An update. In
Episode 30 we talked about various things, and I brought a bottle of Four Roses Single Barrel and a taster of Johnny Walker Blue Label.
It was fun.
He has a new episode about once every two weeks, and has invited me for a once/month sitting.
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Originally Posted by pscates2.0
$2,000?!? When did Apple get into the whiskey business? 
And I squawk at the price of a 12-pack of Coors...
What's your topic going to be, if you're being given the chance to choose?
Apple-related? Star Wars? This place? Or does it have to be booze-related? I guess so, if that's what the podcast is about. |
Yeah, it's booze related—mostly bourbon—but we dove into scotch a bit.
My favorite budget whiskey is Jim Beam Black Label Extra Aged, and my favorite of all is Four Roses Single Barrel. I have quite a few new bottles in my bar that I haven't tried but am looking forward to, including McKenna and Buffalo Trace.
I've just remodeled a rather useless corner of my living room into an actual bar (with shelves, mirror, bar-top, mini-fridge, stools, storage, the whole nine yards). Seats two comfortably, holds 30 bottles on the shelves, plenty of beer things and glasses and all that. I love it and it completely changes the space. As a growing aficionado, it's fun to have a whiskey bar right in the house. Way cheaper than those places normal people go.
As for the Pappy being $2000, that's actually cheap, and it wasn't my bottle. My friend's friend won the opportunity to buy a bottle in the Idaho liquor lottery, and then shared with us. I would never pay that for a bottle of the stuff.
Well, unless maybe I suddenly become a go-zillionaire, but even then I can think of a better use of 2 grand!