I can’t make it to Dan Murphy’s so I just picked this up near work
right on dudes! I am keen, and have confirmed scheduling with fam. However, I am still pverty stricken from recent trip, so am planning to bring half/mostly drunk bottles of all sorts along, and people can have whatever and as much as they like, and i’d prefer to not ride home with all the bottles. I think I know one thing interesting about most of them. Does that sound ok? If so, yes, I will be there! Also going to bring some whisky books, and a device capable of load Burns poetry that we may recite. Its going to be a big backpack kind of ride.
^If you want I can pick up your stash and take it there. I’m going straight to Keith’s from somewhere else, but I could pick it up beforehand.
I could also give you a life home if you want.
JP: Here’s a partial list of what we’re bringing so far, so you might avoid bringing your full cabinet:
- Laphroaig 10y
- Lagavulin 16y
- Aberlour 12y
- Bakery Hill
What else?
(Also bringing half drunk bottles, no shame in that)
Im going to have to crash at keiths. Southside life.
I am going to try and bring some bourbon to the mix
careful Keith, ezy can get pretty handsy…
They weren’t my hands…
Bewdy, the only bakery hill that i might have is the peated cask strength, which might offer some contrast anyway. But yeah, no overlap, and will be sure there’s more than seven hundred collective mililitres of malt on board.
Looking forward to it! Mostly to the pretzels, if i’m honest. And Ezy’s not-hand-play.
I highly recommend trying the bakery hill unpeated first, then the cask strength peated one JP has. we did this at our work tasting & it was the first time I’d really felt how ‘waxy’ some peated whisky can be. hopefully that’s the combo we tried anyway…
Totally with you on waxiness!! first time on Lark single barrel cask strength (why barrel AND cask?) all i thought was “waxxy as shit!” but hadnt heard anyone else describe whisky as waxy til right now. It makes me happier than it probably should. PS that Lark still stands as my best dram ever, thanks to Ty from here from forever ago. LD96, I think was the name of the barrel.
I have a Jim Beam product… people may roll their eyes, but it is meant to be a pretty top notch bourbon.
Based on your notes I think it is, which is partly why I got this because they made it sound interesting. I’m really keen to get stuck into this as I don’t normally drink anything without peat so it’ll be nice to compare two from the same distillery. JP, the pretzels will be wrapped in bacon…prepare your tastebuds
Prolly approved?
Good bourbon is good.
I learnt this one night after only ever having n’ cokes.
I’ve just been down to the markets to grab stuff for the pretzels but didn’t get anything else, yet. I wasn’t sure if anyone else was gonna bring along anything or if I should get a big supply and people can chuck in later. Happy to do it either way really but I don’t need 3 wheels of brie in my house, because I don’t ride enough to work off that much cheese which I would inevitably eat.
Forget prolly, it’s Mila approved.
wow, that’s a terrible ad.
I picked up a loaf of sourdough, about 250g of spec (two types), some vintage cheese, olives and smoked trout.
It’s not heaps