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thecluckmeme posted:The bar I frequent in town has a Glenfidditch 21-year-old that I get for a slight discount because the bartender knows gently caress-all about scotch, so when I ask for it neat she gives me a full rocks glass of it for the price of what they'd charge if she poured it over a full rocks glass of ice. WT101 is a pretty great price/bourbon ratio, and I heartily recommend it to people who need bourbon on a budget.
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Jun 5, 2016 17:27
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$18 for a full rocks glass of 21 year old scotch is the best.
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Twiggymouse posted:Are you one of those folk who can't have dark liquor, at all? Yes, and throw vodka onto the list as well just for the hell of it. I pretty much just drink gin nowadays, though if I'm visiting my Swiss friends I'll drink kirschwasser or schnapps, and when I lived in Slovakia I became very well acquainted with slivovitsa.
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Jun 6, 2016 00:46
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Slivovitz and I had a dangerous relationship when I was in that part of the world but I think if I had another sip of it I might die.
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Jun 6, 2016 02:58
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Of my four Slovak roommates, I could only communicate with one (we both spoke German as a second language). His father-in-law made his own slivovitsa, of which said roommate and I drank an entire bottle while chatting one night. I mean he just poured another shot every ten minutes and we downed it with a "Na zdravie!" and just kept on trucking. And I woke up at 7:30 the next morning fresh as a daisy. But ONE SIP OF WHISKEY and I'm a barf monster for an entire day.
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Jun 6, 2016 04:42
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It's actually really fortunate for me that we're on an alcohol tangent right now. One of my friends gifted me a bottle of this stuff in celebration of me striking out of my own today: Anyone vouch for the taste? I tend to be a big fan of scotch. Apparently it set him back 100 bucks though so I want to know if it's especially good - I'll want to know whether or not to save it for some really good company or not.
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Jun 6, 2016 07:02
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Did you guys all just turn 21 or something?
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Jun 6, 2016 09:26
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Coolguy is an astonishing lightweight.
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Jun 6, 2016 09:32
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Orv posted:Coolguy is an astonishing lightweight. Bullshit, I just enjoy a good drink and I'm not afraid to show it.
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Jun 6, 2016 15:29
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SpookyLizard posted:WT101 is a pretty great price/bourbon ratio, and I heartily recommend it to people who need bourbon on a budget. I tried bourbon once and it was just vanilla and nothing else, am I missing something or is it just that I'm non-American? e: lp's cool, and I just watched dark messiah which was great and probably a ton more fun than playing it with all the fun physics myself a cow fucked around with this message at 21:46 on Jun 6, 2016 |
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Jun 6, 2016 21:32
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a cow posted:I tried bourbon once and it was just vanilla and nothing else, am I missing something or is it just that I'm non-American? Or maybe I'm just a wimp when it comes to alcohol. I've never liked beer (despite trying a fair variety), so if I want something comparable I usually have to look for hard cider. And if I try anything with distilled spirits it often ends up tasting like flavored alcohol rather than whatever you connaisseurs claim, so  . (My preferred drink at a bar is "Malibu and pineapple"; my sister has referred to this as "sunshine".)
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Jun 6, 2016 21:58
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NGDBSS posted:Have you tried it with ice or otherwise tried diluting it with water? Apparently that's a common technique to reduce the taste of pure alcohol that distilled spirits often have. Last summer my family went to see my great-aunt in Louisville, Kentucky for her 90th birthday. Along the way we went on a factory tour of the Evan Williams plant, complete with a tasting at the end, which is how I received the prior advice. I guess I got turned on to scotch which just tastes of smoke and wood and everything good. Bourbon is like vodka, but American-style sweet with vanilla.
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Jun 6, 2016 22:18
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a cow posted:I guess I got turned on to scotch which just tastes of smoke and wood and everything good. Bourbon is like vodka, but American-style sweet with vanilla. *Apparently "whiskey" with an E is predominant in the US and Ireland, while "whisky" is predominant everywhere else. NGDBSS fucked around with this message at 23:19 on Jun 6, 2016 |
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Jun 6, 2016 22:33
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NGDBSS posted:The funny thing about that is that your scotch might have been made in the same barrel as was used for bourbon, especially if that scotch is a cheap brand. See, one of the Protection of Origin requirements for bourbon whiskey* is that it must be made in new charred oak barrels. Old ones will not suffice. So at the end of the production process after draining whiskey for distribution, the distiller has a bunch of alcohol-infused barrels that are still usable but legally unacceptable for making bourbon. So instead of just hauling these barrels soaked with several gallons of spirits off to a landfill, the bourbon distiller will instead sell them to another distiller to be used again in the same sort of aging process. Wait, so you actually have rules to make your "whisky" be the sweetest and blandest it possibly can be? Vote Trump
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Jun 6, 2016 22:59
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a cow posted:Wait, so you actually have rules to make your "whisky" be the sweetest and blandest it possibly can be? Vote Trump . But yeah, bourbon has a bunch of rules on it for consistency and whatnot that are pretty common for foods like alcoholic beverages and cheeses where a particular region or culture wants to keep its "brand" intact in the age of international trade. Ever wonder why the term "sparkling wine" exists? It's because "champagne" is a protected term held by the corresponding region in France, and thus any imitators have to call their product something else. Hell, scotch has a corresponding set of rules on its production (though "new barrels" isn't one of them).Maybe it's the local water supply? Most bourbon comes from Kentucky and is thus influenced by the Ohio River basin; the Evan Williams folks definitely touted that facet of production.
