The What's In Your Liquor Cabinet? Thread

[Caliga]

I picked up a bottle of Knob Creek (small batch, 9 years, 50%vol) today.

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[The Minsky Moment]

Found a bottle of Lagavullin on sale over the weekend.  First time I bought Scotch in a while.

[Razgovory]

Spiders.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

As of right now:

Jameson
Bombay Sapphire
Alize XO
Wild Turkey 101
Pusser's British Navy
Maker's Mark
Core apple vodka
Tito's vodka
Glen Moray
Sauza light tequila
Bacardi light rum
Malibu coconut rum
Baileys
Seagram's Seven
Some generic creme de cacao
Everclear (but that is just for cleaning my pipe)

The scotch and rum tend to rotate

[Caliga]

CAL'S REVIEW OF TEACHER'S HIGHLAND CREAM BLENDED SCOTCH WHISKY:

Neat: Nose is spicy and smells of smoky peat, butter, band-aids (!).  Taste is... hmmmm... interesting... vanilla, wood, lemon, apples.  Much, much smoother than I was expecting.  I could practically chug this stuff straight, I think.

Cut with a splash of water: Doesn't seem to do much to the flavor, really.  I taste mostly the same things.  Maybe a little more of the peat and woodiness now.  It's very crisp and light but I felt like it was that way when neat, too.

For some reason I was thinking this stuff would be junk but it's really delicious.  I suspect there's quite a bit of Islay in the blend because I can taste some definite smoky peat notes but it's not overwhelming like with say Laphroaig (which I love, but the smokiness is kind of overwhelming in it).

A 750 ml bottle retails for  ~$30, I think.  I strongly recommend trying it if you like Scotch.

CAL'S GRADE: A-

[Ed Anger]

You are worse than a wine snob.

[Princesca]

Popping in to say I do not like Red Stag straight. People mix it with lemonade, and that shit is good. But I would no more drink that straight than I would drink Jim Beam Maple straight, which as far as I'm concerned is really only good boiled down for a completely kickass pancake syrup. I speak from experience. And possibly a nice glaze for a salmon steak?

Bourbon-wise, I generally prefer white dog to bourbon (blasphemy, I know) but when I drink bourbon, I'm a Basil Hayden girl. Lately, at work, I've been mixing Knob Creek and ginger ale. Though at our last "Thirsty Thursday" I went uber girly and did strawberry shortcake vodka with ginger ale. Mock, but it was yummy.

The "Eccentric Elmer" is still my favorite bourbon drink, though.

The Eccentric Elmer is a relatively smooth bourbon cocktail, sweet with a hint of bitterness. Note that it is important to use cranberry juice cocktail, not cranberry juice. If cranberry juice cocktail is not available in your area, substitute cranberry juice and add 1 tbsp of superfine sugar to the drink before shaking.

Serves: 1
Ingredients
1 oz bourbon (Gotta be Old Granddad)
½ oz triple sec
3 oz cranberry juice cocktail
dash Angostura bitters
Garnish
Lime wedge

Directions
Fill a cocktail shaker halfway with ice.
Add bourbon, triple sec, bitters, and cranberry juice cocktail to shaker.
Shake well.
Put a few ice cubes into an old-fashioned glass.
Strain cocktail into glass.
Garnish with lime wedge.

M'sieur can we make one of these this weekend maybe?

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[Ed Anger]

Smack Cal for me. Thanks.

[Caliga]

M'sieur can we make one of these this weekend maybe?

Yes baby.

[Princesca]

And crap, we need to pick up another bottle of Harvey's. I still have a bunch of money I have to spend before year end. I'd say we're pretty well set on bourbon (to put it mildly). Um... we have tequila too. What about brandy? We can get Fundador for free... we have a big bottle of Courvoisier, so we don't need any of that. We have a lot of vodka but it's raspberry vanilla  .

[PRC]

CAL'S REVIEW OF TEACHER'S HIGHLAND CREAM BLENDED SCOTCH WHISKY:

CAL'S GRADE: A-

Teacher's Highland Cream is shit.

[garbon]

Very little. I need to stock up next week when in Massachusetts. Right now only got:

Kahlua
Aperol
Prosecco
Sherry
Cointreau
Ouzo (which will stay in my apt until I have a house party and trick guests into drinking it)

[PRC]

Not drinking this and it's definitely not in my cabinet but thought i'd share.  Took this pic on my phone, it's a the liquor store a few blocks away:

[Syt]

With prices like that I always wonder, "Why the .29?"

[The Brain]

Middle class.