I would never offer anyone Jack Daniel's. I hate to break it to you but it is the Budweiser of whiskey. I will wait til May the 8th and send you a bottle of Buffalo Trace Burbon.
I agree for the most part on Jack (it's not THAT special in generic form), but if you've ever had JD Single Barrel, well....it shows it IS a quality whiskey, or could be anyway....I guess they've just been pushed to mass produce....but they do only draw their water from that one spring in TN, so it's not ALL bad!!
The best whiskey I've ever had was called Midleton Very Rare....I was in a mode of testing whiskeys from all over and that was IT....oh it's so good!! I tried Tullamore Dew at the same time period and oh, gawd, awful...too 'spicy'....As of yet, Midleton has been the best I've ever sampled. Folowed by JD Single Barrel.
It's true all TN Whiskey has to come from those springs, I think they are limestone or something. That is what makes it TN Whiskey.
The single barrel is much better and I can drink regular JD with coke. But if I am gonna do that I would rather have crown and coke. All depends on the booze budget.
I will have to look for that Midleton.
I also love Irish but I was just talking about American before. Oh how I love Bushmills.
Tullamore is okay and isn't a whisky but a whiskey (it's Irish, so it has an "e"). Most bourbon seems closer to the Irish whiskey to me, and Canadian whisky is closer to Scotch. I prefer Irish/American. Not a big fan of blends, though, and Dew is a blend. It's a better blend than any Scotch, though.
Best I've ever had was a very special Jameson. Yes, it's a blend, but fuckadoodle, it's a good one. It's Midleton to you and I think, "Rare Reserve" or "Rarest Reserve". One of the two. Not cheap but really very very good. Smooth as anything and worth drinking neat just for the sake of it. If you ever get the chance, and you like whiskey, worth it!
I believe you on that. I don't mind it but I can tell it's kind of middling. It would be brilliant to try the good stuff. Whiskies are a fine art in Scotland/Ireland and I think they probably are there too. It just never makes its way back to us, sadly.
Often the same with beer. We get the big brand North American beer (Bud, Coors, Labatt, Molsen) and everyone avoids them but when we have a beer festival you guys bring your stuff over from micro breweries. Plenty of pretentious people over here want to try it so they can make fun of it. Yeah, then they taste it. Perhaps the most exceptional beer of my entire lifetime came from your shores.
I have but it's confusing me because I know Ommegang as Belgian. If the Belgians can do anything, it's beer. They're seriously good at it. There are about thirty types of beer and the Belgians are the only people I know who do them all. If it was American all along, I'm going to be a bit weirded out by it, but Jesus, all credit to you lot! Fantastic work! Ommegang are absolutely exceptional.
You can find a lot of great beer here. Mostly famously Samuel Adams (it is like a micro brew but big now haha). If you ever come across one, get it. Do you recall the name of the exceptional one?
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Correct. *holds out cookie (or should I say biscuit) plate*
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Weee! Wait? You're offering me biscuits without the traditional accompanying beverage? Which in England is Jack Daniels. Shame on you!
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I would never offer anyone Jack Daniel's. I hate to break it to you but it is the Budweiser of whiskey. I will wait til May the 8th and send you a bottle of Buffalo Trace Burbon.
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I agree for the most part on Jack (it's not THAT special in generic form), but if you've ever had JD Single Barrel, well....it shows it IS a quality whiskey, or could be anyway....I guess they've just been pushed to mass produce....but they do only draw their water from that one spring in TN, so it's not ALL bad!!
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It's true all TN Whiskey has to come from those springs, I think they are limestone or something. That is what makes it TN Whiskey.
The single barrel is much better and I can drink regular JD with coke. But if I am gonna do that I would rather have crown and coke. All depends on the booze budget.
I will have to look for that Midleton.
I also love Irish but I was just talking about American before. Oh how I love Bushmills.
Tullamore is okay and isn't a whisky but a whiskey (it's Irish, so it has an "e"). Most bourbon seems closer to the Irish whiskey to me, and Canadian whisky is closer to Scotch. I prefer Irish/American. Not a big fan of blends, though, and Dew is a blend. It's a better blend than any Scotch, though.
Best I've ever had was a very special Jameson. Yes, it's a blend, but fuckadoodle, it's a good one. It's Midleton to you and I think, "Rare Reserve" or "Rarest Reserve". One of the two. Not cheap but really very very good. Smooth as anything and worth drinking neat just for the sake of it. If you ever get the chance, and you like whiskey, worth it!
I believe you on that. I don't mind it but I can tell it's kind of middling. It would be brilliant to try the good stuff. Whiskies are a fine art in Scotland/Ireland and I think they probably are there too. It just never makes its way back to us, sadly.
Often the same with beer. We get the big brand North American beer (Bud, Coors, Labatt, Molsen) and everyone avoids them but when we have a beer festival you guys bring your stuff over from micro breweries. Plenty of pretentious people over here want to try it so they can make fun of it. Yeah, then they taste it. Perhaps the most exceptional beer of my entire lifetime came from your shores.
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Have you ever heard of Brewery Ommegang? It's in my backyard....
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I have but it's confusing me because I know Ommegang as Belgian. If the Belgians can do anything, it's beer. They're seriously good at it. There are about thirty types of beer and the Belgians are the only people I know who do them all. If it was American all along, I'm going to be a bit weirded out by it, but Jesus, all credit to you lot! Fantastic work! Ommegang are absolutely exceptional.
You can find a lot of great beer here. Mostly famously Samuel Adams (it is like a micro brew but big now haha). If you ever come across one, get it. Do you recall the name of the exceptional one?