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

[tody]

@Tago-Mago Mezcalita. Not the first, won‘t be the last.

[Tago Mago]

@Denimhead-0 tried it today, May have to give it another round with at least one of the Exceptional Cask Series I own. Cask strength definitely coming through more prominently here than in the other Foursquare I've tried, but not overpowering. Really spicy pepper on the tongue, rich, creamy, not overly dry. Long finish, that helps take the edge off the high ABV a little, if that makes sense? Just another really good bottle from Foursquare.

Edit: major bonus points for no added sugar or colour, as far as I am aware. True 15 years as well

[Tago Mago]

Holiday drawing to a close

[Denimhead 0]

The end of a long weekend in the States

[scooter]

Picked up a cask strength wheated bourbon and cask strength dark pumpernickel rye.

[Tago Mago]

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[WhiskeySandwich]

maybe this has been discussed before, but: Anybody have experience with a consistent, easy way to make big clear ice cubes?

[tenuin]

@WhiskeySandwich

Look into directional freezing. You'll need a fair bit of freezer space for this. Basically get a cooler that's insulated from 5 sides and open on top, fill it with water and freeze. It'll freeze from the top down (the " directional" part of directional freezing) and push impurities to the bottom as it does. Once you take out the whole block of ice, you'll have a clear top half and a cloudy bottom half

[Chap]

Hmmm, really nice @scooter many thanks

[jfox1980]

@WhiskeySandwich use distilled water that works best

[Johnnyutah247]

When the weather cools down nothing beats an old fashioned. I prefer WT 101.

[Jett129]

@Johnnyutah247 Have you tried the new 8yr WT101.Really good and at $39.99 a great value for an 8 yr old bourbon.

[Jett129]

Road testing this one tonight. Checking a lot of boxes for me. Real classic bourbon for me. Loving the finish.

[ROman]

This is kind of funny. Tomorrow is a good friends birthday, I know he likes Tequila, so I went through our liquor stock pile and found this. Milagro Special Barrel Reserve Anejo Tequila.

Then I googled it and saw the retail price.

[Giles]

Get in there Ralph........:-)

[endo]

@ROman said in Hard Drinkers, Lets Drink Hard (Spirits, Liquors and Cocktails):

... the retail price.

Ouch

[WhiskeySandwich]

i'm confused, I thought Milagro was mid? Their bottles are cool as fuck tho

[ROman]

I don't know, when I googled it to see if it was good, a company called Liquor Freight has it available at $699.99.

[endo]

totally in Dude mode

[WhiskeySandwich]

I dont mean to be a party pooper, but a word of caution about a lot of those sites with prices online - many have exorbitant markups for some releases, especially older ones that may have discontinued packaging or bottling, anything considered hard to find, Stores do this too. They're all shameless price gougers, using 'collectors' as their target customer. See it all the time with knives, sneakers, etc. Idk how much you paid for it if you don't recall adding it to your stockpile, but something is only worth as much as someone is willing to pay for it. I see these places selling stuff like Weller Special Reserve or Blanton's single barrel for $150+ and retail is a third of that. It grinds my gears lol

I'm not intending to shoot you down, its just these people fuck up the market for stuff. Imagine someone buying up all of your favorite IH cut and selling it for triple the cost. Manipulating the exclusivity of a product. Isn't this what Rolex does, but entirely in-house? okay, I'm just being obnoxious at this point.....