What Are You Drinking Tonight?

[treebogan]

Huh... Haven't had Bunnahabhain in a long time(the regular expression), and it was kinda the anti-Islay Islay whisky. The least peaty of the Islays I had. I wonder if that's still true, or they upped the peat in all their whisky?

No idea.

 

[lxskllr]

Peat Monster in my new Peat Monster glass that came in the set I bought today.

 

[lxskllr]

This is a weird one. I think I like it, but one is the correct number I think. I wouldn't want to drink two in a row. Pretty strong. 10.8% alcohol.

 

[BeerGeek]

Yuck; the last thing I want to taste in beer is mint. Save it for chocolate & cookies.

 

[lxskllr]

That's kind of the thing. If you take it on it's own terms, it's interesting and kinda good, but if you think you want a beer, it's the wrong thing to grab.

 

[lxskllr]

 

[SeanKroll]

Lil red with a Lil lady

 

[FireFighterZero]

 

[FireFighterZero]

My drinking chair.

 

[lxskllr]

Opened my bottle of Carolans tonight. Carolans and coffee.

 

[lxskllr]

Saw this today at the liquor store...

It's alright. A little sweet and medicinal. Asbach is better at the same price point(~$30), and I think some of the big name cognacs cost about that, and are also better.

 

[lxskllr]

Boss gave me a bottle. Pretty good, but strong at 11.3%. I also got some for him as a jul gift :^D I got an assortment of Belgian beers for him. He seems to like those.

 

[Tree09]

We have a really good seafood restaurant that the wife and i like going to, and i always have a few of those. Very tasty

 

[lxskllr]

I was looking at cheaper scotches to take a bottle to my mother's house for something to drink. Didn't recognize the brand, but the 1.75L bottle had a paperboard topper that rated it 91 from some kind of competition. I'm pretty sure alcohol awards are bogus. Just about everything wins some kind of award at some point. This one was $23/750ml. It's worth about that. Drinkable neat, but it has an astringent hotness on the tongue. Tastes like they blended a refined whisky with some natty grain to make it suck a little :^D Famous Grouse is only a couple bucks more I think, and would be a much better choice for a cheapie. Kick in another $10, there's numerous choices that are *much* better.

 

[BeerGeek]

Firehouse Xmas party tonight, and I imbibed more than a few. Sam Adams Winter Lager, Einstock Icelandic Toasted Porter, Flying Dog Kujo Coffee Porter, and a small glass of Dalwhinnie to cap it off. Mmmmm ... Zzzzzzz...

 

[stikine]

Bed time now!

 

[Mellow]

We opened up this bottle of 50 year old Canadian Whiskey tonight. It was very very good!

 

[stikine]

Cool, I wonder how much it improved over those years?

 

[Mellow]

My son, who is somewhat of a whiskey snob, said it was excellent. I mixed mine with eggnog, which totally disgusted him. He said that's like putting ketchup on a Kobe steak.

 

[BeerGeek]

Cleaning out the fridge of singles at year end, and quaffed these 2 repeats today:

 

[lxskllr]

I was drinking cheap today. That John Barr scotch, and E&J VSOP brandy, whatever VSOP means in the context of E&J :^D Both are skating the fine line of "drinkable", but they are indeed drinkable.

 

[lxskllr]

I got this as a gift from the boss along with a bottle of Basil Hayden. First I've had from this maker. It's pretty tasty, but powerful. I had to add a splash of water.

 

[Jonny]

Had a dry Prosecco a few nights ago that was pretty good. Might get a couple bottles for New Years Eve, need something bubbly anyways

 

[lxskllr]

One of my jul gifts me...

A bonus is the cups are enameled steel. It wasn't a factor in my purchase, but enamel cups are more fun than ceramic. The whisky is exceptional of course. One of my favorites for sure.

 

[gf beranek]

Every so often....