some dried orange wheels I was gifted. Not shown is the bar spoon of maple syrup I added as a last minute adjustment.

[WhiskeySandwich]

@pechelman those looks GOOD

[WhiskeySandwich]

Got a call about this one and was sitting on a couple bottles already so I figured it was time to pop one. It’s been a while since this is getting harder and harder to come by, but this one is definitely a good one. Only letter I’m missing now is the “T”!!!

[goosehd]

@WhiskeySandwich I saw quite a few at the duty free in Turks and Caicos on the way home and holy hell, I didn't know that they have gotten so expensive.

I bought a few cases about 10 years ago and any that I could find in duty free's at the time, have been slowly working my way through them, and still have about 12ish bottles left.

I still don't have all of the damn horse's though to spell out Blanton's...

[gazza61]

getting close to giving this one a go.

[goosehd]

@gazza61 Please let me know your thoughts...Balvenie is a go to on these long winter nights.

[gazza61]

@goosehd I will let you know as soon as I try this one, its between this and a sullivans cove at the moment,I have not quite made my my mind up yet.

[Tago Mago]

@goosehd if you want to get rid of some bottles I‘m sure there will be takers in Gosport

[Jett129]

I love Blantons,I have a bottle of Straight From the Barrel Blantons,,that's a very special occasion bourbon. Gave my letters to another forum member that was collecting.

[WhiskeySandwich]

@goosehd holly hell lol if only we could get more around here, I think MD is low on allocations

[mclaincausey]

Some recent ones. Not sure which I may have shared already.

And won this at a charity auction.

[Jett129]

Anything you especially liked?

[WhiskeySandwich]

@mclaincausey dude I love mezcal but it’s like my state doesn’t know what it is. I found ilegal repo down in Florida but I’ve been looking for the anejo cuz I know it’ll be tops. On the prowl

[pechelman]

Keeping it low effort tonight

[Jett129]

@WhiskeySandwich The Ilegal Anejo is on sale at Old Town Tequila. Obviously there will be a shipping charge,but if you can get a couple of other less expensive bottles the shipping charge per bottle goes down.

[mclaincausey]

@Jett129 I’ve only tried the Amaras. Their espadin was ok. Mexicano was superb!

I may be cellaring the other two mezcals. I’m starting to think I should stockpile tepeztate (like the Mescalero No 29) until it goes extinct in a couple of decades.

[mclaincausey]

@WhiskeySandwich one thing that’s interesting about mezcal is the variable agaves and production methods relative to tequila. Barrel aging can blunt a lot of what makes mezcal interesting and make it harder to get notes of unique terroir, production methods, or agave. I tend to stick with unaged products for that reason.

Then again, I rarely go beyond reposado for tequila as well so maybe I just don’t dig barrel aging maguey in general.

[WhiskeySandwich]

@Jett129 thanks man! I’ll have to check them out.

@mclaincausey i tend to prefer anejo but I like to try everything and compare. Honestly, i can’t really rationalize a pattern behind my preferences for anything other than whiskey. I just like what I like. Lol