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There's different everclears. The one people normally think of is the 190 proof, but its not the only one.Everclear is 190 proof (95% pure grain alcohol).
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There's different everclears. The one people normally think of is the 190 proof, but its not the only one.Everclear is 190 proof (95% pure grain alcohol).
There's different everclears. The one people normally think of is the 190 proof, but its not the only one.
Whiskey's fine and all... But Bacardi 151 is/was (no longer made ) where its at. Anything else is just a mild drink in the morning.
Before I give any recommendations I gotta state for the record that I am fresh out of college so my experience with whiskey is mostly the bottom end stuff. That being said I have found that Blue Collar Whiskey (hardtimesdistillery) is one of the better whiskeys for the <$20 price bracket. The other whiskey I like is in the $20-$30 bracket and its 4 spirits American Whiskey (4 Spirits American Whiskey | 4SpiritsDistillery.com)
Bull Run distilling in Portland also has some good products including a barrel aged vodka that is very very good.
Interesting question, to which I do not have a constructive answer.
Whiskey is a weird animal. Even within a certain brand, sometimes it can be really good and really hit the spot, where other times, it just doesn't seem all that good.
So, buying one bottle of craft whiskey, and never being able to buy it again, it's hard to really know if it's good or not. I may try a sample, and it may be really good, and I'll likely buy a bottle. So I might think that it was pretty good stuff. But since I can't ever buy it again, there's no way to know if the next bottle will also be good.
Jack Daniels, and big-name Canadians, although they're produced in tanker-car quantities, are some of just a few examples of whiskey (or whisky, depending on where it's made), that seem to be repeatable to my palate, case after case.
WAYNO.
PS...I was at a craft show in Mt. Angel earlier this year. A vendor was selling an Oregon made rye whiskey, and it was exceptional. I bought a bottle. I would like to try it again, but I don't even know the maker. That's a problem with craft distillers that only sell at fairs.
Whiskey's fine and all... But Bacardi 151 is/was (no longer made ) where its at. Anything else is just a mild drink in the morning.
Maker's Mark is the secret ingredient in my Capital Punishment chili. I'll post a recipe someday. The stuff is so good (and so hot) that the recipe should not die with me.
Maker's Mark is the secret ingredient in my Capital Punishment chili. I'll post a recipe someday. The stuff is so good (and so hot) that the recipe should not die with me.
On a similar note, my uncle in WV found the old family homestead cabin and farm from around Civil War times and bought it back from whoever owned it. That was about 1955. He cleaned it up and turned it into a 40 acre hunting and fishing camp with about a quarter mile of river front. Uncle Ray died about 1965, and my cousin inherited the place. I used to go back there for two weeks every year and stay at the camp. That was the best two weeks of every year for decades. We played golf, fished, hunted, shot clays, shot the bull, drank whiskey, played poker and told stories for two weeks each summer. We made salsa and chili out of ingredients from the garden patch, where my cousin grew everything needed. That's where I first tried things like groundhog stew, and also where I developed the Capital Punishment chili recipe.
One day while looking for some obscure tool in the basement, my cousin moved an old box out of the way and on a whim decided to look inside it. There he found an unopened bottle of Glenlivet wrapped in an old towel. It had to have been there since my uncle bought it, and at that point he had been dead for probably 30 years. We spent the evening toasting Uncle Ray and telling stories about him and his four brothers, one of whom was my father. No finer whiskey was ever consumed.
I have some good news for you- for quite some time the 190° has been available here in WA. Perhaps your local stores don't like stocking it, but they could.My state says I shouldn't be trusted with the 190 proof and only allows me to have the 150, for my own safety, which is the nanny state version.
I have some good news for you- for quite some time the 190° has been available here in WA. Perhaps your local stores don't like stocking it
You just GAVE away some Blue Label to a friend?? Why arent we friends. lolEither my wife or I (can't remember which) was given a bottle of Johnnie Walker Blue Label for doing something or other at work (can't remember what). It sat in the cabinet for years. Finally I decided to give it a try. To me, it tasted like drinking kerosene. We gave it away to the first friend who would take it. Guess I'm not a whiskey drunker, huh?
Crown Royal? gotta step up your game dude.
You can be friends with my neighbor. That's his drink right there
Crown Royal? gotta step up your game dude.