Old Costco isn't bad.
Posted on 02/03/2021 12:18:22 PM PST by mylife
While whisk(e)y is a global spirit, it’s mostly made in the United States, Scotland, Canada, Ireland, and Japan. With new expressions dropping daily, you could spend the rest of your life only enjoying bottles from those dram-loving hotbeds. But you’d be doing yourself a disservice.
Because while the “whisk(e)y big five” are historic production hubs for the industry, countries like South Africa, India, Mexico, and even France are all currently producing high-quality whiskeys worth tracking down. Even Sweden is getting in on the action.
In an effort to take a trip around the whisk(e)y world without needing to hop on a plane, we asked a handful of our favorite bartenders to tell us the best whiskeys from countries less known for distilling the brown stuff. Their picks didn’t disappoint — check them all out below.
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God created whiskey so the Irish wouldn’t rule the world.
I was never a big whiskey drinker but I always preferred the Canadian blends when I did drink it.
Now you can't even find the raw stuff, let alone the aged. And even if you can, the prices have inflated into the stratosphere.
Bourbon is the American whiskey I like, but I view it as being in a class of its own, not to be compared to other whiskeys.
Old Fedco
I imagine they all pour about the same.
Johnnie Walker was started by a man in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire in 1820 They stopped making it there about 10 years ago...
My great grandfather was from there...
Black Label, if you please....................
Woodford Reserve Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey, neat.
Old Costco isn't bad.
whiskey tango foxtrot has been my go to blend since november 3rd 2020...
Olde WTF
For every one listed above there are probably 2 or 3 I've tried and don't care for. Yes, during this pandemic nonsense I've been partaking probably more than I should...
Anyone like ‘Old Overholt’?
Is there such a thing as ‘Bad Whiskey’?.................
Vodka, OTOH, lots...
And it has been many, many years since those days... Marriage (1960) put a stop to that...
I've come across exactly one. I will admit that there was one bottle I ended up dumping down the drain. As I mentioned, over the past year I have been sampling various whiskeys a fair amount. My wife decided she wanted to share in my style of libation. She's not a "Whiskey Girl" (hat tip to Toby Keith) but wanted to get in on the fun. I drink my whiskey straight, about an even mix of neat or on the rocks depending on the whiskey and my mood.
My wife heard that peach flavored whiskey was pretty good when mixed with various things so I got her a bottle from a local distillery. It was awful. If you told me they used rotten peaches and processed it through old gym socks I'd believe it. No amount of ice or various mixers could mask the overpowering dank peach flavor. After 3 or 4 attempts to find something that would cut it, we gave up. I did pour probably 3/4 of the bottle down the drain. We got her some peach Crown Royal and she likes that.
Yep, it was my first whiskey when I was seventeen. I’ve liked it ever since. I’ve drank a lot of whiskey in my seventy-five years; many excellent scotches, a lot of good Irish, beau coup boubon, gallons and gallons of cognac, barrels of dark dark rum (my go to drink).
The best I’ve ever had? Waterfill & Frasier 110 Proof 16 Year Old Bottled in Bond. Found a case of it in a liquor store in S. Daytona when I was working at KSC. Bought the whole case. That was over 35 years ago. Smoothest, nicest whiskey I’ve ever had. W&F are long gone. Pity. Spread that case out over ten years though. I also thought Old Grand Dad 101 was a superb tipple.
Wine is fine but whiskey’s quicker...
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