FC United of Manchester
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Aye you’re right, I misread it, thought it was 50%.
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Cee Jay
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Just pulled trigger…had one of many £5 off vouchers so brings it down to £49.95
Git to be worth a pop
Order just given a £7.50 voucher off the Darkness 8 year old if anyone wants it
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I’m very, very new to whisky after disliking it most my adult life but suddenly developing a bit of a taste. The last couple of bottles I’ve enjoyed have been Japanese so I’ve been thinking I’ll explore that further to start with.
Seeing all of these distilleries is both scary, in illustrating how little I know compared to you lads, but exciting in knowing there’s so much to discover.
FC United of Manchester
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Was tempted but gave it a swerve. Spend an absolute shitload on Whisky in the last few weeks with all the Black Friday offers and the new whiskybroker releases.
Got my samples of the Cadenheads new releases still sitting here untried and I’ll probably end up buying the Arran and Tullibardene out of those.
Old Prestonian
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I'm still very much in the discovery phase. It's great to find a bottle that you really enjoy and there has only been a couple that I haven't enjoyed over the past few years.
FC United of Manchester
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Think you get to appreciate it a lot more when you become a ‘sipper’. When we’re younger we tend to be ‘gluggers’ getting as much down our necks as we can
Hosey69
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If it's Japanese whisky you like i can highly recommend Hakushu Distillers reserve also Hibiki Harmony
Im a total noob n despised whiskey as if probsbly only drank shite.
Mate got me to sample a few lovely ones n ended on woodford reserve in isis after jimeon recently. Lovely drop. About the £30 mark will do me as feel owt sbove id wasted on me.
Old Prestonian
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I thought that way a few years back then I discovered that there seemed to be better value to be obtained in the £40 to £50 range (particularly from Whiskybroker). I will now venture above that mark if there is a bottle that appeals to me.
Cee Jay
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The Talisker 10 is often on offer around the £30 mark and is a lot better than Skye or the StormAnyone seen a decent deal on Talisker Storm? After a bottle as a Xmas gift and one for myself
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Enjoy the non peaty ones best. Favourite has been the Isle of Arran one, purchasing it after doing the distillery tour. The lady doing the tour gave us each a small sample and we had to take a sip without any water added. She the used a pipette and literally dropped two or three drops in and the taste changed considerably. She also stressed it should not be drunk with ice. I’ve ignored that bit and carried on added my two cubes of ice!
Old Prestonian
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Wrang ‘un!
Cee Jay
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3/7 correct on semi blind advent samples
Settle for that as not exactly the most refined palate….and some obvious ( hopefully) one’s still left to come
Tonights was a SMWS Ben Nevis courtesy of @shakerman which i got
Settle for that as not exactly the most refined palate….and some obvious ( hopefully) one’s still left to come
Tonights was a SMWS Ben Nevis courtesy of @shakerman which i got
The very sherried BN? You did well to identify that!3/7 correct on semi blind advent samples
Settle for that as not exactly the most refined palate….and some obvious ( hopefully) one’s still left to come
Tonights was a SMWS Ben Nevis courtesy of @shakerman which i got
The only distilleries I tend to be able to identify with reasonable accuracy are Springbank, Kilchoman, HP, Glenfarclas, Tomintoul and Westland. Otherwise, it’s a stab in the dark.
Been treat to 2 bottles of woodford reserve for my birthday!
An amazing one that a mate brought on a recent golf trip in 2 hip flasks was Red Breast. Any fans?
An amazing one that a mate brought on a recent golf trip in 2 hip flasks was Red Breast. Any fans?
Cee Jay
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far easier when semi blind( you are at least picking from a list of samples)
I don't think it was that one...it was the 61.9% one ? Didn't seem sherry at all.
Weirdly after ruling out others on the list of samples I was thinking it might have been the Infrequent Flyers an Cnoc
Any not often I'd say they are similar( not that I'm a Ben Nevis expert, only having your great samples) but it was the slight weirdness that made me plump for BN
Good fun though
wisemensaysteve
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I like the Islay whiskies and back in September I was away fishing with some pals from there, they brought some good bottles Laphroaig Bowmore, Ardbeg and others but the one that stood out was Lagavullin distillers, my pal who works there said it was a 16yr old that was then put in another cask for I think he said 4 years, beautiful stuff.
Hosey69
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Only had the cask strength 12 year which was decent.
Heard the ordinary Redbreast 12 is very good.
If you want to try other reasonably priced Irish whiskey can recommend the following
Green Spot
Black Bush and Bushmills 10
Jamesons Black Barrel and the Ordinary Stout Edition
Thanks mate!
