The blended scotch I want to try is Compass Box Peat Monster.
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JW blue is great but I did a blind tasting between black, gold, platinum and blue and I could only tell the difference between black and all the rest. So gold is great too and apparently I’m just lighting 120 dollars on fire if I buy blue instead.
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Good to know! Probably need to try Gold or Platinum if I see them.
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this is what I got, it was 77 bucks at my local liquor store.
Pretty good deal for four 200 mL bottles, the gold, platinum, and obviously blue are all more than that for a 750.
That’s exactly the kind of thing I want to find around me so I can try them all without buying 750s
Same, I enjoy bourbon but I don’t drink it that often so i always have a bunch of bottles sitting opened. If everyone offered mini bottles I’d probably just buy those
Sounds right to me. I don’t think I’ve had it in years but it tracks with what I remember.
As I recall, it lives up to its name.
Thanks for the report! The Uigeadail is on the list for my next BevMo trip for sure.
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Tonight’s beers:
Stoup is probably my favorite Seattle brewery. They kind of specialize in West coast style IPAs, with a ton of variants based on different hop combos.
About Neck Tats on their website:
Double IPA equals double the hop pleasure! This beer is bittered with Simcoe then Citra Cryo, Mosaic Incognito and Simcoe Resinate hops are added in the whirlpool. Copious amounts of Mosaic, Bru-1 and more Citra Cryo additions in the dry hop results in layers of hop goodness.
Future Primitive is a local place. This one has El Dorado, Galaxy, Idaho 7, and Stata hops. Kind of dry and spicy, quite tasty.
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I hate the dumb names brewers come up with, “Worms Within the Lion’s Body” MMM sounds fucking delicious. With that said, this was a pretty amazing beer paired with roasted chicken, yams, and some salad with poppy seed dressing.
Definitely a very rich beer and complex beer. I didn’t read the description until after I started drinking it, so ended up shelfing it for a little bit to let it get to warm up a bit. Then a bunch of cherry and chocolate type flavors came out in it. 10/10, would drink again and I will since I have one more bottle.
This is the brewers description:
2020 Worms Within the Lion’s Body
Every once in a while I want to brew something different. This beer was fun as hell to make, I had to go back to the drawing board as I haven’t written a recipe for a dark beer in many years. It’s a hard balance because I usually don’t like dark mixed culture beers, so I went into it thinking of all the things I don’t like about other beers I’ve had.Unlike most Floodland beers this beer has a fair bit of barrel character. It was one of the first worts made on our new brewhouse about a year ago, we got some recently emptied red wine barrels which had held a rhone blend and were now too neutral, and we rinsed a freshly emptied bourbon barrel to dull the heat, and those balanced our usual neutral oak. The wort was racked directly into barrel on top of organic balaton and montmorency cherries and stayed in those barrels until we blended and then dry hopped the beer, entirely with whole flower hops. We kicked one barrel out that acidified, the rest of the acidity at this point is just from the fruit, although I expect that over time it will acidify more. Personally I don’t liked acidic dark beers, so to maintain the hop character and the acidity I’d suggest drinking it fresh-ish.
ALSO, really importantly, we carbonated this beer very specifically so that you can open it fairly warm. It tastes much, much better that way. Please don’t drink this beer cold.
The second or third time we drank one of these we were all kind of dumbstruck. It tastes as if it has botanicals in it. There’s a grapefruit character, cherry, chocolate, huge cinnamon bark, and really it is almost reminiscent of the Roseate beers, except dark. The cherry spice and the barrels blend really nicely and in general I’ll say I’m really pleased with it and also fully expect that people will think they should cellar it. Don’t do that. This beer was entirely conceived to be consumed for the holidays, and that’s when it will be at its peak.
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They do like to say triple
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I’m going to Lexington at the end of the month with some friends. Unfortunately it looks like all the tours are already booked at Woodford and Buffalo Trace. I did snag a reservation at Castle and Key which looks cool. Anyone have other recommendations in the area?
You would think but…
One of those you’ve been here forever you don’t even know what to recommend.
Honest to God never been on any of the bourbon trail despite living here my whole life. I can do it any time so what’s the rush…
I would say let’s meet up…but midjune-end of june is my annual Michigan excursion.
If you’re looking for a horse farm to visit I’d go with old friends. So one Kentucky Derby winner got old, sold off, and promptly slaughtered for parts. After that guy founded farm for old race horses to grow old in peace.
(Also don’t forget about the Noah’s Ark 45 minutes outside Lexington!)
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Second both of these last posts-- I don’t have any of the fancier Flor de Cana but the 4 and 7 are nice value for their price.
El Dorado 15 year rules and is great neat, complex and full of flavor. All the El Dorados are great, really. When I make a Bombo I use El Dorado 8-- it’s the perfect balance for the cocktail.
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Fresh Nelson DIPA delivered from North Park. Pretty stoked on this one but it’s not as dank and I’d expect a beer called castle dankskull haha. Also I had a citra pilsner from them that was super good but probably not what you’d want to drink in a lager but it was fun to try, and they had fresh cans of Hop Fu IPA which was very piney but also had some nice fruit flavors. Only $70 for 12 beers!
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That is a great name
10 Barrel Brewing out of Bend, OR, has (or had, I don’t see it on their website) a “hoppy pilsner” called Out of Office that I like–it’s good for hot days when you need something cold and refreshing but still want some NW hop flavor.
I love Citra hops so I’d definitely try that Citra pilsner if I saw it someplace.