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Jun 6, 2016 23:29
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NGDBSS posted:Spirits of that caliber all taste like flavored alcohol to me, so I don't drink the stuff in the first place I have no idea what they do to them, but those good whiskys just have that tar and smoke and... something that makes you feel like you're out there by your tent or boathouse or whatever inhaling smoke from the fire and just being at peace with, and in, nature. You don't even have to drink a lot, because it tastes SO much and you can just smell it for minutes before even taking a sip
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Jun 6, 2016 23:50
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I've got a horribly uncultured palate and alcohol's never tasted like much of anything other than alcohol to me. I'll have a margarita every once in a while because my friend likes to make them, but other than that I do mixers-only stuff like coke and grapefruit juice. I'm a sad drunk too, so alcohol isn't even fun in that respect.
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Jun 6, 2016 23:59
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I once gave a buddy of mine a bit of Laphroaig and he drank it like a shot. Don't do that.
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Jun 7, 2016 09:38
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At least he didn't mix it with coke 
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Jun 7, 2016 10:41
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Shall we gather for whiskey and more whiskey tonight? Let's Play Dishonored
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Jun 7, 2016 10:45
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oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...
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IronSaber posted:Shall we gather for whiskey and more whiskey tonight? Let's Play Dishonored Shove off taffer
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Jun 7, 2016 11:15
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* Choffer.
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Jun 7, 2016 12:10
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I agree with taffer
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Jun 7, 2016 16:36
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George posted:I once gave a buddy of mine a bit of Laphroaig and he drank it like a shot. There's a special place in hell reserved for men who waste good whiskey. IronSaber posted:Shall we gather for whiskey and more whiskey tonight? Let's Play Dishonored I feel this is an appropriate title for the DLC.
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Jun 7, 2016 17:16
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Corvo drinks all the whiskey in the house while Daud does the monkey.
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Jun 7, 2016 17:23
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So my favorite blend is High West's Son of Bourye: It's a nice mix of silky and slow burn. On the sweeter side, but not too much. Rye whiskeys in general are what I've fallen in love with. The girlfriend prefers single malts, and her favorite go-to is Knappogue Castle:  However, it seems both of these are in short stock. The Son of Bourye is nowhere to be found anymore around my area, and her Knappogue changed their recipe and the gf doesn't like it anymore.
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Jun 7, 2016 19:06
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High Chaos Update A Captain of Industry (part 2): Youtube Polsy
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Jun 9, 2016 03:47
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I am saddened that you don't get to see the place go up in flames.
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Jun 9, 2016 07:54
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The whalesaw's operating manual that roboky found explained the minigun mode: it chips its own blade and spews out the fragments, meant for long distance flensing.
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Jun 9, 2016 08:16
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Fish Noise posted:The whalesaw's operating manual that roboky found explained the minigun mode: it chips its own blade and spews out the fragments, meant for long distance flensing. I figured it was somewhere in there and I missed actually reading it. I'm almost disappointed they explain it though.
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Jun 9, 2016 08:31
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I'm not quite sure how he got incinerated - Dishonored DLC
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Jun 9, 2016 13:14
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Poor whale.  That was so freaky the first time I saw it too. Oh gods what the hell is this? 
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Jun 9, 2016 13:43
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I've only just realised that the PS4 version comes with the DLC, I guess? I like that Daud's version of Blink has the neat difference of stopping time, but I'm finding it kind of awkward to adjust to. I'm sure once you've got it down it's really useful. Also, I don't think you fail if you kill Billie. At least, it doesn't fail you automatically. I once killed her by accident and the game didn't seem to do anything about it.
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Jun 9, 2016 19:48
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TheDarkFlame posted:I've only just realised that the PS4 version comes with the DLC, I guess? I like that Daud's version of Blink has the neat difference of stopping time, but I'm finding it kind of awkward to adjust to. I'm sure once you've got it down it's really useful. I'm gonna guess you do. I accidentally goomba stomped her at one point in my playthrough and it auto-failed me. (Irreconcilable hostilities)
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Jun 9, 2016 20:01
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The first thing I did when I started my most recent playthrough of the DLC was stab Billie. Standard execution, Irreconcilable Hostilities.
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Jun 9, 2016 21:09
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TheDarkFlame posted:I like that Daud's version of Blink has the neat difference of stopping time, but I'm finding it kind of awkward to adjust to. Heh. Hahahahaha. Ohhhh, you'll see some poo poo.
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Jun 10, 2016 02:23
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I was practically yelling at my monitor the entire time because Roboky never shot a man with a bullet just to explode his whale oil tanks.
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Jun 10, 2016 02:27
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thecluckmeme posted:I was practically yelling at my monitor the entire time because Roboky never shot a man with a bullet just to explode his whale oil tanks. Seriously, how could you pass up such an obvious opportunity, Roboky?
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Jun 10, 2016 02:39
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Coolguye has gone on record stating, somewhere on SA anyway, that back mounted gas tanks are god's gift to men. This was all part of Roboky's subconscious plan to devastate Coolguye at heart, even if Coolguye didn't realize it as other things were happening.
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Jun 10, 2016 09:54
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He ain't wrong.
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