South Dakota smallie record broken

[David Unnerstall]

  On 8/16/2016 at 10:10 PM, rps said:

You all need to come to the dark side. Irish whiskey. The cheap stuff is better than Old Crow or Cutty Sark. Red Breast 21 year old is the nectar of the gods.

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RPS, actually my profile picture was taken at Marble Creek and that is a bottle of Bushmills.  And an Oliva Serie V cigar.

[Gavin]

I like Bushmills as well. Usually bring some to flavor my campfire coffee.

[ness]

Speaking of pricing -- it's kinda getting nuts. Of course, the Scotches have long had the big prices on the higher end stuff. What little of that I've tried didn't sway me. Laphroig almost single-handedly turned me off of the entire category for good. Just like two separate mishaps with Southern Comfort and Yukon Jack forever turned me off of the sickeningly-sweet whatever whiskey category many years ago. (Even the sight of a bottle of either of those will make me queasy). 

So now there are all the craft distillers popping up and they want/need a premium price. Then there's the single barrel, single malt, special mash bill, sherry cask aged, long-aged whatevers. And the stick-a-name-on-it whiskies like Thomas Jefferson and Jesse James. I'm too cheap for that, and I won't fall for a fancy label or buy something with a cute name or a phony-sounding backstory (i.e., Templeton, which is distilled in bulk in Indiana at the same distillery that makes McCormick vodka, and a bunch of other stuff for other labels).

I get by with Bulleit, Dickel, Dickle Rye, Bushmills, Jameson, and occasionally Maker's Mark. And it would take me a couple years to work my way through that list

[Flysmallie]

  On 8/17/2016 at 1:11 PM, ness said:

Just like two separate mishaps with Southern Comfort and Yukon Jack forever turned me off of the sickeningly-sweet whatever whiskey category many years ago. (Even the sight of a bottle of either of those will make me queasy). 

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[ness]

  On 8/17/2016 at 1:23 PM, Flysmallie said:

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You owe me a keyboard.

[MOPanfisher]

Ness, I have had a similar experience with Southern Comfort way back in my college days.  Just the mention of it bring back some very unpleasant fuzzy memories.

[ness]

  On 8/17/2016 at 2:42 PM, MOPanfisher said:

Ness, I have had a similar experience with Southern Comfort way back in my college days.  Just the mention of it bring back some very unpleasant fuzzy memories.

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For me, Southern Comfort was high school, Yukon Jack was college. Funny how that stuff sticks with you.

[ness]

  On 8/16/2016 at 11:04 PM, David Unnerstall said:

RPS, actually my profile picture was taken at Marble Creek and that is a bottle of Bushmills.  And an Oliva Serie V cigar.

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Just Googled and Red Breast 21 is £154 a bottle. I'm not gonna go to the trouble of figuring out what that is in $

 

[Smallieguy87]

so as a fella looking to getting into sipping a good whiskey what do you all suggest? I don't usually partake in it but lately have wanted to give some a try.

[Smalls21]

in my opinion, you can't go wrong with Woodford Reserve or Knob Creek