Posted on 08/20/2022 7:45:26 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Wouldn’t it be great if they found an intact 200 year old bottle of whiskey and gave it to me? I’d invite my favorite Freeper friends of a taste.
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Id drive all night for a taste
Amen and Amen.
” I think it has to do with the rot-gut bourbon I drank in my youth”
Never have liked Scotch, I agree with other posters on “peat” taste. Bourbon/Whiskey for me. And yes in my youth I drank some rot-gut stuff (J. W Dant). Was a Wild Turkey guy for awhile but supply chain/Covid have made it tough to find in 80 proof at a decent price, can’t do the 101 proof anymore, so with Jim Beam for now.
My dad loved Chivas Regal. Being in Purchasing back in the day when gifts (aka bribes) were allowed, one of his suppliers gave him a case of the stuff. Being a normal kid, I snuck a taste when my parents were out. Never been near a bottle of Scotch again - just nasty. I never did acquire a taste for any hard liquor, except for Ron del Barrelito rum from Puerto Rico (always brought some back from business trips there). Stuck with Iron City beer other than that.
My Dad wasn’t much of a drinker, at least not around us kids anyway.
Someone once gave him, as a gift, a leather covered, velvet lined box housing a bottle of Canadian Masterpiece Canadian blended whisky. I have that bottle, the seal is intact The date on it is 1962.
Even when I could drink, I wasn’t tempted to open it, I’m too much of a collector. I’ll probably give it too my son-in-law one day.
It’s not worth a lot, but it’s an interesting keepsake.
My aforementioned son-in-law and his Dad are Irish. They have tried all kinds of them, and it kinda makes me sad I don’t drink anymore so I could try some of them. They can tell me all about the differences in taste, and it’s fascinating listening to them, but alas…
My Irish son-in-law’s favorite drink? Sake. Go figure.
Cheers!
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